Nov 21

 

 

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Nov 21, 2020  Week: 47 Day: 326	Local:  H 64°\ L 36°\Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  18mph	Nearest lightning:  1564mi.; active fire:  59mi
Moderate Risk of Fire	Visibility:  10mi
Record: 70°[1950]   Record: -5°[1979]	Nov Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

 

Today’s  Quote

Gratitude bestows reverence,

allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies,

those transcendent moments of awe that change forever

how we experience life and the world.

John Milton

 

Random Tidbits

 Gold is the sixteenth most rare of the chemical elements. Though it is one of the rarest metals, gold was the first to be discovered by man.

 

A little humor

To me, "drink responsibly" means don't spill it.

 

Observations This Week

Nat’l Seat Belt Reinforcement Week: 9-29 Link	Random Acts of Kindness Week: 16-23 Link
Geography Awareness Week: 15-21 Link	American Education Week: 16-20 Link Medical Cannabis Week: 16-20 Link
Internat’l Fraud Awareness Week: 15-21 Link Nat’l Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: 15-22 Link	Nat’l Drone Safety Awareness Week: 16-22 Link Nat’l Global Entrepreneurship Week: 16-22 Link
InterNat’l Restorative Justice Week: 16-22 Link	Nat’l Farm-City Week: 19-26 InterNat’l Games Week: 21-28

 

Observations for Today

Alascattalo Day (About Alaska & humor)

False Confession Day

Family Volunteer Day

International Games Day (Libraries)

National Adoption Day

National Cranberry Day

National Gingerbread Cookie Day

National Red Mitten Day (Canada)

National Survivors of Suicide Day

Playmobil's National Day of Play

World Hello Day

World Television Day

 

My Rambling Thoughts

A nice day…expecting cool off soon.

The situation in Ethiopia is darkening. The UN is preparing for 200,000 refugees to enter Sudan to avoid the random attacks in the Tajiri region. So sad.

The Navajo Nation President vetoed a bill that would have opened the casinos saying wave 2 of Covid is too serious.

The Cardiac Cards couldn’t do it last night against the Seahawks, still a decent game.

The Smithsonian buildings along with the National Zoo is closed due to Covid with no opening date announced…just a closed sign.

I was saddened to learn a colleague from Shonto passed. He had been suffering from dementia for about 5 years. He was a coach, teacher, and proud local from Shonto. Condolences to his family.

As the President continues to make major changes within the government, Trevor Noah said it best: Lame Duck Flameout. But, Trump just lowered drug prices to many on Medicare. I’ll see after the actual list comes out.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun but I am never out of darkness. What am I?

 

Historical Events

164 BC – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restored the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.

1783 – Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis Francois Laurant d’Arlandes became the first men to make a free flight. Their hot-air balloon lifted off from La Muettte, a royal palace in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. Ben Franklin was among the witnesses.

1832 – Wabash College was founded in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

1846 – The word ‘anesthesia’ was used by Oliver Wendell Holmes in a letter to William Thomas Green Morton, the surgeon who gave the first public demonstration of the pain-killing effects of ether.

1871 – The patent (#121,049) for a cigar lighter was issued to Moses F. Gale of New York City as an “Improvement in Cigar-Lighters.”

1877 – Thomas Edison announced his “talking machine” invention. His phonograph originally recorded sound onto a tinfoil sheet phonograph cylinder. (Patent #200,521, granted in 1878)

1905 – Albert Einstein’s paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, was published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

1920 – In Dublin, Ireland, 31 people are killed in what became known as Bloody Sunday. This included fourteen British informants, fourteen Irish civilians, and three Irish Republican Army prisoners. U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday references the event

1942 – Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuted in Tale of Two Kitties. Bob Clampett created the character. Tweety is a boy.

1952 – First US postage stamp (The Red Cross 3 cent) in 2 colors (with the rotary printing process) was introduced.

1953 – Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announced the “Piltdown Man” skull, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax.

1959 – DJ Alan Freed, who had popularized the term rock and roll and music of that style, was fired from New York’s WABC-AM radio for refusing to deny allegations that he had participated in the payola scandal.

1964 – World’s longest suspension bridge Verrazano Narrows opened (New York City – 4,260 feet). It is still the longest in the western hemisphere.

1969 – The first permanent ARPANET (multi-computer connection) link was established between UCLA and SRI.

1980 – Everyone asked “Who Shot J.R.?” in last year’s Dallas season finale. The season opener of Dallas answered the question people were asking all summer, and well into the fall. Sue Ellen’s sister Kristin (played by Mary Crosby) shot J.R.

1980 – A deadly fire broke out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally’s Las Vegas). Eighty-seven people were killed and more than 650 were injured.

1989 – The law banning smoking on most US domestic flights was signed by President George H. W. Bush.

1995 – Dow Jones closed above 5,000 for first time.

1999 Elian Gonzalez, Cuban boy at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, departs from Cuba with his mother

2017 Robert Mugabe's resignation after 37 years in power is read out in Zimbabwe's parliaments during impeachment proceedings

2019 Elon Musk launches Tesla's electric Cybertruck with shatterproof windows that when demonstrated on stage shatter

 

Birthdays Today

@83 – Voltaire [François-Marie Aroue], French historian, playwright, (d. 1778)

83 – Marlo Thomas, American actress, producer, and activist

75 – Goldie Hawn, American actress, singer, and producer

57 – Nicollette Sheridan, English actress

55 – Björk, Icelandic Singer/Songwriter

54 – Troy Aikman, Dallas Cowboy star

51 – Ken Griffey Jr., American baseball player, and actor

49 – Michael Strahan, Football and more

 

Puzzle Answer

The letter S.