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May
28, 2020 Week: 22
Day: 149
86004:
H
83° \ L
48° \
Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind:
3mph\Gusts: 4mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest
lightning: 703mi.; Nearest active fire: 600mi.
Extreme
Risk of Fire
Record
High: 86°[2000]
Record Low:
24°[1929]
May
Averages: 68°\34°
(3 days with moisture)
Today’s
Quote
"You
will face many defeats in life,
but
never let yourself be defeated."
-Maya
Angelou
Random
Tidbits
Pope
Gregory IX declared war on cats
In
the 13th century, the pope believed that cats carried the spirit of
Satan within them which sparked the notion that black cats symbolize
bad luck.
In
response, the Catholic Church and all of its followers initiated the
extermination of cats. Some historians even believed that this
massacre of cats contributed to the plague because of the abundance
of rodents carrying the disease and the lack of their natural
predator.
The
slaughters stopped for the most part after the death of Pope Gregory
IX.
Have
a smile
A
friend sent these to me
“After
seeing myself and my sister working all day, my six-year-old nephew
drew himself a laptop and started saying things like ‘Where's my
headphone charger?’ and ‘Sorry, I can't hear you. I'm on a
call.’”
Observations
This Week
National
African Violet Week: 24-30
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week: 25-30 Link
National Backyard Games Week: 25-6/1Scripps National Spelling Bee: 25-28 Cancelled due to COVID-19.
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories: 25-31
Black Single Parents Week: 28-6/3
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week: 25-30 Link
National Backyard Games Week: 25-6/1Scripps National Spelling Bee: 25-28 Cancelled due to COVID-19.
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories: 25-31
Black Single Parents Week: 28-6/3
Observations for Today
Shavuot
(Sundown)
Sierra Club Day Link
Slugs Return From Capistrano Day
Sierra Club Day Link
Slugs Return From Capistrano Day
My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice
day...but another warm one. Headed out at 7:30 to help my friend
finish his tarp carport. We got the tie-downs done, the top tied
down, and the back tarp put on. He wants to wait to see how this
will do in the wind, before putting up the other sides. It gets
really windy out at his place, so we'll see how this works.
The
National Spelling Bee is a big deal for the participants and their
families. A few decades ago the Navajo Nation petitioned to allow the
winner of the Navajo Nation Bee be allowed to participate, since
Navajo Nation spellers are from
three
states, it only seemed fair that they be on the platform to
represent. The Scripts group allowed this. Now with the Bee canceled
for 2020, participants are starting a petition to either have the Bee
later this year or change the rules to that winning spellers in their
last year to participate will be allowed to participate next year.
Will be interesting to see how this turns out.
The
space launch may have to be postponed due to weather, but I'm still
watching the Discovery Channel live to see what happens. I feel like
a little kid again. Darn, scrubbed until Saturday due to
weather...disappointed but safety first.
The
mystery sock I lost about two weeks ago appeared in my dryer after I
dried a load of clothes. Strange.
Today’s
Puzzle
Answer
at the bottom of the page
If five chimpanzees can eat five bananas in five minutes, how many minutes will it take four chimpanzees to eat four bananas?
Historical
Events
585
BC - A solar eclipse occurred, as predicted by the Greek philosopher
and scientist Thales. Knowing this exact date helped historians find
other exact and near exact historical dates.
1830 - US President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which relocated Native Americans.
1830 - US President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which relocated Native Americans.
1892 - In San Francisco, California, John Muir organized the Sierra Club.
1897 - Jell-o was introduced.
1902 - Owen Wister's The Virginian was published by Macmillan Press. The book made the American Cowboy an icon.
1928 - The Dodge Brothers, Inc. and the Chrysler Corporation merged.
1935 - John Steinbeck's first successful novel, Tortilla Flat, was published.
1937 - Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH, later renamed Volkswagenwerk, or Volkswagon was founded.
1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco was officially opened to vehicles
1964 - The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed.
1987 - Matthias Rust, a 19-year-old amateur pilot from West Germany, took off from Helsinki, Finland, in his Cessna, and landed in Red Square, the heart of the Soviet Union.
1998 - Former Saturday Night Live actor and comedian Phil Hartman was shot and killed by his wife Brynn, in a murder/suicide.
1999 - In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper was put back on display. It is bigger than most people think - it is life size, almost 29 feet wide.
2008
The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally
declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah
dynasty.
2018
Coco-Cola launches its first alcoholic drink - Lemon-Do on island of
Kyushu, Japan
2019
Johnson & Johnson go on trial in Oklahoma accused of deceptively
marketing painkillers and downplaying risks of addiction helping
create "opioid epidemic", first of 2,000 cases against US
pharmaceutical firms
Birthdays
Today
76-Soul
Singer Gladys Knight
75-Musician
John Fogerty
@65-Sac
& Fox Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe (d. 1953; heart failure)
@56-Author
Ian Fleming (d. 1964; heart attack)
52-Singer
Kylie Minogue
48-Politician
Marco Rubio
Puzzle
Answer:
Five
minutes
