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Jul 15, 2020 Week: 29 Day: 197
86004:
H 86° \ L 55° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind:
9mph\Gusts: 15mph Visibility:
10mi
Nearest lightning: 155mi.; Nearest active fire: 67mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 92°[1970]
Record Low: 37°[2011]
Jul Averages: 82°\52° (8 days with rain)
Today’s Quote
"Many of life's failures are people
who did not realize how close they were
to success when they gave up."
-Thomas A. Edison
Random Tidbits
Fajitas
In the 1960s, a Texas
butcher shop owner named Sonny Falcon wanted to come up with a way to sell the
unwanted skirt steak. He started to cook the undesirable meat and roll it into
tortillas to entice shoppers with the smell and to be able to provide samples.
He called the invention “fajitas” because he thought the skirt steak looks like
a belt; “faja” means “belt” in Spanish. The recipe exploded in popularity.
Falcon even traveled around making the famous recipe at rodeos and events all
over Texas, and he became known as “The Fajita King.”
Remember these movie quotes?
13 "Love means never having to say you're sorry."
Ryan O'Neal Love Story 1970
Observations This Week
Tour de
France: 27-7/19 Link Moved to August due to COVID-19
National Vodka Week: 12-18 Link
Operation Safe Driver
Week: 12-18 Link
Sports Cliché Week: 12-18 Link Cancelled
due to COVID-19 cancelling the MLB Games.
Democratic National Convention: 13-16 Postponed until Aug 17-20
Family Golf Week: 15-18 Link
National Cancer Survivor Sibling Week: 15-18 Link
National Ventriloquism Week:
15-18 Link Cancelled due to
COVID-19
Rabbit Week: 15-21
Observations
for Today
Cow Appreciation Day- Go out and
give a cow a hug
Gummi Worm Day Link
International
Sister Cities Day Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Hot Dog Day Link
National
Tapioca Pudding Day
Take Your Poet To Work
Day
National Give Something Away Day
National
Pet Fire Safety Day Link Link
Saint
Swithin's Day
World Youth Skills Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Good news: Joe and Tumlare came through. I have now
received all the refunds I am due after Tahiti decided they would not let us in
due to Covid. I know that Ellie, Joe, and his staff spent many hours to pull
this off. I still feel sorry for all the
local vendors we did not get to see…but will see in 2021.
It is another warm day…but fan is working fine. We
need moisture…soon.
The Dentist called and my crown gets put on tomorrow.
And he will fill two small cavities next to a crown on the other side of my
mouth. I thought crowns were a good thing, but I’m beginning to wonder.
Facing backlash and lawsuits from Universities, the
Trump administration has dropped their plan that foreign students attending Universities
that are only doing digital learning due to Covid had to leave the country.
Of all my adventures, watching elephants in several
countries are great memories. I am saddened every time I hear about elephant
poaching for their ivory. Today’s news from Botswana is terrifying. Since March
there has been 280+ sudden deaths of elephants in their country…and they find
more every week. The elephants walk in circles then drop dead. There are many
theories but still no answers. I hope they find the reason soon.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
We hurt without moving. We
poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be
judged by our size.
What are we?
Historical Events
1149 - The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulcher
was consecrated in Jerusalem.
1799 - The Rosetta Stone was found in the Egyptian
village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's
Egyptian Campaign.
1823 - A fire destroyed the ancient Basilica of Saint
Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.
1834 - The Spanish Inquisition was officially
disbanded after nearly 356 years. Several thousand people were executed over
this time, averaging about a dozen per year.
1838 - Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered the Divinity
School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and
declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Christian Community was not
pleased.
1916 - In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and
George Conrad Westervelt incorporated Pacific Aero Products (later renamed
Boeing).
1954 - First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype
for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
1979 - US President Jimmy Carter gives his Malaise
Speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this
crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss
of a unity of purpose for our nation."
2006 - Twitter was launched. 140 characters could say
a lot.
2018 - 8-year-old
girl finds pre-Viking-era sword in Vidostern Lake, Sweden, internet proclaims
her Queen of Sweden
Birthdays Today
@77 -
Alex Karras, football player, wrestler, actor (d. 2012; dementia)
@74 -
Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (d. 2019; cardiac arrest)
70 -
Arianna Huffington, Greek-American journalist and publisher
69 -
Jesse Ventura [James George Janos], wrestler, actor, and 38th Governor of Minnesota
59 -
Forest Whitaker, American actor
57 -
Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-Italian actress
44 -
Gabriel Iglesias, Mexican-American comedian
Puzzle Answer
Words
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