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Jul 16, 2020 Week: 29 Day: 198
86004:
H 86° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind:
8mph\Gusts: 13mph Visibility:
10mi
Nearest lightning: 128mi.; Nearest active fire: 67mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 92°[1961]
Record Low: 37°[2001]
Jul Averages: 82°\52° (8 days with rain)
Today’s Quote
"Success is not final;
failure is not fatal:
It is the courage to continue that
counts."
-Winston
S. Churchill
Random Tidbits
French Roast Coffee
After World War II, Americans had forgotten
what it was like to drink good coffee. During wartime, importing good beans was
too expensive, and good coffee took a back seat to more pressing issues. When
the war was over, people forgot that better coffee was out there. When Alfred
Peet made his way to the United States from Holland, he could not figure out
why the richest country in the world was drinking the world’s worst coffee. He
made it his mission to change the coffee-drinking culture.
In 1966, Peet set up his own coffee shop in
California and started making dark roast coffee that Americans had not seen
before. He called one of his brews “French roast.” By using superior beans and
brewing dark roast coffee, Peet inspired the craft coffee revolution and even
helped Starbucks get its start. French roast coffee is the invention of a Dutch
coffee maker in California.
Remember these movie quotes?
#12 "I
love the smell of napalm in the morning."
Robert Duvall Apocalypse Now 1979
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
Hemingway Look-Alike Days: 16-20 Link Cancelled due to
COVID-19
Observations
for Today
Get to Know Your Customers Day
National Guinea Pig Day Link
National Corn Fritter Day
National Ice Cream Day
National Personal Chef's Day Link
World Snake Day Link
My Rambling Thoughts
Dental went well. New crown and only one filling. In
and out.
A warm day, but certainly bearable.
Living on the very rural Navajo Rez, I learned that a
Post Office is not always a Post Office. Sometimes they are contracted offices.
They do have their zip code but are not really part of the US Postal Service.
It really doesn’t matter unless the contractor decides not to renew the
contract, or if the USPS cancels a contract for some reason. There is a small
community, Munds Park, about 30 miles outside Flagstaff. Until recently, they
had a contract Post Office. For an undisclosed reason, the USPS canceled the
contract. This meant that the residents had to drive to the real Flagstaff PO to
get their mail. This has placed a real hardship on the elderly who receive
their meds through the USPS. It is also a hardship to stand outside in a line
for about 30 minutes to pick up their mail. There is a pandemic after all. The
local Flagstaff Postmaster has said that mail to the Munds Park locale will start
again by Friday. Not a pleasant situation.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
You have discovered a clue
to open the door to a secret chamber said to be filled with riches awaiting
those with the correct password.
The password is seven
characters long and is a mixture of numbers and letters. Your clue is “You force heaven to be empty”.
What is the password to
enter the secret chamber?
Historical Events
1661 - The first banknotes in Europe were issued by
the Swedish bank Stockholm’s Banco.
1769 - Father JunÃpero Serra founded California's
first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá, alter known as San Diego,
California.
1790 - The District of Columbia was established as the
capital of the United States with the Residence Act.
1915 - The Boy Scout's First Order of the Arrow
ceremony took place and the Order of the Arrow was founded.
1935 - The world's first parking meter was installed
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The first US patent for the device was filed by
Roger W. Babson.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio hit safely for the 56th
consecutive game, a MLB record that still stands.
1945 - (Manhattan Project) The United States
successfully detonated a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo,
New Mexico.
1951 - The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger was
published for the first time, by Little, Brown and Company.
1956 - Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
closed its last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1965 - The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy
opened.
1969 - Apollo 11 was launched from the Kennedy Space
Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1994 - Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 collided with Jupiter,
through July 22.
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her
sister, Lauren Bessette, died when the Piper Saratoga PA-32R aircraft he was
piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
2004 - Millennium Park was opened to the public by
Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Birthdays Today
@90 -
Bess Myerson, American model, actress, game show panelist, Miss America 1945 (d.
2014)
@88 -
Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman, founded Orville
Redenbacher's (d. 1995)
@83 -
Ginger Rogers [Virginia Katherine McMath], actor, singer, dancer (d. 1995)
@82 -
Barbara Stanwyck [Ruby Catherine Stevens], American actor (d. 1990)
@64 -
Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951; heart attack)
53 -
Will Ferrell, American comedic actor
52 -
Larry Sanger, co-founded Wikipedia
49 -
Corey Feldman, American actor
Puzzle Answer
U472BMT You = U,
Force Heaven = 47, To = 2, Empty = MT
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