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Jul 25, 2020 Week: 30 Day: 207
86004:
H 78° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind:
6mph\Gusts: 17mph Visibility:
10mi
Nearest lightning: 26mi.; Nearest active fire: 67mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 92°[1931]
Record Low: 41°[1913]
Jul Averages: 82°\52° (8 days with rain)
Today’s Quote
"Do not let making a living prevent you from making a
life."
-John Wooden
The most dangerous place for the Black man to
live
is in the mind of the white man.
D L Hughley
Random Tidbits
The air wing of one
Nimitz-class carrier is more powerful than the entire air force of more than
half the world's nations. A Nimitz carrier can carry up to 90 combat aircraft.
During World War II two
aircraft carriers were stationed on the Great Lakes as training ships.
Originally built as commercial paddle steamers, both ships were purchased by
the navy in 1942 and converted into carriers. They trained over 17,800 pilots.
One of them was future president George H. W. Bush.
Remember these movie quotes?
#15 "E.T.
phone home."
Pat
Welsh E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982
Observations This Week
National Scrabble Week:
18-25 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Moth Week: 18-26 Link
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
Captive Nations Week: 19-25
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 19-25 Link
National Independent Retailers Week: 19-25 Link
National Zoo Keeper Week:19-25 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
RAGBRAI: 19-25
Women in Baseball Week: 19-25
International Lace Week: 20-24 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Baby Food Week:
22-25 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Comi Great Texas Mosquitos Days:
23-25 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Comic Con International: 23-26 Cancelled due to COVID-19 To be virtual
Garlic Days: 24-26 Link Cancelled
due to COVID-19
National Parenting Gifted Children Week: 24-26 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
World Rope Skipping Week:
24-8/3 Link
National Little League Baseball Week: 25-8/23 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Observations
for Today
Carousel
Day or Merry-Go-Round Day Link
Culinarians
DayHire
A Veteran Day Link
National
Chili Dog Day
National
Day of the Cowboy Link
National Day of Lament Link
National
Hot Fudge Sundae Day
National
Korean War Veterans Armistice Day Link
National Water Gun Fight Day Link
Red Shoe Day (Internat’l) Link Link (Lyme Disease)
Thread The Needle Day Link
My Rambling Thoughts
I am having a ‘busy’ day…grocery shopping, haircut…all
in one day. Haha. When I was getting my haircut around my ears, I asked if she
wanted me to remove my mask…like I did last time with a different cutter. She
laughed, and might have smiled through her mask, when she said “I never thought
I would have to learn to cut hair around these straps…but I did.” I was happy I
didn’t have to take it off at all. Got it all done before the monsoon came.
Yeah!
I usually buy a 24 pack of Coke Zero when needed. The
last two times I needed it, they weren’t carrying the 24 pack. Not sure what is
happening, since they had 24 packs of Pepsi…yuck…and 24 packs of Coke Orange,
Coke, etc. Oh well.
When I got home, I opened my computer, only to
discover that Microsoft365 would not open…AGAIN. I’ve had the program for 3
months, and every month it won’t open. It takes 5 minutes to get a live tech
and then about 45 minutes to repair it. So much for doing the on-line version.
And now I was told to do manual updates every month, and he turned off
automatic updates as they are causing at least some of the problem. Crazy tech
world.
From what I hear on the TV and see on the internet, we
are going to be wearing masks for quite a while. I believe in ‘Better safe than
sorry’ but this morning it was cool…like 60…and humid. When I put my mask on,
it fogged my glasses.
Just announced: NAU classes begin online on Aug. 12;
in class on Aug 31.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
What
number does each letter represent:
XXXX
YYYY
+
ZZZZ
XYYYZ
Historical Events
306 - Constantine I (Constantine The Great) was
proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
315 - The Arch of Constantine was completed near the
Colosseum in Rome
1593 - Henry IV of France converted from Protestantism
to Roman Catholicism.
1788 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his Symphony
No. 40 in G minor.
1861 - United States Congress passed the
Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war was being fought to
preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant named 1st General of Army
1868 - The Wyoming Territory was established.
1925 - Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) was
established.
1946 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first
show as a comedy team at Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1959 - The SR.N1 hovercraft crossed the English
Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over two hours.
1965 - Bob Dylan played an electric guitar at the
Newport Folk Festival, surprising fans of folk and rock music.
1975 - Broadway Show - A Chorus Line (Musical) opened
1976 - Viking 1 took the now-famous Face on Mars
photo.
1978 - Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube
baby" (in vitro fertilisation, or IVF)was born at Oldham General Hospital,
Oldham, England.
1984 - Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became
the first woman to perform a spacewalk.
2010 - WikiLeaks published classified documents about
the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in US military history.
2016 Verizon announces $4.83 billion purchase of Yahoo
2018 Liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by
European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter reported in "Science"
2019 Highest ever UK temperature of 38.7C (101.6F)
recorded in Cambridge, England
Birthdays Today
@84 -
Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
@80 -
Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
65 -
Iman, Somalian-English model and actress
54 -
Matt LeBlanc, American actor
@45 -
Walter Payton, American football player and race car driver (d. 1999)
42 -
Louise Brown, first human to be born via IVF
@25 -
Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008; OD)
@14 -
Emmett Till, American lynching victim (d. 1955)
Puzzle Answer
1111
9999
+8888
19998
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