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Aug 16, 2020 Week: 34 Day: 229 Local: H 88° \ L 57° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 5mph\Gusts: 14mph Nearest lightning: 196mi.; active fire: 59mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire Visibility: 10mi
Record High: 89°[1939]
Record Low: 37°[1968] Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"Success is walking from failure to failure
with no loss of enthusiasm."
-Winston Churchill
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Random
Tidbits
Scientists
have described the giant pool of magma sitting just under surface of
Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming as a super-volcano.
Exactly
how giant this super-volcano is has been the subject of much speculation until
recently.
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A little
humor
How can you tell if an Oklahoman is married? There’s dried
chewing tobacco on both sides of his pickup truck.
Howard dies and waits in line for judgment. He notices that some
souls go right into heaven, while Satan throws others into a burning pit. But
every so often, instead of hurling a poor soul into the fire, the devil tosses
him aside. Curious, Howard asks Satan, ”Excuse me, but why are you tossing them
aside instead of flinging them into hell with the others?”
“They’re from Oregon,” Satan replies. “They’re too wet to burn.”
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State Name
Origins
Kansas gets its name from the Native American
Kaws or Kansa people, also a Sioux tribe. They derived the name from the Sioux
word for "southwind." The Kansa people are also referred to as
"people of the south wind."
There are several different theories regarding
the name "Kentucky," though it has a Native American origin. Kentucky
comes from the Iroquois word "ken-tah-ten," which means "land of
tomorrow." The other possible meanings for "Kentucky" that derive
from the Iroquois language are: "meadow," "prairie," and
"the river of blood."
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Observations
This Week
Sturgis Rally: 7-16 Link
Elvis Week: 8-16 Link
National Motorcycle Week: 9-16 Link
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week: 9-16 Link Link
National Resurrect Romance Week:9-16
Weird Contest Week: 9-16
Safe and Sound Week: 10-16 Link
US
Amateur Golf Week: 10-16
Pueblo Revolt, New Mexico Aug10-20, 1680
National Aviation Week: 15-21
National Chef's Appreciation Week: 16-22 Link
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Observations
for Today
Joe Miller's Joke Day
Kool-Aid Day s
National Airborne Day
National Bratwurst Day
National Rollercoaster Day Day
National Rum Day Link
Surveillance Day Link Link
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Another scorcher today. Last night it was 93 at 6p…and we are at
7000’. I have been using the swamp cooler for the past few days from noon until
at least 5p. Usually there is a nice breeze that cools off the house when the
door and windows are open. Not this time. The breeze has disappeared as fast as
the moisture.
Q or Q Anon is a far-right group with no known leader that has
more conspiracy theories than stars in the sky. Georgia Republicans just put a supporter
on the ballot for Congress. One of their stories is that vaccines are only here
to put chips in children so they can be controlled. They seem to have given up
on their old story that vaccines cause autism, after the one study that concluded
that has been disproved by hundreds of other studies. Oh and the US government
is controlled by lizard people.
When the Payroll Protection Plan, started out as a grant to
help employers pay their workers during the shutdown. Restaurants brought
people back, to closed restaurants, to clean and work. Now, months after
accepting and using the grant money, it has been discovered that these ‘grants’
were actually ‘loans’ that the employers will have to pay taxes. Many are
saying that they wouldn’t have taken the money, if they had known they would
have to pay taxes on the money.
In southern AZ the border wall is still being built. Turns out
that to build the wall, the contractors are using local wells for the water
needed to make the cement. Warnings that this could dry up ponds that are
needed by a variety of wildlife and fish went unheeded. So now the wildlife and
fish are dying. Great plan. Maybe Mexico will replace the water.
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Today’s
Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
What
kind of coat can only be put on when wet?
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Historical
Events
1858 – President James Buchanan inaugurated the new transatlantic
telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria in the United
Kingdom.
“Europe and America are united by telegraphy. Glory to God in the
highest; on earth, peace and goodwill toward men.”
1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack, and Dawson Charlie
discovered gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, starting the
Klondike Gold Rush.
1927 – The Dole Air Race from Oakland, California, to Honolulu,
Hawaii. Six participating planes crashed or disappeared, only two made it to
Hawaii.
1930 – The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, was
made by ex-Disney cartoonist Ub Iwerks. It appeared in the music video for
Eminem’s song “The Real Slim Shady.” Ub went back to work for Disney in 1940.
1954 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated was published.
1989 – A solar flare from the Sun created a geomagnetic storm that
affected micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto’s stock
market.
1996 – At the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield Illinois, a 3-year-old
boy fell into a Gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness. Binti Jua, a female
Gorilla, guarded the young boy against the other gorillas, cradled him in her
arms, and carried him 60 feet to an entrance where zookeepers could retrieve
him.
2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago reached
1,389 feet (423 m), making, at the time, the world’s highest residence above
ground-level.
2011 World Youth Day 2011, organized by the Catholic church,
begins in Madrid
2012 Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange is granted political asylum
by Ecuador
2016 Wildfire breaks out in San Bernardino County, California,
engulfing 15,000 acres, prompting evacuation of 82,000 people
2018 Pope Francis and the Vatican issues statement in support of
the 300 victims of "predator priests" in Pennsylvania
2018 British Columbia, Canada, declares State of Emergency with
566 wildfires burning, prompting evacuation of 3,000 people
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Birthdays
Today
@91 – Otto
Messmer, American cartoonist and animator, co-created Felix the Cat (d. 1983)
87 – Julie
Newmar, American actress
@85 – Fess
Parker, American actor (d. 2010)
@84 – Eydie
Gormé, American singer (d. 2013)
@84 – Frank
Gifford, American football player, and sportscaster (d. 2015)
@79 – Robert
Culp, American actor (d. 2010; heart attack while jogging)
67 – Kathie Lee
Gifford, American talk show host
67 – James “J.T.”
Taylor, American R&B singer-songwriter [Kool & the Gang]
66 – James
Cameron, Canadian director, producer and screenwriter
62 – Madonna [Madonna Louise Ciccone], American
singer-songwriter and actress
62 – Angela
Bassett, American actress
60 – Timothy
Hutton, American actor
58 – Steve
Carell, American actor
@46 – T. E.
Lawrence, British colonel, diplomat, writer, archaeologist (d. 1935; motorcycle
accident)
32 – Rumor Willis,
movie actor
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Puzzle
Answer
A
coat of paint.
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