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Aug 18, 2020 Week: 34 Day: Local: H 89° \ L 56° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 6mph\Gusts: 9mph Nearest lightning: 140mi.; active fire: 59mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire Visibility: 10mi
Record High: 87°[2002] Record Low: 36°[1975] Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"You
miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
-Wayne
Gretzky
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Random
Tidbits
The term "volcano"
is from the Latin Volcanus or Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. The Romans first
used the term to describe Mt. Etna, a volcanic mountain they believed was the
forge of Vulcan.
The
myth of the lost city of Atlantis sinking beneath the waves may be based on the
Greek island of Santorini, of which portions collapsed into the sea after a
large volcanic eruption during the Bronze Age.
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A little
humor
While
fishing off Myrtle Beach, a Yankee tourist capsized his boat. Petrified, he
yelled to an old guy standing on the shore, “Are there any gators around
here?!”
“Naw,”
the man hollered back, “they ain’t been around for years!”
Feeling
safe, the tourist started swimming toward shore. Halfway there, he asked the
guy, “How’d you get rid of the gators?”
“We
didn’t do anything,” the old guy said. “The sharks got ’em.”
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State Name
Origins
The
state of Maryland, which as a colony, was founded as a haven for Catholics
persecuted in England, was named to honor Queen Henrietta Maria, the Catholic
wife of England's King Charles I.
The
name "Massachusetts" is derived from the language of the Algonquian
nation and translates as "at or about the great hill." The hill
refers to the Blue Hills southwest of Boston.
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Observations
This Week
Pueblo Revolt, New Mexico
Aug10-20, 1680
National Aviation Week: 15-21
National Chef's Appreciation Week: 16-22 Link
Minority Enterprise Development Week: 18-24
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Observations
for Today
Bad Poetry Day
Birth Control Pills Day
Mail Order Catalog Day
National Badge Ribbon Day
National Fajita Day
National Ice Cream Pie Day
Serendipity Day
World Daffodil Day
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Week starting off hot…again. Clouds appear late every day. That’s
it they just appear…no moisture falls from them.
About a month ago someone shot a BB into my neighbor’s front
window. Luckily our windows are double pain, so it just shattered the outside
pane. Today, the replacement guy showed up and fixed it. Another neighbor moved
in a couple of weeks ago. We have strict parking guidelines…must have a permit,
no backing into parking spaces, two permits per household. The new neighbor has
2 vehicles…a Ram Pickup and a Lexus. The problem is that the Ram has a trailer
too. So, this jerk pulls in every afternoon and takes up 5 parking spaces. Then
he leaves the next day, only to return. Today a tow truck arrived and was ready
to tow the truck/trailer. However, the driver could not hook up because of the
way he parked. The driver stuck a note on the driver’s side window and left. While
I was on my computer, the guy comes out, reads the note, crumples it up, throws
it in his truck, goes back inside. Just before noon, he left in his truck. Hope
he finds a new parking place.
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez will be speaking at the
Democrat Convention on Tuesday. Hope his speech is appreciated by all who hear
it. He was born and raised in Shonto, where I started my career with the BIA.
He was born in 1975 the same year I had moved to Tuba. Traditional Navajo
appreciate his understanding of traditional beliefs. From what I have heard and
seen, he is doing a very good job as President.
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Today’s
Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
Which
tire does not move when a car turns right?
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Historical
Events
1587 – Virginia Dare, the granddaughter of Governor John White of
the Colony of Roanoke, became the first English child born in the Americas, to
Ananias and Eleanor Dare. She and the rest of the colonists at Roanoke
disappeared at some point before August 18, 1590. The only clue was the word
“Croatoan” carved into a post.
1868 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovered helium.
1783 – The 1783 Great Meteor was observed from the British Isles.
1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho may have flown his own airplane,
four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
was ratified, guaranteeing women’s suffrage.
1958 – Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita was published
in the United States.
2005 – A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of
Java, affecting almost 100 million people, one of the largest and most
widespread power outages in history, and lasted just over six hours.
2017 Civilian researchers led by Paul Allen re-discover the USS Indianapolis
18,000 feet below the Pacific surface, 72 years after it was sunk by Japanese
torpedoes
2017 White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon is fired by US
President Donald Trump
2019 1.7 million take part in pro-democracy protest peacefully in
Hong Kong, a quarter of the population
2019 US President Donald Trump confirms he is interested in buying
Greenland for the US
2019 Iceland holds a funeral for the first glacier lost to climate
change at site of Okjökull glacier
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Birthdays
Today
1587 – Virginia
Dare, the first child born to English parents in the Americas (date of death
unknown)
93 – Rosalynn
Carter, First Lady of the United States
@91 – Max Factor,
Jr., American businessman (d. 1996)
87 – Roman
Polanski, French-Polish director, and producer
@85 – Shelley
Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
84 – Robert Redford,
Actor, founded Sundance Film Festival
77 – Martin Mull,
American actor, and comedian
@71 – Marshall
Field, American businessman, founded Marshall Field’s (d. 1906; pneumonia)
59 – Bob
Woodruff, American journalist, and author
@57 – Patrick
Swayze, American actor, and dancer (d. 2009)
51 – Christian Slater,
actor
51 – Edward
Norton, American actor
42 – Andy
Samberg, American actor, and comedian
@38 – Roberto
Clemente, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (d. 1972)
@35 – Meriwether
Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician (d. 1809; suicide<?>)
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Puzzle
Answer
The
spare tire
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