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Aug 22, 2020 Week: 34 Day: 235 Local: H 88° \ L 55° \ Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind: 7mph\Gusts: 13mph Nearest lightning: 3mi.; active fire: 98mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire Visibility: 10mi
Record High: 88°[1938] Record Low: 32°[1968] Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"I
alone cannot change the world,
but I can
cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."
-Mother
Teresa
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Random Tidbits
Honey.
Whether you use it in your tea, on your toast or as an alternative sweetener,
that jar of pure honey is good forever. It may get grainy or change color, but
it's still safe to eat - and delicious - because its antibiotic properties keep
it from spoiling.
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A little humor
In Seattle, you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a
sewing machine while it’s running.
What is the West Virginia state flower? The satellite dish.
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State Name Origins
The
story behind Iowa's name is a bit complicated. One version claims the name
comes from the Iowa river, which was named for the native American Iowas (or
Ioways), who were a Sioux tribe. One frontiersman wrote in 1868 that Native
Americans encamped by a river were pleased with the location and said in their
native tongue "'Iowa, Iowa, Iowa," meaning "beautiful."
Members of the Ioway people have a different version of the name. One is the
French spelling of Ayuhwa, meaning "sleepy ones."
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."
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Observations This Week
National Chef's Appreciation Week: 16-22 Link
Minority Enterprise Development Week: 18-24
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Observations for Today
Be An Angel Day
Earth Overshoot Day Link
National Bao Day Link
National “Eat a Peach” Day
National Surgical
Oncologist Day Link
National
Tooth Fairy Day
Sand Castle Day Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
National Bring Your Cat To The Vet Day
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My Rambling Thoughts
Weekly shopping and gas fill up are done with no problems.
Flag got three nice monsoon rains yesterday afternoon and evening.
So nice. Today there are clouds and thunder and lightning, so I sure hope there
is more rain.
The Dems finished their convention with some good speeches. Now
the real work begins of keeping up the momentum. Next week we see the
Republican convention. Should be informative. I hope they have speeches and
videos that pull our country together.
There were certainly a lot of Black speakers at the Democratic
convention. Last night I had some memories. I grew up in the suburbs where the
only minority were a few Japanese families. In Elementary school all the staff
was white. I had 3 or 4 teachers from the Deep South. Then it was off to
college at Univ of Colorado. This was the first time I was around many minorities.
There were Blacks in our dorm and our classes, although most were on athletic scholarships.
In my last two years I volunteered and then ran the Elementary Tutoring program.
Our office was in the Student Union along with other University organizations.
Next to our office was BSA, the Black Student Alliance. I got to know some of
their volunteers, but only in the office setting. When I arrived at Shonto
Boarding School I met several Black teachers and one Black supervisor. They were
all from Texas and were first generation college grads. They were all nice, but
we never socialized outside school. A sister of one of the teachers was hired
as a counselor. She was from a younger generation and did socialize with some
of the younger teachers. When I transferred to Tuba there were Blacks on the
staff and the Asst. Superintendent was Black. Over the years, they all retired
or moved to other places, usually back to Texas. As a supervisor at Red Lake I
hired a Black teacher. She was a great teacher, worked to be friendly to staff,
students, and parents. About two years after I left, she also left the Bureau. As I look back over those years, I now wish I
had done more socializing with them. I really missed out. I am glad I did
socialize mostly with Navajos. Back then I was ‘warned’ not to be too social
with the Natives, as ‘you never know what they might do’. Turned out that was
simple racism.
A sandstone cliff collapsed in the Grand Canyon. Not an unusual
event. However, a geologist was hike, saw where the collapse had occurred. He
found that it reveled footprints from an egg-laying vertebrate that left
footprints in the sand dunes some 313million years ago. It is fascinating what
was learned from these footprints.
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Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
I have keys but no locks.
I have space but no room.
You can enter but you can’t go outside.
What am I?
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Historical Events
565 St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness
1485 Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor's forces defeat English
King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is
killed, the last English monarch to die in battle.
1812 Swiss traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt is the 1st European
to rediscover the Nabataean city of Petra (modern Jordan)
1848 The United States annexes New Mexico
1865 William Sheppard is issued the first US patent for liquid
soap
1877 Nez Perce (NiimÃipu) indians flee into Yellowstone National
Park
1902 US President Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to
ride in a car
1926 Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
1944 Adolf Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed
1964 Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer speaks at the US
Democratic National Convention about her efforts to register to vote in
Mississippi
1972 IRA bomb explodes prematurely at a customs post at Newry,
County Down - 9 people, including three members of the IRA and five Catholic
civilians, are killed in the explosion
2004 "The Scream" (1910 painted version) and
"Madonna", two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from
the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
2019 Russia launches Fedor, the first life-sized robot, into space
to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome,
Kazakhstan
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Birthdays Today
@73 Dorothy
Parker, American short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), (d. 1967;
heart attack)
@92 Deng Xiaoping, Chinese revolutionary and
paramount leader of China (1978-92), (d. 1997)
@95 Henri
Cartier-Bresson, French photographer famous for 'The Decisive Moment', (d.
2004)
@91 Ray Bradbury,
American sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451), (d. 2012)
52 Ty Burrell, actor
(Modern Family)
50 Giada De
Laurentiis, Chef
49 Richard
Armitage, actor
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Puzzle Answer
A keyboard
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