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Aug 26, 2020 Week: 35 Day: 239 Local: H 83° \ L 54° \ Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind: 2mph\Gusts: 6mph Nearest lightning: 7mi.;
active fire: 59mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire Visibility: 10mi
Record: 88°[1974 ] Record: 37°[1989] Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"The
only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
-Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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Random Tidbits
Forty is the only number in English
whose letters appear in alphabetical order.
Minus
40 degrees, or 40 below, is the only temperature that is the same in both
Fahrenheit and Celsius
When
the bubonic plague gripped Europe during the Middle ages, ships would be
isolated in harbor for 40 days before passengers could go ashore. The Italian
word for 40 is quaranta—hence quarantine
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A little humor
Question: How do you
make an egg roll? Push it.
A day without sunshine is like- night.
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State Name Origins
The name Missouri originates from the Native
American Sioux of the state called the Missouris. Missouri means "town of
the large canoe." Other meanings for "Missouri" include
"those who have dugout canoes," "wooden canoe people," or
"he of the big canoe."
The name "Montana" is based on the
Spanish word for mountain, montaña, though it is not known who first used the
name for the territory. The name "Montana" was proposed in 1864 when
the area was separated from the Nebraska Territory.
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Observations This Week
World Water Week: 23-29 Link
National
Composites Week: 24-28 Link
National
Safe at Home Week: 24-28
Be Kind To Humankind Week:
25-31
Minimally Invasive Surgery
Week: 26-29 Link (Moved from Sept.)
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Observations for Today
National Dog Day Link Link
National Toilet Paper Day Link
National WebMistress Day
Link
Tug-of-War
Day Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Women's
Equality Day
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My Rambling Thoughts
No rain yesterday but looking good for today. Monsoon is so unpredictable
here.
I read an article in the paper today: World Tourism has lost
$329billion with over 120million jobs have been lost due to Covid. I sure miss
traveling but am concerned about all the locals around the world who have lost
income. Travelers need a place to stay…so hotel staff suffer; travelers need a
place to eat…so restaurant workers suffer; travelers need transportation, so
tour companies suffer; travelers like to shop…so locals with small shops and street vendors suffer.
Another article was discussing AZ Covid death count. Anyone who
has tested positive for Covid in the 60 days before death is added to the Covid
count, even if they died in an auto accident. The state health department
states that it is important to know who DIED with the disease, even if
it was not the CAUSE of the death. Seems strange to me. I must do some checking
to see if this is only for contagious diseases, or if it is only for Covid.
I get alerts on my phone about police happenings in Flagstaff.
This morning it was for a customer at JoAnn’s Fabric store. The customer was
being ‘disruptive’ and had unleashed a dog…a Pekingese…in the store. Yesterday
it was a man at Olive Garden parking lot showing his genitals. Never a dull moment.
I watched the Republican opening convention night. First the
convention passed a platform plank to keep Columbus Day as a Federal Holiday. Trump
had been promising an uplifting convention but last night was painting a
picture much darker than the Dems did. Then it appears that Kimberly Guilfoyle
missed a few civics classes when growing up. While I found her tone very
irritating, her misrepresentation of facts was worse. She proudly proclaimed to
be a first- generation American citizen and then touted how her mother was from
Puerto Rico, part of the United States since 1913. Details count.
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Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
You own a
toy-making studio with two employees. Carving a toy takes two hours. Packaging
one takes one hour.
You cannot paint
a toy until it has been carved. Similarly, you can’t package one until it has
been painted.
Both your
employees are capable of doing any of the three tasks, but they can’t both work
on the same task for the same toy at the same time.
What is the
lowest number of hours it would take your employees to carve, paint, and
package three toys?
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Historical Events
1498 – Michelangelo began his work to carve the Pieta, depicting
the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion.
1789 – The Declaration of the Rights of Man
and of the Citizen was approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
1791 – John Fitch was granted a United States
patent (# X28) for the steamboat.
1873 First free kindergarten in the U.S.
started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri
1883 (Volcano Eruption & Tsunami) Krakatoa began. It was one
of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic events in recorded history, with
at over 36,000 deaths being attributed to the eruption itself and the tsunamis
it created. Small eruptions, mostly of mud, continued into October 1883.
1944 Charles de Gaulle marches along the
Champs-Elysees, despite coming under fire.
1959 British Motor Corporation introduces the Morris Mini-Minor,
designed by Alec Issigonis, it was only 10 ft long but seated 4 passengers
1985 French government denies knowledge of attack on Rainbow
Warrior
1996 US President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law,
representing major shift in welfare policy
2018 Pope Francis asks for forgiveness in speech on child abuse in
Dublin, during first official visit to Ireland since 1979
2019 Indonesian President Joko Widodo proposes moving the country's
sinking and over-crowded capital from Jakarta to the island of Borneo
(Kalimantan)
2019 Leo DiCaprio's environmental organization Earth Alliance
donates $5 to fighting fires in the Amazon
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Birthdays Today
@101 Katherine Johnson, mathematician (NASA)
93 B. V. [Balkrishna] Doshi, Indian architect
(Pritzker Prize 2018)
@87 Mother Teresa [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu],
Albanian-born Indian nun and founder of Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace
Prize, 1979), (d. 1997)
@86 Albert Sabin [Abram Saperstein], Polish
American physician who invented the oral polio vaccine, born in Bialystok,
Russian Empire (d. 1993)
@75 Geraldine Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY) 1st female VP
candidate (d. 2011; cancer)
75 Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of
Homeland Security (Rep-R-Pennsylvania), born in Munhall, Pennsylvania
68 Will Shortz, American crossword editor
49 Melissa McCarthy, actor
40 Macaulay Culkin, actor
27 KeKe Palmer, actor
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Puzzle Answer
Six hours
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