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Aug 28, 2020 Week: 35 Day: 241 Local: H 89° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind: 4mph\Gusts: 7mph Nearest lightning: 8mi.;
active fire: 111mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire Visibility: 10mi
Record: 89°[1948] Record: 33°[1910] Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"You become what you believe."
-Oprah Winfrey
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Random Tidbits
Cooking food with fire or
heat is a uniquely human activity. Archeological evidence for cooking goes as
far back as 1 million years ago.
Today, Americans spend
about half the time cooking than they used to, even as recently as the
mid-sixties.
The industrial revolution
transformed cooking forever. Food could be mass-produced, mass-marketed, and
standardized.
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A little humor
"Disorder in the Court" True statements from
court records:
ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the
impact?
WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
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ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth?
WITNESS: July 18th.
ATTORNEY: What year?
WITNESS: Every year.
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State Name Origins
New Hampshire was named by Captain John Mason
after Hampshire, England, where Mason had lived as a child. Mason received a
land grant for what would become New Hampshire in 1629.
New Jersey, the third state to join the Union,
was named for the island of Jersey in the English Channel in honor of Sir
George Carteret, one of the two men to whom the land that would become New
Jersey was originally given. The city of Carteret in central New Jersey is
named after Sir George Carteret.
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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
Crackers Over The Keyboard Day
National Cherry Turnovers Day
National Power Rangers Day Link
National Weed Out Hate Day
Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day
Radio Commercials Day
Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day (lost pets) Link
Stuffed
Green Bell Peppers Day
World Daffodil Day Link
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My Rambling Thoughts
Dark clouds everywhere. Hoping for more moisture than our short
storm yesterday.
Kenosha shooting details are slow in coming. It sounds like things
are calming down. I sure hope so. When a man is shot numerous times in the
back, the public expects lots of details fast. Interesting that Tucker Carlson
on FOX suggested that the 17 year old was justified, since the police where nowhere
to be found.
There is a new app I got for my phone: A Starting Point. It
takes the major areas people are interested in and then has both sides of the
story told. One needs to use it with an open mind as it may change
perspectives. Daily Points is interesting.
About 20 people showed up at the downtown Flagstaff PO with signs
of support for the USPS. Small town America is great.
I am also using the app: Happy Color. It is a fun paint
program with new pictures every day. The painting is very relaxing and do not take
a lot of time. However there are difficult ones that take a very long time.
Today a travel friend introduced me to Jigsaw Puzzles Epic.
I don’t usually like jigsaw puzzles…online or with real pieces. The cool thing
about this one is you set the number of pieces for each puzzle. I am an amateur,
so I am starting with a low number of pieces. It too is relaxing.
When I was in Boulder, CO I was in a 100mph windstorm. That was
enough for me…I can’t imagine 175mph winds and a 10’ storm surge the likes of
current hurricane Laura. I prefer high mountain desert.
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Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
If
I eat I am fine, if I drink I die. What
am I?
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Historical Events
1609 – Henry Hudson discovered the Delaware Bay.
1789 – William Herschel discovered another Saturn moon, Enceladus.
1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s (B&O) new ‘Tom Thumb’
steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam’s role in US
railroads.
1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 received Royal Assent,
abolishing slavery through most of the British Empire.
1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine was
published.
1898 – Caleb Bradham invented the carbonated soft drink that would
later be called “Pepsi-Cola”.
1955 – Black 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered in
Mississippi, for ‘flirting’ with a white woman, galvanizing the nascent
American Civil Rights Movement.
1963 – At the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Reverend
Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his I Have a Dream speech.
1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales got
divorced.
2013 China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting
after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria's use of chemical
weapons
2017 Kenya brings in world's toughest ban on plastic bags with
possible US$38,000 fine and four years in jail
2019 Climate change activist Greta Thunberg arrives in New York
after sailing across the Atlantic in an emissions-free voyage
2019 Discovery of 3.8-million-year-old skull of early human
ancestor Australopithecus anamensis, found by Yohannes Haile-Selassie, at Miro
Dora, Ethiopia, upends previous evolutionary theory published in journal
"Nature"
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Birthdays Today
@81 – Ben
Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
@78 – Charles
Boyer, French-American actor (d. 1978; suicide)
77 – David Soul,
American actor
@76 – Jack ‘King’
Kirby – comic book creator, (d. 1994; heart failure)
@69 – Nancy Kulp,
American actress (d. 1991; cancer)
@66 – Roxie
Roker, American actress (d. 1995; breast cancer)
62 – Scott
Hamilton, American figure skater
55 – Shania
Twain, Canadian singer-songwriter
51 – Jack Black,
American comedic actor
51 – Jason
Priestley, Canadian actor
@46 – Elizabeth
Ann Seton, American saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the
Vincentian-Setonian Tradition (d. 1821)
38 – LeAnn Rimes,
American singer-songwriter
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Puzzle Answer
Fire
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