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Sep 6, 2020 Week: 37 Day: 250
Local: H 88° \ L 52° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 6mph\Gusts: 9mph Nearest lightning: 143mi.;
active fire: 306mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire Visibility: 10mi
Record: 87°[1977] Record: 33°[1985] Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"Whether you
think you can or you think you can't, you're right."
-Henry Ford
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Random Tidbits
In the mid-1980s, milk cartons with photos of missing
children on them made their debut. The first child to appear on one of those
milk cartons was Etan Patz, a 6-year-old from New York who disappeared walking
to the bus stop in May 1975.
According to the U.S.
Department of State, there are no statistics that track the number of Americans
who go missing in a foreign country in a given year. The United Kingdom does,
however. In 2008, 481 British disappeared abroad, an increase from 401 the
previous year and 336 in 2006.
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A little humor
"Disorder in
the Court" True statements from court records
ATTORNEY: Doctor,
how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All of
them. The live ones put up too much of a fight.
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State Name Origins
The state of Washington was named in honor of
George Washington and is the only state named after the the nation's first
president, or any U.S. president.
West Virginia split from Virginia when the 39
western counties of Virginia refused to secede from the Union during the Civil
War. West Virginia came into being in 1863. For Virginia's name origin please
look up Virginia on our list.
The Wisconsin Historical Society says
Wisconsin was originally called "Meskonsing" and is the English
rendering of a French version of a Miami Indian name for the Wisconsin River
that runs through the center of the state. The society said that in the Miami
people's language it meant, "this stream meanders through something
red," a reference to the red sandstone bluffs of the Wisconsin Dells.
The name "Wyoming" is derived from
the Delaware people's word "mecheweami-ing," meaning "at the big
plains." Another possible origin for Wyoming's name is that it is an
Algonquin word meaning "large prairie place."
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True Things
A
marriage proposal is a very special occasion, and some people put a lot of
thought and planning into the moment they ask that special someone to be with
them 'til death or irreconcilable differences do them part. One British man
pulled out all the stops when he decorated his apartment with balloons and
hundreds of candles to create the perfect romantic atmosphere. He then lit all
of those candles... and then left the apartment to go pick up his girlfriend.
Albert Ndreu, 26, spent two weeks meticulously
planning his perfect proposal after buying a ring for Valerija Madevic, 22. He
had decided to surprise his sweetheart by filling their living room with
several candles, around 100 tea lights and roughly 60 balloons.
He spent over four hours preparing his
romantic setting - two of which were spent blowing up balloons and lighting up
the candles.
Albert spelled out the words "Marry
Me?" with tea lights, had a bottle of Chianti waiting for them, and had a
nonstop romance playlist playing on a speaker.
Albert then went out to pick up his girlfriend
to bring her home for the surprise. But after he left, the place caught on fire
- completely destroying his surprise and his flat.
Three fire crews rushed to the scene after
Valerija saw clouds of dark smoke emanating from their flat's door in
Sheffield, Yorks. But upon returning and seeing the damage, Albert still
insisted on going ahead with the proposal as planned and got down on one knee
in the charred room and asked the love of his life if she would marry him.
With sirens wailing in the distance the love
struck girlfriend still said 'yes'.
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Observations This Month
One-on-One
Month
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month Link
Pain Awareness Month Link
Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month Link
Pet Health Insurance Month Link
Pleasure Your Mate Month
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Awareness Month Link
Save The Koala Month Link
Save Your Photos Month Link
Sea Cadet Month
Self-Care Awareness Month Link
Self Improvement Month Link
September Is Healthy Aging Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Sports and Home Eye Health & Safety Month
Subliminal Communications Month
Superior Relationships Month
Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month Link
Update Your Resume Month
Whole Grains Month
Wild Rice Month Link
Women's Friendship Month
World Alzheimer's Month
World Animal Remembrance Month Link Link
World Beach Month
World Speak Out Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September
15-October 15)
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Observations This Week
Chuckwagon Races: Thru 9/6
US Open Tennis Championships: Thru 9/13
International Enthusiasm Week: 1-7
National Nutrition Week: 1-7 (UNICEF-India) Link
Self-University Week: 1-7 Link
Golden Onion Week: 3-7
National Go-Kart Week: 3-6 Link
Sweet Corn Week: 3-7
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over: 4-8 Link
International Air
Ambulance Week: 5-13 Link
Shetland Wool Week: 5-6 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week: 6-12
Suicide Prevention Week: 6-12
National Waffle Week: 6-12
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Observations for Today
Bowling
League Day Link
National Coffee Ice Cream Day
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My Rambling Thoughts
A warm Saturday with no precipitation in sight. It would be a
great day to attend a concert, a fair, or any gathering. Covid has sure messed
thing up.
I am taking a holiday from news channels until next week. I’m fed
up with all the news that makes little or no sense. Covid is here. Wear a mask…I
get it. Some were saying no vaccine until 2021, others by Nov. 1. Others ‘it’s
a trap’. Just need a break. Same on the election. I am tired of both sides
sending messages that ‘the end is near.’ A break will be nice.
My kidney doctor saw me in May through tele-conference. On
Wednesday and Friday I got voicemail that I needed to make a new appointment. I
remembered that the office couldn’t make my next appointment after the tele-conference.
It took 3 calls to make the appointment in October, most likely another
tele-conference. She said it was good I called since they are booking October
quickly. I blame it on a crappy appointment application. My iPhone calendar
lets me make appointments years in advance. Their program can’t do 3 months ahead.
I’m doing a couple of loads of laundry. Not my favorite task, but
one that needs to be done so I can wear clean clothes. I know no one will see
me, but I will feel good.
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Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
We’re five little items of an everyday sort.
You’ll find us all in a tennis court.
What are we?
Bonus
The more places I be the less you see.
What am I?
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Historical Events
1620 – The Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England, on the
Mayflower to settle in North America.
1837 – Oberlin Collegiate Institute became the first college to
grant women equal status.
1866 – Frederick Douglass was the first US black delegate to a
national political convention.
1901 – Leon Czolgosz shot and killed US President William McKinley
at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1954 – WINS (New York City) began playing rock and roll music with
the Alan Freed Show.
1955 – Wyatt Earp, starring Hugh O’Brian debuted on ABC.
1963 – Baseball Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is
100,000th in professional baseball history.
1972 – September 5/6;
Israeli athletes were taken hostage and killed at the Munich Olympic
Games by the Palestinian “Black September” terrorist group.
1979 – National Grandparents Day was proclaimed by President Jimmy
Carter to be celebrated on the Sunday following Labor Day.
1983 – The Soviet Union admitted to shooting down Korean Air Lines
Flight 007, claiming that it did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it
violated Soviet airspace.
1991 – The Soviet Union recognized the independence of the Baltic
states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1991 – The name Saint Petersburg was restored to Russia’s
second-largest city, which had been known as Leningrad since 1924.
1995 – Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in his
2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
1997 – The funeral for Princess Diana was broadcast across several
networks and around the world. An estimated 2 billion people watched all or
part of the funeral on television.
2012 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off
the coast of Turkey
2017 Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Caribbean islands of
Barbuda, Sint Maartens and British Virgin Islands. Prime Minister Gaston Browne
reports 95% of buildings in Barbuda damaged.
2018 New York and New Jersey state attorneys launch investigations
into sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy, bring to six the number of states
investigating
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Birthdays Today
83 – Jo Anne
Worley, American comedic actress
@81 – Joseph P.
Kennedy Sr., American businessman, diplomat (d. 1969)
@77 – Catharine
Beecher, American educator, and activist (d. 1878)
77 – Roger
Waters, English singer-songwriter, Pink Floyd
76 – Swoosie
Kurtz, American actress
@74 – Jane
Addams, American sociologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
73 – Jane Curtin,
American comedic actress
62 – Jeff
Foxworthy, American comedian
58 – Chris
Christie, American politician
56 – Rosie Perez,
American actress
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Puzzle Answer
Vowels
Bonus
Darkness
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