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Nov
2, 2020 Week: 45 Day: 307 |
Local:
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67°\ L 39°\Average Sky Cover: 15% |
Wind: 6mph\Gusts: 8mph |
Nearest
lightning: 1514mi.; active fire: 59mi |
high Risk of Fire |
Visibility: 10mi |
Record: 73°[1977] Record: 10°[1956] |
Nov
Averages: 53°\23° (3
days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire
life is thank you,
it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart
Random Tidbits
The Honey War, an 1839 dispute
over how the border was drawn between Iowa territory and the state of Missouri,
was even less bloody, with no casualties except for three trees containing
beehives, which were cut down by Missouri tax agents. Iowa prevailed in the
U.S. Supreme Court.
A little humor
Humorous/Thoughtful Quote
Even if you on the right track, you’ll get run over if
you just sit there. Will Rogers
True Things
Family Values
Twifi, a startup internet provider in Switzerland, posted a
Facebook ad with a compelling offer to parents-to-be: Name your child Twifus
(for a boy) or Twifia (for a girl) in exchange for 18 years of free internet
service. And sure enough, KidSpot.com reported, one young couple bit, giving
their daughter the rewarding middle name. "The more I thought about it,
the more unique the name became to me, and that's when the thing acquired its
charm," the baby's dad, 35, said. Mom went even deeper: "For me, the
name Twifia also stands for connection in this context. The more often we say
'Twifia,' the heartier the name sounds!"
Observations This Month
Family Stories Month Link |
Observations This Week
World Origami Days: 24-11/11 |
Nat’l Patient
Accessibility Week: 2-6 |
Drowsy Driving
Prevention Week: 1-8 Link |
Polar Bear Week:
1-7 |
Give
Wildlife A Brake! Week: 1-7 Link |
World Communication
Week: 1-7 |
Nat’l Animal Shelter
Appreciation Week: 1-7 Link
|
World Karaoke
Championships: 2-7 Link |
Nat’l Fig Week: 1-7 |
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Observations for Today
Color The World Orange Day Cookie Monster
Birthday Fill Our Staplers Day |
Internat’l Day to End
Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists Job Action Day Nati’l Traffic
Professionals Day |
My Rambling Thoughts
Nice
Sunday morning and warm enough for a walk through the neighborhood.
Skipped
the Sunday News shows as all were nothing but election coverage and took the
walk.
Cardinals
have a bye this week. Broncos not on my TV so have to follow it on the internet
machine.
Many
of the people who go to our local shelters are street alcoholics or street drug
users. The shelter’s have rules like not allowing consumption of either. If a
person doesn’t follow the rules, they are picked up by police who take them to
jail or the hospital. Rumors spread fast in our homeless community and a
dangerous one is that users are banned from staying in the shelter. When the
last cold spell hit, two homeless males froze to death on the streets. The head
of shelter services says the rumors are hard to dispel and can easily lead to
tragedy. Sadly, many communities are looking at the street people and don’t
work on the root cause which is addiction or abuse or mental illness. Every
year it is the same tragic stories…it is time to get some major changes.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
There is a word in the English language in which the
first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the
first four signify a great man, and the whole word is a great woman. What is
the word?
Historical Events
1859
Abolitionist John Brown found guilty of murder, conspiring slaves to revolt and
treason against Virginia and sentenced to hang
1898
– Cheerleading was started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny
Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the
football team with “Rah, Rah, Rah! Ski-u-mah, Hoo-Rah! Hoo-Rah! Varsity!
Varsity! Varsity, Minn-e-So-Tah!”. Princeton had published cheers for the
audience to chant as early as 1877. In 1903 the first cheerleading
fraternity, Gamma Sigma, was founded. Women started being popular cheerleaders
in the early 1920s.
1920
– Charlotte Woodward voted in Philadelphia. She was the only sill living member
who attended the 1848 Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention.
1936
– First high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London. At the time
“standard definition” was 30 horizontal lines making up the picture, and the
1936 BBC hi-def had 240 lines. Today, 720 is considered the minimum for HD.
1936
– The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) was established.
1947
– Howard Hughes flew a one-mile flight in the world’s largest aircraft
“Hercules” aka ‘The Spruce Goose’.
1959
– Quiz show scandal – Twenty
One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a
Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in
advance.
1960
– Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books
Ltd, the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case.
1965
– Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, set himself (suicide) on fire in front
of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the
Vietnam war.
1983
– President Reagan signed the bill establishing the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
holiday, held on the third Monday in January.
1988
– The Morris Worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain
significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT. It was written
by a student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris. His intention was to
gauge the ‘size’ of the internet.
1993
Rudy Giuliani wins the New York mayoral election, becomes 1st Republican mayor
since 1965
2000 –
The first crew arrived at the International Space Station. The assembly of the
IISS began in November 1998.
2018
Tiger thought to have killed 13 people shot dead after month-long hunt near
Pandharkawada, central India
Birthdays Today
@86 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001) @85 –
Daniel Boone, American hunter, and explorer (d. 1820) 54 –
David Schwimmer, American actor @37 –
Marie Antoinette, Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France (d.
1793; guillotined) |
Puzzle Answer
Heroine