Nov 15

 

 

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Nov 15, 2020  Week: 47 Day: 320	Local:  H 54°\ L 22°\Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  10mph	Nearest lightning:  1117mi.; active fire:  59mi
Moderate Risk of Fire	Visibility:  10mi
Record: 72°[2016]   Record: 2°[1985]	Nov Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

 

Today’s  Quote

When you are grateful - when you can see what you have

- you unlock blessings to flow in your life.

Suze Orman

 

Random Tidbits

For thousands of years, green was a tricky pigment to nail down, but the 19th century saw the rise of two stable and incredibly popular green dyes. There was just one problem: Both were laced with arsenic. At the time, the health risks of arsenic exposure were unknown, but before long, doctors and newspapers began attributing illnesses to green-wallpapered rooms. (There is even a theory that arsenic-laced wallpaper helped do in Napoleon.)  

 

A little humor

Message on a leaflet:

IF YOU CANNOT READ, THIS LEAFLET WILL TELL YOU HOW TO GET LESSONS.

 

True Things

 Notice in a farmer's field:

THE FARMER ALLOWS WALKERS TO CROSS THE FIELD FOR FREE, BUT THE BULL CHARGES.

 

Observations This Week

Childrens' Book Week: 9-15 Link	Nat’l Seat Belt Reinforcement Week: 9-29 Link
Nat’l Split Pea Soup Week: 9-15 Link	Geography Awareness Week: 15-21 Link
Nat’l Young Readers Week: 9-15 Link Nat’l Donor Sabath: 13-15	InterNat’l Fraud Awareness Week: 15-21 Link
World Antibiotic Awareness Week: 13-19	Nat’l Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: 15-22 Link

 

Observations for Today

America Recycles Day

George Spelvin Day or More Than One Role Day

I Love to Write Day

National Bundt (Pan) Day

National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day

National Philanthropy Day

National Raisin Bran Cereal Day

Steve Irwin Day

World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims  

 

My Rambling Thoughts

It is a nice Saturday. Checked out Andy’s place and the crew is busy working on his roof. That is good news. Also, Andy went deer hunting today and got a nice buck. Even better news.

Interesting to read that Africa, as a continent, has an exceptionally low rate of Covid infections. Not what most expected due to its rural 3^rd world status. They are saying they learned a lot about spread from their problem with Ebola. Whatever it is, congrats to Africa for the lowest inhabited continent in the world.

Mark Kelly will be sworn in as AZ senator as soon as the final count is certified…probably early December. He is great to fill John McCain’s seat.

Meanwhile, as AZ Covid numbers soar, our Governor is out of the state, celebrating his 30^th wedding anniversary. His administration claims he is in constant contact with his office but has given no public announcement about our soaring numbers or his plan for more help. I am disappointed in his lack of action.

Being a mixed-race child is always difficult. At Tuba, full blood kids would constantly pick on mixed-race kids. In my early days as a teacher in Tuba, there was a mixed-race family with two kids, a boy and a girl, attending the school. As they moved up the grades, the boy became popular, a good athlete, and a decent student grade wise. In the lower grades, the supervisor was a Black. She took the girl under her wing to protect her from the teasing. By the time the girl hit Junior High, she was a terror. Anytime any adult corrected her, she ran to the Primary supervisor and made up stories about the adult using inappropriate racial language to her. By the time she graduated from 8^th grade she had matured and gained some popularity with her classmates and the staff, once she stopped making up stories. The lesson was that adults can not always fix children problems, but time and maturity can.  

Ellie called Joe and is leaving it up to him about moving the Tahiti trip to 2022. I am just glad that I don’t have to make that decision. I want to travel internationally again, but I don’t want another last-minute cancelation, nor do I want to get sick. The news of the first cruise since the shut-down now being quarantined is frightening. We will see in about a week…   

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What type of cheese is made backward?

 

Historical Events

1492 – Christopher Columbus’ notes included the first recorded reference to tobacco.

1660 – First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) was licensed in New York City (New Amsterdam).

1791 – The first Catholic college in the US, Georgetown University, opened

1806 – First US college magazine, Yale Literary Government, published its first issue

1894 – First newspaper Sunday color comics section was published (NY World)

1904 – King Camp Gillette was issued a US patent (#775,134) for his invention of a safety razor using disposable blades.

1920 – The first assembly of the League of Nations was held in Geneva, Switzerland.

1926 – The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) launched with a radio network of 24 stations across the USA.

1959 – The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas occurred, which inspired Truman Capote’s non-fiction book In Cold Blood.

1969 – Wendy’s Hamburgers opened in Columbus, Ohio.

1979 – The Unabomber struck for the first time when a bomb exploded in the cargo cabin of an American Airlines 727 on its way from Chicago to Washington.

1984 – Baby Fae died, an infant born a month earlier, but lived for 20 days with a transplanted baboon heart.

1990 – The world discovered that Milli Vanilli, the hot, new Grammy-winning pop duo, were lip-synching in their songs, and resulted in losing the Grammy award for Best New Artist.

1993- Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Christina Aguilera joined the cast of The New Mickey Mouse Club.

2014 Vladimir Putin's press secretary says media reports that the Russian president plans to leave the G20 Summit in Brisbane early are nonsense

2017 The Zimbabwean Army detains Robert Mugabe and the first family and appoints sacked Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa as interim president

2017 Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Salvator Mundi" sells for $450.3 million at auction in New York, world record price for any artwork

2018 Africa's fastest train between Casablanca and Tangier in Morocco at 320km (198 miles) inaugurated by King Mohammed VI and French President Emmanuel Macron

2018 Art experts in England authenticate two bronzes of men riding panthers as Michelangelo's only surviving bronze works

2019 Pakistan becomes the 1st country to introduce a vaccine against typhoid, targeting 10 million children

 

Birthdays Today

@83 – William Herschel, German-English astronomer, composer discovered infrared radiation, (d. 1822)

@98 – Georgia O’Keeffe, American painter, and educator (d. 1986)

@52 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944; cyanide suicide)

@74 – [Annunzio Paolo]Mantovani, Italian conductor, and composer (d. 1980)

92 – C. W. McCall, American Singer/Songwriter, and politician

91 – Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer

88 – Petula Clark, English Singer/Songwriter, and actress

81 – Yaphet Kotto, American actor and screenwriter

80 – Sam Waterston, American actor

63 – Kevin Eubanks, American guitarist, and composer

48 – Johnny Lee Miller, Actor [Elementary]

 

Puzzle Answer

Edam cheese