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Nov
21, 2020 Week: 47 Day: 326 |
Local:
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64°\ L 36°\Average Sky Cover: 5% |
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Wind: 7mph\Gusts: 18mph |
Nearest
lightning: 1564mi.; active fire: 59mi |
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Moderate Risk of Fire
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Visibility: 10mi |
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Record: 70°[1950] Record: -5°[1979] |
Nov
Averages: 53°\23° (3
days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
Gratitude bestows reverence,
allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies,
those transcendent moments of awe that change
forever
how we experience life and the world.
John Milton
Random Tidbits
Gold is the sixteenth most rare of the chemical
elements. Though it is one of the rarest metals, gold was the first to be
discovered by man.
A little humor
To me, "drink responsibly" means don't spill
it.
Observations This Week
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Nat’l
Seat Belt Reinforcement Week: 9-29 Link |
Random Acts of Kindness Week: 16-23 Link |
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Geography Awareness Week: 15-21 Link |
American Education Week: 16-20 Link |
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Internat’l Fraud Awareness Week:
15-21 Link Nat’l Hunger & Homeless Awareness
Week: 15-22 Link |
Nat’l Drone Safety Awareness Week:
16-22 Link |
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InterNat’l Restorative Justice
Week: 16-22 Link |
Nat’l Farm-City Week: 19-26 InterNat’l
Games Week: 21-28 |
Observations for Today
Alascattalo Day (About Alaska & humor)
Family Volunteer Day
International Games Day (Libraries)
National Gingerbread Cookie Day
National Red Mitten Day (Canada)
National Survivors of Suicide Day
Playmobil's National Day of Play
World Television Day
My Rambling Thoughts
A
nice day…expecting cool off soon.
The
situation in Ethiopia is darkening. The UN is preparing for 200,000 refugees to
enter Sudan to avoid the random attacks in the Tajiri region. So sad.
The
Navajo Nation President vetoed a bill that would have opened the casinos saying
wave 2 of Covid is too serious.
The
Cardiac Cards couldn’t do it last night against the Seahawks, still a decent
game.
The
Smithsonian buildings along with the National Zoo is closed due to Covid with
no opening date announced…just a closed sign.
I
was saddened to learn a colleague from Shonto passed. He had been suffering
from dementia for about 5 years. He was a coach, teacher, and proud local from Shonto.
Condolences to his family.
As
the President continues to make major changes within the government, Trevor
Noah said it best: Lame Duck Flameout. But, Trump just lowered drug prices to
many on Medicare. I’ll see after the actual list comes out.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness.
You cannot express happiness without me yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am
always in risk yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun but I am never
out of darkness. What am I?
Historical Events
164
BC – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restored the
Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of
Hanukkah.
1783
– Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis Francois Laurant d’Arlandes
became the first men to make a free flight. Their hot-air balloon lifted off
from La Muettte, a royal palace in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. Ben Franklin
was among the witnesses.
1832
– Wabash College was founded in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
1846
– The word ‘anesthesia’ was used by Oliver Wendell Holmes in a letter to
William Thomas Green Morton, the surgeon who gave the first public
demonstration of the pain-killing effects of ether.
1871
– The patent (#121,049) for a cigar lighter was issued to Moses F. Gale of New
York City as an “Improvement in Cigar-Lighters.”
1877
– Thomas Edison announced his “talking machine” invention. His phonograph
originally recorded sound onto a tinfoil sheet phonograph cylinder. (Patent
#200,521, granted in 1878)
1905
– Albert Einstein’s paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy
Content?, was published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
1920
– In Dublin, Ireland, 31 people are killed in what became known as Bloody
Sunday. This included fourteen British informants, fourteen Irish civilians,
and three Irish Republican Army prisoners. U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday references
the event
1942
– Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuted in Tale of Two Kitties. Bob Clampett
created the character. Tweety is a boy.
1952
– First US postage stamp (The Red Cross 3 cent) in 2 colors (with the rotary
printing process) was introduced.
1953
– Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announced the “Piltdown
Man” skull, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax.
1959
– DJ Alan Freed, who had popularized the term rock and roll and music of that
style, was fired from New York’s WABC-AM radio for refusing to deny allegations
that he had participated in the payola scandal.
1964
– World’s longest suspension bridge Verrazano Narrows opened (New York City –
4,260 feet). It is still the longest in the western hemisphere.
1969
– The first permanent ARPANET (multi-computer connection) link was established
between UCLA and SRI.
1980
– Everyone asked “Who Shot J.R.?” in last year’s Dallas season finale. The
season opener of Dallas answered the question people were asking all summer,
and well into the fall. Sue Ellen’s sister Kristin (played by Mary Crosby) shot
J.R.
1980
– A deadly fire broke out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now
Bally’s Las Vegas). Eighty-seven people were killed and more than 650 were
injured.
1989
– The law banning smoking on most US domestic flights was signed by President
George H. W. Bush.
1995
– Dow Jones closed above 5,000 for first time.
1999
Elian Gonzalez, Cuban boy at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving
the governments of Cuba and the United States, departs from Cuba with his
mother
2017
Robert Mugabe's resignation after 37 years in power is read out in Zimbabwe's
parliaments during impeachment proceedings
2019
Elon Musk launches Tesla's electric Cybertruck with shatterproof windows that
when demonstrated on stage shatter
Birthdays Today
@83 – Voltaire [François-Marie Aroue], French historian, playwright, (d.
1778)
83 – Marlo Thomas, American actress, producer,
and activist
75 – Goldie Hawn, American actress, singer,
and producer
57 – Nicollette Sheridan, English actress
55 – Björk, Icelandic Singer/Songwriter
54 – Troy Aikman, Dallas Cowboy star
51 – Ken Griffey Jr., American baseball
player, and actor
49 – Michael Strahan, Football and more
Puzzle Answer
The letter S.
