‘Tis the Season
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Nov
30, 2020 Week: 49 Day: 336 |
Local:
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50°\ L 18°\Average Sky Cover: 5% |
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Wind: 12mph\Gusts: 18mph |
Nearest
lightning: 1275mi.; active fire: 59mi |
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Moderate Risk of Fire
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Visibility: 10mi |
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Record: 66°[1975] Record: -4°[2010] |
Nov
Averages: 53°\23° (3
days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
I know
that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or
persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm
grateful that I'm heard.
Maya Angelou
Random Tidbits
Not everyone sees Thanksgiving Day as a cause
for celebration. Each year since 1970, a group of Native Americans and their
supporters have staged a protest for a National Day of Mourning at Plymouth
Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts on Thanksgiving Day.
A little humor
I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three
days, but whatever.
Observations This Week
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Nat’l Seat Belt Reinforcement Week: 9-29 Link |
Church/State
Separation Week: 22-28 |
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Nat’l
Bible Week: 22-29 |
Nat’l Game &
Puzzle Week: 22-28 |
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American Sand
Sculpting Competition: 19-28/Link Cancelled in 2020. |
Better
Conversation Week: 23-28 |
Observations for Today
Blue
Beanie Day
Cider
Monday
Cities
for Life Day
Computer
Security Day
Cyber
Monday
Day of
Remembrance of All Victims of Chemical Warfare
National
Mason Jar Day
National
Meth Awareness Day
National
Personal Space Day
Stay At Home Because You Are Well Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Chilly night but warming up nicely. I made a stop at Andy &
Faith’s place to feed the outside birds.
Nice to see that the Biden team has named Dr. Jill Jim to the Covid
advisory board. She is Navajo, speaks fluent Navajo, and has 18 years’
experience in public health issues and has been the leader of the Navajo Nation
Public Health dealing with the Covid mess.
Back in the day I followed boxing. Last night was the Tyson-Jones
fight. Two old-er boxers in a fund-raising bout. They only boxed for 8 2-minute
rounds. Rounds are usually 3 minutes and fights are normally more rounds. The
match ended in a tie, but they raised a ton of money for charity. The undercard
had some good fights, but I only read about them and watched some highlights on
the internet machine.
Cards are playing the Pats today. Cards are leading at halftime. I
hope they pull off a win. As usual the Broncos game won’t be on TV but will
follow that game on the internet.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
A girl has as many brothers
as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How
many brothers and sisters are there in the family?
Historical Events
3340 BC – Earliest believed record of an eclipse, in Ireland.
1609 – Galileo Galilei realized that the moon was a landscape, not a
flat surface on a circle in the sky.
1858 – The Mason Jar was invented and patented (#22,186) by
Philadelphia tinsmith John Landis Mason.
1872 – First international soccer game was played. Final score:
Scotland-England 0-0 (in Glasgow)
1875 – A patent (#170,460) was issued for a “Biscuit Cutter” to
Alexander P. Ashbourne.
1886 – The first commercially successful U.S. alternating current
power plant was opened at Buffalo, NY by George Westinghouse.
1931 – The Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer was published.
1940 – Lucille Ball married Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1954 – First proven meteorite known to strike a woman/person (Liz
Hodges, in Sylacauga, Alabama). It took a year of pleading with the air force,
but she was allowed to keep the 9-pound meteorite.
1956 – CBS became the first network to broadcast from videotape. It
was a rebroadcast to the West Coast of the 15-minute Douglas Edwards and the
News program. It was recorded on 2-inch tape with an Ampex Mark IV machine.
1979 – Pink Floyd released The Wall double album. “If you don’t eat
your meat, you can’t have any pudding, how can you have any pudding if you
don’t eat your meat!”
1982 – Michael Jackson’s second solo album, Thriller, possibly the
biggest selling album in history, was released worldwide.
1993 – The Brady Bill, requiring a five-day waiting period for handgun
purchases and background checks of prospective buyers, was signed into law.
2004 – Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City,
finally lost, leaving him with $2,520,700 – television’s biggest game show
winnings.
2009 – CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) started.
“CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has today become the world’s highest-energy
particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy
of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the morning.” CERN is experimenting with
things like “The Big Bang” but hopefully on a smaller scale.
2015 Pope Francis urges peace while visiting controversial mosque in
Bangui's PK5 district in Central African Republic
2017 World's longest recorded rainbow - 8 hrs 58 min in Taipei's
Yangmingshan mountain range
2018 Marriot Hotels reveal massive data breach - 500 million guests
affected in one of largest-ever company hacks
Birthdays Today
@95 – Efrem Zimbalist,
Jr., American actor (d. 2014)
90 – G. Gordon Liddy,
American lawyer, radio host
@90 – Winston Churchill,
English colonel, journalist, and politician, UK Prime Minister Nobel Prize
laureate, (d. 1965)
@89 – Robert Guillaume,
American actor and singer (died in 2017)
@82 – Dick Clark,
American TV host, and producer (d. 2012)
83 – Ridley Scott,
English director, and producer (Alien, Blade Runner)
@77 – Jonathan Swift,
Irish satirist, and essayist (d. 1745)
@74 – Mark Twain,
American novelist, humorist, and critic (d. 1910)
68 – Mandy Patinkin,
American actor, and singer
65 – Billy Idol, English
Singer/Songwriter (White Wedding, Mony Mony)
@52 – Abbie Hoffman,
American activist and author, (d. 1989; OD)
42 – Clay Aiken, American
singer (American Idol)
35 – Chrissy Teigen,
American model
Puzzle Answer
Four sisters and three
brothers.
Enjoy
the Holiday
