Dec 10

 

‘Tis the Season

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Dec 10, 2020  Week: 50 Day: 345	Local:  H 56°\ L 29°\Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  11mph	Nearest lightning:  935mi.; Active fire:  59mi
High Risk of Fire	Visibility:  10mi
Record: 65°[1939]   Record: -10°[2013]	Nov Averages: 44°/\17° (5 days with moisture)

 

Today’s  Quote

The universe is full of magical things,

patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

 

Random Tidbits

 Did you know that the traditional deck of playing cards are a veritable and most ingenious form of calendar?

* There are 52 weeks in the year and 52 playing cards

* There are 13 weeks in each season and there are also 13 cards in each suit.

* There are 4 seasons and 4 suits

* There are 12 months of the year and 12 Court cards (those which have faces)

* The Red cards represent the Day, the Black cards the Night

* If you let the Jacks = 11, the Queens = 12, and the Kings = 13,

then add up all the sums of 1 + 2 + 3 + …to 13 = 91

Multiply this by 4, for the 4 suits;

91 x 4 = 364 then add 1 that is the Joker and you will arrive at the

number of days in the year.

Is that mere coincidence? or a greater intelligence

* Of interest is the sum of the letters in all the names of the cards;

eg : add up the letters in "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Jack, Queen, King" = 52 !

 

A little humor

If A Piñata Doesn’t, Break Is It Broken?

 

True Things

Two recent graduates of the Sydney Grammar School in Australia hatched a plan to skirt COVID-19 restrictions on large gatherings to host a graduation party while their parents were out of town. Outdoor gatherings are limited to 30 people, and indoor events are capped at 10, the Daily Mail reported, but up to 150 guests can attend weddings if they follow social distancing protocols. On Nov. 12, the unnamed best friends "married" in a backyard ceremony and planned a 150-person party to follow, until their parents caught wind of the event online and returned to put an end t it: "We shut down the planned private celebratory event as soon as we found out about it, and thankfully, nobody was put at risk," one of the lads' dad said.

 

Observations This Week

Clerc-Gallaudet Week…………………………..	3-10
Andisop (Meterological Fiddling)………….	5-24  Link
National Hand Washing Awareness Week…	5-11 Link
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week…	5-11
Older Driver Safety Awareness Week……..	5-11 Link
Computer Science Education Week:………. (Always week with 12/9. Birthday of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper.)	6-12  Link
Human Rights Week:…………………………………	10-17

 

 

Observations for Today

Dewey Decimal System Day
Human Rights Day

Human Rights Day  Link
International Animal Rights Day  Link
Jane Addams Day
National Lager Day
National Salesperson Day 
Nobel Prize Day

Official Lost & Found Day

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Still having a fairly warm day…weatherman says it won’t last much longer.

The Supreme Court, with all the conservatives, unanimously denied a petition from the Trump camp to throw out Pennsylvania results. There is hope.

Distribution of the vaccine left up to the states…lots of tough decisions ahead. My greatest concern is that some states will make bad decisions. Now we hear that if one has had a serious allergy history not to take the Pfizer vaccine.  

Here’s a scary thought: Human-made materials may now outweigh all living things on Earth.

 

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

 

Historical Events

1478 – Arte dell’Abbaco (‘The Art of the Abacus’), the first teaching math book, was printed and distributed in Treviso, Italy. Author unknown.

1817 – Mississippi became the 20th US state.

1845 – British engineer Robert Thompson patented the first pneumatic (air pressured) tires.

1869 – Montana granted women the right to vote.

1884 -Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published.

1899 – George Safford Parker was issued a US patent (#635,700) on his improved fountain pen.

1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

1955 – The Mighty Mouse Playhouse began a long-standing “Saturday Morning Cartoon’ tradition on CBS.

1963 – Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped, then released after a $250,000 ransom was paid. The kidnappers were all caught a few days later.

1964 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize.

1965 – The Grateful Dead played their first concert, at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.

1967 – Otis Redding and members of the Bar-Kays were killed in a Wisconsin plane crash.

1984 – South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize.

1994 – Palestinian Yasser Arafat, and Isrealis Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize.

2009 US President Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo

2017 Governor of California Jerry Brown tours Southern Californian wildfires and declares them "the new normal"

2019 1st fully electric commercial plane, a retro-fitted seaplane, completes test flight in Vancouver

 

Birthdays Today

68 – Susan Dey, American actress

@62 – Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974; lung cancer)

60 – Kenneth Branagh, Northern Ireland-born English actor-director, producer, and screenwriter

56 – Bobby Flay, American chef

@55 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886; Bright’s Disease)

@36 – Ada Lovelace, mathematician (d. 1852; cancer)

35 -- Raven-Symoné, TV actor

 

Puzzle Answer

Footsteps.

Enjoy the Holiday