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Dec 18, 2020
Week: 51 Day: 353 |
Local: H 43°\ L 20°\Average Sky Cover: 80% |
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Wind: 5mph\Gusts: 9mph |
Nearest lightning: 1756mi.; Active fire: 59mi |
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Moderate Risk of Fire |
Visibility:
10mi |
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Record: 65°[1901] Record: -14°[1908]
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Nov Averages: 44°/\17° (5 days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
A great deal of
intelligence can be invested in ignorance
when the need for
illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
Random
Tidbits
Osmium is the most dense metal! Many people
are familiar with lead (11.3 kg/mL), but Osmium is twice as dense (22.6 kg/L)!
Each liter of Osmium weighs 22.6 kg (50 lbs). For comparison, each liter of
water weighs only 1 kg (about 2.2 lbs). Some other heavy metals include
Tungsten and Gold (19.3 kg/L), which are almost as dense as Osmium.
The
Large Hadron Collider made a matter known as quark-gluon plasma. It's a hundred
thousand times hotter than the inside of the sun and denser than anything in
the universe, except black holes.
A
little humor
Q: What sound does a
bouncing plane make? Boeing boeing boeing.
Just had twin Girls
-Going to call them- Kate & Duplikate
True
Things
A Virginia man
said he had "a feeling" about some numbers he copied down from a TV
show that led to his buying 160 tickets for a single lottery drawing -- and
winning $800,000. Kwame Cross of Dumfries told Virginia Lottery officials he
bought 160 tickets for the Pick 4's Dec. 5 night drawing and all of the tickets
bore the same number combination: 7314. "I saw an address in a TV show, in
the background, and for some reason it stayed with me," he told Lottery
officials. "I just had a feeling." Each of Cross' 160 tickets won a
$5,000 top prize in the drawing, for a grand total of $800,000. "I
thought, 'This can't be real!'" he said. "I had to pull over and
check like 82 times. It feels surreal!" Cross said he hasn't yet decided
what to do with his winnings.
Observations
This Week
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Gluten-free Baking Week:……………………………
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12-18 |
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Christmas Bird Count Week Link………………… |
14-1/5 |
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Halcyon Days…………………………………………….. |
14-28 |
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Posadas…………………………………………………….. |
16-24 |
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Saturnalia…Roman Festival for
Saturn………. |
17-23 |
Observations
for Today
Answer The Telephone Like
Buddy The Elf Day Link
Arabic Language Day Link
Bake Cookies
Day
Give A Wine Club Day Link
International Migrants Day
National Wreaths Across
America Day Link
National
“I Love Honey” Day
National
Roast Suckling Pig Day
My
Rambling Thoughts
It sure looks like a storm is brewing. The weather guy says no moisture.
Oh well. A good number of birds are in my Blue Spruce, so they might know
something the weather guy doesn’t.
Ol’ Tom Cruise got caught in a rant, with profanity, to crew members
who weren’t following COVID protocol on his set. Some are upset by his
profanity. Honestly, there have been a few times I wished I could have done
that for people in the stores who weren’t wearing masks.
The Dept. of Interior, which includes the Bureau of Indian Affairs and
the Bureau of Indian Education has never had a native Secretary. Congrats to NM
Congresswoman Deb Haaland [Laguna Pueblo], for being nominated as the first
Native to head the Bureau.
Nice to see the big move from MLB on recognizing the records of
players from the Black League of a century ago. Our country psyche is changing
slowly.
As I get the Christmas spirit, I really want to be American, rather than
being labeled ‘Conservative’ or ‘Liberal’. I have friends across that spectrum.
I don’t agree with everything they believe, but we are still friends.
Today’s
Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
An elevator is on the
ground floor. There are four people in the elevator, including me.
When the lift reaches the
first floor, one person gets out and three people get in. The lift goes up to
the second floor, 2 people get out, 6 people get in. It then goes up to the
next floor up, no-one gets out but 12 people get in.
Halfway up to the next
floor up the elevator cable snaps, it crashes to the floor. Everyone else dies
in the elevator except me. How did I survive?
Historical
Events
1620 – The British ship Mayflower docked at modern-day Plymouth,
Massachusetts, and its passengers prepared to begin their new settlement.
1787 – New Jersey became the 3rd state.
1839 – John William Draper took a daguerreotype of the moon, the first
celestial photograph made in the US.
1865 – The 13th Amendment went into effect, abolishing slavery in the
US.
1892 – The premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1961 – Based on an African sing called Mbube – The Lion Sleeps Tonight
was the # 1 song on the Billboard Charts. It is probably the most well-known
doo-wop song of all time. (#1 December 18, 1961 – January 12, 1962)
1968 – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was released. It was based on Ian
Fleming’s book of the same name.
1996 – The Oakland, California school board unanimously passed a
resolution for the incorporating of Ebonics in the classroom.
1997 – Comedian Chris Farley died from a drug overdose, at the age of
33.
2013 – A&E suspended Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson for comments
he made regarding homosexuality and the civil rights era in an interview with
GQ magazine. He was reinstated on December 27.
2018 Nevada becomes the first US state with a female-majority
legislature with new appointments taking it to 51%
2018 Meteor explodes in huge fireball over the Bering Sea with 10
times the energy of Hiroshima atomic bomb, 2nd largest in last 30 yrs
Birthdays
Today
96 – Cicely
Tyson, America actress
@87 – Ossie Davis,
American actor (d. 2005)
@80 – Charles Wesley,
English missionary, composer (d. 1788)
77 – Keith Richards,
English singer-songwriter
74 – Steven Spielberg,
American director, producer, screenwriter
@74 – Joseph Stalin,
Georgian-Russian politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1953; stroke)
66 – Ray Liotta, American
actor
@59 – Joseph Grimaldi,
English clown, known as “The Greatest Clown in History” (d. 1837; coroner: “a
visit by God”)
57 – Brad Pitt, American
actor
52 – Casper Van Dien,
American actor
@50 – Archduke Franz
Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1914; assassinated)
42 – Katie Holmes,
American actress
40 – Christina Aguilera,
American singer-songwriter
19 – Billie Eilish,
American pop singer
Puzzle
Answer
I got off at the first floor.
Enjoy the Holiday
