Good bye Winter…Hello Spring
Mar 20, 2021 Week: 12 Day: 79 Visibility: 10 miles
Local: H 59°\
L 34° Ave.
Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 4mph/ Gusts: 7mph Nearest Lightning: 561mi. Moderate Risk of Fire: Active fire: 242mi
Record: 72°[2004] Record: -1°[1935] Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)
Today’s Quote
[Spring
is] when life's alive in everything.
Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations
Divine and Moral,' 1655
Random Tidbits
Many feminist scholars
dismiss chivalry as a type of benevolent sexism because it relies on the
assumption that women are weak and in need of protection while men are strong.
They argue that chivalry perpetuates gender inequality.
In a 2010 survey of 9,617
women, 51% said they offer to pay on the first date, 32% offer to pay on the
2nd or 3rd date, 7% between 46 dates, 2% after 6 dates, and 7% believed that
man should always pay.
A Little Something to Think About
If
you don’t pay for your exorcist, do you get repossessed?
If
you jump off a Parks bridge, are you in Seine?
Weekly Observations
Lent [Christian] |
Thru 4/3 |
Campfire USA
Birthday Week Teen Tech Week |
14-20 |
Native American
Awareness Week Link |
15-19 |
Act Happy Week |
15-21 |
International
Listening Association Week |
17-20 |
American Council on Education |
20-22 |
National Cherry Blossom Festival Link |
20-4/10 |
Today’s Observations
Alien Abduction
Day (Started in 2008 at Toronto Alien Festival)
Corn Dog Day Link
Day of
Happiness
Free Cone Day (Dairy
Queen) Cancelled
Bed-in For Peace Day (Beatles - John and
Yoko)
Extraterrestrial Abductions Day
Great American Meat
Out Day Link
International Astrology Day (Spring
Equinox)
International Day of Happiness
International Sports Car Racing Day
French Language
Day Link
National Corn Dog Day Link
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
National Quilting Day
National Tequila Day[Mexico] Link
Naw-Ruz0
Ostara (Spring Equinox)
Play The Recorder Day
Save The Panther Day
Proposal Day
Rita's Free Italian Ice Day Cancelled
Snowman Burning Day
Spring (Vernal) Equinox
Vaffeldagen (Waffle
Day) Link
Walk In The Sand Day Link
World Flour Day Link
World Frog Day Link
Won't You Be My Neighbor Day
World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People Link
World Sparrow Day
World Storytelling Day Link
Worldwide Quilting Day Link
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Sun shining, warm day…a great day for a walk in the forest. It is supposed
to get windy until Tuesday. Unfortunately, there isn’t any precipitation in the
forecast so the wind will simply dry everything out.
I still have no reaction to my shot yesterday, except for a lightly
sore arm. It did make me free a whole lot freer. I’ll still wear my mask, social
distance, and remain vigil. I do think I am ready, next week, for an occasional
lunch with friends.
If anyone is interested, I believe GOP Texas Representative to
Congress Chip Roy should find another profession as soon as possible. During a
hearing on the recent hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders,
he veered off course to compare lynching in Texas’ history as justice. Lynching
never was and never will be justice.
It is beginning to look like neither Russia/Putin nor China nor N. Korea
are planning any big bash to welcome Biden to the world stage. I can’t say I’m
surprised since all of them are only friendly with people who honor them. I don’t
any of them are dumb enough to start a ‘hot’ war, but I’m sure they will push to
find the limits. So immature.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
How is seven different from the rest of the numbers between one and
ten?
Historical Events
1345 – According to
scholars at the University of Paris, the Black Death was created today, from
what they called “a triple conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars in the 40th
degree of Aquarius, occurring on the 20th of March 1345.” Actually, the bubonic
plague came from infected fleas from sickened and dead rats.
1602 – The Dutch East
India Company was established.
1852 – Harriet Beecher
Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was published.
1854 – In Ripon,
Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party formed the Republican Party.
1900 – Nikola Tesla
received a US Patent (#645,576) for the wireless transmission of electric power.
1964 – The precursor of
the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) was
established.
1985 – Libby Riddles
became the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
1987 – The FDA approved
the sale of AZT (azidothymidine); AIDS drug
1995 – The Aum Shinrikyo
(Supreme Truth) cult released Sarin gas into the Tokyo subway system, killing a
dozen people and sickening thousands.
1999 – Legoland
California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opened in Carlsbad,
California.
2001 Petrobras 36 Oil
Platform, the world's largest oil rig, sinks with 400,000 US gallons of fuel
and crude oil aboard, after suffering three explosions on March 15.
2003 A US-led coalition
launches a ground invasion of Iraq after an ultimatum for Saddam Hussein and
his sons to leave Iraq expires.
2013 First Breakthrough
Prizes, world's most generous science prize worth $3 million, awarded in
Mathematics, Life Sciences and Physics established by Julia and Yuri Milner.
2016 Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba
since 1928, arriving for a 3 day tour.
2018 Saudi Arabia’s crown
prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with US President Donald Trump at the White
House.
2020 India hangs four men
for 2012 gang rape and murder of woman on a bus in New Delhi, country's first
hanging since 2013.
2020 Smoke from Australian bushfires killed more people than the
fires - 417 vs 33 according to new study published in "Medical Journal of
Australia".
Birthdays Today
@98 – Carl Reiner, American actor,
director, producer, screenwriter (d. 2020)
90 – Hal Linden, American
actor
@76 – Edgar Buchanan, American character
actor (d. 1979; stroke)
@74 – Fred Rogers, children’s television
host (d. 2003; stomach cancer)
73 – Bobby Orr, Canadian
ice hockey player
@69 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor and
bandleader (d. 1975; liver cancer)
64 – Spike Lee, American
actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
62 – Holly Hunter,
American actress
Puzzle Answer
Seven has two syllables and the other numbers only have one syllable.
No comments:
Post a Comment