Jun 29

 

 

 

Jun 29, 2021   Week: 27    Day: 180

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 35%

Local: H 78°\ L 53°

Wind:  6mph/ Gusts:  11mph

High Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  20mi Nearest Lightning: mi.

Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

 

Random Tidbits

 

Before the Civil War, schools did not have summer vacation. In rural communities, kids had school off during the spring planting and fall harvest while urban schools were essentially year-round. The long summer holiday didn't come about until the early 20th century.

 

True Things

-- If the high-heeled Crocs aren't outré enough for you, look into this accessory: the Mundstuck, made by MYL Berlin. "Mundstuck" means "mouthpiece"; this high-style one fits over the bottom lip and decorates the chin, Oddity Central reported on June 7. MYL Berlin calls it "structured, chic and daring. ... It nestles perfectly on your lip without applying pressure or hindering your mobility." The stainless steel Mundstuck comes in black, gold or silver and in three different designs. Prices range from $75 to $140. [Oddity Central, 6/7/2021]

 

Idioms Origins

 

Cowabunga

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles started using the term, in their comics, then in their 1980s cartoon. Bart Simpson copied them in the 90s, but Chief Thunderthud, a character on the 1950s kids show, Howdy Doody, used it as a FAKE Native American language.

 

Weekly Observations

 

American Library Week	24-29
Tour de France Link	26- 7/18
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness	27 -7/4
Windjammer Days Link	27-7/3
National Tire Safety Week Link	28-7/4

 

Today’s Observations

 

Camera Day Hug Holiday International Day Of The Tropics International Mud Day  Link National Almond Buttercrunch Day Waffle Iron Day World Camera Day Link   World Scleroderma Day Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Hopefully, those are rain clouds coming in. We need the rain to slow the fires and nourish the forest.

Interesting: Annie Kunz, a Wheat Ridge High graduate, tore up in her qualification for the Olympic Heptathlon. Her dad played football for the Farmers back in the day. Due to boundary changes, my brother played against him while attending Jefferson. The dad went on to play for the Raiders and has a Super Bowl ring. Small world.

Pictures out of North Korea show Kim Jung Un has lost ‘mucho’ weight. The government media noted his weight loss and showed his followers were concerned. No word from the government yet on why he has lost so much weight. Most governments, including ours, do not usually comment on changes like that.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

GET IT GET IT GET IT GET IT

BLOOD WATER

 

 

Historical Events

 

1613 – The Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground.

1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second-largest in population.

1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 was signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.

1967 – Actress Jayne Mansfield decapitated in a car crash on Interstate 90, east of New Orleans, Louisiana.

1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.

1995 – STS-71 Mission; Atlantis Space Shuttle docked with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.

2014 The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL) self-declared their caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.

2017 Battle for Mosul: Iraqi forces retake destroyed Great Mosque of al-Nuri from Islamic State - symbolic site where their leader declared a "caliphate"

2020 US Supreme Court rules 5-4 that abortion restrictions in Louisiana unconstitutional, striking down a 2014 state law

 

Birthdays Today

 

77 – Gary Busey, American actor

@65 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967; stroke)

@64 – Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller (d. 1857)

@64 – Slim Pickens [Louis Burton Lindley Jr.], actor, rodeo performer (d. 1983; brain tumor)

@59 – Little Eva [Eva Narcissus Boyd], singer (d. 2003; cervical cancer)

 

Puzzles Answer

 

Forget it                                                                    Blood is thicker than water