Jul 29

 

Jul  29, 2021 Week: 31 Day: 210

Ave. Sky Cover: 95%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:   80°\ 57° Wind: 4mph\ Gusts: 7mph

Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 75mi. \ Lightning: 2mi.

Jul Averages: 82°\51° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

  

  

Weekly Observations

 

XXXII Olympic Games (postponed from 2020):	23-8/8
RAGBRAI: Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa Women in Baseball Week	25-31

 

Daily Oberservations

 

International Tiger Day

National Chicken Wing Day

National Lipstick Day

Rain Day

 

 

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Monsoon showers are here. Lots of lightning and thunder. ‘Take Shelter’ alerts on my phone. I’m still waiting, but thankfully got some shopping done before the thunder started. There are currently four squirrels chasing each other in our commons area. Up and down trees, chasing on the ground, back to the trees. They must have had too much coffee this morning.

The mailboxes for our complex are on the main drag, about 50 yards from my place. The bank of boxes also has several bins for large packages. Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that some of the bins are not locked and several people have left their boxes open, but no key. I have had trouble opening my box and had to jiggle the key a lot to open the box. I got a letter from the HOA that there are problems with the old bank of boxes so today they are putting in new ones. No mail delivery until Friday. Even then may have to go to the main post office to pick up mail that wasn’t delivered yesterday or today. I just hope they are a little larger than the ones currently installed.

Listening to the hearing yesterday on the Jan. 6^th incident was moving and disturbing from the cops who protected so many that day. Hearing the conservative responses to the cop’s testimony is truly frightening.

I learned yesterday that there is a runner from our local university in Tokyo. He is DACA since arriving here at age 1 with his parents from Guatemala. After qualifying, he had to get special permission from the US government to run in the 5000m race. I’ll be watching Luis Grijalva when he runs. Go Lumberjack!

 

Historical Events

 

 1148 – The Siege of Damascus ended with a crusader defeat and lead end of the Second Crusade.

1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile (Arch of Triumph of the Star) in Paris, France.

1958 – US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law, which created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

1981 – A worldwide TV audience of over 700 million people watched the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral in London.

2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet, Eris.

2009 Temperature reaches 103°F in Seattle, Washington, the hottest day on record

2015- Windows 10 was released.

2015 Part of missing airline MH370 is found on the island of Reunion

2020 Scaled back Hajj pilgrimage begins in Saudi Arabia with no foreigners

 

Birthdays Today

 

@102 – ‘Professor’ Irwin Corey, American comedian and actor (d. 2017)

68 – Tim Gunn, American television host and actor

@61 – Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1945)

He was shot. On 29 April 1945, the bodies of Mussolini, Petacci, and the other executed Fascists were loaded into a van and moved south to Milan. At 3:00 a.m., the corpses were dumped on the ground in the old Piazzale Loreto. The piazza had been renamed "Piazza Quindici Martiri" (Fifteen Martyrs' Square) in honor of fifteen Italian partisans recently executed there.

After being kicked and spat upon, the bodies were hung upside down from the roof of an Esso gas station.[192] The bodies were then stoned from below by civilians. This was done both to discourage any Fascists from continuing the fight, and as an act of revenge for the hanging of many partisans in the same place by Axis authorities. The corpse of the deposed leader was subject to ridicule and abuse. Fascist loyalist Achille Starace was captured and sentenced to death and then taken to the Piazzale Loreto and shown the body of Mussolini. Starace, who once said of Mussolini "He is a god",[193] saluted what was left of his leader just before he was shot. The body of Starace was subsequently hung up next to that of Mussolini.

After his death and the display of his corpse in Milan, Mussolini was buried in an unmarked grave in the Musocco cemetery, to the north of the city. On Easter Sunday 1946, his body was located and dug up by Domenico Leccisi and two other neo-Fascists.

On the loose for months—and a cause of great anxiety to the new Italian democracy—Mussolini's body was finally "recaptured" in August, hidden in a small trunk at the Certosa di Pavia, just outside Milan. Two Franciscan brothers were subsequently charged with concealing the corpse, though it was discovered on further investigation that it had been constantly on the move. Unsure what to do, the authorities held the remains in a kind of political limbo for ten years, before agreeing to allow them to be re-interred at Predappio in Romagna, his birthplace. Adone Zoli, the then-current prime minister, contacted Donna Rachele, the dictator's widow, to tell her he was returning the remains, as he needed the support of the far-right in parliament, including Leccisi himself. In Predappio, the dictator was buried in a crypt (the only posthumous honor granted to Mussolini). His tomb is flanked by marble fasces, and a large idealized marble bust of him is above the tomb.

55 – Martina McBride, American singer-songwriter

49 – Wil Wheaton, American actor