Dec 12

 

Week: 51 Day: 346 Ave. Sky Cover:  5%Visibility: 10miles Local Temp:   39°\ 5° Wind: 0mph\ Gusts: 1mph Low risk of fire Active fire: 416mi. \ Lightning: 1470mi. Dec Averages: 43°\17° (5 days w/moisture)

 

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Weekly Observations

5-24	Andisop (Meterological Fiddling)  Link
6-10	Older Driver Safety Awareness Week Link
6-12	Computer Science Education Week: Link
10-17	Human Rights Week
12-18	Gluten-free Baking Week Link

Daily Observations

Favorite Memes

 

Have a laugh

What's the difference between here & there? T (the letter 't' is added to the front 'here' to spell 'there').

 

Trivia

Pocahontas fell in love with John Smith. Never get your history for Disney movies. The essence of the Pocahontas/John Smith story is true. A young Native American girl did befriend an Englishman, and their relationship may have saved the Jamestown colony. But Pocahontas was just 12, which would make a romantic relationship with a 28-year-old man wildly inappropriate, even by 17th century standards. The Puritans came to the New World seeking religious freedom. The problem with that sentence is the "freedom" part. It all started in 1593, when the Protestant "Separatists" emigrated to Holland from England for the chance to practice their religious preferences without interference. The only problem? Holland allowed too much religious freedom, giving free reign to Judaism and Catholicism and even atheism. It was too much for their pure Puritan hearts. So they jumped on the Mayflower and went looking for a new world.

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A cold night and a chilly day. I went to a local Christmas Craft Sale. There were several Native vendors. I found some nice silver earrings for my sister-in-law. I asked the guy where he was from. First, he said Flagstaff where he got a degree in music and masters in silversmithing. Then I asked where he was originally from. He said 4-corners. I must have looked odd. I said I worked in Tuba. He smiled and said I’m from Chinle. That is quite a way from 4-Corners. He said most white people have never heard of Chinle, but they all know 4-Corners. We both laughed. Sad to hear that Broncos former WR, Demaryius Thomas, passed from a seizure at 33. I just learned that about 30% of enlisted military families are food insecure. I wish the Congressional lawmakers knew this and as they keep raising the military budget every year, they would include funding for the humans who are doing the military job every day.

 

 

Historical Events

1787 – Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi sent the first Atlantic wireless (radio) transmission (three beeps) from Cornwall, England, to Newfoundland, Canada. 1913 – Originally stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris on August 11, 1911: Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Mona Lisa was recovered from Vincenzo Peruggia. He was sentenced to 14 months in jail. 2015 – Paris Agreement relating to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted. 2020 UN Chief Antonio Guterres urges world's leaders to declare "climate emergency" to avoid catastrophic global warning on 5th anniversary of Paris Climate Accord

 

Birthdays Today

98 – Bob Barker, American game show host @82 – Frank Sinatra, American singer, and actor (d. 1998) @80 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter, and illustrator (died in 1944) 1924 – Ed Koch, American politician, 105th Mayor of New York City (died in 2013) 84 – Connie Francis, American singer, and actress 81 – Dionne Warwick, singer 69 – Cathy Rigby, American gymnast 64 – Sheila E. (Sheila Cecelia Escovedo), American singer-songwriter and drummer 46 – Mayim Bialik, American actress