Mar 5

 

 

Mar 5, 2021 Week: 9    Day: 64                Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 49°\ L 26°\Ave. Sky Cover: 15%              Wind:  9mph/ Gusts:  14mph

Nearest Lightning: 1224mi.                        Very Low Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  179mi

Record: 68°[1910]  Record: -5°[1949]      Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.

~Dennis Banks

Random Tidbits

Unless you're a real science geek, chances are you never knew these elements even existed. Nonetheless, many of them form the foundations of modern life.

Tellurium (Te)

Tellurium, a silvery-white metal first discovered in Transylvania, is often used in solar panels, computer memory chips and rewritable optical discs. Its name comes from the Latin word for earth (tellus).

A Little Humor

What does a house wear?

Address!

Monthly Observations

 

Optimism Month Paws To Read Month Play The Recorder Month Poison Prevention Awareness Month Quinoa Month Link Save The Vaquita Month Save Your Vision Month Sing With Your Child Month Small Press Month Link Social Work Month Spiritual Wellness Month Supply Management Month Link

 

Weekly Observations

Lent [Christian]	Thru 4/3
National Pasty Week Cancelled	Thru 3/6
Hearing Awareness Week Link LGBT Health Awareness Week Link National Cheerleading Week Nat’l Write A Letter of Appreciation Week National Ghostwriters Week National Invest in a Veteran Week  Link National Pet Sitters Week Link Return the Borrowed Books Week Telecommuter Appreciation Week Universal Human Beings Week Link Will Eisner Week   Link World Hearing Awareness Week Link	1-7
International Festival of Owls Week	5-7

 

Today’s Observations

Cinco de Marcho

Dress in Blue Day Link  
Employee Appreciation Day Link
Learn What Your Name Means Day

Multiple Personality Day

National Day of Unplugging: 5-6  Link    
National Absinthe Day Link
National Cheese Doodle Day

National Poutine Day
National Salesperson Day Link  
National Speech and Debate Education Day  Link  
Saint Piran's Day
Shabbat Across America/Canada  Link
World Day of Prayer 

World Tennis Day 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

The snow was very wet. It was only about an 1”, and melted very quickly. I sure wish there had been more.

It appears that the Q-anon followers, like the ‘end of the world’ people will have to change the date that Trump is made President again. I read an interesting article from Psychology Today that was posted by a friend on FB. It was discussing conspiracy theories up-tick. These theories have been around forever. People need to find an explanation for things they do not understand. Many times, when a theory agrees with a person’s held beliefs, it is integrated into thought process. Some of the change in today’s times is that prior to the internet these theories were perpetrated by books, magazines, and sometimes TV or radio. Today, the internet has let everyone post a theory and many people will read it. If it fits into their beliefs, it becomes fact to them. Interesting for sure.

Former President Trump can’t stay out of the news. Two stories that came out is that Trump and his wife got Covid shots in January, without letting it be published. That’s too bad because acknowledgement would have encouraged his followers to get it. The second is the CPAC statue. For several days after it was unveiled it was reported that it was made in Mexico. Then yesterday it came out that it was actually made in China. Either way, Trump never liked either country.

While Mississippi joined the 100% open states yesterday, Arizona’s Governor said that schools must be open for in-person face-to-face classes by March 15 or the first Monday after a District’s  Spring Break. I sure hope this all works out.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

The day before two days after the day before tomorrow is Saturday. What day is it today?

Historical Events

1496 – King Henry VII of England issued letters to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to explore unknown lands of (soon to be named) America.

1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops.

1836– Samuel Colt patented the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.

1872 – George Westinghouse patented the air brake.

1946 – Cold War: Winston Churchill coined the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.

1953 – Joseph Stalin, the longest-serving leader of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow.

1963 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas, and their pilot Randy Hughes were killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.

1966 – #1 Hit March 5, 1966 – April 8, 1966: SSgt. Barry Sadler – The Ballad of The Green Berets

1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus.

1984 Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene

1985 Mexican authorities find the body of US drug agent Enrique "Kike" Camarena Salaazar

1992 Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks

1994 Largest milkshake made; 1,955 gallons of chocolate in Nelspruit, South Africa

1995 Graves of Tsar Nicholas II and family found in St Petersburg

2014 A survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports that about 1/3 of women in the European Union have experienced physical or sexual violence since the age of 15

2017 US President Donald Trump in a tweet accuses former President Obama without offering any evidence of wiretapping Trump Towers during the presidential campaign

2019 Major study into the MMR vaccine involving over 650,000 children in Denmark finds it does not increase the risk of autism

Birthdays Today

@92 – Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)

85 – Dean Stockwell, American actor

73 – Elaine Paige, English singer, actress

67 – Marsha Warfield, American actress, comedian

66 – Penn Jillette, American magician

58 – Joel Osteen, American pastor, author, and television host

@49 – Jack Cassidy, American actor and singer (d. 1976; apt. fire)

47 – Eva Mendes, American model and actress

@30 – Andy Gibb, English-Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1988; inflamed heart)

Puzzle Answer

Friday. The “day before tomorrow” is today; “the day before two days after” is really one day after. So if “one day after today is Saturday,” then it must be Friday.