Apr 25

 

 

 

Apr 25, 2021   Week: 18    Day: 115       

Visibility: 10 miles	Ave. Sky Cover: 5%
Local: H 66°\ L 40°	Nearest Lightning: 1406mi.
Wind:  10mph/ Gusts: 23 mph	EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  347mi
Record: 89°[2009]  Record: 23°[1965]	Apr. Averages: 60°/27° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

~Ray Charles

 

Random Tidbits

 

The same side of the moon always faces Earth because the moon takes the same length of time to rotate once as it does to travel all way around Earth.

Only 12 people have been on the moon: the astronauts on the Apollo missions from 1969 to 1972.

 

Humor

 

During World War II, my father often found himself stuck with KP duty. One day, convinced he could improve things, he told the head cook, “If you give me a paring knife, I could peel these potatoes faster.” The cook turned slowly to my father and said, “Son, you’re in the Army. You have plenty of time.”

 

Real Cities

 

Flea Hill, Delaware is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware

 

Weekly Observations

 

Ramadan	Thru 5/11
National Dance Week Link	16-25
International Wildlife Film Week Link	17- 5/15
National Park Week Link	17-25
Festival of Ridvan	20-5/1
National Stationery Week Link	20-26
Fiddler's Frolic	22-25
American Crossword Puzzle Days Link Interstate Mullet Toss National Dream Hotline National & Global Youth Service Days	23-25
American Quilters Society Week Link CANCELLED International Mariachi Week  Link CANCELLED
National Scoop The Poop Week World Immunization Week	24-30
Fibroid Awareness Week Preservation Week  Link (re: Libraries)	25-5/1
National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) Link Stewardship Week	25-5/2

 

Today’s Observations

 

Academy Awards
Blue Sunday Link
DNA Day Link
East Meets West Day  (aka Elbe Day)  Link
Hairstylists Appreciation Day

Hug A Plumber Day or Plumbers Day Link
License Plates Day
Malaria Awareness Day  Link
Mother, Father Deaf Day 
National Crotilla Day
National Mani-pedi Day  Link
National Pet Parent's Day   Link   Link
National Zucchini Bread Day

Parental Alienation Day Link
Pinhole Photography Day Link  
Red Hat Society Day Link 

Telephone Day  

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World Penguin Day  Link
World Pinhole Photography Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

A decent day here but have to do a bunch of laundry. I can’t be wandering the neighborhood or forest in dirty clothes.

Remember when the President suggested using ‘internal disinfectant’ to stop Covid? The next day the CDC warned against it. Then a month later they found that 4% of survey respondents admitted to drinking or gargling diluted bleach to stop the spread of Covid.

Caitlyn Jenner is running for Governor of California if the current Governor is recalled. She is a conservative Republican. It worked for movie star Reagan and actor Arnold. Both were conservative Republicans.

Our local university has been testing wastewater for Covid. They announced they found Covid in the wastewater from a local high school. Sounds gross but WOW.

I just read an interesting article about Climate Change on earth.:

·        70% of the world population living in poverty are female.

·        80% of the population displaced by climate change are female.

That is scary as females are an important component of creating the next generation.

AZ has been in a drought period for over 20 years and that is now considered a Mega-drought. Economics is already changing due to the drought…crops, growth, recreation and more are adversely affected. Sad.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

The water level in a reservoir is low but doubles every day.

It takes 60 days to fill the reservoir.

How long does it take for the reservoir to become half full?

 

Historical Events

 

1644 – The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, committed suicide during a peasant rebellion.

1719 – Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was published.

1792 – Highwayman (thief) Nicolas J. Pelletier became the first person executed by guillotine in Paris, France.

1792 – La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) was composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

1859 – Ground was broken for opened the Suez Canal by British and French engineers. The 100-mile canal between the Mediterranean and the Red Seas opened ten years later, on November 17, 1869.

1901 – New York became the first US state to require automobile license plates.

1944 – The United Negro College Fund was incorporated.

1947 – President Harry Truman opened the two-lane White House bowling alley.

1954 – The first practical solar cell was demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.

1961 – The integrated circuit was Patented (#2,981,877) by Robert Noyce.

1980 – Nick Perry Rigged the Pennsylvania Lottery’s daily number drawing to only draw a six or four, thus drawing 666. This would be known as the ‘Triple Six Fix’.

1982 – Israel completed the withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.

1983 – Pioneer 10 traveled beyond ex-planet Pluto’s orbit.

1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed in space from the Space Shuttle Discovery to an orbit 381 miles above Earth.

1994 14" of snow in Southern California

2005 Final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937

2019 Microsoft becomes the third US firm to be listed with a market worth of 1 trillion, after Apple and Amazon

2019 More than 1,600 civilians were killed in US-led coalition air and land strikes on Raqqa, Syria in 2017, according to Amnesty International and monitoring group Airwars

 

Birthdays Today

 

@91 – William Brennan, Jr., American jurist, US Supreme Court Associate Justice (d. 1997)

81 – Al Pacino, American actor

@79 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (died in 1996)

77 – Len Goodman, dancer, DWTS judge

75 – Talia Shire, American actress

@63 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italinan inventor; wireless telegraph (d. 1937; heart attack)

@59 – Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (d. 1658; malaria)

@57 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965; lung cancer)

57 – Hank Azaria, American actor and voice artist

52 – Renée Zellweger, American actress

51 – Jason Lee, American actor

 

Puzzle Answer

 

59 days. If the water level doubles every day, the reservoir on any given day was half the size the day prior. If the reservoir is full on day 60, that means it was half full on day 59, not on day 30.