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Jun 7, 2021 Week: 24
Day: 158 |
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 10% |
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Local: H 80 \ L 45° |
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Wind: 4mph/ Gusts: 11mph |
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EXTREME Risk of Fire:
Active fire: 126mi Nearest Lightning: 229mi. |
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Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
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Life appears to me too
short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. Charlotte Bronte |
Random Tidbits
A bolt of lightning is
six times hotter than the sun.
When a person cries and
the first drop of tears come from the right eye, its happiness. if it from left
eye, it’s pain.
Humor
While fishing off Myrtle Beach, a Yankee tourist capsized his boat.
Petrified, he yelled to an old guy standing on the shore, “Are there any gators
around here?!”
“Naw,” the man hollered back, “they ain’t been around for years!”
Feeling safe, the tourist started swimming toward shore. Halfway
there, he asked the guy, “How’d you get rid of the gators?”
“We didn’t do anything,” the old guy said. “The sharks got ’em.”
Real Cities
Big Bottom, Washington is on the Cowlitz River, Packwood, WA
True Things
Quick Thinking
An unnamed maskless woman
waiting in line at a Pick 'n' Pay supermarket in South Africa was caught on
cellphone video being confronted by a store guard who demanded she put on a
mask or be thrown out of the store. On the video, she is next seen reaching up
under her dress, pulling out her underwear -- a black thong -- and placing it
on her face, the New York Post reported. Witnesses were mixed in their
reaction. "Good lord," one shopper was heard saying.
"Brilliant," said another. [New York Post, 2/26/2021]
Weekly Observations
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National
Marina Days Link |
5/31-6/9 |
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International Clothesline Week |
5-12 |
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National Lemonade Days Link |
5-13 |
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Bedbug Awareness Week Link |
6-12 |
Today’s Observations
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(Daniel) Boone Day National Thank God It's Monday Day |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
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Nice day…breeze is keeping it
cool. What is going on?...An American
Legion official had the speaker’s mic turn off when he talked about how Blacks
spearheaded Memorial Day’s earliest beginnings, claiming it was not part of
the approved speech. He admitted turning off the mic and resigned. Dreamers can enlist in the
military branches and serve this country. Many would assume that after serving,
they are given citizenship or at least move up in the line. That does not happen,
but this does: Recently several former soldiers were convicted of a crime and
had to serve jail time [marijuana possession or shoplifting]. Upon release
from jail, they were deported. They
are returning to countries they have never lived in and usually don’t even speak
the language. Things need to change. |
Daily Riddle
Answer: bottom of the page
What goes up but never comes down?
Historical Events
1665 Great Plague of London: Samuel Pepys writes
in his diary of houses marked with a red cross in London's Drury Lane, meaning
somebody inside is infected with the plague and must be locked in for 40 days
or until death
1753 British Museum founded by an Act of
Parliament with royal assent from King George II (opens in 1759)
1769 Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass,
State of Kentucky
1776 – Richard Henry Lee presented the “Lee Resolution” to the
Continental Congress.
1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agreed in the
Lyons-Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
1914 – The Alliance was the first vessel to pass through the Panama
Canal.
1965 The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v.
Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples
2012 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays first performed found under a pub in London
2020 Black Lives Matter Protests continue worldwide in large numbers, In Bristol England statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston pulled down
Birthdays Today
@85 – Jessica Tandy,
English-American actress (died in 1994)
@83 – Gwendolyn
Brooks, African-American poet (died in 2000)
81 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor
@78 – Dean Martin,
American singer and actor (died in 1995)
69 – Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor
62 – Mike Pence, former VP
@61 – Beau Brummell,
English fashion designer (d. 1840; syphilis)
@57 – Prince [Prince
Rogers Nelson], American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, actor
(d. 2016; OD)
@54 – Paul Gauguin,
French painter and sculptor (d. 1903; heart attack<?>)
33 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor
Puzzle Answer
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