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Jun 24, 2021 Week: 26
Day: 175 |
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 95% |
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Local: H 71°\ L 49° |
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Wind: 4mph/ Gusts: 8mph |
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High Risk of Fire: Active fire: 23mi Nearest Lightning: 222mi. |
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Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
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To find out what one is
fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey |
Random Tidbits
Rice is a symbol of life
and fertility, which is why rice was traditionally thrown at weddings.
Brown rice is whole grain
rice, with the inedible outer hull removed; white rice is the same grain with
the hull, bran layer and cereal germ removed. Red rice, gold rice, black rice
and purple rice are all whole rices, but with a differently pigmented outer
layer.
True Things
Oops!
Mates Jackson Perry and
Noah Palmer of Mandurah, Western Australia, planned a leisurely float offshore,
drinking beer on a blowup air mattress on Feb. 27, but they wound up stranded
in the Indian Ocean for nearly three hours after the wind blew them out to sea.
"We couldn't paddle against the wind, and we just kept going further and
further out," Perry told 7News, but they did manage to call a friend, who
reached them on his jet ski just before their cellphones died. "We were
kind of getting worried at that point," Perry said, but the beers helped
with the anxiety. [7News, 3/1/2021]
Weekly Observations
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Animal
Rights Awareness Week Link Link |
20-26 |
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Old Time Fiddlers Week |
21-26 |
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National
Insect Week |
21-27 |
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American Library Week |
24-29 |
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World Hula Week Link |
24-26 |
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Watermelon
Thump Seed Spitting Week Link |
24-27 |
Today’s Observations
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Celebration
of the Senses Stonewall
National Monument Day Link World UFO
Day Link |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
The local heat wave has finally broken. Last
night for the first night in a couple of weeks that I did not need a fan
running in my bedroom. I woke up to a hazy/smoky sky. There are also some rain
clouds up there so hoping for a shower sometime today. The Rafael Fire is now over
35,000 acres.
Saddened to hear of the Arvada police officer
killed in Olde Town. That area of Arvada always seemed so nice and peaceful.
It was 2 years ago Focus Travel got to Moscow for
our Trans-Siberian adventure. I messaged our guide Vlad on FB to thank him
again for his great music and tour guiding. He said he hasn’t traveled either
since that trip…due to the Covid outbreak. However, he is doing something on a
sea somewhere in two weeks. He has also been doing local gigs with his musical
talent.
The Phoenix Suns had a heart-stopping win last
night, beating the Clippers in the last 0.8 seconds. Awesome.
It is true that no one likes change…even a baby
with a dirty diaper cries while being changed. I grew up learning and
memorizing that this earth of ours has 7 continents and 4 oceans. Now National
Geographic has identified a ‘new’ ocean near Antarctica. They say that its
ecosystem is different from the other oceans in the area. Now there are 5 oceans,
the new one being named ‘Southern Ocean.’ As it gains popularity it will make some
great trivia questions.
2 New Puzzles Everyday
Answer: bottom of the page
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snagrasske |
ALL ≠
LOST |
Historical Events
1497 – John Cabot landed in North America at Newfoundland
1873 – Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) received a patent
(#140,245) for a self-pasting Scrapbook.
1880 – First performance of O Canada took place at the Congrès
national des Canadiens-Français. The song later became Canada’s national
anthem.
1916 – Mary Pickford became the first female film star
to sign a million-dollar contract (with Adolph Zukor/Paramount).
1938 – Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons
when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded, landed near Chicora, in
western Pennsylvania. A cow was reportedly injured.
1948 – Veteran Pilots Clarence Chiles and Charles Whitted, in Alabama,
saw a cigar-shaped vehicle, with windows, flying beside them.
1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, aired on
NBC, starring William Boyd.
1957 – Jack Parr became the host on The Tonight Show on NBC,
1997 – US Air Force officials released a 231-page report dismissing
all of the claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.
2004 – In New York, capital punishment was declared unconstitutional.
2010 – The Apple iPhone 3GS & iPhone 4 were released.
2017 UN states Yemen cholera epidemic reached 200,000 cases, with
1,300 deaths. Worst cholera outbreak anywhere in the world.
2018 Women drive for the first time in Saudi Arabia after ban is
lifted
2019 US President Donald Trump imposes sanctions on Iran, targeted at
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in response to the shooting down of a US
drone
2020 COVID-19 pandemic worsens dramatically in Yemen, the Arab world's
poorest country, with 25% mortality according to the UN
2020 Russia celebrates its victory 75 years ago over Nazi Germany with
huge military parade through Red Square in Moscow (delayed from May 9 due to
pandemic)
Birthdays Today
@96 – Al Molinaro,
American character actor [Happy Days] (d. 2015)
77 – Jeff Beck, English guitarist
75 – Robert Reich, American economist, politician [Clinton’s Sec. of
Labor]
74 – Mick Fleetwood, English-American drummer
Puzzles Answer
SNAKE IN THE GRASS ALL IS NOT LOST
