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Jun 25, 2021 Week: 26
Day: 176 |
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 35% |
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Local: H 80°\ L 46° |
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Wind: 7mph/ Gusts: 11mph |
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Low Risk of Fire: Active fire: 23mi Nearest Lightning: 74mi. |
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Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
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A photograph is a
secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus |
Random Tidbits
The health benefits of rice include its ability
to provide fast and instant energy, regulate and improve bowel movements,
stabilize blood sugar levels, and slow down the aging process, while also
providing an essential source of vitamin B1 to the human body. Other benefits
include its ability to boost skin health, increase the metabolism, aid in
digestion, reduce high blood pressure, help weight loss efforts, improve the
immune system, and provide protection against dysentery, cancer, and heart
disease.
True Things
Mystery
Police in Hertfordshire,
England, received about 100 complaints over a three-day period from people
parked at a Tesco store in Royston who reported their car alarms inexplicably
went off, and they couldn't use their key fobs to lock or unlock their
vehicles. Communications watchdog company Ofcom told the BBC in March 1 its
investigators checked the area for signs of interference, but found nothing. No
cars have been reported stolen, and police said they were not treating the
incidents as malicious. [BBC, 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 |
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Water Ski Days |
25-27 |
Today’s Observations
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Color TV Day
(CBS) National Catfish Day Link School
Prayer Banned Anniversary Strawberry
Parfait Day Victory Day/Battle
of Little Big Horn |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice day with some rain clouds. Fires continue to burn. Nearest
fire is now 35,000 acres.
Our country is slow, but it works. Rudy Giuliani can’t practice law
in NY. The St. Louis rich couple who brought guns to their porch during BLM
protests pleaded guilty, paid a $2500 fine, and gave the cops their guns.
With all this talk about canceling the Olympics due to Covid, the
contract from 2013 says that the IOC is the only one that can postpone or cancel
the games.
The Sec of Interior has set up an investigation regarding the BIA’s
dark history of boarding schools. I’m all for it. I arrived on the Navajo Rez
in 1971 and children were still being punished for speaking their language. The
punishment was usually more cleaning or loss of privileges. It changed the next
year but took a long time for ‘old timers’ to stop doing it. This on the heels
of finding another burial site at another Catholic boarding school in Canada
with possible over 700 children buried in unmarked graves. It is a dark history
that must be acknowledged.
2 New Puzzles Everyday
Answer: bottom of the page
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Historical Events
1867 – Barbed wire was patented (#66,182) by Lucien B. Smith of Kent,
Ohio.
1876 – Native American forces, led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and
Sitting Bull, defeated the US Army troops lead by Lieutenant Colonel George
Armstrong Custer in a battle near southern Montana’s Little Bighorn River.
1910 – The US Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited interstate
transport of females for “immoral purposes.”
1910 – Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird premiered in
Paris,
1914 – The Great Salem Fire, Massachusetts
1944 – The final page of the comic strip Krazy Kat was published,
months after the author, George Herriman died.
1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne
Frank) was published.
1949 – The cartoon classic, Long-Haired Hare starring Bugs Bunny, was
released in theaters.
1967 – The special Our World was the first live worldwide “via
satellite” TV broadcast, transmitting to 30 countries via the BBC. The Beatles
closed the show with All You Need Is Love. Performers include Mick Jagger,
opera singer Maria Callas, Vienna Boys’ Choir, Keith Richards, Keith Moon, Eric
Clapton, Pattie Harrison, Jane Asher, Graham Nash, and others. The show lasted
2 and a half hours.
1978 – The rainbow flag, representing gay pride, was flown for the
first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
1997 – The National Hockey League approved expansion franchises for
Nashville
2009 – Michael Jackson died after suffering from cardiac arrest caused
by a fatal combination of drugs given to him by his personal doctor, Conrad
Murray.
2014 The US Supreme Court rules that police cannot examine the digital
contents of a cell phone without a court order
2015 Obamacare subsidies in The Affordable Care Act preserved by US
Supreme Court Ruling in King v Burwell 6-3
2018 Californian Governor Jerry Brown declares State of Emergency for
wildfire spread over 8,200 acres in Lake County
Birthdays Today
96 – June Lockhart, American actress
76 – Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
74 – Jimmie Walker, American comedic actor
61 – Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, director and producer
@61 – Anthony Bourdain,
chef (d. 2018; suicide by hanging)
@53 – George Michael
[Georgios
Kyriacos Panayiotou], English singer-songwriter (d. 2016; heart
failure)
55 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese-American basketball player
@46 – George Orwell,
British novelist, essayist, and critic (d. 1950; TB)
Puzzles Answer
Quarterback Rainbow
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