Jul 29,
2021 Week: 31 Day: 210
Ave. Sky Cover: 95%\Visibility:
10 miles
Local Temp: 80°\ 57° Wind: 4mph\ Gusts: 7mph
Moderate risk of fire
Active fire: 75mi. \ Lightning: 2mi.
Jul Averages: 82°\51° (9 days
w/moisture)
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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RAGBRAI: Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa Women in Baseball Week |
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Daily Oberservations
International Tiger Day
National Chicken Wing Day
National Lipstick Day
Rain Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Monsoon showers are here.
Lots of lightning and thunder. ‘Take Shelter’ alerts on my phone. I’m still waiting,
but thankfully got some shopping done before the thunder started. There are
currently four squirrels chasing each other in our commons area. Up and down
trees, chasing on the ground, back to the trees. They must have had too much coffee
this morning.
The mailboxes for our
complex are on the main drag, about 50 yards from my place. The bank of boxes also
has several bins for large packages. Over the past few months, I’ve noticed
that some of the bins are not locked and several people have left their boxes
open, but no key. I have had trouble opening my box and had to jiggle the key a
lot to open the box. I got a letter from the HOA that there are problems with
the old bank of boxes so today they are putting in new ones. No mail delivery
until Friday. Even then may have to go to the main post office to pick up mail
that wasn’t delivered yesterday or today. I just hope they are a little larger
than the ones currently installed.
Listening to the
hearing yesterday on the Jan. 6th incident was moving and disturbing
from the cops who protected so many that day. Hearing the conservative
responses to the cop’s testimony is truly frightening.
I learned yesterday
that there is a runner from our local university in Tokyo. He is DACA since
arriving here at age 1 with his parents from Guatemala. After qualifying, he
had to get special permission from the US government to run in the 5000m race.
I’ll be watching Luis Grijalva when he runs. Go Lumberjack!
Historical Events
1148 – The Siege of Damascus ended with a
crusader defeat and lead end of the Second Crusade.
1836 – Inauguration of
the Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile (Arch of Triumph of the Star) in Paris, France.
1958 – US President
Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law,
which created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1981 – A worldwide TV
audience of over 700 million people watched the wedding of Charles, Prince of
Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
2005 – Astronomers
announce their discovery of the dwarf planet, Eris.
2009 Temperature
reaches 103°F in Seattle, Washington, the hottest day on record
2015- Windows 10 was
released.
2015 Part of missing
airline MH370 is found on the island of Reunion
2020 Scaled back Hajj
pilgrimage begins in Saudi Arabia with no foreigners
Birthdays Today
@102
– ‘Professor’ Irwin Corey, American comedian and actor (d. 2017)
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– Tim Gunn, American television host and actor
@61
– Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (d.
1945)
He
was shot. On 29 April 1945, the bodies of Mussolini, Petacci, and the other
executed Fascists were loaded into a van and moved south to Milan. At 3:00
a.m., the corpses were dumped on the ground in the old Piazzale Loreto. The
piazza had been renamed "Piazza Quindici Martiri" (Fifteen Martyrs'
Square) in honor of fifteen Italian partisans recently executed there.
After
being kicked and spat upon, the bodies were hung upside down from the roof of
an Esso gas station.[192] The bodies were then stoned from below by civilians.
This was done both to discourage any Fascists from continuing the fight, and as
an act of revenge for the hanging of many partisans in the same place by Axis
authorities. The corpse of the deposed leader was subject to ridicule and
abuse. Fascist loyalist Achille Starace was captured and sentenced to death and
then taken to the Piazzale Loreto and shown the body of Mussolini. Starace, who
once said of Mussolini "He is a god",[193] saluted what was left of
his leader just before he was shot. The body of Starace was subsequently hung
up next to that of Mussolini.
After
his death and the display of his corpse in Milan, Mussolini was buried in an
unmarked grave in the Musocco cemetery, to the north of the city. On Easter
Sunday 1946, his body was located and dug up by Domenico Leccisi and two other
neo-Fascists.
On
the loose for months—and a cause of great anxiety to the new Italian
democracy—Mussolini's body was finally "recaptured" in August, hidden
in a small trunk at the Certosa di Pavia, just outside Milan. Two Franciscan
brothers were subsequently charged with concealing the corpse, though it was
discovered on further investigation that it had been constantly on the move.
Unsure what to do, the authorities held the remains in a kind of political
limbo for ten years, before agreeing to allow them to be re-interred at
Predappio in Romagna, his birthplace. Adone Zoli, the then-current prime
minister, contacted Donna Rachele, the dictator's widow, to tell her he was
returning the remains, as he needed the support of the far-right in parliament,
including Leccisi himself. In Predappio, the dictator was buried in a crypt
(the only posthumous honor granted to Mussolini). His tomb is flanked by marble
fasces, and a large idealized marble bust of him is above the tomb.
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– Martina McBride, American singer-songwriter
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– Wil Wheaton, American actor
