Sep 13,
2021 Week: 38 Day: 256
Ave.
Sky Cover: 5 %\Visibility: 10 miles
Local
Temp: 80°\ 50° Wind: 4mph\ Gusts: 8mph
Today’s
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Weekly
Observations
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International
Air Ambulance Week Link |
4-12 |
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World Orienteering Days Link |
8-14 |
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Direct
Support Professional Recognition Week Link |
9-15 |
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International
Housekeepers Week: Link |
12-18 |
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Be A Mench Week |
13-19 |
Daily Observations
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Bald Is Beautiful Day Defy Superstition Day Fortune Cookie Day Kids Take Over the Kitchen Day National Celiac Awareness Day Peanut Day Positive Thinking Day Roald Dahl Day Uncle Sam Day |
Favorite Memes
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A quick smile!
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What kind of shoes
do Ninjas wear? Sneakers Do you remember
the joke about the Chiropractor? It was about a
weak back. |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
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Great weather
day Sunday. Doors and windows open. All good. I have a Navajo
friend who is raising her 2 grandkids. She has had them since they started
school and the oldest graduates from High School this year. She has found friends
to help her with music camp, swimming camp, band, and the list goes on. She is
a retired dorm aide, so her income is very limited. The other day she called
to say the grandkids were doing a laps contest to raise money for swim team
transportation to meets. One could pledge 50 cents or $1 per lap. I picked
the lower. She called yesterday. It turns out the laps was the cumulative laps
of the entire team; I had pledged $176. I was shocked but haven’t help her
for months, so when she said she would stop by Sunday, I said fine. She picked
up the check that was made out to the swim team, so I know where the money is
going. I’ll remember to ask more questions next time. Football news:
CU Buffs lost to Texas A&M; Cardinals are surprising the betting
community as they are beating the Titans with only one quarter to go. Broncos
play the Giants later, but of course, it won’t be on my TV, but I can follow
it on the internet machine. Congratulations
to Niagara Rockbridge on being crowned the new Miss Navajo Nation. Her predecessor
served 2019-2021 as the pageant was cancelled last year. The crowning and
many of the events were only open virtually. This is a big deal on the Rez,
and she will be busy attending community and school events around the Rez this
upcoming year. |
Historical Events
122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall, Northern England
1501
Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David, a masterpiece of Renaissance
sculpture
1790 – The US
Capitol was moved to New York City from Philadelphia.
1899 – Henry
Bliss was the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile
accident. Arthur Smith, the driver of the taxicab who struck Bliss, was charged
but acquitted.
1814 – Francis
Scott Key composed his poem “Defence of Fort McHenry”- which later became The
Star-Spangled Banner.
1956 – The IBM 305
RAMAC, the first commercial computer to use disk storage, was introduced.
1971 Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1985 – Super
Mario Bros. was released in Japan for the NES.
2017 UN
Secretary-General António Guterres says Rohingya refugee crisis now
"catastrophic" as 370,000 confirmed to have fled Myanmar
2018 Spanish
parliament votes to exhume former dictator Francisco Franco from the Valley of
the Fallen
Birthdays Today
@88 – Milton S. Hershey, founded The Hershey Company (d. 1945)
@74 – Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, screenwriter (d. 1990;
blood cancer)
@74 – Richard Kiel, American actor and voice artist (d.2014; heart
attack)
@73 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, conductor (d. 2015; liver
failure)
70 – Jean
Smart, American actress
@54 – Nell Carter, American actress, and singer (d. 2003; heart
disease)
52—Tyler Perry,
actor, producer
@51 – Walter Reed, American physician, and biologist (d. 1902;
peritonitis)
