Sep 15,
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Weekly
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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 |
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National
Championship Air Races |
15-19 |
Daily Observations
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Creme de Menthe Day Greenpeace Day Greenpeace was founded in 1973
after a number of activists traveled the world on an old fishing boat,
Phyllis Cormack, in protest against the planned underground nuclear tests by
the US. Greenpeace has been collecting donations since its inception and checking
all major donations to ensure they do not receive unwanted donations. Any
donations from political parties that finance the foundation, which receives
the bulk of its funding from its governments and intergovernmental
organizations, have been rejected. The organization was founded by a
group of students, with the initial protests, incidentally, focusing on the
US military’s ending of nuclear tests in North Korea. The effort was
unsuccessful, but the act had enough impact on the media to eventually prevent
the United States from testing more atomic bombs there. Takeaway: The
organization’s first protest, in which they sailed across the Atlantic to
stop a nuclear bomb test in the Pacific off the coast of South Korea, was
successful. This was the beginning of a later
international movement by Greenpeace and led to the comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty, which was adopted by the United Nations in 1996. In 1971, the newly
formed Wave Committee (not called Wave) chartered a ramshackle old fishing
boat in Vancouver and set out to oppose the US atomic bomb attempts off
Amchitka, Alaska Linguine Day Make a Hat Day Online Learning Day |
Favorite Memes
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A quick smile!
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What's the
leading cause of dry skin? Towels |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
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I’m healing
very slowly. Still having a slight temperature and a headache. Last night was
the first OT on opening of Monday Night football since the 1970’s. Good game.
Ravens won. Have you
travelled to Palisades Tahoe? That the name of the place we grew up calling
Squaw Valley. Only surprise that it took this long to change from that
offensive name… Another set of
hearings where everyone picks a side and learns very little. There has got to
be a better way to get information and make plans to have such a mess happen
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Historical Events
1795 "Lyrical Ballads" published by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth - 1st work of English Romantic
movement (probable date)
1830 – The first
National Convention for Blacks was held in Bethel Church, Philadelphia, PA.
1851 – Saint
Joseph’s University is founded in Philadelphia.
September 15,
1892 Birthday (fictional) C. Montgomery Burns, The Simpsons
1916 First use
of tanks in warfare, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flers-Courcelette,
part of the Battle of the Somme
1928 Scottish
bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza
1971 –
Greenpeace was founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1981 US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves
Sandra Day O'Connor for the US Supreme Court
1982 – USA Today
began publication.
2020 Scientific American issues its 1st ever presidential
endorsement in 175 years by backing Joe Biden
Birthdays Today
@96 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress, Hollywood’s first Scream
Queen (d. 2004)
@87 – Nipsey Russell, American comedic actor (d. 2005)
@85 – Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, playwright
(d. 1976)
75 – Tommy
Lee Jones, American actor
75 – Oliver
Stone, American director, screenwriter, producer
@72 – William Howard Taft, American politician, 27th President of
the United States (d. 1930)
60 – Dan
Marino, American football player, and sportscaster
37 – Prince
Harry, Duke of Sussex
