Week: 42
Day: 284
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Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
4-11 |
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6-12 |
National
Physicians Assistant Week |
10-16 |
Death
Penalty Focus Week |
10-17 |
Take
Your Medicine Americans Week |
11-16 |
World Rainforest Week: Link |
Daily Observations
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Favorite Memes
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Trivia
Fred A.
Birchmore, 25, circled the globe by bicycle in 1935. The entire trip, through
Europe, Asia, and the United States, covered forty thousand miles. He pedaled
about 25,000 miles. The rest was traveled by boat. He wore out seven sets of
tires. Americans use
their bicycles for less than one percent of all urban trips. Europeans bike
in cities a lot more often - in Italy 5 percent of all trips are on bicycle,
30 percent in the Netherlands, and seven out of eight Dutch people over age
15 have a bike. |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded
Thoughts
Cool
evening…woke up cold about 3am, had to pull up the blanket. Guess it is
really fall. Broncos are
having a tough day. Cards are starting
off well in 1st Q. Have a
great Indigenous People’s Day. That sounds so much better than the old name.
I hope this brings more education in schools as to the many contributions of
Indigenous People of America. Science
is saying that Covid cases are declining in much of the US. Too soon to get
careless. The La
Palma volcano is tossing lava as large as 3-story buildings. And there were 21 seismic events today…the
largest was 3.8. There have been 1186 buildings destroyed since it began Sept.
19. WOW! |
Historical Events
1887 – The first adding
machine (the Comptometer) was patented, by Dorr Eugene Felt. 1929 JC Penney opens
store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores
in all 48 U.S. states. 1962 – Vatican Council
II, the 21st ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church was convened by
Pope John XXIII, in four sessions that concluded on December 8, 1965. 1975 – Saturday Night
Live premiered on NBC. 1984 August Wilson's
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" premieres in NYC 2002 A bomb attack in a
shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven. 2020 India records more
than 7 million cases of COVID-19 |
Birthdays Today
@78 @74 @58 @52 44 29 |
Eleanor Roosevelt, American
humanitarian, politician, 39th First Lady (d. 1962; cardiac failure) Henry J. Heinz, founded the H. J.
Heinz Company (d, 1919; pneumonia) Dottie West, singer-songwriter (d.
1991; auto accident) Luke Perry, American actor, producer
(d. 2019; stroke) Matt Bomer, American
actor Cardi B [Belcalis Marlenis
Almánzar], American rapper |