2 Nov

 

 

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🦃                                                                        🦃 Week 41 Day 307 Flag Today  55°/23° Air Quality: Fair Mostly Cloudy Wind 2 mph Gusts 5 mph Active Fire: 155 miles away Risk of fire: High  Nearest Lightning: 866 miles away Nov. Averages: Temps: 51°\24° Moisture:  3 Days 🦃                                           🦃

Monthly Observations

Eye Donation Month Family Stories Month Link Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month Hepatitis C (HCV) Education, Awareness and Screening Month Historic Bridge Awareness Month Link

International Games Month (Libraries) Link  Lung Cancer Awareness Month Manatee Awareness Month Link Movember Link MADD's Tie One On For Safety Holiday Campaign (11/1- 1/1/25) Link

Weekly Observations

1-3 National Farm Toy Show Days    1-7 National Fig Week World Communication Week

10/24-11/11 World Origami Days

Daily Observations

All Souls Day Bison Day    Birth of The Bab Cookie Monster Birthday   Link   Link  Digital Scrapbooking Day International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists   Link International Day Against Violence and Bullying at School Nat’l  Broadcast Traffic Professionals Day

National Deviled Egg Day National Medical Science Liaison Appreciation Day National Traffic Professionals Day National Play Outside Day  Link  Plan Your Epitaph Day  Pumpkin Destruction Day Sadie Hawkins Day   Link Sausage and Kraut Day World Chili Day   (International Chili Championships in Terlingua, TX) World Numbat Day  Link

Today’s Quote                                                       

 

 Today’s Meme

 

Thoughts for the day

I’m still adjusting to the very cool morning temps. Weather guy says there will be snow here on Sunday. I missed the first snow while I was basking in the heat at the hacienda. Guess I’m ready for this one.

While I was watching TV last night, there were Christmas ads. Halloween was still happening. This is little more than corporate greed, I’m not a fan.

Trump is suing CBS and 60 Minutes for $10billion. He is upset over the Harris interview ran on 60 Minutes. Crazy

Ancient Roman Life

Being a chariot racer could earn someone big bucks

Did you know that most chariot racers were slaves? They didn’t want to quit the sport, however. It was actually the exact opposite. Each racer would receive a share of winnings if they were part of the victorious team. But that wasn’t all. It turned out that chariot racing betting was also very popular in Rome.

Racers would often place bets and walk away with big bucks at the end. What’s the twist? The best teams, the red and white ones, were the most successful and, therefore, could afford the best drivers.

Historic Events

1898 – Cheerleading was started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team with “Rah, Rah, Rah! Ski-u-mah, Hoo-Rah! Hoo-Rah! Varsity! Varsity! Varsity, Minn-e-So-Tah!”. Princeton had published cheers for the audience to chant as early as 1877. In 1903 the first cheerleading fraternity, Gamma Sigma, was founded. Women started being popular cheerleaders in the early 1920s.

1920 – Charlotte Woodward voted in Philadelphia. She was the only sill living member who attended the 1848 Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention.

1959 – Quiz show scandal – Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case.

1983 – President Reagan signed the bill establishing the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on the third Monday in January.

2000 – The first crew arrived at the International Space Station. The assembly of the IISS began in November 1998.

Birthdays

Shah Rukh Khan, 59 Movie Actor Nelly, 50 Rapper David Schwimmer, 58 TV Actor

@86 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001) @85 – Daniel Boone, American hunter, and explorer (d. 1820)   @80 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994) @57 – Warren G. Harding 29th President, (d. 1923; stroke) @53 – James K. Polk 11th President (d. 1849; cholera) @37 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France (d. 1793; executed)

…The End for today…