25 Nov

 

 

🦃                                       🦃   🦃                                           🦃

🦃                                     🦃 Week 48  Day 330 Flag Today  54°/29° Air Quality: Fair Moderate   Partly Mostly Cloudy  Overcast Smoky Red Flag Warning   Sunshine Wind 7 mph Gusts 14 mph Gentle Breeze Active Fire: 83 miles away Risk of fire: Moderate   Nearest Lightning: 922 miles away Nov. Averages: Temps: 51°\24° Moisture:  3 Days 🦃                                  🦃

Weekly Observations

22-28 National Farm-City Week 24-30 Church/State Separation Week GERD Awareness Week Link National Family Week National Game & Puzzle Week Better Conversation Week 24-12/1 National Bible Week

Daily Observations

Blase'Day   Link International Day For the Elimination of Violence Against Women Day International Hat Day

National Parfait Day National Play With Dad Day  Link Orange Day (Violence Against Women)   Link Shopping Reminder Day

Today’s Quote                                                       

 

 Today’s Meme

 

Thoughts for the day

I think I got my computer issues solved. Not my favorite activity.

A nice fall day.

Nogales is the county seat for Santa Cruz County here in AZ. The former treasurer of the county has admitted to embezzling $38 million from the treasury over her long tenure. It is hard to believe that it took almost a decade to figure it out.

The Broncos play the Raiders and the Cards play the Seahawks this afternoon. I can only watch the Cards on my cable TV. It’s the internet for the Broncos game. On Saturday, the Buffalos lost to Kansas.

Myths

Myth #29: Bulls Become Angry When They See Red

It’s a vivid and enduring myth that has stirred the arena for ages: the notion that a bull turns into a raging beast at the mere sight of a red cape. But let’s hold onto our horns for a moment! Bulls don’t harbor any particular grudge against the color red. In fact, they’re colorblind when it comes to those crimson tones.

What truly gets their adrenaline pumping is the dynamic motion of the cape, not its hue. Bulls, much like many creatures in the animal kingdom, possess a keen sensitivity to movement, and they tend to react swiftly to perceived threats encroaching. This innate behavior forms the foundation of the dramatic dance we witness in the bullfighting arena.

Ancient Times…

 

Random Thoughts…

A group of Prairie Dogs is called a Coterie. Usually a male, several females and their offspring. A group of coteries is a town.

If we were able to travel faster than light and instantly moved 65 million light-years away and had a telescope big enough to see the surface of the earth, we’d be watching dinosaurs roaming around in real-time.

The official term for random symbols (#%@&!) representing swearing in comic strip speech bubbles is “grawlix” and that it was coined by Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey.

I wonder if children 400 years from now will watch movies like Titanic and learn about James Cameron just as today’s kids learn about Shakespeare.

Civil War General Ambrose Burnside, from whom we get the term “sideburns”, was the first president of the National Rifle Association.

Even Popeye didn’t eat his spinach until he absolutely had to.

Ancient Roman Life

Historic Events

1792 – The Old Farmer’s Almanac first published by Robert B. Thomas. He added “Old” to the title in 1832 because there was so much competition in the Farmer’s Almanac business.

1884 – The patent (#308,422) for the process of evaporated milk was issued to John Meyenberg, of St Louis, Missouri.

1920 – The Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade is the oldest in the US, starting on this date.

1937 – World’s Fair of Paris (Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne – International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life) closed, with 31.2 million visitors.

1947 – The Hollywood Ten consisting of Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to give testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

1963 – John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. The flags in Arlington National Cemetery are flown at half-staff from a half-hour before the first funeral until a half-hour after the last funeral each day. Lee Harvey Oswald is buried in Fort Worth, Texas.

1973 – Maximum speed limit was cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure in the US.

2009 – Wikileaks – Information about the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon were distributed online, with more than 500,000 intercepted pager messages, mainly from US officials posted by WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange.

Birthdays

Kevin Chamberlin, 61 TV Actor Christina Applegate, 53 TV Actress Joey Chestnut, 41 Competitive Eater Amy Grant, 64 Pop Singer John Larroquette, 77 American actor

@95 – Noel Neill, American actress Lois Lane, (d. 2016) @88 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-American actor Kahn on Star Trek, Mr. Roarke on Fantasy Island (d. 2009) @84 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player and coach (d. 1999)   @83 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman, and philanthropist (d. 1919) @76 – P. D. Eastman, American author, and illustrator (d. 1986)   @75 – Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist, and composer Silent Night, (d. 1863) @74 – Percy Sledge, American singer (d. 2015; liver cancer) @64 – Carrie Nation, American Prohibition activist (d. 1911)

…The End for today…