28 Nov Thanksgiving

 

 

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🦃                                     🦃 Week 48  Day 333 Flag Today  35°/28° Air Quality: Fair Overcast Rain/snow Wind 3 mph Gusts 8 mph  Light Breeze Active Fire: 738 miles away Risk of fire: Very Low     Nearest Lightning: 1945 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 27-12/3 National Deal Week

Daily Observations

Letter Writing Day National Day of Mourning  Link National French Toast Day

Red Planet Day  Link Thanksgiving Day Turkey-free Thanksgiving

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 Today’s Meme

 

Thoughts for the day

A wintery weather day for the day before Thanksgiving. It is a combination of rain and snow. Weather guy says it will not be sticking.

I sure hope the ceasefire in Lebanon holds so peace talks can bring an end to the violence.

I realize I’m old-er. After the recent dropping of charges I realize I am old because I remember when if you broke the law, there would be consequences. Times sure have changed.

Myths

Myth #32: Don’t Microwave Your Food

If you’ve been nuking your meals with a side of guilt, worrying that each whirl and spin in the microwave zaps the life out of your food’s nutrients, it’s high time for a culinary confession: Your microwave is entirely innocent! Contrary to the widespread belief, these buzzing machines don’t perform nutrient depletion on your meals.

So, how does this kitchen wizardry work, you ask? Well, it’s pretty straightforward—these metallic boxes emit electromagnetic waves that excite the water molecules in your food, cooking it swiftly and efficiently. Rapid microwave cooking can, in fact, help preserve more of those essential nutrients compared to slow-cooking methods.

Random Thoughts…

It’s actually quite amazing that we all have a standardized unit of time. We can’t seem to agree on units of distance or speed but time, we got that.

TV Ratings: In 1951, the first year Nielsen released television ratings, the most-watched series was Texaco Star Theater with a 61.6 rating. The 2017 winner (Sunday Night Football) scored only a 12.2.

A group of Quotations is called a Rosary.

In Disney’s Frontierland you can see a wooden leg with “Smith” written on it in the lost and found. This is a tribute to “Mary Poppins” when Bert says, “I knew a man with a wooden leg named Smith.”

The longest named place on Earth is “Taumatawhakatangi­ hangakoauauotamatea­ turipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu” (no spaces) containing 85 letters and located in New Zealand.

Ancient Roman Life

It was common for apartment buildings to burn down in Ancient Rome

However, Ancient Rome did not have the same access to materials as we do today. Their insula was made of wood and mud and highly flammable. Even if the buildings didn’t burn, it was common for them to collapse, especially if they were built cheaply.

Fires could be contained by destroying nearby buildings and firefighters, called Vigiles, working with water buckets to extinguish flames. Romans used hot coals to cook food in the interior, but that didn’t help the fires. The Great Fire of Rome burned six days, was rekindled for three more days, and destroyed two-thirds of Rome.

Historic Events

1660 – The Royal Society, a scientific academy, was founded at Gresham College, London.

1717 – Blackbeard attacked a French merchant vessel called La Concorde, which he captured and renamed as the Queen Anne’s Revenge.

1895 – America’s first auto race started: 6 cars, 55 miles, the winner averaged 7 MPH, from Chicago’s Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois.

1925 – The Grand Ole Opry made its (weekly) radio debut on station WSM, in Nashville, Tennessee.

1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opened his first movie theater, The Orpheum. It was a renovated 600 seat burlesque house.

1922 – The first skywriting in the US was demonstrated over Times Square, New York City, by Capt. Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force. Flying at 10,000 feet, he wrote letters in white smoke a half-mile high: Hello, U.S.A. Call Vanderbilt 7200. It was an advertisement for the American Tobacco Company.

1948 – The Polaroid Land Camera went on sale, at a Boston department store. The 40 series, model 95 roll film camera sold for $89.75.

1995 – President Bill Clinton ended the federal 55 mph speed limit that began in 1974, as an energy-saving measure.

2001 – Enron Corporation, once the world’s largest energy trader, covering major electricity, natural gas, communications, pulp, and paper, and with over 20,000 employees, essentially went out of business.

Birthdays

Berry Gordy Jr., 95 Entrepreneur Randy Newman, 81 Rock Singer Jon Stewart, 62 TV Show Host Judd Nelson, 65 Movie Actor

@70 – Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003; colitis) @69 – William Blake, English poet (d. 1827)  @57 – Henry Bacon, American architect designed the Lincoln Memorial (d. 1924; cancer)  @39 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model, actress, and television personality (d. 2007; OD)

…The End for today…