30 Nov

 

Week 48  Day 335 Flag Today  45°/11° Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Wind  -mph Gusts 4 mph Active Fire: 132 miles away Risk of fire: Moderate Nearest Lightning: 1669 miles away Nov. Averages: Temps: 51°\24° Moisture:  3 Days

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Today’s Meme

 

Thoughts for the day

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I know I did.

While I was waiting to leave for my dinner with friends I stumbled upon the booklet for my sound bar for my big TV. It had stopped working in July, and I couldn’t find the booklet. I grabbed the book, made a couple of changes and the sound bar is working again. I am thankful.

Violence of any kind is unacceptable. Both some Trump nominees and a some Dem candidates have had bomb threats and/or swatting. This is unacceptable in today’s world. I hope the criminals are found quickly and end up behind bars.

Trivia Time

 

Christmas Traditions

Caroling

Though it may seem like a centuries-old tradition, Time reports that showing up at people’s houses to serenade them with seasonal tunes only dates back to the 19th century. Before that, neighbors did visit each other to impart wishes of good luck and good cheer, but not necessarily in song. Christmas carols themselves go back hundreds of years, minus the door-to-door part. The mashup of the two ideas didn’t come together until Victorian England, when caroling was part of every holiday—even May Day festivals. As Christmas became more commercialized, caroling for the occasion became more popular.

Historic Events

3340 BC – Earliest believed record of an eclipse, in Ireland.

1609 – Galileo Galilei realized that the moon was a landscape, not a flat surface on a circle in the sky.

1858 – The Mason Jar was invented and patented (#22,186) by Philadelphia tinsmith John Landis Mason.

1872 – First international soccer game was played. Final score: Scotland-England 0-0 (in Glasgow)

1931 – The Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer was published.

1936 – London’s Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire.

1956 – CBS became the first network to broadcast from videotape. It was a rebroadcast to the West Coast of the 15-minute Douglas Edwards and the News program. It was recorded on 2-inch tape with an Ampex Mark IV machine.

1994 – Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro caught fire off Somalia, with 3 people dead, and most of the nearly 1,000 passengers and crew escaping in lifeboats. It sank on December 2nd.

2004 – Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, finally lost, leaving him with $2,520,700 – television’s biggest game show winnings.

2009 – CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) started. “CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has today become the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the morning.” CERN is experimenting with things like “The Big Bang” but hopefully on a smaller scale.

Birthdays

Kaley Cuoco, 39 TV Actress Ben Stiller, 59 Movie Actor Chrissy Teigen, 39 Model Billy Idol, 69 Punk Singer Woody Allen, 89 Director Bo Jackson, 62 Baseball Player Gael García Bernal, 46 Movie Actor Clay Aiken, 46 Pop Singer Ridley Scott, 87 Director Mandy Patinkin, 72 Stage Actor

@95 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d. 2014) @90 – G. Gordon Liddy, American lawyer, radio host (d. 2021) @90 – Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Nobel Prize laureate, d. 1965) @89 – Robert Guillaume (Robert Peter Williams), American actor and singer (d. 2017) @84 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005) @82 – Dick Clark, American TV host, and producer (founded Dick Clark Productions, d. 2012) @77 – Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist, and essayist (d. 1745; dementia) @76 – Richard Crenna, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2003; cancer) @74 – Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (d. 1910) @52 – Abbie Hoffman, American activist and author co-founded the Youth International Party, (d. 1989; OD) @48 – Allan Sherman, American actor, comedian, singer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973; respiratory failure) @45 – John McCrae, Canadian physician, soldier, and poet (In Flanders Fields, d. 1918)

…The End for today…