9 Nov

 

 

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🦃                                    🦃 Week 41 Day 314 Flag Today  46°/17° Air Quality: Fair Moderate Partly Mostly Cloudy Overcast Smoky Red Flag Warning Wind 6 mph Gusts 9 mph  Light Breeze Active Fire: 347 miles away Risk of fire: Moderate Nearest Lightning: 702 miles away Nov. Averages: Temps: 51°\24° Moisture:  3 Days 🦃                          🦃

Weekly Observations

4-10 Children’s Book Week Link    5-11 Forensic Nurses Week   Link 7-13 Dear Santa Letter Week 8-10 National Donor Sabath 9-15 World Antibiotic Awareness Week

10/24-11/11 World Origami Days 3-9 Drowsy Driving Prevention Week   Link    Give Wildlife A Brake! Week   Link  National Book Awards Week National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week   Link    National Radiologic Technology Week   Link   Polar Bear Week

Daily Observations

Carl Sagan Day   Link Kristallnacht -10 Go to an Art Museum Today Day Microtia Awareness Day   Link National Louisiana Day

National Scrapple Day National Child Safety Council Day World Adoption Day  Link World Freedom Day

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Today’s Meme

 

Thoughts for the day

It was a very cold morning. When I got up it was 17°, when I headed out for shopping at 9:00 when it was a balmy 25°. By noon it had warmed up to 47°.

I hope the people of Cuba survive the long (4+days) with no electricity due to the hurricane. Life for Cubans is always difficult, but this is extreme. There are 10 million without power. Hoping for the best for them.

Snow Bowl, our local ski resort…think smaller than Lake Eldora…is opening today thanks to the controversial reclaimed water turned to snow. This is their earliest opening in their 85 year history.

Myths

Myth #13: The Invention of the Light Bulb

Believe that Thomas Edison was the solitary genius behind the creation of the light bulb? Well, it’s time to flip the switch and shed light on the true story! While Edison undeniably played a pivotal role in crafting a commercially successful light bulb, he wasn’t the pioneer in the realm of electric lighting.

Innovation trailblazers like Humphry Davy and Warren de la Rue had already embarked on the electric lighting journey, laying the crucial foundations. Edison, with his brilliance, took these ideas and elevated them to a point where the technology became robust and cost-effective enough for widespread use.

Random Thoughts…

In Germany, November 9th is called Schicksalstag (Fateful Day) it was the day that Robert Blum was executed in 1848, Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated in 1918, Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, Kristallnacht in 1938, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. 

Ancient Roman Life

 Temples could also be used as banks for Ancient Romans

Rome was all about having fun and making money. What could someone do with all their wealth? They could visit the temple to keep their finances in order since temples were used throughout Ancient Rome as banks. The basements were used as vaults and were closely guarded at all hours.

The priest was responsible for tracking the amount of money that had been deposited at the bank or loaned to others. It was good to deposit money in multiple temples, even though it was safe. This was because fires were very common and could mean someone’s money would be lost forever.

Historic Events

1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte became dictator (first consul) of France.

1842 – The first U.S. design patent (Design Patent # D1) was issued for typefaces and borders patented by George Bruce of New York City.

1857 – The Atlantic was founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872. 13 people died.

1887 – The United States received rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

1906 – Theodore Roosevelt became the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.

1938 – Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil’l Abner created Sadie Hawkins Day. It was now “celebrated” on the first Saturday after November 9th.

1955 – The National Child Safety Council (NCSC) was founded.

1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.

1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine was published.

1989 – The Berlin Wall fell. It was constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on August 13, 1961.

2011 – At 2:00 PM EST, all US TV and radio stations in the Emergency Alert System were tested simultaneously, the first nationwide test of the system since the 1997 inception of the EAS.

Birthdays

Scarface, 54 Rapper Ryan Murphy, 59 TV Producer Nick Lachey, 51 Pop Singer Lou Ferrigno, 73 Movie Actor

@85 -1914 – Hedy Lamarr [Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler], Austrian-American actress, and inventor (d. 2000) @77 – Spiro Agnew, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (39th Vice President) (d. 1996; acute leukemia) @72 – Mary Travers, American Singer/Songwriter (d. 2009; leukemia) @62 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist (d. 1996; @42 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1965; OD) cancer)

…The End for today…