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Today 55°:
24° Week 1 Day 366 Air
Quality: Fair Sunshine Wind
2 mph Gusts 5 mph Active Fire:
320 miles away Risk
of Fire: Moderate Nearest
lightning: 1871 miles away Dec
Averages: Temps: 45°\18° Moisture: 5 Days |
Weekly Observations
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Daily Observations
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Make Up Your Mind Day |
New Year's Eve Banished Words List Universal Hour of Peace Day |
Today’s Quote
Today’s Meme
Thoughts for the day
A nice day to end 2024.
President Jimmy Carter passed at 100.
He lived a life as a true humanitarian. His example will be missed by many.
60 Minutes had a story on Cuban spies living in the US. It started in the 1960’s and
unfortunately continues even today. Several of these spies have been captured
and have been selling sensitive information to our enemies. This is very disturbing.
I hope these leaks are plugged post haste.
Inventions…
Walter Hunt - Safety Pin
Walter Hunt invented the safety pin
in 1849 while trying to figure out how to pay off a $15 debt. He created the
design in just three hours, using a piece of brass wire coiled into a spring at
one end and a clasp and point at the other. Hunt sold his patent for $400 to
pay his debt, never knowing his invention would become a household essential.
The basic design of the safety pin hasn’t changed much since Hunt’s original
creation.
Random Thoughts…
WC Fields – Real Name: William Claude Duckenfield
In 2010, a woman
named Lori Ruff committed suicide. Her
husband’s family found a box among her possessions that contained name change
documents and the birth certificate of a long-dead two-year-old girl, named
Lori Ruff. The true identity of Lori Ruff was a woman named Kimberly McLean.
“Good friend for Jesus’
sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my
bones.” – Shakespeare’s Tombstone
The original drawings of
Snoopy were based on Charles Schulz’s
childhood dogs, Snooky and Spike.The “-wright” in
“playwright” is from the Old English “wryhta” meaning “worker,” not
“writer”.
Quirky town names…
Chicken, Alaska
This gold-mining town got its name when residents couldn’t
agree on how to spell “ptarmigan,” the state bird. They settled on the
easier—and funnier—Chicken instead.
Historic Events
Birthdays
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– Henri Matisse, French artist (d. 1954)
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…The End for today…
