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Jul 10, 2020 Week: 28 Day: 192
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H 87° \ L 54° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:
9mph\Gusts: 17mph Visibility:
10mi
Nearest lightning: 684mi.; Nearest active fire: 68mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 94°[2003]
Record Low: 37°[1926]
Jul Averages: 82°\52° (8 days with rain)
Today’s Quote
"Love the life you live.
Live the life you love."
-Bob Marley
Random Tidbits
7. Trinidad Scorpion
Pepper: "Butch T." The Trinidad Scorpion 'Butch T' is named for Butch
Taylor, its creator. It ends in a stinger that resembles a scorpion's tail, and
at nearly 1.5 million heat units, packs just as much of a punch.
8. Naga Viper. At 1.35
million heat units, the Naga Viper is nearly as dangerous as its namesake.
9. Barrackpore. The
Barrackapore variant of the 7-pot pepper has a sweet, tropical flavor, but also
brings the heat, with 1.3 million Scoville heat units.
10. Ghost Pepper. The Bhut
Jolokia, more commonly known as the Ghost Pepper, was one of the first
super-hot modern peppers. Though it's been surpassed by new hybrids, it still
packs a punch at 1 million heat units.
Have a smile
Thanks to one of my readers
My
friends gave me the nickname `Mr. Compromise`.
It's not
my first choice.. but I'm ok with it.
Remember these movie quotes?
#49 "It's
alive! It's alive!"
Colin Clive Frankenstein 1931
Observations This Week
Tour de
France: 27-7/19 Link Moved to August due to COVID-19
Freedom Week: 4-10
Be Nice To New Jersey Week: 5-11
National Farriers Week: 5-11
National Theraputic Recreation Week: 5-11 Link
Nude Recreation Weekend: 5-12
Creative Maladjustment Week: 7-14 Link
Observations
for Today
Clerihew Day
Don't Step On A Bee Day
Global Energy Independence Day Link
Collector Car Appreciation Day Link
National Motorcycle Day
Oils & Concentrates Day Link
‘Pick Blueberries’ Day
Piña Colada Day Link
Taos Pueblo Pow Wow Link
Canceled due to COVID
Teddy Bears' Picnic Day Link Link
U.S. Energy Independence Day Link
Wayne Chicken Day Link Moved to September due to COVID-19
My Rambling Thoughts
Another very warm day…the mountain breeze is very
refreshing. Going to get hotter over the weekend.
One candidate for Flag Mayor has admitted he made up
names, used Facebook to get names to sign on his petition. After being
investigated he said he was not trying to cheat but was too concerned about
Covid to go door-to-door. His name is still on the primary ballot because they were
already mailed out for the Aug 4th primary election.
The world sure looked brighter knowing that Tahiti is
a go in March.
School update: MIT and Harvard have filed to sue the
Trump administration decision that international students can not stay in the
US if courses are only on-line. The CDC will revise or just add additional references
on its guidelines for opening schools across the nation. The head of CDC said
that his group only provide guidance and has never been prescriptive. Hmmm
Voice of America, the Federal government international
broadcaster…Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, and Office of Cuba Broadcasting…announced
it will not extend VISAs for foreign journalists in US. Many of these journalists
fear that returning to their home country will lead to arrest, imprisonment, or
death. Another huge change in our great country.
The Supreme Court issued lots of decisions today. One
has to do with the eastern half of Oklahoma and the Muskogee Creek Nation. The
court ruled that the state of OK does not have jurisdiction over that area. The
court said it expects the state of OK and the Creek Nation will work out the
details in a peaceful manner.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
Homophones are words that
share the same pronunciation, no matter how they are spelled. If they are
spelled differently they are called heterographs. Find heterographs meaning:
FUEL and DARK COSMETIC POWDER
Historical Events
1553 - Lady Jane Grey began her 9-day reign on the
throne of England.
1892 - The first concrete-paved street was built, on
Court Avenue, around the Logan County Court House, in Bellefountaine, Ohio.
1913 - Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C),
the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
1921 - (Sunday) Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people were
killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast,
Northern Ireland.
1925 - In Dayton, Tennessee, the Monkey Trial began
with John T. Scopes, a high school science teacher accused of teaching the theory
of evolution in violation of the Butler Act. The law was repealed on May 17,
1967.
1938 - Howard Hughes set a record by completing a
91-hour airplane flight around the world.
1962 - The patent (#3,043,625) was issued to Nils
Bohlen, for the three-point car seat-belt.
1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications
satellite, was launched into orbit. An instrumental pop tune by The Tornadoes
titled after the event reached #1 on the Billboard Pop Music Chart.
1966 - Ultraman debuted in Japan
1978 - World News Tonight premiered on ABC.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin took office as the first elected
President of Russia.
1998 Roman Catholic sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of
Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they
were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos
2012 The American Episcopal Church becomes the first
to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages
2015 The Confederate flag is taken down for the last
time from South Carolina Capitol grounds 1 day after the state legislature
ordered it removed.
2017 NASA's Juno spacecraft makes closest ever pass
over Jupiter's Great Red Spot at 9,000 kilometers overhead
2019 Earliest evidence of modern humans outside Africa
found with 210,000 year old skull from Apidima Cave, southern Greece published
in "Nature"
2019 British ambassador to the US Sir Kim Darroch
resigns after his secret cables calling the US president "inept" were
published
Birthdays Today
@88 -
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, co-founded the Special Olympics (d. 2009)
@86 -
Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist/engineer (d. 1943)
@82 -
David Brinkley, American journalist (d. 2003)
@74 -
Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913)
73 -
Arlo Guthrie, American singer-songwriter
@71 -
Ron Glass, American actor (d. 2016; respiratory failure)
@66 -
Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993; pancreatic cancer)
@49 -
Arthur Ashe, American tennis player/journalist (d. 1993; AIDS)
48 -
Sofía Vergara, Colombian-American actress/model
40 -
Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter/actress
Puzzle Answer
Coal/Kohl
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