Nov 14

 

Week: 47 Day: 318 Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles Local Temp:   59°\ 29° Wind: 1mph\ Gusts: 7mph High risk of fire Active fire: 75mi. \ Lightning: 1099mi. Nov Averages: 51°\23° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

 

7-14	Dear Santa Letter Week Give Wildlife A Brake! Week Link  National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week  Link    Polar Bear Week
8-14	Childrens' Book Week: Link  National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link
12-14	National Donor Sabbath
13-19	World Antibiotic Awareness Week
13-21	National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: Link
14-20	International Fraud Awareness Week Link    National Split Pea Soup Week Link Perioperative Nurse Week Link

 

Daily Observations

 

Favorite Memes

 

Have a laugh

When will a net hold water? When the water is frozen.

 

Trivia

Red hair is a recessive trait, which means that a child must inherit one red hair gene from each parent. Recessive traits often come in pairs, and redheads are more likely than other people to be left-handed. While Scotland has the highest proportion (13 percent) of redheads (followed by Ireland with 10 percent), the United States has the largest population of redheads in the world, with between 6-18 million redheads.

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Nice fall day with a little wind. Not a lot happening in Flag. Guess I’ll clean my house. Certainly not a deep clean, but vacuuming and dusting should suffice.

 

 

Historical Events

Female journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completed the trip in 72 days, in 1889. The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) began radio service in the United Kingdom in 1922. Ruby Bridges became the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana (1960) In 1967, Theodore Maiman was given a patent for his ruby laser system. 2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opened in Washington DC. 2018 Attempt to move 720,000 Rohingya back to Myanmar from Bangladesh refugee camps amid international criticism. They refuse to go. 2018 Archaeologists announce discovery of ancient Greek city of Tenea near Corinth, supposedly founded by captives from Trojan War

 

Birthdays Today

@86 @75 74 73 @68 67 55 49 46

– Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926) – Brian Keith, American actor, and director (d. 1997; emphysema) – P. J. O’Rourke, American political satirist and journalist – Charles Philip Arthur George (Prince of Wales) – McLean Stevenson, American actor, screenwriter (d. 1996; bladder cancer) – Yanni [Yiannis Chryssomallis], Greek-American pianist, composer, producer – Curt Schilling, American baseball player, and sportscaster – Josh Duhamel, American model, and actor – Travis Barker, American drummer, songwriter, producer

 

Nov 13

 

Week: 46 Day: 317 Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles Local Temp:   55°\ 27° Wind: 11mph\ Gusts: 14mph Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 88mi. \ Lightning: 1192mi. Nov Averages: 51°\23° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

7-13	International Games Week (Libraries) Link Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link National Radiologic Technology Week Link   National Book Awards Week National Nurse Practioner's Week Link  Link Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week   Link World Kindness Week   Link
7-14	Dear Santa Letter Week Give Wildlife A Brake! Week Link  National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week  Link    Polar Bear Week
8-14	Childrens' Book Week: Link  National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link
12-14	National Donor Sabbath
13-19	World Antibiotic Awareness Week
13-21	National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: Link

 

Daily Observations

 

Favorite Memes

 

Trivia

The most rare hair color in humans is red. Approximately 1-2 percent of humans in the world have red hair. Lilith, the supposed first wife of Adam, is said to have had red hair. She was ultimately kicked out of the Garden of Eden because she refused to be subordinate to Adam. Because redheads have thicker hair than people with other hair colors, they have fewer strands of hair. For example, while blondes have on average 140,000 hairs, redheads have approximately 90,000.

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Windy fall day…time for a laundry day. Two loads of clothes…will fold and put away later. The Beijing Olympics are in the news. Will the US attend? Will the President or a delegate or no US dignitary attend? I followed the 1980 Olympics when the US refused to attend, and I attended the 1984 Olympics in LA when the USSR didn’t attend. I am appalled by the Chinese government human rights violations. I also know there are hundreds of young American athletes who have been training for years to attend the games in Beijing. I hope that the American athletes can compete on the field with athletes from all the Olympic countries. The US dignitaries would be missed, but it would allow the games to continue. If the best athletes, from any boycotting countries are kept out of the games, it will hurt the Olympic dream, but I seriously doubt that China will suddenly follow the UN Human Rights guidelines. Now I’m climbing down from my soapbox.

 

 

Historical Events

James Braid saw a demonstration of animal magnetism, which lead to his study of a subject he eventually named hypnotism (1841) The Holland Tunnel opened to traffic, being the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City (1927). Walt Disney’s animated musical film Fantasia was first shown at New York’s Broadway Theatre. (1940) The Supreme Court of the United States declared Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, ending the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott. On November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murdered his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house (112 Ocean Avenue) that would become known as The Amityville Horror. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC in 1982.

 

Birthdays Today

@81 75 68 66 58 54 52 @44

– Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2016) – Joe Mantegna, American actor, and voice artist -- Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 58th President of Mexico – Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and talk show host – Vinny Testaverde, American football player – Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian, actor, and talk show host – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, essayist (d. 1894; stroke)