18 November 2022
Daily Almanac for
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Today’s
Quote
Weekly
Observations
National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week:
12-18 Link
International Fraud Awareness Week: 12-18
International Fraud Awareness Week: 12-18 Link
National Cider Week: 12-19
National Cider Week: 12-19 Link
National Split Pea Soup Week: 12-18
National Split Pea Soup Week: 12-18 Link
National Nurse Practioner's Week: 12-18 Link Link
Perioperative Nurse Week: 12-18 Link
Roc Your Moc Week: 12-18 Link
World Kindness Week: 12-18
World Kindness Week: 12-18 Link
International Restorative Justice Week: 13-19
International Restorative Justice Week: 13-19 Link
National Global Entrepreneurship Week: 13-19
National Global Entrepreneurship Week: 13-19 Link
American Education Week: 13-17 Link
National Farm-City Week: 17-23
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week: 17-23
National Farm-City Week: 17-23
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week: 17-23
Daily Observations
Apple Cider Day
European Antibiotic Awareness Day Link
Family Volunteer Day
Married To A Scorpio Support Day
Mickey Mouse Day
National Apple Cider Day Link
National Adoption Day Link
National Princess Day Link
National Survivors of Suicide Day Link
Occult Day
Push-button Phone Day
William Tell Day
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A
cold night, a chilly day.
I’m
busy getting ready for my Thanksgiving in Mexico. I leave on Saturday at 5:30am
on the shuttle. I’ll be busy most of tomorrow doing last minute stuff so this will
be my last posting until I return from Mexico. I’ll post again in the 29th
or 30th.
It
looks like Ukraine accidently shot those missiles into Poland. Accident or not,
Ukraine needs to compensate Poland for the loss of property and loss of life.
The idea that Russia is responsible because they started the war doesn’t fly
with me.
Nancy
Pelosi is ending her leadership role with this session; she will not run again
for a leadership position. She has done a good job during her long tenure as the
first female Speaker. After the attack on her husband, she deserves to enjoy time
with her family. She will continue as a Representative. What’s next for the
House…lots of changes for sure. Hopefully a new Democrat leader will be able to
carry on her legacy.
Favorite
Memes Honoring the NBA Phoenix Suns & the 22 Native Tribes in AZ
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Little
known Native American History
Popcorn has
long been associated with the movies, or in recent years, the microwave, but
although many of us may have wondered why popcorn pops, few of us have asked
where popcorn actually came from. The indigenous people of the Americas first
domesticated the strain of maize which produces popcorn thousands of years ago.
In fact, popcorn artifacts dating back to 6.700 years ago were discovered in
Peru. So the next time you grab a handful of your favorite snack, remember it's
not just Orville Redenbacher you should be thanking.
Interesting
comparison
The average household is worth $118,000.
Amazon founder Jeff Besos is worth about $172 billion. That’s like comparing…
Ë The size of a white blood cell to the size
of a finback whale.
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The height
of a piece of Toblerone chocolate to the height of Mount Everest.
Ë
The length
of a single adult stride to the distance from NY to KY.
Ë The volume of a quite library to the roar
of a (private) taking off.
Historical
Events
1307 – William Tell shot an apple off his
son’s head with an arrow.
1626 – St. Peter’s Basilica was
consecrated. Replaced the earlier Basilica, which was consecrated on this same
date in 326 AD.
1865 – Mark Twain’s short story The
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County was published in the New York
Saturday Press.
1872 – The first US patent (#133,188) for
an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals, called a
“calculating machine,” was issued to E.D. Barbour of Boston, Massachusetts.
1872 – American suffragette Susan B
Anthony was arrested after voting on the 5th of November in Rochester New York.
She was found guilty and never paid the $100 fine.
1878 – Soprano Marie Selika Williams
became the first Black artist to perform at the White House, Washington DC.
1883 – ‘Standard Time’ in the United
States went into effect at noon for the first time. Prior to this, towns across
the US set their own times by observing the position of the sun.
1902 – Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michtom
named the teddy bear he invented after US President Teddy Roosevelt. He founded
the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company in 1907.
1928 – Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse’s first
wide appearance in NY in Steamboat Willie. It seems that every time this is
brought up, someone points out that Walt Disney did the original voice, and he
did! Happy Birthday, Mickey Mouse!
1963 – The first push-button telephones
went into service.
1978 – Over 900 members of Jim Jones’
cult suicided, and several US representatives were killed in Jonestown, Guyana.
1993 – South Africa adopted its modern
constitution.
1993 – The North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) was approved by the US House.
1999 – 12 people were killed and 27
injured at Texas A&M University when a massive bonfire under construction
collapsed.
2013 – Wii U released, Video Game Console
2001 – GameCube released, Video Game
Console
2011 – Minecraft (video game) was
released
Birthdays
Today
@92 – Imogene Coca, American actress,
comedian, and singer (d. 2001)
83 – Brenda Vaccaro, American actress
@82 – George Gallup, American statistician
and academic (d. 1984)
82 – Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer
“It’s a feature of our age that if you write a
work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are
disguised biography, but if you write your biography, it’s equally assumed
you’re lying your head off.”– Margaret Atwood
80
– Linda Evans, American actress
@77 – Asa Gray, American botanist and academic (d. 1888)
@74 – Alan Shepard, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1998; leukemia)
69 – Katy Sagal, American actress
@66 – Johnny Mercer, Singer-Songwriter, co-founded
Capitol Records, (d. 1976; brain tumor)
@63 – Louis Daguerre, French physicist, and photographer, developed the
daguerreotype a father of photography, (d. 1851; heart attack)
62 – Elizabeth Perkins, American actress
61 – Steven Moffat, Scottish screenwriter, and producer (Doctor Who)
54 – Owen Wilson, American actor, producer, comedian, and screenwriter
52 –
Mike Epps, American comedian, actor, and producer
52 – Megyn Kelly, American lawyer, and journalist
“I was brought up in an environment to believe
that my opinion was important, that I had something to say, and that it was no
less powerful because I was young, a girl, at the time really unattractive,
definitely not the smartest kid in the class.”– Megyn Kelly
48
– Chloë Sevigny, American actress, and fashion designer
