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Week 13 Day 91 Flag Today 59°/31° Wind 24mph Gusts 11mph Active Fire: 251 miles away Risk of fire: Very Low Nearest Lightning: 1881 miles away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Windy Mar. Averages: Temps: 53°\23° Moisture: 6 Days |
Weekly Observations
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11-4/8 Ramadan |
National Farm Workers Awareness Week Link |
Daily Observations
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Anesthesia Tech Day Link |
Oranges and Lemons Day |
Today’s Quote Today’s Meme
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." — Oscar Wilde |
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Today’s Thoughts
It’s a windy day,
with snow expected late tonight. Out like a lion for sure. A winter storm
warning is in effect with 2-4” of snow expected.
Busy week at my
brother’s hacienda. They rescued 9 puppies and by Friday, 5 had been adopted.
Very cool.
Baltimore bridge
collapse will be in clean-up mode for quite a while. Safety is the key issue.
It is hard to imagine how difficult it will be in the cold, rough waters of
March.
Terms with origins in rural America
Upper
hand
The
phrase "upper hand" comes from determining which team bats first in
playground baseball games. Opposing team captains would grasp a bat, starting
at the bottom, and alternate their hands until reaching the top. The player
holding the bat at the top had the upper hand.
Native Cultures
Quite
A Few English Words Originated From Native American Language
You
have likely used quite a few different words that have roots in the Native
American culture and language. For instance, the terms "tomahawk",
"moccasin", "skunk" and "pecan" all derive from
the Algonquian language.
Even
the word "tobacco" was first introduced to the English through the
indigenous people of the Caribbean. This is just another example of the lasting
integration of diverse cultures that most American citizens still do not fully
grasp without doing the research for themselves.
Historical Myths many believe…
The
Mummies of Ancient Egypt Were Cursed
The
idea that disturbing the tombs of ancient Egypt brought misfortune is entirely
false. When archaeologists opened King Tut’s tomb in 1922, several excavators
and even the team’s benefactor, Lord Craven, died shortly afterward. This was
due to coincidence and the stagnant, undisturbed air in the tomb, which
contained molds and bacteria new to modern times.
Historic Events
Ë 1492 – Queen
Isabella of Castile issued The Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and
Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
Ë 1889 – Eiffel Tower was dedicated, opening later that year.
o The Eiffel Tower was the
centerpiece for the Paris World’s Fair in 1889.
o The four corners are
pointed North, South, East and West
o It is the most
photographed object on Instagram
o They discovered Cosmic
Rays at the Eiffel Tower.
o Today it has 8 elevators
and two restaurants
o They still have a post
office, near the gift shop, with its own special postmark!
o They paint it every few
years, in 2018, they used 60 Tons of paint.
o At 986 feet, the Eiffel
Tower was nearly double the height of the world’s previous tallest structure,
the 555-foot Washington Monument.
It held the title until the 1,046-foot Chrysler Building was built in New York
in 1930.
o
The lights on the tower were put up in 1985,
and they are copyrighted.
Under European Copyright Law, people can’t sell or publish photographs of the
tower,
or even post them on social media without permission.
Ë 1918 – Daylight
saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
Ë 1992 – The USS
Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, was decommissioned in
Long Beach, California.
Birthdays with some quotes
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90 – Richard Chamberlain,
American actor 90 – Shirley Jones,
American actress and singer 89 – Herb Alpert,
American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer 85 – Walter E. Williams,
American economist and academic (d. 2020) “Prior to capitalism, the
way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving
their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving
your fellow man.” 81 – Christopher Walken,
American actor “I got a fever, and the
only prescription is more cowbell.” 76 – Al Gore, American
politician, 45th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Prize laureate 76 – Rhea Perlman,
American actress 69 – Angus Young,
Scottish-Australian guitarist and songwriter, AC/DC “The best AC/DC cover
I’ve heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell’s Belles.” 52 – Ewan McGregor,
Scottish-Australian movie actor |
@88 – Gordie Howe,
Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2016) @78 – Liz Claiborne,
Belgian-American fashion designer, founded Liz Claiborne Inc. (d. 2007; rare
cancer) @77 – Joseph Haydn,
Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1809; arteriosclerosis) @68 – Jack Johnson,
American boxer (d. 1946; car crash) @66 – Cesar Chavez,
American labor union leader and activist (d. 1993; natural causes) “When the man who feeds
the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of
feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of
man is sick.” @53 – René Descartes,
French mathematician, philosopher (d. 1650; pleurisy) “We do not describe the
world we see, we see the world we can describe.” |
…The End for today…
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