18 Aug

 

Week 34 Day 231 Flag Today  88°/58° Wind 7 mph Gusts mph Gentle Breeze Active Fire:  321 miles away Risk of fire: Moderate  Nearest Lightning: 45 miles away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Aug Averages: Temps: 79°\50° Moisture:  9 Days

Weekly Observations

12-18  Safe + Sound Week Link 14-9/2  Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Link

14-25   Little League World Series Link Link 18-24 Minority Enterprise Development Week National Aviation Week

Daily Observations

Bad Poetry Day   Link Birth Control Pills Day Fajita Day Ice Cream Pie Day International Delivery Rider Appreciation Day  (Food)

International Pinot Noir Day   Link Mail Order Catalog Day National Badge Ribbon Day National Fajita Day Serendipity Day World Helicopter Day  Link

Today’s Quote                                                       

 

I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar

 

Today’s Meme

 

Today’s Thoughts

Great day for a walk. So, I walked around the neighborhood. Then did the laundry.

I was taught to honor those who served in the military. I don’t always agree with Politicians decisions regarding war, but I still honor those who serve. I do not know, or have I ever agreed with Mr. Trump’s disgusting sentiments for those who have served. How can any true American vote for him to be Commander in Chief of our military.

 1978 was 46 years ago…

Popular Films

• Grease                                              Saturday Night Fever
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind       National Lampoon's Animal House
• Jaws 2                                                       Heaven Can Wait
• Revenge of the Pink Panther                   The Deer Hunter

Popular Musicians and songs

• Bee Gees with " Night Fever and Stayin Alive "    Paul McCartney & Wings
• John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John                 Rolling Stones
• Commodores with " Three Times a Lady "            Boomtown Rats

Popular TV Programs

• Happy Days                                      Little House on the Prairie
• The Rockford Files                            Good Morning America
• Saturday Night Live                          Wheel of Fortune
• Charlie's Angels                               Quincy, M.E.
• The Muppet Show                             CHiPs
• The Love Boat                                   Three's Company

Random Thoughts…

The cracking sound you hear from a whip is actually the whip breaking the speed of sound and creating a small sonic boom.

 In his 1225 essay on the nature of color (Du Luce/On Light), the English Bishop Robert Grosseteste described the birth of the Universe in an explosion and the crystallization of matter to form stars and planets in a set of nested spheres around Earth, seven centuries before the Big Bang theory.

 All gerbils in the US descend from 20 caught in Mongolia in 1935 for research purposes.

 Roman citizens who did not have land were deemed unfit for battle since they would not have something to protect.

 The Ouija board got its name after being asked what is should be called. When asked what it meant, the board allegedly replied, “good luck.”

 California has a larger GDP than any other country except for China, Japan, Germany, and the UK.

American History…

What was the Wild West really like?

Incorrect: Violent and lawless Correct: Pretty tame, actually

To take it from John Wayne and Butch Cassidy, the old West was an unpredictable free-for-all—just one region-wide, decades-long brawl. But Peter J. Hill, a senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center, puts the truth succinctly: "The violence of the [Wild] West is largely a myth." Even the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, perhaps the most storied shootout of the entire era, resulted in a relatively modest body count of three.

Historic Events

• 1872 – The first mail-order catalogs were published by Montgomery Ward. In 2000, the retail outlet was closed.
• 1920 – The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution granted women the right to vote.
• 1960 “The Pill” – birth control went on sale.

 

Birthdays

Madelaine Petsch, 30 TV Actress Andy Samberg, 46 TV Actor Christian Slater, 55 Movie Actor Edward Norton, 55 Movie Actor Robert Redford, 88 Movie Actor

@35 – Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician (died in 1809; suicide?) @71 – Marshall Field, American businessman, founded Marshall Field’s (died in 1906; pneumona) @91 – Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (died in 1996) @85 – Shelley Winters, American actress (died in 2006) @38 – Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (died in 1972; plane crash) @57 – Patrick Swayze, American actor, and dancer (died in 2009; cancer)

 

…The End for today…