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Richard C Gilbert’s Friday Blog

October 16, 2020 By Richard C. Gilbert

Friday, October 16th. Day 290 of 2020

It’s Dictionary Day. It’s painfully obvious, they’re neglected

1919: Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers’ Party

1923: The Walt Disney Company is founded

1928: Marvin Pipkin received a patent for the frosted electric light bulb

1964: China detonates its first nuclear weapon

1978: Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523

2000: It was announced that Chevron Corp. would be buying Texaco Inc. for $35 billion

In the News: Early Voting record set Thursday in Alexander County…9th COVID-19 associated death in Alexander County…Caldwell County D.A’s office closed after COVID result…Fire overnight in Ellendale Community…Taylorsville man charged with murder of mother makes court appearance…Alexander County woman held in jail…Another big drug bust in Iredell County

Weather: Fog early, mostly cloudy and cooler. Frost on the Pumpkin Saturday and Sunday morning

Sports: Braves erupt again, put Dodgers back to wall…Astros not dead yet…Cougars would have played at McDowell tonight…Busy Saturday in College Football…Panther head to Chicago…NASCAR will visit Dorothy this weekend

Happy Brithday: Angela Lansbury, Tim McCarver, Suzanne Somers, Tim Robbins, Wendy Wilson, John Mayer

Watching animals is good COVID therapy https://www.studyfinds.org/watching-nature-shows-can-cure-boredom-sadness/

Sweedish Yodllers spreading COVID-19 https://news.yahoo.com/finger-pointed-swiss-yodelling-superspreader-181201355.html

With the lack of human contact during the pandemic, would it help to bump (lightly) into each other’s cars in the Drive-Thru

Quote of the Day: “If an expert says it can’t be done, get another expert”…David Ben-Gurion (Born this day in 1886)

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