And here is the Wannaskan Almanac for Word-Wednesday, July 18, 2018, brought to you by the Roseau County Fair, Make fair week, vacation week; https://roseaucountyfair.com/
July 18th Fair Schedule
- 10:30am: Open Horse Driving Class Judging
- 2pm: Midway Opens
- 2pm: Pig Races
- 2pm: Xtreme Ball Opens (south of Midway)
- 3:00pm: Open Class Beef Judging
- 3:00 pm: Mounted Shooting Demo – Horse Arena
- 3:30 pm: Open Class Sheep and Market Goat Judging
- 4:00 pm: Pig Races
- 4-6pm: Kids Power Wheels Preliminary Round (near Soybean Pit)
- >No pre-registration required and NO need to bring a car. Please bring HELMET if possible. If your child would like to participate simply attend one of the preliminary Derby Days!
- 6:00 pm: Pig Races
- 7:00 pm: Grandstand – Wojo’s Rodeo – $15
July 18 is the 199th day of the year, with 166 days remaining until the end of the year, and 257 days remaining until April Fools Day.
Earth/Moon Almanac for July 18, 2018
Sunrise: 5:40am; Sunset: 9:20pm
Moonrise: 12:33pm; Moonset: 12:15am, waxing crescent
Temperature Almanac for July 18, 2018
Average Record Today
High 79 99 85
Low 55 34 63
July 18 Celebrations from National Day Calendar
Earth/Moon Almanac for July 18, 2018
Sunrise: 5:40am; Sunset: 9:20pm
Moonrise: 12:33pm; Moonset: 12:15am, waxing crescent
Temperature Almanac for July 18, 2018
Average Record Today
High 79 99 85
Low 55 34 63
July 18 Celebrations from National Day Calendar
- National Sour Candy Day
- National Caviar Day
July 18 Notable historic events, literary or otherwise, from On This Day
- 64 Nero set fire to Rome
- 1743 1st half-page newspaper ad is published
- 1870 Pontifical infallibility proclaimed
- 1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrived in Ireland, after flying from New York for California
- 1962 Minnesota Twins Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in 1st inn & Harmon Killebrew connect in a club-record, 11-run 1st inning
- 1966 Carl Sagan turned 1 billion seconds old
July 18 author/artist birthdays, from On This Day
- 1811 William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
- 1918 Nelson Mandela
- 1937 Hunter S. Thompson
Words I looked up this week: agentic, anteambulo, artilect, boation, bodega, daven, defeasible, fluonomist, hebetude, lampshade, mishpacha, monger, probative, ressentiment, revanchist, williness
Today's edition of Wannaskan Almanac Word-Wednesday explores words that have no rhyme. I think there are 12 such words in English. Also serving as the Word Wednesday riddle, see if you can identify all twelve in the following English translation of the narrated prelude with libretto to the famous Czech opera, Svatý Překladatelé, by Josef Mysliveček.
T'was the sixth day in the month of July, in the year of our Lord, 853, when Saints Cyril and Methodius, Byzantine brothers, took the last tandem step of an epic marathon in devising their magnum opus - the Glagolitic alphabet - the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic. Parched, exhausted, and discombobulated, Cyril wobbled to the sacristy under the bright orange full moon, and he returned with a smile and the pure silver chalice in hand.
"Oops!" he said turning purple with self reproach. "I forgot the wine!" Methodius offered to retrieve the libation, but the wine was nowhere to be found! Methodius was beside himself with anger toward that tippling parish priest who left not a pint. "Theoktistos! You thief! You should find a gold piece on the sidewalk and be so arthritic you can't pick it up!"
At that moment, a wolf did howl a lonesome wail, joined by a second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth. "A most dangerous evening!" whispered Cyril. "We dare not venture forth!"
Suddenly, a shadowy figure emerged from the sacristy door. "Holy Wannaska!" gasped Methodius, "Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutawakkil himself!"
From A Year with Rilke, July 18 entry
Sometimes a Man from The Book of Hours II, 19
Sometimes a man rises from the supper table
and goes outside. And he keeps going
because somewhere to the east there's a church.
His children bless his name as if he were dead.
Another man stays at home until he dies,
stays with plates and glasses.
So then it is his children who go out
into the world, seeking the church that he forgot.
Be better than yesterday, learn a new word today, and to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow.
Today's edition of Wannaskan Almanac Word-Wednesday explores words that have no rhyme. I think there are 12 such words in English. Also serving as the Word Wednesday riddle, see if you can identify all twelve in the following English translation of the narrated prelude with libretto to the famous Czech opera, Svatý Překladatelé, by Josef Mysliveček.
T'was the sixth day in the month of July, in the year of our Lord, 853, when Saints Cyril and Methodius, Byzantine brothers, took the last tandem step of an epic marathon in devising their magnum opus - the Glagolitic alphabet - the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic. Parched, exhausted, and discombobulated, Cyril wobbled to the sacristy under the bright orange full moon, and he returned with a smile and the pure silver chalice in hand.
"Oops!" he said turning purple with self reproach. "I forgot the wine!" Methodius offered to retrieve the libation, but the wine was nowhere to be found! Methodius was beside himself with anger toward that tippling parish priest who left not a pint. "Theoktistos! You thief! You should find a gold piece on the sidewalk and be so arthritic you can't pick it up!"
At that moment, a wolf did howl a lonesome wail, joined by a second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth. "A most dangerous evening!" whispered Cyril. "We dare not venture forth!"
Suddenly, a shadowy figure emerged from the sacristy door. "Holy Wannaska!" gasped Methodius, "Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutawakkil himself!"
From A Year with Rilke, July 18 entry
Sometimes a Man from The Book of Hours II, 19
Sometimes a man rises from the supper table
and goes outside. And he keeps going
because somewhere to the east there's a church.
His children bless his name as if he were dead.
Another man stays at home until he dies,
stays with plates and glasses.
So then it is his children who go out
into the world, seeking the church that he forgot.
Be better than yesterday, learn a new word today, and to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow.
Thanks for the update on how long until April fools day!
ReplyDeleteAye, you're off your medication, I see. Baching it again, are we? Someone off to Delaware? You alone in the Big Woods? I laughed aloud at, "Suddenly, a shadowy figure emerged from the sacristy door. "Holy Wannaska!" gasped Methodius, "Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutawakkil himself!" Hooyah! A good one, methinks. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteSomeone is so busy packing that she doesn't have time to see what I'm writing - on the road to her 50th in fabulous Marshfield, Wisconsin tomorrow with the service dog. Děkujeme za vaše laskavá slova.
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