Daily Calendar for Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Does it snow a lot in the Antarctic?

Oddly enough, the Antarctic is considered one of the driest places on Earth. It gets only an inch or two of snow each year, making it more or less a desert. Those two inches a year, however, have been piling up for centuries, and the snow cover there is thought to be about two miles deep, making it a glacier.

Calm heartburn with kiwi or papaya.

To help prevent a ring in the tub, add a few drops of baby oil to your bathwater.

Hail

Hail falls mainly in the summer. It forms in thunderstorm clouds, which can extend high into the atmoshpere where extremely cold temperatures prevail. When a cloud releases rain, the rain can be forced upward, where it freezes into tiny ice pellets. If updrafts keep buffeting the pellets, layer upon layer of frozen water will be added to the pellets until, finally, hailstones are released.

What do men never wish to be in and yet labor hard to possess?

Bonds

Born

Gilbert Stuart (portrait painter) – 1755
Cleveland Abbe (meteorologist, known as Old Probabilities) – 1838
Bobby Allison (race car driver) – 1937
Ozzy Osbourne (singer) – 1948
Daryl Hannah (actress) – 1960
Brendan Fraser (actor) – 1968

Died

Madeline Kahn (actress) – 1999
Henry Chauncey (founded the Educational Testing Service, whose SAT is used by thousands of colleges and universities) – 2002
David Hemmings (actor) – 2003

Events

Illinois was admitted to the Union as the 21st state– 1818
Andrew Jackson was elected President of the United States– 1828
Oberlin College, the first college to admit women (first coeducational college), founded in Oberlin, Ohio. First named Oberlin Collegiate Institute– 1833
Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann are the first Europeans to see Mt. Kenya– 1849
Quebec Bridge opened to rail traffic, Quebec City– 1917
George Gershwin, the young American composer, appeared as a soloist at a concert in Carnegie Hall, N.Y.C., playing his Concerto in F, the first jazz concerto for the piano in musical history– 1925
Eleanor Roosevelt, Mayor La Guardia, and Governor Lehman dedicate the New Deal’s first low cost housing project in NYC– 1935
Discovery of the “Pumpkin Papers” secret documents was announced– 1948
Annette Toft was two millionth immigrant to Canada since WWII ended– 1960
Commonwealth Pacific Cable (COMPAC) opened– 1963
Final run of luxury train 20th Century Limited finished– 1967
Pioneer 10, U.S. unmanned spacecraft, reached its closest approach to Jupiter, 21 months after its launch– 1973
Jupiter flyby of Pioneer 11 spacecraft– 1974
Polar bear cub born, Toledo Zoo, Ohio– 2009

��

A storm raged in Denver, Colorado, and eventually left 45.7 inches of snow, smashing a previous record– 1913
Providence, Rhode Island, had a record high of 66 degrees F– 2009
Boston, Massachusetts, had a temperature of 69 degrees F, breaking the old record of 65 degrees F for this date– 2009
Concord, New Hampshire, set a record at 65 degrees F– 2009
In Portland, Maine, the temperature reached 68 degrees F, beating the old record high of 55 for this date– 2009

��