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Sept 23, 2015
Week: 39 \ Day: 266
September
Averages: 74°\42°
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Today: H 67° \ L 52°
Average Sky Cover: 95%
Wind
ave: 2mph\Gusts: 15mph
Ave.
High: 72° Record High: 86°[1944]
Ave. Low: 39° Record Low: 25°[1970]
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Observances
Today:
Celebrate Bi-sexuality Day
Fall (Autumn) Equinox (4:21 am)
Hug a Vegetarian Day
Love
Note Day
National Rehabilitation Day
Restless Legs Awareness Day
Mabon
(Wiccan)
Kingdom
Unification (Saudi Arabia-1902; completed 1932)
Observances
This Week:
17-23
Constitution
Week
Hummingbird
Celebration Link
19-27
International
Air Ambulance Week Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1642 - Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st
commencement
1806 - Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from
Pacific Northwest
1839
- The Cherokee Nation's
Supreme Court is established.
1879 - Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called
the Audiophone
1897 - 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene
Wyoming)
1927 - Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh arrived in Tucson in his plane "The Spirit of St. Louis" to
dedicate the Tucson Municipal Airport.
1942 - The 'Manhattan Project' commences, under the
direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim - to deliver an atomic bomb.
1952 - Richard Nixon makes his
"Checker's" speech
1961 - 1st movie to become a TV series-How to Marry
a Millionaire
1962 - ABC's 1st color TV series - The Jetsons
1962 - NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery
Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts
1964 - "Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero
Mostel premieres in NYC
1969 - "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid" premieres
2012 - Scientists discover four genetically
distinct types of breast cancer
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, 1st major battle of
the English Wars of the Roses
1519 - Hernán
Cortés and his army arrive at the gates to the Mexican city of Tlascala. A large
crowd turns out to the the Spaniards.
1889 - Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company,
Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card
game Hanafuda.
1908 - University of Alberta opens
1913 - Women protests take place in the Free State,
South Africa, led by Charlotte Maxeke, resisting government attempts to impose
passes on women; passes are burnt in front of the municipal offices
1971 - 2 members of the Official Irish Republican
Army are killed in a premature bomb explosion
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Rainy day to end the summer season…not complaining at all.
Stopped at the dentist’s office to figure out that bill. Quite the
bad billing program they seem to have. Took almost an hour for the new billing
lady/receptionist to figure out what to do to zero out my bill. By my insane
memory of each transaction with the old billing lady, the new lady was just
shaking her head. At the end, we reached a good agreement on what I owed, I
paid it, and she said, ‘I can’t believe how calm you remained during this
fiasco. Thanks for that’
So the Pope is here in America. Nice to watch the CNN coverage. I’m
not Catholic, but nice to see a man of peace on our shores.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
She
so peaceful, yet causes fear
Him so bright and full of cheer
She rests the body, he wakes the soul
Him so light, she black as coal
Her with mole and tiny bright freckles
He covers us with tiny tear speckles
She hides us, he beams with pride
He her husband, she his bride
He in bright silk, her all in velvet
A yin-yang marriage as they tell it
Two lovers who meet but twice a day
When he must go, she need stay
Now I ask you, who are they?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
In order to enhance the taste, Japanese
macaque wash their food in salt water before they eat. They also make snowballs
for fun!
Sir Ranulph Fiennes, after having a heart
attack and bypass operation, ran 7 marathons on 7 consecutive days in 7
continents. He has also hacked off his own frostbitten fingers with a power
tool, discovered the lost city of Ubar, and, in his sixties, reached the peak
of Mt. Everest.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
Returns soon.
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…Harper’s
Index…
Returns soon
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @paleyphoto (Matthieu Paley). The strength of a
family can help overcome big challenges. A father and daughter embrace – both
refugees on a ferryboat from Lesbos Island to Athens. In the background, a newlywed
couple and their 1-month old baby, born on the road while crossing Turkey.
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…Foreigners
Don’t Understand These American Customs…
5. We spend so much money to go to college.
According to the College Board, the average cost for the
2014-2015 academic year at an in-state public college is $23,410, while a
private school cost $46,272. And we're not talking about Harvard University,
where it costs $60,659 a year. Well, compare that to £9,000 (or $13,903) for a
year at Oxford University, which is basically England's Harvard. And in Sweden,
Germany, and France, college is free or practically free.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Don't let the name fool you: Joyce Hall, who made millions
developing the Hallmark brand name, was a man.
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2
jokes for the day
Did you hear about the farmer who wanted to
buy a thousand hens, but didn't have the money...so...
He put them on a layaway plan!
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Mr. Smith and his son Rick were called to Mrs.
Liventhal's classroom.
"Mr. Smith," said the teacher, "I asked Rick 'Who shot Abraham
Lincoln?' and he said that he didn't do it!"
"Well teacher" said Smith, "if my kid said he didn't do it
-- he didn't do it!"
Father and son left the school, and on their way home, Smith turned to the boy
and asked, "Tell me son, did you do it?"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Jacksonville,
FL –according to witness questioned by the Sheriff’s Office (on the
scene after shots had been reported at Murphy’s express Gas station), one
customer had fired at another, hitting him in the foot, because he felt that
the customer was staring at him while he pumped gas
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Somewhat
Useless Information—from Goodfellas movie
1. Scorsese’s
final shot says it all.
The last thing we see in Goodfellas is Tommy firing a gun at the camera. It’s
an homage to The Great Train Robbery (1903), one of the earliest examples of
film technique at work, which ends with a similar shot. Scorsese wanted to end
Goodfellas by circling back to the beginning of the medium.
2. The
Copacabana tracking shot wasn’t planned.
One of the most famous “oners” or tracking shots in movie history—the sequence
that begins on the street and follows Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) and his new
girlfriend, Karen (Lorraine Bracco), as they enter through the Copacabana service
entrance—was improvised on set.
3. Al
Pacino was almost in the movie.
Pacino was offered the role of Jimmy Conway, but was hesitant to accept because
of his history making gangster movies (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II,
Scarface, and Godfather III).
4. Scorsese
wanted Goodfellas to feel like a movie trailer.
From the director: “To begin Goodfellas like a gunshot and have it get faster
from there, almost like a two-and-a-half-hour trailer. I think it’s the only
way you can really sense the exhilaration of the lifestyle, and to get a sense
of why a lot of people are attracted to it.”
5. Robert
De Niro took his method to insane detail.
De Niro, who is well known as an obsessive method actor, wanted to know
everything about Jimmy Burke, the man Jimmy Conway is based on.
6. The
“funny how?” scene really happened to Joe Pesci and was improvised.
In rehearsals, Scorsese allowed his actors to improv and do whatever they
wanted with certain scenes. He made transcripts and kept what he liked for the
movie.
7. Goodfellas
is film history.
Scorsese blends many genres, from Italian Neo-Realism (using non-actors) to
French New Wave (freeze frames, voiceover) to create the film’s incredible
style.
8. The
non-actors are just as memorable as the real ones.
In addition to the inclusion of real gangsters, great faces like Tony Lip
(Frankie the Wop), Anthony Powers (Jimmy Two-Times), and real-life figures Ed
McDonald (who prosecuted the real Henry Hill), Robbie Vinton (who plays his
famous father Bobby), and legendary comedian Henny Youngman, the director also
cast his parents, Charles and Catherine Scorsese, as he had done in Raging
Bull.
9. The
producers wanted Tom Cruise and Madonna in the movie.
Early stages of production on Goodfellas were frought with creative peril
thanks to know-nothing producers at Warner Brothers.
10. The
costume design was exact.
Scorsese was so enveloped in creating the world of Goodfellas, he took a
hands-on approach with everything, including the costumes.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(93) - Mickey Rooney, American actor, (d. 2014)
(85) - Walter Lippmann, journalist/political
writer (Public Opinion) d.1974
(78) - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire d.
1294
(74) - Euripides, Salamís, Greek playwright
(Medea) d. 406 BC
(73) - Ray Charles [Robinson], singer/pianist(Georgia
on My Mind) d. 2004
(72) - William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey
Readers) d.1873
72 - Julio Iglesias, Spain, singer (Of All
the Girls I Loved Before)
70 - Paul Petersen, Glendale California,
actor (Jeff Stone-Donna Reed Show)
(69) - Mary Mallon, Irish-American patient
best known as 'Typhoid Mary' and the 1st person in the US known to be
immune to typhoid, as a carrier of the disease she infected at least 51 people
in the NYC area d.1938
68 - Mary Kay Place, actress/country singer
(Mary Hartman!)
66 - Bruce Springsteen, [Boss], Asbury NJ,
rock musician (Born in the USA)
56 - Jason Alexander, [Greenspan], Newark
NJ, actor (George-Seinfeld)
(40) - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor d. 14
(40) - John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist (Round
Midnight) d.1967
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Historical
Obits Today
Sigmund
Freud, Austrian neurologist\creator of psychoanalysis-1939@83
Chief Dan
George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation actor (Little Big Man)-1981@82
Cliff
Arquette, comedian (Charlie Weaver), stroke-1974@68
Bob Fosse,
choreographer (All the Jazz), heart attack-1987@60
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Day and night.
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or
disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually
checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains
mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it
and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the
Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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