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Sept , 2015 Week: 40 \ Day: 270
September
Averages: 74°\42°
86004
Today: H 78° \ L 43°
Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind
ave: 4mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave.
High: 71° Record High: 83°[1963]
Ave. Low: 38° Record Low: 23°[1900]
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Observances
Today:
Ancestor Appreciation Day
Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
Gold Star Mother's Day
Google's Birthday
World Tourism Day
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Saint
Vincent de Paul Feast Day
True
Cross Day (Ethiopia)
Observances
This Week:
19-27
International
Air Ambulance Week Link
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Quote
of the Day
US
Historical Highlights for Today
1779 - John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War
peace terms with Britain
1852 - George L Aiken's "Uncle Tom's
Cabin" premieres in Troy, NY
1855 - George F Bristow's "Rip Van
Winkle", 2nd American opera, opens in NYC
1864 - Jesse James' gang surprise attack train: 150
killed
1892 - Book matches are patented by Diamond Match
Company
1908 - Henry Ford's 1st Ford Model T automobile
leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan
1909 - US President Taft sets aside some
3 million acres of oil-rich public land (including Teapot Dome, Wyoming) for
conservation purposes
1916 - 1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring
American Indians
1929 -More than 200
horned toads were entered in a race sponsored by the Tucson Lions Club to raise
funds for the construction of a road to Mt. Lemmon. More than $2,000 was
collected.
1937 - 1st Santa Claus Training School opens
(Albion NY)
1940 - Black leaders protest discrimination in US
armed forces
1962 - Rachel Carson publishes 'Silent Spring'
about the deleterious impacts pesticide use in the US on the environment
1964 - Findings of the Warren Commission into the
assassination of President John Kennedy released, finds Lee Harvey
Oswald acted alone
1992 - ASPCA stops Santeria ceremony in Bronx halts
sacrifice of 42 animals
1998 - Google is launched.
2012 - The Mars Curiosity rover discovers what
evidence of a fast-moving streambed-in Mars
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by
Ignatius Loyola
1905 - The physics journal Annalen der Physik
publishes Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend
Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
1960 - Europe's 1st "moving pavement"
(travelator), opens at Bank station on the London Underground
1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the
capital city Kabul
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice fall day. Twice a year I wash my windows. Today I did the
upstairs. Nice to see out of them after the monsoon deposits. Tomorrow it’s the
downstairs windows.
Listening to NPR I got an earful of the horrible dialogue from the
Far Right on the Pope’s visit. I get Free Speech, but Free Lies has to be tolerated
too. Then I heard how the AP style guide now says to ‘those who disagree with
climate change scientists’ instead of ‘deniers’ or ‘sceptics’. It was an interesting
linguistic argument about using precise language. Language is a wonderful way
to communicate.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Which
is the odd one out?
Boundaries
Cancerous
Librarian
Scorpions
Chameleon
Keyboards
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese Seaman, sent a
message in a bottle in 1784 that his ship had wrecked. It washed up in 1935 in
the village where he was born.
Korean Okhwan Yoon left behind a profitable
business to cycle the world in aid of world peace. For over 9 years, he has
biked across 192 countries on six continents, and has survived 6 car accidents,
malaria, extreme temperatures, robbery, and kidnapping.
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*NEW*…Facebook
Fact…
Facebook pays at least $500 if you can find a
way to hack the site.
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…Harper’s
Index…
43, 18 –percentage
of Americans aged 18-31 with credit card and student-loan deby, respectively,
in 1989
36, 40 -Today
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
Laurakirar Copper Workshop Michoacan @laurakirar
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…Foreigners
Don’t Understand These American Customs…
9. Not being able to legally drink until 21.
OK, fine. You also can't drink until you're 21 in Fiji, Indonesia,
Micronesia, Palau, and Sri Lanka, too. But everywhere else, the drinking age is
much younger — or not enforced at all.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
At the Wife Carrying World Championships in Finland, first prize
is the wife’s weight in beer.
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2
jokes for the day
Q: How many Object Oriented programmers does
it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None, they send it a message, and it changes itself.
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You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up
to her and say, "I am very rich. Marry me!"
That's Direct Marketing.
You’re at a party with a bunch of friends and see a gorgeous girl. One of your
friends goes up to her and pointing at you and says, "He's very rich.
Marry him."
That's Advertising.
You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and get her telephone
number. The next day you call and say, "Hi, I’m very rich. Marry me."
That's Telemarketing.
You're at a party and see a gorgeous girl. You get up and straighten your tie;
you walk up to her and pour her a drink. You open the door for her; pick up her
bag after she drops it, offer her a ride, and then say, "By the way, I'm
very rich. Will you marry me?"
That's Public Relations.
You're at a party and see a gorgeous girl. She walks up to you and says,
"You are very rich."
That's Brand Recognition.
You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say, "I'm rich.
Marry me" She gives you a nice hard slap on your face.
That's Customer Feedback!!!!
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Yep,
It Really Happened
SANDUSKY,
Ohio - Taco Bell officials said an employee at an Ohio franchise was
fired after a viral photo on social media showed him with his hand down the
back of his pants. The picture, which was posted to Taco Bell's official
Facebook page by concerned customers, shows an employee at a Sandusky, Ohio,
location with his left hand down the back of his pants -- apparently inside his
underwear. The Erie County Health Department said officials visited the store
after a complaint about the photo was lodged with the department Monday. Taco
Bell released a statement in response to the controversial photo. "This is
completely unacceptable. Our franchisee took immediate action and has
terminated the employee and retrained the entire staff. We want customers to
know that the person in the photo was never in contact with the food, and that
the Health Department inspected the restaurant and approved its
operations." The company fired two Taco Bell workers in June of 2013 after
a viral photo emerged showing one of the employees licking a stack of taco
shells. The company said the shells were for training purposes and were not
served to customers.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Ouija
boards were widely regarded as "harmless parlor tricks" until famous
spiritualists began taking them seriously in World War I.
There are 13 words in the official Scrabble dictionary that are impossible to
play even using both blank tiles, including KNICKKNACK, PIZZAZZ, and
SENSELESSNESSES.
The first 5,000 copies of Settlers of Catan sold out so fast that inventor
Klaus Teuber doesn't have a copy of the first edition.
Two journalists invented Trivial Pursuit in 45 minutes after being shocked at
the price of a Scrabble set.
Yahtzee was invented by a wealthy Canadian couple who liked to play the game on
their Yacht. The probability of rolling a Yahtzee in one roll is 1 in 1296. The
chances of doing it in all 13 rounds of a normal game are 1 in 29 duodecillion
- A 41 decimal-long number.
The longest Monopoly game ever went on for 70 straight days. Parker Brothers
once sent a group of players who had run out of money during a 161-hour
marathon game extra cash by plane and an armored car.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(95) - Jayne Meadows, Wu Chang China, Mrs
Steve Allen, actress d.2015
(85) - George Cruikshank, caricaturist (Oliver
Twist) d.1878
(85) - William T. Orr, American television
producer (Cheyenne) d. 2002
(81) - Samuel Adams, US revolutionary and politician
(Lt Gov-Mass) d.1803
81 – Kathleen Nolan,
St Louis Mo, actress (Real McCoys, Janie, Broadside)
(80) - Harry Blackstone, Sr., American
magician d. 1965
76 - Kathy Whitworth, golfer (7 time LPGA
Player of Year)
(73) - Hiram R. Revels, Politician, 1st
African American US senator d.1901
(73) - William Conrad, Louisville Ky, actor
(Bullwinkle Show, Cannon) d.1994
72 - Randy Bachman, Winnipeg, rocker
(Bachman-Turner Overdrive-Roll On)
68 - Meat Loaf, [Marvin Lee Aday], Dallas,
rocker (Bat Out of Hell)
67 - A Martinez, Glendale, California,
American actor (L.A. Law, Santa Barbara)
(62) - Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of
late 1800s America d.1902
57 - Shaun Cassidy, American actor/singer
(Hardy Boys, Breaking Away)
(53) - Will Sampson, Creek actor (d. 1987)
43 - Gwyneth Paltrow, actress (Pallbearer,
Emma, Hard Eight)
33 - Lil Wayne, American rapper
31 - Avril Lavigne, Belleville Ontario,
Canadian singer-songwriter
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Historical
Obits Today
James ‘Jimmy’ Doolittle,
US air force general (Tokyo 1942)-1993@96
Lloyd
Nolan, actor (Dr Chegley-Julia)-1985@83
Edgar H G
Degas, French impressionist artist (ballerina)-1917@83
William
Safire, American Columnist, cancer-2009@79
Aimee
Semple McPherson, Canada/US evangelist/faith healer, OD-1944@53
Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, suicide-1870@50
Babe
Didrikson-Zaharias, Hall of Fame athlete, colon cancer-1956@45
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Brain
Teasers Answers
"Keyboards". All the other words contain names from the
12 signs of the zodiac: bound-Aries, Cancer-ous, Libra-rian, Scorpio-ns,
chame-Leo-n
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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.
▲…And That Is All
for Now…▲
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