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Sept 28, 2015 Week: 40 \ Day: 271
September
Averages: 74°\42°
86004
Today: H 79° \ L 46°
Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 18mph
Ave.
High: 70° Record High: 82°[1963]
Ave. Low: 38° Record Low: 21°[1900]
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Observances
Today:
Family Day - Be Involved. Stay Involved
Fish Tank Floorshow Night
International Right To
Know Day Link
National Drink Beer Day Link
National
Women's Health and Fitness Day
World Heart Day Link
World Rabies Day
Birthday
of Confucius/Teacher's Day (Taiwan)
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1701 - Divorce legalized in Maryland, USA
1781 - 9,000 American forces & 7,000 French
forces begin siege of Yorktown
1787 - Congress sends Constitution to state
legislatures for their approval
1867 - The United States takes control of Midway
Island
1932 - Then-governor
Franklin Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor received an enthusiastic welcome at the
ranch of Jack and Isabella Greenway in Williams, Arizona
1949 - "My Friend Irma" is 1st of 12
films starring Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
1967 - Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of
Washington, D.C.
1968 - Janis Joplin announces she's leaving
"Big Brother & Holding Co"
1997 - Newscaster David Brinkley, 74, retires after
54 years in broadcasting
2008 - SpaceX launches the first ever private
spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1687 - Venetians take Athens from the Turks
1785 - Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from
the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)
1867 - Toronto becomes capital of Ontario
1923 - Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations
1931 - Peking (200,000 demonstrators demand
declaration of war on Japan)
1962 - Alouette (Canada), 1st Canadian satellite,
launched
1986 - Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico
City)
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful day…downstairs windows all clean.
Sunday news shows kept getting interrupted by ‘breaking news’ as
the Pope was a busy pontiff today. Breaking News-Pope leaves overnight
residence to head for ‘x’ then after about 10 minutes, back to regular
programing. Then Pope arrives at ‘x’. Anyway, did hear a few good stories. One
was an interview with the President of Iraq. When asked what his country
thought of the Republican response to the Nuclear deal. He said that the
Republicans hadn’t read the deal that was an International deal put together by
numerous countries. He went on to say that most of his countrymen found the US
debate good entertainment and hilarious.
Good day all around.
Cards had a nice win and Broncos are on TV tonight. Nice!
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Below
are ten clues, each of which relates to the first line of a different Christmas
carol or song. Unlike the title of the teaser, these clues only have the first
letters of each of the words.
Can you figure out what songs they are?
1. CROAOF
2. IDOAWC
3. RTRNRHAVSN
4. GGROBAR
5. IHABCWY
6. ISMKSC
7. OTFDOCMTLGTM
8. FTSWAJHS
9. IBMBOJHSSOM
10. JBJBJBR
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
Scientists are working on a portable
spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes. The spray
mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to
become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were
able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar
approach.
MDIF, a New York based non-profit organization,
is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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…Facebook
Fact…
A woman in Britain was sentenced to 20 months
in jail for creating fake Facebook profiles and trolling herself.
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…Harper’s
Index…
+1 – percentage
change since 1992 in the portion of jobs in the US that require no High School
diploma
-12 – that require
a high school diploma but no further degree
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto @ladzinski / Gentle waves rolling onto the pebbly
shores of the glacially carved #StMarysLake in #GlacierNationalPark. A smoke
filled sky from a nearby fire illuminates the atmosphere in a rusty red
amplifying the already painted feel of the evening. St Mary's lake is the
second largest in the park.
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
1. In Spain:
People in Spain believe that Tuesday the 13th and not Friday the
13th is an unlucky day. Tuesday, which is "Martes" in Spanish, is
derived from mars, which in the Middle Ages was called "little evil"
(via Europe's Not Dead)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
It is much less likely for a woman to be red-green colorblind than
a man. This is because in order for a woman to be red-green colorblind, both of
her X chromosomes would have to be affected. Because a man only has one X
chromosome, he is more likely to be colorblind.
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2
jokes for the day
Did you hear about the classical pianist who
was not a good speller?
When she went out to buy something she left a sign on her door that said:
"Out Chopin. Be Bach in a minuet"
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The fellow walked into a bar he had never been
in before and ordered a drink.
He then asked the bartender if he enjoyed dumb-jock jokes.
The beefy attendant leaned over the bar and fixed a withering glare on his customer.
"Listen, buddy," he growled. "See those two big guys on the
left? They're professional football players. And that huge fellow on your right
is a world-class wrestler. That guy in the corner is a champion weight-lifter.
And I lettered in three sports at Notre Dame. Now," he continued,
"are you absolutely positive you want to go ahead and tell your dumb-jock
joke here?"
"Nah, I guess not," the man replied. "I wouldn't want to have to
explain it five times."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
BALTIMORE - A
Delta plane was grounded overnight in Baltimore when a tarantula escaped from
its container in the cargo hold and was spotted by baggage handlers. Delta
spokesman Brian Kruse said Atlanta-bound Flight 1525 was scheduled to take off
from Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, but the pilot decided to ground the plane after baggage handlers
discovered the loose arachnid in the cargo hold. Kruse said the pilot wanted to
ensure the baboon tarantula was the only one loose on the plane. "They
were able to capture it, and they contacted the handler" to ensure there
hadn't been any other tarantulas in the same cage, Kruse told the Baltimore
Sun. "We have to make the safe decision on that -- being bitten by a
tarantula is not a good thing," CNN quoted the pilot as saying. The
passengers were moved to another aircraft, which departed about three hours
behind schedule. A passenger told WRDW-TV a flight crew member told him there
were a total 750 tarantulas on board the plane and most of them had gotten
loose, but Kruse said only the one spider was ever free and it never left the
cargo hold.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
According
to the Guinness Book of World Records, "Happy Birthday to You" is the
most-recognized and popular song in the English language, followed by "For
He's a Jolly Good Fellow".
"Happy Birthday to You" is has been translated into at least 18
different languages, including Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, French,
German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Mandarin
Chinese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Tagalog.
The most famous rendition of "Happy Birthday to You" may have been by
Marilyn Monroe, who steamily sung the song to President John F. Kennedy for
this forty-fifth birthday in 1962. It was one of the last public appearances by
Monroe before her death.
The song "Happy Birthday to You" dates back to 1893, but was
originally called "Good Morning to You" and was written by two
sisters living in Kentucky, Mildred and Patti Smith Hill. The melody to
"Good Morning" is the same melody we use today, but its copyright
expired in 1949.
On August 31st of this year, a librarian at the University of Louisville's
Dwight Anderson Memorial Music Library discovered the oldest known manuscript
of the song. The "Good Morning to You" sheet music was part of a
songbook titled, "Song Stories for the Kindergarten," donated to the
library in the 1950s. It was discovered by the librarian, James Procell, while
digging through a dusty filing cabinet.
It is estimated that Warner/Chappell drew $2 million in annual earnings from
"Happy Birthday to You," largely from visual productions like films
and TV shows and public performances (like concerts).
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(88) - William Windom, actor (Farmer's
Daughter, Murder She Wrote) d.2012
(87) - Avery Brundage, CEO (Intl Olympic
Committee, 1952-72) d.1975
81 - Brigitte Bardot, Paris France, sex
kitten (And God Created Women)
(77) - Alice Marble, tennis player (US Open
1936, 1938-40) d.1990
(76) - Ben E. King [Benjamin Earl Nelson], soul
singer (Stand by Me) d.2015
(73) - Ed
Sullivan, TV variety show host/gossip columnist d.1974
(73) - Thomas Crapper, English plumber and
inventor (ballcock) d.1910
(71) - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (founder
of Confucianism), d. 479 BC
(70) - Al Capp, [Alfred Gerald Caplin], cartoonist
(Li'l Abner) d.1979
69 - Jeffrey Jones, American actor
(Beetlejuice, Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
(66) - Kate Douglas Wiggins, author (Rebecca
of Sunnybrook Farm) d.1923
(60) - Peter Finch, actor (Network, Windom's
Way, Raid on Entebbe) d.1977
51 - Janeane Garofalo, NJ, comedienne (SNL,
Truth about Cats & Dogs)
47 - Naomi Watts,
Actress
38 - Se Ri Pak, Korean golfer
28 - Hilary Duff, actress and singer (Lizzie
McGuire)
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Historical
Obits Today
Althea
Gibson, American tennis player-2003@76
Harpo [Arthur]
Marx, comedian (Marx Bros), heart
attack-1964@75
Herman
Melville, writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), heart attack-1891@72
Louis
Pasteur, French bacteriologist (Pasteurization), stroke-1895@72
Ferdinand
Marcos, President of Philippines, kidney failure-1989@72
Pope John
Paul I [Albino Luciani], 263rd Pope, ( 33 days as pope), heart
attack-1978@65
Miles
Davis, jazz trumpeter, pneumonia-1991@65
Edwin
Hubble, astronomer, 1st to announce existence of other galaxies, heart
attack-1953@63
Eric
Fleming, actor (Gil-Rawhide), drpwmed-1966@41
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. A Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...)
2. White Christmas (I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...)
3. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, had a very
shiny nose...)
4. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer (Grandma got run over by a reindeer...)
5. Blue Christmas (I'll have a blue Christmas without you...)
6. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus...)
7. The 12 Days of Christmas (On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave
to me...)
8. Frosty, the Snowman (Frosty, the snowman, was a jolly, happy soul...)
9. I'm Gettin' Nothin' for Christmas (I broke my bat on Johnny's head, somebody
snitched on me...)
10. Jingle Bell Rock (Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock...)
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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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