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Sept 19, 2015
Almanac:
Week: 38 \ Day: 262
September
Averages: 74°\42°
86004
Today: H 75° \ L 41° Average
Sky Cover: 2%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 18mph
Ave.
High: 72° Record High: 84°[1956]
Ave. Low: 41° Record Low: 25°[1971]
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Observances
Today:
Big Whopper
Liar DayLink
Fall Astronomy Day
International Eat An Apple Day
International Coastal Cleanup Day
International Women's Ecommerce Day
National Gymnastics Day Link
National
Seatcheck Saturday 2015
National Woman Road
Warrior Day
Respect For the Aged Day (Japan)
Observances
This Week:
13-19
Dating
and Life Coach Recognition Week
National
Assisted Living Week
National
Environmental Services Week Link
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week Link
16-20
National
Guitar Flat-Picking Days
17-23
Constitution
Week
Hummingbird
Celebration Link
19-27
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1559 - 5
Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die
1676 - Rebels
under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown Va on fire
1778 - The
Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States
1796 - George
Washington's farewell address as president
1848 - Hyperion, moon of
Saturn, discovered by Bond (US) & Lassell (England)
1849 - 1st
commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California
1876 - 1st
carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich)
1928 - Mickey
Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)
1947 - Jackie
Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of Year"
1959 - Nikita
Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland
1970 - "The Mary
Tyler Moore" show premieres on CBS
1978 - A new law recognized
Yaquis as an official tribe.
1980
- "Ordinary People" is released (Best Picture 1981)
1981 - Simon &
Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert
1988 - US Olympic
diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1795 - Tula,
leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned
1888 - World's
1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium)
1950 - UN reject
membership of China's People Republic
1956 - 1st
international conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne)
1967 - Nigeria
begins offensive against Biafra
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
A day for new technology…again. Picked up my Iphone6+. As times
change, so does buying technology. Took almost 2 hours to buy it…and I knew
what I wanted when I walked in. Got a good deal. Interesting that the almost
$200 I got for my old iPhone was not seen by the sales guy as money…it was to
be used to sell me more stuff. He tried really hard to sell me more stuff, but
I held firm. Then I had to go home and set up the phone…another hour. Glad I
did it. Like the larger size as it is much easier to type and to read.
Since I watch CNN most early evenings, I got an earful from Trump.
I was shocked, but not amazed, that some goofball started off his Q&A with
a statement that Muslims are destroying America, the Barack is Muslim and not
an American. The shock was that Donald didn’t correct him. So today, everyone
picked up on his non-response. Suddenly he had a pressing business matter that
prevented him from being at a conservative gathering of candidates. Maybe this
will be the straw that breaks his campaign. Most of us remember his talk about
Obama’s birth certificate, his hiring of private investigators to prove the one
Obama held up was a forgery and stating ‘I don’t know why he has such a problem
with his birth certificate unless it shows he is not an American citizen or
maybe that he is Muslim…I just don’t know.’
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can
you decipher this common phrase?
Salt: Good morning
Pepper: Hello
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100
grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest
animals in the world.
For a high school science fair project,
17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage
that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the
Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
The steel cages for the new jail were lowered into place at the
new courthouse this week.
At the Orpheum this week. “The Sea Hawk” with Errol Flynn, Brenda
Marshall and Allen Hale.
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…Harper’s
Index…
$3,316,000,000
– estimated value of the metal particles in US sewage
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeo#HomoNaledi Found in #RisingStar cave in the
#CradleOfHumanKind northwest of #Johannesburg #SouthAfrica. One of the most
important finds of our early ancestors has been found by @Natgeo explorer and a
paleoanthropologist #LeeBerger of #Wits university.
The fossil has been named Homo naledi by Berger , "Judging by
the features of the fossil bones, H. naledi may indeed be one of the earliest
members of our genus."
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…Foreigners
Don’t Understand These American Customs
1.
We put peanut butter on EVERYTHING.
Americans eat a lot of peanut butter — more than a million pounds
a year. And our love of the peanut-y spread starts early — who didn't eat
PB&J's in elementary school almost every day? People around the world,
however, don't really understand our fascination with Skippy. Nutella, maybe.
But never peanut butter. So why the bitter taste? According to Brian Sternthal,
a professor of marketing at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of
Management, "In many parts of the world, peanut butter is regarded as an
unpalatable American curiosity."…
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The first baseball team to pay its players — and thus become a
professional team — was the Cincinnati Red Stockings.
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2
jokes for the day
A guy coming out of the gym tells his friend;
“I just lost 10 pounds!”
His friend says; “Turn around; I think I found them!”
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I was driving down the road when I saw a lady
standing by her car.
When I pulled over to see if I could help she turned around holding a rabbit.
She explained that she had run over the rabbit and she thought it was going to
die.
I so wanted to help her I went back to my car and came back with a can of
spray.
I sprayed some in the rabbits' mouth and it twitched its' head a little.
I waited a little while and sprayed some more in it's mouth and it twitched its
head a couple of times.
Not much later I sprayed more in it's mouth and the rabbit sprang from her arms
and ran to the fence by the field, stopped, turned around and waived its' paw
at us. We watched it run 50 ft., stop, turn and waive it's paw at us.
The lady looked at me in amazement and said, "WHAT WAS THAT YOU GAVE THAT
RABBIT?"
I replied, "Oh just a little hair rejuvenator with permanent waive."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
The US patent office approved Google’s application covering robot
software that mimics human personalities (voice, mannerisms) using a variety of
moods (Happiness, fear, surprise) with a notable use that family members might
employ it to continue to ‘interact’ with a loved one after he as passed. One
disquieting possibility might allow a deceased person to be direct to act in
ways that the person never acted alive.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Pickles
have been around since ancient times, although there is some disagreement as to
when exactly in history people started eating them. Some believe the first
pickle was created in Mesopotamia in 2400 B.C.E. Others believe it was as early
as 2030 B.C.E.
Cleopatra ate pickles because she believed they were one of the things that
helped her stay beautiful.
Explorers like Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci used pickles to help
prevent scurvy amongst the crews of their ships.
H.J. Heinz used pins shaped like pickles to draw customers to his booth at the
1893 World's Fair in Chicago.
The U.S. government commandeered 40% of all pickles made in the U.S. during
WWII so that they could be used in rations for the soldiers.
Several famous people throughout history are reported to have been or to be
pickle fans including Queen Elizabeth I, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Fran
Drescher, and Ed Koch.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
87 - Adam West,
Walla Walla Wash, actor (Batman, Last Precinct)
82 - David
McCallum, Glasgow Scot, actor (Ilyla Kuryakin, NCIS)
(82) - James Van
Alen, created Simplified Scoring System for tennis d.1991
(81) - William Golding,
English novelist (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983) d. 1993
75 - Bill Medley,
Santa Ana Cal, rocker (Righteous Bros-Up Where We Belong)
75 - Paul Williams,
singer/composer/actor (Planet of the Apes)
(72) - Jean
Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician\astronomer (The History of
Astronomy) d. 1822
68 - Jeremy Irons,
Isle of Wight, UK, actor (Reversal of Fortune, The Lion King)
66 - Twiggy
Lawson, [Leslie Hornby], England, model/actress (Boyfriend, W)
65 - Joan Lunden,
Fair Oaks California, news host (Good Morning America)
41 - Jimmy Fallon,
American actor and comedian
(32) - "Mama"
Cass Elliot, rock vocalist (Mamas & The Papas) d.1974
(32) - Brian
Epstein, rock manager (Beatles) d.1967
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Historical
Obits Today
Orville
Reddenbacher, popcorn magnate-1995@88
Skeeter
Davis, American singer, cancer-2004@72
Clyde Julian Red
Foley, country singer, in sleep-1968@58
James A
Garfield, 20th President, gunshot wound-1881@49
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Season's Greetings
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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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