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October 11, 2015 Week: 42 \ Day: 284
October
Averages: 62°\32° Average
Sky Cover: 15%
Wind
ave: 2mph\Gusts: 14mph
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Observances
Today:
Clergy Appreciation Day
General Pulaski Memorial Day (President) Link
International Day of The Girl Link
National Coming Out Day
National Face Your Fears Day
National Food Truck Day Link
Southern Food Heritage Day
Observances
This Week:
3-11
Albuquerque
International Balloon Fiesta Link
No Salt Week
4-H Week Link
Death Penalty Focus Week (Always has 10th in it)
Emergency Nurses Week Link
Fire Prevention Week
International Post Card WeekLink
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week)
National Metric Week
National Midwifery Week Link
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week
World Space Week Link
5-11
Customer
Service Week Link
Drive Safely Work WeekLink
Financial Planning Week
Kids' Goal Setting Week
National Health Care Food Service Week Link
National Heimlich Heroes Week
National Metric Week
Spinning & Weaving Week Link
6-12
National Physicians
Assistant Week
World Dairy Expo
11-17
Take
Your Medicine Americans Week
Earth Science WeekLink
Emergency Nurses Week
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
Mediation WeekLink
National Chestnut Week
National Food Bank Week
Veterinary Technicians Week Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1871 - Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished
after 3 days, 300 killed
1890 - Daughters of American Revolution founded
1922 - First woman FBI "special
investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)
1929 -Tucson's first
skyscraper, 11-story Consolidated National Bank Building, opened
1929 - JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford,
Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1950 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission
issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS
1968 - Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham)
made 163 orbits in 260 hours
1975 - "Saturday Night Live" premieres on
NBC with George Carlin as host
1984 - 1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D
Sullivan)
2001 - The Polaroid Corporation files for federal
bankruptcy protection.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1737 - Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half
of Calcutta India
1852 - The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest
university, is inaugurated
1969 - Three people shot dead during street
violence in the loyalist Shankill area of Belfast
1980 - Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space
endurance record of 184 days
2012 - Mo Yan, a hallucinatory realist writer, wins
the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature
2013 - The Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the 2013 Nobel Peace
Prize
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Great Saturday, weather-wise.
Our discussion group on SETI got postponed when our speaker go
sick…rescheduled for later.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A
number of people have broken the sound barrier, either in a super-fast car, or
in nice fancy planes. However, hundreds of years ago it was broken on
horseback. How?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through
your body every second.
Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the
entire state.
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*NEW*…Crazy
Law…
Las Vegas: No Pets on the Strip
There is a strict ban against all pets except
service animals on the Las Vegas Strip. The only hours when the ordinance does
not apply are between 5 a.m. and noon.
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…Harper’s
Index…
28 – number of
US police officers who have been prosecuted in the past decade for shooting
someone in the back
6 – number convicted
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
8. In Malaysia:
A common belief in Malaysia is that if you sit on a pillow, it
will cause your bottom and backside to be covered in boils, blisters, and other
sores (via Asean-Korea Centre)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The Hudson's Bay Company (now known as "The Bay" or
"HBC") is the oldest commercial corporation in North America, having
been incorporated on May 2nd, 1670, by British royal charter under King Charles
II.
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2
jokes for the day
Some people have no respect for age unless
it’s bottled.
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What kind of cereal do monsters eat?
Ghost-Toasties.
Mommy, mommy, teacher keeps saying I look like a werewolf.
Be quiet, dear, and go and comb your face
What kind of monster is safe to put in the washing machine?
A wash and wear wolf.
What's the first thing ghosts do when they get into a car?-
They boo-kle their seatbelts.
What has webbed feet, feathers, fangs and goes quack-quack?
Count Duckula.
What game do little cannibals like to play at parties?
Swallow the leader.
Why are monsters huge and hairy and ugly?
Because if they were small and round and smooth they'd be M&M's.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
GASTONIA,
N.C. - North Carolina police said a woman drove donuts in an
intersection, struck four vehicles, flipped her car and gave her name as
"faith, hope and love." Gastonia Police said witnesses reported the
woman was driving donuts -- tight circles -- with her car about 4:25 p.m.
Thursday in a busy intersection and the motorist temporarily stopped her vehicle
when police arrived. An officer asked the woman her name, and she replied,
"Faith, hope and love," Gastonia Police Capt. Rodney Aldridge told
the Gaston Gazette. The woman backed into the officer's car and struck it two
more times before continuing to do donuts in the intersection. Police said the
woman struck two civilian cars and a second police cruiser before she drove
down a 12-foot embankment, knocked over a fire hydrant and flipped her car onto
its roof. Witness Rhonda Helms said police had to pepper spray the woman to
take her into custody. She said the woman appeared to be singing, "Jesus
loves the little children of the world," as she got out of her car. Police
said the woman, whose name was not released, was taken to a hospital for
evaluation.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Doughnuts
most likely originated in Germany and were brought to New York by Dutch
settlers who called them olykoeks (oily cakes). The hole in the center was
developed by the Pennsylvania Dutch perhaps because the shape provided easier
dunking in coffee or made it easier to fry the donuts more thoroughly. Dunkin
Donuts sells 6.4 million donuts per day (2.3 billion per year).
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In
1979, in what has become known as the 'Twinkie Defense,' Daniel White said he
killed San Francisco mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk because he ate too
much junk food, such as Twinkies, candy bars, and cupcakes, which caused a
chemical imbalance in his brain. He was still convicted and, in 1981, Congress
outlawed the 'Twinkie Defense.'
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(78) - Eleanor Roosevelt, [Anna], 1st lady/crusader (Nobel
1931), (d. 1962)
(74) - Henry John Heinz,
founder (Heinz-57 varieties) (d.1919)
(58) - Dottie West, Nashville Tenn, country singer (Here Comes
My Baby) (d.1991)
58 - Daryl Hall, [Hohl], Penn, rocker/songwriter (Hall &
Oates-Sara Smile)
53 - Joan Cusack, Evanston Illinois, actress (SNL, Addams
Family Values)
49 - Luke Perry, Mansfield Ohio, actor (Dillon-Beverly Hill
90210)
46 - Ty Murray, rodeo cowboy (5-time all-around world
champion)
38 - Matthew Bomer, American actor
26 - Michelle Wie, American golfer
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Historical
Obits Today
Werner von Trapp, member
of the Trapp Family Singers-2007@91
Leonard "Chico"
Marx, comedian (Marx Brothers), arteriosclerosis-1961@74
Tex Williams,
country-western singer, cancer-1985@68
Edith Piaf, French
singer (No, I don't regret anything), cancer-1963@47
Meriwether Lewis, (Lewis
& Clark Expedition), suicide(?)-1809@35
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Many people who ride horses carry whips. They crack the whip while
they ride the horse. When a whip is cracked, the tip travels faster than the
speed of sound, which makes the loud snap. It actually creates a miniature
sonic boom of sorts. The whip breaks the sound barrier, thus, it was broken on
horseback.
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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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