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October 13, 2015 Week: 42 \ Day: 286
October
Averages: 62°\32°
86004
Today: H 72° \ L 41°
Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 18mph
Ave.
High: 64° Record High: 79°[1950]
Ave. Low: 32° Record Low: 9°[1969]
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Observances
Today:
English Language Day Link
International African
Penguin Awareness Day Link
International Day for
Failure Link
International Moment of Frustration Scream Day
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day Link
National Chess Day Link
National Face Your Fears Day
Navy Birthday
Silly Sayings Day
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Observances
This Week:
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
12-20
Bone
and Joint Health National Awareness WeekLink
National School Lunch Week
12-18
World
Rainforest Week Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1792 - "Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st
published
1792 - Washington lays cornerstone of Executive
Mansion (White House) 1812 - Battle of Queenstown Heights, Brit beats US attempt
to invade Canada
1843 - B'nai B'rith founded (NY)
1860 - 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a
balloon), Boston
1864 - Battle of Harpers Ferry, WV (mOSBY's
Raid)
1871 - The Delphic Fraternity is founded as the
Delphic Society at the State Normal School in Geneseo, New York.
1885 - The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia
Tech) is founded in Atlanta
1903 - Victor Herbert's "Babes in
Toyland" premieres in NYC
1917 -A big charity ball
for the benefit of St. Joseph's Orphanage was held on Columbus Day in Tucson.
The event was sponsored by the Knights of Columbus.
1937 - A recorded trace of snow in Central Park, NYC
1947 - "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres
1950 - "All About Eve" premieres (Best
Picture 1951)
1987 - 1st military use of trained dolphins (US
Navy in Persian Gulf)
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
54 - Nero suceeds Claudius as Roman Emperor
1870 - Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public
piano concert
1884 - Greenwich established as universal time
meridian of longitude
1923 - Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital
1969 - 1st time 7 people in space
1970 - A man dies in a premature bomb explosion in
Dublin, Republic of Ireland
1988 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib
Mahfouz
1988 - Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians
as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the
Middle Ages
1994 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to
Kenzaburo Oe
2008 - HM Treasury infused £37 billion ($64
billion, 47 billion euros) of new capital-bailout into Royal Bank of Scotland
Group Plc, Lloyds TSB and HBOS Plc, to avert a financial sector collapse.
2012 - Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild sells for
$34 million, the highest sold artwork by a living artist
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Great day in our little mountain town. A part of my one man battle
against stores that are open on Federal Holidays, I stayed home today. No
errands or stops at any business that is open. The employees deserved a break.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
is the meaning of this rebus?
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQUSTRVWXYZ
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
Returns tomorrow
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…Amazing
Facts…
In 1999, a fisherman found a love letter in a
bottle from a soldier in WWI. He returned said letter to the now deceased widow’s
86 year old daughter.
A young programmer offered a homeless man the
choice between $100 cash or coding lessons. Leo Grand chose the lessons, and
now his first mobile app is available to download for $.99.
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…Crazy
Law…
Alabama
The state constitution makes it illegal for
any “idiots” or insane people to vote.
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…Harper’s
Index…
8 – number of
the ten most challenged books at US libraries last year whose main characters
area non-white or LGBT
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @argonautphoto (Aaron Huey). The #NenanaRiver
#wolfpack crossing through an area with several trap lines just outside the
borders of #DenaliNationalPark, Alaska. There are no buffer zones around the
Park and trapping or shooting wolves is a fairly common practice in Alaska.
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
10. In Turkey:
In some parts of Turkey, it is believed that if you are chewing
gum at night, it's actually rotting dead flesh. So you might want to think
twice about popping a piece of Dubble Bubble...
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
If a foreign-born female gives birth on an airplane in U.S.
airspace, or on a ship within 12 nautical miles of the U.S. coast, her child
automatically becomes a U.S. citizen.
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2
jokes for the day
The man applied for a job with a chain food
store.
“What is your experience with groceries?” asked the interviewer.
“Well,” said the applicant. “I’m eating them all the time.”
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Vicky was at a business conference.
During a break, she decided to call home collect.
Her six-year-old son picked up the phone and heard a stranger’s voice say, “We
have Vicky on the line. Will you accept the charges?”
Frantic, the six-year-old dropped the receiver and came charging outside
screaming, “Dad! They have Mom! And they want money!”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
San
Diego, CA – among the requirements of ‘Visual Arts 104A’ at the University
of CA, San Diego is that, for the final exam, students would make a
presentation while nude, in a darkened room. Professor Richardo Dominguez (who
would also be nude for the finals) told KGTV that the nude ‘gesture’ was indeed
required (and disclosed to students in the first class) as a ‘performance of
self’, a ‘standard canvas for performance art and body art’. After an inquiry by
KGTV, the department chairperson announced that nakedness would not be required
for course credit—even though professor Dominquez said in his 11 years teaching
the course, no student had ever complained before.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
If
a foreign-born female gives birth on an airplane in U.S. airspace, or on a ship
within 12 nautical miles of the U.S. coast, her child automatically becomes a
U.S. citizen.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(87) - Nipsey Russell, comedian (Car 54, Barefoot in the Park)
d.2005
(87) - Margaret Thatcher, (Tory) British PM d.2013
(80) - Rudolf Virchow, German
politician/anthropologist/pathologist (cell pathology), d. 1902
(77) - Cornel Wilde, actor (High Sierra, 5th Musketeer) d.1989
(71) - Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templars d.
1314
(71) - Arna Bontemps, American poet (100 years of Negro freedom)
d.1973
(70) - Yves Montand, France, actor/singer (Z, Napoleon, Grand
Prix) d.1991
69 - Demond Wilson, Valdosta GA, actor (Sanford & Son,
Baby I'm Back)
(68) - Burr Tillstrom, Chicago puppeteer (Kukla, Fran &
Ollie) d.1985
56 - Marie Osmond, Ogden Ut, singer/actress (Paper Roses,
Goin' Coconuts)
55 - Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary
52 - Rob Schneider, actor (Saturday Night Live, Men Behaving
Badly)
44 - Sacha Baron Cohen, comedian/actor (Ali G, Borat)
(17) - Jane Grey, Queen of England for 9 days d.1554
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Historical
Obits Today
Milton S. Hershey,
American chocolate tycoon-1945@86
Walter Houser
Brattain, American physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956)-1987@85
Ed Sullivan, TV host
(Ed Sullivan Show, Toast of the Town), cancer-1974@73
Claudius, Roman
Emperor, poison mushrooms-54@63
Elzie C. Segar,
American cartoonist (Popeye)-1938@43
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Brain
Teasers Answers
You are out of order (the letters "U" and "R"
have traded places; U R out of order).
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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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