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October 10, 2015 Week: 41 \ Day: 283
October
Averages: 62°\32°
86004
Today: H 71° \ L 42°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 22mph
Ave.
High: 66° Record High: 81°[1996]
Ave. Low: 33° Record Low: 20°[1973]
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Observances
Today:
Double
Tenth Day
International Day for Natural Disaster
Reduction
International Newspaper Carrier Day
International Stage Mangement Day Link
National Costume Swap Day Link
National Family Bowling Day (or Kids Bowl Free Day) Link
National Handbag Day
Naval Academy Day
Tuxedo Day
UN
World Mental Health Day
Universal Music Day
World Day Against The Death Penalty Link
World Homeless Day Link
World Mental Health Day
World Porridge Day Link
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American Indian Heritage Day (Al)
Native American's Day (SD)
Oklahoma Historical Day (Ok)
Double Tenth Day (Taiwan)
Independence Day (Fiji-1970 from UK)
Thanksgiving (Canada)
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
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1736 - According to
some sources, an agreement covering friendship and land cessions is reached
today by representatives of the CAYUGA,
ONEIDA, ONONDAGA, SENECA and TUSCARORA Indians and Pennsylvania.
1802 - 1st non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma
1845 - Naval School (now called US Naval Academy)
opens at Annapolis
1857 - American Chess Association formed (NYC)
1886 - 1st dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to autumn
ball at Tuxedo Park, NY
1910 - Arizona Constitutional
Convention convened in Phoenix with George W. P. Hunt elected chairman.
1933 - 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft"
by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale
1957 - US President Eisenhower apologizes
to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused
service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware
1991 - Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy
1996 - Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum
in NYC
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1375 - Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern
Netherlands
1780 - Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to
30,000 in Caribbean, hitting Barbados first. Atlantic's deadliest recorded
hurricane.
1846 - Alexis de Tocqueville writes about
"Algerian problem"
1911 - Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow
Manchus (Taiwan Natl Day)
1954 - Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after
withdrawal of French troops
1964 - 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo
1965 - "Vinland Map" is introduced by
Yale University as being the first known map of America, drawn about 1440 by
Norse explorer Lief Eriksson
1972 - 3 members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA)
die in a premature explosion in a house in Balkan Street, Lower Falls, Belfast
1974 - The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and
its political wing the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP)founded at the
Spa Hotel in the village of Lucan near Dublin
1982 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev
Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at
Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
2013 - Alice Munro is awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize
for literature
2014 - Malala
Yousafzai & Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 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
Mother
Jones states: Broadly speaking, the term mass shooting refers to an incident involving multiple victims of
gun violence. But there is no official set of criteria or definition for a mass
shooting…I mention this because there was a shooting in our little mountain
town last night that killed one and injured three college students on our
mountain campus. The incident occurred around 1:30am in a parking lot outside a
dorm that is used by various fraternities. The shooter, an 18 yr old, is
in custody. For those of us living here, this was a mass shooting. The
University head cop and President of the University were quick to say it was
not a shooting like happened in Oregon. This was a bunch of students having a
disagreement that ended when one student shot 4 people. It was the top story on
AOL and others for a couple of hours, but soon disappeared to a lower position,
since it wasn’t a newsworthy mass shooting. I disagree. It should have been on
every channel, including CNN as breaking news that at least had hourly updates
at the top of the hour. Five families and many students are grieving and in
shock. I was out and about this morning and it certainly was on lots of people’s
minds. My FB page kept me informed. I heard it first on our NPR station about
5:30a, but even they, who are located on campus, did not carry the first news
conference live at 6am. A little disappointed with that. Our town is shocked
and saddened and concerned about the students and families that have been
affected. Healing will take time, but change is on the way I’m sure.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
The
same two letters can be prefixed to each of these words to make different
words. What are these two letters?
one
edge
own
ought
awl
aught
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
An African Baobab tree in South Africa, known
as Big Baobab, has a circumference of 154 feet and even has a bar inside the
trunk that can fit 60 people.
In 1965, a four-year-old nearly drowned at a
beach, but was rescued by a woman named Alice Blaise. 9 years later, that boy
saved a man at the same beach. That man was Alice's husband.
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…Facebook
Fact…
A computer programmer named Maneesh Sethi
hired a woman to slap him across the face every time he uses Facebook during
working hours.
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…Harper’s
Index…
+137 –
percentage change since 2000 to the number of balck African immigrants living
in the US
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @irablockphoto (Ira Block)
Sunrise on the Kherlen River in Gün-Galuut, Mongolia. Genghis
Khan, the great unifier of the Mongolian people was born nearby and lived along
this river.
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
7. In Senegal:
In Senegal, they say to keep your travel plans to yourself. If
anyone learns about your upcoming vacation or move, they say it is destined to
be ruined (via Travel + Leisure)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The littlest president was James Madison. He was 5'4" and
weighed about 100 pounds.
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2
jokes for the day
An important official who was visiting an
insane asylum made a telephone call but had difficulty getting his number.
Finally, in exasperation, he shouted to the operator, “Look here, miss, do you
know who I am?”
“No,” she replied calmly, “but I now where you
are.”
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An attorney, anxious to impress the judge with
the detail, asked the following line of questions of a doctor who had recently
performed an autopsy.
Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the
autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law
somewhere.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Daily
Telegraph, London- A 21 year-old in Hefei, China, collapsed after 14 straingt days
of internet gaming, yet when paramedics revived him, the man begged them to
leave and put him back in front of his screen.
Then, 2 weeks later in Nanchang, China, a 2 year-old female gamer
took only a minutes-long break at an internet café, at 4am, to head to the rest
room and give birth—returning with her blood-covered baby in her arms to resume
her place at the mouse pad.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
ancient Greek city of Megara held a version of the Olympic Games that included
a kissing contest. Only boys were allowed to enter.
PE teachers were originally banned from the modern Olympics because they were
professionals.
At the 1908 Olympic Games in London, Great Britain won gold, silver and bronze
in the tug of war.
The fastest 100 meters run by an eight-year-old today would have won bronze at
the 1896 Olympics.
The 1988 Olympics included the sport of solo synchronized swimming.
The Kalenjin people of Kenya make up 0.05% of the world's population but have
won almost 50% of its major distance-running events since 1980.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(94) - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
(92) - Helen Hayes, actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy
Birthday) (d.1993)
(87) - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (Rigoletto), (d. 1901)
84 - Peter Coyote [Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon], actor
(ET, Raiders of the Lost Ark)
69 - Ben Vereen, actor/dancer (Pippin, Roots, Webster)
61 - David Lee Roth, Bloomington Indiana, rock singer (Van
Halen-Jump)
57 - Tanya Tucker, Seminole Tx, country singer/actress
(Follow that Car)
46 - Brett Favre, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers-Super
Bowl 31)
42 - Mario Lopez, actor (A C Slater-Saved by the Bell)
41 - Dale Earnhardt Jr, American NASCAR Sprint Cup series
driver
(39) - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970)
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Historical
Obits Today
Scott Carpenter, astronaut,
2013@88
William H. Seward, United
States Secretary of State, stopped breathing-1872@71
Orson Welles, actor/director
(Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds), heart attack-1985@70
Yul Brynner, [Taidje
Khan], actor (King & I), cancer-1985@65
Redd Foxx,
comedian (Sanford & Sons), heart attack-1991@68
Christopher Reeve,
American actor, complications of horse fall-2004@52
William "Buckwheat"
Thomas, actor (Little Rascal), heart attack-1980@49
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Brain
Teasers Answers
D and R
Drone
Dredge
Drown
Drought
Drawl
Draught
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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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