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October 9, 2015 Week: 41 \ Day: 282
October
Averages: 62°\32°
86004
Today: H 66° \ L 40°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 10mph\Gusts: 30mph
Ave.
High: 66° Record High: 81°[1996]
Ave. Low: 33° Record Low: 20°[1970]
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Observances
Today:
International
African Diaspora Day
National Chess Day Link
National Pro-Life Cupcake Day
UN World Post Day
World Egg Day Link
World Post Day
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Grandmother's
Day (Fl)
Alphabet Day (Korea)
Day of National Honor (Peru)
Leif Erikson Day (Iceland)
Independence Day (Uganda-1962-from UK)
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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
1000 - Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland"
(possibly L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to
reach North America
1635 - Religious dissident Roger
Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
1776 - The Mission at San
Francisco is started
1855 - Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor
1865 - First US underground pipeline for carrying
oil is laid in Pennsylvania
1872 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail-order
business
1877 - American Humane Association organizes
(Cleveland)
1898-St. Michael's Mission,
on Navajo Nation, in a converted trading post building, was blessed and
officially dedicated
1903 - 11" (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC)
1915 - Woodrow Wilson becomes first US
President to attend a World Series game
1936 - Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity
to Los Angeles
1947 - First telephone conversation between a
moving car & a plane
1980 - 1st consumer use of home banking by computer
by United American Bank in Knoxville Tn
1985 - Central Park's Strawberry Fields, dedicated
2014 - Gatwick, Heathrow
and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
768 - Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I
are crowned Kings of The Franks.
1192 - Richard I of England, the Lion Heart,
leaves Jerusalem in disguise
1446 - The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1817 - University of Gent officially opens
1824 - Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1899 - 1st British troops reaches Durban, South
Africa
1958 - Israeli
navy inaugurates its first submarine
1968 - About 2,000 students from Queen's University
Belfast tried to march to Belfast City Hall in protest against 'police
brutality' on 5 October in Derry; the march was blocked by loyalists led by Ian
Paisley and after the demonstration, a student civil rights group—People's
Democracy—was formed
1980 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to
Czeslaw Milosz
1997 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario
Fo
2006 - North Korea allegedly tests its first
nuclear device.
2012 - 25,000 people in Athens protest German
Chancellor Angela Merkel
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Fall has arrived, mornings are getting very crisp. Days are still
warm.
Great lunch at our favorite Mexican Place. Mary had a childhood
friend with her for a week in Phx. Cheryl got her Netflix hooked up and really
likes it.
So leading Rep. candidate for Speaker pulls out of election just
before the vote to select a candidate. Hmmm. Don’t blame him one bit. The party
and the House are in disarray by the Freedom Caucus…5% of the house…that is way
past crazy on the right wing. What a mess. Sadly four of AZ’s Reps belong to
this caucus. It’s time to get their names out there and hold them accountable
for what they are doing. The Right Wing Radio I listened to on my trip sees
this 5% as heroes who are saving America. Come on, they are 5% and are not
growing since the 2008 elections. Everybody has at least one crazy relative and
it tough to call them out. What’s that, you don’t have a crazy relative…well
then, maybe it’s you.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
1.
I am always excited
2. I tell people where things are at
3. You can play a game on me
4. I'm very rich
5. I give percentages
6. I am always looking up
7. And.........
8. I look like a light in the sky
9. I keep things arranged that are to my right
10. I keep things arranged that are to my left
What Are We?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
In 1980, a 62-year-old man with impaired
vision and hearing got struck by lightning and when he woke up the next day, he
could see and hear!
The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and
34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon,
eggs, broccoli and coffee.
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…Facebook
Fact…
In 2013, Candy Crush made $850,000 per day!
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…Harper’s
Index…
2/5 – portion
of Syrians seeking asylum since 2011 who has been hosted by Turkey
1/7, 700 – By the
US
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoFor #throwbackthursday Kenyan marathon runners train at dawn
on the edge of the Rift Valley. Shot for @natgeo for story on the limits of the
human body. The Great Rift Valley is amazingly beautiful and the runners are
equivalently so-fluid and mesmerizing to watch
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
6. In Finland:
In Finland (and some other parts of the world), killing a spider
means it will rain the next day (via Europe's Not Dead)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car.
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2
jokes for the day
“Your wife will hit the ceiling when you get
home tonight,” said the barfly to his drinking buddy.
“Yeah,” said his buddy. “She’s a lousy shot!”
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Two cowboy ranchers in Texas, they each had
their own horse, but they could never tell them apart.
So the first cowboy said, "I've got it!"
The second cowboy said "What?"
"I'll shave the main on my horse."
"Let's do it!” So the cowboy shaves the main on his horse. But after a
while the main grew back.
The cowboys are having a really hard time telling them apart.
Then the one cowboy said, "I've got it!
"What? What? What’s your idea now? says the other"
"I'll cut the tail on my horse really small."
"Alright! Let's do it!" So he cut the tail really short. But after a
while it grew back.
"Then the second cowboy said, "OK, this time I've got it!" You
take the black one and I'll take white one!!!!"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
NORTH
POLE, Alaska - The city of North Pole, Alaska, announced the candidates for
City Council include a man with the appropriate legal name of Santa Claus. The
North Pole Clerk's office said Santa Claus, whose festive moniker is his legal
name and is listed on his driver's license, is running a write-in campaign for
the North Pole City Council. The office said there is only one other candidate
for the office, fellow write-in hopeful La Nae Bellamy. Claus, former president
of the North Pole Chamber of Commerce, describes himself as "a child
advocate" and "a Christian monk" on his Facebook page. The page
makes an important distinction between Claus the aspiring politician and Santa
Claus the legend -- "PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME REQUESTS FOR PRESENTS,"
the Facebook page reads. "The greatest gift one can give is love."
The election is scheduled for Tuesday. Santa Claus previously ran a short-lived
campaign for president of the United States in 2012.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Mary
Shelley's teenage years were eventful, to say the least. At age 16, she ran
away with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Over the next two years, she gave
birth to two children. In 1816, the couple traveled to Switzerland and visited
Lord Byron at Villa Diodati. While there, 18-year-old Mary started
Frankenstein. It was published in 1818, when she was 20 years old.
Before she started Frankenstein, Mary gave birth to a daughter, Clara, who died
six weeks later. (In fact, only one of Mary's four children lived to
adulthood.) Soon after the baby died, she wrote in her journal, "Dream
that my little baby came to life again-that it had only been cold & that we
rubbed it by the fire & it lived-I awake & find no baby-I think about
the little thing all day."
Frankenstein was the name of the scientist, not the monster. In the novel,
Victor Frankenstein is the scientist. The monster remains unnamed and is
referred to as "monster," "creature," "demon,"
and "it."
Mary said she made up the name "Frankenstein." However, Frankenstein
is a German name that means Stone of the Franks. What's more, historian Radu
Florescu claimed that the Shelleys visited Castle Frankenstein on a journey up
the Rhine River.
Frankenstein was first published anonymously. It was dedicated to William
Godwin, Mary's father, and Percy Shelley wrote the preface. Because of these
connections, many assumed that Shelley was the author. This myth continued even
after Frankenstein was reprinted in Mary's name.
In penning her gothic novel, Shelley was writing the first major science
fiction novel, as well as inventing the concept of the "mad
scientist" and helping establish what would become horror fiction. The
influence of the book in popular culture is so huge that the term
"Frankenstein" has entered common speech to mean something unnatural
and horrendous.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(86) - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer d. 1921
(86) - Hank Patterson, Alabama, actor (Fred Ziffel-Green Acres)
d.1975
(69) - Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Wilmington, Delaware, Publisher and
anti-slavery campaigner, 1st African American newspaper publisher ('Provincial
Freeman') d.1893
65 - Jody Williams, American teacher\aid worker, Nobel Peace
Prize (landmines)
63 - Sharon Osbourne, English/American music manager, TV
personality (X-Factor, America's Got Talent)\wife of Ozzy Osbourne,
61 - Scott Bakula, actor (Quantum Leap, NCIS-NO)
(53) - Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (Pentecostal)/radio
preacher d.1944
49 - David Cameron, British politician, PM
(40) - John Lennon, British musician-The Beatles (Imagine) d.
1980
34 - Zachery Ty Bryan, Denver, actor (Brad-Home Improvement)
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Historical
Obits Today
Joseph F Glidden,
inventor (barbed wire)-1906@93
Louis Nye,
American comedian and actor-2005@92
Clare A Booth Luce, US
diplomat/journalist-1987@84
Ernesto
"Che" Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary and
physician, executed-1967@39
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Brain
Teasers Answers
The number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0 on a US keyboard when
you hold the shift button down.
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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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