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October 19, 2015 Week: 43 \ Day: 292
October
Averages: 62°\32°
86004
Today: H 68° \ L 43°
Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind
ave: 26mph\Gusts: 5mph
Ave.
High: 62° Record High: 72°[2003]
Ave. Low: 30° Record Low: 6°[1971]
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Observances
Today:
Hagfish Day
National Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day
Missouri
Day (Mo)-since 1915
"foster love for our state’s history and to
teach rising generations of boys and girls the glories of Missouri."
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Observances
This Week:
12-20
Bone
and Joint Health National Awareness WeekLink
National School Lunch Week
14-23
National
Nuclear Science Week
National School Bus Safety
Week
18-24
Food
& Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
Bullying Bystanders Unite
Week
Freedom From Bullies Week
International Infection Prevention WeekLink
National Character Counts Week
National Business Women's Week Link
National Chemistry Week
National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week Link
National Forest Products Week
National Friends of Libraries Week
National Hospital and Health-System Pharmacy Week Link
National Save For Retirement Week Link
National Teen Drivers Safety Week Link
Teen Read Week
Asexuality Week Link
19-23
Choose
To Be G.R.E.A.T. Week Link
Freedom of Speech WeekLink
Medical Assistants Recognition
Week Link
National Health Education WeekLink
YWCA Week Without ViolenceLink
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1781 - British General Cornwallis surrenders at
Yorktown at 2 pm; US Revolutionary War ends
1818 - CHICKASAW treaty: Andrew Jackson
and Isaac Shelby will represent American interests. The CHICKASAWs will cede their claims to
lands in Tennessee. (7 stat.192)
1914 - US post office 1st used an automobile to
collect & deliver mail
1915 - US bankers arrange a $500 million loan to
the British and French
1917 - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
1944 - US Navy says black women can join WAVES
1953 - 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled
service
1960 - Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in
Atlanta sit-in
1960 - US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba
1971 - Last issue of "Look" magazine is
published
1973 - Saudi Arabia, Libya, and other Arab states
proclaim an embargo on oil exports to the United States
1976 - President Gerald Ford signs 1st
major revision of copyright law since 1909
1983 - Senate establishes Martin Luther
King Jr. federal holiday
1990 - "Dances with Wolves" premieres in
Washington, D.C. (Best Picture 1991)
2014 - Working human intestine is generated in a laboratory from
stem cells in US
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1872 - World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found
in New South Wales
1941 - 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee
Wiley in Mexico
1971 - A group of f Northern Ireland Members of
Parliament begin a 48 hour hunger strike against the policy of Internment
2003 - Mother Teresa of Calcutta is beatified
by Pope John Paul II.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Happy Sunday…Broncos and Cards on TV…at the same time. Denver won
in OT in a good game…Cards lost in a bad game. Morning news shows were
educational. Rained most of the night and today is just mostly cloudy with rain
expected this evening.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
The
blanks in the following sentences will be filled in with three different
homonyms (words that are spelled differently but sound alike) to make valid
sentences. The dashes indicate the number of letters in the words. Can you fill
in the blanks?
1. The cut on his _ _ _ _ won't _ _ _ _ in time for the race, so _ _ '_ _ have
to drop out.
2. The man was so upset about being _ _ _ _ that he regularly _ _ _ _ _ _
himself up on the bed and _ _ _ _ _ _ his eyes out.
3. I couldn't _ _ _ _ _ any of the _ _ _ _ _ _ in the flower shop, because for
some strange reason I had 50 _ _ _ _ _ crammed up my nose.
4. A bloodthirsty pirate will wander the _ _ _ _ and essentially _ _ _ _ _
everything he _ _ _ _.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
There's a lizard known as the 'Jesus Lizard'
that can run across water.
A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at
age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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…Crazy
Law…
Alabama: Bear Wrestling
No bear wrestling in Alabama. No training a
bear to wrestle in Alabama. No promoting bear wrestling matches in Alabama. If
caught, authorities will take custody of your bear.
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…Harper’s
Index…
30 – number of
previously unknown fly species discovered in LA in the past year
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @mattiasklumofficial A
strategic suck-up to maintain position in the group...African wild dogs (or
painted dogs) live in cooperative packs with a clear-cut dominance hierarchy in
each sex. Reproduction among African wild dogs is largely monopolized by the
dominant male and female. This beautiful apex predator is important in its
ecosystem and needs to be respected and protected! Photographed this group in
wonderful Mombo Camp, Botswana.
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
16. In Portugal:
In Portugal, it is bad luck to walk backwards because it teaches
the devil your path (via Europe's Not Dead)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Lucky siblings? The RMS Olympic (sister ship to
the Titanic) and the HMS Mauretania (sister ship to the
Lusitania) both had long and distinguished service careers, ending with
the scrappers torch rather than on the bottom of the ocean.
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2
jokes for the day
“Have you got any kittens going cheap?” Asked
a customer in a pet shop.
“No, sir,” replied the owner. “All our kittens
go “Meow.”
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A man gets married and shortly afterwards his
wife dies. A friend tries to console him and asks, "What happened to your
wife?"
"She died of poison from eating mushrooms," said the husband.
This man gets married a second time, and not long after the marriage, this
second wife dies. The same friend tries to console the grieving husband and
asks, "What happened to your second wife?"
"She died of poison from eating mushrooms," was also the reply from
the husband.
This man takes a third wife and, not very long after the marriage, the third
wife dies.
The consoling friend asks, "What happened to your third wife? Was it
mushroom poisoning?"
The grieving husband responds, "No, she died of a broken neck."
"A broken neck!" replies the friend.
"Yes," says the husband, "she wouldn't eat her mushrooms."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
CHICAGO -
Job-seeking website CareerBuilder's annual survey found workers called in sick
this year for getting stuck under a bed and having a cat trapped in a
dashboard. The website said its annual Harris Poll survey of 3,321 adult
employees and 2,326 hiring and human resource managers, conducted online Aug.
12-Sept. 2, suggested 38 percent of workers called in sick during the past year
when they actually felt fine, up from 28 percent in last year's survey. Of the
workers who called in sick while feeling well, 27 percent said they had a
doctor's appointment, 27 percent said they just didn't feel like going to work,
26 percent said they needed time to relax, 21 percent said they needed to catch
up on sleep and 12 percent said they wanted to stay home for weather-related
issues. CareerBuilder said employers were asked to share some of the most
memorable excuses they were given for employees missing work. The responses
included:
1. Employee claimed his grandmother poisoned him with ham.
2. Employee was stuck under the bed.
3. Employee broke his arm reaching to grab a falling sandwich.
4. Employee said the universe was telling him to take a day off.
5. Employee's wife found out he was cheating. He had to spend the day
retrieving his belongings from the dumpster.
6. Employee poked herself in the eye while combing her hair.
7. Employee said his wife put all his underwear in the washer.
8. Employee said the meal he cooked for a department potluck didn't turn out
well.
9. Employee was going to the beach because the doctor said she needed more vitamin
D.
10. Employee said her cat was stuck inside the dashboard of her car.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
There
is a single ATM in Antarctica, operated by Wells Fargo Bank, according to utne.com.
It
takes Wells Fargo ten months to prepare to service its ATM, and the employee
sent must undergo a psychological evaluation in case they are stranded in
Antarctica when flights are cancelled for the season.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(81) - LaWanda Page,
actress (Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons) d.2002
79 - Tony Lo Bianco, Brooklyn, actor (Ann Jillian Story,
Hizzoner!)
78 - Peter Max, Berlin, American psychadelic artist (Dynamite
Chicken)
(74) - Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/diplomat (Hombres de
Maiz, Nobel 67), (d. 1974)
(72) - John McLoughlin, Hudson's Bay Co pioneer in Oregon
Country d.1857
70 - John Lithgow, actor (Harry & Hendersons, Pelican
Brief)
(59) - Robert Reed, Highland Park Ill, actor (Mike-Brady Bunch,
Nurse) d.1992
53 - Evander Holyfield, Atmore Ala, boxer
(Oly-bronze-1988)/champ (1990-92)
51 - Ty Pennington [Gary Tygert Burton], American television
host (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition)
48 - Amy Carter, Pres Carter's daughter/peace activist
(42) - Peter Tosh [Winston Hubert McIntosh],reggae musician
(Mystic Man) d.1987
(42) - Divine, [Harris Glenn Milstead], actress (Pink Flamingo)
d.1988
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Historical
Obits Today
Mr. Blackwell,
American fashion critic-2008@86
Tom Bosley,
American actor (Happy Days)-2010@83
Jonathan Swift, English
writer (Gulliver's Travels)-1745@77
George Pullman,
American inventor and industrialist, heart attack-1897@66
Gig Young, actor, suicide-1978@64
Edna St Vincent
Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize),
heart attack/fall-1950@58
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. The cut on his HEEL won't HEAL in time for the race, so HE'LL
have to drop out.
2. The man was so upset about being BALD that he regularly BALLED himself up on
the bed and BAWLED his eyes out.
3. I couldn't SENSE any of the SCENTS in the flower shop, because for some
strange reason I had 50 CENTS crammed up my nose.
4. A bloodthirsty pirate will wander the SEAS and essentially SEIZE everything
he SEES.
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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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