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October , 2015 Week: 43 \ Day: 296
October
Averages: 62°\32°
86004
Today: H 56° \ L 34°
Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 21mph
Ave.
High: 61° Record High: 76°[2003]
Ave. Low: 29° Record Low: 9°[1906]
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Observances
Today:
Caps Locks Day
International Stuttering Awareness Day
Smart is Cool Day
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Observances
This 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 Week Link
Medical Assistants Recognition
Week Link
National Health Education Week Link
YWCA Week Without Violence Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1746 - Princeton University (NJ) received its
charter
1819 - 1st ship sails by Erie-channel (Rome-Utica)
1836 - Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected
pres of Republic of Texas
1861
- 1st telegraph line linking West & East
coasts completed
1875 - Sons of American Revolution organizes
1879 - Thomas Edison perfects carbonized
cotton filament light bulb
1881 - Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its first
concert
1883 - 1st NY Horse Show held (Madison Sq Garden)
1883 - Original Metropolitan Opera House (NYC)
grand opening (Faust)
1884 - The International Meridian Conference in
Washington, D.C., USA adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide, creating 24
international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich meridian
1907 - Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth
buys Barnum & Bailey circus
1928 - Herbert Hoover speaks of "American
system of rugged individualism"
1931 - Jacome's downtown
Tucson department store was packed with customers after a remodeling.
1936 - 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii
1962 - JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba,
beginning missile crisis
1963 - 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in
Freedom Day protest
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
362 - The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of
Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
1867 - Foundation of the National University of
Colombia.
1877 - The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland
kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support
themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House.
1897 - World's first car dealer opens in London
1924 - Toastmasters International is founded.
1961 - 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights &
Flemish language in Belgium
1964
- French philosopher/author Jean-Paul
Sartre refuses Nobel prize
1966 - USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Another cloudy day, a little rain during the night. Sun shining by
3pm.
Ran some errands, in long pants and shoes…a sure sign of fall in
the air.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
does the star represent in the rebus:
A N O
T * I
TENT
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
A 22 year old Chinese man needed a new nose.
Instead of a transplant, a surgeon built a new nose on his forehead.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word book
titled 'Gadsby' which did not use the letter "e".
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…Crazy
Law…
Arizona: Leave the Cacti Alone
You can get up to 25 years in prison in
Arizona for cutting down a cactus.
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…Harper’s
Index…
41 –percentage
of Americans with strong party loyalties who say that winning elections is more
important than policy change
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @edkashi/@viiphoto: A young girl goes
about daily life walking over a heap of burning garbage in Bonsaaso, Ghana on
Oct. 4, 2015. This image is from a series created as part of a project in which
VII photographers are partnering with The Millennium Village Project. As stated
on their website, “The Millennium Villages Project addresses the root causes of
extreme poverty, taking a holistic, community-led approach to sustainable
development. Our work unites science, business, civil society and government in
these efforts by empowering communities and partners alike to become a part of
the solution to ending extreme poverty. Together, our generation can end
extreme poverty.”
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
19. In Italy:
Some people in Italy are said to fear Friday the 17th because the
Roman numeral XVII can be arranged to make the word "VIXI" which
means "my life is over" in Latin (via National Geographic)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Before joining the NBA, Wilt Chamberlain played one season for the
Harlem Globetrotters. He was the first member of the team to have his jersey
(#13) retired.
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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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Seven-year-old John had finished his summer
vacation and gone back to school.
Two days later his teacher phone his mother to tell her that John was
misbehaving. "Wait a minute," said the mother. "I had John here
for two months and I never called you once when he misbehaved."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
TOMBSTONE,
AZ- A Wild West gunfight reenactment in Tombstone, Ariz., got a
little too realistic when a performer fired off a live round that struck
another actor. The Cochise County Sheriff's Office said the Tombstone
Vigilantes gunfight reenactment group was putting on a street performance
Sunday when group member Tom Carter fired off a live round that struck Ken
Curtis in the upper groin area. Investigators said Carter had arrived late for
the event and his gun was not inspected to make sure it was loaded with blanks.
The sheriff's office said they examined Carter's gun and determined he had
fired off five live rounds during the performance. A woman standing in front of
the Bird Cage Theater during the reenactment was injured by shrapnel from one
of Carter's shots, but she declined medical treatment. Curtis was taken to
Banner-University Medical Center for surgery to remove the bullet. The
Tombstone Vigilantes were ordered by the town's mayor to cease performances
until it could be verified that only blank ammunition would be used during the
reenactments.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
In
1934, the Schulz family was given a black and white dog they named Spike. The
terrier impressed the family with his wild ways and intelligence-he could
understand about 50 words. Spike would later become the inspiration for Snoopy.
One of the initial themes Schulz set out to explore in Peanuts was the cruelty
that exists among children. Lucy was an example of that, and her most heartless
behavior was usually directed toward Charlie Brown or Linus.
Schulz got the idea for Pigpen from a friend in Colorado who sometimes referred
to his children by unusual names, one of them being Pigpen.
Sally was the first character to have her birth recorded in Peanuts; she
entered the strip in 1959 as Charlie Brown's little sister.
Schulz considered Peppermint Patty - inspired by a dish of candy and introduced
in 1966 - a character that could "almost carry another strip by
herself."
Over time, Schulz began to draw a gaggle of birds in his strip. One of those
birds began to stand out and was named Woodstock - after the Woodstock Festival
- on June 22, 1970.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(87) - Stephen Babcock, American Agricultural Chemist (Babcock
test and father of scientific dairying) (d.1931)
(86) - Dory Previn [Dorothy Veronica Langan], singer-songwriter
(d. 2012)
(78) - Sarah Bernhardt, France, actress (Camille, Queen
Elizabeth) (d.1923)
(74) - Franz Liszt, composer/virtuoso pianist (Faust Symphony),
(d. 1886)
77 - Christopher Lloyd, American actor (Taxi, Back to the
Future)
72 - Catherine Deneuve, [Dorleac], Paris, actress (Repulsion,
Hunger)
(70) - Annette Funicello, Utica NY, actress (Mickey Mouse Club)
(d.2013)
67 - Lynette Fromme, attempted to assassinate US President
Gerald Ford
63 - Jeff Goldblum, Pitts Pa, actor (Fly, Jurassic Park,
Independence Day)
(48) - Curly Howard (Jerome Lester Horwitz), vaudevillian, The
Three Stooges (d. 1952)
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Historical
Obits Today
Arnold J. Toynbee, English
historian (A Study of History)-1975@86
Andrew Noble,
Scottish Physicist - founder of the science of ballistics-1915@84
Soupy Sales,
American comedian and television personality-2009@83
Mary Wickes, actress
(Sister Act)-1995@79
Russell Means, Native
American activist, esophageal cancer-2012@72
Paul Cézanne, French
Post-Impressionist painter, pneumonia-1906@67
Thomas Mayne Reid,
Irish-American novelist-1883@65
Charles "Pretty
Boy" Floyd, gangster, shot dead by FBI-1934@30
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Brain
Teasers Answers
The Center of Attention
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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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