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October
, 2015 Week:
44 \ Day: 299
October Averages:
62°\32°
86004 Today: H 67° \ L 34° Average
Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
13mph
Ave. High: 59° Record High: 75°[1959]
Ave. Low: 28° Record Low: 14°[1972]
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Observances
Today:
Howl at The Moon Night Link
Lung Health Day Link (Monday
of Respiratory Care Week.)
Mule Day
Visit A Cemetery Day
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Diwali (Deepavali - Hindu)
National Day (Austria)
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Observances
This Week:
24-30
Disarmament
Week
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week
World Origami Days
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Link
National Massage Therapy Week Link
National Respiratory Care Week Link
Pastoral Care Week Link
Give Wildlife a Brake! Week Link
International Magic Week: 25-31
Kids
Care Week
Red Ribbon Week Link
International Dyslexia Association Reading Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1749 - Georgia Colony reverses itself & rules
slavery is legal
1774 - Minute Men organized in colonies
1787 - "Federalist Papers" published,
calls for ratification of US Constitution
1810
- US annexes western Florida
1825 - Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake
Erie opened
1861 - Pony Express ends
1869 - 1st American steeplechase horserace
(Westchester, NY)
1881 - Wyatt, Virgil and
Morgan Earp along with Doc Holliday faced off against the Clantons and McLaurys
in what has become known as the Shootout at the OK Corral. Three men were
killed and two wounded in less than a minute.
1900 - After 4 years of work, first section of New
York subway opens
1916 - Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity
(advocating birth control)
1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson's veto of
Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden
1941 - US savings bonds go on sale
1949 - US President Harry Truman increases minimum
wage from 40 cents to 75 cents (2015
dollars: $3.80-$7.31)
1954 - Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine1962 - Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to
withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey: offer is
rejected
1968 - George Foreman wins gold for USA at
Mexico Olympic games (Heavyweight)
1970 - "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in
28 newspapers
2001 - The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act
into law.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1492 - Lead pencils first used
1863 - International conference begins in Geneva
aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields - beginning of the Red
Cross
1863 - Football Association forms in England,
standardizing soccer, splitting with rugby
1947 - The British Military Occupation ends in Iraq.
1950 - Mother Teresa founds Missionaries of
Charity in Calcutta, India
1951 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m,
25,000m & 15 miles
1956
- UN's International Atomic Energy Agency
statute approved
1978 - Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat named winners
of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1999 - Britain's House of Lords votes to end the
right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Good Sunday, a little cloudy but no rain.
Happy to hear Obama bring an end to ‘No Child Left Behind”. From
my perspective it was never a good idea. Elementary children learn so much in
early schooling and it is not all measurable on a standardized test. Most
creativity has been abolished from the curriculum and basically everything is
taught for the test. Scores did not go up and so much more was lost to a
generation. Life is not about filling in bubbles or regurgitating facts. Maybe
this move will bring back art, music, PE, social studies and more back into the
elementary school. And maybe, just maybe, kids will be able to be kids again.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Once
upon a time there was a dad and 3 kids. When the kids were adults, the dad was
old and Death came to take the dad. The first son, who became a lawyer, begged
Death to let the dad live a few more years. Death agreed. When Death came back,
the second son, who became a doctor begged Death to let his fsather live a few
more days. Death agreed. When Death came back the third son, who became a
priest begged Death to let the dad live till that candle wick burned out and he
pointed to a candle. Death agreed. The third son knew Death wouldn't come back,
and he didn't. Why not?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor, was left
stranded on a deserted island in 1704, but survived for over 4 years, partly by
using feral cats to protect him from ravenous rats that attacked during the
night.
Canadian Nobel Prize recipient Dr. Frederick Banting,
discoverer of insulin, sold the rights to the University of Toronto for $1 so
that it was available to everyone.
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…Crazy
Law…
Connecticut Is Bizarrely Strict: Part IV
"It is illegal for any beautician in
Waterbury, Connecticut to whistle, hum, or sing while working on a
customer..."
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…Harper’s
Index…
Returns tomorrow
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @edkashi/@viiphoto: A local water station
operated by the municipality, part of a water project implemented by Millennium
Villages Project, now brings fresh water to the people of Takorase, Ghana on
Oct. 5, 2015. 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…
23. In Nigeria:
In Nigeria, they say it is bad luck to kiss a baby on the lips, or
they will grow up to be adults who drool (via Thrillist)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The first disposable diaper was called a “boater.”
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2
jokes for the day
At a traffic court, the judge asked the
motorist: Tell me, why did you park your car here?
The man said: “Well, there was a sign that said “fine for parking.”
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A man goes into B&Q and says, “I’d like to
order 5,000 facing bricks.”
“Certainly” says the salesman, “Are they for a garage?”
“No” says the man; “They’re for a Bar-B-Q”
“Why do you need so many?” asks the salesman
“Well,” says the man “We live in a 3rd floor flat.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
CHAMPLIN,
Minn. - Police in Minnesota arrested a woman accused of sending anonymous
threats to a neighbor family saying she wanted to "taste" their
"delicious children." Champlin police said Carrie Pernula, 38, was
arrested Friday after an investigation into anonymous threats received by a
family living in her neighborhood. The first note, received by the family Sept.
27, was addressed to "sir or madam" and said simply, "The
children look delicious. May I have a taste?" The children's mother posted
a picture of the letter in a Champlin community Facebook group. The parents
said they soon started receiving magazine subscriptions addressed to "Your
Tasty Children." Police said they tracked the magazine subscriptions back
to Pernula, who admitted to sending the mail. "She was angry because the
kids were leaving things in her yard and I think being a little noisy, being
kids, the way kids are," Champlin Deputy Police Chief Ty Schmidt told
WCCO-TV. Police said the Champlin city attorney is reviewing the case for
potential charges of gross misdemeanor terroristic threats and stalking.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
1. Infidelity doesn’t
necessarily signal an unhappy relationship. Regardless of the correlation
between relationship dissatisfaction and adultery, among individuals engaging
in infidelity in one study, 56% of men and 34% of women rated their marriage as
“happy” or “very happy,” suggesting that genetics may also play a role in
philandering.
2. Mate poaching is a
pronounced trend. In a recent survey of single American men and women, 60% of
men and 53% of women admitted to “mate poaching,” trying to woo an individual
away from a committed relationship to begin a relationship with them instead. Mate
poaching is also common in 30 other cultures.
3. There are different
types of infidelity. Researchers have broadened the definition of infidelity to
include sexual infidelity (sexual exchange with no romantic involvement),
romantic infidelity (romantic exchanges with no sexual involvement) and sexual
and romantic involvement.
4. Infidelity has been a
reality across cultures. It was also common among the classical Greeks and
Romans, pre-industrial Europeans, historical Japanese, Chinese and Hindus and
among the traditional Inuit of the arctic, Kuikuru of the jungles of Brazil,
Kofyar of Nigeria, Turu of Tanzania and many other tribal societies.
5. Pairbonding is a
hallmark of humanity. Data from the Demographic Yearbooks of the United Nations
on 97 societies between 1947 and 1992 indicate that approximately 93.1% of
women and 91.8% of men marry by age 49.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(95) - Edward W.
Brooke, 1st Af- Am. senator in over 80 yrs (Sen-R-Mass) (d.2015)
(86) - John S Knight,
WV, publisher (Knight-Rider) (d.1981)
(79) - Francois
Mitterrand, 21st President of France (d.1996)
70 - Pat Conroy,
American writer (Great Santini, Prince of Tides)
(69) - Jackie Coogan,
actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family) (d. 1984)
69 - Pat Sajak,
TV host (Wheel of Fortune, Pat Sajak Show)
68 - Hillary Rodham Clinton,
First Lady, Senator, Secretary of State
(61) - Vasily V
Vereshchagin, Russian painter (War & Peace) (d.1904)
(60) - Mahalia Jackson,
gospel singer (Whole World in his Hands) (d.1972)
(59) - C. W. Post,
American cereal entrepreneur (d. 1914)
54 - Dylan McDermott,
actor (The Practice, American Horror Story)
42 - Seth MacFarlane,
American animator
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Historical
Obits Today
Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in
1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase-2007@89
William Paley, CEO (CBS)-1990@89
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights
activist-1902@86
Tony Hillerman, American writer-2008@83
Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian writer
(Pinocchio)-1890@61
Hoyt Axton, \ country music singer-songwriter, heart
attack-1999@61
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Brain
Teasers Answers
The third son went over and blew out the candle after Death left
because the son said "till the candle wick burns out", not "till
the candle burns out".
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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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