FYI:
This blog is now at a new address. Any blue
text is a link. Click to check it out!
November
23, 2015 Week:
48 \ Day: 327
November Averages:
51°\22°
86004 Today: H 51° \ L 19° Average
Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts:
18mph
Ave. High: 48° Record High: 69°[1954]
Ave. Low: 20° Record Low: -2°[1931]
Observances
Today:
Doctor Who Day
Fibonacci Day Link
International Day To End Impunity Link
International Image
Consultant Day
National Expresso Day Link
⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆
Observances
This Week:
20-28
National
Farm-City Week
GERD Awareness Week Link
National Family Week
National Game & Puzzle
Week
23-29
Better
Conversation Week
Church/State Separation Week
National
Deal Week
⋆ ⋆
Quote
of the Day
⋆ ⋆
US
Historical Highlights for Today
1848 - Female Medical Educational Society forms in
Boston
1852 - Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake
Merced, SF, CA to drop 30' (9m)
1863 - Patent granted for a process of making color
photographs
1889 - Debut of 1st jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon,
San Francisco)
1897 - Andrew J Beard invents "jerry
coupler" to connect railroad cars
1897 - Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love
1903 - Enrico Caruso US debut (Metropolitan Opera
House, NY) in "Rigoletto"
1904 - 3rd Olympic games close in St Louis
1918 - Tucson Board of
Health issued an order that no one should appear in public without wearing a
mask in order to combat the spread of influenza. Five thousand masks were given
out by Red Cross volunteers at the Armory.
1921 - Pres Harding signs Willis Campell Act
(anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal
purposes
1936 - 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created
by Henry R Luce is published1979 - Pink
Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks
1982 - FCC drops limits on duration & frequency
of TV ads
1988 - President Reagan announces that he is
pocket-vetoing a bill designed to further restrict lobbying by former federal
employees.
⋆ ⋆
World
Historical Highlights for Today
1584 - English parliament expels Jesuits
1644 - Areopagitica, a pamphlet by John Milton,
decrying censorship published
1654 - French mathematician, scientist, and
religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense, mystical
vision that marks him for life.
1869 - In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty
Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one
still surviving to this day.
1963 - "Doctor Who" the long-running
British sci-fi series debuts
1964 - Vatican abolishes Latin as official language
of Roman Catholic liturgy
1974 - 60 Ethiopia government officials executed
2005 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president of
Liberia, is the first woman to lead an African country.
2014 - Mass protests in Mexico by relatives of 43
missing Mexican students, who the authorities say were murdered by a drugs gang
🍁
🍁
♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Quiet Sunday. Warming up a little. Slept in after watching Netflix
way too late last night.
Broncos won…yeah! Colts won so yeah to the Focus travelers from
Indianapolis. Card play tonight.
Caught up on my Sunday morning news shows. First time in several
weeks. Getting back in the groove.
🍁
🍁
Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Unscramble
the words below and follow the instructions in parentheses.
1. REDE (Take the 3rd letter)
2. SAVEREB (Take the 4th letter)
3. HERSWS (Take the 5th letter)
4. OSINB (Take the 4th letter)
5. SOMEO (Take the 4th letter)
6. LETANPOE (Take the 5th letter)
Now unscramble the letters you got to find your answer.
…Amazing
Facts…
A couple from Bristol who had trouble selling
their house, found out they had an original Banksy on their wall, and received
twice the asking price by selling the painting with a house attached.
The inventor of the Game Boy, was originally
Nintendo’s janitor and maintenance man. His name was Gunpei Yokoi.
⋆ ⋆
…Crazy
Law…
Idaho
Under a chapter titled “Mayhem,” Idaho lays
out why eating other people is not cool, guys. Cannibalism will get you up to
14 years in prison… except in extreme cases where you had to eat your friend to
survive. And if that’s the case, you’ve already been punished enough.
⋆ ⋆
…Harper’s
Index…
27 – number
of facial composites created with DNA from litter in Hong Kong for use in a local
public-shaming campaign
⋆ ⋆
…Cuba
Photo of the Day…
Two wonderful senior ladies, in their 70's, who entertained us. They belong to a
group of seniors who perform dancing and singing around their town to stay
active and to show others that elders still can be active. Very cool!
⋆ ⋆
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
3D printers aren’t just for making toys. Doctors and engineers
worked together to print a dissolvable splint that was implanted into a child’s
trachea to allow him to breath.
2
jokes for the day
Buying a Horse
Little Johnny attended a horse auction with
his father. He watched as his father moved from horse to horse, running his
hands up and down the horse’s legs and rump, and chest.
After a few minutes, Johnny asked, "Dad,
why are you doing that?"
His father replied, "Because when I am
buying horses, I have to make sure that they are healthy and in good shape
before I buy."
Johnny, looking worried, said, "Dad, I
think the UPS guy wants to buy Mom."
⋆ ⋆
Funny as Crap
Two old men in a retirement village were
sitting in the reading room and one said to the other, "How do you really
feel? I mean, you're 72 years old, how do you honestly feel?"
"Honestly, I feel like a new born baby.
I've got no hair, no teeth, and I just wet myself."
⋆ ⋆
Yep,
It Really Happened
PLOVER, Wis. - A
Wisconsin police chief said an ordinance imposing fines on the parents of
school bullies is based around the idea that "it's the parents' job to
raise the kids." Plover Police Chief Dan Ault, who suggested the ordinance
passed by the town two weeks ago, said parents of children who police determine
to have engaged in bullying behavior multiple times within a 90-day period can
now be made to pay a $124 fine. "It's not the school's responsibility to
raise the kids. It's the school's job to teach the kids. It's not the police's
job to raise your kids," Ault told WAOW-TV. "It's the parents' job to
raise the kids." Ault, who said his scheme was partially inspired by data
suggesting teen suicide is sometimes associated with violence in schools, said
he hopes parents are inspired to take responsibility for their kids and act
like role models. "If my kids broke something or something happened, I was
responsible for it," he told the Stevens Point Journal. "One way or
the other, I was responsible for it as the parent." Jeanne Koepke,
principal of McDill Elementary School in Plover, welcomed the new ordinance.
"Students have to learn to be social to each other, and that can sometimes
be very mean," she said. "I certainly can't imagine you don't get
good results when including parents/guardians in what's going on with their
children, so I have to assume it's going to be a good result." Ault said
the first offense will only result in a warning and an offer of help for the
parents. "If they don't know what to do, we're certain we'll be able to
provide some guidance on who to contact," Ault said. "Do kids have
disputes, yes, but this repeated behavior where somebody you know, is
intentionally being malicious, that's when we're involved."
⋆ ⋆
Somewhat
Useless Information
1. You burn about
200 Calories during 30 minutes of active sex.
2. Laughing for 10
minutes can make you burn between 20 and 40 Calories.
3. A one minute
kiss can burn between 2 and 4 Calories, depending on how intimate it is.
4. Singing in the shower
can burn an extra 10-20 Calories per song, depending on the volume and pitch of
your voice.
5. Hugging for one hour
can burn 70 Calories.
6. On average, if
you walk your dog for 30 minutes, you burn 100 Calories.
7. You burn more
calories sitting in the cold, than heat.
8. On average,
brushing your teeth for three minutes will burn 10 Calories.
9. Chewing gum burns 11
Calories per hour.
10. Pushing a
shopping trolley up the aisles for half an hour will burn over 100 Calories,
this number increases with the amount you put in your trolley and the heavier
it gets.
11. Missing a night of
sleep causes the body to burn about an extra 161 calories.
12. Don’t walk stairs
step by step. Instead, skip steps. This will work your leg muscles and burn
more calories.
13. Want to knock
out 266 calories? Spend 30 minutes rearranging the furniture in your home.
14. Sit on a
balance ball when you work at your desk. The work required to maintain your
balance will burn a bunch of calories.
15. While you sit at your
desk, shake your legs. It’ll burn calories. After doing it for long enough, you
may start not even noticing you’re doing it.
16. Spicy food ups your
metabolism. Especially useful is spicy food with chill pepper and mustard
seeds. They contain capaicin, which is a calorie-burning compound.
17. Constant texting can
burn 40 Calories per hour.
18. For every 765
times that you put on lip gloss, you burn 100 calories!
19. Spend 30
minutes carefully drying your hair after a shower. It’ll burn a whopping 100
calories.
20. Give someone
who is stressed out a 30-minute massage. It’ll help you burn 145 calories,
while relieving the person’s stress.
🍁
🍁
Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(81) - Boris Karloff,
[William H Pratt], Dulwich England, actor (Frankenstein) (d.1969)
(81) - Jerry Bock,
New Haven CT, Broadway composer (Fiddler on the Roof) (d.2010)
(77) - Josiah Dwight
Whitney, Northampton Massachusetts, American Geologist who led the
California Geological Survey (Mount Whitney and Whitney Glacier are named for
him) (d.1896)
(76) - George O'Hanlon,
American actor (Calvin-Life of Riley, George Jetson), born in Brooklyn, (d.1989)
(75) - Harpo Marx,
[Adolph] actor/comedian (Marx brothers), born in NYC, (d.1964)
(74) - Steve Landesberg,
comedian/actor (Barney Miller), born in The Bronx, (d.2010)
(64) - Franklin Pierce,
Hillsboro NH, (D) 14th Pres (1853-1857) (d.1869)
23 - Miley Cyrus, Nashville, Tennessee, actress and singer
(Hannah Montana, The Climb)
(21) - Billy the Kid,
[William H Bonney], frontier outlaw, born in NYC, (d. 1881)
Historical
Obits Today
@82 - Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), US poet/Comanche chief, 1872
@81 - Larry Hagman,
actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas), throat cancer-2012
@74 - Roald Dahl,
British short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), blood disease-1990
@70 - Elbrige Gerry,
VP (of Gerrymander fame), 1914
@64 - Jr. Walker,
American musician, cancer-1995
🍁
🍁
Brain
Teasers Answers
1. DEER, E
2. BEAVERS, V
3. SHREWS, W
4. BISON, O
5. MOOSE, S
6. ANTELOPE, L
EVWOSL unscrambles to become WOLVES. Wolves have been known to hunt deer,
beavers, shrews, bison, moose, and antelope, among other things. Although a
pack of wolves generally likes bigger game like bison, a single wolf will eat
smaller things like shrews. They will even eat earthworms and fruits if they
must.
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.
No comments:
Post a Comment