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9.18.16 Week: 38 \ Day: 262
September Averages: 74°\42°
86004 Today: H 74° \
L 34° Average Sky Cover: %
Wind ave: 8
mph\Gusts: 11mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 86°[1956] Record Low: 27°[2006]
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Quote of the Day
The first wealth is health. ~Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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Observances Today
Air
Force Birthday
Clean Up The World Weekend: 16-18 Link
Chiropractic
Founders Day Link
Hug A Greeting Card Writer Day
National Ceiling Fan Day Link
National HIV/AIDS and Aging
Awareness Day Link
National Respect Day Link
World Water Monitoring Day Link
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Observances This Week
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8-18 Link
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National North West Cider Week
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12-18 Link
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Balance Awareness Week
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14-18 Link
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National Guitar Flat-Picking Days
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15-18 Link
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Hummingbird Celebration
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18-24
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Build A Better Image Week
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18-24 Link
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Child Passenger Safety Week
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18-24
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National Security Officer Appreciation Week
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18-24 Link
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Pollution Prevention Week
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week
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National Clean Hands Week
National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week
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National Dog Week
National Historically Black Colleges &
Universities Week
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18-24
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National Keep Kids Creative Week
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18-24
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Remember to Register to Vote Week
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18-24 Link
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Sea Otter Awareness Week
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18-24
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Tolkien Week
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18-24
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World Reflexology Week
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18-25 Link
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Deaf Dog Awareness Week
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18-24
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International Interpreters and Translators Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
Today’s World Historical Highlights
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1755 Fort
Ticonderoga, New York opens
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1759 Battle
of Quebec ends, French surrender to British who capture Quebec City
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1769 John
Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, builds 1st spinet piano
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1789 1st loan
is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress
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1793 US
President George Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building1809 Royal
Opera House in London opens
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1810 Chile
declares independence from Spain (National Day)
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1812 Great
Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 day, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000
killed
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1846 Elizabeth
Barrett and Robert Browning exchange last letters before eloping
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1851 New York
Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy)
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1873 Government
bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start
of the panic of 1873 and the Long depression
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1885 Riots
break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
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1906 A
typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
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1914 Irish
Home Rule bill receives Royal assent
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1927 The
Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. with 18 stations (and WOR as
NYC affiliate)
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1942 Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
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1945 1000
whites walk out of Gary, Indiana, schools to protest integration
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1947 US
Department of Defense 1st day of operation
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1947 National
Security Act passes
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1947 US Air
Force created as a separate military service (National Security Act 1947)
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1957 "Wagon
Train" premieres
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1964 "The
Addams Family", starring John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Ted Cassidy,
and Jackie Coogan, premieres on ABC
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1965 "Get
Smart" premieres
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1965 "I
Dream of Jeannie", starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old
genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, premieres on
NBC
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1967 Yellowknife
replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada
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1969 Tiny Tim
& Miss Vicky get engaged
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1971 Momofuku
Ando markets the first Cup Noodle, packaging it a waterproof polystyrene
container
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1976 Mao
Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing
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1977 US
Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together
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1990 500 lb
6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC
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1997 Ted
Turner gives $1 billion to UN
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1997 Voters
in Wales vote yes (50.3%) in a referendum on Welsh autonomy.
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1998 Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is formed.
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2001 First
mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax
attacks.
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2007 Buddhist
monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called
the Saffron Revolution.
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2014 Scotland
votes 'NO' in a referendum deciding whether or not to stay with the United
Kingdom
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My Rambling Thoughts
Lots
of reading and preparing for tonight’s talk on ISIS. Learned so much. We are
involved in a religious war with this group. We need a lot of education
regarding this mess. Instead of calling it a ‘Muslim’ thing we need to start
differentiating between Shi’a and Sunni; the same way we differentiate between
Catholics and Methodists. The two denominations of Muslim have very different
outlooks on the Koran, on history, and on the world. So glad I belong to this
group.
Weatherwise,
fall is in the air, at least at night. Windows are closed until way after
sunrise, except for the bedroom window which is still open about an inch all
night. Still no blanket, just a sheet. My CPAP is now part of my routine and
really isn’t a bother anymore.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
I Show You
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a
question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a
requirement.
You
see me often ladies,
For I am a part of your life.
I sometimes bother babies
But prefer to cause adults strife.
My looks are a sign of your personality.
My strength cannot measure up to yours.
With most people I am there for eternity.
Onto me, water often pours.
Many look to me with pride,
While others wish to change me.
Drifting slowly, my time I bide
Waiting for you to see
That I am just a thing you're given,
Not something very important.
For I have always been and will forever be dead.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
Who
currently holds the record for longest field goal kick in the NFL?
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…Harper’s Index…
40 – Number of states in which menstrual products are
taxed as nonessential goods
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2 jokes for the day
"The
Arizona Senate passed a bill making it illegal for a
person to 'intentionally' create 'a human-animal hybrid.'
And right afterward, one farmer was like, 'Define
intentionally.'" -Jimmy Fallon
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"They
sent specialists down to the Gulf to start a controlled
fire on the ocean to burn the oil off. That's how you know
when things are bad, when the ocean on fire is an improve-
ment." -Jay Leno
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Yep, It Really Happened
*---
Inventor Shows Off Air Conditioned Suit ---*
A
Louisiana inventor came up with an innovative, if impractical, way to beat the
summer heat -- an air conditioned bodysuit. A video posted to YouTube shows a
man in a hazmat-style bodysuit with only his hands outside of the garment. The
suit is puffed out like a balloon due to an air hose attached to an air conditioning
unit, which is in turn connected to a gas-powered engine. The invention might
be keeping the man cool, but its portability is limited due to the equipment he
has to pull around in a wagon. The uploader said the suit can also be heated
for the winter and includes a dehumidifier function. The test took place
"in a 114-degree heat index ambient atmosphere of Louisiana." The
cure for cancer can't be far off.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The
inventor of baseball is also credited with firing the first Union shot of Civil
war.
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The
baseball tradition of spring training came about because in 1885 the Chicago
White Stockings went to Hot Springs in Arkansas to prepare for the new season.
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In
July 1934, Babe Ruth paid a fan $20 dollars for the return of the baseball he
hit for his 700th career home run.
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In
an effort to sell more licensed apparel, minor-league baseball teams were
changing their names so often that the sport's governing body now limits
franchises to team name changes every three years.
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The
first perfect nine innings baseball game was achieved by John Lee Richmond on
June 12, 1880.
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Baseball
ended one of its oldest traditions in 1997 when inter league play begin for the
first time. This means that teams from the American league can play National
league teams during the regular season. The first inter league game was played
on June 12, 1997.
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Birthdays Today
“[
]” indicates age at death
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[85] Jack Warden,
actor
(NYPD, Crazy Like a Fox, Norby), born in Newark, New Jersey [d-2006]
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[84] Greta Garbo,
Swedish actress (Ninotchka, Grand Hotel,
Camille), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1990)
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76- Frankie Avalon,
actor
(Beach movies)/singer (Venus), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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[75] Samuel Johnson,
English
scholar and lexicographer (A Dictionary of the English Language), born in
Lichfield Staffordshire (d. 1784)
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[71] Eddie
"Rochester" Anderson,
actor
(Jack Benny Show), born in Oakland, California [d-1977]
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65- [Benjamin] Ben
Carson, American neurosurgeon and political candidate (R), born in Detroit,
Michigan
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52- Holly Robinson
Peete,
actress
(21 Jump Street), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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[51] James Gandolfini,
American
actor (Tony Soprano), born in Westwood, New Jersey (d. 2013)
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45- Lance Armstrong,
American
road cyclist (7 Tour de France wins) barred from sport for using banned
drugs, born in Plano, Texas
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45- Jada Pinkett Smith,
American
actress (Set it Off, Nutty Professor, Menace II Society), born in Baltimore,
Maryland
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43- James Marsden,
American
actor, model
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40-Rolando,
Brazilian
Soccer Player
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Historical Obits Today
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@70-2013 Ken Norton,
American
heavyweight boxer, strokes
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@69-2012 Steve Sabol,
Founder
of NFL Films American filmmaker, brain cancer
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@56-1961 Dag
Hammarskjoeld,
UN
Secretary Gen, air crash over Congo
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@27-1970 Jimi Hendrix,
American
rock guitarist (Purple Haze), drug overdose
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Brain Teasers Answers
Hair.
It often gets in your face (at least it does to girls).
Some babies are born with it, some are not.
You wash your hair often, and get it changed just as much.
This may sound a little too scientific, but hair is made of dead cells, just
like your upper layer of skin.
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Matt
Prater
Currently,
Denver Broncos kicker, Matt Prater, holds the record for longest field goal
kick in NFL history. The record-breaking kick happened on December 8th, 2013
when the seven-year veteran kicked a 64-yard field goal beating out the
previous record of 63 yards held by Tom Dempsey of the New Orlean Saints.
Personally, we find Dempsey's kick to be just a bit more impressive. Tom
Dempsey made the kick with only half of a right foot! Source: Pro Football Hall
of Fame
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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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