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9.22.16 Week: 38 \ Day: 266
September Averages: 74°\42°
86004 Today: H 75° \
L 51° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 83°[1949] Record Low: 20°[1912]
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Quote of the Day
It is not how much we have, but
how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
~Charles Spurgeon
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Observances Today
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American Business Women's Day
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Autumn Equinox 10:21 AM EDT
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Car Free Day Link
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Chainmail Day (Link
removed due to malware)
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Dear Diary Day
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Ice Cream Cone Day
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Mabon - a harvest festival
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National Centenarian's Day
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National Rock n' Roll Dog Day
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National Teach Ag Day Link
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National White Chocolate Day Link
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Independence Day (Mali-1960-from
France)
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Observances This Week
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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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19-25 Link
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International Week of the Deaf
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19-25
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International Women's E-Commerce Days
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19-23 Link
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National Love Your Files Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
Today’s World Historical Highlights
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1499 Switzerland
became an independent state.
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1598 Playwright
and poet Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter as the result of a
duel.
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1656 All
female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her)
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1692 Last
people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 20 hanged overall during Salem
witch trials
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1735 Robert
Walpole becomes the first British "Prime Minister" (actually First
Lord of the Treasury) to live at 10 Downing Street
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1745 Bonnie
Prince Charlie's army returns to Edinburgh
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1789 Congress
established the Postal Service, initially requiring the first Postmaster
General to report to the President through the Secretary of the Treasury
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1817 John
Quincy Adams becomes US Secretary of State
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1851 The city
of Des Moines, Iowa was incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
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1861 Fort
Fauntleroy (Wingate), rapes Navaho Indians
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1896 Queen Victoria surpasses
her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British
history.
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1915 Southern
Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its 1st class
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1915 Xavier
University, 1st Black Catholic College in US, opens in NO LA
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1922 US
Congress passes the Cable Act, under which an American women who marries an
'alien' will not lose citizenship; neither will a women marrying an American
automatically become a citizen
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1937 Forest
fire kills 14 & injures 50 in Cody Wyoming
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1950 Nobel
peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner)
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1957 Western
"Maverick" premieres on ABC television starring James Garner
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1958 KTVK TV
channel 3 in Phoenix, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting
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1964 "Fiddler
on the Roof" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 3242 performances
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1964 "Man
from U.N.C.L.E," premieres on NBC-TV
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1973 Henry
Kissinger, sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State
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1975 Second
assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane
Moore fails in San Francisco
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1976 "Charlie's
Angels" starring Farrah Fawcett debuts
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1981 Sandra
Day O'Connor appointed to Supreme Court
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1985 First
Farm Aid concert held, organized by Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John
Mellencamp
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1985 Earthquake
strikes Mexico, 2,000 killed
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1985 French
Prime Minister Laurent Fabius appears on TV to confess "Agents of the
DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on orders.”
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1997 Elton
John releases "Candle in the Wind 1997", a tribute to Diana,
Princess of Wales in the US
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2003 David Hempleman-Adams becomes the
first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot
air balloon.
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2011 CERN
scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light
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2015 Volkswagen
admits that 11 million cars have been wrongly programmed to appear to emit
lesser emissions than they are
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2015 Palangkaraya
in Indonesian Borneo records the highest air pollutant index (API) value ever
recorded of 1,986 due to haze caused by forest fires deliberately lit to
clear land for palm oil plantations
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My Rambling Thoughts
Cloudy
day, weather guy says we are still in the monsoon until the end of Sept. Hmmm.
Yesterday was a nice drizzle most of the day…not the monsoon thunderstorms we
associate with the monsoon. Might get some more rain today and tomorrow, based
on a tropical storm down south.
Yesterday
was a ‘long pants’ day, but today is back to shorts…nice. Did some running
around and had to turn on the AC, yesterday my running around required the
heater.
For
those who are not concerned about the Black Lives Matter movement, note the
number of Blacks killed by police…sometimes for little or nothing…and the police’s
capture of live terrorists. A Black man is killed and the news is full of his
previous bad deeds. A White man rapes and the news is filled with what he could
be.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
I Wonder?
Trivia brain teasers have some element of trivia
in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
What
common household item wouldn't have become popular if it wasn't for another
invention in 1928 (it didn't take off until 1930)?
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
How
many NFL games will be played this (regular) season?
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…Harper’s Index…
-38 – Percentage change since 2010 in the annual number
of applicants to US law schools
1/5 – Portion of licensed attorneys in the US who have
a drinking problem
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2 jokes for the day
Dig
This!
Back
in my hippie college days, a professor came up to me in the cafeteria and asked
me, "Ya dig?"
I thought to myself, this guy's pretty far out. I answered, "Yeh, man. I
dig!"
That's how I got hoodwinked into joining his archaeological expedition.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Play-Doh
was first sold as a wallpaper cleaner. People could remove soot and dirt from
their wall coverings by simply rolling the wad of goop across the surface.
***
Since
its inception, two billion cans of Play-Doh have been sold. If you took all of
that Play-Doh ever made and wadded it into a giant ball, it would weigh as much
as 2,000 Statues of Liberty.
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Back
when it was a household cleaner, the product came in only one dud of a color:
off-white. When it hit stores as a toy in 1955, red, blue and yellow were
available. These days, you can find nearly every color of the rainbow, but a
consumer poll taken in 2000 revealed that the fan favorites are rose red,
purple paradise, garden green and blue lagoon.
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For
quite some time, Dr. Tien Liu had a resume blurb no one else in the world could
claim: Play-Doh expert. Liu helped perfect the Play-Doh formula for the
original company, Rainbow Crafts, and stayed on as a Play-Doh Expert when the
modeling compound was purchased by Kenner and then Hasbro.
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Demeter
Fragrance Library worked with Hasbro to make a Play-Doh fragrance to
commemorate the product's 50th anniversary. Hasbro said the fragrance is
"meant for highly creative people, who seek a whimsical scent reminiscent
of their childhood."
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That
little guy on the box? His name is Play-Doh Pete. Back in the early days, the
Play-Doh mascot was a somewhat creepy-looking elf. Sometime in the '60s, the
mascot morphed into a beret-wearing boy and picked up the name Pete.
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How it was discovered
Sometimes
all you really need to make the next leap in science is a snack. Percy Spencer
was an American engineer who, while working for Raytheon, walked in front of a
magnetron, a vacuum tube used to generate microwaves, and noticed that the
chocolate bar in his pocket melted. In 1945 after a few more experiments (one
involving an exploding egg), Spencer successfully invented the first microwave
oven. The first models were a lot like the early computers: bulky and unrealistic.
In 1967, compact microwaves would begin filling American homes.
Snacking,
then, is good for science.
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Birthdays Today
“[
]” indicates age at death
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[96] Charlotte Cooper,
English
tennis champion and the 1st female Olympic champion in 1900, born in Ealing,
England (d. 1966)
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89- Tom Lasorda [Thomas],
baseball
manager (LA Dodgers), born in Norristown, Pennsylvania
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82- Lute Olson,
American
basketball coach [u of A]
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[78] Lord
Chesterfield,
letter
writer; introduced Gregorian calendar (d 1773)
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[76] Ingemar
Johansson,
Sweden,
world heavyweight boxing champ (d 2009)
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[64] Allan
"Rocky" Lane,
Mishawaka
Ind, actor (voice of Mr Ed, Red Ryder) [d 1973]
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60- Debby Boone,
Hackensack
NJ, singer (You Light Up My Life)
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58- Joan Jett,
American
singer (Blackhearts-I Love Rock 'n Roll), born in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
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58- Neil Cavuto,
fox
television commentator
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56- Scott Baio,
Bkln,
(Joanie Loves Chachi, Charles in Charge, Zapped)
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55- Bonnie Hunt,
American
actress
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[41] Anne of Cleves,
Queen
of England and 4th wife of Henry VIII, born in Dusseldorf, Holy Roman Empire
(d. 1557)
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Historical Obits Today
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@70-1539 Guru Nanak Dev,
founder
of Sikhism
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@44-1554 Francisco
Vázquez de Coronado,
Spanish
explorer/conquistador, led expedition of 1st Europeans to discover Grand
Canyon, fall from horse
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@21-1776 Nathan Hale,
US
captain/patriot/spy, hanged by the British for spying
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@79-1956 Frederick
Soddy,
English
chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
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@65-1987 Dan Rowan,
actor
(Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in), lymphoma
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@101-1989 Irving Berlin [Israel Isidore
Baline],
American
composer and lyricist considered one of the greatest songwriters in American
history (God Bless America, White Xmas)
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@81-1996 Dorothy Lamour,
actress
(Road to Bali, Road to Rio)
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@82-1997 Shoichi Yokoi,
Jap
WW II fighter (surrendered in 1972)
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@71-1999 George C.
Scott,
American
actor (Dr. Strangelove), ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
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@71-2003 Gordon Jump,
American
television actor, repertory failure
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@84-2007 Marcel Marceau,
French
mime artist (b. 1923)
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@82-2010 Eddie Fisher,
American
singer (b. 1928)
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@90-2015 Yogi Berra [Lawrence Peter
Berra],
American
baseball catcher, coach and manager (NY Yankees, Mets)
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Brain Teasers Answers
The
toaster.
The first electric toaster was invented in 1893 in Great Britain by Crompton
and Co (UK) and re-invented in 1909 in the United States. It only toasted one
side of the bread at a time and it required a person to stand by and turn it
off manually when the toast looked done. Charles Strite invented the modern
timer, pop-up toaster in 1919.
Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the bread slicer, which he started working on
in 1912. At first, Rohwedder came up with the idea of a device that held the
slices together with hat pins (not a success). In 1928, he designed a machine
that sliced and wrapped the bread to prevent the sliced bread from going stale.
Pre-sliced bread was popularized by Wonder Bread in 1930, helping to spread the
toaster's popularity further.
The hint refers to the common phrase "The best thing since sliced
bread".
The title is a subtle hint to "Wonder Bread".
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Trivia Hive
Answers
256
There
will be 256 games that span the 17 week NFL season. Each team will play 16
games and each game is about 3 hours, 10 minutes and 34 seconds long which
means, gentlemen, you probably have over 50 hours of stuffing wings and
drinking beers. And ladies, 50 hours of debating whether or not you should tell
him he really needs to use a coaster for his Bud Light. Source: The NFL website
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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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