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9.23.16 Week: 38 \ Day: 267
September Averages: 74°\42°
86004 Today: H 63° \
L 52° Average Sky Cover: 95%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 86°[1944] Record Low: 25°[1970]
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Quote of the Day
Let us always meet each other
with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
~Mother Teresa
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Observances Today
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Celebrate Bi-sexuality Day
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Checkers Day or Dogs in Politics Day Link
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Hug a Vegetarian Day
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Innergize Day (Day
after the Autumn Equinox)
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Love Note Day Link
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Native American Day
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Restless Legs Awareness Day
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Kingdom Unification (Saudi Arabia-1932)
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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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1642 Harvard
College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement
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1806 Lewis
& Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest
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1862 Lincoln's
Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers
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1879 Richard
Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone
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1897 1st
frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming)
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1907 Proclamation
sets fineness & weight of silver & bronze coins of Canada
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1938 Time
capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule
contained a woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm)
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1941 The
first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. concentration camp
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1942 The
'Manhattan Project' commences, under the direction of US General Leslie
Groves: its aim - to deliver an atomic bomb
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1952 Richard
Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech
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1957 "That'll
Be Day" by Buddy Holly & Crickets reaches #1
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1957 White
mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in
Arkansas to withdraw
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1961 1st
movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire
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1962 ABC's
1st color TV series - The Jetsons
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1964 "Fiddler
on the Roof" with Zero Mostel premieres in NYC
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1969 "Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" directed by George Roy Hill and
starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford premieres
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1994 "The
Shawshank Redemption", starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, is
released
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2002 The first public version of the
web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
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2004 At
least 1,070 in Haiti reported killed by floods due to Hurricane Jeanne
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My Rambling Thoughts
Good
lunch with Cheryl as Mary is on her way to another reunion in the NW. This is
the 50th anniversary of the group who spent a semester in Italy from
her college.
The
rain continues to fall, on and off. A nice female rain that is soaking things
nicely.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Anagram
Rhyme
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You
need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
For
each of the following four words, come up with another English word that uses
all THE SAME letters but in a different order. The four words you come up with
will rhyme with one another.
ONSET
NEWS
WRONG
HORNET
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
Who
said, "I think, therefore I am"?
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…Harper’s Index…
5 –Number of sled dogs injured by a drunk snowmobiler
during this year’s Iditarod race
1 –Number killed
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2 jokes for the day
Kanye
West recently gave his wife, Kim Kardashian, a massive second diamond
engagement ring.
Kim said, “Wow, thank you so much.”
While every married guy in America said, “Yeah, thanks A LOT Kanye!”
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New
research found that pigeons can actually be taught to read and write.
Once the researchers finished teaching the pigeon, the first thing it wrote
was, “Get a life, man.”
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-- Hotel provides framed photos of Jeff Goldblum at guest's request --*
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - A hotel provided several framed photos of actor Jeff
Goldblum in a guest's room to honor his strange request. Seth Freedland, a
speechwriter for Nike, showed off the framed photos in a Facebook post during
his stay at the Huntley Hotel in California. "When I made my reservation at
the Huntley, I was asked if there was anything else they could do to make my
stay more comfortable," Freedland wrote. "I thought about it, and
thought about what might delight the [girlfriend], and asked if they might be
able to place a few framed photos of Jeff Goldblum in the room." Freedland
said he was unsure if the request would be honored, but arrived to find three
different photos of Goldblum at various points in his career. A photo of a
young Goldblum was placed on one of the nightstands, while two more recent
pictures of the actor were placed on a desk and in the bathroom. Freedland also
shared a photo of his girlfriend smiling while holding one of the photos.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The
September equinox occurs the moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator - the
imaginary line in the sky above the Earth's Equator - from north to south. This
happens either on September 22, 23, or 24 every year.
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The Earth's axis is always tilted at an angle of about 23.4 degrees. On any
other day of the year, either the southern hemisphere or the Northern
Hemisphere tilts a little towards the Sun. But on the two equinoxes, the tilt
of the Earth's axis is perpendicular to the Sun's rays.
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The
day have actually been getting shorter since after the Summer Solstice. We will
lose almost 3 minutes of daylight each day until the Winter Solstice.
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What is a harvest moon? It is the full moon which occurs closest to the
autumnal equinox. Since the autumnal equinox will be Sept. 22, the harvest moon
was Sept. 16.
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How it was discovered
On
one particular hiking trip in 1941, Swiss engineer Georges de Mestral found
burrs clinging to his pants and also to his dog's fur. On closer inspection, he
found that the burr's hooks would cling to anything loop-shaped. If he could
only artificially re-create the loops, he might be on to something.
The
result: Velcro. A combination of the words "velvet" and
"crochet," the material had trouble gaining traction in the fashion
industry. But one of its most notable clients in the 1960s was NASA. The agency
used the material in flight suits and to help secure items in zero gravity.
After that, it became a space-age fashion all its own, allowing kids everywhere
to put off learning how to tie shoelaces.
"Big
things have small beginnings." All right, so that's actually a quote from
Michael Fassbender in (Prometheus,) but nothing could be more true for
radio astronomer duo Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias.
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Birthdays Today
“[
]” indicates age at death
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[93] Mickey Rooney,
American
actor, (d. 2014)
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[87] Walter Pidgeon,
New
Brunswick Can, actor (Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie) [d 1984]
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[85] Walter Lippmann,
American
journalist/political writer (Public Opinion), born in NYC, [d 1984]
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[78] Kublai Khan
of
the Mongol Empire, born in Monoglia (d. 1294)
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[74] Euripides,
Greek
playwright (Medea), born in Salamis, Greece (d. 406 BC)
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[73] Ray Charles [Robinson],
American
singer and pianist (Georgia), (Georgia on My Mind, Mess Around), born in
Albany, Georgia (d. 2004)
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73- Julio Iglesias,
Spain,
singer (Of All the Girls I Loved Before)
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71- Paul Petersen,
actor
(Jeff Stone-Donna Reed Show), born in Glendale, California
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[69] Mary Mallon,
Irish-American
patient best known as 'Typhoid
Mary'
and the first person in the United States known to be immune to typhoid, as a
carrier of the disease she infected at least 51 people in the New York City
area, born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland (d. 1938)
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69 Mary Kay Place,
actress/country
singer (Mary Hartman!), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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67- Bruce
Springsteen, [Boss],
Asbury
NJ, rock musician (Born in the USA)
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[40] John Coltrane,
jazz
saxophonist and composer (Blue Train), born in Hamlet, North Carolina (d.
1967)
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Historical Obits Today
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@83-1939 Sigmund Freud,
Austrian
neurologist and creator of psychoanalysis
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@82-1981 Chief Dan
George,
First
Nation Canadian actor (Harry & Tonto, Little Big Man)
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@69-1973 Pablo Neruda, [N R R
Basoalto],
poet
(100 Love Sonnets), heart failure
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@68-1974 Cliff Arquette,
American
comedian (Charlie Weaver), stroke
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@68-1902 John Wesley
Powell,
US
geologist (Grand Canyon)
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@61-1823 Matthew
Baillie,
Scottish
Physician (first systematic study of pathology in 1793), tb
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@60-1987 Bob Fosse,
choreographer
(All the Jazz), heart attack
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Brain Teasers Answers
STONE
SEWN
GROWN
THRONE
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Trivia Hive
Answers
René
Descartes
Descartes
was a man ahead of his time. “Cogito ergo sum," the Latin translation of
"I think therefore I am," was first seen in Descartes' book
"Meditations on First Philosophy." During one particular tangent in
the book, Descartes says that everything he has ever believed in is a lie and
nothing exists. It sounds harsh. However, if you can question your existence
then that means you can think and if you can think then you exist. I think.
Therefore, I am. Source: UnEnlightened English
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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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