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11.1.16 Week: 44 \ Day: 306
November Averages: 51°\22°
86004 Today: H 64° \
L 45° Average Sky Cover: 60%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 19mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 73°[1916] Record Low: 11°[1943]
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Quote of the Day
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like
everyone else.
~Margaret Mead
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Observances Today
Autistic Speaking Day Link
Birth of The Bab
Hockey Mask Day
Dia de Los Muertos (Day of The Dead)
Extra Mile Day
Give Up Your Shoulds Day Link
National Authors' Day
National
Cook For Your Pets Day
National Family Caregiver Day
National Family Literacy Day
National Go Cook For Your Pets Day
Prime Meridian Day
World Vegan Day Link
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Observances This Week
1-7
National
Fig Week
National Patient Accessibility Week
World Communication Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
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Today’s
World Historical Highlights
· 835 All Saints Day made compulsory by Pope Gregory IV
throughout Frankish Kingdom
· 996 First recorded use of modern name for Austria in the
'Ostarrîchi Document'
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1512 Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel
in the Vatican first exhibited
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1570 All
Saints Flood, tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to
Jutland; killing more than 1,000 people.
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1604 William
Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" first presented
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1611 Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Tempest"
first presented
1787 First free school in NYC (African Free School)
opens
1800 John
Adams becomes the first US president to live in White House
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1814 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European
political map after the defeat of France, in the
Napoleonic Wars.
1834 First published reference to poker (as
Mississippi riverboat game)
1848 First US women's medical school opens (Boston)
1867 "Harper's Bazaar" publishes
1870 US Weather Bureau begins operations (24
locations)
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1884 The Gaelic Athletic Association is founded to promote
Irish sport and games; The association denies membership to the police and army
and is immediately infiltrated by the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB)
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1894 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris
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1894 Nicholas
II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
1896 First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in
National Geographic Magazine
1917 In WW I, the 1st US soldiers are killed in
combat
1921 National Birth Control League & Voluntary
Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League
1924 1st US NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded
1928 1st celebration of Authors' Day
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1928 Graf
Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km
1931 Dupont
introduces synthetic rubber
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1932 Wernher
von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program
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1936 Benito Mussolini describes alliance between Italy
and Germany as an "axis"
1936 Rodeo
Cowboy's Association founded
1939 First
animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1940 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
1945 First issue of Ebony magazine published by
John H Johnson
1950 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill US
President Harry Truman at Blair House
1951 Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson
1953 KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins
broadcasting
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1954 General Fulgencio Batista elected President
of Cuba
1954 US Senate admonishes Joseph McCarthy because
of his slander campaigns
1967 "Cool Hand Luke", starring Paul
Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, is released
1969 The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album goes
#1 in US & stays #1 for 11 weeks
1972 1st gay theme TV movie - "That Certain
Summer"
1977 US President Jimmy Carter raises the
minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981
1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas,
spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster
1987 22,000 run in NYC Marathon (won by Ibrahim
Hussein of Kenya 2:11:01)
1997 "Titanic" directed by James
Cameron, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet is
first screened, at the Tokyo International Film Festival (Best Picture 1998)
·
1998 The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.
2012 Google's Gmail becomes the world's most
popular email service
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My Rambling Thoughts
Headed
out to the dentist early…8a appointment. Got my new permanent crown. A little
longer than expected, as a 15 yr old young lady broke her front tooth yesterday
on a swing and the dentist saw her yesterday, but couldn’t do much until today.
All good…except for the computer billing. I paid ½ on the crown when I got the
temporary. Planning to pay the rest today, but the computer had not gotten the
BC rejection yet…I already had it, so I only made another partial payment. I
hate having to keep track of stuff like this, but technology is only as good as
the programmers. Guess I should just be glad I can pay for it…someday.
Happy
that the Broncos won and I got to watch it. Cardinals didn’t win, but that is
no surprise. A Phoenix local sports guy said, with the Cards 3-4-1 record, ‘If
they keep playing like this, it will be very difficult for them to make the
playoffs’…duh!
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Greatest
Area
Trick brain teasers appear difficult
at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
A
farmer challenges an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to fence off
the largest amount of area using the least amount of fence.
The engineer made his fence in a circle and said it was the most efficient.
The physicist made a long line and said that the length was infinite. Then he
said that fencing half of the Earth was the best.
The mathematician laughed at the others and with his design, beat the others.
What did he do?
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
When
did Saturday Night Live premiere?
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…Harper’s Index…
3,379 ◘
Number
of warrantless searches conducted in France since the attacks in Paris last
November
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2 jokes for the day
It's
strange to think 75 years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had
cars.
Today everyone has a car and only the rich own horses.
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Tom
was so excited about his promotion to Vice President of the company he worked
for and kept bragging about it to his wife for weeks on end.
Finally she couldn't take it any longer, and told him, "Listen, it means
nothing, they even have a vice president of peas at the grocery store!"
"Really?" he said. Not sure if this was true or not, Tom decided to
call the grocery store.
A clerk answers and Tom says, "Can I please talk to the Vice President of
peas?"
The clerk replies, "Canned or frozen?"
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Yep, It Really Happened
*---------------
That'll Show Him ---------------*
57-year-old
Glenda Blackwell of North Carolina bought a $10 Carolina Millions scratch-off
ticket after her husband asked her to buy two Powerball tickets. Blackwell said
she got the Carolina Millions to teach him a lesson about wasting money on the
lottery. "I was going to be ugly and buy a scratch-off to show him they
didn't hit," Blackwell said. "Sometimes I get aggravated with him, so
I tell him, 'You're just wasting your money.'" Instead of losing $10,
Blackwell hit the jackpot, winning $1,000,000. "I had to eat my words, but
they were worth eating," she said. "So I was very happy." After
taxes, she received a lump sum of $415,503.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Halloween
was actually a Celtic holiday. It was originally called Samhain meaning
"end of summer". In ancient Celtic Ireland, October 31st marked the
official end of summer.
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Halloween is the number two holiday in terms of commercial success. It's no
surprise that Christmas is number one. Over four billion dollars is spent
annually during the Halloween season. The majority of that money is spent on
costumes, candy, parties, and decorations.
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Often used as symbols of bad luck, black cats grace many Halloween decorations.
The black cat's bad reputation dates back to the Dark Ages, when witch hunts
were commonplace. Elderly, solitary women were often accused of witchcraft, and
their pet cats were said to be their "familiars," or demonic animals
that had been given to them by the devil.
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Medieval folklore also described bats as witches' familiars, and seeing a bat
on Halloween was considered to be quite an ominous sign. One myth was that if a
bat was spotted flying around one's house three times, it meant that someone in
that house would soon die.
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The stereotypical image of the haggard witch with a pointy black hat and warty
nose stems from a pagan goddess known as "the crone," who was honored
during Samhain. The crone was also known as "the old one" and the
"Earth mother," who symbolized wisdom, change, and the turning of the
seasons.
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Pagan Celts believed that after death, all souls went into the crone's
cauldron, which symbolized the Earth mother's womb. There, the souls awaited
reincarnation, as the goddess' stirring allowed for new souls to enter the
cauldron and old souls to be reborn.
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Birthdays Today
indicates age at death
81- Gary
Player, South African PGA golfer (British Open-1959, 68,
74), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
81- Charles
Koch, American businesman and philanthropist (Koch Industries), - 6th= richest
person in the world (2015), born in Wichita, Kansas
80- Carlos
Saavedra Lamas, Argentine jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936), born in Buenos
Aires, Argentina (d. 1959)
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74- Larry
Flynt, American magazine publisher (Hustler), born in
Lakeville, Kentucky
70- Marcia Wallace,
Creston Iowa, actress (Carol-Bob Newhart Show), (d. 2013)
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59- Lyle
Lovett, Klein Tx, country singer (God Will, Joshua Judges Ruth)
56- Fernando
Valenzuela, Navajua Mexico, pitcher (LA Dodgers, SD Padres)
56- Tim
Cook, American businessman (CEO of Apple Inc. 2011-), born in Mobile, Alabama
55- St.
Oliver Plunkett, last Catholic martyr to die in England. (d. 1681)
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49- Barry Sadler, American
singer (d. 1989)
44- Jenny
McCarthy, playmate (Oct, 1993)/host (Singled Out), born in Chicago, Illinois
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28- Stephen
Crane, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage), born in Newark, New Jersey (d.
1900)
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Historical Obits Today
@87-2005 [Lyle Russel] Skitch Henderson, English-born bandleader
@87-1972 Ezra
Loomis Pound, US poet (Throne)
@82-1979 Mamie
Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States)
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@73-2015 Fred
Thompson, US senator (R-Tenn)/actor (In the Line of Fire), cancer
@73-1985 Phil
Silvers, comedic actor (Sgt Bilko), in his sleep
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@66-1955 Dale
Carnegie, American writer, Hodgkin's disease
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@45-1999 Walter
Payton, American Football Hall of Fame Running Back, cancer
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Brain Teasers Answers
The
mathematician made a small fence around himself and declared himself to be on
the outside.
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Trivia Hive
Answers
October
11, 1975
Saturday
Night Live premiered on October 11, 1975 on NBC with musical guests Janis Ian
and Billy Preston. Cast members during 1975 included Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi,
Chevy Chase and Jane Curtin. Source: history.com
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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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