October 31, 2016

Nov 1

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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
·         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'
·         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

·         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

·         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)
·         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)
·         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

·         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
·         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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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)
74- Larry Flynt, American magazine publisher (Hustler), born in Lakeville, Kentucky
70- Marcia Wallace, Creston Iowa, actress (Carol-Bob Newhart Show), (d. 2013)
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)
49- Barry Sadler, American singer (d. 1989)
44- Jenny McCarthy, playmate (Oct, 1993)/host (Singled Out), born in Chicago, Illinois
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)
@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
@66-1955 Dale Carnegie, American writer, Hodgkin's disease
@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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