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10.16.16 Week: 42 \ Day: 290
October Averages: 63°\31°
86004 Today: H 69° \
L 37° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 24mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 78°[1991] Record Low: 13°[1984]
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Quote of the Day
There is nothing on this earth
more to be prized than true friendship.
~Thomas Aquinas
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Observances Today
Department
Store Day
National
Feral Cat Day Link
National
Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day
World Toy Camera Day Link
World
Food Day
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Observances This Week
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10-17
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Take Your Medicine Americans Week
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10-16
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World Rainforest Week Link
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12-20
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Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week Link
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16-22
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Bullying Bystanders Unite Week
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16-22
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Freedom From Bullies Week
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16-22
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International Infection Prevention Week Link
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16-21
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Mediation Week Link
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16-22
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National Character Counts Week
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16-22
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National Business Women's Week Link
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16-22
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National Chemistry Week
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16-22
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National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week Link
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16-22
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National Food Bank Week
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16-22
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National Forest Products Week
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16-22
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National Friends of Libraries Week
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16-22
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National Nuclear Science Week
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16-22
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National Pharmacy Week Link
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16-22
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National Save For Retirement Week Link
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16-22
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National Teen Drivers Safety Week Link
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16-22
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Pastoral Care Week Link
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16-22
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Teen Read Week Link
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
♦ Today’s
World Historical Highlights
1775 Portland, Maine burned by British
♦1813 Battle
of Leipzig, largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon's forces
defeated by Prussia, Austria & Russia
♦1834 Much
of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster (parliament) in London
is burnt down.
♦1841 Queens
University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is chartered
1846 Dentist William T Morton demonstrates
effectiveness of ether
♦1847 Charlotte
Brontë's book "Jane Eyre" published
1848 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in
Pennsylvania
1859 John Brown leads 21 in raid on federal
arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va1861 Confederacy starts selling postage
stamps
1869 Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor
plumbing
1875 Brigham Young University is founded in
Provo, Utah. 1916 Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control
clinic (46 Amboy St, Bkln)
1923 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded
♦1934 Mao
Zedong & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March
1940 Lottery for 1st US WW II draftees held; #158
drawn 1st
1941 "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola)
1st appears in newspapers
1945 UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes
into existence
♦1946 10
Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
♦1950 The
first edition of C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe" is released in London
1962 Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK becomes
aware of missiles in Cuba
1963 2 secret US military satellites launched from
Cape Canaveral
1964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
1966 Joan Baez & 123 other anti-draft
protestors arrested in Oakland
1968 During Olympics Tommie Smith & John Carlos
give black power salute
♦1970 Pierre
Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act as a response to the October Crisis,
the only peacetime use of the War Measures Act in Canadian history.
♦1973 The
Gulf Six (Iran, Iraq, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar) unilaterally
raise the posted price of Saudi Light marker crude-oil by 17 percent
♦1978 Polish
Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected Pope John Paul II
♦1984 Desmond
Tutu, South Afrian Anglican Archbishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize
1986 US government shuts down due to disputes
between President Reagan and the House
2013 The United States ends its 16-day government
shut down and avoids default in a Bi-partisan deal in the Senate
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My Rambling Thoughts
Windy
Saturday…while the weatherman said last night there would be ‘light breezes’, I
don’t consider 23mph light. Staying home all day…It is NAU homecoming…that
includes Tequila Sunrise were downtown bars open at 6a and a couple of hours
later, many are on the
sidewalks. I won’t talk about the gross things that local businesses have to
deal with, but suffice it to say, it is an outdated homecoming tradition that
lands about 50 in jail every year. I coulda/shoulda gone to the fair in TC but
too lazy to go up last night and this morning the traffic would have been
really bad.
Did
some laundry, caught up on some DVR’d shows, but still have a few more for
tomorrow.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Triple Treat 3
Language brain teasers are those that involve
the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Find
a rhyme for each word below so you end up with a familiar three-word phrase in
the form "__, __, and __". Number 7 is in the form "___, ___, or
___".
Example:
Clue = "Cook, Wine, Drinker"
Answer = "Hook, Line, and Sinker"
1. Palm, Pool, Protected
2. Deer, Chose, Goat
3. Life, Stork, Prune
4. Bomb, Click, Scary
5. Pup, Cup, Convey
6. Smell, Took, Sandal
7. Spin, Clues, Law
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
In
what year did the first Hershey Milk Chocolate bar debut?
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…Harper’s Index…
7 in 10 ♦ Chances that a gynecologist in Italy refuses to
perform abortions for religious reasons
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2 jokes for the day
My
elderly mother was rushed to the hospital following a serious tumble. There the
staff placed a band around her wrist with large letters warning: Fall Risk.
Unimpressed, Mom said to me, “I’ll have them know I’m a winter, spring, and
summer risk too!”
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When
I lived in a dorm, one of the favorite intramural sports was water fights. Dousing
and bombarding one another with water from squirt guns, glasses, balloons, even
wastebaskets. Since each room had a sink, there was endless ammunition. The
most frequent target was the Resident Assistant.
Approaching his room one afternoon, he noticed his door was ajar. Looking up,
he saw a pail of water balanced on the door's edge, ready to fall on him. As he
took down the pail and emptied it into his sink, he thought, "Those crazy
guys actually thought they could fool me with that old gag!"
It was then he realized we'd removed the drainpipe beneath the sink.
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Yep, It Really Happened
A
California man on a cage diving trip off Mexico's Guadalupe Island captured the
moment a great white shark got into the cage while a diver was still inside.
The video shows the view from outside the water as the great white takes some
bait on the end of a line before crashing into the side of the diving cage. The
shark manages to crash right through the bars and thrashes around inside the
cage while the panicked crew works to open the top and free the predator, which
is trapped in the cage with a human diver. The shark, which has blood coming
from its mouth, is able to exit the cage through the open top, and a few
seconds later the diver also emerges unharmed. "My heart is going,"
the diver can be heard saying as he returns to safety.
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How products got their name
Pepsi-Cola
A
pharmacist named Caleb Bradham introduced something called "Brad's
Drink" back in 1893. Five years later, he changed the name to Pepsi-Cola,
which referred to the digestive enzyme pepsin, part of the original recipe.
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Birthdays Today
“♦” indicates age
at death
91- Angela
Lansbury, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote), born in
London, England
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87 Günter Grass, German writer
and playwright (The Tin Drum) and Nobel Prize laureate (1999), born in Danzig
[d2015]
♦ 87 David
Ben-Gurion, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (1948-53, 1955),
born in Płonsk, Poland (d. 1973)
♦ 84 Noah Webster, lexicographer
(Webster's Dictionary), born in West Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1843)
♦ 70 [Leon]
Goose Goslin, baseball hall of famer (AL bat champ 1928) [d1971]
♦ 65 Eugene
O'Neill, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936), born in NYC, New York
[d1953]
♦
62 Dave DeBusschere,
NBA foward (NY Knick)/last ABA commissioner, born in Detroit, Michigan [d-2003]
70- Suzanne
Somers, San Bruno California, actress (3's Company, Step by Step)
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58 Michael Conrad,
Washington Hgts NY, actor (Delvecchio, Hill St Blues) [d1983]
♦ 48- Alice
Pearce, comedienne/actress (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched), born in NYC, New York
[d1966]
♦ 40 Oscar
Wilde, [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], (The Picture of
Dorian Gray), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1900)
39- John
Mayer, American musician
♦ 31 Michael
Collins, Irish revolutionary leader and leading figure in
the struggle for Irish independence in the early 20th century, born in
Clonakilty, Ireland (d. 1922)
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Historical Obits Today
@94-2010 Barbara
Billingsley, American actress (leave it to beaver)
@94-1992 Shirley
Booth, actress (Hazel)
@90-1997 James
Mitchner, author (Hawaii)
@86-2007 Deborah
Kerr, Scottish actress (From Here to Eternity, The King and I)
@80-1972 Leo
G Carroll, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle)
@79-2004 Pierre
Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary, heart failure
@79-1997 Audra
Lindley, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers), cancer
@78-1959 George
Marshall, US army general
@77-1989 Cornel
Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles), cancer
@66-1981 Moshe
Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, heart attack
@37-1793 Marie
Antoinette, Queen of France, beheaded
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
Calm, Cool, and Collected
2. Ear, Nose, and Throat
3. Knife, Fork, and Spoon
4. Tom, Dick, and Harry
5. Up, Up, and Away
6. Bell, Book, and Candle
7. Win, Lose, or Draw
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Trivia Hive
Answers
1900
The
original milk chocolate bar cost just a nickel and featured gold and red
lettering on a white background. A caption called it "A Nutritious
Confection," and every bar came with a free postcard depicting Lancaster,
Pennsylvania. Source: Hershey Community Archives
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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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