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10.22.16 Week: 42 \ Day: 296
October Averages: 63°\31°
86004 Today: H 70° \
L 312° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts: 14mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 76°[2003] Record Low: 9°[1906]
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Quote of the Day
If you can dream it, you can do
it. ~Walt Disney
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Observances Today
International
Stuttering Awareness Day
Pit Bull Awareness Day Link
Smart is Cool Day
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Observances This Week
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16-22
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Bullying Bystanders Unite Week
Freedom From Bullies Week
International Infection Prevention Week Link
National Business Women's Week Link
National Character Counts Week
National Chemistry Week
National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week Link
National Food Bank Week
National Forest Products Week
National Friends of Libraries Week
National Nuclear Science Week
National Pharmacy Week Link
National Save For Retirement Week Link
National Teen Drivers Safety Week Link
Pastoral Care Week Link
Teen Read Week Link
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17-22
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Asexuality Week
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17-23
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Freedom of Speech Week Link
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17-24
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Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
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23-29
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National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Link
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
♦Today’s
World Historical Highlights
♦ 362 The
temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious
fire.
♦1797 Andre-Jacques
Garnerin makes 1st parachute descent from a balloon (Paris)
1819 1st ship sails by Erie-channel (Rome-Utica)
1836 Sam
Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of the Republic of Texas
1861 1st telegraph line linking West & East
coasts completed
1879 Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton
filament light bulb
1881 Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its first
concert
1883 1st NY Horse Show held (Madison Sq Garden)
1883 Original Metropolitan Opera House (NYC) grand
opening (Faust)
1884 International Meridian Conference in
Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide, creating 24
international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich meridian
♦ 1897 World's
first car dealer opens in London
1907 Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys
Barnum & Bailey circus
1924 Toastmasters International is founded
1928 Herbert
Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"
1962 JFK addresses TV about Russian missile
bases in Cuba
♦ 1964 French
philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize
♦ 1978 Pope John
Paul II is inaugurated as Pope
1981 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved
aspartame artificial sweetener for tabletop use following years of scrutiny
1983 Two correctional officers are killed by
inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the Supermax model of
prisons.
1987 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph
Brodsky
♦ 2006 A
Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National
referendum held in Panama.
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My Rambling Thoughts
The
weekend is fast approaching. I’m ready. Great weather. Dry weather is playing
havoc on my skin. Not us to daily creaming, but I’ll get used to it…if nothing
else to stop the itching.
I
have never been an ‘early voter’. I have always voted on Election Day at my
local polling place, just as our founding fathers intended. However I am
willing to give up that tradition when there is a constitutional amendment that
sets limits for all campaigns…60 days should be enough, but I will live with 90
days. In addition, when I drop off my early ballot, I will automatically be
exempt of all political ads, political phone calls, and political mailings. While
watching the news on CNN there was someone talking about how the Republicans
will be working on the 2018 campaign. Enough already.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Oh How I Love
Patterns!
Language brain teasers are those that involve
the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
What
do these six words have in common?
BACKSPLASH
BIRTHPLACE
MATCHSTICK
HEARTTHROB
THOUSANDTHS
ANGSTS
BONUS: What's so special about the word ANGSTS?
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
What
famous comic book character was NOT created by the classic creative team of
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby?
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…Harper’s Index…
3/4 ♦ Portion
of Saudi Arabia’s budget that comes from oil revenues
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Somewhat Useless Information
Wintergreen
LifeSavers give off sparks when chewed in the dark because of a chemical
process called triboluminescence.
***
Robert
O. Welch, the inventor of Sugar Daddy, is also the founder of the John Birch
Society.
***
The
dog on the Cracker Jack package is named Bingo.
***
For
many years, the globe on the NBC Nightly News spun in the wrong direction. On
January 2, 1984, NBC finally set the world back in the proper direction.
***
On
the night of October 31, 1938, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre troupe
provided "the panic broadcast that shook the world," when they
performed 'The War of the Worlds' by H.G. Wells as a terrifying real-life
episode.
***
Mary
Tyler Moore had an early acting role playing a woman at an answering service.
You could only see her legs and hear her voice.
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Usually Mis-learned in School
Van
Gogh cut off his own ear
The
myth about Van Gogh is that he was a tortured painter who cut off his ear in a
fit of madness after an argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin. The rest of
the story is weirder, as it states Van Gogh then presented the severed ear to a
prostitute who, understandably, did not accept body parts as a form of legal
tender. After passing out and almost bleeding to death, Van Gogh was found and
put into a hospital until he recovered. What actually happened is not really
known, but one theory puts forth that Van Gogh lost his ear to Gauguin in a
duel, and Van Gogh made the crazy self-mutilation bit up (but might still have
tried to buy some nookie with the ear) to protect Gauguin, with whom he had a
massive man-crush on.
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Birthdays Today
“♦” indicates age
at death
♦
96 Joan
Fontaine, British-American actress (Gunga Din, Ivanhoe,
Rebecca), born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 2013)
♦
86 Dory
Previn [Dorothy Veronica Langan], Rahway, New Jersey, singer-songwriter
(Mythical Kings, Iguanas), (d. 2012)
♦ 78 Sarah Bernhardt, France, actress (Camille, Queen
Elizabeth) [1923]
78- Christopher
Lloyd, American actor (Taxi, Back to the Future), born in Stamford,
Connecticut,
♦
74 Franz
Liszt, Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist
(Faust Symphony), born in Raiding, Hungary (d. 1886)
73- Catherine
Deneuve, [Dorleac], actress (Repulsion, Hunger), born in Paris, France
♦
70 Annette
Funicello, singer and actress (Mickey Mouse Club), born in Utica, New York, (d.
2013)
68- Lynette
Fromme, American who attempted to assassinate US President Gerald Ford
64- Jeff
Goldblum, actor (Fly, Jurassic Park, Independence Day), born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
♦
48 Curly
Howard (Jerome Lester Horwitz), vaudevillian actor and comedian (The Three
Stooges), born in Brooklyn New York (d. 1952)
41-Jesse Tyler Fergeson, actor [modern family]
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Historical Obits Today
@86-1975 Arnold
J. Toynbee, English historian (A Study of History)
@85-1995 Mary
Wickes, actress (Sister Act)
@83-2009 Soupy
Sales [Milton Supman],
American comedian and television personality
@72-2012 Russell
Means, Native American activist, esophageal cancer
@67-1906 Paul
Cézanne, French Post-Impressionist painter, pneumonia
@62-1993 Fred
C Shapiro, US journalist (Tiananmen-square 1989), pancreatic cancer
@30-1934 Charles
"Pretty Boy" Floyd, gangster, shot by FBI
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Brain Teasers Answers
All
of these contain a string of five consecutive consonants uninterrupted by
vowels or spaces.
BONUS: ANGSTS is the shortest word in the English language with five
consecutive consonants.
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Captain
America
Beginning
in the mid-1950s, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee worked together to create some of the
most memorable and iconic comic book characters for Marvel Comics, including
the Fantastic Four, The Avengers, the Incredible Hulk and countless others. The
character of Captain America predates Lee and Kirby's collaboration, created by
Kirby and cartoonist Joe Simon in 1941. Lee was a fan of the character and,
following the end of WWII, revived him to become the leader of The Avengers.
SOURCE: Zak-Site.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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