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10.26.16 Week: 43 \ Day: 300
October Averages: 63°\31°
86004 Today: H 68° \
L 41° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
13mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 75°[1959] Record Low: 14°[1972]
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Quote of the Day
If your actions inspire others to
dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
~John Quincy Adams
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Observances Today
Howl
at The Moon Night Link
Intersex Awareness Day Link
Mule Day Honors
the importation of the first Spanish Jacks to the US which were a gift from
King Charles III of Spain delivered October 26, 1785 in Boston. George
Washington then began breeding them in the US.
National Day of The Deployed
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Observances This Week
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23-29
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National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Link
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23-29
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National Massage Therapy Week Link
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23-29
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National Respiratory Care Week Link
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23-29
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Give Wildlife a Brake! Week Link
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23-29
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Kids Care Week
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23-29
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Pro Bono Week Link
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23-29
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Rodent Awareness Week
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23-31
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Red Ribbon Week Link
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24-30
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Disarmament Week
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24-28
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Nuclear Science Week
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24-31
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Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week
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24-11/11
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World Origami Days
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25-31
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International Magic Week
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26-29
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International Dyslexia Association Reading Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
♦ Today’s World
Historical Highlights
♦ 1492 Lead
pencils first used
♦ 1529 Sir Thomas
More appointed Lord Chancellor of England
1682 William Penn accepts area around Delaware
River from Duke of York
1774 First Continental Congress adjourns in
Philadelphia
1774 Minute Men organized in colonies
1787 "Federalist
Papers" published, calls for ratification of United States' Constitution
1810 US annexes western Florida
1861 Pony Express (Missouri to California) ends
after 19 months
♦ 1863 International
conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on
battlefields - beginning of the Red Cross
1869 1st American steeplechase horserace
(Westchester, NY)
1881 Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday &
Clanton involved in gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona
1901 First recorded use of "getaway car"
occurs after holding up a shop in Paris
1916 Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity
(advocating birth control)
1941 US savings bonds go on sale
♦ 1950 Mother
Teresa founds Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India
1954 Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine
1954 Walt Disney's 1st television program,
"Disneyland", premieres on ABC
1955 First edition of "Village Voice"
(NYC) published
1962 JFK warns Russia that the USA will not
allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba
♦ 1962 Nikita
Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba
if US closed its bases in Turkey: offer is rejected
1968 George Foreman wins gold for USA at
Mexico Olympic games (Heavyweight boxing)
1970 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in
28 newspapers
♦ 1977 Last
natural case of smallpox discovered in Merca district, Somalia. Considered the
anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of
vaccination
♦ 1978 Menachem
Begin & Anwar Sadat named joint winners of Nobel Peace Prize
1984 "The Terminator" directed by James
Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton is
released in the US
♦ 1999 Britain's
House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's
upper chamber of Parliament.
2001 The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act
into law.
♦ 2002 Moscow
Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when
Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by
the rebels during a musical performance three days before.
2003 The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in
California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), and
destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Woke
up to fog this morning. Very unusual for our mountain town. Burned off after
about an hour. Clouds remained. Light rain during the night.
Shocked
and appalled that the Dept. of Defense has decided to bill a whole lot of
former soldiers who received signing bonuses during one of our many wars a few
years back. Seems some congressional oversight committee determined that the bonuses
should not have been paid. Really?!? I get that the persons who approved the
bonuses need to be punished for overstepping, but to charge the soldiers who
did re-up and got the bonuses is crazy. Disgusting.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Word
Within a Word! #6
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You
need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
In
this teaser your job is to try and discover a shorter word within the given
word that relates to the theme. The word must be an extension of the 'theme'
word. The letters of the hidden word are NOT jumbled.
Example:
Theme: NIGHT______
Sneaky = SKY (NIGHT SKY)
Theme: DAY _______
1. Jacob = ? (DAY _______)
2. Clapboard = ? (DAY _______)
3. Champagne = ? (DAY _______)
4. Orange = ? (DAY _______)
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
What
does the Fourth Amendment to the Bill of Rights protect Americans against?
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…Harper’s Index…
58 ♦ Percentage of people worldwide who trust print and
broadcast news as a source of accurate information
63 ♦ Who trust search engines
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2 jokes for the day
"Mom,
you said the baby had your eyes and Daddy's nose, didn't you?"
"Yes, darling."
"Well, you'd better keep an eye on him... he's got grandpa's teeth now.
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The
mother loved the picture frame her five-year-old son bought her for Mother’s
Day.
She found a photograph of him and replaced the cat photo that came with it.
The son then became upset. "Why are you putting a picture of me in there?
I bought you the picture of the cat!"
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Somewhat Useless Information
Did
anyone tell you when you were a kid that too many carrot sticks would turn your
skin orange? It's true! (Sort of). Hypercarotenemia, or carotenosis, is a
yellowy orange discoloration of the skin caused by high levels of carotene in
the blood, the result of eating a LOT of vitamin A.
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'Pink' once meant 'yellow.' We know, it's confusing. See, Dutch 'pink' was a
yellow pigment; but because 'pink' also means a frilled edge, it became closely
associated with the dianthus flower, which has notched petals. And what's the
most common color for dianthus flowers? You guessed it: pink.
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For
thousands of years, green was a tricky pigment to nail down, but the 19th century
saw the rise of two stable and incredibly popular green dyes. There was just
one problem: Both were laced with arsenic. At the time, the health risks of
arsenic exposure were unknown, but before long, doctors and newspapers began
attributing illnesses to green-wallpapered rooms. (There is even a theory that
arsenic-laced wallpaper helped do in Napoleon.)
♦
Isn't indigo basically blue? Why is it even in Roy G. Biv? We have Isaac Newton
to thank for this one: He wanted the number of colors in the spectrum to match
Rene Descartes' seven-tone musical scale, and indigo brought the color count to
seven.
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Usually Mis-learned in School
Albert
Einstein didn't fail his math class.
Albert
Einstein failing math was just a false statement in an issue of "Ripley's
Believe It or Not." The statement was made while Einstein was still alive
and he even saw the issue in question. Einstein not only did not fail math, but
he overwhelmingly excelled in it, mastering classes such as differential and
integral calculus.
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Birthdays Today
“♦” indicates age
at death
97- Felix
the Cat, cartoon character
♦ 79 Francois Mitterrand,
21st President of France (1981-1995), born in Jarnac, France [d1996]
71- Jaclyn
Smith, American actress (Charlie's Angels, The Bourne Identity), born in Houston,
Texas
♦ 70- Pat
Conroy, American writer (The Great Santini, Prince of Tides), born in Atlanta,
Georgia (d. 2016)
70- Pat
Sajak, TV host (Wheel of Fortune, Pat Sajak Show), born in Chicago, Illinois
♦ 69 Jackie Coogan,
actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1984)
69- Hillary
Rodham Clinton, US 1st Lady (1993-2001), Senator (NY,
2001-09), Secretary of State (2009-13) and 2016 Democratic Presidential
nominee, born in Chicago, Illinois
♦ 66 William
Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
♦ 60 Mahalia Jackson,
gospel singer (Whole World in his Hands), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
[d1972]
♦ 59 C.
W. Post, American entrepreneur (Post Cereals) (d. 1914)
55- Dylan
McDermott, Waterbury, Connecticut, American actor (The Practice, American
Horror Story)
59- Keith
Urban, New Zealand singer
43- Seth
MacFarlane, American animator, television producer (American
Dad!, Family Guy) and filmmaker (Ted), born in Kent, Connecticut
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Historical Obits Today
@89-2007 Dr.
Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA
polymerase
@86-1902 Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist
@83-2008 Tony
Hillerman, American writer (b. 1925)
@83-1972 Igor
Sikorsky, Russian-American aviation pioneer and helicopter
builder
@61-1999 Hoyt
Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter, heart attack
@61-1979 Park
Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated
@57-1952 Hattie
McDaniel, 1st African American actress to win an Oscar
(Mammy-Gone With the Wind), breast cancer
@49-1984 Sue
Randall, actress (Miss Landers-Leave it to Beaver), lung cancer
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
Jacob = JOB (DAY JOB)
2. Clapboard = LABOR (DAY LABOR)
3. Champagne = CAMP (DAY CAMP)
4. Orange = ONE (DAY ONE)
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Search
and seizure
The
Fourth Amendment also requires probable cause before warrants are issued for a
search. It follows the then-recent concern with unlawful entry cases in
England. The actual text of the amendment guarantees security for
"persons, houses, papers and effects." Source: Justia
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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