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10.31.16 Week: 44 \ Day: 305
October Averages: 63°\31°
86004 Today: H 69° \
L 40° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 25mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 76°[2003] Record Low: 10°[1906]
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Quote of the Day
You exist only in what you do.
~Federico Fellini
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Observances Today
Admission
Day (Nevada1864-36th)
Beggars'
Night
Books For Treats Day
Day
of the Seven Billion Link
Girl Scout Founder's Day Link
Halloweenor
All Hallows Eve
National Caramel Apple Day Link
National Knock-Knock Jokes Day
National Magic Day
National UNICEF Day
Samhain Link
World Cities Day
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Observances This Week
23-31 Red Ribbon Week Link
24-31
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week
24-11/11
World Origami Days
25-31
International Magic Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
Today’s World Historical Highlights
1517 Martin Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg
church - precipitates the Protestant Reformation
1541 Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes painting The
Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican
1587 Leiden University Library opens its doors after its
founding in 1575.
1846 Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass,
construct a winter camp
1863 The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New
Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato.
1868 Standard uniform approved for US postal
carriers
1888 Scottish vet John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic
bicycle tire
1892 Arthur
Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1908 4th Olympic games ends in London
1913 1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the
Lincoln Highway is dedicated
1917 World War I: Battle of Beersheba in southern
Palestine- "last successful cavalry charge in history"
1918 Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in US in 1 week
1921 Federation Sportive Feminine International forms (1st
woman track & field association)
1941 Mount Rushmore Monument is completed
1956 Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service
1964 Barbra Streisand's "People" album
goes #1 for 5 weeks
1968 US President Lyndon B. Johnson orders
a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
1982 Pope John Paul II becomes first pontiff to
visit Spain
1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is
assassinated by her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh at her home in
New Delhi
1992 Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after
359 years
2003 Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of
Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi,
marking an end to Mahathir's 22 years in power.
2011 The world population reaches 7 billion inhabitants
according to the United Nations
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My Rambling Thoughts
Our
discussion group met last night to discuss Korea. The article was a little
outdated, written probably a year ago. Good discussion and learned a lot. One
thing was the definition of ‘wiki’ as in Wikipedia, wikileaks, etc. It is from
the Hawaiian word ‘wikiwiki’ which means ‘quick’. Our presenter introduced to a
very cool website: wikistrat.com. This is a global network of over 2000
subject-matter experts who work collaboratively via the online network to help
decision-makers identify solutions to complex strategic challenges. In the one
we followed, What will happen if North Korea’s government falls? The site
walked us through a series of scenarios and the expected results of each. This site became much better known a few
years ago when they described Russia’s invasion of Crimea months before it
happened…and they were right. Certainly a site worth visiting for some real
mental stimulation.
I
also had lunch with my former boss and his wife, who just returned to TCBS as a
teacher. Caught up on all the local gossip from there. And learned about the
great things the school is doing. We started lunch at 11:30 and didn’t quit
talking until almost 3p. Great time.
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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)
Which
Bob Dylan song inspired the name of the radical left-wing organization Weather
Underground?
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…Harper’s Index…
2,653 ◘ Number of firearms found by US airport security
screeners last year
83 ◘ Percentage that
were loaded
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2 jokes for the day
I
had an uncle who was allergic to cotton...
He got some pills for the condition but couldn't get them out of the bottle.
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Patient
1: "Why did you run away from the operation table?"
Patient 2: "The nurse was repeatedly saying 'don't get nervous', 'don't be
afraid', 'be strong', 'this is a small operation only', things like that."
Patient 1: "So what was wrong in that? Why were you so afraid?"
Patient 2: "She was talking to the surgeon!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
*
Man Burning Weeds with Torch Starts House Fire *
Authorities
say a man using a blow torch to burn weeds started a fire that spread up a wall
and into the attic of his home. Fire Capt. Barrett Baker says the man
discovered the fire when he smelled smoke about an hour after he used the torch.
Baker says flames in the attic were visible through a vent on the side of the
home and that one crew of firefighters pierced the home's tile roof to put
water on the fire the fire. Meanwhile, another crew on the ground sprayed water
at the fire through the vent. No damage estimate is immediately available but
the three people who live in the home were displaced and went to stay with
relatives.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The
first U.S. cent, which was the size of today's 50-cent piece, was coined in 1793.
In 1856 the mint produced the first penny of today's size.
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Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be depicted on a U.S. coin, a penny
issued in 1909. The penny is the only U.S. coin where the person faces right
instead of left.
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The 1921 Alabama Centennial half-dollar was the first U.S. coin designed by a
woman, Laura Gardin Fraser.
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When the Citizens Bank of Tenino, Washington, closed on December 5, 1931, the
town was without ready cash to do business, so denominations of 25 cents, 50
cents and $1 were printed on three-ply Sitka spruce wood, the first wooden
money issued as legal tender in the United States.
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Booker T. Washington was the first African American to be depicted on a U.S.
coin, a half-dollar issued in 1946.
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During World War II, the United States minted pennies made of steel, to
conserve copper for making artillery shells.
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Birthdays Today
indicates age at death
89- Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia
(1941-55 and 1993-2004), head of state, independence campaigner and film
producer, born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (d. 2012)
88- Dale Evans, [Frances
Butts], Uvalde Tx, cowgirl (Roy Rogers Show) [d2001]
87- Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese political
and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China
(1928-1975), born in Xikou, Zhejiang, China (d. 1975)
85- Dan
Rather, Wharton, Texas, American journalist and news anchor (CBS Evening News,
60 Minutes)
82- Barbara Bel Geddes,
actress (Vertigo, Miss Ellie-Dallas, Caught), born in NYC, New York (d. 2005)
80- Ethel Waters, Chester
Pa, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather) [d1977]
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79- Tom
Paxton, folk singer/songwriter (The Last Thing On My Mind
), born in Chicago, Illinois
74- David
Ogden Stiers, Peoria Ill, actor (Winchester-M*A*S*H, Doc)
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69- Frank
Shorter, Munich Germany, US marathoner (Oly-gold/silver-72, 76)
66- Juliette Gordon Low, American
activist/founder (Girl Scouts of America), born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1927)
66- Jane
Pauley, newscaster (Today, NBC Weekend), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
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55- Peter
Jackson, New Zealand film director (Lord of the Rings -
Academy Award, Best Director, 2003), born in Wellington, New Zealand
54- Michael Landon, Forest
Hills NY, actor (Bonanza, Highway to Heaven) [d1991]
53- Rob
Schneider, actor (SNL, Jamie Coleman-Men Behaving Badly)
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49- Vanilla
Ice, American rapper (Ice Ice Baby) and actor (Cool as Ice), born in Miami,
Florida
43- John Candy, Canadian actor and
comedian (SCTV, Uncle Buck), born in Newmarket, Ontario (d. 1994)
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25- John Keats, romantic poet (Ode
to a Grecian Urn), born in London, England (d. 1821)
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16- Willow
Smith, American actress
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Historical Obits Today
@73-1993 Federico
Fellini, director (La Dolce Vita), stroke
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@66-1984 Indira
Gandhi, 4th Prime Minister of India (1966-77, 1980-84),
assassinated by two of her bodyguards
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@52-1926 Harry
Houdini, [Erich Weisz], magician, gangrene and peritonitis
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@23-1993 River
Phoenix, actor (Stand By Me), drug overdose
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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
The
Weather Underground was a faction of Students for a Democratic Society that
strongly opposed the Vietnam War and plotted to overthrow the U.S. government.
They were active between 1969 and 1977. Their name came from the line,
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," in
Subterranean Homesick Blues. Source: Slate
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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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