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10.9.16 Week: 41 \ Day: 283
October Averages: 63°\31°
86004 Today: H 69° \
L 38° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts: 9mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 81°[1996] Record Low: 20°[1970]
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Quote of the Day
I work in whatever medium likes
me at the moment. Marc Chagall
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Observances Today
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Clergy Appreciation Day
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International African Diaspora Day
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National Chess Day Link
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National Pro-Life Cupcake Day Link
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Nautilus Night (Cephalopods) Link
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World Post Day
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Observances This Week
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1-10
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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Link
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3-9
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Financial Planning Week
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3-9
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National Health Care Food Service Week Link
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3-9
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No Salt Week
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3-9
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Spinning & Weaving Week Link
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4-9
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World Dairy Expo
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4-10
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World Space Week Link
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7-9
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National Storytelling Weekend
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9-15
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Death Penalty Focus Week
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9-15
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Drink Local Wine Week
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9-15
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Earth Science Week Link
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9-15
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Emergency Nurses Week
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9-15
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Fire Prevention Week Link
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9-15
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Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
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9-15
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National Chestnut Week
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9-15
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National Metric Week
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9-15
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Veterinary Technicians Week Link
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
Today’s World Historical Highlights
768 Charlemagne and
his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks
1000 Leif
Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada)
reputedly becoming first European to reach North America
1192 Richard
I of England, the Lion Heart, leaves Jerusalem in disguise
1635 Religious
dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
1701 Collegiate School
of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven
1817 University
of Gent officially opens
1824 Slavery
is abolished in Costa Rica
1876 1st 2-way
telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
1877 American Humane
Association organizes (Cleveland)
1888 Washington Monument
opens for public admittance
1915 Woodrow Wilson becomes
first US President to attend a World Series game
1926 NBC (National
Broadcasting Corporation) forms
1936 Hoover Dam
begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
1946 First electric
blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
1962 Uganda
becomes independent from the United Kingdom
1975 Soviet
dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
1980 1st consumer use
of home banking by computer by United American Bank in Knoxville Tn
1980 Nobel
prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz
1981 Abolition
of capital punishment in France.
1989 Penthouse
Magazine's Hebrew edition hits newstands
1990 Saddam
Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
1997 Nobel
prize for literature awarded to Italian Dario Fo
2012 25,000
people in Athens protest against German Chancellor Angela Merkel
2012 Women's
rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot three times by
a Taliban gunman as she tried to board her school bus in Swat district of
northwest Pakistan
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice
cloudy fall day.
Kinda
a lazy day…watching DVR’d programs from this week. Enjoying the peace and
quiet.
I
am shocked by the Trump video and his comments. How any American can even
consider voting for this man is beyond my reality. One of my high school alumni
posted that his speech is no worse than what did Bill Clinton did with Monica.
I agree both were unacceptable, but we didn’t know what Clinton was doing and
we do know what Donnie is doing. So I’m sure I’ll be unfriended, but life goes on.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Similar
Spelling
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You
need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
In
this teaser you have been given two (2) clues in each line. Each answer to the
clue comprises six (6) letters. Each 6-letter word differs by only one (1)
letter, which I have given you. Your task is to discover the answers to the
clues provided. The order of the letters do not change.
Example:
Remove _ _ _ I _ _ / _ _ _ U _ _ Justify
Answer:
E X C (I) S E / E X C (U) S E
1. Confuse R _ _ _ _ _ / C _ _ _ _ _ Bovines
2. Invent _ _ _ _ T _ / _ _ _ _ S _ Furrow
3. Endured _ A _ _ _ _ / _ I _ _ _ _ Tilted
4. Joking _ _ N _ _ _ / _ _ R _ _ _ Bargain
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
Who
is the wealthiest person in the world?
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…Harper’s Index…
9,600,000 – Estimated number of American households that do
not have bank accounts
$39,000,000 – Estimated amount the US Mint
could save annually by changing the metallic composition of its coins
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Yep, It Really Happened
*---------------
Try, Try Again ---------------*
A young mother of 14 daughters is determined to keep going until she gives her
husband a son. Augustina Higuera of Texas, is just 29 years old, but she is
already the proud mother of 14 children. Higuera not only beat many odds by
having a large family of girls only, but she beat odds of 500,000 to one when
she gave birth to a third set of twins. Although Higuera loves her daughters,
she vowed to keep going until she has given her husband Jose, 30, a son.
"I have no limit on how many children I am willing to have. I would even
have another 10 if it meant having a boy," she said.
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How products got their name
Wonder
Bread
And
you thought the balloons on the package were just for fun and color. Turns out
the best-known bread brand, introduced in 1921, got its name when a Taggart
Baking Company merchandising executive attended a balloon race at the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The colorful sight filled the exec with
"wonder." He also happened to be on the team charged with naming the
company's new bread.
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Birthdays Today
“[
]” indicates age at death
[72] Robert
de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris [d1274]
68- Jackson
Browne, US Base in Germany, rock voclaist (Lawyers in Love)
64- Sharon Osbourne,
English/American music manager, TV personality (X-Factor, America's Got Talent)
and wife of Ozzy Osbourne, born in London
63- Tony
Shalhoub, actor (Antonio Scarpacci-Wings, Big Night)
62- Scott
Bakula, actor (Quantum Leap, Gung Ho, Murphy Brown), born in St Louis, Missouri
61- Linwood
Boomer, actor (Adam-Little House on the Prairie), born in Vancouver, Canada
[53] Aimee
Semple McPherson, evangelist (Pentecostal)/radio preacher [d1944]
50- David
Cameron, British politician
[50] Steve
McQueen, English filmmaker and artist (12 Years a Slave), born in London [d1980]
41- Sean
Ono Lennon, Son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's, born in NYC, New York
[40] John Lennon,
British musician, pop star and member of The Beatles (Imagine), born in
Liverpool, England (d. 1980)
35- Zachery
Ty Bryan, actor (Brad-Home Improvement), born in Denver, Colorado
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Historical Obits Today
@93-1906 Joseph
F Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), dies
@92-2005 Louis
Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
@84-2015 Richard
F. Heck, American chemist who discovered the Heck Reaction (Nobel Prize 2010),
dies at 84
@84-1987 Clare
A Booth Luce, US diplomat/journalist, dies at 84
@74-1806 Benjamin
Banneker, African American astronomer, mathematician and
surveyor of Washington D.C., dies at 74
@66-1974 Oskar
Schindler, German businessman
@39-1967 Ernesto
"Che" Guevara,
Argentine Marxist revolutionary and physician, executed in Bolivia
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
Rattle Cattle
2. Create Crease
3. Lasted Listed
4. Banter Barter
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Bill
Gates
Welcome
to The Billionaires List. You probably aren't surprised that Bill Gates is
number one. In fact, this year marks Bill's 16th year at the top spot with a
net worth of $75 billion! Yes, that's b-illion. We know, that sounds like way
too much money! The good news is that both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett (net
worth of $60.8 billion) have signed The Giving Pledge and are donating the
majority of their wealth to philanthropy, so that's nice. Source: Forbes
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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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