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11.15.16 Week: 46 \ Day: 320
November Averages: 51°\22°
86004 Today: H 61° \
L 24° Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 70°[1999] Record Low: 2°[1985]
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Quote of the Day
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
~Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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Observances Today
George Spelvin Day or More Than One Role Day
I Love to Write Day
National Bundt (Pan) Day
National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
National Entrepreneurship Day Link
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Observances This Week
12-20
National Hunger &
Homeless Awareness Week Link
13-19
Geography Awareness Week Link
International Restorative Justice Week Link
Perioperative Nurse Week Link
National Radiologic Technology Week Link
National Split Pea Soup Week Link
World Kindness Week Link
14-18
American Education Week Link
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
•Today’s World Historical Highlights
1620 Myles Standish leads 16 men in a foot
exploration of the northern portion of Cape Cod
1660 First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in
New Amsterdam (now New York City)
•1720 Anne
Bonny, Mary Read, and John Rackham are captured by Capt. Jonathan Barnet and
brought to Spanish Town, Jamaica, for trial
1791 1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens
1806 1st US college magazine, Yale Literary
Government, publishes 1st issue
1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak
(Colorado)
1827 Creek-indians lose all their property in US
1849 1st US poultry show opens in Boston
•1854 In Egypt, the Suez Canal,
linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal
concession.
1881 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded
(Pittsburgh)
•1884 Colonization of Africa
organized at international conference in Berlin
1919 US Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a
filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
•1920 League of Nations holds first
meeting in Geneva
1932 Walt Disney Art School created
1939 FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson
Memorial in Wash DC
1939 US Social Security Administration approves 1st
unemployment check
1940 NY Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens
opens to traffic
1941 Cow Palace opens in San Francisco
1959 Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry
Smith murder four members of the Clutter Family at their farm outside Holcomb,
Kansas (subject of Truman Capote book In Cold Blood).
1969 Wendy's Hamburgers opens
1979 ABC-TV
announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage
1990 US President George H. W. Bush signs
Clear Air Act of 1990
1990 Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn't
sing on their album
•2014 The parents of 43
Mexican students who disappeared start a nationwide bus tour in protest at the
government's handling of the case
2015 Holly Holm defeats UFC Champion Ronda Rousey
in an upset in Melbourne, Australia
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My Rambling Thoughts
Monday…again…not
my favorite day. To start with I am having way too many problems than necessary
to post the new trip to New Orleans for focus travel. One minute I can copy and
paste, then the next, I can’t. Crazy. Then I picked up the mail and found a
letter from the Franchise Tax Board in CA. They didn’t answer my registered
letter, but sent me a new bill that is $10 more than the first letter. Called
the new number on the letter, and was told ‘we are experiencing a larger than
normal call volume. Call back later. We apologize for any inconvenience’. Then the
hang up click.
I
am willing to let President-elect Trump get ready for his job. Then when he is
the President, I am willing to give him my support when he does the right thing.
I just wish he would shut up.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Fall from Heaven
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a
question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a
requirement.
One
by one we fall from heaven,
Down into the depths of past
And our world is ever upturned
So that yet some time we'll last.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
November
wasn't always the 11th month in the calendar; in fact, it draws its name from
the Latin word for what number?
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…Harper’s Index…
85 – Percentage of online-advertising spending that goes
to either Facebook or Google
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2 jokes for the day
Dear
John,
I have been unable to sleep since I broke off our engagement. Won't you forgive
and forget? Your absence is breaking my heart. I was a fool, nobody can take
your place.
All my love,
Belinda. xxxxoooxxxx
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Having
lost most of his hearing a number of years ago, this elderly man goes to the
doctor to be fitted with hearing aids which promise to allow him to hear 100%.
A month later, he returns to the doctor for a check up on his progress. The
doctor tells him that his hearing is perfect and asks if his family is pleased.
The man says, "Oh, I haven't told them about the hearing aids yet. I just
sit around and listen to them talk. I've changed my will three times!"
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Somewhat Useless Information
Breaking
A Mirror Causes Seven Years Bad Luck: The Romans were the first people to
create glass mirrors. They also believed that their invention had the potential
to steal part of the soul of the person using it. If a person's reflection were
distorted while using a mirror, then their soul would be corrupted and trapped
as a result. Fortunately, the Romans believed your soul could be renewed -
after seven years time. Until that point though, the person would suffer from
bad luck since they did not have a whole, healthy soul to fight off evil.
***
Knock
On Wood: This expression comes from Pagans, who believed that all living
materials were imbued with spiritual properties, including trees. When they
were cut down though, the spirit inside the tree would die and become hollow.
It was at this point that evil spirits, like sprites, could take over the item
and concoct ways to ruin the plans and hopes of people in the area.
Fortunately, if someone knocked on the wood, it would drive away the malevolent
spirits and prevent any potential misfortunes from occurring.
***
Black
Cats: While most Western cultures consider black cats to be bad luck, many
areas of the UK consider them to be a good omen. In fact, it's likely because
the Pagan groups from these areas considered them to be good luck for so long
that early Christians started spreading stories of the cats being evil.
Specifically, these stories often tied black cats to witches, which makes a lot
of sense given that they also accused Pagans of being witches.
***
Walking
Under A Ladder: Early Christians felt the triangle was a sacred sign that
represented the Holy Trinity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. When a
ladder was pushed against a building, it would form the shape of a triangle,
and thus, by walking under it, you were breaking the triangle. This was such a
bad thing to do that early Christians would often label anyone who walked under
a ladder to be a witch in league with Satan.
***
Throwing
Salt Behind Your Shoulder: In olden times, it was frequently said that the
devil was always sitting just behind your left shoulder. When you wasted
something as valuable as salt, it was important to keep the devil at bay by
either blinding him by throwing salt in his eyes or by placating him by giving
him an offering of salt.
***
Lucky
Rabbit's Foot: Rabbits feet have been a symbol of good luck since at least 600
BC when Celtic people in England would kill rabbits possessing certain
attributes that were seen as beneficial to the bearer of the lucky charm. Some
folklorists believe it was started by the pre-Celtic hunter clans who
introduced young males to hunting by sending them out to catch a rabbit. On
their first successful attempt, one of the rabbit's hind feet would be removed
and awarded to the boy in a ceremony that celebrated his journey into manhood.
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Birthdays Today
• indicates age at death
•98- Georgia O'Keeffe,
American sculptor/painter (Cow's Skull), born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin (d.
1986)
•90- Erich Tschermak (von
Seysenegg), Austrian Botanist who was one of three scientists (also Hugo de
Vries and Carl Correns) who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel's work on
the laws of genetics, born in Vienna, Austria [d1962]
88- C.
W. McCall [William Dale Fries, Jr.], American country singer, born in Audubon,
Iowa
84- Petula
Clark, Surrey England, rock vocalist (Downtown, My Love)
•83- William Herschel,
German/British astronomer (discovered Uranus), born in Hanover,
Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1822)
•83- Gerhart Hauptmann,
German author (Before Dawn - Nobel 1912), born in Obersalzbrunn, Silesia,
Prussia (d. 1946)
•83- Curtis E Le May, air
force general/VP candidate
•82- Felix Frankfurter, 80th
Supreme Court Justice (1939-62), born in Vienna, Austria [d1965]
77- Yaphet
Kotto, African-American actor (Alien, Homicide: Life on the Street), born in
NYC, New York
76- Sam
Waterson, American actor (Capricorn One, Heaven's Gate), born in Cambridge,
Massachusetts
•52- Erwin Rommel,
German Field Marshal (WWII - African campaign), born in Heidenheim,
Württemberg, Germany (d. 1944)
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Historical Obits Today
@76-1978 Margaret Mead,
American anthropologist (Thoughts & Female), pancreatic cancer
@76-1954 Lionel
Barrymore, [Blythe], actor (Dr Kildare, Key Largo), heart attack
@58-1630 Johannes Kepler, German astronomer
@57-1998 Stokely
Carmichael, American civil rights activist, prostate cancer
@44-1958 Tyrone
Power, actor (Mark of Zorro), heart attack
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Brain Teasers Answers
Sand
in an hourglass
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Nine
November
takes its name from the Latin word "novem," meaning "nine."
This is because in the original ancient Roman calendar, November was the ninth
month of ten. Source: Web Exhibits.
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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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