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11.17.16 Week: 46 \ Day: 322
November Averages: 51°\22°
86004 Today: H 63° \
L 32° Average Sky Cover: 30%
Wind ave: 29mph\Gusts: 30mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 67°[2007] Record Low: -10°[1964]
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Quote of the Day
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to
those of us who do.
<Isaac Asimov
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Observances Today
Beaujolais Nouveau Day Link
National Unfriend Day Link
Petroleum Day Link
World Prematurity Awareness 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
14-20
National Book Awards Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
•Today’s World Historical Highlights
•1292 (O.S.)
John Balliol becomes King of Scots.
•1558 Elizabeth I aged 25
ascends English throne upon death of her half sister Queen "Bloody"
Mary
•1558 The Church of England is
re-established
•1603 English explorer, writer and
courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1800 Congress holds its 1st session in Washington
D.C. in incomplete Capitol building
1827 The Delta Phi fraternity, America's oldest
continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, New
York
•1855 David Livingstone becomes
the first European to see Victoria Falls, in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe
1856 On the Sonoita River in present-day southern
Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help
control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
•1869 Englishman James Moore wins
1st bicycle race, racing 13K Paris to Rouen
•1869 Suez Canal in Egypt opens,
linking Mediterranean and Red seas
•1876 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's
patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the
Russian people.
1884 Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for
being "cruel"
1913 1st US dental hygienists course forms,
Bridgeport, Connecticut
•1913 The first ship sails through
the Panama Canal, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
1914 US declares Panama Canal Zone neutral
•1917 Lenin defends
"temporary" removal of freedom of the press
•1931 Charles Lindbergh inaugurates
Pan Am service from Cuba to South America in the Sikorsky flying boat
"American Clipper"
1933 United States recognizes Soviet Union, opens
trade
1933 Marx brothers film "Duck Soup"
directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers is released in the US
1936 Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy become
overnight success on radio
1947 The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an
anti-Communist loyalty oath.
•1953 The remaining human
inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the
mainland.
1962 US President JFK dedicates Dulles
Intl Airport outside Washngton DC
1970 Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the
first computer mouse.
•1973 Greek regime attacks students
with tanks, 100s killed
1973 US President Richard Nixon tells AP
"...people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.
Well, I'm not a crook"
•1979 Ayatollah Khomeini frees
most black & female US hostages
•1989 Student demonstration in
Prague put down by riot police, leading to an uprising (the Velvet Revolution)
that will topple the communist government on Dec. 29
1991 1st TV condom ad aired (FOX- TV)
1993 US House of Representatives approve Nafta
2004 Kmart
Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and
naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
2015 Actor Charlie Sheen confirms that he
is HIV-positive
•2015 Ireland's 1st same-sex
wedding takes place - Cormac Gollogly and Richard Dowling marry in Clonmel,
County Tipperary
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My Rambling Thoughts
Made
this a really busy time on the computer this morning. Made my Christmas flight
reservations, my motel reservation, and finally finished the Focus Web site for
the trip to Louisiana. I had to start over three times on the SouthWest sight.
Damn thing would just freeze up. But I finally got my conformation for the flights
and motel. Happy that by booking through the airline, I save about $250 on the
motel. The Focus sight wouldn’t let me change one picture, but I will try again
tomorrow. It needed to get up so people could see what was happening.
NPR
had an interesting discussion on what happened to the Dems on Nov. 8. Most
agree that over the past few decades, the no longer try to get the votes of Middle
America…both politically and geographically.
The view seemed to be that the Dems don’t listen to rural America, and
spends its time listening to the voters on the two coasts. Maybe? I must say I
don’t hear the Republicans DOING much for rural America…lots of talk about making America Great Again, but no real
movement in that direction from the House in the past election cycle.
As
a semi-techie, I clearly remember when Obama came into office, there was lots
of internal turmoil about him using his Blackberry…probably because I had one
at that time. He resolved it and used a
Blackberry for longer than most Americans. Now I bring this up to suggest that
our new President not his Twitter Account as I believe it should not be the official
way our President communicates with Americans. 140 characters works for some,
but not the complicated job of the President.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Area of a Square
Math brain teasers require computations to
solve.
You
have a piece of paper, 10cm by 10cm. Area = 100cm^2. For some reason, you need
a square piece of paper with an area of 50cm^2. Using the paper you have,
what's an easy way of getting the new square?
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
What
is the best selling car of all time?
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…Harper’s Index…
16,000 – Number of US babies born prematurely each year due
to air pollution
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Yep, It Really Happened
*--
Texas Mom Kept Tigers in Home with Daughter --*
A
Texas woman was arrested on endangerment charges after she was found to be
keeping at least three tigers and several monkeys inside her home. Court
documents filed against Trisha Meyer allege Houston Police Department officers
searched the woman's home when she was accused of receiving a $3,000 payment
for a kitten she allegedly failed to deliver to the buyer. Police said Meyer's
home had several exotic animals roaming freely inside, including three tiger
cubs, an adult big cat variously reported to be a tiger or a cougar, a fox and
a skunk. The suspect allegedly told game wardens "the tigers at their
current ages were dangerous and could kill." Police said an endangerment
investigation was opened due to Meyer's 14-year-old daughter living in the
home. Police said the tigers were feeding on raw chicken and were being
supervised by a 17-year-old.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Roman
statues were often made with heads that could be removed and replaced with
other heads.
***
A
pieta is any representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of
Christ, not just the famous one by Michelangelo.
***
Rembrandt
was his first name; his last name was van Rijn.
***
Henri
Rousseau, famous for his exotic jungle scenes, never left Paris. He would go to
the park, lie down among the grass and weeds, and sketch the plants hundreds of
times their size.
***
Matisse
coined the term cubism in 1908 as an insult to another painter's work.
***
It
took Leonardo da Vinci about five years to paint the Mona Lisa. X-rays of the
famous painting show that there are three different versions underneath.
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Birthdays Today
• indicates age at death
•80- Lee Strasberg, Austria,
acting coach/actor (Somewhere in the Night) [d1982]
78- Gordon
Lightfoot, Canadian folksinger (Sundown), born in Orillia,
Ontario
•77- August Ferdinand Möbius,
German mathematician (d. 1868)
•75- Bob Mathias, American
decathlete (Olympic-gold-1948, 52) and congressman, born in Tulare, California
(d. 2006)
74- Martin
Scorsese, director (Raging Bull, The Departed), born in
Queens, New York
73- Lauren
Hutton, [Mary], model/actress (American Gigolo), born in Charleston, South
Carolina
72- Danny
Devito, American actor (Taxi, Ruthless People, Twins),
born in Neptune Township, New Jersey
72- Lorne
Michaels [Lipowitz], Canadian producer, actor and comedy
writer (Saturday Night Live), born in Toronto, Ontario
•64- Pierre Gaultier,
French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
56- RuPaul,
drag queen/model/actor (RuPaul Show)
55- Chanda
Kochhar, Indian business woman (CEO of ICICI Bank), born
in Jodhpur, India
50- Daisy
Fuentes, model/MTV veejay (America's Funniest Videos)
•35- Dean Paul Martin, actor
(Billy-Misfits of Science), born in Santa Monica, California [d1987]
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Historical Obits Today
@83-1971 Gladys Cooper,
actress (Margaret-The Rogues)
@78-1998 Esther
Rolle, American actress (Good Times, Maude), diabetes
@77-1917 Auguste
Rodin, French sculptor (Baiser, Thinker), influenza
@71-1986 Alan
Hewitt, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian), cancer
@67-1796 Catherine
the Great [Catherine II], Empress of Russia (1762-96), stroke
@37-1720 Calico
Jack [John Rackham], English pirate, hanged
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Brain Teasers Answers
Fold
the four corners of the square into the center. This doubles the thickness of
the paper, and so halves the area.
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Toyota
Corolla
With
over 40 million sold, the Toyota Corolla is the most popular vehicle model ever
made. It's been in production since 1966 and was already a best seller by 1974.
Source: autoblog.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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