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11.2.16 Week: 44 \ Day: 307
November Averages: 51°\22°
86004 Today: H 62° \
L 42° Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 18mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 73°[1977] Record Low: 11°[1943]
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Quote of the Day
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to
build a cathedral.
~Frank Lloyd Wright
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Observances Today
Admission
Day (North Dakota-1889-39th)
Admission
Day (South Dakota-1889-40th)
Cookie Monster Day Link
International
Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists Link
National
Traffic Professionals Day
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Observances This Week
1-7
National
Fig Week
National Patient Accessibility Week
World Communication Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
Today’s World Historical Highlights
1675 A
combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and
Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts
during King Philip's War.
◘ 1698 Scottish
settlers make landfall in Panama, establishing the ill-fated 'Darien Venture'
colony.
1749 English
Ohio Trade Company forms first trading post
1835 2nd
Seminole War begins in Osceola
1898 Cheerleading
is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the
crowd in cheering on the football team.
◘ 1914 Great Britain
annexes Cyprus
◘ 1936 First
high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London
◘ 1936 The Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation is established.
◘ 1944 Auschwitz begins
gassing inmates
1947 Howard
Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flies for 1st (& last) time
1950 The
Clover Dairy Company test-market the first concentrated milk (Sealtest) in the
U.S. in Wilmington, Delaware
1954 JS
Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC)
◘ 1955 David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1959 Charles
Van Doren confesses that TV quiz show "21" was fixed
1960 Penguin Books cleared of obscenity for
publishing DH Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
◘ 1960 Mary Leakey and her team discover 1st fossils of Homo habilis, an early
human ancestor, at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Homo habilis one of the earliest
species to make stone tools, lived between 1.4 and 2.3 million years ago.
1966 The
Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to
apply for permanent residence in the United States.
◘ 1968 A banned march
in Derry, North Ireland, by members of the Derry Citizen's Action Committee
(DCAC) is joined by thousands; due to the number of people taking part, the
Royal Ulster Constabulary is unable to prevent it
◘ 1972 Goverment of the
Republic of Ireland introduce a bill to remove the special position of the
Catholic Church from the Irish Constitution
1978 Arnold
Shapiro's TV documentary "Scared Straight", narrated by Peter Falk as
a controversial and questionable deterrent to juvenile delinquency, debuts on
Los Angeles' KTLA-TV
1983 US President Ronald Reagan signs bill establishing Dr Martin Luther
King Jr. holiday
1993 Rudolph Giuliani (R) elected 107th mayor of NYC
1993 Rudolph Giuliani (R) elected 107th mayor of NYC
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Presidential Election Results
1824 Popular
presidential vote 1st recorded; Andrew Jackson beats J Q Adams
1852 Franklin
Pierce elected as president of US
1880 James
A. Garfield (R) elected 20th US President
1920 Warren
G. Harding elected 29th US President
1948 US
President Harry Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas
E. Dewey
1976 Jimmy
Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for US President
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My Rambling Thoughts
For
some reason, today is a lazy day. Didn’t feel like doing much of anything.
Enjoying a nice fall day is enough for me today.
One
week to go…way too long from my point of view. I guess it could be worse: John
Oliver was talking about Iceland’s election where a pirate is running. Or
Austria is holding another election because the glue on the ballot envelopes
was faulty. India and Greece [the birthplace of democracy] have a ‘none of the
above’ choice on their ballots. Even Nevada has that option. Hmmm
I
have to admit that I take little value in polls. On my home phone land line I
get a poll call every other day. When the calls started a few weeks ago, I
actually answered honestly. Now I just punch undecided on every Presidential,
Senator, and Rep question. I live in AZ, and since it is a toss up state, the
polls just keep coming. I believe that my vote is secret and not anyone’s
business.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Make
Some New Words #2
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 form eight (8) complete words from list A, B, & C.
In each list, there are parts of words. Choose one word part from each list (A,
B, C) to form the new word.
Example:
CORN + ERST + ONE = CORNERSTONE
List A:
FOR
ANT
EM
BOO
PER
IN
MAT
NO
List B:
CUB
IS
ME
ON
IT
EN
AD
PA
List C:
COPE
THY
DAY
SIC
ATE
RUST
RANG
OR
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
What
Nobel Prize-winning writer refused a dinner invitation from President John F.
Kennedy?
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…Harper’s Index…
2 ◘
Number of surveillance cameras on the International Space Station that are
available for private use
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2 jokes for the day
Ballerinas
are always on their toes...
Why don't they just get taller ballerinas?
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My
Irish mother-in-law gave me an “Irish Blessing” just before my wife and I went
on vacation.
I’d feel better about the “may the wind be at your back” thing if we weren’t
going to the Grand Canyon this year.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Boris
Karloff, who starred as Frankenstein, had to wear 22-pound size 24 boots. He
also donned two pairs of pants with steel struts shoved in them, and a
double-thickness quilted suit.
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Karloff's facial makeup was one-sixteenth of an inch thick, and the bolts on
the side of his neck left long-term scars.
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Bette Davis wanted the part of Mrs. Frankenstein, but was turned down because
she was "too aggressive."
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Among the lighting tricks in the classic film Dracula: Twin pencil-spotlights
were shined in Bela Lugosi's eyes to give Count Dracula his legendary hypnotic
stare.
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The Castle Dracula
and Carfax Abbey sets were so expensive to build that Universal Pictures kept
and reused them. You can spot them in numerous Universal films of the '30s.
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In Boris Karloff's second big monster flick The Mummy, he had to be wrapped
every day in linen and gauze, and was covered with mud.
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Lou Chaney, Jr.'s werewolf makeup in The Wolf Man took five hours to apply
every day.
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The werewolf costume was actually made of yak hair.
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Birthdays Today
indicates age at death
86- Ray Walston, actor (My
Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees), born in New Orleans, [d2001]
85- Daniel
Boone, American frontiersman and explorer (US Hall of Fame 1915), born in
Reading, Pennsylvania (d. 1820)
80- Burt
Lancaster, actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry), born in NYC, [d1994]
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74- Stefanie
Powers, actress (Girl From UNCLE, Hart to Hart), born in Hollywood, California
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63- Conrad
Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (d. 1760)
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57- Warren
G. Harding, 29th US President (1921-23), born in Blooming Grove, Ohio (d. 1923)
55- K.D.
Lang [Kathy Dawn], Consort Alberta, Canadian country singer
53- James
Knox Polk, 11th US President (Democrat: 1845-49), born in Pineville, North
Carolina (d. 1849)
50- David Schwimmer, actor [friends]
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42- Nelly,
American rapper
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37- Marie
Antoinette, Queen of France(1774-1792), "let them eat cake", born in
Vienna, Austria (d. 1793)
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Historical Obits Today
@100-1992 Hal
Roach, silent film producer (Keystone Kops)
@94-1950 George
Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion)
@81-2015 Colin
Welland, screenwriter (Chariots of Fire) and actor (Straw Dogs)
@75-1991 Irwin
Allen, dir (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure), heart attack
@75-1970 Richard
Cushing, US cardinal to Boston, cancer
@70-1981 Kenneth
Oakley, English Anthropologist, Palaeontologist, and Geologist whose method for
the relative dating of fossils using fluorine content was instrumental in
exposing the Piltdown Man hoax
@67-1887 Jenny
Lind, [Swedish Nightingale], soprano
@66-1961 James
Thurber, humorist (The Male Animal), stroke/ pneumonia
@62-1963 Ngo
Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam (1955-63), murdered
@37-1994 David
Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, aids
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
FORENSIC
2. ANTITRUST
3. EMPATHY
4. BOOMERANG
5. PERISCOPE
6. INCUBATE
7. MATADOR
8. NOONDAY
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Trivia Hive
Answers
William
Faulkner
Kennedy
in 1962 invited Faulkner to the White House for dinner. The irascible author,
then living in Charlottesville, Virginia, ultimately declined, explaining: “Why
that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.” Source: The
New York Times
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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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