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11.23.16 Week: 47 \ Day: 328
November Averages: 51°\22°
86004 Today: H 50° \
L 32° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts: 7mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 69°[1954] Record Low: -4°[1931]
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Quote of the Day
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools
such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
<Jackson Pollock
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Observances Today
Doctor Who Day
Fibonacci Day Link
International Day To End Impunity Link
International Image
Consultant Day
National Espresso Day Link
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Observances This Week
18-24
National Farm-City Week
18-27
American Sand Sculpting Competition Link
20-26
GERD Awareness Week Link
International Bible Week
International Fraud Awareness Week Link
National Family Week
National Game & Puzzle
Week
Better Conversation Week
21-25
Church/State Separation Week
21-27
National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link
23-29
National Deal Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
•Today’s World
Historical Highlights
·
800 Charlemagne arrives
at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
·
1584 English parliament expels
Jesuits
·
1644 Areopagitica, a pamphlet
by John Milton, decrying censorship, is published.
· 1654 French mathematician,
scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an
intense, mystical vision that marks him for life.
1765 People of Frederick County, Maryland refuse to
pay British Stamp tax
1783 Annapolis Maryland, becomes US capital (until
June 1784)
1835 Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing
machine (Troy NY)
1848 Female Medical Educational Society forms in
Boston
1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake
Merced, California, to drop 30' (9m)
1863 Patent granted for a process of making color
photographs
·
1869 In Dumbarton, Scotland,
the clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever built, and
the only one still surviving
1897 Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love
1903 Enrico Caruso US debut (Metropolitan Opera
House, NY) in "Rigoletto"
1903 Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the
state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.
1904 3rd Olympic games close in St Louis
1906 Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church,
convicted of polygamy
1909 Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to
manufacture airplanes
1937 John Steinbeck's "Of Mice & Men"
premieres in NYC
1960 Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame at
Hollywood Blvd & Vine St
·
1963 "Doctor Who"
the long-running British sci-fi series, debuts
1963 Horatio Alger Society founded
1963 JFK's
body lay in repose in East Room of White House
1963 LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national
mourning (for JFK)
·
1964 Beatles release "I
Feel Fine" & "She's a Woman"
·
1964 Vatican abolishes Latin
as official language of Roman Catholic liturgy
·
1971 China People's Republic
seated in UN Security Council
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1974 60 Ethiopia government
officials executed
·
1979 Pink Floyd's "The
Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks
·
1980 4,800 die in series of
earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
1981 President Reagan vetoes House Joint
Resolution 357 which called for further appropriations for fiscal year 1982
1988 President Reagan announces that he is
pocket-vetoing a bill designed to further restrict lobbying by former federal
employees.
1992 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold
·
2005 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf,
elected president of Liberia, is the first woman to lead an African country.
2014 Republicans condemn US President Obama's
use of executive powers to force through immigration reform
·
2014 Mass protests in Mexico
by relatives of 43 missing Mexican students, who the authorities say were
murdered by a drugs gang
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My Rambling Thoughts
Did
some shopping to get ready for Turkey Day. Tomorrow will be cleaning day and a
little baking. Ready now. Not sure who will be dropping by throughout the day,
but will be ready for whatever.
Marked
my calendar with a big smile today. Listening to the news it sounds like our
President-elect is pulling back some of his idiotic campaign rhetoric. Sounds
like he won’t be prosecuting Hillary, that climate change may be somewhat human
caused, and that the White Supremacists should stop the rhetoric. I hope
tomorrow I can add more to this list and that the list continues to grow. Sure
would be nice if he just pulls way way back from all his campaign rhetoric. I
am fully aware that he could just as easily reject what he said today. THIS IS
NOT NORMAL!
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Synonym
Safari 2
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
Replace
each word or words in parentheses with a one-word synonym to decipher a common
phrase.
1. (Performances) (converse) (noisier) than (terms).
2. (More superior) (delayed) than (not at all).
3. (Sublime) (mental abilities) (contemplate) (similarly).
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“Contronym”—word that is its own antonym
Dust, along with the
next two words, is a noun turned into a verb meaning either to add or to remove
the thing in question. Only the context will tell you which it is. When you
dust are you applying dust or removing it? It depends whether you’re dusting
the crops or the furniture.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
How
many Academy Awards were won by the 1939 film Gone with the Wind?
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…Harper’s Index…
29 – Number of people killed in a 2010 explosion at a WV
mine operated by Massey Energy
1 – Number of years in prison to which the company’s
CEO was sentenced this year for violating mine-safety laws
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2 jokes for the day
I
got my first full-time job, but I could have sworn I was making more money in
college while working for my parents as their daughter.
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Two
girlfriends were talking to each other about relationships. "I put an ad
in one of those singles websites looking for a boyfriend."
"What kind of guy did you say you were looking for?"
"I wanted an ambitious guy who likes to dig in to get the job done and is
really down to earth. I think I found him."
"So what does he do?"
"He's a grave digger."
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Somewhat Useless Information
The
first TV dinner was Thanksgiving leftovers.
<>
The first Swanson frozen TV dinner (which sold for a mere 98 cents) was
produced in the United States and consisted of a Thanksgiving meal of turkey,
cornbread stuffing, frozen peas and sweet potatoes packaged in a tray like
those used for airline meals. Retired Swanson executive Gerry Thomas said he
came up with the idea after the company found itself with a huge surplus of
frozen turkeys because of poor Thanksgiving sales.
<>
The average person consumes 4500 calories on Thanksgiving day--enough to gain
1.3 pounds
<>
A 160-pound person would have to run at a steady pace for six hours, swim for
seven and a half hours or walk 45 miles to burn off a 4,500-calorie
Thanksgiving day food-fest.
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Birthdays Today
• indicates age at death
· 86- John
Wallis, English mathematician and cryptographer who
introduced ∞
as a symbol for infinity, born in Ashford, England (d. 1703)
· 81- Boris
Karloff, [William H Pratt], Dulwich England, actor (Frankenstein) [d1969]
· 76- Josiah
Dwight Whitney, Northampton Massachusetts, American Geologist who led the
California Geological Survey (Mount Whitney and Whitney Glacier are named for
him) [d1896]
· 75- Harpo
Marx, [Adolph] actor/comedian (Marx brothers), born in NYC, [d1964]
· 74- Steve
Landesberg, comedian/actor (Barney Miller), born in The Bronx, [d2010]
66- Charles
E Schumer, (Rep-D-NY, Sen-D-NY)
·
64- Franklin
Pierce, 14th US President (Democrat: 1853-57), born in
Hillsborough, New Hampshire (d. 1869)
29- ‘Snookie’ [Nichole Polizzi], reality star
24- Miley
Cyrus, American actress and singer (Hannah Montana, The
Climb), born in Nashville, Tennessee
·
21- Billy
the Kid, [William H Bonney], frontier outlaw, born in NYC,
New York (d. 1881)
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Historical Obits Today
@89-1992 Ray
Acuff, country singer (Wahbash Cannonball),
dies
@82ish-1872 Ten
Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), US poet/Comanche chief
@81-2012 Larry
Hagman, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas), throat cancer
@74-1990 Roald
Dahl, British author (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG), myelodysplastic syndrome
@72ish-615 Columbanus,
Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale)
@70-1914 Elbrige
Gerry, VP (of Gerrymander fame)
@68-1979 Merle
Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), stroke
@51-1902 Walter
Reed, US bacteriologist (Yellow Fever), peritonitis
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
Actions speak louder than words.
2. Better late than never.
3. Great minds think alike.
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Trivia Hive
Answers
8
Gone
with the Wind won eight Oscars in 1940, not including an honorary award for its
use of color "for the enhancement of dramatic mood." It was nominated
for an additional five categories. Leading actor Clark Gable did not win Best
Actor in a Leading Role, losing out to Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
Source: IMDB, Oscars.
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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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