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11.26.16 Week: 47
\ Day: 331
November Averages:
51°\22°
86004 Today: H 49° \ L 21°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts:
-mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 70°[1977]
Record Low: -8°[1906]
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Quote of the Day
Don't think, just do.
<Horace
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Observances
Today
International Aura Awareness Day
World Day of Giving Link
Small Business Saturday
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Observances This
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
21-27
National Global Entrepreneurship
Week Link
23-29
National Deal Week
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Today’s US
Historical Highlights
•Today’s
World Historical Highlights
•
1476 vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of
Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for
the third time.
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1580 French Huguenots & Roman Catholics sign peace treaty
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1688 French King Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands
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1688 King James II escapes back to London
1716 1st lion exhibited in
America (Boston)
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1778 British explorer Captain Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich
Islands (now Hawaii)
1789 1st national Thanksgiving
in America
1825 1st college fraternity
founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
1832 1st streetcar railway in
America starts operating (NYC) (12 cent fare)
1842 The University of Notre
Dame is founded.
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1859 Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale
Of Two Cities" is published in literary periodical "All the Year
Round"
1865 "Alice in
Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is published in America
1867 Refrigerated railroad car
patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit
1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters
Association forms
1898 -27) Snow/ice storm over
US; 455 die
1916 Addressing the Chamber of
Commerce in Cincinnati, US President Wilson declares that 'The business of
neutrality is over. The nature of modern war leaves no state untouched'
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1922 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens
Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt
1942 "Casablanca"
directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman
premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC
1945 Charlie "Bird"
Parker leads a record date for the Savoy label, marketed as the "greatest
Jazz session ever"
1948 1st polaroid camera
sold for $89.75 in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store. The Land Camera
model 95 becomes the prototype for all Polaroid Land cameras produced for the
next 15 years.
1952 1st modern 3-D movie
"Bwana Devil" premieres in Hollywood
1956 "The Price Is
Right" debuts on NBC
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1962 Fab Four have their first recording session under name The
Beatles
1963 Cincinnati 2nd baseman Pete
Rose wins NL Rookie of Year
1973 Nixon's personal sec,
Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18½
minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1978 Christina Crawford
autobiography "Mommie Dearest" reaches best-seller status
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1979 Intl Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years
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1983 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7
million
1985 Random House buys Richard
Nixon’s memoires for $3,000,000
1991 Condoms are handed out to
thousands of NY High School students
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1998 Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
2012 The cost of Hurricane
Sandy to New York is announced to be $32 Billion
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I know I did.
Headed out to Home Depot for their 99cent Poinsettias. Got three and am
a happy camper. Didn’t go out until 11am so I missed the crowds…but parking was
not easy. Inside there were lots of shoppers but not too many at the checkout
line.
Still not really commenting on Cabinet proposals. I’ll let my elected
reps deal with that. Not that I don’t have opinions…but it’s just not the time.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Fill 'Er Up!
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that
needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
I often eat junk, but also things with more bulk.
What I eat, I do not consume, and what goes in my mouth comes back out of it.
I don't speak to you, but you can still get information from me.
I'm numbered among many friends.
What am I?
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“Contronym”—word
that is its own antonym
Stone is another verb to use with caution. You can stone some peaches,
but please don’t stone your neighbor (even if he says he likes to get stoned).
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Today’s Trivia
Hive
(answers at the end of post)
How fast does the average New York City subway train travel?
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…Harper’s Index…
11 – Number of
Attawapiskat First Nation tribal members in Canada who attempted suicide on a
single day in April
3,544 – Total number of
members in the tribe
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2 jokes for the
day
I’ll do algebra, I’ll do statistics, I’ll even do trigonometry…
But graphing, THAT is where I draw the line!
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Man walks into the barbershop, sits down in the chair and the barber
asks, "How do you want your haircut?"
The man says, " I would like the sideburns one high and one low, a few
long hairs sticking out of the back and a few chunks on the side and top."
The barber looks puzzled and says, "I'm not sure I can do that."
The customer says, "Why not, you did it that way last time."
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Yep, It Really
Happened
*-- Swedish Union Opens 'Mansplaining' Hotline --*
A Swedish trade union has set up a hotline for women to call and vent
about "mansplaining" -- when condescending male coworkers
over-explain something the woman already understands. The labor group Unionen
said it created the hotline after hearing complaints from female members that
they were constantly being patronized by men in the workplace who sometimes
know less than female coworkers, but act like experts anyway. A spokeswoman for
Unionen said the hotline, which will operate for a week, is intended to draw
attention to workplace relationships and gender equality. The union said most
women have called for advice on how to get male coworkers and bosses to respect
their intellect. The group said a large number of men have also called, asking
for help getting female coworkers to be more respected by the group. The term
"mansplaining" came into popular use after a 2008 essay by the author
Rebecca Solnit, who recounted the story of a man at a party explaining the
importance of a book to her, while oblivious to the fact Solnit had actually
written the book he was describing. You know? I feel like I need a hotline to
call for when women complain about stupid thing. I call it 'Femplaining'.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Although George Washington was the first to create a national day of
thanksgiving, it didn't become a national holiday (with a set date) until
Lincoln officially made it the last Thursday of November. For the interim 74
years, each state scheduled its own Thanksgiving at different times. The
original document that proclaimed the exact date of Thanksgiving was written by
Secretary of State William Seward in 1863, and then sold a year later to
benefit Union troops.
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Not everyone sees Thanksgiving Day as a cause for celebration. Each year
since 1970, a group of Native Americans and their supporters have staged a
protest for a National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock in Plymouth,
Massachusetts on Thanksgiving Day.
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Held every year on the island of Alcatraz, "Unthanksgiving Day"
commemorates the survival of Native Americans following the arrival and
settlement of Europeans in the Americas.
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Birthdays Today
• indicates age
at death
•87- Ellen
G. White, American religious leader (Seventh-day Adventist
Church), born in Gorham, Maine [d1915]
•86- Mary
Edwards Walker, American doctor/women's rights leader and only woman to receive
Medal of Honor (bravery during Civil War) [1919]
•83- Albert
B. Fall, New Mexico Senator (Teapot Dome Scandal), born in
Frankfort, Kentucky [d1944]
•79- Eric
Sevareid, Velva ND, newscaster (CBS Weekend News) [d1992]
78- Rich
Little, Ottawa Canada, impressionist/actor (Love on a Rooftop)
•77- Charles
M. Schulz, cartoonist (Peanuts), born in Minneapolis,
Minnesota (d. 2000)
77- Tina
Turner, [Anna Mae Bullock], American singer (Proud Mary),
born in Nutbush, Tennessee
•74- Karl
Ziegler, German chemist and Nobel Laureate (polymers),
born in Helsa, German Empire (d. 1973)
•73- Willis
Carrier, American engineer who developed modern air
conditioning, born in Angola, New York (d. 1950)
•73- Robert
Goulet, American singer and actor, born in Lawrence,
Massachusetts (d. 2007)
•36- Bruno
Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
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Historical Obits
Today
@96-1883 Sojourner
Truth, US abolitionist/women's rights advocate
@73-1982 Robert
Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe)
@74-1990 David
White, actor (Bewitched), heart attack
@51-1956 Tommy
Dorsey, big bandleader, choked in sleep
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Brain Teasers
Answers
A mailbox.
"Junk mail" is the term often used for advertisements sent through
the mail. "Bulk" mail, now called "standard" in the U.S.,
is often used by businesses and other types of organizations. Bulkier
mail-pieces such as packages can be delivered in some mailboxes too.
In urban areas, mailboxes are usually hung beside the front door, in more rural
settings, boxes are placed on a post beside the road.
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Trivia Hive Answers
17 mph
Most subway trains maintain speeds of 17 mph. Though, many are designed
to hit maximum velocities of 55 mph and above. In 2009, the Transportation
Workers Union urged its members to reduce their speeds when entering stations
to address a spate of passenger injuries. 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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