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11.27.16 Week: 48
\ Day: 332
November Averages:
51°\22°
86004 Today: H 51° \ L 19°
Average Sky Cover: 95%
Wind ave: -mph\Gusts:
-mph Visibility: 4 mi
Record High: 68°[1949]
Record Low: -5°[1984]
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Quote of the Day
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
<Francis Bacon
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Observances
Today
John
F. Kennedy Day (Massachusetts)
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Observances This
Week
18-27
American Sand Sculpting
Competition Link
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
► 1807 The Portuguese Royal Family leaves
Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops
► 1815 City of Kraków (Poland) declared a
free republic state by the Congress of Vienna
1817 US soldiers attack
Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
► 1826 John Walker invents friction match
in England
1839 American Statistical
Association organizes in Boston
1868 Battle at Washita River,
Oklahoma. General Custer attacks group of Native American Indians,
their chief Black Kettle dies in the attack
1889 1st permit issued to
drive a car through Central Park (Curtis P Brady)
1890 1st signal box for SF
Police Department goes into operation
► 1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's
will establishes the Nobel Prize
► 1896 "Also Sprach Zarathustra"
(Thus Spake Zarathustra) debuts in Frankfurt
1910 ny's penn station opens as the world's largest railway terminal
1911 Audience throws
vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US
1920 "The Mask of
Zorro" directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in
New York - 1st American superhero film
1924 In New York City, the
first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
►1943 Conference
of Tehran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)
1947 Joe DiMaggio wins
his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote
1960 CBS radio cancels
"Have Gun Will Travel"
1960 Gordie Howe becomes
1st NHLer to score 1,000 points
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1970 Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a
dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
1973 US Senate votes 92-3 to
confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President
1973 US President Richard
Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, authorizing petroleum
price, production, allocation and marketing controls
► 2004 Pope John Paul II returns
the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
2005 First partial human face
transplant is completed for Isabelle Dinoire in Amiens, France.
► 2006 The Canadian House of Commons
endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Québécois a
nation within a unified Canada.
► 2012 The Eurozone announces that it will
make loans of 43.7 billion euros to Greece
2013 tiger woods is named pga tour's player of the year for the 11th time
2013 "Frozen", the
highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and
Kristen Bell, is released
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Slept in until almost 7a. Woke up to a cloud cover
sky. Then it cleared about 7:30. About 9a it was all clouds. Now there is no wind…not even a little. Very
unusual for our mountain town. The
weatherman says up to 10” of the fluffy, light white stuff by tomorrow night.
He’s been wrong before. I wouldn’t mind some powder snow, but certainly don’t
want 10”.
Staying put today. I enjoy cloudy days to get my deep
cleaning bug going. Hasn’t hit yet, but if we wake up to snow, it will be
there. Have several projects that need my attention, but can’t get into them.
Snow will help.
Have to say I have mixed feelings on the passing of
Fidel Castro. I was astonished when visiting Cuba, after Obama made it much
easier, that there were no posters billboards of Fidel, or of Raul, for that
matter. There was lots of posters and billboards, and wall drawings, and
building decorations for Che Guevara. He appeared to be the hero of the revolution.
Most of the Cubans we met were born after the revolution, so all they knew was
Castro and his brother. It is going to be very educational to see how the
Cubans in Cuba react to his death. Also, how our President-elect will deal with
Cuba after January 20th. I am hopeful that whatever he does, it will
benefit the wonderful people of Cuba. The people of Cuba we met are friendly, hardworking
and deserve a good life.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Synonym Safari 5 (Holiday Edition)
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 holiday. (The first holiday is only one word long. The second
and third are two words long.)
1. (Right of north ) (she)
2. (Hotel) D (ink stick) (boogie) (24 hours)
3. (Work) (24 hours)
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“Contronym”—word
that is its own antonym
Trim as a verb predates the noun, but it can also mean either adding or
taking away. Arising from an Old English word meaning ‘to make firm or strong;
to settle, arrange,’ “trim” came to mean ‘to prepare, make ready.’ Depending on
who or what was being readied, it could mean either of two contradictory
things: ‘to decorate something with ribbons, laces, or the like to give it a
finished appearance’ or ‘to cut off the outgrowths or irregularities of.’ And
the context doesn’t always make it clear. If you’re trimming the tree are you
using tinsel or a chain saw?
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Today’s Trivia
Hive
(answers at the end of post)
What breed of turkey is the one you eat on Thanksgiving?
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…Harper’s Index…
19 ►Number
of US states without laws prohibiting ‘revenge porn’
1/2 ► Portion of
American males who were under the age of 13 when they were first exposed to
pornography
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2 jokes for the
day
A frog, a duck, and a skunk went to the movies. The frog and duck were
allowed to see it, but the skunk wasn't.
Why?
Because the frog had a greenback, the duck had a bill, but the skunk had only
one scent.
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On the first day of Spring Training, a baseball scout brings a race
horse with him to add to the starting line-up. The coach asks, "What did
you bring that horse here for?"
The scout replies, "Wait until you see him bat."
All the players are laughing, until the horse comes to bat. At this point, the
horse grabs the bat, and everyone quiets down. They stare at the horse. The
pitcher, just shrugs his shoulders, and throws the ball toward home plate when
astonishingly the horse hits the ball deep in the outfield.
The horse just stands there and does not move. The manager then yells at the
baseball scout to tell the horse to run to first base. The scout looks back at
the manager and yells back, "If he could run, he'd be at Belmont!"
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Yep, It Really
Happened
*--- Man Picked the Right Beer to Urinate On ---*
A man was arrested on a charge of criminal mischief after allegedly
urinating on cases of beer at a 7-Eleven convenience store, according to police
in Florida. Treasure Island police said that they have arrested 46-year-old
Daniel Colon, after being accused of ruining at least 6 cases of beer inside
the store's cooler. According to the criminal complaint, Colon entered the
7-Eleven looking for a bathroom. Colon opened a door to the cooler after he
couldn't find the toilet. He unzipped his pants and began to urinate. A store
employee followed Colon into the cooler and confronted him. Colon then left the
store. Colon urinated on 6 cases of Busch Light, causing $100 in damage. He was
later pulled over by police for driving drunk.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Stilts were invented by French shepherds who herded sheep in marshes
near the Bay of Biscay.
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In about 250 B.C., Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes invented the screw.
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Leonardo da Vinci figured out that the rings of a tree reveal its age.
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The filaments for the first electric lamp were made of bamboo.
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The first person to use an elevator: King Louis XV, whose "flying
chair" went between floors at Versailles in 1743.
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Mark Twain invented a Trivial Pursuit-like game called Mark Twain's
Memory-Builder.
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Birthdays Today
► indicates age at
death
► 91- Forrest Shaklee, founder
(Shaklee Products) [d1985]
► 88 David Merrick,
[Margulois], Hong Kong, Broadway producer (Hello Dolly) [d2000]
► 83- Françoise d'Aubigné,
marquise de Maintenon, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
► 80- "Buffalo"
Bob Smith, TV host (Howdy Doody), born in Buffalo, New York [d1998]
► 66- Robert R. Livingston,
US Founding Father who delivered oath of office to George Washington, born in
NYC, New York (d. 1813)
65- Jayne
Kennedy, sportscaster (CBS)/actress (Body & Soul), born in Washington, D.C.
65- Kathryn
Bigelow, American director, producer and writer (The Hurt
Locker, Zero Dark Thirty), born in San Carlos, California
61- Bill
Nye, the Science Guy, TV Host
► 60- Pedro Salinas, Spanish
writer (Generation of 1927), born in Madrid (d. 1951)
59- Caroline
Kennedy-Schlossberg, attorney, JFK & Jackie's daughter
►56 Eddie
Rabbitt, country singer (I Love a Rainy Night), born in Brooklyn, [d1998]
52- Robin
Simone Givens, [Mrs Mike Tyson] (Darlene-Head of the Class), born in NYC, New
York
46- Eric
Menendez, NY, accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers)
► 42- Anders Celsius,
Swedish astronomer (proposed the Celsius temperature scale), born in Uppsala,
Sweden (d. 1744)
40- Jaleel
White, actor (Steve Urkel-Family Matters), born in Los Angeles, California
► 32 Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam],
karate star/actor (Green Hornet), born in San Francisco, [d1973]
► 27 Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist
(Purple Haze), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1970)
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Historical Obits
Today
@94-2014 P
D [Phyllis Dorothy] James, Baroness James of Holland Park, English crime writer
(Death in Holy Orders)
@82-1988 John
Carradine, actor (Ten Commandments)
@74-1990 David
White, actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched), heart attack
@70-1901 Clement
Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer
@65-1953 Eugene
O'Neill, playwright (Nobel 1936), cerebellar
cortical atrophy
@56-8 Horace, Roman lyric poet
@50-1975 Ross
McWhirter, Guinness Book of Records keeper, murdered by ira
@48-1978 Harvey
Milk, first openly gay person to be elected to public office, assassinated
@26-1934 "Baby
Face" Nelson, [Lester Gillis], gangster, shot by FBI
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Brain Teasers
Answers
1. Easter (east + her)
2. Independence Day (inn + d + pen + dance + day)
3. Labor Day
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Trivia Hive Answers
Broad Breasted White
Not to put a face to your meal or anything but the breed of turkey that
is bred for consumption is the Broad Breasted White which is 65% white meat and
35% dark meat and can grow up to- wait for it- 50 pounds! Midget Whites and
Bourbon Reds tend to be more on the 50/50 scale and taste gamier than their
cousins. Narragansett turkeys look more like the turkeys you see decorated on
your plates or porcelain figurines at Thanksgiving. They tend to be less than
twice the size and though they are pretty, don't really have much meat. Anywho,
Bon Appetite!
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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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