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11.3.16 Week: 44
\ Day: 308
November Averages:
51°\22°
86004 Today: H 57° \ L 32°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts:
25mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 74°[1977]
Record Low: 8°[1922]
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Quote of the Day
A place for everything, everything in its place.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Observances
Today
Cliché Day
Men
Make Dinner Day: Must Cook. No BBQ Allowed! :) Link
Public Television Day
SOS 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
1534 English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry
VIII becomes Head of Church of England
1783 Washington orders
Continental Army disbanded
1839 1st opium war - 2 British frigates engage several
Chinese junks
1868 First black US
Congressman elected (John W Menard, Louisiana)
1883 US
Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans
1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of
Utah elected 1st female senator
1900 First US automobile show
opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
1911 Chevrolet officially
enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T
1913 The USA introduces an
income tax.
1930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
1952 Clarence Birdseye markets
frozen peas
1956 "Wizard of Oz"
1st televised (CBS-TV)
1970 US President Richard
Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam
1978 First broadcast of
"Different Strokes" on NBC TV
1979 Five people mortally
wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC
1983 Jesse Jackson launches
his 1st campaign for presidency (D)
1988 President Reagan signs
credit-card disclosure-bill
1998 "Shakespeare in
Love" directed by John Madden and starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph
Fiennes premieres in New York (Best Picture 1999)
2014 New York's 104-storey One
World Trade Center officially opens 13 years after the September 11 attacks
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Presidential Election results
1796 John Adams elected
president of the United States of America
1868 Ulysses Grant (R)
wins US presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1896 William McKinley (R)
defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president
1908 William Howard Taft (R)
elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan
1936 President FDR (D)
wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1964 LBJ (D) soundly
defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for US President
1992 Bill Clinton (D)
wins US presidential election over President George H. W. Bush (R)
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My Rambling
Thoughts
A fall day…much cooler temps and a chilly wind. Guess it’s time to get
ready for fall/winter.
While running around, I stopped and got my flu shot. Pharmacist was
funny…he said “Now you might get a slight fever with this shot, so I suggest
that all men to spend the next week in bed. I tell all women that the slight
fever will not affect any of their daily activities.”
I know that nothing usual will happen at my polling site next Tuesday.
However I must say a few Trump ‘watchers’ would add some excitement. The vote
is one of the most important things we do in this country. We don’t need ‘watchers’,
my goodness, showing your driver’s license, signing your name, and getting a
ballot is more than enough. There is so little voter fraud that we certainly go
overboard to defeat it. For a free society, we make it very hard for various
groups of people to vote. Working on the Rez, before the ID requirement, I saw,
and approved, many elders voting with a relative standing beside them to tell
them what to do. The elders spoke no English and while the Navajo Nation
ballots all had pictures, the state and Federal ballots did not. And the NN and
state propositions were very difficult to use a picture. I guess they could
have used a picture of a slot machine and one with the red circle and line on
the slot machine. In this election, it could be a joint and a joint with the
red circle and line. Hahaha.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A Part of Me
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs
answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
I am partially baked.
I am not completely lit.
I am a portion of the moon.
I am lesser than full wit.
I am a divider of the hour.
I am not a total lie.
I am a sibling through one parent.
Can you guess....what am I???
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Today’s Trivia
Hive
(answers at the end of post)
What gives marshmallows their name?
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…Harper’s Index…
20 ◘ Factor by which the brightness of a recent
supernova exceeded that of all the stars in the Milky Way
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2 jokes for the
day
A bookseller conducting a market survey asked a woman, "Which book
has helped you most in your life?"
The woman replied, "That would be my husband's checkbook."
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A salesman dropped in to see a business customer. Not a soul was in the
office except a big dog emptying wastebaskets. The salesman stared at the
animal, wondering if his imagination could be playing tricks on him.
The dog looked up and said, "Don't be surprised. This is just part of my
job."
"Incredible!" exclaimed the man. "I can't believe it! Does your
boss know what a prize he has in you? An animal that can talk!"
"No, no," pleaded the dog. "Please don't! If that man finds out
I can talk, he'll make me answer the phone as well!"
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Yep, It Really
Happened
*----------------- Cookie, NO! -----------------*
Police are looking to arrest a man on a charge of assault after
allegedly stabbing Cookie Monster, who was trying to stop a fight, according to
police in New York. The New York Police Department said that the incident
unfolded in Times Square, where people dress as characters to collects tips
from tourists in exchange for photos. 24-year-old Christopher Ramos told police
that he dressed as Cookie Monster in order to collect tips from tourists. At
some point, a fight broke out between a 30-year-old man who was dressed as a
fighter pilot and a man who was dressed as an American Indian. Ramos stepped in
to try to stop the fight, but the 30-year-old man pulled out a knife and
stabbed Cookie Monster in the back. So far, no arrests have been made.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
"Lousy" and "crummy" both referred to being infested
with lice, while "fed up" emerged as a widespread expression of
weariness among the men.
***
"Snapshot" came from a quickly aimed and taken rifle shot, and
"wash out" described a process by which aspiring officers who failed
their commissions and were sent back to their regiments, or "washed
out".
***
The French term souvenir replaced keepsake as the primary word for a
memento, following exchanges with the locals, while officers being sacked were
said to have "come ungummed" from the French "degommer", to
dismiss. This quickly developed into "come unstuck".
***
Several Hindi terms, picked up from Indian Army soldiers and already
circulating in the regular, professional army, were also disseminated widely.
One of those most used at the front was "cushy" from khush
('pleasure'). Soldiers would describe cushy, or comfortable billets, as well as
cushy trenches, in quiet sectors.
***
The most well known term derived from Hindi though was
"Blighty", from bilati, meaning "foreign", which, when
applied by Indians to Britons, came to be perceived by Indian Army servicemen
as the term "British".
***
Words even entered the lexicon from the trenches opposite.
"Strafe" became an English word, from the German "to
punish", via a prominent slogan used by the enemy: "Gott Strafe
England", while prisoners of war returned with term "erzatz", literally
"replacement", but used in English to mean "cheap
substitute" and spelled ersatz.
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Birthdays Today
indicates age at death
83- William Cullen Bryant,
poet (Thanatopsis) [d1878]
83- Ken
Berry, Moline Ill, actor (F Troop, Mayberry RFD, Mama's Family)
83- Michael
Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts (1975-79 and 1983-91) and 1988 Democratic
presidential nominee, born in Brookline, Massachusetts
83- Amartya
Sen, Indian economist and Nobel Prize laureate (welfare economics and
social choice theory), born in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India
82- Johannes Eugenius
Bülow Warming, Mandø, Danish Botanist (plant ecology, environment-organism
interactions)
81- Charles
Bronson, American actor (Magnificent Seven, Death Wish, Dirty Dozen),
born in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania (d. 2003)
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76- D. James Kennedy,
American theologian (d. 2007)
75- Andre Malraux,
[Berger], novelist/art historian (La Condition Humaine), born in Paris, France
[d1976]
73- John Montague, 4th
Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich) [d1792]
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68- Lulu
[Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie], singer/actress (To Sir With Love), born in
Glasgow, Scotland
67- Larry
Holmes, American heavyweight boxing champ (1978-85), born
in Cuthbert, Georgia
64- Roseanne
Barr, American comedienne and TV star (Roseanne), born in Salt Lake City,
Utah
63- Dennis
Miller, comedian/TV host (SNL, Dennis Miller Show), born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
62- Adam
Ant, [Stuart Goddard], English punk rocker (If I Strip For You), born in
London, England
♦
59- Dolph
Lundgren, actor (Rocky IV, The Expendables 2), born in Stockholm, Sweden
♦
43- Stephen
F. Austin, Founded and helped colonize the US state of Texas, born in
Austinville, Virginia (d. 1836)
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29- Colin
Kaepernick, American football player
21- Kendall Jenner, modle
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Historical Obits
Today
@88-1949 Solomon
R Guggenheim, US art collector
@84-1954 Henri
E B Matisse,
French painter/sculptor (Dance II)
@83-1998 Bob
Kane, comic artist and Batman co-creator
♦
@76-1990 Mary Martin, actress (Peter
Pan), cancer
♦
@66-1926 Annie
Oakley, US sharp shooting star, anemia
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@50-1930 Alfred
Wegener, German polar researcher and meteorologist
(continental shift), dies while on an expedition to Greenland (date is
approximate), overexertion
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Brain Teasers
Answers
HALF
half baked, half lit, half moon, half wit, half past the hour, half truth, half
brother/sister.
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Trivia Hive Answers
The "marsh mallow" plant originally used in production
Marshmallows can be traced thousands of years back to ancient Egypt,
when the sap of a certain swamp-dwelling mallow plant paired well with honey to
become a sweet treat. Due to its association with the plant, it's not
surprising where the candy would get its name. However, marshmallows as we know
them today would not appear until 1948. Source: Rocky Mountain Marshmallows,
Bravo TV
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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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