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11.7.16 Week: 45 \ Day: 312
November Averages: 51°\22°
86004 Today: H 60° \
L 27° Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts: 0mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 71°[1934] Record Low: 8°[1947]
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Quote of the Day
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot
change their minds cannot change anything.
~George Bernard Shaw
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Observances Today
Employee
Brotherhood Day Link (SpongeBob
Squarepants)
Fill Our Staplers Day
International Merlot Day Link
Job Action Day Link
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day Link
National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day Link
Republican Elephant Day
Traffic
Directors Day Link
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Observances This Week
1-7
National
Fig Week
National Patient Accessibility Week
World Communication Week
6-12
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week Link
7-11
Give
Wildlife A Brake! Week
Link
National
Young Reader's Week Link
7-13
Dear
Santa Letter Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
Today’s World Historical Highlights
1492 Ensisheim
Meteorite strikes earth in a wheat field near village of Ensisheim in Alsace,
France. Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact
1512 Medici's discharge Niccolo
Machiavelli from Florence
1637 Anne Hutchinson tried in Massachusetts Bay
Colony as a heretic
1651 King Louis
XIV of France (13) declared of full age
1665 1st edition of 'london gazette'
1786 The oldest musical organization in the United
States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
1805 Lewis and Clark sight Pacific Ocean
1811 Battle
of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeats the Native
Americans of the Tecumesh Confederation
1837 In
Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy shot dead (age 34) by
pro-slavery mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being
destroyed a third time.
1874 1st
cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast
1893 US State Colorado accepts female suffrage
1912 The Deutsche Opernhaus (now
Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with
a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1917 [OS Oct 25] October
Revolution in Russia; Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture
the Winter Palace and overthrow the Provisional Government
1918 Robert Goddard demonstrates tube-launched
solid propellant rockets
1918 The 1918 influenza epidemic
spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the
end of the year
1931 Chinese People's Republic
proclaimed by Mao Zedong
1942 First US president to broadcast in a foreign
language-FDR in French
1957 Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more
American missiles and fallout shelters.
1962 Richard Nixon tells press he won't be
available to kick around any more after losing election for Governor of
California
1967 LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation
for Public Broadcasting
1976 "Gone With the Wind" televised
1978 Marion Barry Jr. elected as Washington, D.C.'s
first black mayor
1983 Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy
damage but no injuries
1991 Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus
& retires from LA Lakers
2000 Controversial US presidential election that
was later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case
2000 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military
missile silo in Wamego, Kansas
2000 Hillary
Clinton is elected to the US Senate, becoming first US First Lady to win
public office and while still the First Lady
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice
Sunday outside. No wind, fall temps that aren’t too cool, clear sky with lots
of sunshine. Enjoying it fully. Nice time for a long walk.
Late
night with my nemesis…Netflix. Did some binge watching of several series, just because
I could.
DST
rant: For decades I lived on the Navajo Rez and came into Flagstaff most
weekends. During DST I had change times with every trip. The Navajo Rez did
DST, while AZ did not. I even bought those then new-fangled digital watches that
allowed for 2 time zones with the punch of a button. It was nice as on Friday
the 80 mile drive to Flagstaff took only 20 minutes by the clock. Driving back
on Sunday was horrific and leaving Flagstaff at 2p didn’t get me home until
4:30p clock time. So while all of you non-AZ people or non-Indiana people, I
feel your pain of suddenly having to force your body to change time. Thankfully
being retired in N. AZ I don’t have to deal with this anymore. I am reminded of
an old joke: A Native Elder is talking to his family. Only the Whiteman would
think that you can cut one foot off a blanket and sew it to the other end and
expect the blanket to be longer.
Come
on FBI---get your sh*t together. In the middle of early voting, head announces
investigation into emails…leading many on the right suggesting Hillary needed
to be locked up. Then today, now that most early voting has concluded, and on a
Sunday no less, he announces that his July announcement…that there will be no criminal
charges against Hillary…will stand after his dedicated agents looked at all the
emails. Come on.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Quick
Yet Deadly
Riddles
are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles
frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
I
can be quick and then I'm deadly,
I am a rock, shell and bone medley.
If I was made into a man, I'd make people dream,
I gather in my millions by ocean, sea and stream.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
In
what Italian city can you find Michelangelo's statue of David
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…Harper’s Index…
2 – Rank of the US among countries that Arabs aged
18-24 regard as the best in which to live
1 – Rank of the United Arab Emirates
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2 jokes for the day
My
doctor says she's been practicing medicine for ten years...
I asked her to call me when she's done practicing and gets serious.
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A
man in a movie theater notices what looks like a baby giraffe sitting next to
him. "Are you a baby giraffe?" asked the man, surprised.
"Yes."
"What are you doing at the movies?"
The giraffe replied, "Well, I liked the book."
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-----
California Town Invaded by Turkey(s) -----*
A
California city has voted to remove and re-locate an increasing number of
aggressive turkeys. One particularly aggressive Turkey, known as "Downtown
Tom," prompted several residents of Davis, Calif., to call local police
for help.
"Yes,
this is almost embarrassing. I am trying to get into my office on G Street in
Davis and I have this huge turkey surrounding my car, circling me and I don't
know what to do," one caller said.
"I
don't want to run it over but I can't stay in my car all morning, is there any
advice you can give me?"
The
Davis City Council voted 4-1 in favor of a more than $20,000 trap-and-release
program in response to the presence of up to 40 aggressive wild turkeys. The
ordinance allows for lethal removal of the turkeys, including Downtown Tom, who
managed to escape capture by wildlife officials. The city also placed signs in
the downtown area giving residents tips for dealing with the aggressive fowl.
"Be the dominant species, essentially," City Wildlife Resource
Specialist John McNerney said, summarizing the advice. "Don't let it
intimidate you, which can be difficult for some folks."
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Birthdays Today
indicates age at death
98- Billy
Graham, American Baptist evangelist (Crusades), born in
Charlotte, North Carolina
94- Ruth Pitter, British
poet and 1st woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955 [d1992]
•
87- Dean Jagger, Lima Ohio,
actor (Albert Vane-Mr Novak, Elmer Gantry) [d1991]
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78- Barry
Newman, actor (Amy, Deadline, Petrocelli), born in Boston, Massachusetts
76- Al
Hirt, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World), born in New Orleans,
Louisiana [d1999]
74- Johnny
Rivers, [Ramistella], singer (Secret Agent Man), born in NYC, New York
73- Joni
Mitchell, [Roberta J Anderson], Canadian singer (Clouds),
born in Fort Macleod, Alberta
73- Michael
Spence, American economist and Nobel Prize laureate, born
in Montclair, New Jersey
•
66- Marie Skłodowska-Curie,
discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911), born in Warsaw, Poland [d1934]
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59- Christopher
Knight, actor (Peter-Brady Bunch), born in NYC, New York
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49- David
Guetta, french dj and record producer known for such hit songs as "Gettin'
Over You" and "When Love Takes Over."
46- Albert Camus, French author (The
Just-Nobel 1957), born in Dréan, Algeria (d. 1960)
41- Marcus
Luttrell, United States Navy SEAL ("Lone
Survivor"), born in Houston, Texas
•
34- Dana Plato, Maywood
California, actress (Kimberly-Diff'rent Strokes) [d1999]
•
19- Lorde [Ella
Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor], New Zealand singer (Royals), born in Auckland,
New Zealand
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Historical Obits Today
@96-1981 Will
Durant, US author (story of civilization)
@78-1962 Eleanor
Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), heart failure
@67-2011 Joe
Frazier, Olympic Heavyweight Boxer, liver cancer
@65-1992 Jack
Kelly, US actor (Maverick, Vega$), stroke
@50-1980 Steve
McQueen, actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt), cancer/heart failure
@42-1908 Butch
Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American train and bank
robber, shot by Bolivian soldiers
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Brain Teasers Answers
Sand
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Florence
It
took years for Michelangelo to sculpt his famous statue, which finally appeared
in front of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio in 1504. Since 1873, it has resided in
the Galleria dell’Accademia, home to other famous works by Italian artists.
Source: Accademia.org
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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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