FYI: Any blue
text is a link. Click to check it out!
‡‡‡‡
9.11.16 Week: 37 \ Day: 255
September Averages: 74°\42°
86004 Today: H 79° \
L 45° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 88°[1990] Record Low: 30°[1986]
‡‡‡‡
Quote of the Day
One cannot and must not try to
erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. ~Golda Meir
‡‡‡‡
Observances Today
Grandparent's Day (First Sunday after Labor Day)
Libraries Remember Day
Miss America Pageant
National Day of Service and Remembrance Link
National Hug Your Hound Day (Second
Sunday)
Patriot
Day Link
Pet Rock Day Link
Remember
Freedom Day Link
New Year's Day (Ethiopia)
‡‡‡‡
Observances This Week
|
5-11 (First Full Week)
|
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week
|
|
5-11 (Always has 10th in it)
|
Suicide Prevention Week
|
|
8-18 Link
|
National North West Cider Week
|
|
9-11 (Friday thru Sunday Closest to 9/11)
|
National Days of Prayer & Remembrance
|
|
10-11
|
Mushroom Days
|
|
11-17
|
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week
|
|
11-17
|
National Assisted Living Week
|
|
11-17 Link
|
National Environmental Services Week
|
|
11-17 Link
|
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week
|
|
11-17 Link
|
International Housekeepers Week
|
‡‡‡‡
US Historical Highlights for Today
|
1773 Benjamin
Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"
|
|
1789 Alexander
Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury
|
|
1847 1st
singing of Stephen Foster's "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh)
|
|
1850 "Swedish
Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert
|
|
1857 Mountain
Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
|
|
1875 1st
newspaper cartoon strip
|
|
1936 FDR dedicates
Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam1940 George Stibitz pioneers
the first remote operation of a computer.
|
|
1946 1st
mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
|
|
1950 "Beetle
Bailey" comic strip debuts
|
|
1950 1st
typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
|
|
1961 Foundation
of the World Wildlife Fund.
|
|
1970 The
Ford Pinto is introduced.
|
|
1972 BART
begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont
|
|
1998 Independent
counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing
President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
|
|
2001 Two
passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crash into New York's World Trade
Towers causing the collapse of both and death of 2,752 people
|
|
2001 Terrorists
hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of
125 people
|
|
2001 Attempt
by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of
their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania
field killing all 64 people on board
|
|
2002 Through
extreme and coordinated effort, The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are
completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
|
|
2012 The
US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing
five people, including the US ambassador
|
‡‡‡‡
World Historical Highlights for Today
|
1226 The
Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside
of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.
|
|
1297 Battle
at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel William Wallace beats English
|
|
1541 Santiago,
Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko
|
|
1649 Massacre
of Drogheda, Ireland - Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists
|
|
1792 The
Hope Diamond is stolen with other crown jewels when six men break into house
used to store the jewels.
|
|
1897 After
months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho,
the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
|
|
1906 Mahatma
Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the
Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
|
|
1951 Florence
Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to
France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
|
|
1960 17th
Olympic games close in Rome Italy
|
|
1973 Chile's
President Salvador Allende deposed in a military coup
|
|
1997 After
a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament,
within the United Kingdom
|
|
2014 South
African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his
girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide)
|
|
‡‡‡‡
|
My Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful
Saturday, nice to spend some time on the deck and enjoy the day.
Got
up early, did some laundry, read the newspaper on the deck. All I need is a
pool.
Had
to replace batteries in 3 clocks today. As I was walking through the house I
looked at one clock and saw that it was stopped, then walked through checking all
of them. Guess I don’t need them if I never check them. Could have been out since yesterday, last
week, last month, or who knows. Two are clocks from the Navajo Rez that are
sand painting clocks, the other is the Tiffany Clock my brother and I bought
for our parents for their 50th…way back in 1989. All have great
memories…guess I should notice them more often.
‡‡‡‡
Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
The Spy Gift
Language brain teasers are those that involve
the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
There
once was a family of spies. One of them is celebrating his birthday, and the
Mommy spy gave him gifts. The celebrant did not say anything; instead he gave
this set of words:
toes
heat
ambition
nose
kiss
see
for
oneupmanship
route
tough
And because the family are spies, the Mom understood the message.
What was the message?
‡‡‡‡
Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
Who
was the youngest person ever elected president?
‡‡‡‡
…Harper’s Index…
64 – Percentage increase since 2014 in the number of
states with divided govenments
‡‡‡‡
2 jokes for the day
It's
About My Height
Lady
(to her doctor): "What l am worried about is my height and not my
weight."
Doctor: "How come?"
Lady: "According to my weight, my height should be 7 feet, 8 inches."
‡‡‡‡
The
Blessing
Joan
invited some people to dinner. At the table, she turned to her six-year-old
daughter and said, "Would you like to say the blessing?"
"I wouldn't know what to say," the girl replied.
"Just say what you hear Mommy say," Joan answered.
The girl thought for a minute, then bowed her head and said, "Lord, why on
earth did I invite all these people to dinner?"
‡‡‡‡
Yep, It Really Happened
*--- Airport X-ray
Finds Handgun and Pet Dog ---*
The Transportation Security Administration said officers arrested a man whose
carry-on bags were found by an X-ray machine to contain a gun and his pet dog.
The TSA said the man placed two carry-on bags on the X-ray belt at Baltimore
Washington International-Thurgood Marshall Airport and agents immediately
spotted a handgun in the first item, a bag with wheels. The second bag, which
resembled a duffle bag, was revealed to contain a small dog. "It's
difficult to say which of the two was more surprising -- the X-ray image of the
gun or the image of the dog's moving skeleton," the TSA said. The gun, a 9
mm packed with two empty magazines, was seized by authorities and the man was
arrested by Maryland Transportation Authority Police, who discovered the suspect
was also carrying a small knife. The man was arrested on weapons charges.
‡‡‡‡
Somewhat Useless Information
In
colonial times and into the early decades of the 19th century, most teachers
were men. From the 1820s to 1830s, as more public schools (called Common
Schools) were built and more men were siphoned off by more prestigious
professions, women began to take over the schoolroom. The feminization of
teaching not only change how society perceived women, but how women perceived
themselves.
***
A
University of Pennsylvania study found that 33 percent of teachers leave within
the first three years of beginning their careers and 46 percent leave within
the first five. The numbers have been increasing since the late 1980s.
***
The
most common reason a person leaves teaching is the low salary.
***
Researchers
note a teacher should be compared to those of other high stress jobs, such as
air-traffic controllers, firefighters, or pilots.
***
Teachers
have an equal turnover rate to police officers and less than child care
workers, secretaries, and paralegals. Teaching has a higher turnover rate than
nursing and a far higher turnover than "traditionally respected
professions" such as law, engineering, architecture, and academia.
‡‡‡‡
Birthdays Today
“[
]” indicates age at death
|
[75] Tom Landry,
American
NFL player (NY Giants) and coach (Dallas Cowboys), born in Mission, Texas (d.
2000)
|
|
74- Lola Falana
[Loletha Elayne],
Camden,
New Jersey, American singer and actress (Golden Boy, A Man Called Adam)
|
|
[72]
Ferdinand Marcos,
President
of the Philippines (1965-86), born in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, Philippines (d.
1989)
|
|
[69] Paul
"Bear" Bryant,
US
football coach (Alabama Crimson Tide) [d-1983]
|
|
54- Kristy
McNichol,
actress
(Buddy-Family, Barbara-Empty Nest), born in Los Angeles, California
|
|
49- Harry Connick Jr,
singer
(We Are in Love), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
|
|
[47] James Thomson,
Scottish
poet (Rule Britannia), born in Ednam, Scotland (d. 1748)
|
|
[47] O Henry,
[William Sydney Porter],
American
short story writer (d. 1910)
|
|
[44] D. H. Lawrence,
English
poet and writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
(d. 1930)
|
|
39- Ludacris,
American
rapper
|
‡‡‡‡
Historical Obits Today
|
@89-1972 Max Fleischer,
American
animator (Popeye)
|
|
@86-1965 Ralph C.
Smedley,
Founder
of Toastmasters International
|
|
@85-1994 Jessica Tandy,
actress
(Driving Miss Daisy)
|
|
@83-2014 Bob Crewe,
American
songwriter and producer (Big Girls Don't Cry)
|
|
@77-1971 Nikita
Khrushchev,
heart
attack
|
|
@72-1987 Lorne Greene,
actor
(Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), pneumonia
|
|
@69-2002 Johnny Unitas,
American
football player, heart attack
|
|
@54-2003 John Ritter,
American
actor, heart problems
|
|
@42-1987 Peter Tosh,
reggae
singer, shot
|
‡‡‡‡
Brain Teasers Answers
THANKS
FOR THE PRESENTS
If you read the first letters beginning from the first word downward, and then
the last letters from the last word upwards, you will reveal the message.
‡‡‡‡
Trivia Hive
Answers
John
F. Kennedy
John
F. Kennedy was elected president at the ripe old mid-life-crisis-point of 43
years old, making him the youngest person ever elected as president. However,
he was actually not the youngest person to ever serve as president. Oh, yeah.
After William McKinley was assassinated, Theodore Roosevelt took over when he
was only 42! Source: The White House official website
‡‡‡‡
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.
☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
