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Sept 30, 2015 Week: 40 \ Day: 273
September
Averages: 74°\42°
86004
Today: H 83° \ L 49°
Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind
ave: 4mph\Gusts: 14mph
Ave.
High: 69° Record High: 83°[1980]
Ave. Low: 37° Record Low: 24°[1907]
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Observances
Today:
Ask A Stupid Question Day Link
Banned Websites Awareness Day Link
Blasphemy Day Link
International
Translation Day Link
National
Mulled Cider Day Link
National Women's Health & Fitness Day
Independence
Day (Botswana-1966-from UK)
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1730 - In
British Court in London, seven Cherokee leaders sign the "Articles of Agreement" with
the Lords Commissioners. It is a formal alliance covering allegiance, peace and
the return of captives.
1846 - Anesthetic ether used for 1st time by
American dentist Dr William Morton who extracts a tooth
1862 - First Battle of Newtonia (American Civil
War), Newton County, Missouri
1865 - According
to a report dated today, the following number of Indians were present at the
Fort Sumner, New Mexico reservation in September: 402 Apache, 7,318 Navajo.
1898 - City of NY established
1920 - Time Square Theater opens at 217 W 42nd St
NYC
1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between
the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated by FDR
1936 - William Neal died
at age 87. Neal carried mail between Tucson and Mammoth for 42 years and built
the Mountain View Hotel at Oracle in 1894.
1953 - Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of
the US Supreme Court
1960 - Flintstones premieres (1st prime time
animation show)
1980 - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox
working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1997 - Hooters agrees to pay $2 million in
discrimination suits
2014 - A case of
Ebola Virus reaches Dallas, Texas
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1929 - 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto
maker Fritz von Opel)
1946 - Joachim von Ribbentrop & Hermann
Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial
1950 - 1st congress of International Astronautical
Federation opens in Paris
1970 - A Protestant man is shot and killed by
Loyalists in Belfast, North Ireland
2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are
printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Getting last things ready for my trip to CO. Vehicle washed by
pros, gas tank filled, cash withdrawn, iPod got some new tunes and a new
audiobook for the drive, newspaper put on hold, checked weather for wedding site…rain the
whole time we’re there. Leaving early tomorrow morning. Back next week,
sometime. Therefore, this the last blog for a few days. Checked the glove box
and found my adapter to let the iPod stuff come through the car speakers. Real
old school, but still works nicely.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can
you determine the professions/jobs described below? Each clue is an anagram of
the answer.
One Word
1. Stamp on
2. For trees
3. Remit sin
4. Menial cop
5. Court poser
Two Words (first word is "a" or "the")
6. Dints teeth
7. He tots income
8. Sit, chat, pay, sir
9. I seen at birth cot
10. Their art's caustic
Two Words
11. Spirit shaper
12. Poles gather a report
Bonus (two jobs, middle word is "and")
13. Mass dress alteration
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a
method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of
millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times
cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
The Rain Man (Laurence Kim Peek) was the only
savant known to science who could read two pages of a book simultaneously - one
with each eye.
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…Facebook
Fact…
In 2011, more than a third of all US divorce
filings contained the word 'Facebook'.
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…Harper’s
Index…
7 –
percentage of applicants admitted last year to Stanford’s business school, the
most selective in the country
0.24 – to the Indian
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
Earthpix Lion cub and the super moon eclipse | Photo by Burrard
Lucas
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
3. In Egypt:
Owls are said to be unlucky in Egypt, as they bring bad news for
the one who happens to see or hear the bird (via Superstitions Of)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The first British bungee jump occurred on April Fool’s Day, 1979.
Dressed in a tux and hugging a bottle of champagne, 33-year-old David Kirdke
did a back-flip off the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol. The crowd, who
thought they were witnessing a suicide attempt, watched him plunge 250 feet
toward the Avon, but to their surprise, never saw him hit water.
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2
jokes for the day
Q. What is a snake's favorite subject?
A. Hissssssssstory
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Mike, Jack, and Gary go for a hike in the
woods.
They are out about an hour enjoying the sights when they come around a sharp
bend in the trail and spot a bear just in front of them feeding off some
vegetation next to the trail.
The bear lets out a menacing growl when it notices the hikers.
Mike says "jump up and down, make some noise to scare it away".
Jack says “that won't work, we need to play dead".
They both ask Gary “what do we do?"
There is no reply. Turning around they see Gary far down the trail behind them.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Quito,
Ecuador – the three gentle grammar pedants (one an environmental lawyer
calling himself ‘Agente Punto Rinal’ i.e. ‘Agent Period’) devoted to ridding
Quito of poorly written street graffiti, have been patrolling the capital since
Nov. 2014, identifying misplaced commas and other atrocities and making sneaky
corrective raids with spray paint. Punto Final told the Washing Post that he
acts out of “moral obligation’—that ‘punctuation matters, commas matter,
accents matter.” As police take vandalism seriously in Quito, the three must
act stealthily, in hoodies and ski masks, with one always standing lookout.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
In
South America, scientist have discovered deliberately made 'skull holes' that
may have been made to treat painful headaches, brain disease, or to let 'evil
spirits' out of the head. Called 'trepanation,' the process of making those
holes was incredibly painful. The high number of trepanized skulls suggests
that this brain surgery was commonplace.
***
Contrary
to the popular belief that humans use just 10 percent of their brain capacity,
humans actually use virtually every part of the brain, and most of the brain is
active all the time.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(87) - Lester Garfield Maddox, (Gov-D-Ga)/restaurant owner d.2003
(86) - Deborah Kerr, actress (The King &
I, Night of Iguana), d. 2007
84 - Angie Dickinson, [Angeline Brown], Kulm
ND, actress (Police Woman)
80 - Johnny Mathis, SF, voclaist (Chances
Are, 12th of Never)
72 - Marilyn McCoo, Jersey City NJ,
host/singer (Solid Gold, 5th Dimension)
(70) - William Wrigley Jr., industrialist (Wm.
Wrigley Jr. Company) d. 1932
(65) - Jody Powell, press mouthpiece (Jimmy
Carter) d.2009
61 - Barry Williams, actor (Greg-Brady Bunch)
(59) - Truman Capote, American author (In Cold
Blood) d.1984
58 - Fran Drescher, actress (Cadillac Man,
Nanny)
54 - Crystal Bernard, Garland TX, actress
(Amy-It's a Living, Helen-Wings)
54 - Eric Stoltz, actor (Anaconda, Pulp
Fiction, Mask)
35 - Martina
Hingis, Kosice Slovakia, tennis star (1997 Aust/US/Wimb)
(25) - Frankie Lymon, rocker (The
Teenagers-Why do Fools Fall in Love) d.1968
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Historical
Obits Today
Edith
Roosevelt, First Lady (Teddy Roosevelt), 1948@87
Edgar
Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), kidney failure-1978@75
George
Kirby, comedian/impressionist (Pearl Bailey), Parkinson’s-1995@71
Toohoolhoolzote, prophet
of Nez Perce indians, in battle-1877@57ish
James
Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause), car crash-1955@24
Anwar
al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist\Islamist militant, hellfire
missles-2011@40
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Postman
2. Forester
3. Minister
4. Policeman
5. Prosecutor
6. The dentist
7. The economist
8. A psychiatrist
9. The obstetrician
10. The caricaturists
11. Parish priest
12. Telegraph operators
13. Seamstress and tailor
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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.
▲…And That Is All
for Now…▲
