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Sept , 2015
Week: 39 \ Day: 268
September
Averages: 74°\42°
86004
Today: H 76° \ L 43°
Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 19mph
Ave.
High: 70° Record High: 85°[1947]
Ave. Low: 39° Record Low: 24°[1959]
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Observances
Today:
Bright Pink Lipstick Day Link
Gold Star Mother's Day
Math Story Telling Day
Native American Day
National
One-Hit Wonder Day
National Psychotherapy Day Link
Vegan Baking Day
(World) Ataxia Awareness Day Link
World Pharmacists
Day Link
Hug A Vegetarian Day Link (Last
Friday)
Love Note Day Link
Save The Koala Day Link
Observances
This Week:
19-27
International
Air Ambulance Week Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1714 - Five Iroquois Nations send the Governor of New York, a
letter. They tell the Governor, that the Tuscaroras join the Iroquois Confederacy. Long ago, they had moved
away. Now, they return.
1789 - US Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of
12 will ratify)
1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of
Journalism is founded
1919 - US president Woodrow
Wilson suffers a breakdown in Colorado, his health never recovers
1933 - 1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia
1957 - 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return
to Central HS in Ark
1962 - Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon
Georgia
1968 - Demolition of the
old El Conquistador Hotel, Tucson
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1829 - Failed assassination attempt on Simon
Bolívar
19b06
- In the presence of the king and before a
great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of
the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is
considered the birth of the Remote control.
1915 - Battle of Loos commenced, lasted until 14th
October. Chlorine gas deployed by the British was blown back into their own
trenches: 59,000 British & 26,000 German casualties
1956 – 1st
transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Newfoundland-Oban)
1990 - Saddam Hussein warns that US will
repeat Vietnam experience
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Great lunch with Mary. Cheryl recovering from a summer cold. Good
conversation and fantastic Italian food.
Watched the Pope on TV as he addressed Congress. Impressed.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I'm
powerful enough to clean most anything,
Yet gentle enough to eat.
I'm used to make an explosion of sorts,
Yet can be found at millions of stores worldwide.
I can kill grass,
And even tenderize your meat.
I can clean up even the smelliest stench,
and soften your fabrics.
What am I?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the
known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a
single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
The world’s largest swimming pool can be found
at the San Alfonso del Mar resort in Chile. The pool is 1,013 m (3,324 ft)
long, has a maximum depth of 35 m, and even has sailing boats.
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…Harper’s
Index…
2 – factor by
which female college soccer players are more likely than male players to suffer
concussions
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
earthpixThe stars out at Mt Cook National Park
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…Foreigners
Don’t Understand These American Customs…
7. We insist on measuring things in inches and yards.
When most of the modern world switched over to the metric system
in the 1870's, America decided to stick with inches and yards because everything (textbooks and even
high-end machinery) was based on those measurements. Other countries, however, just
can't understand how America has lasted this long using the "old"
system of measurement and pretty much consider theirs the "right"
system.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
M&M’s stands for “Mars & Murrie’s,” the last names of the
candy’s founders.
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2
jokes for the day
A man walks into a bar and asks for a glass of
water.
The bartender pulls out a shotgun and fires a shot, barely missing the man's
head.
The man gets up, says thank you, and leaves a tip.
Why the tip and thank you; “because the man had the hiccups.”
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This old man was feared by all his neighbors
because they believe he practiced black magic and was responsible for missing
cats and dogs and strange sounds at all hours.
Every time he had a confrontation with his wife, screams and yelling could be
heard deep into the night along with the same statement.
“When I die I will dig my way up and out of the grave to come back and haunt
you for the rest of your life!”
Well he died abruptly under strange circumstances and the funeral had a closed
casket.
After the burial, the wife went straight to the local bar and began to party as
if there was no tomorrow.
The cheerfulness of her actions was becoming extreme while her neighbors
approached in a group to ask these questions:
Are you not afraid? Worried? Concerned? That this man who practiced black magic
and stated when he died he would dig his way up and out of the grave to come
back and haunt you for the rest of your life?
The wife put down her drink and said, “Let the
jerk dig. I had him buried upside down.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
OKEMEH, OK. - An
Oklahoma mom said her 4-year-old son's pre-K teacher forced him to write with
his right hand and sent home an article calling left-handedness
"evil." Alisha Sands said her 4-year-old son, Zayde, started pre-K
recently at Oakes Elementary in Okemah and she noticed last week while he was
doing homework that he was using his right hand despite being left-handed.
"I just asked 'Is there anything his teachers ever asked about his hands?'
And he raises this one and says this one's bad," Sands told KFOR-TV. Sands
said she sent a note to school with Zayde and the teacher's response was to
send home an article that said left-handedness is "unlucky," "evil"
and "sinister." "For example, the devil is often portrayed as
left-handed," the article said. Sands said the teacher's response shocked
her. "It breaks my heart for him because someone actually believes that,
believes my child is evil because he's left handed, it's crazy," Sands
said. The mother said she contacted the superintendent with the article, but
there was no action taken. "There was no suspension of any kind. There was
basically nothing done to this teacher," Sands said. "She told them
she thought I needed literature on it." Sands said she is trying to get
Zayde transferred to another class. "I don't feel like the school did what
they were supposed to for him," Sands said. The principal at Oakes
Elementary said officials are investigating the matter and declined to comment
further.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
In
order to prevent Boggle players from using a certain swear word, the letters F
and K only appear once on the same cube, making it impossible for them to both
be played at the same time.
Candy Land was at the center of one of the first disputes over domain names on
the web, as in the mid-'90s candyland.com was a porn site. Hasbro successfully
sued for control of the domain.
Operation was invented by a sophomore at the University of Illinois in 1962 as
part of a class assignment to invent a game or toy.
The inventor of Cranium came up with the idea for the game after he and his
wife dominated another couple in Pictionary, but lost horribly in Scrabble. It was
the first game to be sold on Amazon and at Barnes and Noble.
The original Game of Life featured spaces for suicide, disgrace, poverty, and
prison. The Checkered Game of Life, the precursor to the modern Game of Life,
was Milton Bradley's first and only game.
The name Jenga is based on the Swahili word meaning "to build."
According to Hasbro, the tallest Jenga tower ever was 40 levels tall plus two
additional blocks on top.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
86 - Barbara Walters, newscaster (Today,
20/20, ABC-TV)
(83) - Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and
labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar d. 1963
71 - Michael Douglas, NJ, actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of
the Nile)
(69) - Shel Silverstein, American humorist and
author d. 1999
68 - Cheryl Tiegs, Minnesota, model (Sports
Illustrated)
67 - Mimi Kennedy, actress (Spencer, 3 girls
3)
66 - Anson Williams, actor (Potsie-Happy
Days)
(64) - Aldo Ray, Pen Argyl PA, actor (God's
Little Acre, Green Beret) d.1991
(64) - William Faulkner, author (Sound &
Fury-Nobel 1949), d. 1962
64 - Mark Hamill, actor (Luke Skywalker-Star
Wars)
54 - Heather Locklear, LA Ca, actress
(Stacy-T J Hooker, Sammy Jo-Dynasty)
(52) - Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman,
Somewhere in Time) d.2004
50 - Scottie Pippen, NBA forward (Bulls,
Oly-2 gold-92, 96)
(49) - Robert Clive, English explorer/founder
(British empire in India) d.1774
47 - Will Smith [The Fresh Prince],
actor/rapper
46 - Catherine Zeta Jones, Swansea Wales, actress
(Christopher Columbus)
46 - Hal Sparks, actor\comedian (Talk
Soup)
(37) - Ethel Rosenberg, American Communist
d.1953
(28) - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty
mutineer d. 1793
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Historical
Obits Today
Walter
Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet, Mrs Miniver)-1984@87
Emily
Post, etiquette expert-1960@86
Andy
Williams, American singer, bladder cancer-2012@84
Mary
Astor, actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St Louis, Fiesta)-1987@81
Coco the
Clown, [Nikolai Poliakoff]-1974@73
Wangari
Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist\Nobel Peace Prize, ovarian cancer2011@71
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Baking Soda.
It is used for a variety of cleaning.
It is a common ingredient in many baked foods.
It can react with vinegar to form an "explosion". (Typically used in
a "Baking Soda Volcano").
It can be purchased at many stores around the world.
Baking soda can be used to kill crab grass.
It can speed up the tenderizing process of meat in stew.
It is used to remove odor in fabrics.
It is also used as a fabric softener.
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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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