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Sept 26, 2015
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Observances
Today:
Batman Day Link
Family Day - A Day To Eat Dinner With Your Children
Family Health and
Fitness Day USA
Fish Amnesty Day
International Lace Day Link
Kids Day (Kiwanis
Clubs) Link
National Hunting and Fishing Day
National Museum Day Link
National Public Lands
Day
R.E.A.D. in America Day
Shamu the Whale Day
Support Purple for
Platelets Day Link
UN
World Maritime Day
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
1772 - New Jersey
passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine
1789 - Thomas
Jefferson appointed 1st US Secretary of State; John Jay becomes 1st US
Chief Justice
1872 - The
first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City
1914 - Federal Trade
Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
1960 - 1st of 4
TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago)
1962 - TV comedy series "Beverly
Hillbillies" premieres on CBS
1964
- "Gilligan's Island", starring Bob Denver as
Gilligan, debuts on CBS1986 - RUN-DMC is 1st rap group to hit top 10
(Raisin' Hell)
1995 - "George"
magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr
2006 - Martin Scorsese's "The Departed"
premieres (Best Picture 2007)
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1396 - Sultan
Bajezid I beheads 100s of crusaders
1580 - Frances
Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the
Golden Hind
1687 - Acropolis
in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks, the Parthenon is
subsequently damaged in the war
1923 - The Commonwealth Conference is held in
London, where Britain recognizes the right of the Dominions to make treaties
with foreign powers
1957
- Dag Hammarskjoeld re-elected
secretary-general of UN
1968 - "Oliver!" premieres in London
(Best Picture 1969)
1980 - Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor ending
"freedom flotilla"
1997 - An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of
Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to
collapse
2012 - Greek trade unions call a general strike to
protest austerity measures
2014 - World
Health Organizations estimates that Ebola death toll has reached 3,091 - with
Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone hit hardest
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Another beautiful fall day…warm with a cloudless sky.
I’ve been watching a lot of the Pope on CNN. Must say I enjoyed
the ceremony at Ground Zero. So many various church leaders from so many
different religions all praying was amazing. The Pope was so moved that he
apologized that he couldn’t do the speech in English, so did it in Spanish.
Then he ended it with his now familiar pray for me. Very amazing Prayers for
Peace from so many. The Mass at MSG is going to be in multiple languages…should
be interesting.
I’m not into organized religion, but certainly believe in the importance
of Peace and Caring for other humans and that is the message I am hearing from
this Pope.
I am SMH when I heard that one Catholic US Rep, from AZ of course,
and 4 Catholic Supreme Court Justices did NOT attend his speech to Congress.
Can’t believe that we have leaders of this country who are afraid to hear opposing
views. Sure doesn’t sound very Christian to me. Then the Speaker, a Catholic,
who did listen to the Pope decided that today was the day he would announce his
resignation from the Speaker’s position and from the House. He fought the
battle with the crazy far-right in his party and I think he was fed up and/or
tired for the constant bickering.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Unscramble
these four word jumbles and use the instructions given below them to form the
name of a country which is a jumble of those letters.
1. KERWC. Take the 1st and 2nd letter.
2. LZEA. Take the 1st, 2nd and the 4th letter.
3. KURNT. Take the 1st and the 4th letter.
4. IASB. Take the 2nd and 3rd letter.
5. SUKD. Take the 1st and 3rd letter.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size
because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to
Earth.
Australian Bill Morgan was declared dead for
14 minutes and lived unscathed. To celebrate, he bought a scratch card and won
a car worth $27,000. For a news report, he was asked to re-enact winning the
scratch card, so he bought another card and won a $250,000 jackpot.
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…Harper’s
Index…
1/4 – portion
of part-time faculty at US colleges whose households receive government
assistance.
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
Left natgeoPhoto
taken with iPhone 6s Plus by @markleongphotography. The Dong minority women of
Sanjiang, Guangxi often have blue hands from dyeing their traditional fabrics
in vats of indigo. The is an outtake from a story about the experience of
photographing over 25 years in China that appears currently in Proof, National
Geographic’s online photography journal.
Right natgeoPhoto
by @edkashi / @viiphoto 7/19/04 - Port Harcourt, Nigeria What follows is an
excerpt from my book of journals to my wife, called Photojournalisms.
It was a good, long day. I went back to photograph the Shell oil
spill and got some important photos. The cloudy, rainy days continue. It’s a
nice change of pace but limiting in terms of the quality of light I’m getting
to work with. I’m liking the Nigerians quite a bit. Great energy, beautiful
people, strong with sweet smiles. I’m constantly hearing the word “I yebo”,
which means white man. They don’t consider it rude to yell this out as soon as
they see me. It could also be the product of more than 500 years of plundering
and subjugation by white men. The one disturbing trend is the constant request
for money. We got our car stuck in-between planks of wood and iron girders on a
rickety bridge . . . a bit hairy for sure. A truckload of men came by and
lifted our car to safety. Afterwards, they asked for money. It was very
disappointing. If I hadn’t been there, they would not have done that I was
told.
The spill was disgusting. The workers had no protective gear and
basically worked knee deep in the oily muck to clear the brush.
#photojournalisms #journal #icausebeautiful #photojournalist #nigeria #oil
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…Foreigners
Don’t Understand These American Customs…
8. High school proms.
Yes, people outside of the U.S. have seen them depicted on 90210 or
Saved By the Bell reruns, but they don't exactly understand why it's such a
huge teenage rite of passage.
"Prom, I have cousins who live in the U.S. and just hearing
about the number of hoops they had to jump through to ask someone to a dance is
hilarious. This and the sheer size and budget of high school sporting
facilities," explained reddit user SaysThingsFromABush.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
More than 300 million Cadbury Creme Eggs are produced each year.
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2
jokes for the day
A candidate at a job interview was asked a
tough question to which he mumbled an inaudible answer. The interviewer said
"Come again?"
The candidate got up, collected his file, went
out of the room and came back again.
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It was Halloween night... A man was walking
home from work when he heard thump noises behind him.
He turned around and saw a coffin following him.
He was scared and started to run, the coffin kept right up with him.
He got to his house ran through the front door, locked it and ran upstairs.
The coffin busted through the front door and followed the man upstairs.
The man ran for his life and then locked himself in the bathroom.
The coffin burst into the bathroom.
The man totally freaked out reached into the medicine cabinet and grabbed what
he could find.
What he grabbed was cough drops. He threw the cough drops at the coffin and the
coffin stopped.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
NPR – When officials
in Richmond, CA learned in 2000 that 79% of the city’s murders and rirearm assults
were directly linked to 17 people, they decided on a bold program: to pay off
those 17 to behave themselves. For a budget of about $1.2million a year, the
program offers individual coaching, healthcare coverage and several hundred
dollars a month in stipends to former thugs who stick to their ‘life map’ of
personal goals and conflict-resolution training. According too This American Life, Richmond is no
longer among the most dangerous towns in America, with the murder rate in fact
having fallen from its all-time yearly high of 62 to 11 last year.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Scientists
have dosed naked mole rats with carcinogens and radiation, yet they have never
been observed to develop cancer, according to vox.com.
They
tolerate acid, live 6x longer than other rodents, they hardly age, they survive
long periods of oxygen deprivation and can live in heavy metal polluted areas.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(96) - Jack LaLanne, exercise mogul (Juice
Tiger) d.2011
(82) - Donna Douglas, actress (Elly May
Clampett-The Beverly Hillbillies) d. 2015
(79) - George Raft, American actor (Scarface,
Some Like It Hot) d. 1980
(76) - T. S. Eliot, poet/dramatist/critic
(Waste Land-Nobel 1948), d. 1965
(74) - Julie London, Santa Rosa California,
actress (Nurse McCall-Emergency) d.2000
(67) - Lynn Anderson, country singer (I Never
Promised you a Rose Garden) d. 2015
67 - Olivia Newton-John, Cambridge England,
singer (Lets Get Physical)
53 - Melissa Sue Anderson, Cal, actress
(Little House on the Prairie)
47 - James Caviezel, actor (Passion
of Christ)
(44) - Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian
founder of the Franciscan Order d. 1226
34 - Serena Williams, Saginaw, Michigan,
tennis player (13 grand slams)
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Historical
Obits Today
George
Santayana, US philosopher/poet (Last Puritan)-1952@88
Walter
Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet)-1984@87
Daniel
Boone, frontiersman-1820@85
Paul
Newman, actor-2008@83
August Ferdinand Möbius,
German mathematician and astronomer-1868@77
Levi
Strauss, American clothing manufacturer-1902@73
Richard
Mulligan, actor (Soap), cancer-2000@67
Bela
Bartok, composer, leukemia-1945@64
Robert
Palmer, English singer, heart attack-2003@54
Bessie
Smith, singer, car crash-1937@43
Johnny
Lewis, actor (Sons of Anarchy), fall-2012@28
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Wreck.
2. Zeal.
3. Trunk.
4. Bias.
5. Dusk.
The letters taken from the above words using the instructions form WRZELTNAIDS.
Switzerland is the country which can
be formed from the jumble.
For much of the 20th century, Switzerland was the wealthiest country in Europe
by a considerable margin.
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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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