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Sept , 2015 Week: 40 \ Day: 272
September
Averages: 74°\42°
86004
Today: H 79° \ L 47°
Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind
ave: 9mph\Gusts: 18mph
Ave.
High: 70° Record High: 82°[1978]
Ave. Low: 37° Record Low: 22°[1902]
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Observances
Today:
MAGS Day Link
Mutation Day (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Link
National Attend Your Grandchild's Birth Day
National Biscotti Day
National Attend Your Grandchild's Birth Day
International Coffee Day Link
VFW Day
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1789 - 1st congress adjourns
1789 - US War Dept established a regular army
1806
- Zebulon Pike holds a grand council with the Pawnee. Pike estimates 400 Pawnee warriors attend. He hopes to win their
allegiance to the United States, rather than Spain.
1904 - 1st monument honoring Spanish American War
erected (Monroeville Ohio)
1906 - US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada
Palma
1907 - Construction begins on Washington National
Cathedral
1916 - John D. Rockefeller becomes the first
billionaire.
1927 - Telephone service begins between US &
Mexico
1932 - Douglas & Sons
grocers served five Tucson neighborhoods
1941 - Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL
champ Dodgers in a parade
1950 - Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell
Laboratories
1951 - 1st color telecast of football game on
network, Phila (CBS)
1962 - "Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric &
His Piano peaks at #7
1962 - "Green Onions" by Booker T &
MG's peaks at #3
1963 - "Tom Jones", based on the novel by
Henry Fielding, premieres at the Venice Film festival (Best Picture 1964)
1966 - The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named
Panther, is introduced.
1985 - 1st of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies
1986 - Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast
1994 - House votes to end lobbyists buying meals
& entertainment for Congress
2008 - Following the bankruptcies of Lehman
Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68
points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1793 - Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English
sporting magazine
1829 - British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel establishes
London's Metropolitan Police - hence the nicknames "bobbies" and
"peelers".
1885 - The first practical public electric tramway
in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1979 - Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope
to visit Ireland
2013 - 42 people are killed by Boko Harem in a
college attack in Gujba, Nigeria
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
So I kept close tabs on the eclipse last night…no pics as my
iPhone camera couldn’t make a good pic. Oh well. Still nice to observe.
Getting ready for my trip to CO. Picked up some travel stuff, and
started laying out stuff I need to remember to take. It’s a short trip, but
still, unfortunately takes planning.
I have to wonder how many other car makers are watching the VW
mess with concern. We all know that most businesses aren’t real happy with the
EPA for all the rules and regulations they have. Hard for the conspiracy side
of my brain not to figure that other car makers haven’t at least thought of a
way to fool the EPA. And I do feel sorry for the VW diesel owners who now have
a vehicle that is basically worthless.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
As
you are reading this message, you will notice some spelling errors. Do not be
frigtened, however. This is how you must anelyze:
First, find al of the missing, repeated, or incorrect letters.
Second, alow yurself to look at these and look at the wword that is
represinted.
Finally, tell me a numbur that most commonnly is associated with the word.
Good luck.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
A couple that were out walking on their
property in Sierra Nevada discovered a canister containing $10 million in gold
coins.
In 1974, canned food from a boat that sank in
1865 was tested by chemists and was found to be still safe to eat.
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…Facebook
Fact…
You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.
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…Harper’s
Index…
1/4 –portion of
high school dropouts who say they left school to work
3/5 - portion of those dropouts who earn less than
$10,000/year
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @chien_chi_chang A quartet of pipers practices for
the annual Manaw festival in Myitkyina, Myanmar (Burma.) "After a
cacophonous start," says one listener, the boys "pulled together to
play an almost harmonious tune." This festival has been held for more than
three decades and is the celebration of the New Year, victory in battles and
reunion of the tribes.
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
2. In China:
In China, the number four is considered incredibly unlucky because
it sounds very close to the word for "death." Some buildings even
refuse to have a fourth floor (via China Travel)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
John C. Calhoun of South Carolina was the only man to serve as
Vice President to U.S. Presidents in two different parties: John Quincy Adams
(1825-1829) and Andrew Jackson (1829-1832). He was also the first to resign the
office.
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2
jokes for the day
Why did the archaeologist go bankrupt?
Because his career was in ruins.
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It was dinner time on a British Airways flight
from London to New York.
As the flight attendant moved down the plane, she asked one of the passengers:
“Would you like dinner?”
“What are my choices?” asked the passenger.
“Yes or No,” replied the attendant
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Roanoke,
VA- One might believe that a 6th grader, suspended for a whole
year after school officials found a ‘marijuana’ leaf in his backpack, might be
immediately unsuspended if authorities (after three filed tests) the leaf was
neither marijuana nor anything else illegal. Not, however, at Bedford Middle
School, whose officials said they had acted on gossip students called the leaf ‘marijuana’,
and therefore under the stat schools’ “look-alike-drug” policy, the 6th
grader was just as guilty as if the leaf were real. Formerly a high-achiever,
he has suffered panic attacks and is under the care of a pediatric
psychiatrist, and his parents recently filed a federal lawsuit.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(91) - Gene Autry, cowpoke/singer/actor/owner
(California Angels) d.1998
(90) - O A "Bum" Phillips, football
coach (Oilers/ Saints) d.2013
(87) - Stanley E Kramer, producer/director
(Inherit the Wind) d.2001
(87) - Steve Forrest, actor (Ben-Dallas,
SWAT), d. 2013
(84) - Joseph Banks Rhine, parapsychologist
(Extra-Sensory Perception) d.1980
(83) - Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (La Dolce
Vita)\Miss Sweden 1950 d.2015
80 - Jerry Lee Lewis, Feriday La, country
singer (Whole Lotta Shakin')
73 - Ian McShane, Blackburn England, actor
(Roots, Bare Essence)
72 - Lech Walesa, Polish Solidarity movement
leader (Nobel 1983)
(60) - Larry
Linville, Ojai California, actor (Frank Burns-M*A*S*H) d.2000
(59) - Ken
Weatherwax, American actor (Pugsley-Addams Family) d.2014
58 - Andrew "Dice" Clay,
[Silverstien], comedian (Adv of Ford Fairlane)
(57) - Madeline Kahn, actress (Young
Frankenstein, High Anxiety) d.1999
(53) - Enrico Fermi, Italian/American nuclear
physicist, (Nobel 1938) d.1954
(47) - Horatio Nelson, Burnham Thorpe Britain,
naval hero (Trafalgar) d.1805
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Historical
Obits Today
Tony
Curtis, American Actor-2010@85
Edward
Everett Horton, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show)-1970@84
Tom
Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (D-1973-93)-1998@80
Winslow
Homer, painter (Prout's Neck)-1910@74
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Missing, Repeated, and Incorrect Letters:
H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N
Word: Halloween
Number: 31 (Halloween is the 31st of October)
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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…▲
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