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October 12, 2015 Week: 42 \ Day: 285
October
Averages: 62°\32°
86004
Today: H 72° \ L 41°
Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 24mph
Ave.
High: 65° Record High: 83°[1950]
Ave. Low: 32° Record Low: 9°[1969]
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Observances
Today:
Columbus Day\Indigenous People’s Day
Day of the Six Billion Link -1999
Emergency Nurses Day
Free Thought Day
International Day for Disaster Reduction
International Top Spinning Day
National Bring Teddy Bear to Work Day
National Kick Butt Day Link
Native American Day
Spanish Language Day Link
World Arthritis Day Link
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Dia
De La Raza (Mexico)
Discovery
Day (Bahamas)
Hispanity
Day (Spain)
Independence
Day (Equatorial Guinea-1968-Spain)
Observances
This Week:
6-12
National Physicians
Assistant Week
World Dairy Expo
11-17
Take
Your Medicine Americans Week
Earth Science WeekLink
Emergency Nurses Week
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
Mediation WeekLink
National Chestnut Week
National Food Bank Week
Veterinary Technicians Week Link
12-20
Bone
and Joint Health National Awareness WeekLink
National School Lunch Week
12-18
World
Rainforest Week Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1773 - America's first insane asylum opens for
'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
1775 - US Navy forms
1792 - First celebration of Columbus Day
in the USA held in New York
1850 - First women's medical school (Women's Medical
College of Penns), opens
1871 - US President Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan
1901 - Theodore Roosevelt renames
"Executive Mansion," "The White House"
1915 – T.
Roosevelt criticizes US citizens who identify themselves, with dual
nationalities
1928 - 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children
Hospital)
1933 - Gangster George Francis Barnes, aka Machine
Gun Kelly, is sentenced to life imprisonment
1962 - US/USSR sign joint space effort in
telecommunications & meteorology
1992 - Microwave Observing Project begins (seeking
alien life)
2000 - The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden,
Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1609 - Children's rhyme "Three Blind
Mice" published in London
1960 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs
his shoe on his desk at UN General Assembly session
1968 - 19th Olympic games open at Mexico City,
Mexico
1984 - IRA bombs hotel where British PM Margaret
Thatcher is staying, 5 die
1985 - Intl Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear
War receives Nobel Prize
2012 - The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace
Prize
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
I grew up with many fantasies, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, etc. I
also grew up with the myth that Columbus discovered ‘America’. He actually
landed in the Bahamas in 1492, so he becomes the European of record to ‘discover’
the Americas. Never mind Leif when he landed years before and way north. The
term ‘discovery’ is hard to understand when there were already millions of
people living in the Americas. Hard to understand the politics that made
Columbus Day a Federal holiday back in the 1780’s. Rather than celebrating a
lost Italian, in a Spanish ship, we should be celebrating the many
accomplishments of the Indigenous People who not only contributed so much to
this part of the world, but took care of the illegal immigrants who came to
this land. So Happy Indigenous People’s Day.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
The
following 15 words can be divided into 5 groups of 3 words. The words in each
trio will share a similar characteristic. What are the groupings? Why?
astern, bony, con, deal, land, lien, nit, pending, pinion, range, slander,
steroid, tile, vary, venue
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
A natural gas vent in Iraq known as The
Eternal Fire has been burning continuously for over 4,000 years, and is
mentioned by Herodotus, Plutarch, and in the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel.
Steven Callahan spent 76 days at sea while he
drifted 1,800 perilous miles across the Atlantic in a rubber raft, battling
starvation, thirst, sharks and storms. He later became the technical adviser
for the acclaimed movie Life Of Pi.
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…Crazy
Law…
North Carolina: Unmarried Couples and Hotel
Rooms.
In North Carolina, it’s a Class 2 misdemeanor to
pretend to be married when checking into a hotel room.
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…Harper’s
Index…
1:1 –ratio of
unincarecerated men to unincarcerated women aged 25-54 among white Americans
0.8:1 – Among Black
Americans
0.6:1 – among Black
residents of Ferguson Missouri
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto @ladzinski / A lone bull elk moving through the
meadows of #MorainePark on a misty morning in #RockyMountainNationalPark.
During this time of year an elk of this size has either successfully beaten out
competing males during the rut and established a harem of female cows, or is
pushed out. This guy seen here didn't make the cut. Once the rutting has ended
large Bulls regather for the winter season staying within proximity of the
large female herds.
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
9. In France:
In France, it's believed to be good luck to step in dog poop with
your left foot, but bad luck to step in it with your right (via liza dare)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The tall fuzzy hats worn by Britain’s elite infantry regiments
(including Buckingham Palace guards) are made of North American black bear fur.
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2
jokes for the day
All of a sudden this huge extra-extra strong
mint walks into a pub, he sits down and starts boasting about how he's the
strongest mint and how he could win any fight, then another mint walks in, the
extra-extra strong mint dives under a table! Someone asks him "I thought
you where the strongest mint around???"
"I know!" he replies, "but he's menthol".
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A lady sitting at home got a phone call.
She answered it; a strange sounding man said, "This is the Viper. I am
coming."
The lady was frightened. 5 minutes later she got another phone call the same
man replied" This is the Viper. I am almost there." The lady was
terrified.
Another 5 minutes later the phone rang again. It was the same man. He said,
" I am coming up now." The lady was so scared she called the police.
Before the police got there, a man walked in the door with a bucket of water
and a window wiper. The man said " I'm the Viper I vome to vipe your
vindows!"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
JIAOZUO,
China - Tourists on China's recently-opened glass walkway on a cliff
face 3,540 feet above the ground ran for their lives when a visitor's mug
cracked the glass. The walkway on Yuntai Mountain in Henan Province, which
opened to the public in September, is closed for repairs after a tourist
dropped a stainless steel mug Monday and the cup's impact cracked one of three
layers of glass on a section of walkway, Yuntai Mountain Scenic Spot officials
confirmed. Witnesses said on social networking site Weibo the damage was more
severe than indicated by officials, who said one layer of glass was merely
cracked. Witnesses said a plate of glass had instead shattered in a
"floral" pattern, but remained intact. The broken glass sent tourists
screaming and running for their lives to get off the walkway, but officials
said the tourists were never in any danger during the incident. They said the
two remaining layers of glass would have been sufficient to support the weight
of the visitors.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
83 - Dick Gregory, comedian/political activist/dietician
(Bahamian Diet)
80 - Sam Moore, rock vocalist (Sam & Dave-Soul Sister)
(71) - Luciano Pavarotti, Modena Italy, operatic tenor (3
Tenors), (d. 2007)
(69) - Elmer A Sperry, inventor (gyrocompass) (d.1930)
68 - Chris Wallace, newscaster (NBC Weekend News)
47 - Adam Rich, actor (Nicholas-8 is Enough, Code Red, Gun Shy)
47 - Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer (X-men, Real
Steel)
46 - Nancy Ann Kerrigan,
Woburn Mass, figure skater (Olympics-silver-1994)
45 - Kirk Cameron, Panorama City California, actor
(Mike-Growing Pains)
40 - Marion Jones, track and field athlete/drug cheat (5
forfeited Olympic medals)
38 - Bode Miller, American alpine ski-racer
(25) - Lane Frost, American professional bull rider, (d. 1989)
23 - Josh Hutcherson, American actor
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Historical
Obits Today
Johnny Olsen, TV announcer
(Price is Right), stroke-1985@75
Willie Shoemaker,
American jockey-2003@72
Jay Ward, cartoonist (Rocky & His Friends), kidney cancer-1989@69
Elizabeth Fry, British
social reformer and philanthropist, stroke-1845@65
Wilt Chamberlain, NBA
player, congestive heart failure-1999@63
Robert E. Lee, US
General of Confederate Army, stroke-1870@63
Tom Mix,
American actor (Texan, Hidden Gold), car crash-1940@60
Sonja Henie, figure
skater (Olympic-gold-1928, 32, 36), leukemia-1969@57
John Denver, country
music (Country Boy), plane crash-1997@53
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Each word can be prefixed with a vowel. Each grouping can be
prefixed with the same vowel.
a) lien (alien), steroid (asteroid), venue (avenue)
e) astern (eastern), bony (ebony), land (eland)
i) con (icon), deal (ideal), slander (islander)
o) pinion (opinion), range (orange), vary (ovary)
u) nit (unit), pending (upending), tile (utile)
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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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