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October 16, 2015 Week: 42 \ Day: 289
October
Averages: 62°\32°
86004
Today: H 75° \ L 41°
Average Sky Cover: 8%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 16mph
Ave.
High: 63° Record High: 78°[1991]
Ave. Low: 31° Record Low: 13°[1984]
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Observances
Today:
Alternative Fuel Day Link
Black Poetry Day Link
Boss’s Day (or
National Boss's Day) Link
National Feral Cat Day Link
Spirit Day Link
Department Store Day
Dictionary Day
Mammography Day
World Food Day
World Student Day Link
Observances
This Week:
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 Week Link
National School Lunch Week
12-18
World
Rainforest Week Link
14-23
National
Nuclear Science Week
National School Bus Safety
Week
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Quote
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1775 - Portland, Maine burned by British
1829 - Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens
(Boston) 1848 - 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in
Pennsylvania
1849 - Avery College establishes in Allegheny,
Pennsylvania
1859 - John Brown leads 21 in raid on federal
arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va
1869 - Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor
plumbing
1875 - Brigham Young University is founded in
Provo, Utah.
1916 - Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control
clinic (46 Amboy St, Bkln)
1923 - Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded
1925 - Texas School Board prohibits teaching of
evolution
1929 - Astounded
Tucsonans observed "icebergs" floating in the Santa Cruz River near
San Xavier Mission. The phenomenon was explained when it was learned that the
driver of an ice wagon had forgotten to put up his tailgate and when his horse
team forded the river, his load of ice slipped off into the water1942 - Natl Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving
in armed services
1943 - Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new
subway system
1956 - William J Brennan Jr becomes a Supreme Court
Justice
1962 - Cuban missile
crisis begins as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
1966 - Joan Baez & 123 other anti-draft
protestors arrested in Oakland
1968 - During Olympics Tommie Smith & John
Carlos give black power salute
1990 - US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf
1995 - Million Man March held in Washington, D.C.
(over 830,000 African American men attend)
2013 - The United States ends its 16-day government
shut down and avoids default in a Bi-partisan deal in the Senate
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although
a woman.
1834 - Much of the ancient structures of the Palace
of Westminster (parliament) in London is burnt down.
1841 - Queens University in Kingston, Ontario,
Canada, is chartered
1847 - Charlotte Brontë's book "Jane
Eyre" published
1934 - Mao Zedong & 25,000 troops begin
6,000 mile Long March
1942 - Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000
south of Calcutta India
1950 - The first edition of C.S. Lewis'
"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" is released in London
1968 - The People's Democracy (PD), formed on Oct
9, organize a march of 1,300 students from the Queen's University of Belfast to
the City Hall in the center of the city, Northern Ireland
1972 - 2 members of the Official Irish Republican
Army are shot dead by the British Army in County Tyrone
1972 - A Protestant youth member (15) of the Ulster
Defence Association, and a UDA member (26) are run over by British Army
vehicles during riots in east Belfast
1973 - The Gulf Six (Iran, Iraq, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait,
Saudi Arabia and Qatar) unilaterally raise the posted price of Saudi Light
marker crude-oil by 17 percent
1984 - Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican
Archbishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize
1993 - IRA bomb attack on fish & chips
restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice lunch with our retirement group on the NAU campus. Great food
and good conversation.
Disappointed to hear that troops will be staying in Afghanistan
through the rest of Obama’s term. The USSR was in Afghanistan for over a decade
and couldn’t fix that place, now we have been there 14 years and we can’t fix
it either. There is a point when we need to stop. Americans continue to die
every week.
I did listen to the Dems debate. It was much more civil than the
Republican one. Didn’t see a leader of the free world up there either.
Certainly most of the ideas discussed are more in line with my politics than I
heard from the Republican one. Guess I’ll have to keep listening. Country wide
there has to be a way to get more people voting. And certainly Super Pacs need
to be outlawed. The very rich and the rich should only get one vote in the
election. They should not be able to get their ideas out by just spending
money. I’m all for a short election cycle with campaigning only 90 days before
the election. And fund raising only 120 days before an election.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
king can you make if you take
the head of a lamb
the middle of a pig
the hind of a buffalo
and the tail of a dragon?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
George was the world's largest dog who weighed
233 pounds, stood at 43 inches tall from paw to shoulder, and ate 180 pounds of
food a month.
Dolphins can rapidly heal from extreme
injuries, such as shark bites, and regenerate their original body shape.
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…Crazy
Law…
Flint, MI: Pull Your Pants Up!
Teenage boys and plumbers alike come under the
eagle eye of the law in this Michigan city, where in 2008 a law was passed
against low-riding pants that show underwear or butt crack
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…Harper’s
Index…
10 – min. percentage
of human breast milk sold online that contains cow’s milk
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto taken by @stevemccurryofficial //
The world famous Shaolin Monastery in Henan Province, China, is known to many
in the West for its association with martial arts, specifically Shaolin Kung Fu.
The physical strength and dexterity displayed by the monks is incredible,
although they exude a deep serenity. The name, Shaolin Temple, literally means
"temple in the woods of Shaoshi Mountain".
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
13. In Brazil:
In Brazil, it is bad luck to let your wallet or purse touch the
floor. If it happens, the belief is that you will become a poor man (via
Superstitions Of)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
"ETAOIN SHRDLU" is a combination of the 12 most-commonly
used letters in English, in descending order. Linotype machine keyboards used
them in columns: ETAOIN as the first column on the left, SHRDLU as the next to
the right. When a typesetter made an error, he would quickly run his hand down
the columns to type "ETAOIN SHRDLU" to serve as a flag to discard
that line of type. The phrase did, of course, occasionally make it into print.
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2
jokes for the day
A lady walks into a shop one day she asks if
she could try on a dress in the window, the manager suggested it might be
better to use the changing room
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A husband and wife entered the dentist's room.
He said, "I want a tooth pulled. We are in a hurry - so no Novocain or
gas. Just pull the tooth out."
" You are a brave man,” said the dentist. "Now show me the
tooth"
"Open your mouth,” said the man to his wife "and show the dentist
which tooth it is, dear."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Least
Competent Criminals Notwithstanding
the suggestion in movies, stealing a 200 pound floor model safe is a very
low-return crime, as the arrest of three pals in Kingsport, TN illustrated.
After struggling to load the safe into a car’s trunk, (accidently shattering
the back window), they drove to one’s apartment, but police were called when
neighbors saw the sate being dragged across a parking lot in the middle of the
night. During the trip, it fell onto one perp’s foot. Police, following gouge
marks, visited the apartment and spotted the safe, as yet unopened, in the
middle of the kitchen.
Police: Why do you gentlemen have a safe?
Perp: We found it in the alley.
Police opened it. It was empty.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Usain
Bolt ate 100 Chicken McNuggets a day for 10 days before the Beijing Olympics
and eventually winning 3 gold medals, according to time.com.
Students
at MIT conducted a study in which they told children to hold a Barbie doll, a
Furby and a real hamster upside down for as long as they were comfortable,
according to radiolab.org.
Although
they knew the Furby was just a toy, they still felt guilty because it was
programmed to cry and act scared.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
1758 - Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), (d.
1843)
1854 - Oscar Wilde, [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of
Dorian Gray), d. 1900
90 - Angela Lansbury, London, actress (Jessica-Murder She
Wrote)
(87) - David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st Prime Minister of
Israel d.1973
(87) - Günter Grass, German writer\playwright (The Tin Drum); Nobel
Prize laureate (1999), d.2015
69 - Suzanne Somers, San Bruno California, actress (3's
Company, Step by Step)
(65) - Eugene O'Neill, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel
1936) d.1953
(58) - Michael Conrad, actor (Delvecchio, Hill St Blues)
d.1983
57 - Tim Robbins, West Covina CA, actor (Bull Durham,
Shawshank Redemption)
53 - Flea, [Michael Balzary], bassist (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
(48) - Alice Pearce, comedienne/actress (Gladys
Kravitz-Bewitched) d.1966
38 - John Mayer, American musician
(31) - Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary leader
d.1922
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Historical
Obits Today
Shirley Booth, actress
(Hazel)-1992@94
Barbara Billingsley, actress
(Leave It to Beaver)-2010@94
James Mitchner, author
(Hawaii)-1997@90
Deborah Kerr,
Scottish actress (From Here to Eternity)-2007@86
Leo G Carroll, actor
(Topper, Man From Uncle)-1972@80
Pierre Salinger, John F.
Kennedy's White House Press Secretary-2004@79
Tennessee Ernie Ford, country
singer (16 Tons), liver failure-1991@72
Moshe Dayan,
Israel's general/minister of Defense, cancer-1981@66
Gene Krupa, US
swing drummer (Sing Sing Sing), leukemia-1973@64
Marie Antoinette, Queen
of France, beheaded-1793@37
Robert Fergusson,
Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), head injury-1774@24
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Brain
Teasers Answers
A lion, king of the jungle! (the head of a Lamb, the middle of a pIg, the hind
of a buffalO and the tail of a dragoN)
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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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