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October 24, 2015 Week: 43 \ Day: 297
October
Averages: 62°\32°
86004
Today: H 57° \ L 33°
Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 15mph
Ave.
High: 60° Record High: 79°[1959]
Ave. Low: 28° Record Low: 9°[1975]
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Observances
Today:
Food Day Link
Pit Bull Awareness Day Link
United Nations Day
World Development Information Day
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Independence
Day (Zambia-1964-from UK)
Labor
Day (New Zealand)
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Observances
This Week:
18-24
Food
& Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
Bullying Bystanders Unite
Week
Freedom From Bullies Week
International Infection Prevention WeekLink
National Character Counts Week
National Business Women's Week Link
National Chemistry Week
National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week Link
National Forest Products Week
National Friends of Libraries Week
National Hospital and Health-System Pharmacy Week Link
National Save For Retirement Week Link
National Teen Drivers Safety Week Link
Teen Read Week
Asexuality Week Link
24-30
Disarmament
Week
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week
World Origami Days
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Link
National Massage Therapy Week Link
National Respiratory Care Week Link
Pastoral Care Week Link
Give Wildlife a Brake! Week Link
International Magic Week: 25-31
Kids
Care Week
Red Ribbon Week Link
International Dyslexia Association Reading Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1861 – 1st US
transcontinental telegram sent (from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.)
1882 - Robert Koch discovers germ that causes
tuberculosis
1901 - First woman to go over Niagara Falls in a
barrel (Anna Taylor)
1904 – 1st New
York subway opens
1926 - Harry Houdini's last performance, which was
at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
1929- 1st Helldorado
Celebration was held in Tombstone in honor of the town's 50th birthday
1931 - George Washington Bridge linking New York
City and New Jersey dedicated, opens the next day
1939 - Nylon stockings go on sale for first time
(Wilmington, Delaware)
1956 - Margaret Towner becomes first woman to be
ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA)
1982 - Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis
match
1989 - Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for
fraud
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1818 - Felix Mendelssohn, 9, performs his first
public concert (Berlin)
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia
1945 - Charter of United Nations comes into effect
1964 - 18th Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan
1968 - The People's Democracy (PD) stage a protest
demonstration at Stormont Parliament buildings, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1971 - A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA)
is shot dead by undercover Royal Ulster Constabulary officers during a bomb
attack in Belfast
1972 - 2 Catholic men are found dead at a farm at
Aughinahinch, near Newtownbbutler, County Fermanagh - British soldiers carry
out the killings
1976 - 1st Toronto International Film Festival opens
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Great Friday as I get used to the much cooler weather of fall.
Turns out 10° in daytime highs does make a big difference. Still nice out
there. Just means long pants and long sleeve shirts and real shoes.
Got a haircut as I was getting a tad shaggy. I have had a
different stylist each of the last few haircuts and while they do a good job,
it grows out in different ways. My hair is still really thick on the sides and
in the back and that seems to baffle a new person. They see the thinner top and
assume, for some reason, that it is thin everywhere. I told the new lady I needed
the sides and back thinned out and she smiled and said OK. Then when she
actually got to that part, she commented ‘My oh My, the sides sure are thick.’
Well duh!
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
expression is represented below?
+ DEEF
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
The oldest creature ever found was Ming the
clam at an admirable 507 years old.
In 2007, a customer kindly gave a $10,000 tip
to a Pizza Hut waitress after hearing she had financial troubles which had
forced her to drop out of college.
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…Crazy
Law…
Connecticut Is Bizarrely Strict: Part II
Cheating at cards could be a Class D felony
in Connecticut.
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…Harper’s
Index…
13 – minimum
number of months that George HW Bush’s home alarm was broken before the Secret
Service fixed it last year
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto taken by @stevemccurryofficial //
I photographed this little boy in a bicycle sling and his father at Banteay
Srei, Angkor, Cambodia. NOTE: Most BIA dorm kids will recognize this dorm
haircut. Popular with the dorm aides as it an easy cut, not so much for the kids.
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
21. In India:
In India, it is said to be bad luck to wash or cut your hair on
Thursday or Saturday, and even worse to clip your nails on Tuesday, Saturday,
or at night (via List Dose)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Holograms are images made using lasers. That said, if you make a
hologram of a magnifying glass, the resulting image would also function as a
magnifying glass.
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2
jokes for the day
Q: How many Russians does it take to change a
light bulb?
A: That is a military secret. If I told you I would have to kill you.
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A man is surprised to receive a call from his
doctor.
The doctor says, "I'm sorry, but I have some bad news and some worse
news."
"Well, alright, give me the bad news first," said the man.
"Well," said the doctor, "The bad news is that you only have 24
hours to live."
"Holy Cow! That is some bad news!" the man exclaimed. "What news
could be worse than that?" he asked.
"The worse news is that I have been trying to reach you since
yesterday."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
National
Post - Christopher Hiscock, 33, got only a year's probation after his
guilty plea for trespassing on a ranch in Kamloops, British Columbia, in
September -- because it was a trespass with panache. Since no one had been
home, Hiscock fed the cats, prepared a meal, shaved and showered, took meat out
of the freezer to thaw, made some coffee, started a fire in the fireplace, did
some laundry, put out hay for the horses, and even wrote some touchingly
personal notes in the resident's diary ("Today was my first full day at
the ranch." "I have to remind myself to just relax and take my
time.") In court, he apologized. "I made a lot of mistakes." "Beautiful
ranch. Gorgeous. I was driving (by) and I just turned in. Beautiful
place."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Many
owl species have asymmetrical ears. When located at different heights on the
owl's head, their ears are able to pinpoint the location of sounds in multiple
dimensions.
The eyes of an owl are not true "eyeballs." Their tube-shaped eyes
are completely immobile, providing binocular vision which fully focuses on
their prey and boosts depth perception.
Owls can rotate their necks 270 degrees. A blood-pooling system collects blood
to power their brains and eyes when neck movement cuts off circulation.
A group of owls is called a parliament. This originates from C.S. Lewis'
description of a meeting of owls in The Chronicles of Narnia.
The tiniest owl in the world is the Elf Owl, which is 5-6 inches tall and
weighs about 1 1/2 ounces. The largest North American owl, in appearance, is
the Great Gray Owl, which is up to 32 inches tall.
Owl cannibalism is real. Great Horned Owls are the top predator of the smaller
Barred Owl.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(90) - Antony van Leeuwenhoek, naturalist (Philosophical
Transactions) (d.1723)
(74) - David Nelson, actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet)
(d.2011)
68 - Kevin Kline, St Louis, actor (Sophie's Choice, Big Chill)
(57) - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States
(d. 1912)
(57) - Moss Hart, playwright (You Can't Take it With You, Act 1)
(d.1961)
55 - B.D. Wong, actor (Law and Order)
29 – Drake (Aubrey
Drake Graham), Rapper
(28) - Big Bopper, [JP Richardson], vocalist (Chantiily Lace)
(d.1959)
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Historical
Obits Today
Rosa Parks,
American civil rights activist-2005@92
Gene Roddenberry, creator
(Star Trek), cardiac arrest-1991@70
Ross Taylor [Robert
Murray Taylor], Scottish transplant surgeon who pioneered kidney transplantations
in the U.K., cancer-2003@70
Daniel Webster,
lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, stroke-1852@70
Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean
independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule, heart attack-1842@64
Jackie Robinson, 1st
African American baseball player (Bkln Dodgers), heart attack-1972@53
Jane Seymour, 3rd
wife of Henry VIII, following childbirth-1537@28ish
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Positive feedback
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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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