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October 7, 2015 Week: 41 \ Day: 280
October
Averages: 62°\32°
86004
Today: H 67° \ L 34°
Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 16mph
Ave.
High: 67° Record High: 80°[1965]
Ave. Low: 34° Record Low: 19°[2007]
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Observances
Today:
Balloons
Around The World Day
Emergency Nurses Day Link
Lee National
Denim Day
Pet Obesity Awareness Day Link
Walk To School Day Link
World Smile Day
You
Matter To Me Day Link
Observances This
Week:
1-7
Trichotillomania,
Skin Picking & Related BFRB Awareness Week Link
National Walk Your Dog Week Link
Universal Children's Week
3-11
Albuquerque
International Balloon Fiesta Link
No Salt Week
4-H Week Link
Death Penalty Focus Week (Always has 10th in it)
Emergency Nurses Week Link
Fire Prevention Week
International Post Card WeekLink
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week)
National Metric Week
National Midwifery Week Link
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week
World Space Week Link
5-11
Customer
Service Week Link
Drive Safely Work WeekLink
Financial Planning Week
Kids' Goal Setting Week
National Health Care Food Service Week Link
National Heimlich Heroes Week
National Metric Week
Spinning & Weaving Week Link
6-12
National Physicians
Assistant Week
World Dairy Expo
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1672 - White
Mountain APACHEs raid
the ZUNI pueblo of
Hawikum (Hawikah), and kill a priest named Pedro de Abila y Ayala today.
1816 - 1st double decked steamboat, Washington,
arrives in New Orleans
1868 - Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
1886 - The Palace Hotel,
Tucson, advertised that meals would be $5 per week, $1 for three meals or 50
cents a meal.
1955 - Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his
poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco.
1958 - Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
1963 - JFK signs ratification for nuclear test
ban treaty
1973 - Iraq nationalizes Exxon and Mobil shares in
Basrah Petroleum Company representing 23.75 percent equity in the company.
1982 - Musical "Cats" opens at Winter
Garden Theater on Broadway NYC and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on
September 10, 2000.
1985 - Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on
Harlem Globetrotters
1991 - Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme
nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments to her
1993 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni
Morrison
1998 - Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the
University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by
two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
3761 BC - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew
calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
1520 - 1st public burning of books in Netherlands,
in Louvain
1737 - 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft &
kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
1806 - Carbon paper patented in London by inventor
Ralph Wedgewood
1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
1981 - Hosni Mubarak becomes acting-president
of Egypt
2013 - Mulatu Teshome becomes president of
Ethiopia
2014 - Spanish nurse
diagnosed with Ebola, the first case outside west Africa
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
I had a great long weekend at the wedding. Things were a little
dicey at the beginning as my friend, father of the bride, ended up in the
hospital on Tuesday after a TIA (mini-stroke), but he got out, was released for
travel, and we all headed to Ft. Robinson, NE. It was a beautiful venue. We
stayed in the officer’s barracks which worked out very well. It rained or
misted the whole time we were there, but all was good. I only knew the venue as
the place that Crazy Horse was shot, while in custody of the Army. It was also
a canine training center during WWII and an active fort until the 1950’s when
it became a state park. The museum was very interesting and I learned a lot,
including that Rhino ancestors lived in that area of NE.
I met a lot of relatives on both sides of the wedding. I met Bob’s
89 year old brother, the groom’s three kids, and the bride’s sister’s boyfriend
of 20+ years. He spends Christmas with his family, Lisa with her family so I
saw Lisa every year, but never met Gerry. Great time and no family drama to be
found. Also got to see Lauri’s son and daughter and his Chinese girlfriend and the
daughter’s husband and toddler. Chinese tradition says that when you meet the
significant other’s family you give gifts. She have some great things to all
and I even got a bag of ‘first cut green tea’ that was harvested 2 weeks ago.
Turns out the 1st cut stays in China while they export the lesser 2nd
and 3rd cuts. Very cool…and great tea. The groom’s brother lives in Lakeside, AZ so
we will hopefully see each other again.
I had a good book on my iPod for driving, but still ended up
having to listen to some talk radio on the way back. A couple of hours of right
wing crazies was more than enough. Everything is dark in their world. Obama is
the worst president we have ever had. Gun violence will never be stopped with
laws, every country in history that ever required gun registration has also confiscated
private guns. The best time to live was after WWII and before Vietnam. These
people and their callers are very scary and very depressing. There is absolutely
no sunshine anywhere in their lives.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
From
wood it's made,
From string it's made,
It floats upon the wind.
It's made by one,
It's made by many,
From hands and mouths it spins.
A score without a game.
A staff not for the lame.
With seven letters tamed.
With five letters named
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
Returns tomorrow
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…Amazing
Facts…
A man called Dean Karnazes ran 350 miles in 80 hours
with no sleep, ran a marathon in the South Pole in -25 °C temperatures without
snowshoes, and ran 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days.
Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled
with hundreds of edible plants - such as fruit trees, vegetables plants, herbs,
etc… Free to “anyone and everyone.” If successful, it will be the first “food
forest” of the nation.
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…Facebook
Fact…
There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives
you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
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…Harper’s
Index…
15 –
estimated number of new movie screens that open in China each day
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
It is certainly pinon season in Navajoland.
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
4. In Russia:
They say carrying an empty bucket or even seeing someone carrying
an empty bucket is a bad omen. This probably stemmed from the fact that Tsar
Alexander II was assassinated by a man with an empty bucket (via Thrillist)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Twinkies originally had banana-flavored filling, but switched to
vanilla when WWII brought the banana trade to a halt.
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2
jokes for the day
Stranger: Catch any fish?
Fisherman: Did I! I took 25 out of this stream this morning.
Stranger: Do you know who I am? I’m the game warden.
Fisherman: Do you know who I am? I’m the biggest liar in the country.
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Once there was this young who discovered a
treasure trove.
Amongst the old and valuable things he noticed a worn out lamp.
He rubbed the lamp and out came the genie.
"Yes master, express your wish", the genie howled.
The man said, "Genie get me a grand villa where I can live happily ever
after with my girlfriend".
The genie looked at the man and said, "Well, if I could make a villa like
that, then why the hell do you suppose I live in this stuffy worn out
lamp?"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
DENVER - The TSA said a 20-minute evacuation at a Denver airport
was caused by wedding favors labeled "TNT" and designed to look like
explosives. The Transportation Security Administration said in an Instagram
post an agent monitoring the X-ray machines for checked luggage at Denver
International Airport Sept. 22 noticed a bag contained small glass bottles
bearing wax tops and fuses. The bag was opened and the bottles were found to be
labeled "TNT." The airport was evacuated for 20 minutes while bomb
specialists examined the items, which turned out to be novelty wedding favors
containing bath salts. The TSA said agents discovered the bride and groom's
names both started with "T," leading to the "TNT" label.
"Be mindful of what you're traveling with and what it might appear as on
an X-ray monitor," the TSA said in its Instagram post.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
word pumpkin showed up for the first time in the fairy tale Cinderella. A
French explorer in 1584 first called them "gros melons," which
translates into Latin as "pepon," which means large melon. It wasn't
until the 17th century that they were first referred to as pumpkins.
The original jack-o'-lanterns were made with turnips and potatoes by the Irish.
In England, they used large beets and lit them with embers to ward off evil
spirits. Irish immigrants brought their customs to America, but found that
pumpkins were much easier to carve.
Each pumpkin has about 500 seeds. And they take between 90 and 120 days to
grow. High in iron, they can be roasted to eat. The flowers that grow on pumpkin
vines are also edible.
Pumpkins are fruits. More specifically, they are a winter squash in the family
Cucurbitacae, which includes cucumbers and melons.
Pumpkins are 90% water. And that makes them low calorie. One cup of canned
pumpkin only has 83 calories and only half a gram of fat.
Over 1.5 billion pounds of pumpkin are produced each year in the United States.
The top pumpkin-producing states are Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
California. Pumpkins are also grown on every continent except Antarctica.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
1879 - Joe Hill,
Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr
1885 - Niels Bohr,
Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
1888 - Henry A
Wallace, (D/P) 33rd VP (1941-45)/founder Progressive Party
1896 - Elijah
Muhammad, US, leader of Nation of Islam
1903 - Louis S B
Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist
1905 - Andy Devine,
[Jeremiah Schwartz], Flagstaff Az, actor (Andy's Gang)
84 - Desmond Tutu,
Anglican Archbishop of South Africa (Nobel Peace Prize 1982)
72 - Oliver North,
US colonel (Irangate), born in San Antonio, Texas
63 - Vladimir
Putin, Russian politician (President and Prime Minister)
60 - Yo-Yo Ma,
Paris, France, world famous cellist (2001 National Medal of Arts, 2011
Presidential Medal of Freedom)
56 - Simon Cowell,
Lambeth, London, recording executive and television producer (X-Factor,
American Idol)
48 - Toni Braxton,
American singer
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Historical
Obits Today
1841 - George
Childress, American lawyer and statesman (author of Texas Declaration of
Independence), commits suicide at 37
1892 - Alfred Lord
Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate, dies at 83
1985 - Nelson
Riddle, American bandleader at
1989 - Bette Davis,
US actress (All About Eve, White Mama), dies at 81
1996 - Ted Bessell,
director/actor (That Girl), dies of an aneurism at 61
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Music
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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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