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October , 2015 Week: 43 \ Day: 291
October
Averages: 62°\32°
86004
Today: H 65° \ L 46°
Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 14mph
Ave.
High: 62° Record High: 78°[1921]
Ave. Low: 30° Record Low: 10°[1971]
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Observances
Today:
Hard Boiled Guy/Girl Day Link
National Chocolate Cupcake Day Link
World Menopause Day
National Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day
World Toy Camera Day Link
World
Menopause Day
Alaska
Day (Alaska)-1867-transfer of territory Russia-US
Independence
Day (Azerbaijan-1991 from USSR)
Persons
Day (Canada)
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Observances
This Week:
12-20
Bone
and Joint Health National Awareness WeekLink
National School Lunch Week
12-18
World
Rainforest Week Link
14-23
National
Nuclear Science Week
National School Bus Safety
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
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Quote
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1648 - 1st labor organization forms in North American
colonies (Boston Shoemakers)
1775 - African-American poet Phillis
Wheatley freed from slavery.
1776 - In a NY bar decorated with bird tail,
customer orders "cock tail"
1954 - Texas Instruments Inc. announces the first
transistor radio.
1955 - Track & Field names Jesse Owens all-time
track athelete
1961 - "West Side Story", the film
adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical, is released (Best Picture 1962)
1967 - Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is
released
1968 - Bob Beamon of USA sets long jump record (29
ft. 2½ in.) in Mexico City
1968 - Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas
1968 - US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith
& John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during
victory ceremony
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a
Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1356 - Basel earthquake, the most significant
historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel,
Switzerland.
1386 - Opening of the University of Heidelberg
1929 - Women are considered "Persons"
under Canadian law.
1969 - Federal government bans use of cyclamates
artificial sweeteners
2007 - After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns
to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up
near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering crowd, including 20
police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured.
2013 - Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to
turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Rain, clouds, more rain, more clouds…so it goes. Certainly not
complaining as temps are still very nice.
Getting really tired of CNN and its political coverage. Days of ‘What
will happen at the CNN Dem. Debate’ followed by the debate. Now days of
analyzing every word of every politician on the stage by basically every
American who has ever or has plans of ever reporting politics in the US. Interrupted
only by Trump getting ready for another event, then finally the event, then
endless analysis and repeats of what he said. Crazy. I now really get the old
newspaper rule—dog bites man is not news, man bites dog is a headline.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Recently,
Snow White's seven dwarfs met up with three of their friends and went to the
cinema to see Bambi. From the clues below, can you determine the order in which
they stood in the ticket queue?
Grumpy was in front of Dopey. Stumpy was behind Sneezy and Doc. Doc was in
front of Droopy and Happy.
Sleepy was behind Stumpy, Smelly and Happy.
Happy was in front of Sleepy, Smelly and Bashful.
Bashful was behind Smelly, Droopy and Sleepy.
Sneezy was in front of Dopey. Smelly was in front of Grumpy, Stumpy and Sneezy.
Dopey was in front of Droopy.
Sleepy was in front of Grumpy and Bashful.
Dopey was behind Sneezy, Doc and Sleepy.
Stumpy was in front of Dopey. Smelly was behind Doc.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
Lars Andersen has rediscovered an ancient form
of archery that allows him to shoot 10 arrows in 4.9 seconds, while it takes
others 13-35 seconds. He is even faster than the fictional archer Legolas in
the Lord of the Rings series.
The Pistol Shrimp can snap its claws together
to create a sound of 218 decibels, louder than as supersonic jet at full speed.
It only lasts for 1 millisecond. The snapping action also creates a bubble that
is greater than 5000 Kelvin, close to the surface temperature of the sun.
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…Crazy
Law…
Rhode Island: Don't Run Afoul of the Law
In Rhode Island, one may not dye a duckling, a
chick, or other live poultry.
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…Harper’s
Index…
+53 – minimum
percentage change since 2008 in the number of adult Americans prescribed
medication for ADHD
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeophoto by @joelsartore | An
Eastern collared lizard at the @stlzoo.
In#Oklahoma, these
reptiles are called “mountain boomers.” Legend has it that during the Gold
Rush, people thought the sound of wind blowing through the canyons was the
sound of these lizards (they actually don't make a sound.)
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
15. In North America:
Stepping on a crack is said to be bad luck in parts of North
America. Some even say it might break your mother's back... (via Superstitions
Of)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The first Monopoly game was based on real streets
and locations around Atlantic City.
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2
jokes for the day
Two antennas decided one day to get married.
The wedding wasn't that good but the reception was great!!!
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All too rarely, airline attendants make an
effort to make the in-flight "safety lecture", and their other announcements
a bit more entertaining. Here are some real examples that have been heard or
reported:
1. On a Continental Flight with a very
"senior" flight attendant crew, the pilot said, "Ladies and
gentlemen, we've reached cruising altitude and will be turning down the cabin
lights. This is for your comfort, and to enhance the appearance of your flight
attendants."
2. On landing the stewardess said, "There
may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this
airplane."
3. As the plane landed and was coming to a
stop at Washington National, a lone voice came over the loudspeaker:
"Whoa, big fella. WHOA!"
4. After a particularly rough landing during
thunderstorms in Memphis, a flight attendant on a Northwest flight announced,
"Please take care when opening the overhead compartments because, after a
landing like that, sure as hell everything has shifted."
5. "In the event of a sudden loss of
cabin pressure, masks will descend from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the
mask, and pull it over your face. If you have a small child traveling with you,
secure your mask before assisting with theirs. If you are traveling with more
than one small child, pick your favorite."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
READINGTON,
N.J. - A New Jersey man is facing charges for allegedly wiping
"between his butt cheeks" with a police summons before throwing it at
an officer. The indictment charging Joseph Greenwood, 45, with a fourth-degree
charge of throwing bodily fluids alleges he was issued the summons by Lt. John
Insabella of the Readington Police Department on a municipal court charge of
threatening to assault another person. The indictment accuses Greenwood of
acting "by taking the summons complaint issued to him upon his release from
police custody, placing it between his butt cheeks, wiping the paper in an
upward and downward motion and throwing it in the direction of the
officer." Greenwood "did purposely subject [Insabella] of the
Readington Township Police Department to contact with a bodily fluid while the
officer was in uniform and acting in the performance of his duties." The
indictment states the incident took place June 2. Greenwood is also facing
pending charges of disorderly conduct and making threats to kill another person
in connection with a Sept. 18 incident.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
In
2000, Gao Xingjian, author of Soul Mountain and The Other Shore, became the
first Chinese writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His novels
and plays have been banned in China since 1986.
Ba! Ba! Black Sheep was one of several working titles Margaret Mitchell used
for her most famous novel, Gone With the
Wind. She also considered the titles Tote the Weary Load, Bugles Sang True,
Not In Our Stars, and Tomorrow is Another Day before finally settling on a
phrase that she had used in the critical scene where Scarlett returns to Tara
and asks, "Was Tara still standing? Or was Tara also gone with the wind
which had swept through Georgia?"
Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis both died on November 22, 1963, but their deaths
were overshadowed by a more sensational death that day: the assassination of
John F. Kennedy.
Anne Sexton wrote To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960), Transformations (1971),
and The Death Notebooks (1974), as well as Live or Die (1967) for which she won
the Pulitzer Prize. In 1974, despite a very successful writing career, she lost
her lifelong battle with depression and, at the age of 46, committed suicide.
One of Tennessee Williams greatest plays, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, contains
characters named "Big Daddy" and "Big Mama." These roles
were played in the original Broadway production by Burl Ives and Mildred
Dunnock.
Nikolai Gogol's most celebrated play was The Inspector General (1836), a comedy
which told the tale of a young civil servant who finds himself stranded in a
small town, mistaken for an influential government inspector. A masterpiece of
dramatic satire, The Inspector General is universally respected as one of the
greatest plays of the Russian theatre.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
88 - Chuck Berry, St Louis, rocker (Roll over Beethoven)
(86) - Jesse Helms, (Sen-D/R-North
Carolina) d.208
(85) - Leo G Carroll, Weedon England, actor (Topper, Man From
Uncle) d.1992
(85) - James Brooks, US mural painter (Acquisition of Long
Island) d.1992
(80) - Pierre Elliott Trudeau,
(L) 15th Canadian PM (1968-79, 1980-84) d.2000
77 - Dawn Wells, American actress (Gilligan’s Island)
76 - Mike Ditka, NFL coach/tight-end (Bears, Cowboys,)
(71) - George C. Scott, actor/director (Patton, Dr. Strangelove)
d.1999
(71) - Peter Boyle, American actor (Everybody Loves Raymond)
d.2006
64 - Pam Dawber, actress (Mindy-Mork & Mindy, My Sister
Sam)
59 - Martina Navratilova, Revnice Czech, tennis (Wimbledon
1989,79,82-87)
55 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Brussels Belgian, actor
(Kickboxer, No Retreat)
54 - Wynton Marsalis, jazz trumpeter (Grammy 1983)
(49) - Laura Nyro, singer/songwriter (Eli's Coming, Stoney End)
d.1997
(36) - Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch
Trials d. 1716
36 - Ne-Yo [Shaffer Chimere Smith, Jr], pop and R&B
singer and songwriter
(35) - Inger Stevens, Stockholm, actress (Katy-Farmer's
Daughter) d.1970
28 - Zac Efron, American actor (High School Musical, 17 Again)
(24) - Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin (JFK) d.1963
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Historical
Obits Today
Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart)-1966@99
Bess Truman, 1st
lady (1945-53)-1982@97
Thomas Edison,
inventor who lit up your life (held 1200 patents)-1931@84
Dee Dee Warwick,
American soul singer, long time drug use-2008@66
Walt Kelly, US
comic strip artist (Pogo), long illness-1973@60
Nathaniel Bacon, rallied
against Virginian government, killed-1676@29
Jon-Erik Hexum, actor
(Bear), a gun loaded with blanks-1984@26
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Doc
Happy
Smelly
Sneezy
Stumpy
Sleepy
Grumpy
Dopey
Droopy
Bashful
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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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