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October 21, 2015 Week: 43 \ Day: 294
October
Averages: 62°\32°
86004
Today: H 60° \ L 40°
Average Sky Cover: 95%
Wind
ave: 4mph\Gusts: 22mph
Ave.
High: 61° Record High: 77°[2003]
Ave. Low: 29° Record Low: 5°[1949]
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Observances
Today:
Celebration of The Mind Day Link
Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD)
Prevention Day
Hagfish Day Link
Information Overload
Day Link
Medical Assistants Recognition Day Link
National Mammography Day
Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity Link
Reptile Awareness Day Link
Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce
Unity Day Link
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Overseas
Chinese Day (Taiwan)
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Observances
This Week:
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
19-23
Choose
To Be G.R.E.A.T. Week Link
Freedom of Speech Week Link
Medical Assistants Recognition
Week Link
National Health Education Week Link
YWCA Week Without Violence Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1769 - The Spanish arrive
in San Francisco Bay.
1774 - First display of the word
"Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts
and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
1867 -Start of biggest US-Indian
conference ever held. The conference is held near Fort Dodge, Kansas near what
is called Medicine Lodge Creek. The name comes from a Kiowa "medicine
lodge" which is still standing from a recent Kiowa "sun dance"
ceremony.
1897 - Yerkes Observatory of University of Chicago
is dedicated
1902 - In the United States, a five month strike by
United Mine Workers ends.
1927 - Temple of Music
and Art was dedicated in Tucson.
1949 - Author of 'Brave New World' Aldous
Huxley writes to congratulate George Orwell on his new novel '1984'
1959 - Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank
Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC)
1964 - Film version of "My Fair
Lady" premieres in New York (Best Picture 1965)
1976 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to
American Saul Bellow
1977 - US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to
South Africa
2001 - "United We Stand" benefit concert
for September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks victims, held at RFK Stadium in
Washington, D.C. Event organized and headlined by Michael Jackson, also
featuring pop stars Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, The Backstreet Boys, and
others.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1803 - English scientist John Dalton reads his
paper on the absorption of gases to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical
Soc - 1st outline of his atomic theory
1805 - Battle of Trafalgar, British Admiral Nelson
defeats French & Spanish fleet but shot and killed
1816 - The Penang Free School is founded in George
Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language
school in Southeast Asia.
1824 - Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement
(Yorkshire, England)
1854 - Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38
nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
1858
- In Paris, the Can-Can is 1st performed
1950 - Death penalty abolished in Belgium
1958 - 1st women in British House of Lords
1970 - 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1970 - Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E
Borlaugh
1971 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo
Neruda
1975 - Mexico City's 1st major subway accident
takes 26 lives
1988 - Philippine former first couple Ferdinand
& Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges
1993 - Gary Kasparov defeats Nigel Short for chess
championship
1997 - Elton John's tribute to Diana, Princess of
wales, breaks world record, 318 million dist
2013 - The Parliament of Canada confers Honorary
Canadian citizenship on women's rights and education activist Malala
Yousafzai
2014 - Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to five years
in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
I am a very sound sleeper. Last night’s lightning and thunder woke
me several times. I woke up to the ground covered with hail…not snow…small
pellets of hail. Very strange. I had no plans to leave the house today, and it’s
a good thing. It has been raining most of the day and sometimes it was quite
hard. Still had lightning and thunder during the day. Got my new curtains and
blinds hung today. Blinds turned out to be quite a task. Not sure why, but just
couldn’t get it done.
Ellie called today and my single room, at no extra cost, is set
for my Cuba Trip. So nice. Ellie’s son and daughter in law are coming along as
well as a bunch of new people I don’t know, so it will be exciting.
Had a good talk with my brother on his b-day. They just got back
from Mexico and are very busy…no surprise there. Looks like it is balmy Chicago
for Christmas.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Each
of the following sentences has three missing words. The first missing word of
each sentence is 6 letters long, the second missing word is 5 letters long, and
the third missing word is 4 letters long. All the 6 letter words are anagrams
of each other, as are all the 5 letter words, and all the 4 letter words. Can
you fill in the blanks?
1) Nobody would ______ to the old pirate anymore, because his _____ were far
too ____.
2) The fans were ______ as the opposition managed to _____ the game from the
home ____.
s
3) When he decided to ______, he did not expect _____ bread with his ____ every
meal.
4) On many of the lake's ______ in the Spring, _____ will be out looking for a
____.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water
than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
Iceland has no army and is also recognized as
the world’s most peaceful country.
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…Crazy
Law…
Alaska
Clearly Alaska used to throw some wild parties
in the woods, because the state now has a law on the books that bars you from
giving a moose a beer. Giving a mouse a cookie remains fair game.
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…Harper’s
Index…
1/2 – portion
of Americans in1984 who believed that ‘most people can be trusted’
1/3 – in 2014
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
earthpix Sunset in Bled, Slovenia | Photo by @ilhan1077
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
18. In Bulgaria:
It's actually good luck to have a bird poop on you! (via liza
dare)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
General Robert E. Lee and his horse were buried at Washington and
Lee University.
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2
jokes for the day
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Q: How many survivors of a nuclear war does it
take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None, people who glow in the dark don't need light bulbs.
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An Antartian woman came into a bar and asked
the bartender for a drink. Then she started to yell, "Yeah!"
"Yeah!"
Then five more Antartians came in and started
to do the same thing. Then three more Antartians came in and one of them had a
Barney puzzle.
The bartender asked one of them, "Why are
you yelling 'yeah yeah!'?"
Then one responded, "We did this puzzle
in three hours and it says 2-3 years."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Miami
Herald-Florida Justice: Orville "Lee"
Wollard, now 60, was convicted of aggravated assault in 2008 after he fired one
"warning shot" into a wall of his home during an argument with his
daughter's boyfriend. Believing his shot defused a dangerous situation (the boyfriend
had once angrily ripped sutures from Wollard's stomach), Wollard had declined a
plea offer of probation and gone to trial, where he lost and faced a law
written with a 20-year minimum sentence. Florida has since amended the law to
give judges discretion about the crime and the sentence, but Gov. Rick Scott
and the state's clemency board have refused to help Wollard, who must serve 13
more years for a crime he perhaps would not even be charged with today.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
world's smallest jet is the BD-5 Micro. Its wingspan is 14�21
feet and weighs just 358 pounds.
The world's largest passenger plane is the Airbus A380. It is a double-decker
four-engine jetliner. It made its first flight on April 27, 2005.
The Antonov AN-225 cargo jet is the largest plane in the world. It is nearly as
big as a football field from nose to tail and wing tip to wing tip. It was
originally built to transport a space plane.
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English
is the international language of flight. All flight controllers and all commercial
pilots who fly on international flights are required to speak English.
Research shows that the first 3 minutes after takeoff and the final 8 minutes
before landing are when 80 percent of plane crashes happen.
The risk of being killed in a plane crash for the average American is 1 in 11
million. The risk of being killed in a car accident is 1 in 5,000.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
87 - Whitey Ford [Edward Charles Ford], hall of fame
baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
(77) - Celia Cruz, Cuban singer, Queen of Salsa. (d. 2003)
75 - Manfred Mann, [Michael Lubowitz], South Africa, rocker
(Mighty Quinn)
(75) - Dizzy Gillespie, [John B], jazz trumpeter, a creator of
modern jazz (d.1993)
73 - Judith
Sheindlin, Jurist and Television personality (Judge Judy)
66 - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister
(63) - Alfred Bernhard Nobel,
Stockholm, dynamite & Peace Prizes, (d. 1896)
(61) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner)
(d. 1834)
59 - Carrie Fisher, Beverly Hills, actress (Princess
Lelia-Star Wars)
57 - Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
39 - Jeremy Miller, West Covina California, actor
(Ben-Growing Pains)
35 - Kim Kardashian, American socialite
<18> - Natalee Holloway, U.S teen, disappeared in Aruba
in 2005
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Historical
Obits Today
George McGovern, US
Politician-2012@90
John T Scopes, US
teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), 1970@70
Jim Garrison,
Louisiana DA (investigate JFK assassination), cancer-1992@70
Fred Berry,
American actor (ReRun), stroke-2003@52
Admiral Horatio Nelson,
in Battle of Trafalgar-1805@47
Jack Kerouac, US
writer (Doctor Sax, On the Road), cirrhosis-1969@47
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1) Nobody would LISTEN to the old pirate any more, because his
TALES were far too TAME.
2) The fans were SILENT as the opposition managed to STEAL the game from the
home TEAM.
3) When he decided to ENLIST, he did not expect STALE bread with his MEAT every
meal.
4) On many of the lake's INLETS in the Spring, TEALS will be out looking for a
MATE.
6 Letters: LISTEN, SILENT, ENLIST, INLETS.
5 Letters: TALES, STEAL, STALE, TEALS.
4 Letters: TAME, TEAM, MEAT, MATE.
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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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