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October 23, 2015 Week: 43 \ Day: 296
October
Averages: 62°\32°
86004
Today: H 56° \ L 32°
Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind
ave: 4mph\Gusts: 19mph
Ave.
High: 60° Record High: 76°[2003]
Ave. Low: 29° Record Low: 9°[1906]
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Observances
Today:
iPod Day-released 2001
Mother-in-Law Day
National Pharmacy Buyer Day
National Pharmacy Technician
Day Link
Swallows Depart from San
Juan Capistrano Day
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Peace
Treaty Day (Cambodia)
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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
1760 - First Jewish prayer books printed in North
America1775 - Continental Congress approves resolution
barring blacks from army
1813 - The Pacific Fur Company trading post in
Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur
trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the
United Kingdom).
1823 - According
to CHEROKEE records, CREEK Chief William McIntosh, representing
United States Indian commissioners, will attempt to For $12,000 McIntosh hopes
that Chiefs John Ross and Charles Hicks, and Council Clerk Alexander McCoy will
try to convince the CHEROKEEs to cede lands to the United States.
The CHEROKEE leaders will refuse bribe CHEROKEE leaders.
1824 - 1st steam locomotive is introduced1915 - 1st national horseshoe throwing championship
(Kellerton, Iowa)
1915 - 25,000 women march in New York City
demanding right to vote
1920 - Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal
Chase, & Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal
1927 - University of
Arizona dedicated its new $450,000 library building. The library had 60,000
volumes in its stacks.
1941 - Walt Disney's animation "Dumbo"
released
1964 - Time Magazine uses term "op art"
for 1st time
1973 - Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape
recordings to Judge Sirica
1988 - Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination
rejected by US Senate
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1091 - Tornado (possible T8/F4) strikes the heart
of London killing two and demolishing the wooden London Bridge
1641 - Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 -
Catholic uprising in Ulster
1739 - War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime
Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
1814
- 1st plastic surgery is performed (England)
1910 - Ritz Hotel in Madrid opens: 200 chambers/100
bathtubs
1934 - Jean Piccard & Jeanette Ridlen attain
balloon height of 17.341 m (rec)
1958 - Soviet
novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1971 - Two female members of the Irish Republican
Army (IRA) are shot dead by the British Army in the Lower Falls area of Belfast
1983 - 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against
cruise missile
1990 - Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
1993 - Seven people killed by IRA bomb attack in
Belfast
2001 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army of
Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Great Chinese lunch today with our retirement group. Things are
going well for all of us.
I watched some of the Benghazi hearings today. No wonder we have
such little respect for much of our Congress. This will not end anytime soon. I
saw a couple of elected representatives who must still believe that the
universe rotates around the earth and that the earth is really flat.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
In
this word pyramid you have to take the letters from the word pea and put them
around the 'h' to form a new word. Once you have the next word, do the same
with the next line.
pea
h _ _ _
s _ _ _ _
_ _ r _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ n
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ l
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
Returns tomorrow
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…Amazing
Facts…
The world record for alcohol consumption is by
Andre the Giant, who drank 156 beers in one sitting (over 73 liters/16
gallons).
Singapore has the world’s highest percentage
of millionaires, with one out of every six households having at least
$1,000,000 US dollars in disposable wealth.
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…Crazy
Law…
Connecticut Is Bizarrely Strict: Part I
In Rocky Hill, Connecticut, no arcade shall
have in any place more than a total of four mechanical amusement devices.
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…Harper’s
Index…
$600,000,000
– amount by which annual lobbying expenditures by US corporations
exceed the Congressional budget
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto @lucalocatelliphoto A
worker prepares a wind turbine blade for painting at a Siemens factory in
Denmark. At 246 feet long (75 meters), the hollow fiberglass and resin blade is
nearly as long as the wingspan of the largest jetliner. A single turbine in the
North Sea can supply electricity for 6,000 German homes.
Note: on my recent trip to CO a similar
turbine blade was on a truck on I-25. They are really huge!
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
20. In Spain:
In Spain, it is believed to be bad luck to enter a room with your
left foot (via Europe's Not Dead)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
As part of David Hasselhoff’s divorce settlement, he kept
possession of the nickname “Hoff” and the catchphrase “Don’t Hassle the Hoff.”
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2
jokes for the day
Q: How many Microsoft engineers does it take
to screw in a light bulb?
A: None. They just declare darkness the standard
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Six packets of mothballs, please,” said an old
lady to the chemist. “But I sold you six packets yesterday.”
“I know, but my aim’s not very good and I keep missing them.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. - An Arkansas girl's fourth birthday party featured a CVS theme
complete with prescription bottles filled with mints, her mother said. Sarah
Fortune Gill of Fayetteville said her daughter, Iris, sees the local CVS store
as a wonderland of "snacks, drinks, toys, chap-stick, and band-aids,"
so much so that she puts the drug store on par with Disney World in terms of
dream locations. Gill said Iris requested a CVS theme for her birthday party
last week. "When CVS headquarters heard about Iris' party, they sent us
tons of snacks, favors, and party supplies to celebrate. How cool is that? And
when we told the local store manager about what kind of party we were having,
he was so sweet to donate some
CVS-brand water bottles to add to the goodie bags. Not to mention that her year
was MADE when they flashed a big 'Happy Birthday' message to Iris up on the big
sign out front." The donated "goodies" from CVS included
prescription bottles filled with mint candies, which Gill admitted in an
Instagram post were "probably not the best idea for a party favor for
kids." "And thank you to CVS who helped make Iris' fourth birthday so
special. By the way, this is in no way sponsored by CVS," Gill wrote on
her blog.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Experts
say a real airplane must have the following qualifications; it must be heavier
than air, manned and powered, it must be able to take off and land under its
own power and most importantly, it must be controllable along all three axes;
known as roll, pitch and yaw.
All of the other inventors had a problem with this last qualification, leading
to more than a few crashes. But the Wrights had patented a design to warp or
flex their craft's wings, giving them the all-important maneuverability.
Plus, unlike other dabblers and tinkerers, the Wright Brothers continued to
work on and improve their designs, and by 1908 they had developed a practical
aircraft that would carry 2 people on longer flights.
***
Interestingly
enough, Alexander Graham Bell, the famous scientist and inventor of the
telephone, was also interested in inventing a practical airplane. He became
obsessed with flight all the way back in 1898 and began studying equilibrium
and stability by flying kites.
He tried building a kite-like airplane using a geometric design he invented
called a tetrahedral, but it was a failure. So in 1907 he founded the Aerial Experimental
Association (AEA) in order to design and build a practical powered airplane.
While the Wrights had already built a practical plane in 1905, Bell thought he
could come up with a better design.
Eventually he did come up with the concept of the modern aileron, which was an
improvement on Wrights' wing warping design.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(84) - Gummo [Milton] Marx, actor\comedian
(Marx Brothers) (d. 1977)
(79) - Johnny Carson,
comedian (Tonight Show, Who Do You Trust) (d.2005)
(78) - Adlai Stevenson,
(D) 23rd VP (1893-97) (d.1914)
75 - Pelé [Edson Arantes do Nascimento], Brazilian footballer
(Player of the Century - 1281 goals in 1363 games)
(66) - John Heisman, pioneering football coach/trophy namesake
(d.1936)
(66) - Michael Crichton, novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo,
Looker) (d. 2008)
61 - Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born American
director (The Wedding Banquet, Brokeback Mountain)
59 - Dwight Yoakam, Pikeville Ky, country singer (Honky Tonk
Man)
56 - Weird Al Yankovic [Alfred Matthew], parody singer
(47) - Randy Pausch, American computer science professor, author
(d.2008)
39 - Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor and comedian
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Historical
Obits Today
Robert Merrill,
American baritone-2004@87
Maybelle Carter, country
singer (Johnny Cash Show), long illness-1978@69
Zane Grey, US
western writer (Spirit of the Border), heart attack-1939@67
Al Jolson, [Asa
Yoelson], singer/actor (Jazz Singer), heart attacl-1950@64
Christian Dior, French
designer (New Look), heart attack-1957@52
Dutch Schultz [Arthur
Flegenheimer], US gangster, murdered-1935@34
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Pea
Heap
Shape
Phrase/seraph
Sharpen
Shrapnel
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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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