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October
25, 2015 Week:
44 \ Day: 298
October Averages:
62°\32°
86004 Today: H 59° \ L 34° Average
Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts:
18mph
Ave. High: 59° Record High: 78°[1959]
Ave. Low: 28° Record Low: 11°[1975]
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Observances
Today:
Chucky, The Notorious Killer Doll Day Link
International Artists
Day Link
Sourest Day
Mother-in-Law Day
Xterra World Championships
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Retrocession Day (Taiwan-1945-end of Japanese
Rule)
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Observances
This Week:
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
1780 - John Hancock becomes the first Governor
of Massachusetts
1805 - CHEROKEE sign a treaty today with
Return Meigs on the Duck River covering land north of the Tennessee River in
Kentucky and Middle Tennessee (7 stat. 93).
1923 - Senate committee publishes 1st report on
Teapot Dome scandal
1923 - Inspired by one of
Tucsonan Harold Bell Wright's novels, a group of New Yorkers organized a
$100,000 corporation to back a search for the lost "Mine With An Iron
Door" in the Catalina Mountains.
1924 - "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip
1st published
1929 - Former Interior Sec Albert
Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe
1955 - Tappan sells 1st microwave oven
1963 - Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON"
pamphlets scattered in Dallas
1975 - Denver Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports
Arena beat St Louis Spirits
2001 - Windows XP first became available.
2004 - Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces
that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1415 - Battle of Agincourt: Henry V's forces defeat
larger French army and the longbow defeats the armored knight
1854 - Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of
Balaclava, Crimean War), 409 die
1870 - Postcards first used in USA
1875
- The first performance of the Piano Concerto
No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts
with Hans von BΓΌlow as soloist.
1984 - Hepatitis virus is discovered
2012 - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and
Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million in damage
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Getting used to the cooler temps as my ol’ body adjusts to fall.
Surprised that after 8-1/2 years of retirement, I still look forward to
weekends to do stuff around the house. Earlier this week I bought some new
curtains and some new blinds. The task became more laboring than I expected, so
I didn’t finish. This morning I got up and was ready to finish the project,
which took about an hour. I certainly had an hour to do it every day since I
bought them, but mentally, it seemed like a Saturday job. Happy that it is
completed.
The only thing I’m learning from the Trump campaign is how life is
for a narcissist. Sadly, as I watch other politics, I’m discovering that being
a narcissist seems to be a requirement to hold public office no matter the
party.
This is NAU’s homecoming weekend. In the early 1970’s a tradition
was started that continues today…Tequila Sunrise. Lots of drinking and lots of
cash spent at local bars early in the morning. Tradition continues this year.
As does the annual parade. It used to be through downtown but that tradition
changed and now it is only on campus. Didn’t do either of these today, and am
not going to the game either. Leave that to the younger generations.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Every
clue below can be answered with a two word phrase in which each word contains
OR. Your job is to figure out what they are. Good luck.
1. Person on an assembly line
2. Whiskey made from ears of a certain vegetable
3. Vet with an equine practice
4. 1970s-'80s tennis champ from Sweden
5. Listing in the Guinness Book
6. Home of Texas Christian University
7. Person who gives a kidney or liver
8. Piece of fiction not as long as a novel
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
Returns
tomorrow
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…Amazing
Facts…
Scientists have revived a flowering plant from
a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
In 1916, a US amendment was proposed to put
all acts of war to a national vote. If you voted yes you would have to register
as a volunteer for service in the United States Army.
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…Crazy
Law…
Connecticut Is Bizarrely Strict: Part III
Since 1996, a ban on Silly String has been in
place in the town of Southington, Connecticut.
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…Harper’s
Index…
9 – factor by
which the morality rate among hospital patients on TV exceeds the actual rate
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
navajotimesNavajo Times | Krista Allen
Dook'o'oosΕΓΓd towers into the sky and above changing aspen in Flagstaff. A
sacred mountain of several local tribes. Also known as San Francisco Peaks.
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
22. In the Netherlands:
In the Netherlands, singing at the dinner table means you are
singing to the devil for your dinner--which means bad luck. They also say that
lending salt to a neighbor is bad luck too (via Europe's Not Dead)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Frank Sinatra was the producer's first choice to play the role of
Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry.
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2
jokes for the day
A lady wasn't feeling well, so she went to the
doctor.
Doctor asked if she ever had chicken pox?
Her reply: "No, but I have had chicken nuggets."
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What’s this daily charge for ‘fruit’? The
hotel guess asked the manager. “We didn’t eat any.”
“But the fruit was place in your room every day. It isn’t our fault you didn’t
take advantage of it.”
“I see,” said the man as he subtracted $150.00 from the bill
“What are you doing”? Sputtered the manager.
“I’m subtracting 50 dollars a day for your kissing my wife.”
“What? I didn’t kiss your wife.”
“Ah,” replied the man, “but she was there.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
ALPENA,
Mich. - Police in Michigan said it wasn't hard to recognize a drunken
burglary suspect a few blocks away from the crime as she was covered in cake
and frosting. Alpena Police said officers responded Sunday to a home where a
resident reported finding an unknown woman making a commotion in their kitchen.
The homeowner said the woman had knocked over or broken several items,
including a tray of cupcakes. Alpena officers and Michigan State Police
searched the area and discovered the suspect a few blocks away from the home
covered in cake and frosting. The police report said the woman was "highly
intoxicated and had cupcake frosting and cake all over her torso and
legs." The suspect, whose name was not released, was arrested and charged
with unlawful entry and malicious destruction of property. She was taken to the
Alpena County Jail.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
1. The average Minion
stands at 105cm in height.
2. The Minions’ language
may sound like gibberish, but many of their phrases will be recognisable.
“Banana” is banana (natch), Bapples is apples, para tΓΊ is rough Spanish meaning
“for you” and “gelato” is ice cream. Each word in “minion-ese” translates to an
actual word.
3. The Minions were
originally envisioned as giant “Orc-like brutes”, but over time they got
smaller and smaller in a bid to make their master Gru more sympathetic. “The
easy way (to do that) was to actually have him surrounded by incompetence,”
Coffin said of the yellow critters.
4. The poster for
Despicable Me 2 apparently contains more than 10,400 individual Minions.
5. French art
director Eric Guillon is creator of the Minions. He came up with the concept
for the scene-stealers on the first Despicable Me, and the creatures are now
the official mascots for studio Illumination Entertainment.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(91) - Pablo Picasso,
Malaga Spain, artist (3 Dancers, Guernica), (d. 1973)
87 - Marion Ross,
Albert Lea Mn, actress (Marion-Happy Days)
(85) - Leo G. Carroll,
English actor (d. 1972)
(83) - Minnie Pearl,
[Sarah Ophelia Colley], (Grand Old Opry, Hee-Haw) (d.1996)
(77) - Klaus Barbie,
gestapo chief (Lyon) (d.1991)
(77) - Anthony
Franciosa, [Papaleo], actor (Jeff-Name of the Game) (d.2006)
75 - Bobby Knight,
college basketball coach (Indiana, Olympic-gold-1984)
74 - Helen Reddy,
Australian rock vocalist (I Am Woman)
71 - James Carville,
American political stategist and commentator
(68) - Richard E Byrd,
Virginia, admiral/polar explorer (d.1957)
(67) - James Beattie,
Scotland, poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth) (d.1803)
(60) - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Aryamehr,
Shah of Iran (1941-79) (d.1980)
52 - Tracy Nelson,
actress (Glitter, Square Pegs, Father Dowling)
(37) - Georges Bizet,
French composer (Carmen), born in Paris (d. 1875)
31 - Katy Perry [Katheryn
Elizabeth Hudson], pop singer
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Historical
Obits Today
Vincent Price, actor (Raven, Fly)-1993@82
Frank Sprague, Am. Inventor of the first U.S.
electric trolley system-1934@77
Bobby Riggs, tennis player, prostate cancer-1995@77
Richard Harris, Irish actor (A Man Called
Horse)\singer, Hodgkin's disease-2002@72
Norman Norell [Levinson], US fashion
designer-1972@72
Marcia Wallace, American actress, pneumonia-2013@70
Forrest Tucker, actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty
Trail), cancer-1986@67
Geofrey Chaucer, author (Canterbury Tales), ?-1400@57
Roger Miller, country singer (King of the Road), cancer-1992@56
Payne Stewart, American golfer, plane crash-1999@42
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Factory Worker
2. Corn Liquor
3. Horse Doctor
4. Bjorn Borg
5. World Record
6. Fort Worth
7. Organ Donor
8. Short Story
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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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