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October
27, 2015 Week:
44 \ Day: 300
October Averages:
62°\32°
86004 Today: H 63° \ L 36° Average
Sky Cover: 25%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts:
15mph
Ave. High: 58° Record High: 74°[1995]
Ave. Low: 27° Record Low: 10°[1970]
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Observances
Today:
Cranky Co-workers Day
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage Link
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Independence
Day (Turkmenistan-1991-from USSR)
National
Tell a Story Day – (Scotland \ U.K)
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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
25-31
International
Magic Week:
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1682 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is founded
1775 - US Navy forms as the Continental Navy
1780 - Samuel Williams and the first U.S.
astronomical expedition to record an eclipse of the sun observes the event at
Penobscot Bay
1795
- San Lorenzo Treaty: Spain will sign a treaty today with the US. The
treaty will allow American boats to use the Mississippi River in Spanish
Territory. It also confirms the northern boundary of the Spanish Territories as
the 31st parallel. The Spanish will be required to abandon all forts and lands
north of that line. Both countries agree to "control" the Indians
within their boundaries.
1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the
Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be
exterminated.
1871 - Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed),
Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his
corruption
1904 - IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in
NYC, subway/bus fare is set at one nickel (Bkln bridge-145 & Bdwy)
1916 - 1st published reference to "jazz"
appears (Variety)
1917 - 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in
New York, US
1919 - US Congress sign Volstead Act
1925 - Water skis patented by Fred Waller
1929 - The remains of the
famous Indian scout Pauline Weaver were reburied on the grounds of the old
Governor's Mansion in Prescott after being brought back from San Francisco.
1938 - DuPont announces its new synthetic polyamide
fiber will be called "nylon"
1947 - "You Bet Your Life"
with Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio
1954 - President Eisenhower offers aid to
South Vietnam Pres Ngo Dinh Diem
1969 - Ralph Nader sets up a consumer
organization knowns as Nader's Raiders
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
312 - Constantine the Great is said to have
received his famous Vision of the Cross
1275 - Traditional founding of the city of
Amsterdam
1968 - 19th Olympic games close at Mexico City,
Mexico
1971 - Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic
of Zaire
1982 - China announces its population at 1 billion
people plus
1992 - Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th
anniversary of JRR Tolkien
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful Monday…stayed home and did some cleaning. Cleaned off
the back deck…again. So many pine needles. Beautiful tree for sure, but so many
pine needles.
AZ in the news for bringing in illegal lethal drugs needed for the
state’s death penalty. Got get the death penalty off the books.
Our little mountain town is ‘updating’ its charter. A citizen committee
was formed for suggestions. Then the city council decided which issues would be
on the ballot. They dismissed some of the committee’s suggestions…too bad, they
were good ideas. It is a mail-in ballot so I took time to review the 7 measures
and vote today so my ballot will count. I have a small problem with the mail-in
ballots as my signature, name, and address are one the back of the envelope. I
see it as a privacy issue. If my ballot gets lost, someone has my personal
signature and that isn’t OK. So rather than mailing it, I will drop it off at
city hall.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Follow
these steps and see if you can figure this out.
1) Get a brown, cardboard box.
2) Get purple, orange, and turquoise paints.
3) Paint the box orange.
4) Paint on purple spots.
5) Paint on turquoise stripes.
7) Turn it upside down.
8) Lie on your side.
What is missing from this sequence?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a
Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and
increased the high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone
free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships.
Putting your car alarm remote under your chin
or beside your head increases its range.
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…Crazy
Law…
Arizona
Even though they’d love it, you can’t feed
pigs garbage unless you have a special permit in AZ. One that needs to be
renewed each January, so really think hard about how much you want to give that
hog your newspaper.
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…Harper’s
Index…
2.3— factor by
which the average salary in the securities industry exceeded that of other US
workers between 1929 and 2008
3.6—which it
does today
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
24. In the United States:
In the state of Vermont, many farmhouses built in the 19th century
included slanted "witch windows" to keep witches out of the home. It
was believed that witches could not fly through a tilted window (via Wikipedia)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Studies in space have shown that birds cannot survive in
weightless environments since they require gravity in order to swallow food.
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2
jokes for the day
Question / Answer Jokes
Q: Why did the haunted house not like rain?
A: Because it dampened his spirits.
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Quotes Jokes
Have you heard about the next planned
"Survivor" show?
* 6 men will be dropped on an island with 1
van and 4 kids each, for 6 weeks.
* Each kid plays two sports and either takes
music or dance classes.
* There is no access to fast food.
* Each man must take care of his 4 kids, keep
his assigned house clean, correct all homework, complete science projects,
cook, do laundry, etc.
* The men only have access to television when
the kids are asleep and all chores are done: There is only one TV between them
and there is no remote.
* The men must shave their legs and wear
makeup daily, which they must apply themselves either while driving or while
making four lunches.
* They must attend weekly PTA meetings; clean
up after their sick children at 3:00 am; make an Indian hut model with six
toothpicks, a tortilla and one marker; and get a 4 year old to eat a serving of
peas.
* The kids vote them off based on performance.
* The winner gets to go back to his job
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Washington
Post —In October, a Harvard University debate team (three-time recent
champions of the American Parliamentary Debate Association) lost a match to a
team of prisoners from the maximum-security Eastern New York Correctional
Facility. Prison debaters "are held to the exact same standards" as
college debate teams, according to the director of Bard College's Prison
Initiative, which coaches the inmates. Prisoners took the "pro" side
of public schools having the right to turn away students whose parents had
entered the U.S. illegally (though team members personally disagreed). The Bard
trainers pointed out that the inmates perfected their presentation despite (or
perhaps because of) the prison prohibition on Internet access.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
A
fingernail or toenail takes about six months to grow from base to tip.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our
bodies.
Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a
year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth
together for chewing.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(91) - Ruby Dee,
actress (A Raisin in the Sun, American Gangster) (d. 2014)
(90) - Fred de Cordova,
film/TV producer (Tonight Show) (d.2001)
(87) - Emily Post,
authority on social behavior/writer (Etiquette) (d.1960)
76 - John Cleese,
Weston-Super-Mare England, comedian (Monty Python)
(73) - Roy
Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
73 - Lee Greenwood,
American country singer (God Bless the USA)
68 - Terry Anderson,
AP correspondent/US hostage held in Lebanon (1985-91)
(61) - Matthew Baillie,
Scottish Physician (1st systematic study of pathology) (d.1823)
(61) - John Gotti,
Bronx mafia head of the Gambino family (d.2004)
(63) - Isaac Merrit
Singer, inventor (1st practical home sewing machine) (d.1875)
(60) - Theodore
Roosevelt, (R) 26th Pres (Nobel 1906) (d. 1919)
59 - Patty Sheehan,
Middlebury Vermont, LPGA golfer (1994 US Women's Open)
(58) - Carrie
Snodgress, Park Ridge Ill, actress (Diary of Mad Housewife) (d.2004)
(50) - James Cook,
England, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands (d.1779)
49 - Matt Drudge,
American blogger
(39) - Dylan Thomas,
Swansea Wales, poet (Child's Christmas in Wales) (d.1953)
31 - Kelly Osbourne,
English television personality
(30) - Sylvia Plath,
American poet (Colossus, 3 Women, Bell Jar) (d.1963)
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Historical
Obits Today
Xavier Cugart, bandlander-1990@90
Rex Stout, US detective writer (Nero Wolfe)-1975@88
James M Cain, US writer (Postman Always Rings
Twice)-1977@85
Lou Reed, Velvet
Underground musician, liver disease-2013@71
Sammee Tong, actor (Bachelor Father, Mickey),
suicide-1964@63
Ernest Everett Just, African-American embryologist
(physiology of development, fertilization, cell division), pancreatic cancer-1941@58
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Step 6!
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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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