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October
28, 2015 Week:
44 \ Day: 301
October Averages:
62°\32°
86004 Today: H 66° \ L 28° Average
Sky Cover: 20%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
21mph
Ave. High: 58° Record High: 74°[1950]
Ave. Low: 27° Record Low: 13°[1954]
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Observances
Today:
National Chocolate Day Link
Statue Of Liberty Day-dedicated 1886 by Grover
Cleveland -1st ticker tape parade
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St. Jude's Day-(Catholic)
Independence
Day (Czech Republic-1918-from Austria-Hungary)
Ohi
Day (Greece-“No” day-to Mussolini invasion-1940)
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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
1636 - Harvard University (Cambridge,
Massachusetts) founded
1646 - First Protestant church assembly for
American Indians (Massachusetts)
1790 - New York gives up claims to Vermont for
$30,000
1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent on
cotton gin
1858 - R. H. Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th
Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $11.06
1922, Gen. John J.
Pershing arrived in Arizona and reviewed the 25th Infantry at Camp Stephen D.
Little near Nogales and the 10th Cavalry at Fort Huachuca.
1936 - FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on
its 50th anniversary
1941 - "How Green Was My Valley" based on
novel by Richard Llewellyn, premieres (Best Picture 1942)
1954 - Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded
to Ernest Hemingway
1965 - Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in
St Louis, Missouri
1986 - The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's
dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1492 - Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and
claims it for Spain
1538 - The first university in the New World, the
Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
1900 - After over 5 months second Olympic Games in
Paris, France, close
1922 - Benito Mussolini takes control of
Italy's government
1948 - Flag of Israel is adopted
1971 - Great Britain becomes 6th nation to have a
satellite (Prospero) in orbit
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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 cool, crisp mornings. Soon I will be used to
the much later sunrise. At least my part of AZ doesn’t deal with DST and the
sudden late sunrise.
Question of the day—when with the candidates for President begin
talking their policy? I’m afraid we will continue to listen to their drivel
about nothing for a long time.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Here
is a group of common three-letter words. Can you take these and turn them into
half as many 6 letter words? Each three-letter word is used only once.
bar, bit, box, boy, car, day, den, dim, fly, hid, low, now, nut, pan, pea, sun,
ten, try, win, wit
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515
that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a
compartment that opened to present flowers.
The world's tallest snowman was created in
Bethel, Maine in 2008. It measured in at 122 feet / 1 inch and weighed
13,000,000 lbs.
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…Crazy
Law…
Arkansas
Mispronouncing the state name is strictly
forbidden, so just leave your grandma and her fancy 'Ar-can-zuss'es at home
next time.
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…Harper’s
Index…
1/5 –
portion of financial-services workers who say that they must ‘engage in
unethical or illegal activity to be successful
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @TimLaman on assignment for @NatGeo in Palangka Raya,
Indonesia, the world’s most polluted city today. Borneo is burning, and I am
here documenting the effects on people and wildlife. The air is thick with
smoke here in Palangaka Raya and the PM2.5 air quality index is off the charts…
over 1000 on most days (over 300 is considered very hazardous to health.)
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
25. In Sweden:
In Sweden, locals are very careful about what manholes they step
on, as some are marked with the letter "A" and some are marked with
"K." The "K" is believed to stand for love, whereas the
"A" is interpreted as a symbol for heartbreak and bad luck in love
(via Travel + Leisure)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
One way lima beans defend themselves is by emitting a chemical
warning system against spider mites (which eat lima beans) that attracts
predators of spider mites.
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2
jokes for the day
One Liners Jokes
Marriage is nature’s way of keeping people
from fighting with strangers.
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Computer Jokes
1. Home is where you hang your @.
2. The email of the species is more deadly
than the mail.
3. A journey of a thousand sites begins with a
single click.
4. You can't teach a new mouse old clicks.
5. Great groups from little icons grow.
6. Speak softly and carry a cellular phone.
7. In some places, C: is the root of all
directories.
8. Oh, what a tangled Website we weave when
first we practice.
9. Pentium wise, pen and paper foolish.
10. The modem is the message.
11. Too many clicks spoil the browse.
12. The geek shall inherit the earth.
13. Don't byte off more than you can view.
14. Fax is stranger than fiction.
15. What boots up must come down.
16. Windows will never cease.
17. Virtual reality is its own reward.
18. Modulation in all things.
19. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a
day, teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.
20. There's no place like your homepage.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Washington
Post —The Merit Systems Protection Board is "a personnel court of
last resort" for federal employees unfairly punished by demotion or firing
-- which is just what employee Timothy Korb needed when his federal agency
suspended him in 2013, allegedly for revealing at a staff meeting that the
agency's actual case backlog was much worse than it was letting on. Korb's
employer, ironically, is the Merit Systems Protection Board, and in September
2015, an administrative law judge upheld his claim of unfairness. [
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Humans
can see less than 1 percent of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than
1 percent of the acoustic spectrum.
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The
existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes. To
animals without cones the rainbow does not exist. So you don't just look at a
rainbow, you create it.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(93) - Dody Goodman,
comedienne (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan) (d.2008)
(89) - Leonard Starr,
comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie) (d.2015)
(84) - Howard Hanson,
Am. classical music composer\conductor (Nordic) (d. 1981)
(84) - Elsa Lanchester,
actress (Bride of Frankenstien) (d.1986)
(83) - Edith Head,
fashion designer (MGM) (d.1981)
(80) - Jonas Salk,
medical reseacher (polio vaccine) (d.1995)
(79) - Anna Elizabeth
Dickinson, orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War) (d.1932)
79 - Charlie Daniels,
Wilmington NC, singer (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
70 - Wayne Fontana,
Manchester England, rocker (Groovy Kind of Love)
(67) - Eliphalet
Remington, US gun maker (1861)
66 - Caitlyn
(born Bruce) Jenner,
American decathalete (Olympic-gold-1976)
(61) - Jack Soo,
American actor (Barney Miller) (d. 1979)
60 - Bill Gates [William
Henry], billionaire founder/CEO (Microsoft)
49 - Andy Richter,
writer/sidekick (Conan O'Brien)
48 - Julia Roberts,
actress (Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman)
42 - Brad Paisley, American musician
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Historical
Obits Today
Red Auerbach, American basketball coach\executive-2006@89
Morey Amsterdam, comedian (Dick Van Dyke
Show)-1996@87
Doris Duke, heiress (American Tobacco Co)-1993@80
Porter Wagoner, American country singer-2007@80
Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady (1797-1801), typhoid
fever-1818@73
James MacArthur, American actor (orig. Hawaii 5-0)-2010@72
John Locke, English philosopher (2 treatises of
government)-1704@72
Ted Hughes, British Poet Laureate, heart attack-1998@68
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Barfly
Bitten
Boxcar
Lowboy
Sunday
Hidden
Dimwit
Winnow
Peanut
Pantry
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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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