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November
19, 2015 Week:
47 \ Day: 323
October Averages:
51°\22°
86004 Today: H 56° \ L 23° Average
Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts:
17mph
Ave. High: 49° Record High: 69°[1949]
Ave. Low: 21° Record Low: -6°[1985]
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Observances
Today:
American Made Matters Day Link
Equal Opportunity Day (aka
Gettysburg Address Day) Link
Great American Smokeout Link
Have A Bad Day Day
International Men's Day Link
Rocky and Bullwinkle Day
Use Less Stuff Day Link
World Philosophy Day
Women's Entrepreneurship Day Link
World Toilet Day Link
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Observances
This Week:
14-22
National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week Link
15-21
International
Fraud Awareness Week Link
Rodents Awareness Week
American Education Week Link )
National Book Awards Week
National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1620 - Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores
the coast
1794 - Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty,
signed with Great Britain, allows Native Americans to cross borders
1805 - Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, first
European Americans to cross continent1861 - Julia Ward
Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper
1861 - The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels)
from the U.S. to Europe leaves Philadelphia, USA, for London, England on the Elizabeth
Watts
1863 - US President Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg
address beginning; "Four score & seven years ago..."
1873 - William Marcy "Boss" Tweed,
of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12
years' imprisonment
1895 - Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil
1911 - NY receives first Marconi wireless
transmission from Italy
1916 - Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn
establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one of the most successful
independent filmmakers).
1919 - US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of
Versailles & League of Nations
1923 - The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor
Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures
1944 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin
Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion
USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1950 - US General Eisenhower becomes
supreme commander of NATO-Europe
1952 - One-way downtown
street system was adopted by the Tucson City Council
1953 - US VP Richard Nixon visits Hanoi
1955 - National Review publishes its first issue.
1959 - "Rocky & His Friends" debuts
on ABC
1959 - Ford cancels Edsel
1975 - "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
is released (Best Picture 1976)
1976 - Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1979 - Chuck Berry released from prison on income
tax evasion
1980 - CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ad
featuring Brooke Shields
1989 - US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990
world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st qualification since 1950
1990 - Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their
Grammy Award after it is learned they did not sing on their award-winning
"Girl You Know Its True" album
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1816 - Warsaw University is established.
1824 - Storm causes St Petersburg flood, killing
10,000
1850 - Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet
Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
1894 - 1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 & 5 Ap)
1933 - Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right
wing)
1962 - Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet
weapons
1972 - Leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Seán MacStiofáin is arrested in Dublin
1995 - Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy
in Islamabad, kills 16
1996 - The 12.9 km Confederation Bridge, joining
Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island and Cape Jourimain, New-Brunswick is
completed and becomes the longest bridge over ice covered waters in the world
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Every adventure I take seems to have certain simple events stamped
in my mind that I will never forget. On this Cuban adventure we visited an
after-school program with neighborhood children between 8 and 15. They
practiced 3-4 hours every day on gymnastic type skills with the hope of being
selected for the Cuban National Circus when they graduated from secondary
school. We saw 5 youth perform and they were really good. The moment came when
they were introduced. The last boy was a 13 year old who was introduced and the
coach said he and his family were emigrating to the US. This would have
normally drawn a round of applause from the American audience, but just as the
coach was finishing his intro, the boy walked over, hugged his coach, and
buried his face in his coach’s stomach. The room was silent. For me I suddenly
had a vision of Elián González, the
little Cuban boy who was dragged from his house in Florida to return to Cuba by
court order some 15 years ago. The look on that young athlete’s face will stay
with me. Hopefully he will find a good life in the US. People
to People tours are so emotional. Thanks Focus Travel for the experience.
Early in our trip in Cuba’s third largest city of Camaguey, we did
a bici-taxi tour. See Picture of the day below
Happy camper here…the HOA and I have never been friends. They have
stupid rules and want us to look like cookie-cutters…nothing in the front of
the house, curtains on every window, parking permits that aren’t needed as
there is always empty parking, etc. When I moved in about 2 feet from my deck
was the tallest Ponderosa Pine in the neighborhood. It is beautiful. However it
is very old and has lots of dead branches, some as big as 5”. I have worried, a
little, about them braking off during a storm. Well after 8 years, the HOA sent
in some tree trimmers today to cut branches on all trees that were hanging over
the roof. I saw the guys before they started climbing my tree and asked if they
could do something about the dead braches. The guy said their contract was only
to cut branches that were over the roof. I went back inside. When they got to
my tree, they cut all the dead branches off, none of which were over the roof,
plus the several that did go over the roof. For the first time since I moved in
I have bright afternoon sunlight in the master bedroom, the downstairs guest
bedroom, and the deck. So nice!!!
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
The
same five-letter word can be added to either the front or back, but not both,
of the following words to create four new words. Can you determine what the
five-letter word's identity is?
KEY
WALL
GEM
WASHED
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
Lentil As Anything, a successful Australian
restaurant, allows its customers to pay whatever price they feel like paying
for the food.
The Lion's Mane Jellyfish is the largest
jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the
dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago).
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…Crazy
Law…
Delaware
If next week’s game of truth or dare in
Johnny’s parents’ basement gets too real, don’t worry: getting married because
of “jest or dare” is grounds for annulment.
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…Harper’s
Index…
+87 –
percentage change since 1993 in the suicide rate among black US children aged
5-11
-32 – among
white US children in the same age group
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…Cuba:
Photo of the Day…
Bici-taxi tour of Cuba’s third largest city of Camaguey. A great
time!
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Washington State was supposed to be named "Columbia" but
the idea was scrapped because it was thought it would be too easily confused
with "Columbia City" (today commonly referred to as Washington,
D.C.).
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2
jokes for the day
Kid Jokes
Little Amy confided to her uncle, “When I grow
up I’m going to marry the boy next door.”
“Why is that?”
“Cause I’m not allowed to cross the road.”
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Business Jokes
Regarding Face book Co-founder Edward
Saverin's renouncing his US citizenship to avoid paying taxes.
One thing for which you have to give Obama
credit for when he took office, one of the biggest problems was illegal
immigrants streaming over our border.
3 1/2 years later he's sure cured that
problem. Now many are trying to get out. (To avoid paying taxes)
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Yep,
It Really Happened
CLERMONT,
FL - A Florida woman was arrested after calling a local police
station and asking for wings and cigarettes. Forty-five-year-old Liann Gae
Watson is accused of calling police and asking them to bring her wings and
cigarettes, claiming that she was too drunk to drive and get them herself. When
officers arrived, she repeatedly asked them for cigarettes while claiming that
the call was a joke, The Orlando Sentinel reports. Police report that she
switched back and forth between hysterical laughter and sobbing while being
interviewed and was ultimately handcuffed and placed in the patrol car. When
she arrived at the Lake County Jail, she reportedly began shouting profanities,
banging her head against a partition and kicking her legs up toward the
ceiling. After being warned four times, police restrained her arms and legs to
prevent her form harming herself and others.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Worldwide,
people consume 500 extra calories a day from sugar, which is roughly the amount
of calories needed to gain a pound a week.
A 15.2 oz. bottle of Minute Maid 100 percent Apple Juice contains 49 grams of
sugar. This is about the same amount of sugar in 10 Oreos. While sugar occurs
naturally in fruit, the body processes both types of sugar in the same way. One
benefit of eating whole fruit is eating fiber, which is generally lost in the
process of making juice.
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According
to brain scans, sugar is as addictive as cocaine.
Two hundred years ago, the average American ate only 2 pounds of sugar a year.
In 1970, Americans ate 123 pounds of sugar per year. Today the average American
consumes almost 152 pounds of sugar in one year. This is equal to 3 pounds (or
6 cups) of sugar consumed in one week.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
96 - Alan Young, England, actor (Time
Machine, Wilbur Post-Mr Ed)
82 - Larry King, radio/TV host "143
Arivadechi" (Larry King Show, CNN), born in NYC, New York
(80) - Hiram Bingham, Connecticut, American
Archaeologist (Incan site of Machu Picchu) (d.1956)
79 - Dick Cavett, Kearney Neb, talk show
host (Dick Cavett Show)
77 - Ted Turner, American broadcasting
mogul/owns (Atlanta Braves)/won America's Cup
(76) - Clifton Webb [Webb Parmelee
Hollenbeck], American actor (Laura), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d.1966)
74 - Dan Haggerty, Hollywood California,
actor (Grizzly Adams)
73 - Calvin Klein, fashion designer (Calvin
Klein Jeans, CK), born in The Bronx, New York
(70) - Gene Tierney, American actress (Laura,
Ghost & Mrs Muir), born in Brooklyn, (d.1991)
(66) - Indira Gandhi, 4th Prime Minister of
India (1966-77, 1980-84), born in Allahabad India (d. 1984)
55 - Allison Janney, American actress
54 - Meg Ryan, Bethel Ct, actress (When
Harry Met Sally, As the World Turns)
(51) - Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane Pa,
orchestra leader (Stage Show, Mahogany) (d.1956)
(49) - James
A Garfield, Ohio, gen/(R) 20th Pres (March 4-Sept 19, 1881) (d.1881)
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Historical
Obits Today
Man in
the Iron Mask (Eustache Dauger), prisoner in Bastille prison-1703@66
Franz
Schubert, Austrian composer (Die schöne Müllerin), typhoid fever-1828@31
Emma
Lazarus, US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), Hodgkin's
lymphoma-1887@38
Joe Hill, Labor
leader/songwriter, executed for murder-1915@36
Christine
Onassis, heiress, heart failure-1988@37
Dick
Wilson, American character actor, 2007@91
Michael
Hastings, British playwright, 2011@74
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Brain
Teasers Answers
The word you need is STONE.
KEYSTONE
STONEWALL
GEMSTONE
STONEWASHED
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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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