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November
20, 2015 Week:
47 \ Day: 324
October Averages:
51°\22°
86004 Today: H 58° \ L 23° Average
Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
11mph
Ave. High: 49° Record High: 71°[1976]
Ave. Low: 21° Record Low: -5°[1964]
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Observances
Today:
African Industrialization Day
Globally Organized Hug A Runner Day aka
G.O.H.A.R.D. Link
Name Your PC Day
National Peanut Butter Fudge Day Link
Transgender Day of
Remembrance
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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
20-28
National
Farm-City Week
GERD Awareness Week Link
National Family Week
National Game & Puzzle
Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1817 - First Seminole War begins in Florida
1866 - Howard University founded (Washington, D.C.)
1888 - Willard Bundy patents timecard clock
1889 - Arizona bandit
Pearl Hart was tried and convicted of robbery in Florence. She was sentenced to
five years in prison.
1914 - US State Department starts requiring
photographs for passports
1919 - 1st municipally owned airport in US opens
(Tucson Az)
1920 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W
Wilson
1923 - Garrett Morgan invents & patents traffic
signal
1929 - Salvador Dali's first one-man show
1938 - 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US
radio (by Father Coughlin)
1947 - "Meet the Press" makes network TV
debut on NBC
1947 - 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing
vessel (New Jersey) 1966 - "Cabaret"
opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1166 performances
1969 - Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by
militant Native Americans
1982- Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts "Saturday Night
Live"1983 - "Terms of Endearment" from the
book by Larry McMurtry, directed by James L. Brooks and starring Shirley
MacLaine and Debra Winger premieres in New York (Best Picture 1984)
1984 - McDonald's made its 50 billionth hamburger
1984 - SETI is founded.
2008 - After critical failures in the US financial
system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
reaches its lowest level since 1997.
2014 - Nearly 5
million illegal migrants in the US will have the threat of deportation
deferred, after President Barack Obama announces sweeping immigration
changes
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1521 - Arabs attribute shortage of water in
Jerusalem to Jews making wine
1866 - Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle
1902 - Geo Lefevre & Henri Desgrange create
Tour de France bicycle race
1910 - Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by
Francisco I Madero
1917 - First successful tank use in battle (Britain
breaks through German lines) at Battle of Cambrai WWI
1949 - Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000
1959 - UN adopts Universal Declaration of
Children's Rights
1965 - UN Security council calls for boycott of
Rhodesia
1969 - Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal
1970 - UN General Assembly accepts membership of
China PR
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
I have
been very fortunate to be able to travel to many countries around the world.
Living on the Navajo Rez I made a good salary and the cost of living, like many
3rd world countries was low. So I could invest and have a decent
retirement fund. Having my longtime neighbor, Bob, introduce me to Focus Travel
Club made this travel possible.
I have
visited many Arabic areas since my retirement. I have met quite a few Muslims
in my travels. I am sickened by the talk of many who have never left our shores
who talk about blocking refugees simply out of fear. The governor of AZ has
said that he will block any Syrian refugees from our state. One presidential
candidate says he will close all mosques. This kind of talk is simply ignorant.
My aunt
and uncle almost disowned their son when he said he would marry a Catholic.
Thankfully my father sat his sister and her husband down and set them straight.
My cousin is still grateful. Neither my aunt nor uncle ever left our shores.
Never had friends that were not ‘just like them.’
On one
Focus trips I had a roommate who had never traveled with us. He was a Baptist
minister. He had done a religious visit to Cuba a year before the trip we were
on. He talked about the poverty, the horrors of Communism, and how he and his
small group would have to sneak to someone’s house in the dead of night to give
these people the Word. He explained to me how the family would close the
curtains, much like the WWII blackout periods, and would not be able to sing
the praises of the Lord for fear of being arrested and imprisoned. After two
visits to Cuba, I am convinced that he needed to tell that story to build his
own faith. It may have been true after the revolution, but I am sure it was an exaggeration
when he went in the mid-2000’s.
So many
people build on the fear of the unknown. I am sick and tired of being told that
I am naïve when I am against Islamiphobia or when I talk about the wonderful
people of Cuba by people who know nothing of either. I am not naïve, I am
educated by first person experience. I
will not vote for any candidate who makes blanket negative statements about any
group of human beings who simply want to come to our great country for a better
life. Steve Jobs, the Apple guy, is the son of a Syrian migrant. No current American
politician can say that his ancestors were not immigrants. (There are few
current national politicians who claim to be from Indigenous people—some Hawaiian
or Alaskan leaders are the exception). Every immigrant in this country came
here for the promised better life. Sadly the first immigrants did not treat the
indigenous people of this land with the same ideals they held for themselves.
Sure there are bad people who try to come to this country. It is the job of the
government to stop them, and I believe they will. I trust them on this issue.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A
simple riddle you behold,
All that glitters is not gold.
My first is second in line,
I'll send shivers up your spine.
Though I'm not quite shining bright,
I seem to glitter in the light.
What am I?
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…Amazing
Facts…
In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La
Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the
coast of Quebec.
Newman’s Own foods donates 100% of its post
tax profits to charity. As of June 2012 these donations have exceeded 330
million dollars.
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…Crazy
Law…
Florida
This highly sensitive Wolf of Wall Street
scene wouldn’t fly in FL. All establishments with a liquor license are
prohibited from holding any contest, promotion, or activity that endangers a
person with dwarfism. And that definitely includes throwing.
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…Harper’s
Index…
$3,000 – tuition
cost of Icon Academy, a four-day summer camp devoted to ‘teaching teens how to
monetize their talents
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…Cuba
Photo of the Day…
Two different town squares in two different cities in Cuba, where
WiFi is now available.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
When three-letter airport codes became standard in the mid-1930s,
airports that had been using a two-letter identifier simply added an X to their
code, which is why Los Angeles International Airport is known as LAX.
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2
jokes for the day
Family Jokes
Dad I think the Smiths next door are angry at
us.” “Why is that?”
“They’re probably mad because our dog can
retrieve the newspaper, and theirs can’t.” “How could you possibly know that?
We don’t even subscribe to the paper.” “Yeah, that’s probably got something to
do with it, too.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
MILWAUKEE -
Citations were handed out at a McDonald's in Milwaukee after a misunderstanding
in the drive-thru spilled over into a brawl inside the restaurant. A couple,
attempting to order a 20-piece McNugget meal from the drive-thru, entered the
restaurant to complain after they were unable to hear the McDonald's employee
through the speaker. Upon entering the restaurant, the couple began shouting
obscenities at various employees. The situation escalated as the 35-year-old
female guest slapped a 62-year-old McDonald's employee in the face, knocking
her glasses off, after the employee asked the couple to settle down. At this
point, the employee came from behind the counter and proceeded to grab the
customer’s hair. The customer's husband, 41, retaliated by grabbing the
employee’s arms and repeatedly punching her in the head. Witnesses called 911
as the couple attempted to exit the scene. All three participants in the brawl
were cited with disorderly conduct and face a $450 fine. The employee told
police that she grabbed the woman's hair because she was extremely "pissed
off", she was able to return to work at the restaurant following the
incident.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
first legal television commercial was pretty simple: a picture of a clock on a
U.S. map, with a voice-over saying, "America runs on Bulova time."
The 10-second spot on July 1, 1941, aired on the New York NBC station and costs
the watch company $9.
The longest-running TV commercial appears to be for Discount Tire. The
10-second spot, which first aired in 1975, shows an old lady throwing a tire
through a store window as the announcer says, "If you're not satisfied
with one of our tires, please feel free to bring it back." The woman hired
to throw the tire wasn't strong enough, so a man on the production crew named
John Staub stood in for the stunt.
As of December 2011, a law requires a TV ad to be aired at the same volume as
the program it's running in. The two-page bill took two years to pass.
Public service announcements were first created by the Ad Council during World
War II. In 1971, on the second Earth Day, the world met "the crying
Indian," played by Iron Eyes Cody. The famous anti-pollution ad
effectively gave the new ecology movement a huge boost.
The "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" commercial in the early 1970s
was so popular that people called local TV stations to request it. It was
reprised with the original singers and their children for a 1990 Super Bowl ad.
In 1989, Pepsi ran a TV commercial that advertised a TV commercial. An ad
during the Grammy Awards revealed that a Pepsi commercial featuring Madonna and
her hit, "Like a Prayer," would debut a week and a half later. Indeed
it did, but the impact was ruined amid the outrage over the song's racy video.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(95) - Alistair Cooke,
Manchester England, TV host (Masterpiece Theatre) (d.2004)
88 - Estelle Parsons, Lynn
Mass, actress (Rachel Rachel, Bonnie & Clyde)
87 - Rex Reason, actor
(Man Without a Gun, Roaring 20s), born in Berlin, Germany
(82) - Dick Clark, Mt
Vernon NY, TV host (American Bandstand), (d. 2012)
(81) - Selma Lagerlöf,
Mårbacka, Värmland, author and Nobel laureate (The Wonderful Adventures of
Nils), (d. 1940)
(81) - Fran Allison, LaPorte
City Iowa, actress (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) (d.1989)
(79) - Richard Dawson,
Hampshire England, actor (Hogan's Heroes, Family Feud), (d. 2012)
(78) - Emilio Pucci, Naples,
fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1954) (d.1992)
76 - Dick Smothers,
comedian (Smother Brothers' Show), born in NYC, New York
73 - Joseph Biden Jr, Scranton
Pennsylvania, 47th US Vice President
68 - Joe Walsh, Wichita
Ks, guitarist/rocker (Eagles-Take it Easy)
(63) - Edwin Hubble,
astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift) (d.1953)
59 - Bo Derek, [Mary
Collins], actress (10, Tarzan the Ape Man), born in Long Beach, California
(42) - Robert Francis Kennedy,
Brookline, Mass (D-Sen-NY, US Attorney General), (d. 1968)
38 - Dominique Dawes, Silver
Spring Md, gymnast (Olympics-gold/brz-92, 96)
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Historical
Obits Today
Leo Tolstoy [Lev
Nikolayevich], Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War & Peace), pneumonia,
1910@82
Francisco Franco, Spanish
dictator (1936-75), 1975@82
Tom Horn,
American gunfighter and outlaw, hanged to death, 1903@42
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Ice, of course!
My first letter, 'I', is the second letter in the word, 'LINE'.
In daylight, ice seems to glitter. =)
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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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