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November
21, 2015 Week:
47 \ Day: 325
October Averages:
51°\22°
86004 Today: H 61° \ L 26° Average
Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts:
22mph
Ave. High: 49° Record High: 70°[1950]
Ave. Low: 21° Record Low: -5°[1979]
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Observances
Today:
Alascattalo Day (About Alaska & humor)
Beaujolais Nouveau Day Link
Family Volunteer Day
Guinness World Record Day Link
International Games Day (Libraries) Link
National Day of Play Link
Playmobil's National Day of Play Link
World Television Day
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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
1620 - Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape
Cod
1789 - North Carolina ratifies constitution,
becomes 12th US state
1794
- Honolulu Harbor discovered
1871 - The first human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is
shot
1902 - Arizona Daily Star
reported that Tucson was known far and wide as a health resort and as a center
for agriculture, cattle ranching and mining.
1933 - 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt,
begins service
1935 - First commercial crossing of Pacific by
plane (China Clipper)
1942 - Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in
"Tale of Two Kitties"
1959 - Jack Benny (violin) & Richard
Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1976 - "Rocky" directed by John G.
Avildsen and starring Sylvester Stallone premieres in New York
(Best Picture 1977)
1977 - First flight of Concorde (London to New York)
1980 - Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode
(Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill) in the US
1981 - Olivia Newton-John's "Physical"
single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks
1999 - Elian Gonzalez, Cuban boy at the center of a
heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United
States, departs from Cuba with his mother
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the
Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated
each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
1953 - Authorities at the British Natural History
Museum announce the "Piltdown Man" skull, one of the most famous
fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.
1974 - Birmingham pub bombings: 21 civilians killed
when bombs explode at two pubs in Birmingham, England (This was the deadliest
attack in England during "the Troubles")
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Did some shopping today to get ready for Thanksgiving. Warm for November
and nice to be able to be outside without a jacket and back in my Tevas.
Some final thoughts on my Focus Travel Club trip to Cuba. Things are changing rapidly on the little
island. We were the first American tour to be able to visit a fishing museum
and talk to a fisherman. People there are poor but full of hope. Privatized
business is growing. The Cuban Tourist Dollar seems to be on the way out. And soon
everyone will be using the Cuban Peso again. I did see one bank of ATM machines
in Havana, not accepting American cards. WiFi is everywhere. Like most
countries, people are people and they like Americans. Politics just gets in the
way. Sitting in a steam train engine and operating the brake is a lot of fun,
very noisy, and quite hot. Blowing the whistle is more complicated than it
appears as there are various ways to blow it, depending on the type of
crossing. Travelers who haven’t visited Cuba need to do so now, before it is
overwhelmed by Americans.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can
you name the salad veggies? Use synonyms of each word in the clue; put them
together to sound out the answer.
EG. Clue: Dog Bloom
Answer: Cauliflower
Explanation: "Collie" "Flower"
1. Caution Groove
2. Rotate Bite
3. Fish-egg Hair
4. Allow We
5. Twirl Scratch
6. Taxi Shift
7. Animal-park Crucial Leg-joint
8. Signal Burden
9. Awesome Plate
10. Invigorate Each
Bonus:
-Room Jumble
-Compel Whip
-Not Age
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
Hockey player Jarome Iginla donates $2,000 to
the children’s charity Kidsport for every goal he scores. Since 2000 it has
added up to more than $700,000.
In 1846, a 14 year old French peasant girl
named Angelique Cottin was found to possess extraordinary electrical power.
With a gentle touch she could knock over heavy pieces of furniture and even
shock people near her.
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…Crazy
Law…
Georgia
Using profane language to a person under 14 in
person or by telephone is considered disorderly conduct in Georgia. But if that
kid’s 15, say whatever you want.
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…Harper’s
Index…
+42 –percentage
change since 2009 in the number of federal prison inmates aged 65 or older
+29 – in inmate
health care expenses
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…Cuba
Photo of the Day…
The typewriter Ernest Hemingway used to write his award winning
books
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
When he wasn’t contributing to the flexibility rights of clocks,
Surrealist Salvador Dalí was contributing to the music industry in the form of
album cover art. One cover happened to be an image for Honeymooners star
Jackie Gleason’s Lonesome Echo LP, which featured a barren
vista, save a butterfly speared on a stick.
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2
jokes for the day
Enemies at the gates - Misc Jokes
Sergeant: Private, I think the enemy soldiers
are hiding in the wood. I want you to go in there and flush them out for us.
Private: Okay, sir, but if you see a bunch of
guys running out the woods, don’t shoot the one in front.
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To Kill Time - Misc Jokes
The choir had just come out of rehearsal.
“Am I to assume that you do a lot of singing
at home?”
Mr. Harris asked a fellow choir member, David
Grey. “Yes, I sing a lot. I use my voice just to kill time,” said David.
Mr. Harris nodded, “You certainly have a fine
weapon.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Army
Times Fort Bragg, North Carolina, declared an emergency on Oct. 30 when
one of its soldiers had the bright idea to arrive for a Halloween party on base
dressed as a suicide bomber, with realistic-looking canisters in a wired vest.
Gates to the post (headquarters of Army Special Forces and airborne troops)
immediately went into extended lockdown, and a bomb-disposal team was called.
The soldier's name was not released.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Given
that the world is about 25,000 miles in circumference and that the average
walking rate is 3 miles per hour, it would take a person walking nonstop
approximately 347 days to walk around the world.
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A
person burns essentially the same amount of calories whether they run or walk a
mile. Running just gets a person to a destination faster.
It would take, on average, 1 hour and 43 minutes of walking to burn off a
540-calorie Big Mac.
To burn off one plain M&M candy, a person would need to walk the entire
length of a football field.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(92) - Stan Musial,
Donora Pennsylvania, MLB outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ)
(d.2013)
91 - Joseph Campanella,
actor (Dr Steffen-The Nurses, Lou-Mannix), born in NYC, New York
(83) - Voltaire [Francois-Marie
Arouet], French writer, philosopher and playwright (Candide), born in Paris (d.
1778)
(81) - Henrietta (Hetty)
Green, New Bedford, Massachusetts, financier (Witch of Wall
Street), (d. 1916)
78 - Marlo Thomas,
[Mrs Phil Donahue], Detroit Mich (That Girl!, Jenny)
73 - Tweety Bird,
cartoon character
70 - Goldie Hawn,
Takoma Park Md, actress (Laugh-in, Private Benjamin)
(68) - William Beaumont,
Lebanon, Connecticut, surgeon (Father of gastric physiology), (d. 1853)
50 - Bjork,
Iceland, singer (Like Someone in Love)
49 - Troy Aikman,
NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys - Super Bowl 1992)
44 - Michael Strahan,
NFL defensive end (NY Giants)
30 - Carly Rae Jepsen,
Canadian singer ("Call Me Maybe"), born in Mission, British Columbia
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Historical
Obits Today
Anne McCaffrey, sci-fi
author, 2011@85
Henrietta Vinton
Davis, American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker,
1941@81
Robert Stroud,
American convict "Birdman of Alcatraz", 1963@73
Florence Harding,
American First Lady, renal failure, 1924@64
Max Baer, US,
heavyweight boxing champ (1934), heart attack, 1959@50
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Carrot (Care-rut)
2. Turnip (Turn-nip)
3. Romaine (Roe-mane)
4. Lettuce (Let-us)
5. Spinach (Spin-itch)
6. Cabbage (Cab-budge)
7. Zucchini (Zoo-key-knee)
8. Cucumber (Cue-cumber)
9. Radish (Rad-dish)
10. Pepper (Pep-per)
Bonus:
-Celery (Cell-lurry)
-Garlic (Gar-lick)
-Onion (Un-eon)
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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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