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November
, 2015 Week:
48 \ Day: 326
November Averages:
51°\22°
86004 Today: H 49° \ L 36° Average
Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts:
26mph
Ave. High: 48° Record High: 68°[1903]
Ave. Low: 21° Record Low: -2°[1931]
Observances
Today:
Do Dah Day (Pasadena) Link
Humane Society Anniversary Day-founded 1934
Mother Goose Day Link
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Observances
This Week:
14-22
National Hunger & Homeless Awareness 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
1842 - Mount St Helens in Washington erupts
1903 - Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt are
engaged
1922 - Library Ave in Bronx named
1927 - 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl
Eliason (Sayner Wisc)
1927 - George Gershwin's "Funny Face"
premieres in NYC
1927 - Neil Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250
W 52nd St NYC
1929 - Four new horses
were purchased by the University of Arizona Military Department. They were
intended for polo playing in addition to their regular departmental duties.
1930 - Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in
Detroit
1934 - "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"
1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show
1955 - RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000
to Sun Records & Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck
driver from Tupelo Miss
1957
- Simon & Garfunkel appear on "American
Bandstand" as "Tom & Jerry"
1963 - American President John F.
Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
1963 - Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as the 36th
US president after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
1968 - 1st interracial TV kiss (Star Trek-Kirk
& Uhura)
1976 - Comic strip "Cathy" by Cathy
Guisewhite debuts
1984 - Fred Rogers of PBS "Mr Rogers
Neighborhood" presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution
1985 - Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648
immigrants become US citizens
1995 - Toy Story is released as the first
feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1906 - International
Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1928 - "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel first
performed publicly (Paris)
1931 - Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite"
premieres
1956 - 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
1974 - UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine
right to sovereignty
1989 - Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune,
Saturn & Moon
2005 - Angela Merkel becomes the first female
Chancellor of Germany.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Can’t believe it’s been 52 years since I sat in my 9th
grade Shop class to learn that JFK had been assassinated.
Some neighbor drama last night with the Grandpa fighting with two
other guys in the parking lot, alcohol involved. Then this morning the mom
comes home with her boyfriend and has an argument and some physical contact in
the parking lot. I feel sorry for the kids that have to see any of this. The
skateboarder son, a sophomore, had to break up the fight last night and calm
down his grandpa. So sad.
It is a very windy day with much cooler temps than we have been
having. Didn’t have to go anywhere so just stayed warm inside.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
On
July 7th, I had a most unusual day. I woke up at exactly 7:07, stumbled to my
refrigerator and had a 7up. I got dressed, went downstairs, and caught the
number 7 bus to go to my office on 77th street. While sitting in my office on
the 7th floor, it dawned on me how my day was going so I called my bookie and
placed a $777 bet on the number 7 horse in the seventh race, whose name was
Seventh Heaven, to win.
Do you know what happened?
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…Amazing
Facts…
There's a woman named Veronica Seider who had
vision 20x better than average. She could identify people more than a mile
(1.6km) away.
Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away
$28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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…Crazy
Law…
Hawaii
As of 2013, car passengers who don’t wear seat
belts are subject to $100 fines. If all the seats are full, though, don’t
worry: it’s totally legal for anyone over 12 years old to hang out in the bed
of the truck. In the open. With zero protection.
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…Harper’s
Index…
11,000 –
estimated number of names added to the FBI’s criminal registry each day
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…Cuba
Photo of the Day…
View from one of our hotels in Cuba. The white sand ocean beach is
just past the trees.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Alfred Hitchcock was notoriously hard on actors. He was once
quoted as saying, “Actors are cattle”—a quip that stirred up a huge outcry. In
response, he issued this correction: “I have been misquoted. What I really said
is, ‘Actors should be treated as cattle.’”
2
jokes for the day
Robbed At A Gas Station
I got robbed at the gas station today. I
called the cops and they asked if I knew who did it.
I said, "Yes, pump number six."
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Little Boys and Skydiving
There are three men in the military practicing
skydiving. The first man jumps out and a Swiss army knife falls out of his
pocket. The second man jumps out and a kitchen knife falls out of his pocket.
The third jumps out and a grenade falls out of his pocket. When they land, they
go and look for the things they drop because they could have really hurt
someone.
The first man is running along the street and
sees a little boy crying. "Little boy, why are you crying?" he asks.
The boy says, "A Swiss army knife fell out of the sky and killed my
cat!"
The second man is running along a street and
sees a little girl crying. "Little girl, why are you crying?" he
asks. The girl says, "A big kitchen knife fell from the sky and killed my
puppy!"
The third man is running down a street and
sees a little boy laughing hysterically. "Little boy, why are you
laughing?" he asks. The boy says, "My dad farted and the house blew
up!"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
BATON ROUGE, La. - An
animal protection group's lawsuit alleges that a Louisiana theme park's
chimpanzee is isolated and neglected and spends her days smoking cigarettes
given to her by park visitors and drinking Coke. The Animal Legal Defense Fund
announced it is suing the Dixie Landin' theme park and its owner, Sam Hayes,
for violating the Endangered Species Act by keeping the chimpanzee isolated and
neglected. The advocacy group describes Candy as "the country's loneliest
chimpanzee" and alleges she "subsists in a virtually barren concrete
cage, where she passes her time staring into space, drinking Coca-Cola, and
smoking cigarettes thrown to her by patrons." The group alleges Candy has
suffered physical and psychological harm as a result of her living conditions
at the park. "This is a landmark case for animal protection," Animal
Legal Defense Fund Executive Director Stephen Wells said. "Chimpanzees
don't deserve to suffer in punishing isolation, and we will see that justice is
served." The lawsuit quotes famed primatologist Jane Goodall as opposing
Candy's continued isolation from others of her species. "I strongly
recommend that [Candy] be introduced to other chimpanzees in a setting more
suitable to her psychological enhancement," the suit quotes Goodall as
saying. The group is seeking to have Candy relocated to the Chimp Haven
sanctuary in Louisiana.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
It
is impossible to lick your elbows. (I wonder how many of you are actually going
to try this at the office)
Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most
definitions!
Elmer's Glue-All is the best selling glue in America.
German chocolate cake did not originate in Germany. In 1852, Sam German
developed a sweet baking bar for Baker's Chocolate Co. The product was named in
honor of him -- Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate
Barbers at one time combined shaving and haircutting with bloodletting and
pulling teeth. The white stripes on a field of red that spiral down a barber
pole represent the bandages used in the bloodletting.
The Cullinan Diamond is the largest gem-quality diamond ever discovered. Found
in 1905, the original 3,100 carats were cut to make jewels for the British
Crown Jewels and the British Royal family's collection.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(83) - Thomas Cook,
founder (Cook travel bureau) (d.1892)
83 - Robert Vaughn,
actor (Napolean Solo-Man from UNCLE, I Spy), born in NYC
(82) - Hoagy Carmichael,
Bloomington Ind, actor/songwriter (Stardust) (d.1981)
(82) - Rodney Dangerfield,
[John Cohen], Babylon NY, comedian (Caddyshack) (d.2004)
(81) - Andre Gide,
Paris, France, writer (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947) (d.1951)
(79) - Charles de Gaulle,
Lille, France, President of France (1958-69), (d. 1970)
72 - Billie Jean King,
American tennis pro (Wimbledon 1968, 72, 73, 75), born in Long Beach, California
(62) - Geraldine Page,
Kirksville Mo (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful) (d.1987)
57 - Jamie Lee Curtis,
actress (Anything But Love, Halloween), born in LA, CA
48 - Boris Becker,
Leimen Germany, tennis player (Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89)
48 - Mark Ruffalo,
American actor
(36) - Wiley Post,
Grand Plain Tx, aviator/parachutist (crashed in Alaska) (d.1935)
31 - Scarlett Johansson,
American actress (The Prestige), born in NYC
Historical
Obits Today
@87-1980 - Mae West,
actress (She Done Him Wrong)
@83-2001 - Mary Kay Ash,
American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics
@76-1986 - Scatman Crothers,
actor (Shining, Zapped), cancer
@75-1959 - Molla Mallory,
eight-time U.S. Open tennis champion
@69-1963 - Aldous Huxley,
English author ('Brave New World'), cancer
@64-1963 - C. S. Lewis [Clive
Staples], Irish author (Silver Chair), renal failure
@59-1993 - Bill Bixby,
US actor (My Favorite Martian), cancer
@58-1983 - Michael Conrad,
actor (Hill Street Blues), cancer
@56-1782 - John de Mol,
porcelein manufacturer
@58-1900 - Arthur Sullivan,
English operatic composer (Mikado, Pirates of Penzance), heart attack
@46-1963 - John F. Kennedy,
35th president of the United States (1961-63), assassinated by Lee Harvey
Oswald in Dallas, Texas
@40-1916 - Jack London,
author, scurvy
@39-1963 - J. D. Tippit,
Dallas Police Officer
@38-1718 - Blackbeard, notorious English pirate, in battle
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Brain
Teasers Answers
He came in 7th.
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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