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November
25, 2015 Week:
48 \ Day: 329
November Averages:
51°\22°
86004 Today: H 55° \ L 25° Average
Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 14mph\Gusts:
26mph
Ave. High: 48° Record High: 70°[1949]
Ave. Low: 20° Record Low: -7°[1902]
Observances
Today:
Blase´ Day
International Day For the Elimination of
Violence Against Women Day
International Hat Day Link
Shopping Reminder Day
Tie One On Day
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Observances
This Week:
20-28
National
Farm-City Week
GERD Awareness Week Link
National Family Week
National Game & Puzzle
Week
23-29
Better
Conversation Week
Church/State Separation Week
National
Deal Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1715 - First English patent granted to an American,
for processing corn
1758 - Britain captures Fort Duquesne (later Fort
Pitt/Pittsburgh) from French
1783 - Britain evacuates New York City, its last
military position in United States
1792 - Farmer's Almanac first published
1805 - Opera "Thaïs" first American
performance
1817 - First sword swallower in US performs (NYC)
1834 - Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants,
provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents
1876 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American
defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack
Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder
River.
1884 - John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents
evaporated milk
1894 - A group of
nineteen Hopi "hostiles" are placed under arrest by the
army for interfering with "friendly" Hopi Indian activities
on their Arizona reservation. The nineteen prisoners will be held in Alcatraz
prison in California from January 3, 1895 to August 7, 1895.
1912 - American College of Surgeons incorporates in
Springield, Illinois
1920 - 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Phila)
1926 - Southern Pacific
trains from Tucson through Yaqui country in Mexico began operating on daylight
schedules only and with Mexican military guards to protect them against attack.
1940 - Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of
Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"
1949 - "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
appears on music charts
1986 - Oliver North's secretary, Fawn Hall,
smuggles documents out of his office
2014 - Protest erupt across US after a decision by
Missouri grand jury not to bring charges against a white policeman who shot
dead a black teenager
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1491 - The siege of Granada, last Moorish
stronghold in Spain, begins.
1839 - A cyclone slams India with high winds and a
40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (never to be entirely
rebuilt again). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and
thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
1841 - 35 survivors of the mutiny on the slave ship
Amistad return to Africa
1867 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1913 - The Irish Volunteers founded in Dublin to
"secure the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland"
1930 - 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day
(Ito, Japan)
1937 - World's Fair of Paris closes (31.2 million
visitors)
1944 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a
Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers.
1974 - Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain
following deaths of 21
1983 - World's greatest robbery 25,000,000 pounds
of gold, Heathrow, England
♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Windy day as big cold front is headed our way. Not expecting
precipitation but much colder temps. Fall at 7000’.
So I stop at the PO to mail a package. They won’t take my credit
card because it says “check ID” instead of a signature. Talked to another
worker and he said that that is the rule. Ask to see the Postmaster, he is busy
and will call me. Three hours later, still waiting. Go to UPS and mail the
package as I had no cash. And yes I had my ID, but that wasn’t good enough for
the bureaucrats. They don’t take chip cards yet either. They are trying to stop
fraud. I get that, but my ID should be enough. Get home and check the USPS
website and the rule is there, but it also says they will take a debit card
with a PIN without a signature. They failed to mention that rule. So UPS got my
money. The person next to me had an unsigned credit card. She signed it in front
of the PO guy and he never checked her ID. Serve PO right if that was a stolen
card.
Big shock, my new thyroid meds are $96/mo…with my great insurance.
Every other med I take is less than $10 for a 90day supply. Without insurance
they are over $600/mo. Sure hope this is a short term fix. Talking to my thyroid
every few hours to get busy and do its job.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Each
of the clues below describe the name of a candy. Can you name them? Example:
Galaxy would be a Milky Way.
1. Sign of affection
2. Favorite day for working people
3. Can't hold on to anything
4. Famous swashbuckling trio
5. Sun explosions
Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
A waterfall known as The Devil's Kettle in
Minnesota empties water into a hole and nobody knows where it ends up!
As of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated
$36,854,000,000 in his lifetime! That's more than half of his total net worth!
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…Crazy
Law…
Indiana
You may not catch fish with your bare hands
anywhere in Indiana. Obviously, Indiana has a completely unrealistic view of
your fishing skills.
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…Harper’s
Index…
15 –
estimated number of government officials executed so far this year in North
Korea
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…Cuba
Photo of the Day…
We saw a lot of peacocks and peahens on the trip. Here are two
peacocks. The albino on is probably sterile, but the other peacocks won’t let
him breed, and pulled out most of his tail feathers.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The Latin phrase libra pondo was used in ancient
Rome to indicate weight, which is why today the abbreviation for
"pound" is "lb."
2
jokes for the day
Grey Hair
A curious child asked his mother: “Mommy, why
are some of your hairs turning grey?”
The mother tried to use this occasion to teach
her child: “It is because of you, dear. Every bad action of yours will turn one
of my hairs grey!”
The child replied innocently: “Now I know why
grandmother has only grey hairs on her head.”
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Blonde and Lamp Genie
A blonde, a redhead, and a brunette were all
lost in the desert. They found a lamp and rubbed it. A genie popped out and
granted them each one wish.
The redhead wished to be back home. Poof! She
was back home.
The brunette wished to be at home with her
family. Poof! She was back home with her family.
The blonde said, "Awwww, I wish my
friends were here."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Cultural Diversity
Before the terrorist murders gripped Paris, President Francois
Hollande and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani had been trying to arrange a
formal dinner during Rouhani's planned visit to the city to celebrate the two
countries' role in the recent accord limiting Iran's nuclear development.
France's RTL radio news reported that "dinner" is apparently more
vexing than "nuclear weaponry" -- as Rouhani demanded an alcohol-free
meal, which was nixed by Hollande, who insisted that the French never dine
without wine. [Washington Times, 11-11-2015]
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Dr.
Julius Wagner Jauregg won a Nobel Prize for his cure for syphilis. He would
treat it by giving the patient malaria. It's called fever therapy. The high
body temperature caused by the malaria would kill the syphilis, then once it
was gone, the doctor would administer the antidote for malaria.
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Ivanhoe
Reservoir needed to keep sunlight from turning its water carcinogenic. The
problem comes when sunlight combines with chlorine and bromide, forming
bromate. So the L.A. Department of Water covered its surface with balls. 400,000
black plastic balls effectively blocked sunlight from reaching the surface of
the water.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(88) - Ricardo Montalban,
Mexican actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun) (d.2009)
(84) - "Joltin'" Joe DiMaggio,
Yankee Clipper (56 game hitting streak), (d. 1999)
(83) - Andrew Carnegie,
Dunfermline, Scottish/American industrialist/philanthropist (d.1919)
(81) - Pope John XXIII [Angelo
Roncalli], Bergamo Italy, 261st pope (d.1963)
(77) - Franz Xaver Gruber,
Austria, organist/composer ("Silent Night") (d.1863)
70 - Ben Stein,
American actor, economist
68 - John Larroquette,
actor (Dan Fielding-Night Court), born in New Orleans
(64) - Carrie Nation,
American temperance advocate (d. 1911)
55 - Amy Grant,
Augusta, Georgia, American gospel/rock singer (Glory of Love, Baby Baby)
(55) - Harvey Spencer Lewis,
American mystic (d. 1939)
47 - Jillian Hennessy,
Edmonton, twin actress (Claire-Law & Order, Paper)
44 - Christina Applegate,
Hollywood, actress (Kelly-Married With Children)
(42) - Jeffrey Hunter,
actor (Star Trek Cage, The Searchers), born in New Orleans
(38) - John F. Kennedy Jr,
American lawyer, magazine publisher (George) and son of JFK, born in NYC, (d.1999)
34 - Barbara and Jenna
Bush, twin daughters of U.S. President George W. Bush
(9) - Amber Hagerman, American kidnapping
and murder victim, basis of the Amber Alert system (d. 1996)
Historical
Obits Today
@90 - Upton Beall Sinclair, US
author (Jungle), 1968
@76 - Anthony Burgess,
novelist (Clockwork Orange), cancer-1993
@74 - Jack Albertson,
actor (Chico & the Man), cancer-1981
@73 - Robert S Ball,
Irish mathematician/astronomer (Ball Screw), 1913
@73 - Robert Coote,
actor (MacBeth), heart attack-1982
@72 - Luther "Bill"
Robinson, "Bojangles" famed tap dancer, 1949
@66 - Thomas A. Hendricks,
21st US Vice President (D), -1885
@65 - Harold Washington,
1st African American mayor of Chicago, heart attack-1987
@64 - Flip Wilson,
American actor and comedian, liver cancer-1998
@64 - [Sithu] U Thant, UN
Sec-General (1961-72), cancer -1974
@54 - Malcolm II,
King of Scots (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda) -1034
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Kisses
2. Payday
3. Butterfingers
4. 3 Musketeers
5. Starbursts
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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