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November
30, 2015 Week:
48 \ Day: 334
November Averages:
51°\22°
86004 Today: H 40° \ L 17° Average
Sky Cover: 20%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts:
18mph
Ave. High: 46° Record High: 66°[1995]
Ave. Low: 19° Record Low: -3°[1905]
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Observances
Today:
Cider Monday
Computer Security Day
Cyber Monday
National Meth Awareness Day Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1804 - Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice
Samuel Chase begins
1866 - Work begins on 1st US underwater highway
tunnel, Chicago
1886 - First commercially successful AC electric power
plant opens, Buffalo, NY
1907 - Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
1927
- The Apache Trail between Phoenix and Roosevelt Lake was opened to tourists
1950 - US President Harry Truman threatens China
with atom bomb
1952
- Jackie Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism
1956 - 1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards
& the News)
1983
- Denver Nugget coach Doug Moe, hopelessly
behind, advise team to let Blazers break their scoring record
1990
- US President George H. W.
Bush offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad to meet with
Saddam Hussein
1993
- President Clinton signs Brady Gun
Control Bill
1995 - Official end of Operation Desert Storm
2004
- Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken
Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with
$2,520,700 USD, television's all-time biggest game show haul
2007 - Hillary Clinton presidential campaign
office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary
Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and
held three people hostage for 5 hours.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1016 - Cnut the Great (or Canute), King of Denmark,
claims the English throne after the death of Edmund 'Ironside'
1487 - The German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot),
is promulgated by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria stating beer should be brewed from
only three ingredients – water, malt and hops
1630 - 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month
of plague
1803 - Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana
Territory to France
1886
- The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
1949 - Chinese Communists captured Chungking
1968
- A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
march in Armagh is stopped by Royal Ulster Constabulary because of the presence
of a Loyalist counter demonstration led by Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting
1971
- The government of the Republic of Ireland states that
it will take the allegations of brutality against the security forces in
Northern Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights
1982
- "Gandhi" premieres in New Delhi
(Best Picture 1983)
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Cool Sunday, but it is almost winter, so it is OK.
Interesting question was posed and answered. Everyone knows that
the Europeans brought many diseases to the Americas and that those diseases
killed a huge percentage of the Indigenous people. Why didn’t the Europeans get
any mass disease from the Americas? Turns out that the Americas did not have
any mass disease before the Europeans came. Europe had plague, smallpox, etc.
Now it is believed it is because Europeans lived with many domesticated
animals, where as the only domesticated animal in the Americas was the llama.
These European domesticated animals, along with very poor sanitation in Europe,
and very large permanent settlements were breeding grounds for many animal to
human disease. The Americas had no such conditions. Hmmm.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
For
each group below, fill in the blanks with two words that differ only by their
first letter.
1. Stop thinking over here. Go _ _ _ _ _ _ over _ _ _ _ _ _.
2. An untrained person could be killed in these woods, but there is little _ _
_ _ _ _ for a _ _ _ _ _ _.
3. Writing an "A" on your dish rag would make it a _ _ _ _ _ with a _
_ _ _ _.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
There is a fruit called The Miracle Berry
that, when eaten, causes sour foods to taste sweet, and has been used to treat
diabetes, among other things.
Chen Guanming, from Jiangsu province in
eastern China, traveled by RICKSHAW for 2 years and covered nearly 40,000 miles
through 16 countries, surviving flood, war zones and extreme temperatures,
finally arriving at the London 2012 Olympics.
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…Crazy
Law…
Louisiana
“Insulting or abusive remarks” are forbidden
at any boxing match, so please restrict your trash-talking to your daughter’s
tee-ball game. It doesn’t matter if scores aren’t kept, THAT GIRL WITH THE
PIGTAILS TOTALLY BUNTED IT, C'MON.
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…Harper’s
Index…
+129 – percentage
change since 2003 in the portion of Americans who say that polygamy is ‘morally
acceptable’
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
These women of the Navajo Nation have
lived and worked on the rim above the Grand Canyon for years. They form #SavetheConfluence and
are united in their opposition to a tramway proposed to bring 10,000 people a
day from the south rim to the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado
Rivers inside the #GrandCanyon.
The current Navajo president is opposed to the development but time and the
promise of jobs have swayed minds before. To see the landscape they are
fighting to protect, go to@pedromcbride.
Shot on assignment for @natgeo.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Goldfish can distinguish the music of one composer from another.
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2
jokes for the day
Little Johnny and English Class
Teacher: "Little Johnny, give me a
sentence using the word, 'geometry.'"
Little Johnny: "A little acorn grew and
grew until it finally awoke one day and said, 'Gee, I'm a tree.'"
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It's Tough Getting Old
OLD people have problems that you haven't even
considered yet!
An 85-year-old man was requested by his Doctor
for a sperm count as part of his physical Exam. The doctor gave the man a jar
and said, "Take this jar home and bring back a semen sample
tomorrow."
The next day the 85-year-old man reappeared at
the doctor's office and gave him the jar, which was as clean and empty as on
the previous day.
The doctor asked what happened and the man
explained, 'Well, doc, it's like this -- first I tried with my right hand, but
nothing. Then I tried with my left hand, but still nothing. 'Then I asked my
wife for help. She tried with her right hand, then with her left, still
nothing. She tried with her mouth, first with the teeth in, then with her teeth
out, still nothing.
'We even called up Arleen, the lady next door
and she tried too, first with both hands, then an Armpit, and she even tried
squeezin' it between Her knees, but still nothing.'
The doctor was shocked! 'You asked your
neighbor?'
The old man replied, 'Yep, none of us could
get the jar open.'
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Yep,
It Really Happened
TAMPA, FL. - A Tampa woman came up with a
colorful way to destroy her wedding dress after her fiancé called off the
ceremony. Just days before the wedding was to take place, Kilee Manulak got a
text from her boyfriend of two years saying he no longer wanted to marry her.
After a few days of mourning, Manulak decided to have some fun with the
situation by publicly destroying her wedding dress at Tampa's Color Fun Fest.
Manulak was joined by her bridesmaids at the event, a 5K run were the
participants are sprayed with neon paint. The women covered their dresses in
paint and Manulak even took to the main stage. "It was actually very
liberating," she told WFLA Tampa. "I don't want a pity party. I just
want to have fun with it." Jessica Rios of All Brides 2 Be, the shop where
Manulak bought the dress, attended the event at Manulak's request. They are not
sure if the color will ever come out of the dress, but Rios said that Manulak's
happiness is the most important thing. "In the end it is her dress now and
my wish is to see her happy...which I did," Rios told UPI. "To see
the smile on her face and all of her bridesmaids and family there too
supporting her was priceless." Manulak hopes to sell the dress if the
color can be washed out and is ultimately thankful to her former fiancé for the
experience. "I definitely want to tell him thank you for sparing me
heartaches down the road, and thank you for letting me go so I can find true
happiness," she said.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(95) - Efren Zimbalist Jr, actor (77 Sunset Strip, FBI,
Scruples), born in NYC, New York (d. 2014)
(90) - Winston Churchill, (C) British Prime Minister; Nobel
1953 (d.1965)
(80) - Shirley Chisholm, (Rep-D-NY) 1st African American
congresswoman and presidential candidate (d.2005)
78 - Paul Stookey, Balt, singer (Peter, Paul &
Mary-Wedding Song)
(77) - Jonathan Swift, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest
Proposal), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1745)
(74) - Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], American author (Tom
Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn) (d. 1910)
(67) - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Clifton Prince Edward Island,
Canadian author (Anne of Green Gables) (d.1942)
65 - Paul Westphal, NBA guard (Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns)
63 - Mandy Patinkin, actor/singer (Yentl, Alien Nation),
born in Chicago, Illinois
60 - Billy Idol, [William Broad], rocker (White Wedding)
53 - Bo Jackson, baseball/football player (KC Royals, LA
Raiders)
(52) - Abbie Hoffman, aka Free, Yippie/activist/author (Steal
this Book) (d.1989)
50 - Ben Stiller, actor (Ben Stiller Show, Next of Kin,
Cable Guy), born in NYC
(45) - John McCrae, Guelph Ontario, Canadian physician,
soldier and poet (In Flanders Fields) (d.1918)
37 - Clay Aiken, American singer
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Historical
Obits Today
@78 - Zeppo Marx, [Herbert], US comic (Marx Brothers), lung
caner-1979
@69 - Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, pulmonary fibrosis -2007
@63 - James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), cancer-1987
@46 - Oscar Wilde, Irish
author, meningitis-1900
@40 - Paul Walker, American actor (The Fast and the
Furious), car accident-2013
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. PONDER, YONDER
2. DANGER, RANGER
3. TOWEL, VOWEL
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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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for Now… 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄
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