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November
26, 2015 Week:
48 \ Day: 330
November Averages:
51°\22°
86004 Today: H 51° \ L 39° Average
Sky Cover: 50%
Wind ave: 12mph\Gusts:
38mph
Ave. High: 47° Record High: 70°[1977]
Ave. Low: 20° Record Low: -8°[1906]
Observances
Today:
National Day of Mourning Link
Turkey-free Thanksgiving
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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
1716 - 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1784 - Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United
States established.
1789 - 1st national Thanksgiving in USA
1825 - 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha
(Union College, NY))
1832 - 1st streetcar railway in America starts
operating (NYC) (12 cent fare)
1842 - The University of Notre Dame is founded.
1865 - "Alice in Wonderland"
by Lewis Carroll published in USA
1867 - Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB
Sutherland of Detroit
1885 - 1st meteor photograph
1932 - Dr. R. B. Moeur,
AZ governor-elect, announced that he would set an example of sacrifice by cutting
his salary to $1,500.
1945 - Charlie "Bird" Parker leads a
record date for the Savoy label, marketed as the "greatest Jazz session
ever"
1948 - 1st Polaroid camera sold for
$89.75 in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store. The Land Camera model 95
becomes the prototype for all Polaroid Land cameras produced for the next 15
years.
1956 - "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC
1969 - Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill
signed by President Nixon
1978 - Christina Crawford autobiography "Mommie
Dearest" reaches best-seller status
1984 - US & Iraq re-establish diplomatic
relations
2012 - The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is
announced to be $32 Billion
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
411 - Maya King
Siyaj Chan K'awill II (Stormy Sky) ascends the Tikal throne in Guatemala.
1688 - French King Louis XIV declares war
on Netherlands
1703 - Great storm of 1703 hits Southern England
(NS 7 Dec) - thousands killed, Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around 1,500
seamen
1778 - Captain Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich
Islands (now Hawaii)
1859 - Last weekly installment of Charles
Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published in literary periodical
All the Year Round
1922 - English archaeologist Howard Carter opens
Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt
1924 - Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1956 - USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov
wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, & loses his
medal, it sinks
1962 - Fab Four have their first recording session
under name The Beatles
1979 - Intl Olympic Committee votes to readmit
China after 21 years
1998 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Very windy day. So far the highest wind has been 38mph, but the
weather service says to expect 55mph winds before the advisory ends at 8pm. Not
a big fan, but didn’t have anywhere to go today, so all is good.
Happy Thanksgiving to all. This is a great time to check around
and see what you can be thankful for. It is also a time to remember the
kindness of the Indigenous people who taught immigrants so much. We also must
remember that those immigrants did not treat the indigenous people very well.
We must do better.
So tired of the hate speech from the right’s candidates regarding
the Syrian refugees. I continue to have faith in the US Gov’t and its vetting
process. When will the politicians learn that blanket stereotypes of any group
of people is just plain ignorant.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
WHAT
DOES THIS EQUAL?
12=DD + 11=PP + 10=LL + 9=LD + 8=MM + 7=SS + 6=GL + 5=GR + 4=CB + 3=FH + 2=TD +
1=PPT = ?
…Amazing
Facts…
Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40
squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
The biggest burger in Britain, dubbed the
'Apocalypse Burger', is a mammoth 25,000 calories, weighs 11kg (25lb) and
contains £150 (around $233 USD) worth of ingredients.
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…Crazy
Law…
Iowa
Boxes used to package hops are supposed to be
exactly 36 inches long, so if you’re planning to pack that stuff in a 37 inches
box, get the hell out of Iowa.
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…Harper’s
Index…
+267 –
estimated percentage change in the past year in the number of beheadings
performed in Saudi Arabia
8 – number of
executioner jobs advertised on Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Civil Service website
in May
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…Cuba
Photo of the Day…
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Walking the streets of Havana, Cuba
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Baseball anthem "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" actually
has two main verses. During the 7th-inning stretch, fans traditionally
sing just the refrain. Jack Norworth had never been to an actual baseball game
when he wrote the song.
2
jokes for the day
Two guys and a calendar
Did you hear about the two guys that stole a
calendar? They each got six months
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Personal Fitness
Two women who had just met at a health spa
were talking about their lifestyles and how they hope to stay healthy. One
asked the other to detail her daily routine.
“I eat moderately,” she replied, “I exercise
moderately, I drink moderately, and I live moderately.”
“Is there anything else you do?” her new
friend asked.
“Yes,” she said, “I lie extensively.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
COLUMBUS, Ga. - A
Georgia man was injured and arrested while attempting to steal a beer truck
from a local gas station. 55-year-old Gregory Miller was apprehended after
attempting to steal a Coors Light delivery truck from a Circle K gas station in
Columbus, Georgia around 6 a.m. Monday. Miller drove the vehicle to a Bojangles
restaurant where he pulled the truck over, but failed to put it in park leading
the truck to drive over his leg. After being brought into custody, Miller was
taken to Midtown Medical center with a severe ankle injury. When Miller is
released from the hospital, he will face charges of theft by taking a motor
vehicle and eluding police.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
TV
dinners have Thanksgiving to thank. In 1953, someone at Swanson misjudged the
number of frozen turkeys it would sell that Thanksgiving -- by 26 TONS! Some
industrious soul came up with a brilliant plan: Why not slice up the meat and
repackage with some trimmings on the side? Thus, the first TV dinner was born!
There are four places in the U.S. named Turkey. Louisiana's Turkey Creek is the
most populous, with a whopping 440 residents. There's also Turkey, Texas;
Turkey, North Carolina; and Turkey Creek, Arizona. Oh, let's not forget the two
townships in Pennsylvania: the creatively named Upper Turkeyfoot and Lower
Turkeyfoot!
Going shopping?: Not if you're a plumber. Black Friday is the busiest day of
the year for them, according to Roto-Rooter, the nation's largest plumbing
service. After all, someone has to clean up after household guests who
"overwhelm the system."
When Abe Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday, it was thanks to the
tireless efforts of a magazine editor named Sarah Josepha Hale. Her other claim
to fame? She also wrote the nursery rhyme, "Mary had a Little Lamb."
Thanksgiving is not just an American holiday. Canadians celebrate it too.
Except they do it the second Monday in October.
Gobble, gobble?: Not so fast. Only male turkeys, called toms, gobble. Females,
called hens, cackle.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(87) - Ellen G. White,
American religious leader (Seventh-day Adventist Church), born in Gorham, Maine
(d.1915)
(86) - Mary Edwards Walker,
American doctor/women's rights leader and only woman to receive Medal of Honor
(bravery during Civil War) (d.1919)
(77) - Charles M. Schulz,
Minneapolis MN, cartoonist (Peanuts), (d. 2000)
76 - Rich Little,
Ottawa Canada, impressionist/actor (Love on a Rooftop)
76 - Tina Turner,
[Anna Mae Bullock], American singer (Proud Mary), born in Nutbush, Tennessee
(75) – (Bill W.)William Wilson , East Dorset, Vermont, co-founder
(alcoholics anonymous), (d. 1971)
(73) - Willis Carrier,
American engineer, developed modern air conditioning, born in Angola NY (d.1950)
(73) - Robert Goulet,
Lawrence, Massachusetts, American singer\actor (d. 2007)
32 - Chris Hughes,
American businessman and co-founder of Facebook, born in Hickory, North Carolina
(30) - John Harvard,
England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard Univ (d.1638)
Historical
Obits Today
@87 - Verne Winchell, American doughnut
entrepreneur-2002
@86 - Sojourner Truth, US abolitionist/women's rights advocate, 1883
@76 - Scatman Crothers,
singer/actor (Shining, Chico & The Man), cancer-1986
@74 - David White, actor (Bewitched), heart
attack-1990
@71 - Philippe de Broca,
French film director (Le Bossu) -2004
@51 - Tommy Dorsey,
big bandleader, choked in sleep/barbituates-1956
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Brain
Teasers Answers
12DC / The Twelve Days Of Christmas
12=DD = 12 drummers drumming
11=PP = 11 pipers piping
10=LL = 10 lords 'a' leapin'
9=LD = 9 ladies dancing
8=MM = 8 maids 'a' milkin'
7=SS = 7 swans 'a' swimmin'
6=GL = 6 geese 'a' layin'
5=GR = 5 golden rings
4=CB = 4 calling birds
3=FH = 3 french hens
2=TD = 2 turtle doves
1=PPT = partridge in a pear tree
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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