FYI: Any blue
text is a link. Click to check it out!
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9.1.16 Week: 35 \ Day: 245
September Averages: 74°\42°
86004 Today: H 77° \
L 43° Average Sky Cover: 65%
Wind ave: 11mph\Gusts: 5mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 91°[1948] Record Low: 33°[1962]
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Quote of the Day
There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life: music & cats
~Albert Schweitzer
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Observances Today
Building
and Code Staff Appreciation Day
Calendar Adjustment Day
Chicken Boy's Day
Emma
M. Nutt Day, the first woman telephone operator
International Day of Awareness for the Dolphins of Taiji Link
National
No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day
Random Acts of Kindness Day or Be Kind Day Link
Save Japan's Dolphins Day Link (Event dates vary around
the world. But 9/1 is when hunts begin.)
Toy Tips Executive Toy Test Day
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Constitution Day (Slovakia)
Independence Day (Uzbekistan-1991-from former USSR)
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Observances This Week
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1-5 (First Week)
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National Payroll Week
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1-7
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International Enthusiasm Week
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1-7 (UNICEF-India) Link
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National Nutrition Week
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1-7 Link
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Self-University Week
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1752 Liberty
Bell arrives in Philadelphia
1821 1st colonies along
Santa Fe Trail
1836 Narcissa
Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains,
arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
1859 1st
Pullman sleeping car in service
1866 Last
Navaho chief Manuelito turns himself in at Fort Wingate
1901 Construction
begins on NY Stock Exchange
1922 NYC
law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"
1946 1st
US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Berg
1972 Bobby
Fischer (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title
1975 Gunsmoke
goes off the air
1978 Last
broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC TV
1982 The
United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1985 US-French
expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland
1987 15
yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win US Tennis Open match
1989 "Roger
and Me", the first documentary directed by Michael Moore, premieres
at the Telluride Film Festival
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1267 Rabbi
Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem
1535 French
navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal)
1689 Russia
began taxing men's beards
1715 King Louis
XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major
European monarch.
1830
- Dublin Zoo opens
1859 R
C Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare
1905 Alberta
& Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
1961 The Eritrean War of
Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by
Hamid Idris Awate
1962 12,000
die in an earthquake in western Iran
1969 Libyan
revolution, Colonel Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris
1981 Northern
Ireland’s first religiously integrated secondary school opens
2006 Luxembourg
became the first country to complete the move to all digital television
broadcasting.
2015 Pope Francis tell
priests to pardon women who have had an abortion, in a letter released by the
Vatican
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My Rambling Thoughts
Ah,
ready for a new month. Cannot believe how quickly this year is passing.
Headed
out this morning for my weekly visit to Sam’s Club. Needed gas and other stuff.
Good trip that only cost $200.
No
rain yesterday, but the clouds sure looked like it…same today.
Election
results are in. Don’t understand Rep. voters in our state. They voted to have
both John McCain and Sheriff Arpario to be on the Nov. ballot for their party.
McCain has really changed since his Presidential loss…and not for the better.
Arpario is under Federal indictment on several charges of discrimination.
Strange indeed.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Defy
Gravity
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You
need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
The
following is an advertisement for a common item. The ad agency, however, is
trying to entice buyers by making the item sound more impressive than it really
is. Can you tell what is being sold here?
DEFY GRAVITY!
As you command water - or any liquid - to flow upwards! Could you be tampering
with the secrets of the Earth? Your friends will be amazed! Just $1.99.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
In
the 80's sitcom Alf, what was Alf's name an acronym for?
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…Harper’s Index…
65 – Percentage increase since 2014 in the annual
number of reported labor strikes in China
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2 jokes for the day
Break
A Leg!
Why
do we tell actors to "break a leg"?
Because every play has a cast!
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Keeping
the Beat
The
conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra was having an issue with the
percussion section. During rehearsals, it seems they were having a major
problem keeping the proper beat, and the conductor was getting madder by the
moment.
"Uh oh," one of the drummers remarked. "I think he's ready to
blow."
"You're right," said the cymbal player. "It looks like we're in
for a real tempo tantrum!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
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World Gravy Wrestling Championship -----*
More than 20 competitors gathered at a pub in England to battle each other in a
pool of gravy for the World Gravy Wrestling Championships, because apparently
wrestling in it is preferable to eating it, like much of British food.
"The Weather is fine and the Gravy is wet," the World Gravy Wrestling
Championships Facebook page wrote on the day of the event. "A Fun Family
day filled with hilarious wrestling moves and costumes in a thick Lancashire
Gravy." According to the BBC, hundreds of people watched as 16 men and
eight women participated in two minute bouts inside a padded 14 foot by 13 foot
pool to determine a champion. Event organizer Andy Holt said the competition is
"harder than it looks" and admitted that the aim of the competition
is not necessarily designed to determine the best fighter. "The points
system is more about entertainment," he said. "It is crazy, but it is
all about having fun and it is for a great cause."
P.S. If you're into British women covered in gravy, you might want to do a
Google image search of this event.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Inflation
is a long-term, sustained rise in the general level of prices, as measured by a
consumer price index. But why?
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Inflation
is primarily caused by an increase in the money supply that outpaces economic
growth.
Ever since industrialized nations moved away from the gold standard, the value
of money is determined by the amount of currency that is in circulation. When
the Federal Reserve decides to put more money into circulation at a rate higher
than the economy's growth rate, the value of money can fall because of the
changing public perception of the value of the underlying currency. As a
result, this devaluation will force prices to rise due to the fact that each
unit of currency is now worth less.
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Nations
who were on the Gold Standard during the 19th century until 1914 experienced
little or no inflationary trends.
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In
1971 the U.S. decoupled the value of the dollar from gold altogether. Now a
U.S. dollar is only worth 12 cents of what it was worth in 1950.
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Hyperinflation
is a situation where the price increases are so out of control that the concept
of inflation is meaningless.
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The
post-WWII hyperinflation of Hungary holds the record for the most rapid monthly
inflation increase ever: 41,900,000,000,000,000 percent for July 1946, which
means prices doubled every 13.5 hours.
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Birthdays Today
“[
]” indicates age at death
[84] Yvonne De Carlo,
Canadian actress
(10 Commandments, Lily-Munsters), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2007)
[83] Roy John Britten,
Washington,
molecular biologist (repeated DNA sequences in eukaryotic genomes), (d. 2012)
[78] Elizabeth
Harrison,
US, educator
(National Congress of Parents & Teachers) [d-1927]
78- Alan Dershowitz,
attorney (Claus
Von Bulow, OJ Simpson), born in NYC, New York
77- Lily Tomlin,
comedienne/actress
(9 to 5, Laugh-in, All of Me), born in Detroit, Michigan
[76] James Gordon Bennett, Sr.,
American
newspaper publisher (New York Herald), born in Keith, Scotland (d. 1872)
[74] Edgar Rice
Burroughs,
US, sci-fi author (Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga) [d-1950]
[73] Ann W. Richards,
Lakeview Texas, American politician [d-2006]
70- Barry Gibb,
guitarist/singer (Bee Gees), born in Manchester, England
[67] "Boxcar"
Willie (Lecil Travis Martin),
singer [d-1999]
59- Gloria
Estefan [Fajardo],
Cuban-American
singer (Miami Sound Machine-Conga), born in Havana, Cuba
[45] Rocky Marciano,
American
heavyweight champion boxer (1952-56), born in Brockton, Massachusetts (d. 1969)
20- Zendaya [Coleman],
Disney actress/DWTS
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Historical Obits Today
@65-1557 Jacques Cartier,
French explorer
who claimed what is now Canada for France, typhus?
@76-1715 Louis XIV,
the sun king of France (1643-1715), gangrene
@68-1838 William Clark,
American
explorer, soldier, Indian agent and territorial governor who lead the Lewis and
Clark Expedition of 1804-06 and claimed the Pacific Northwest for the United
States
@86-1947 Frederick Russell
Burnham,
father of the international Scouting movement
@80-1977 Ethel Waters,
actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather)
@71-1983 Henry
"Scoop" Jackson,
(Sen-D-Wash), heart attack
@91-2012 Hal David,
American Lyricist
@84-2015 Dean Jones,
American actor (Company, The Love Bug)
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Brain Teasers Answers
The
item being advertised is a straw.
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Alien
Life Form
Everyone
loved Alf, the Alien Life Form that landed on a family's garage and was wittily
brought in as one of their own. Did you know that there was actually a person
inside the Alf suit? Michu Meszaros was the man who played Alf on full body
shots (though the voice was Paul Fusco). He was only 33 inches tall and before
had worked for Ringling Brother and Barnum and Bailey. Meszaros passed away
earlier this summer. Source: Variety
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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.
