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9.10.16 Week: 36 \ Day: 254
September Averages: 74°\42°
86004 Today: H 79° \
L 51° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 9 mi
Record High: 87°[1990] Record Low: 28°[1912]
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Quote of the Day
Coming together is a beginning;
Keeping together is progress;
Working together is success
~Henry Ford
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Observances Today
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Farmers' Consumer Awareness Day Link
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National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children Link
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International Drive Your Studebaker Day
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Prairie Day
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National Hollerin' Day Link (2nd Saturday)
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National Iguana Awareness Day Link
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Observances This Week
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4-10 (First Week)
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National Waffle Week
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5-11 (First Full Week)
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Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week
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5-11 (Always has 10th in it)
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Suicide Prevention Week
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6-10 (Tues.thru Sat. after Labor Day)
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Play Days
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8-10 (First Weekend After Labor Day) Link
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Popcorn Days
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8-18 Link
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National North West Cider Week
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9-11 (Friday thru Sunday Closest to 9/11)
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National Days of Prayer & Remembrance
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10-11 (Weekend After Labor Day)
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Mushroom Days
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US Historical Highlights for Today
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1608 John
Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
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1776 George
Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
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1813 American Naval
Commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in Battle of Lake Erie
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1846 Elias Howe takes
out a patent for the sewing machine
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1847 1st theater opens
in Hawaii
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1913 Lincoln Highway
opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
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1919 NYC welcomes home
Gen John J Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers
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1932 Independent City
Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC
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1945 Mike the Headless
Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months
before choking to death.
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1953 Swanson sells its
1st "TV dinner"
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1955 "Gunsmoke"
premieres on CBS TV
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1966 Neal Diamond's 1st
chart song (Cherry Cherry)
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1972 Frank Shorter wins
17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8)
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1984 First episode of
daily syndicated version of Jeopardy! with Alex Trebek as host
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1990 Ellis Island
reopens as a museum
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1992 Lucy in Peanuts
comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents
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1993 "The
X-Files", created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and
Gillian Anderson debuts on Fox
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2004 "Crash"
directed by Paul Haggis and starring Don Cheadle and Sandra
Bullock premieres at the Toronto Film Festival (Best Picture 2006)
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World Historical Highlights for Today
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1823 Simon Bolivar named
President of Peru
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1869 Baptist minister
supposedly invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
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1894 London taxi driver
George Smith is the first to be fined for drunk driving
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1940 Buckingham Palace
hit by German bomb
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1977 Hamida Djandoubi,
convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by
Guillotine in France
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2002 Switzerland,
traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations
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2008 The Large Hadron
Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the
history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland
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2015 New human-like
species - Homo Naledi announced by Scientists and a team of female
archaeologists, found deep in caves in South Africa
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My Rambling Thoughts
Such
a nice day…hard to believe we are in Sept., feels more like early June.
I
must comment on the Republican candidate for our President. Every day he shows his
ignorance of America. Yesterday he talked about his admiration for Putin. Today
he is going to let religious leaders speak their political mind from the pulpit
and keep their tax exempt status. This is a very scary time.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Elements
Can
you figure out what words are represented by the following?
1. Iron + M + Iodine + Nickel + Neon
2. M + Arsenic + Copper + Lithium + Neon
3. Iron + M + Aluminum + E
4. Tungsten + Oxygen + M + A + Nitrogen
5. Germanium + Nitrogen + Thallium + E + M + A + Nitrogen
6. Lanthanum + Dysprosium
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
How
long could a human stay conscious in space without a suit?
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…Harper’s Index…
26 – Number of days after joking about murdering Ted
Cruz that Senator Lindsey Graham participated in a cruz fund raiser
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2 jokes for the day
It's
Bad Manners
A
boy and his mother stood in the dentist's office, looking at a display case.
"If I had to have false teeth, mother, I'd take that pair there,"
said the small boy, pointing.
"Hush, Willie," interrupted the mother quickly, "Haven't I told
you it's bad manners to pick your teeth in public?"
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Credit
Card Troubles
Two
women are standing in line to pay their bill at a restaurant. As soon as it's
their turn, they hand the young waitress a credit card.
After swiping the card, she loudly called out to her manager, "Mr.
Andrews, what do I do if it says 'rejected'?"
As the women's faces reddened and customers turned to look, Mr. Andrews walked
out from the kitchen.
"Well," he answered, wiping his hands, "the first thing you
DON'T do is shout it out loud enough to embarrass the customer, who might have
been thinking of leaving you a tip."
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Somewhat Useless Information
The
world's oldest emergency phone number is the U.K's 999 number that was
introduced on June 30, 1937. It was implemented after a call to the fire
brigade was held in a queue with the telephone company. The delay cost five
women their lives in the fire.
The first-ever 911 call in the United States happened on February 16, 1968, in
Haleyville, Alabama. It wasn't until 1999 that Congress directed the FCC to
make 911 the universal emergency number for the United States for all telephone
services.
Known as the "The City Where 911 Began," Haleyville, Alabama, holds a
911 festival every year that honors all police, fire, and emergency personnel.
In
2006, 5-year-old Robert Turner called 911 when his mother collapsed form heart
problems. The call taker thought he was making a prank call and told the little
boy that she would send help and hung up. The boy waited three hours and, with
his mother still unconscious, called 911 again. This time, a different call
taker told the boy that he would get in trouble if he kept playing around.
Scared, the boy hung up. His mom died.
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Birthdays Today
“[
]” indicates age at death
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87- Arnold Daniel Palmer,
PGA golfer (1964 Masters), born in Latrobe,
Pennsylvania
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[86] Marie Laveau,
American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
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56- Colin Firth,
English actor ( Bridget Jones' Diary, The
Kings Speech), born
in Grayshott Hampshire
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[51] Roger Maris,
American baseball player and HR champion
(61 in 1961, AL MVP 1960, 1961), born in Hibbing, Minnesota
(d. 1985)
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[44] Maria Theresa of Spain,
Queen of Louis XIV of France, born in El
Escorial, Spain (d. 1683)
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42- Ryan Phillippe,
American actor
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34- Misty Copeland,
ballerina (1st African American Principal
Dancer at American Ballet Theatre), born in Kansas City Missouri
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Historical Obits Today
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@90-2007 Jane Wyman, American actress
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@88-2011 Cliff Robertson, American actor (Charly)
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@81-1961 Leo Carrillo, actor (Pancho-Cisco Kid)
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@74-2014 Richard Kiel, American actor [Jaws in James Bond],
heart attack
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@70-1991 Yves Montand, actor (Lets Make Love, Z), heart
attack
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@63-1851 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator
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Brain Teasers Answers
Iodine=I
Nickel=Ni
Neon=Ne
Arsenic=As
Copper=Cu
Lithium=Li
Aluminum=Al
Tungsten=W
Oxygen=O
Nitrogen=N
Germanium=Ge
Thallium=Tl
Lanthanum=La
Dysprosium=Dy
1. Fe+M+I+Ni+Ne=feminine
2. M+As+Cu+Li+Ne=masculine
3. Fe+M+Al+E=female
4. W+O+M+A+N=woman
5. Ge+N+Tl+E+M+A+N=gentleman
6. La+Dy=lady
All of the words describe females or males.
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Trivia Hive
Answers
15
seconds
As
we are all getting ready to strap on our space suits and head out to life on
Mars, we may want to consider the possibility that life in space isn't all it
is cracked up to be (as in you only get about 15 seconds of consciousness
without a spacesuit). If you happen to be floating around space with someone in
a suit then awesome. You still have about another minute and 45 seconds to get
back into your space shuttle before the water in your soft tissue vaporizes.
You'll swell up like a boiled hot dog and though your eyes won't explode, they
will start to emanate smoke from the release of gas and your tongue will boil.
But other than that, everything will be fine. Source: Scientific American
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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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