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9.16.16 Week: 37
\ Day: 260
September Averages:
74°\42°
86004 Today: H 73° \ L034 °
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
14mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 88°[2000]
Record Low: 28°[1971]
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Quote of the Day
Destroying rainforest for
economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. ~E. O.
Wilson
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Observances
Today
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Constitution Day/Pledge Across America
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International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone
Layer
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International Grenache Day (Third Friday) Link
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National Tatoo Story Day (Originator is NBC's
"Blindspot") Link
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National Guacamole Day Link
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National POW/MIA Recognition Day Link
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National Trademen Day
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POW/MIA
Recognition Day
Stay Away From Seattle Day Link Step Family Day Link Trail of Tears Commemoration Day |
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Observances This
Week
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8-18 Link
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National North West Cider Week
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11-17
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Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week
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11-17
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National Assisted Living Week
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11-17 Link
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National Environmental Services Week
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11-17 Link
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National Truck Driver Appreciation Week
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11-17 (Second Full Week) Link
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International Housekeepers Week
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12-18 Link
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Balance Awareness Week
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12-17 (Starts 2nd Mon. thru Sat.)
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Line Dance Week
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14-18 Link
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National Guitar Flat-Picking Days
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15-x18 Link
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Hummingbird Celebration
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1630
Massachusetts village of Shawmut
changes its name to Boston
1830
Oliver Wendell Holmes
writes "Old Ironsides"
1863
Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey,
the first American educational institution
outside the United States, is
founded by Christopher Robert, an American
philanthropist.
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1915
US takes control of customs
& finances of Haiti for 10 years
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1919
American Legion incorporated by
an act of Congress
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1931
Blimp is moored to Empire State
Building (NYC)
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1940
FDR signs Selective
Training & Service Act (1st peacetime draft)
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1964
"Shindig"
premieres on ABC-TV
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1966
Metropolitan Opera House opens
in Lincoln Center
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1967
KPAZ TV channel 21 in
Phoenix, AZ (IND) begins broadcasting
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1968
Richard Nixon appears on
"Laugh-in"
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1974
BART begins regular
transbay service
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1974
US President Gerald
Ford announces conditional amnesty for US Vietnam War
deserters
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1983
Arnold
Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen
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1984
1st broadcast of "Miami
Vice" on NBC-TV
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1993
"Frasier" starring Kelsey
Grammer and David Hyde Pierce premieres on NBC
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2012
Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel,
seeks a court order to resolve a week long
teachers strike
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2013
12 people are killed after a
gunman opens fire at a naval yard in Washington, D.C.
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
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1701
James Francis Edward
Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the
Jacobite claimant to the
thrones of England and Scotland.
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1847
Shakespeare Birthplace
Trust buys bard's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon
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1859
Lake Nyasa, which forms
Malawi's boundary with Tanzania & Mozambique
discovered by British explorer David
Livingstone
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1978
Filming on Monty Python's Life
of Brian, begins
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My Rambling
Thoughts
This week has been crazy. Yesterday my computer was hacked…not my email,
not my facebook, the whole computer. Somebody in Sweden, that’s right…How?
Unknown. But here’s the story…Tuesday morning, as I turned off the computer, I
got a screen that said Windows was shutting down and doing updates. This is a
fairly normal experience. In the afternoon I turned on the computer and it said
it was updating, would take some time, and not to shut off the computer. Again
not unusual. But after 90 minutes it finally finished…or so I thought. I
started this post. When it was time to use the internet machine to get
information, I found I had no internet connection. It was downhill from there.
I followed the instructions to set up the internet connection.
Nada…nothing…still no internet. Finally I called my tech guys. The helped me
get connected and then started looking at my machine. There it was…a bunch of
internet addresses from Sweden. Still don’t know how those crazy Swedes go in,
but he sent them packing. Before anyone gets upset about the Swedes, be aware
that this could have been anyone in the world…who simply hacked some poor
Swedes internet connection. It took at least 2 hours to get rid of the hacker,
but he is gone now.
My new rug shampooer is great. Downstairs carpet looks like new. The
machine is light weight, easy to use and makes the place clean. The best part
is it has two sets of roller brushes to deep clean. This weekend I tackle the
upstairs.
Thursday I had a great lunch with our retirement group. And the computer
is finally back to working like a real computer again.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
It's Not Tulips
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that
needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
You can find me on a face;
Frequently I'm in a vase.
I'm precise by definition,
Yet to one man I am different.
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Today’s Trivia
Hive
(answers at the end of post)
Where was Marco Polo born?
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…Harper’s Index…
1/2 – Portion of US
college students with federal loans who underestimate their debt load
1/7 – Who don’t know
they have federal loans at all
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Yep, It Really
Happened
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Police say a Florida man asking if a bulletproof vest "still worked"
was fatally shot by his cousin. A Tampa police report says Joaquin Mendez, 23,
put on the vest and "wondered aloud whether it still worked." Police
say his cousin, Alexandro Garibaldi, 24, pulled out a gun and responded,
"Let's see." Officers found Mendez outside the house with a gunshot
wound in his chest. Mendez died at a hospital. According to the report,
Garibaldi initially told officers he found his wounded cousin after hearing a
gunshot. However, police say a witness described Garibaldi shooting Mendez.
Police say the vest was found inside the house with a gunshot.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
No one knows for sure when or where the first lighthouse was built.
Early lighthouses were too simple to be recorded; some were little more than
candles placed in the windows of tall buildings at night. Others were hilltop
structures on which large fires could be built. The earliest known lighthouses
were built on the Mediterranean Sea in the 7th century B.C.
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The Great Lighthouse at Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the Seven Wonders
of the Ancient World. Completed around 280 B.C., it stood about 450 feet high
on the island of Pharos in the Alexandria harbor. Still in operation as late as
1115, it was destroyed by earthquakes in the 1300s.
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The oldest working lighthouse in the world is Spain's Tower of Hercules,
built by the Romans in 20 B.C.
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The oldest American lighthouse is the Boston Light, in Boston's outer
harbor. Built in 1716 on Little Brewster Island, it was destroyed by the
British during the American Revolution. It was rebuilt in 1783 and still stands
today.
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Before electricity, lighthouses provided light via wood or coal fires,
or even candles. These were replaced by whale-oil lanterns, which gave way to
kerosene lanterns in the 1800s. In the United States, most lighthouses had a
full-time keeper, who lived at the lighthouse and made sure it stayed lit.
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First American lighthouse to use electricity: the Statue of Liberty,
which served as a lighthouse in New York Harbor until 1902.
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Birthdays Today
“[ ]” indicates age at death
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[95] James Cash Penney,
American department store founder (J C Penney),
born in Hamilton, Missouri (d. 1971)
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[93] Guy
Hamilton,
British director (Goldfinger), born in Paris (d.
2016)
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[89] Lauren
Bacall,
American actress (Dark Passage, Key Largo), born
in Staten Island, NY [d-2014]
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[89] B.B. King,
blues guitarist and singer (Thrill is Gone), born
in Itta Bena Mississippi [d-2015]
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[84] Allen
Funt,
American TV host & creator (Candid Camera),
born in Brooklyn, New York [d-1999]
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[83] Peter
Falk,
Ossining NY, actor (Colombo, Scared Straight) [d-2011]
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82- George
Chakiris, Norwood Ohio, actor (West Side Story)
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82- Elgin Baylor,
NBA star (1958-59 Rookie of Year-Lakers), born in
Washington, D.C.
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[80] Anne
Francis,
Ossining NY, actress (Honey West, Pancho Villa) [d-2011]
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[78] H.A.
Rey,
American children's author, creator of
"Curious George" (d. 1977)
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[77] Alfred
Noyes,
British poet/essayist (Loom of Years, Highwayman) [d-1958]
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[74] Charlie
Byrd,
American jazz and bossa nova guitarist
(Desfinado), born in Suffolk, Virginia (d. 1999)
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68- Rosemary Casals,
tennis doubles (5X Wimbledon), born in San
Francisco, California
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67- Ed
Begley Jr,
LA Cal, actor (Eating Raoul, St Elsewhere,
Parenthood)
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[65] Jack
Kelly,
Astoria Queens, actor (Bart-Maverick, Get
Christie Love) [d-1992]
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60- David Copperfield [Kotkin],
American magician, born in Metuchen, New Jersey
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48- Marc
Anthony,
American singer
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45- Amy
Poehler, American comedian (Saturday Night Live)
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24- Nick
Jonas,
American singer, member of The Jonas Brothers
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Historical Obits
Today
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@50-1736 Daniel G Fahrenheit,
Prussian/Neth physicist (thermometer)
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@53-1977 Maria
Callas,
American-born prima donna, in Paris, heart attack
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@80-1993 Willie
Mosconi,
world billiards champ
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@77-1996 McGeorge
Bundy,
US national security advisor (1961-66), heart
attack
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@72-2009 Mary
Travers,
American singer (Peter, Paul, and Mary),
leukemia
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Brain Teasers
Answers
A dozen.
A dozen numbers on the face of a clock, a dozen roses in a vase, and although
it means precisely 12, to one man (the baker), it means 13.
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Trivia Hive Answers
Italy
The famed explorer, Marco Polo, was born in 1254 in Venice, Italy.
Luckily for Marco, he was born into a family with a decent amount of dough.
Unluckily for Marco, his parents weren't around much. His mother died when he
was young and his father and uncle spent a lot of time in Asia selling jewels.
Marco Polo spent 23 years traveling through many parts of the world. He, also,
commanded a Venetian warship against the rival city of Genoa where he became a
prisoner of war and wrote his book "The Description of the World" or
"The Travels of Marco Polo." People tried to get him to admit the
elaborate adventures in the book were fake but Polo swore on his deathbed,
"I have not told half of what I saw!" Source: Biography
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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