Sep 26

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9.26.16 Week: 39 \ Day: 270

September Averages: 74°\42°

86004 Today: H 60° \ L 47° Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave:   10mph\Gusts:  25mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 84°[1899]   Record Low: 22°[1934]

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Quote of the Day

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ~Nelson Mandela

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Observances Today                                                  

Family Day - Be Involved. Stay Involved  

Johnny Appleseed Day

National Dumpling Day Link

Shamu the Whale Day

Situational Awareness Day  Link

World Contraception Day Link

UN World Maritime Day

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Observances This Week

25-10/1    Link	World Hearing Aid Awareness Week
26-30 Link	Ally Week
26-10/1	Banned Books Week
26-30 Link	Health Information and Technology Week
26-30 Link	National Postdoc Appreciation Week

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Today’s US Historical Highlights

Today’s World Historical Highlights

46 BC Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.

1580 Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind

1772 New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine

1872 The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City.

1890 US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3 cent piece

1892 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ)

1923 The Commonwealth Conference is held in London, where Britain recognizes the right of the Dominions to make treaties with foreign powers

1927 St James Theater (Erlanger) opens at 246 W 44th St NYC

1934 British liner Queen Mary is launched

1950 Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England

1950 UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul

1957 Bernstein & Sondheim's musical "West Side Story" premieres at the Winter Garden Theater in NYC

1960 Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)

1962 TV comedy series "Beverly Hillbillies" premieres on CBS

1964 "Gilligan's Island", starring Bob Denver as Gilligan, debuts on CBS

1965-Queen Elizabeth decorates the Beatles with Order of the British Empire

1968 1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV

1968 "Oliver!" directed by Carol Reed and starring Mark Lester and Ron Moody premieres in London (Best Picture 1969)

1970 The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).

1972 American Museum of Immigration dedicated

1982 "Knight Rider", starring David Hasselhoff, debuts on NBC

1983 Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging supposed missile attack from the US an error

1984 President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa

1988 NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark

1990 Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating

1991 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins

1995 "George" magazine premieres, published by John F. Kennedy Jr

1997 An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.

2006 Martin Scorsese's "The Departed", starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Mark Wahlberg, premieres in New York City (Best Picture 2007)

2014 World Health Organizations estimates that Ebola death toll has reached 3,091 - with Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone hit hardest

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My Rambling Thoughts

Breezy, cool autumn day here at 7000+’. Get to watch the Broncos play, and also the Cards. Good Sunday.

Caught up with my Sunday news shows this morning. Then watched Real Time on DVR. Good to watch last to keep a positive attitude.

Quick blood test tomorrow morning to see if the CPAP is doing its thing. Sure hope so. Will find out on Wednesday.

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Brain Teasers

(answers at the end of post)

When The Casket Shuts

Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.

I have no mind or a soul. 

I've been eternally attached since man's dawn. 

My kind disappear on and off, 

to everyone I accompany them to their death, 

and buried with them, then I hide away when the casket shuts.

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Today’s Trivia Hive

(answers at the end of post)

What film started the relationship between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt?

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…Harper’s Index…

3.5 – Weight in ounces of a Stanford-engineered team of six micro-robots capable of pulling a 3,900-pound car

2/3 – Portion of Americans who think that most of the work currently done by humans will be automated in 50 years.

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2 jokes for the day

Same Show Every Year

From a passenger ship one can see a bearded man on a small island who is shouting and desperately waving is hands. He gets more and more animated with each passing moment.

"Who is it?" a passenger asks the captain.

"I've no idea. Every year when we pass, he goes mad like that."

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We Can't Find Anywhere to Live 

John and Tony were in the bar, pondering over Tony’s problems. “Andrea and I want to get married,” said Tony, “but we can’t find anywhere to live.”

“Why don’t you live with Andrea’s parents for a while?” suggested John.

“We can’t do that,” said Tony, “they’re living with their parents for a while too.”

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Yep, It Really Happened

*-- Oregon woman totals car when spider drops from rearview mirror --*

PORTLAND, Ore. - Authorities in Oregon said a woman who lost control of her car and totaled the vehicle told investigators she was spooked by a spider. The Washington County Sheriff's Office tweeted a photo Wednesday from the scene of a morning crash in Portland's northwest Bonny Slope area. Investigators said the car, which ended up upside-down, went off the road when the driver lost control of the vehicle. The driver, who suffered only a minor scratch to her hand, said she panicked when a spider dropped from her rearview mirror. Deputies said the car was totaled and there was no sign of the spider at the scene. "Spider season in full swing," the sheriff's office tweeted. "Driver not injured after crash when spider drops from mirror on NW Thompson Rd today."

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How it was discovered

In 1938, Roy Plunkett, a scientist with DuPont, was working on ways to make refrigerators more home-friendly by searching for ways to replace the current refrigerant, which was primarily ammonia, sulfur dioxide, and propane. After opening the container on one particular sample he'd been developing, Plunkett found his experimental gas was gone. All that was left was a strange, slippery resin that was resistant to extreme heat and chemicals.

In the 1940s the material was used by the Manhattan project. A decade later it found its way into the automotive industry. It wasn't until the '60s that Teflon would be used for its most noted application: nonstick cookware.

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Birthdays Today

“[ ]” indicates age at death

[96] Jack LaLanne, exercise mogul (Juice Tiger) [d2011]

[82] Bill France, Sr., American racing car driver and co-founder of NASCAR, born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1992)

[82] Donna Douglas, American actress (Elly May Clampett-The Beverly Hillbillies), born in Pride, Louisiana (d. 2015)

[81] Edmund Gwenn, Wales, actor (Miracle on 34th Street)[d1959]

[80] Pope Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini], 262nd Roman Catholic pope (d1978)

80- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician

[79] George Raft, American actor (Each Dawn I Die, Scarface, Some Like It Hot), born in NYC, New York (d. 1980)

[76] T. S. Eliot, poet (The Waste Land), dramatist and critic (Nobel Prize 1948), born in St Louis Missouri, (d. 1965)

[74] Julie London, Santa Rosa California, actress (Nurse McCall-Emergency) [d2000]

74- Kent McCord, actor (Officer Jim Reed- "Adam 12"), born in Los Angeles

[71] Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, English pilot and ornithologist (d. 1937)

[70] John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman [d1865]

68- Olivia Newton-John, singer (Let’s Get Physical), born in Cambridge, England

[67] Lynn Anderson, American country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden), born in Grand Forks, North Dokota (d. 2015)

[57] Marty Robbins, American country singer (Devil Woman, I Walk Alone), born in Glendale, Arizona (d. 1982)

54- Melissa Sue Anderson, Cal, actress (Little House on the Prairie)

51- Jill Soloway, American writer and director (Afternoon Delight), born in Chicago

[44] Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order, born in Assisi, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1226)

35- Serena Williams, American tennis star (38 major titles), born in Saginaw, Michigan

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Historical Obits Today

@88-1952 George Santayana, US philosopher/poet (Last Puritan)

@85-1820 Daniel Boone, frontiersman

@83-2008 Paul Newman, American actor and entrepreneur

@77-1868 August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer

@73-1902 Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer

@64-1945 Bela Bartok, composer, cancer

@43-1937 Bessie Smith, blues singer, car crash

@100-2010 Gloria Stuart, American actress [titanic-elder Rose]

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Brain Teasers Answers

A shadow

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Trivia Hive  Answers

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Their romance started off with a bang on Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a movie about married spies who don't know the other one is a spy. However, things could have actually gone very differently for the duo. In an interview last summer, Gwen Stefani revealed that she was, also, in the running for the role of Mrs. Smith but lost out to Angelina. Either way, this past year was not a good one for either of them to be called "Mrs." Gwen Stefani called it quits with husband, Gavin Rossdale and Angelina just filed for divorce from husband Brad Pitt this morning. Does love even exist anymore?! (Cue broken heart emoji). Source: Us Magazine and The Guardian

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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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