Sep 29

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9.29.16 Week: 39 \ Day: 273

September Averages: 74°\42°

86004 Today: H 64° \ L 41° Average Sky Cover: 85% 

Wind ave:   1mph\Gusts:  6mph Visibility: 9 mi

Record High: 82°[1978]   Record Low: 22°[1902]

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Quote of the Day

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

~Ayn Rand

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Observances Today                                                  

International Coffee Day Link

MAGS Day  Link

Mutation Day (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Link

National Biscotti Day

National Attend Your Grandchild's Birth Day

VFW Day

World Heart Day Link  Link

Confucius 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
27-10/3 Link	National Fall Foliage Week

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Today’s US Historical Highlights

Today’s World Historical Highlights

1789 US War Dept established a regular army

1793 Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine

1829 British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel establishes London's Metropolitan Police - hence the nicknames "bobbies" and "peelers"

1872 Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree

1875 US-Spanish relations decline in wake of Cuban rebellion

1885 The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.

1904 1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio)

1906 US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada Palma

1907 Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral

1916 American oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller becomes the world's first billionaire

1927 Telephone service begins between US & Mexico

1936 Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign

1940 1st US merchant ship "Booker T. Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware

1946 "Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS Radio

1948 "Hamlet" directed by and starring Laurence Olivier's opens at Park Avenue Cinema (Best Picture 1949)

1949 "Inside USA With Chevrolet" debuts on CBS-TV

1953 "Make Room for Daddy" starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV

1953 Milton Berle Show premieres

1954 "Star is Born" starring Judy Garland & James Mason premieres

1958 "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran peaks at #8

1959 Little Anthony & the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop"

1960 "Johnny Ringo" TV Western Drama; last airs on CBS-TV

1960 "My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV

1961 Bob Dylan's 1st recording session-backup harmonica for Caroline Hester

1962 "Green Onions" by Booker T & MG's peaks at #3

1962 "My Fair Lady" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 2,715 performances

1962 JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate U of Mississippi

1963 "My Favorite Martian" starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV

1963 Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros)

1963 "Tom Jones", based on the novel by Henry Fielding, directed by Tony Richardson and starring Albert Finney and Susannah York premieres at the Venice Film festival (Best Picture 1964)

1966 The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.

1967 Gladys Knight & Pips releases "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"

1969 "Love American Style" premieres on ABC-TV

1971 "McMillan & Wife" debuts on NBC-TV

1979 "Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in UK

1979 Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland

1982 1st broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV starring Ted Danson and Shelley Long

1982 Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago

1983 "A Chorus Line" 3,389 performance to become longest running Bdwy show

1983 Congress authorized President Reagan to keep 1,600 US Marines in Lebanon

1985 "MacGyver" starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV

1986 "Designing Women" TV comedy, debuts on CBS

1988 Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 200m woman's record (21.34)

1990 "Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-fiction book

1995 OJ Simpson trial sent to the jury

2006 US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced

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My Rambling Thoughts

Great news from blood doc…Red Blood Cell count is at normal; as is white count. The CPAP is doing its job. No more worries that my blood will tell my brain that it wants more red bleed cells. And no more phlebotomies in my future.

Rain keeps falling on and off. Raining hard when I went to my appt. Got there in rain, came out to no rain. Came home and about an hour later headed for my weekly visit to Sam’s Club. Hit the highway and the rain started again. Raining at Sam’s, did my shopping, still raining. Drove home and as I pulled into the parking lot, the rain stopped.  Seems I was supposed to get wet today. Oh, and yes, there was some lightning.

Got my flight conformation for the Singapore trip in Feb. Good news is that we change planes so it won’t be an 18 hour nonstop flight. Now it will be only 12 hours in the tube as we head across the ocean. That works for me.

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Brain Teasers

(answers at the end of post)

Shuffle #9

Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.

In this teaser, you are to start with the word 'HALF', and then each time, change a letter to make a new word. You need to continue this process until you reach the word 'BACK'.

You must do this in four (4) turns.

Good luck.

HALF

_ _ _ _

_ _ _ _

_ _ _ _

BACK

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Today’s Trivia Hive

(answers at the end of post)

What is the only U.S. state to have a motto in Italian?

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…Harper’s Index…

131,000,000 – Number of active e-sports viewers worldwide

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2 jokes for the day

The Future of Technology

I was visiting a friend who could not find her cordless phone. After several minutes of searching, her young daughter spoke up.

“You know what they should invent? A phone that stays connected to its base so it never gets lost.”

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I Don't Smoke 

Years of smoking finally caught up with my friend John one morning when he keeled over at work, clutching his heart. He was rushed to a hospital and peppered with questions.

"Do you smoke?" asked a paramedic.

"No," John whispered. "I quit."

"That's good. When did you quit?"

"Around 9:30 this morning."

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Yep, It Really Happened

*-- Police question bridge-crossing clown when umbrella is mistaken for gun --*

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. - Police in South Carolina questioned a bridge-crossing clown after a 911 caller mistook the costumed character's umbrella for a gun. Mount Pleasant police said a witness called 911 Wednesday to report a man in full clown regalia was crossing the Ravenel Bridge and appeared to be carrying a gun. "It appeared to be a male, but he had full face makeup on dressed like a clown," the caller told 911 dispatchers in records obtained by WCIV-TV. "It's a thing, and it's a little sketchy, and he appeared to have a rifle underneath his right arm. Could have been something else." The caller attempted to describe the clown's attributes, but had a difficult time through the clown's costume and makeup. "When I looked, my impression was that's a crazy ass 50-some-year-old perv. I mean, I can't give you anything solid on that," the caller said. "To look at him, he looks all rainbow. I think from the front there's more color." The caller made a second pass across the bridge to get a better look at the clown. "They won't miss him. He's half red, half yellow, and... OK, I'm sorry that is absolutely an umbrella he is carrying, not a gun," the caller said. "Oh I'm glad I was able to verify that. I'm sorry that I guessed that wrong. Like I said, I just saw the wooden part and said what I thought it was." Charleston police arrived and shut down the right lane of traffic to speak with the clown. Officers said the man wasn't up to any funny business and was crossing the bridge in costume as a tribute to a recently deceased clown comrade. The clown was allowed to finish his walk. "He's just a clown walking across the bridge," Mount Pleasant Police Inspector Chip Googe told The Post and Courier. "He said he was paying tribute to another clown that had apparently passed away or had some other troubles."       

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Somewhat Useless Information

The first-ever shopping mall was built by the Emperor Trajan in Rome. It consisted of several levels and more than 150 outlets that sold everything ranging from food and spices to clothes.

Romans invented central heating and would warm rooms from under the floor using what was called a hypocaust, literally 'heat from below.' Homes of some rich people had both running water and central heating.

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How it was discovered

Bad weather can be the spark of serendipity, too. In 1896, French scientist Henri Becquerel was working on an experiment involving a uranium-enriched crystal. He believed that sunlight was the reason that the crystal would burn its image on a photographic plate. With dark clouds rolling in, Becquerel packed up his gear and decided to continue his research on another sunny day.

A few days later, he retrieved the crystal from a darkened drawer, but the image burned on the plate (above) was, as he described, "fogged." The crystal emitted rays that fogged a plate, but were dismissed as weaker rays compared to William Roentgen's X-ray. Becquerel wouldn't go on to put a name to the phenomenon. He left that for two fellow scientists: Pierre and Marie Curie.

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Birthdays Today

“[ ]” indicates age at death

[91] Gene Autry, cowpoke/singer/actor/owner (California Angels) born in Tioga Tx [d1998]

[90] O A "Bum" Phillips, football coach (Houston Oilers/New Orlean Saints) [d2013]

[87] Stanley E Kramer, producer/director (Inherit the Wind), born in NYC, New York [d2001]

[87] Steve Forrest, American actor (Ben-Dallas, SWAT), Born in Huntsville, Texas (d. 2013)

[83] Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (La Dolce Vita) and Miss Sweden 1950, born in Malmö, Sweden (d. 2014)

[81] Billy Strange [William], singer-songwriter (A Little Less Conversation), born in Long Beach, California (d. 2012)

81- Jerry Lee Lewis, American country singer (Whole Lotta Shakin'), born in Ferriday, Louisiana

73- Lech Walesa, Polish Solidarity movement leader (Nobel 1983) Born in Popowo Poland

72- Mike Post, composer (Rockford Files, Hill St Blues, Magnum PI)

[68] Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author and novelist (Don Quixote), born in Alcalá de Henares, Spain (d. 1616)

68- Bryant Gumbel, sportscaster/TV host (Today Show), born in New Orleans, Louisiana

65- Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile, born in Santiago

[60] Larry Linville, actor (Frank Burns-M*A*S*H, Blue Movie), born in  Ojai California, [d2000]

60- Sebastian Coe, British 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1980, 84), born in London, England

[59] Ken Weatherwax, American actor (Pugsley-Addams Family), born in LA, CA [d2014]

59- Andrew "Dice" Clay, [Silverstien], comedian (Adv of Ford Fairlane)

[57] Madeline Kahn, actress (Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety), born in Boston, Massachusetts [d1999]

[53] Enrico Fermi, Italian/American nuclear physicist, gone fission/fermium (Nobel 1938), born in Rome, Italy  [d1954]

[47] Horatio Nelson, British admiral and hero of Trafalgar, born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk (d. 1805)

28- Kevin Durant, American basketball player

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Historical Obits Today

@74-1910 Winslow Homer, painter (Prout's Neck)

@55-1913 Rudolph C K Diesel, German constructer (Diesel Motor), suicide?/murder?

@84-1970 Edward Everett Horton, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show)

@85-1975 Casey Stengel, NY Yankee manager (1949-60)

@76-1988 Charles Addams, cartoonist (Addams Family), heart attack

@80-1998 Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (D-1973-93)

@85-2010 Tony Curtis, American Actor (b. 1925)

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Brain Teasers Answers

HALF

HALE

BALE

BALK

BACK

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Trivia Hive  Answers

Maryland

Many U.S. states have mottos written in Latin and two even have them in Spanish: Montana and Idaho. However, Maryland is the only U.S. state to have a motto written in Italian and it is great: “Fatti maschii, parole femine.” According to the state of Maryland, the phrase translates to “strong deeds, gentle words" but according to Antony Shugaar, a literary translator working in Italian and French, it translates to "Masculine deeds, feminine words." Either way, it may be time to rethink what really motto's to the state. Source: The Washington Post

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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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