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9.9.16 Week: 36
\ Day: 253
September Averages:
74°\42°
86004 Today: H 79° \ L 49°
Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts:
5mph Visibility: 9 mi
Record High: 87°[1977]
Record Low: 31°[2001]
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Quote of the Day
No one wants advice - only
corroboration. ~John Steinbeck
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Observances
Today
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Banana Day Link (2nd
Friday)
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Stand Up To Cancer Day Link
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Care Bears Share Your Care Day Link
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day Link
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International Buy A Priest A Beer Day Link
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Wonderful Weirdos Day
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Admission Day (California-1850-31st state),
Chrysanthemum Day (Japan),
Independence Day (Tajikistan-1991-SSR)
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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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US Historical
Highlights for Today
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1675 New
England colonies declare war on Wampanoag Tribe
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1753 1st
steam engine arrives in US colonies
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1776 Congress
officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the
United Colonies)
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1817 Alexander
Twilight, probably first African American to graduate from a US college,
receives BA degree at Middlebury College
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1839 English
scientist and astronomer John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph
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1850 Territories
of New Mexico & Utah created
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1850 California
is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state
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1908 Orville
Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
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1926 National
Broadcasting Company created by Radio Corporation of America
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1939 Nazi
army reaches Warsaw
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1940 60th
U.S. Men's National Championship Donald McNeill beats Bobby
Riggs (4-6, 6-8, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5)
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1942 1st
bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese
planes
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1945 1st
"bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was
removed with tweasers from a relay & taped into the log
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1956 Elvis
Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show for the 1st time
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1956 70th
U.S. Women's National Championship Shirley Fry Irvin beats Althea Gibson
(6-3, 6-4)
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1957 "Diana"
by Paul Anka reaches #1
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1957 US
President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since
Reconstruction
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1963 Alabama
Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state
police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools
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1966 The
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
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1971 1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY
prison
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1977 1st
TRS-80 computer sold
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1983 Radio
Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)
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1985 President
Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
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1987 Gary
Hart admits on "Nightline," to cheating on his wife
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
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1543 Mary
Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the
central Scottish town of Stirling
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1965 Tibet
is made an autonomous region of China
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1971 John
Lennon releases his "Imagine" album
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1978 Iraqi Ayatollah
Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army
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2010 A
court in the Philippines orders Imelda Marcos to repay the
government almost $280,000 for funds taken from the National Food Authority
by Ferdinand Marcos in 1983
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2015 Queen Elizabeth
II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and
seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother,
Queen Victoria
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Our retirement group had a great lunch @ our favorite, newly remodeled
Mexican restaurant. Nice décor, same great food. Mary had a great weekend in
Phx with her all her grandchildren and their families. Great time. Cheryl
enjoyed her stay in CA with her son, his wife, and the grandkids. Nice!
Beautiful, warm fall-ish day @ 7000’. Can’t complain. Started the day
off with computer issues but got them fixed in about an hour. The tech company
was busy updating their system when I called, but they called back when it was
finished and had the issue fixed in mere minutes.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Missing Letters II
Language brain teasers are those that involve the
English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Complete the words below using each letter of the alphabet once only:
li_ _t
_o_an
pu_ _ le
_-r_ _
e_ _l
_ _eer
_cie_ _e
g_ _ let
_u_ge
_ac_et
pu_zl_
_rai_
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Today’s Trivia
Hive
(answers at the end of post)
What percentage of the world has green eyes?
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…Harper’s Index…
60 – Percentage of
Reupblican-primary voters who are ‘mostly embarrassed’ by their pary’s
campaigns
2%
We know what you're thinking, "My mom's eyes are hazel, that's kind
of green." Well, according to the AC Lens experts, they are not the same
thing at all. Hazel eyes are regarded as a shade of brown instead of a shade of
green with a higher concentration of melanin around the eye's border than, say,
green eyes. While your pretty little emeralds hold far less melanin and are
held by only about 2% of the world making them the rarest of them all. Source:
AC Lens
13 – Of Democratic-primary voters
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Birthdays Today
“[ ]” indicates age at death
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[100] Alf (Alfred) Landon,
(R-Ks) American politician and Presidential
candidate (1932, 1936). [D- 1987]
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[90] Colonel Harland Sanders,
American founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, born
in Henryville, Indiana (d. 1980)
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[88] Cliff Robertson,
La Jolla, California, American actor (Charly) and
spokesman for AT&T [d-2011]
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[82] Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich],
Russian novelist (War and Peace), born in Yasnaya
Polyana, Russia [d-1910]
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[77] Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder,
gambler/sportscaster (lay you 5 to 1) [d-1996]
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67- Joe
Theismann,
NFL QB (Redskins)/sportscaster
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65- Tom
Wopat,
Lodi, Wisconsin, American actor and singer (The
Dukes of Hazzard, One Life to Live)
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56- Hugh
Grant,
London England (4 Weddings & a Funeral, 9
Months)
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56- Mario
Batali,
American chef and restaurateur
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50- Adam Sandler,
actor/comedian (Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore,
Saturday Night Live), born in Brooklyn, New York
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41- Michael
Bublé,
Canadian singer and actor
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Historical Obits
Today
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@88-1997 Burgess
Meredith,
actor (Penguin-Batman, Rocky)
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@82-1976 Mao
Zedong,
Chinese revolutionary &
Chairman of the Communist Party of
China (1949-76)
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@80-2014 Denny Miller,
American actor [wagon
train]
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@68-1876 American Horse [Wašíčuŋ Tȟašúŋke
(He-Has-A-White-Man's-Horse)],
Sioux chief,
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@66-1915 Albert
Spalding,
American baseball player
and sporting goods manufacturer, stroke
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@53-1999 Catfish Hunter,
American baseball player,
als
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Brain Teasers
Answers
light
woman
purple
x-ray
evil
queer
science
goblet
fudge
jacket
puzzle
trail
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Trivia Hive Answers
2%
We know what you're thinking, "My mom's eyes are hazel, that's kind
of green." Well, according to the AC Lens experts, they are not the same
thing at all. Hazel eyes are regarded as a shade of brown instead of a shade of
green with a higher concentration of melanin around the eye's border than, say,
green eyes. While your pretty little emeralds hold far less melanin and are
held by only about 2% of the world making them the rarest of them all. Source:
AC Lens
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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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