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10.11.16 Week: 41 \ Day: 285
October Averages: 63°\31°
86004 Today: H 69° \
L 37° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 18mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 80°[1965] Record Low: 19°[1900]
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Quote of the Day
Immature love says: 'I love you
because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
~Erich Fromm
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Observances Today
Ada
Lovelace Day
Ashura
General
Pulaski Memorial Day (President) Link
International
Day of The Girl Link
Myths
& Legends Day For All Fantasy Movie, Books and Legends
Cephalopods Link
National
Coming Out Day
National
Face Your Fears Day
National
Food Truck Day Link
Southern
Food Heritage Day
Yom
Kippur
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Observances This Week
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9-15
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Death Penalty Focus Week
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9-15
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Drink Local Wine Week
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9-15
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Earth Science Week Link
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9-15
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Emergency Nurses Week
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9-15
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Fire Prevention Week Link
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9-15
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Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
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9-15
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National Chestnut Week
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9-15
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National Metric Week
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9-15
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Veterinary Technicians Week Link
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10-14
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National School Lunch Week
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10-17
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Take Your Medicine Americans Week
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10-16
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World Rainforest Week Link
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
Today’s World Historical Highlights
1138 Aleppo
Earthquake, later source claims 230,000 killed
1737 Earthquake
kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta India
1809 Along the
Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under
mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
1852 The
University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1868 Thomas Edison patents
his 1st invention: electric voice machine
1871 Great Chicago
Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed
1887 A Miles
patents elevator
1890 Daughters of
American Revolution founded
1922 First woman
FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)
1939 Albert
Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb
1945 Chinese
civil war begins between Kuomintang government led by Chiang Kai-shek and
Mao Zedong's Communist Party
1975 "Saturday
Night Live" premieres on NBC with George Carlin as host
1976 Mao
Zedong's widow Jiang Qing & "Gang of Four" arrested
& charged with plotting a coup
1983 Last
hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in
Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
1984 1st space walk
by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)
1985 President
Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
1990 Center for
Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
1990 Octavio
Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature
1991 Anita Hill
testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her
1992 1st 3-way US
presidential debate (Bush-Clinton-Perot) 1992 Deion
Sanders, plays for Atlanta Falcons (NFL) & Braves (Baseball)
2001 The Polaroid
Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
2012 Mo
Yan, a hallucinatory realist writer, wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature
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My Rambling Thoughts
So
I watched Debate 2 last night. Glad I did. Historians will tell you that this
is one of the dirtiest campaigns in our history, but not the dirtiest. I find
the responses by the many Trump supporters much more interesting than the
actual debate. Many of them say ‘locker room talk’ is wrong, but he didn’t
really mean it. Huh? Then why did he say it? And why was his cohort Billy Bush,
who agreed, laughed, and egged him on, get an indefinite suspension from NBC
Today show after the tape was broadcast this weekend? It appears that no amount
of facts will change those voters. What’s that old saying…A mind, like a
parachute, only works when it is open. And by the way, the President cannot
direct his AG to start an investigation on a political foe…that is what
dictator’s do, and for now, we do not have a dictatorship.
Today
is another Federal holiday and I spent it at home, cleaning up around the house
and yard. I will not support businesses that remain open today. While I don’t
agree with the holiday’s name, to honor a man who destroyed indigenous people,
I will recognize the holiday by staying home.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Similar Spelling #2
Language brain teasers are those that involve
the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
In
this teaser you have been given two (2) clues in each line. Each answer to the
clue comprises six (6) letters. Each 6-letter word differs by only one (1)
letter, which I have given you. Your task is to discover the answers to the
clues provided. The order of the letters do not change.
Example:
Remove _ _ _ I _ _ / _ _ _ U _ _ Justify
Answer:
E X C (I) S E / E X C (U) S E
1. Pliant _ _ _ _ _ E / _ _ _ _ _ Y Stash
2. Inundate _ _ _ _ G _ / _ _ _ _ X _ Elegant
3. Expenditure P _ _ _ _ _ / L _ _ _ _ _ Spread
4. Chevron _ _ _ _ P _ / _ _ _ _ K _ Hit
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
How
many players are in the water on each team during a water polo game?
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…Harper’s Index…
1 –Rank of the restaurant industy among the largest
US employers
21 -Number of states in which the average restaurant
worker’s wage is below the federal minimum wage
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2 jokes for the day
Air
& Space Museum
I
took my family to visit the AIR & SPACE museum...
But there was nothing there!
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Today's
Investment
A
nervous passenger decided to purchase flight insurance at the ticket counter.
She had some time before the flights departure, so she stopped in a Chinese
restaurant in the concourse.
She started to shake as she read her fortune cookie...
“Today’s investment will pay big dividends!”
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Somewhat Useless Information
Did
you know Columbus inspired the name Columbia? Historically Columbia has been
the poetic name used for the United States and also the name of its female
personification. The image of Columbia represented America until it was supplanted
by the Statue of Liberty in the 20th century.
***
Columbia
has given her name to many places, objects, and institutions, like Columbia
University and the District of Columbia.
***
Christopher
Columbus wasn't the first European to find the Americas, as he set foot on
islands in the Bahamas. Technically, Columbus never entered North America and
never knew he discovered a continent. And even if he had set foot in 1492, the
Native Americans were already in America and the region is believed to have
been discovered 500 years before Christopher Columbus' birth by Norse explorer
Leif Erikson.
***
While
the federal holiday is called Columbus Day in the United States, it is called
Dia de la Raza ("Day of the Race") in many Latin American countries.
***
In
the United states, four states do no recognize Columbus Day. Those states are
Hawaii, Alaska, Oregon and South Dakota. Instead, Hawaii celebrates
Discoverers' Day, South Dakota celebrates the day as Native American Day and
Oregon does not recognize or commemorate the day. Other states, like Nevada and
Iowa, do not celebrate the day as an official holiday.
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How products got their name
PEZ
PEZ
began as a breath mint company in Austria in 1927. The name comes from the
German word for peppermint, "pfefferminz." Take the first, middle and
last letters of "pfefferminz" and you've got one of the most fun
candies ever concocted.
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Birthdays Today
“[
]” indicates age at death
[93] Fred
Trump, American real estate developer, father of Donald Trump (d. 1999)
[78] Eleanor Roosevelt,
American 1st lady (1933-1945) human rights advocate (UN), born in New York City
(d. 1962)
77- Maria Bueno,
Brazilian tennis player (Wimbledon 1959), born in São Paulo, Brazil
[74] Henry John Heinz,
founded prepared-foods company (Heinz-57 varieties), born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania (d. 1919)
70- Daryl
Hall, [Hohl], Penn, rocker/songwriter (Hall & Oates-Sara Smile)
[58] Dottie
West, country singer (Here Comes My Baby), born in Nashville, Tennessee [d1991]
55- Steve
Young, NFL quarterback (49ers, NFL Player of Year '92)
50- Luke Perry,
American actor (Beverly Hills 90210), born in Mansfield Ohio
47- Ty
Murray, rodeo cowboy(5-time all-around world champion)
41- Zach
Conrad, Ft Collins Colo, cyclist (Olympics-96)
40- Emily
Deschanel, American actress (bones)
39- Matthew
Bomer, American actor (white collar)
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Historical Obits Today
@91-2007 Werner
von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers
@90-1962 Erich
Tschermak von Seysenegg, Austrian Botanist who was one of three scientists to
independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel's work on the laws of genetics
@74-1961 Leonard
"Chico" Marx, comedian (Marx Brothers), arteriosclerosis
@68-1985 Tex
Williams, country-western singer, cancer
@48-1988 Wayland
Flowers, ventriloquist (Madame), AIDS
@47-1963 Edith Piaf,
French singer (No, I don't regret anything)
@35-1809 Meriwether
Lewis, (Lewis & Clark Expedition), suicide?
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
Supple Supply
2. Deluge Deluxe
3. Payout Layout
4. Stripe Strike
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Trivia Hive
Answers
7
Most
people who don't play water polo don't really know much about the sport so we
are here to help. Each team must have exactly seven players in the water when
the game starts: six field players and one goalkeeper. The other positions are
left wing, right wing, left flat, right flat, point, and hole. We hope you feel
thoroughly splashed in water polo knowledge! Source: USA Water Polo
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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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