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10.12.16 Week: 41 \ Day: 286
October Averages: 63°\31°
86004 Today: H 70° \
L 41° Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 17mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 83°[1950] Record Low: 9°[1969]
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Quote of the Day
Friendship is always a sweet
responsibility, never an opportunity.
~Khalil Gibran
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Observances Today
Day
of the Six Billion Link
Drink
Local Wine Day
Freethought
Day
International
Top Spinning Day
National
Bring Your Teddy Bear To Work & School Day
S.A.V.E.
(Stop America's Violence Everywhere) Link
Spanish
Language Day Link
Stop
Bullying Day
World
Arthritis Day Link
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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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12-20
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Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week Link
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
Today’s World Historical Highlights
1216 King
John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke,
perhaps near Sutton Bridge
1279 Nichiren,
a Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the
Dai-Gohonzon
1285 180
Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany and are set on fire
1492 Christopher
Columbus's expedition makes landfall on Caribbean island he names San Salvador
(likely Watling Island, Bahamas). The explorer believes he has reached East
Asia (OS 21 Oct)
1609 Children's
rhyme "Three Blind Mice" published in London
1654 The
Delft Explosion (gunpowder) devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing
more than 100
1773 America's first
asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
1792 First celebration
of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
1850 First women's
medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens
1871 US President
Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan
1891 Astronomical
Society of France is inaugurated
1892 US Pledge of
Allegiance first recited in public schools during Columbus Day
1901 Theodore
Roosevelt renames "Executive Mansion" as "The White House"
1915 Ford Motor
Company under Henry Ford manufactures its 1 millionth Model T
automobile
1915 Theodore
Roosevelt criticizes US citizens who identify themselves with dual
nationalities
1928 1st use of iron
lung (Boston's Children Hospital)
1933 Alcatraz becomes
a federal prison (unofficially)
1933 Gangster
George Francis Barnes, aka Machine Gun Kelly, is sentenced to life imprisonment
1952 KBTV (now KUSA)
TV channel 9 in Denver, CO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 Soviet
leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe on his desk at UN General
Assembly session
1964 1st
time 3 people in space
1968 19th
Olympic games open at Mexico City, Mexico
1968 Norma
Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is 1st woman to light Olympic flame
1973 Nixon nominates Gerald
Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP
1984 IRA
bombs the Grand Hotel, Brighton, where British PM Margaret Thatcher is
staying, 5 die
1992 5.8
earthquake at Cairo (at least 510 die)
1999 The
Day of Six Billion: the proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is
born
2000 The USS Cole is
badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39
2005 The
second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and
Niè Hǎishèng
for five days in orbit.
2012 The
European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, sparking a series of critical
commentary
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My Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful
weather day here at 7000’…doors open, windows open, warm light breeze flowing
through the house, upstairs and down. Cleared off the deck of pine needles,
again…and read the newspaper out there late this morning.
I
have a 6 month check up with my PCP next week. I had a nagging feeling that I
needed a blood test, but had no paperwork. So I called and turns out they do
the check during my appointment. Cool. Save a visit to the lab.
As
I listen to the news, I can only hope that all the sane people of this country
are registered and get out and vote next month. Democracy, with all its flaws,
only works when the people express their beliefs at the ballot box. I also
believe that Election Day should be a national holiday and when you show your
employer your sticker, it becomes a paid holiday. And if your employer makes
you work, you get triple time.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
-ectomy
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick
that makes them really easy.
Removing
an appendix is called an appendectomy, removing tonsils is called a
tonsillectomy. What is it called when they remove a growth from your head?
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
What
is the letter all non-military U.S. aircrafts must have at the beginning of
their registration numbers?
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…Harper’s Index…
3,500 – Estimated number of slaves held by the Islamic
State
$20,000,000 – Estimated value of cash destroyed
by US air strikes against the Islamic State since last October.
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2 jokes for the day
Yesterday
was "Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day"...
Which basically means today is "Stay Late At Work To Catch Up On All The
Things You Couldn't Get Done Because Your Kid Was Bothering You In The Office
Day"!
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The
wise old Mother Superior from county Tipperary was dying. The nuns gathered
around her bed trying to make her comfortable. They gave her some warm milk to
drink, but she refused it. Then one nun took the glass back to the kitchen.
Remembering a bottle of Irish whiskey received as a gift the previous
Christmas, she opened and poured a generous amount into the warm milk.
Back at Mother Superior's bed, she held the glass to her lips. Mother Superior
drank a little, then a little more. Before they knew it, she had drunk the
whole glass down to the last drop. "Mother", the nuns pleaded,
"Please give us some wisdom before you die."
She raised herself up in bed with a pious look on her face and said,
"Don't sell that cow."
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Somewhat Useless Information
While
men tend to die earlier than women of natural causes, they also account for 94
percent of all on-the-job fatalities, even though they barely represent 50
percent of the U.S. workforce.
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Men are also four times more likely than women to be murdered, and 10 times
more likely to commit murder.
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Worldwide,
there are approximately 107 baby boys born for every 100 baby girls. Scientists
believe the elevated birth rate in favor of boys may be linked to the higher
mortality rates of boys in infancy and childhood.
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The brains of adult men are about 10 percent larger in total size than the
brains of women. Because men generally have a larger stature and more muscle
mass than women, their brains require more neurons to control the body.
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How products got their name
Maypo
Sometimes
things really are as simple as they appear. The stuff is maple-flavored
oatmeal, and you want it. End of story.
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Birthdays Today
“[
]” indicates age at death
84- Dick
Gregory, comedian/political activist/dietician (Bahamian Diet)
81- Sam
Moore, rock vocalist (Sam & Dave-Soul Sister), born in Miami, Florida
[71] Luciano
Pavarotti, Italian operatic tenor (Oh Giorgio, 3 Tenors),
born in Modena, Italy (d. 2007)
69- Chris
Wallace, newscaster (NBC Weekend News), born in Chicago, Illinois
66- Susan
Anton, Oak Glen California, actress (Golden Girl, Spring Fever)
48- Adam
Rich, actor (Nicholas-8 is Enough, Code Red, Gun Shy), born in NYC, New York
48- Hugh
Jackman, Australian actor and singer (X-men, Real Steel),
born in Sydney, Australia
46- Kirk
Cameron, Panorama City California, actor (Mike-Growing Pains)
41- Marion
Jones, track and field athlete/drug cheat (5 forfeited
Olympic medals), born in Los Angeles, California
[25] Lane
Frost, American professional bull rider, (d. 1989)
24- Josh
Hutcherson, American actor (Hunger Games films), born in Union, Kentucky
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Historical Obits Today
@87-1955 Bernarr
McFadden, American physical culture advocate, credited with beginning the
culture of health and fitness in the US
@85-2002 Ray
Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)
@75-2003 Joan
Kroc, American philanthropist, brain tumor
@72-2003 Willie
Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)
@70-2011 Dennis
Ritchie, American computer scientist, creator of the C programming language and
co-creator of the Unix operating system
@69-1989 Jay
Ward, American cartoonist (Rocky & His Friends), kidney cancer
@65-1845 Elizabeth
Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist, stroke
@63-1999 Wilt
Chamberlain, American NBA basketball player (5 time MVP), congestive
heart failure
@63-1870 Robert E. Lee,
US General of Confederate Army, pneumonia
@60-1940 Tom
Mix, American actor (Texan, Hidden Gold), car crash
@57-1969 Sonja
Henie, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1928, 32, 36), leukemia
@53-1997 John Denver,
American country music star (Country Boy), plane crash
@21-1998 Matthew
Shepard, American hate crime victim
@100-1987 Alfred
M Landon, former Kansas Gov,
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Brain Teasers Answers
A
haircut
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Trivia Hive
Answers
N
Great
Britain starts their civil aircraft registration numbers with a "G".
Germany starts their registration numbers with a D (Deutschland) and France
gets an F. Why the heck does U.S. registration start with an N?! The truth is
that other than "because that is what the Convention of the Regulation of
Air Navigation picked" there really isn't an explanation. Source: The
American Aviation Historical Society
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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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