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10.15.16 Week: 41 \ Day: 289
October Averages: 63°\31°
86004 Today: H 69° \
L 38° Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts: 19mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 78°[1991] Record Low: 19°[1966]
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Quote of the Day
The art of art, the glory of
expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
~Walt Whitman
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Observances Today
Blind Americans Equality Day
Bridge Day Link
Global Handwashing Day Link
International Day of Rural Women
I Love Lucy Day
National Cake Decorating Day
National Cheese Curd Day Link
National Grouch Day
National Latino AIDS Awareness
Day Link
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Awareness 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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10-17
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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
1520 King Henry
VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall
1582 Many
Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, skip 10 days
1660 Asser
Levy granted butcher's license (kosher meat) in New Amsterdam
1764 Edward
Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter
in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire
1789 1st presidental tour-George Washington in New England 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte
arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile
1860 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to
grow a beard
1866 Great
fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses
1874 Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force
1880 Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest
Apache military strategists.
1905 Claude
Debussy's "La Mer" premieres
1914 ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors &
Publishers) founded
1917 Dutch
dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany
during WWI at Vincennes near Paris
1924 US President Calvin Coolidge declares Statue of
Liberty a national monument
1933 20th Amendment to the US Constitution goes into effect:
Pres term begins in Jan not March
1940 "The Great Dictator", a satiric social
commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released.
1949 Billy Graham begins his ministry
1951 "I Love Lucy", starring Lucille Ball and Desi
Arnaz, debuts on CBS
1956 William J. Brennan, Jr. is appointed to US Supreme Court
1966 LBJ signs a bill creating US Department of
Transportation
1969 Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationawide protest the war
1970 Anwar
Sadat elected president of Egypt
1977 Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life" goes #1
& stays #1 for 10 weeks
1984 Central Intelligence Agency Information Act passes
1990 Soviet
President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
1991 Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice
(52-48)
1993 Amstel
brewery on Curacao produces 1,000,000,000th bottle
1993 Nelson
Mandela & South Africa President F W de Klerk awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize
2000 Larry
David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" debuts on HBO
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My Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful
Friday. I got a new internet security suite from Norton, as recommended by my
IT guys. Very impressive for sure. I had been using on from Best Buy…they told
me it was better than Norton, which I had always used. Turns out it wasn’t.
Anyway, it was lifetime service, mine, not the computer, for around $300. Now
every time I visit a website or get an email, I get a toolbar that tells me if the
site is safe. Cool. On the other side, it is disheartening that there are so
many people who want to mess up our information gathering techniques and that
we have to pay hard earned dollars to protect us from these sleazebags.
Got
my shopping done early and just enjoying the rest of the day.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Robs His Sleep
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a
question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a
requirement.
It
prods a man's hand, and it robs him of sleep,
It makes him climb mountains and travel the deep,
It makes him go wander down deep in a cave,
and do almost anything stupid or brave,
The longer denied the greater it grows,
It makes a man learn 'till he thinks that he knows.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
When
did the U.S. Supreme Court legalize same-sex marriage?
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…Harper’s Index…
90 –Percentage of state-funded Irish primary schools
that are affiliated with the Catholic Church
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2 jokes for the day
My
wife claims I'm a baseball fanatic. She says all I ever read about is baseball.
All I ever talk about is baseball. All I ever think about is baseball.
I told her she's way off base!
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(Me)
Now that I’m retired I finally have my very own 'Command Center'!
(Wife) It looks like a lazy boy recliner, a TV remote and a half eaten bag of
Cheetos on an end table to me!
(Me) It’s a clandestine operation so don’t tell anyone!
(Wife) Don’t worry I won’t tell a soul! Just to clear things up though, is the
arm chair law practice and the sports announcing gig a secret too?
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Somewhat Useless Information
Americans
are the No. 1 consumers of ice cream worldwide, eating 48 pints of ice cream
per person every year on average.
***
Immigrants
at Ellis Island were served ice cream as part of the welcoming to America.
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About
nine percent of all the milk produced by U.S. dairy farmers is used to produce
ice cream.
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Vanilla
is the most popular flavor, accounting for 20-29 percent of overall sales of
ice cream with chocolate coming in a distant second.
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The
Library of Congress possesses a copy of a recipe for vanilla ice cream used by
Thomas Jefferson written in Jefferson's own hand. President George Washington
allocated a total of $200 on ice cream purchases during the hot summer of 1790.
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Charles
E. Minches of St. Louis, Missouri is said to have invented the ice cream cone
in 1904 at the World's Fair in St. Louis when he filled a pastry cone with two
scoops of ice cream.
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How products got their name
Nehi
Soft-drinks
company founder Claud Hatcher had a simple idea: His soda pop was to be sold in
glass bottles that were taller than those of his competitors, which would make
them a better value. To promote the idea, he resorted to a bit of hyperbole:
His bottles were "knee-high." Hence, the name Nehi—and the leggy ad
campaign used to sell the beverage.
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Birthdays Today
“[
]” indicates age at death
[97] John Kenneth Galbraith,
Canadian economist (Affluent Society-58 Hillman Award), born in Iona Station,
Ontario (d. 2006)
[93] P G Wodehouse,
British-American writer (Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves) [d1975]
80- Barry McGuire, singer
(Eve of Destruction), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
79- Linda Lavin, Portland
Maine, actress (Alice, Barney Miller)
[78] Mario Puzo, novelist (The
Godfather, Cotton Club, Earthquake), born in NYC, New York (d. 1999)
73- Penny Marshall, American
actress (Odd Couple, Laverne & Shirley), born in The Bronx, New York
70- Richard Carpenter,
vocalist (Carpenters-Close to You), born in New Haven, Connecticut
61– Tanya Roberts, [Leigh],
actress (Charlie's Angels, Sheena), born in The Bronx, New York
[55] Fredrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and philologist (Beyond Good
and Evil), born in Röcken, Saxony, Prussia (d. 1900)
53- Jack Ma, Chinese entrepreneur
and founder of Alibaba Group, born in Hangzhou, China
50- Virgil, (Publius Vergilius
Maro) Andes, Cisalpine Gaul, Roman Republican poet (Aeneid), (d. 19 BC)
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Historical Obits Today
@81-2008 Edie Adams, American
singer and Broadway actress
@79-2010 Johnny Sheffield,
American actor (Tarzan), heart attack
@73-1964 Cole Porter, composer
(Still of the Night), kidney failure
@64-1930 Herbert Henry Dow,
American chemical industrialist, cirrhosis
@62-1968 Bea Benaderet, NYC,
actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction)
@53-1946 Hermann Goering,
Nazi Reich marshal, poisons himself in prison
@41-1917 Mata Hari,
Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris
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Brain Teasers Answers
Curiosity
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Trivia Hive
Answers
2015
On
June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled to legalize same-sex
marriage in all 50 states. In part, the court's ruling stated: "These new
insights have strengthened, not weakened, the institution [of marriage].
Changed understandings of marriage are characteristic of a Nation where new
dimensions of freedom become apparent to new generations." Today is
National Coming Out Day, where members of the LGBT community celebrate
self-disclosure of their sexual orientation. Here's to equality! Source:
SupremeCourt.gov
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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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