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10.17.16 Week: 42 \ Day: 291
October Averages: 63°\31°
86004 Today: H 68° \
L 42° Average Sky Cover: 65%
Wind ave: 12mph\Gusts: 27mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 78°[1973] Record Low: 18°[1998]
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Quote of the Day
Eloquence is a painting of the
thoughts. Blaise Pascal
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Observances Today
Black
Poetry Day
Boss's Day (or National Boss's Day) Link
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Mulligan Day
National
Cake Decorating Day
National
Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day
National Edge Day Link
National Pasta Day Link
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Observances This Week
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10-17
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Take Your Medicine Americans Week
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12-20
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Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week Link
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16-22
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Bullying Bystanders Unite Week
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16-22
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Freedom From Bullies Week
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16-22
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International Infection Prevention Week Link
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16-21
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Mediation Week Link
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16-22
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National Character Counts Week
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16-22
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National Business Women's Week Link
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16-22
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National Chemistry Week
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16-22
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National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week Link
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16-22
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National Food Bank Week
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16-22
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National Forest Products Week
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16-22
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National Friends of Libraries Week
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16-22
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National Nuclear Science Week
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16-22
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National Pharmacy Week Link
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16-22
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National Save For Retirement Week Link
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16-22
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National Teen Drivers Safety Week Link
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16-22
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Pastoral Care Week Link
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16-22
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Teen Read Week Link
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17-23
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Asexuality Week
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17-21
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Choose To Be G.R.E.A.T. Week Link
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17-24
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Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
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17-23
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Freedom of Speech Week Link
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17-21
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Medical Assistants Recognition Week Link
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17-21
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National Health Education Week Link
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17-21
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National School Bus Safety Week
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17-23
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Sukkot
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17-21
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YWCA Week Without Violence Link
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
♦Today’s
World Historical Highlights
♦ 415 Jewish autonomy in
Palestine ended by the Romans and Raban Gamliel forced from office
♦ 1346 Battle of
Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of
England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
1691 New
royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth
1787 Boston
blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities
1855 Bessemer
steelmaking process patented
♦ 1860 1st British Golf
Open: Willie Park Snr shoots a 164 at Prestwick Club, Scotland
1888 Thomas
Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the
first movie)
♦ 1907 Guglielmo Marconi's
company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland
1919 Radio
Corporation of America (RCA) created
♦ 1923 Catholic
University of Nijmegen Neth opens
1931 American
gangsta Al
Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in
prison
1933 Albert
Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany
♦ 1943 Burma railway
completed, built by allied POWS and Asian labourers for the Japanese army
♦ 1957 French author Albert Camus awarded
Nobel Prize in Literature
1961 NY
Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau"
upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd
1967 "Hair"
premieres on Broadway
1968 "Bullitt"
directed by Peter Yates and starring Steve McQueen and
Jacqueline Bisset is 1st released
1972 Chuck
Berry's "My Ding-a-ling," is #1
♦1975 UN passes
resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism"
1978 President Jimmy Carter signs
bill restoring US citizenship to Jefferson Davis
♦ 1979 Mother Teresa of
India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1979 US
President Jimmy
Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education
1982 1st
live orch on commercial network since 1954 (National Symphony)
1986 US
Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens &
offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982
1987 US
First Lady Nancy
Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy
1989 Earthquake
in SF (6.9) cancels 3rd game of World Series, kills 67
1990 Green
Day singer Billie
Joe Armstrong drops out of school to pursue a career in music
1991 Angel
Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races
♦ 2003 The pinnacle was
fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it
to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and
become the World's tallest highrise.
2005 "The
Colbert Report", hosted by Stephen Colbert first airs on US TV
2007 The Dalai Lama receives
the United States Congressional Gold Medal
2012 Lance
Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his
doping scandal
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My Rambling Thoughts
Windy
Sunday…lots of high clouds…no moisture in site.
No football for me today, Cards played tomorrow and Broncos were on a
field Thursday.
I
did watch my Sunday morning news, muted most of the US political crap. I did
learn, thanks to Fareed that the Egyptian government is moving forward with
plans to build a new capital city, in the desert, with Chinese money. Looks
like they are just giving up on the current capital with its overcrowding,
poverty, and horrific traffic. Other countries have tried this…Brazil and
Malaysia with mixed results. When I visited Cairo, before the revolution, they
had just allowed people to get a mortgage and move into a house. Before that
one had to pay cash for the house before moving in. Those
in Cairo with a mortgage may be in for hard times if the city business and
government moves too far away. Same for those who own a dwelling and had hoped
it to increase in value.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Beetroot
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in
interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
What
advice is shown below?
BEETROOT
YEETROOT
YOETROOT
YOUTROOT
YOURROOT
YOURSOOT
YOURSEOT
YOURSELT
YOURSELF
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
How
many expeditions did Columbus lead to the New World in his lifetime?
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…Harper’s Index…
2 ♦ Number of years El Salvador’s health minister has
advised women to delay pregnancies because of Zika virus
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2 jokes for the day
Officer
to driver going the wrong way up a one way street. "And where do you think
you are going?"
Driver: "I'm not sure, but I must be late as everyone else is already
coming back."
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It
was two o'clock in the morning and a husband and wife were asleep, when
suddenly the phone rang.
The husband picked up the phone and said, "Hello? (Pause as he listens.)
How the heck do I know? What am I, the weather man?" and promptly slammed
the phone down.
His wife rolls over and asks, "Who was that?"
The husband replies, "I don’t know. Some guy who wanted to know if the
coast was clear."
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Yep, It Really Happened
*----
Man Completes Marathon While Juggling ----*
A Canadian man ran the Chicago Marathon while juggling three balls and completed
the race in less than three hours without dropping a single ball. Michal
Kapral, who also refers to himself as "The Joggler," finished the
race in two hours and 55 minutes, as he attempted to top his
"joggling" marathon world record of two hours and 50 minutes.
"My main goal was break my 2:50 record, but I had a somewhat secret
secondary goal of joggling a marathon without a drop in under 3 hours,"
Kapral wrote in a blog post. While Kapral didn't achieve his primary goal, he
managed to cross the finish line without a single drop despite some close
calls. He's completed a total of 33 marathons including his world record time
at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 2007 and shouted triumphantly
as he added a new accomplishment to his resume in Chicago.
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Usually Mis-learned in School
How
to pronounce old English phrases like "Ye Olde Shoppe"
A
phrase such as "Ye Olde Shoppe" is sure to make an appearance when
anything "old timey British" is needed. There are a couple of
problems with this phrase.
Firstly,
"Ye Olde" would probably have never been written in old English,
instead it would have been written "Ye Auld," since "Auld"
was one of the most common spellings in English for "old" until the
fairly recent times. Secondly, most people are pronouncing "Ye Olde Shoppe"
wrong. It isn't "Yee Old-ee Shopp-ee." It would actually have been
pronounced "The Old Shop," since "e" is silent and
"Ye" is simply the archaic way of writing "the."
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Birthdays Today
“♦” indicates age
at death
♦92ish Jupiter
Hammon, Lloyd Harbor NY, slave and poet, 1st African American to publish poetry
[d1805?]
90- Julie
Adams, Waterloo Iowa, actress (Yancy Derringer, Code Red)
♦89 Arthur Miller,
playwright (Death of a Salesman, Crucible), born in NYC, New York (d. 2005)
86- Jimmy
Breslin, Queens columnist (NY Post, News, Newsday), born in NYC, New York
♦85 Tom
Poston, actor (Steve Allen Show, Newhart), born in Columbus, Ohio [d2007]
♦84 Spring
Byington, Colo Springs, actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride) [d1971]
♦82 Beverly
Garland, Santa Cruz California, actress (My 3 Sons) [d2008]
♦81 Jerry
Siegel, comic book writer (Superman) [d1996]
74- Gary
Puckett, vocalist (& Union Gap-Woman Woman, Young Girl)
♦69- Robert
"Evel" Knievel,
American motorcycle daredevil (Snake River Canyon), born in Butte, Montana (d.
2007)
69- Michael
McKean, actor (Laverne & Shirley, Saturday Night Live, Spinal Tap), born in
NYC, New York
♦68 Rita
Hayworth, NY, [Marguerita C Casino], actress (Gilda, Pal Joey) [d1987]
68- George
Wendt, actor (Norm-Cheers), born in Chicago, Illinois
68- Margot
Kidder, Yellowknife, actress (Lois Lane, Amityville Horror)
60- Mae
Jemison, 1st African American woman in space (STS 47),
born in Decatur, Alabama
58- Alan
Jackson, Newnan Ga, country singer (Here in the Real World)
59- Dolph
Lundgren, actor (Rocky 4, Masters of Universe) [or Nov 3]
♦53 Paul
Bert, Auxerre, French Zoologist, Physiologist and pioneer of aerospace medicine
whose study of the effects of air pressure on the body, such as altitude
sickness and 'the bends', made possible space and ocean exploration [d1886]
48- Ziggy
Marley, reggae performer and son of Bob Marley
44- Eminem [Marshall
Bruce Mathers III], American rapper and movie star ('The Real Slim Shady',
'Stan' and '8 Mile'), born in St. Joseph , Missouri
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Historical Obits Today
@93-1868 Laura
Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812
@91-1910 Julia
Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic)
@76-2007 Teresa
Brewer, American pop and jazz singer, neuromuscular disease
@72-1991 Tennessee
Ernie Ford, country singer, liver disease
@64-1990 Ralph
Abernathy, civil rights activist, blood clots
@61-1967 Henry
Pu Yi, last emperor of China, cancer
@39-1849 Frederic Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, TB
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Brain Teasers Answers
Be
true to yourself.
BEETROOT
to YOURSELF (sound it out)
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Four
Columbus
traveled to the New World four times, exploring the Caribbean, the Gulf of
Mexico and parts of Central and South America. Though searching for a western
ocean route to Asia, he never found one. Source: history.com
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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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