Oct 2

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10.2.16 Week: 40 \ Day: 276

October Averages: 63°\31°

86004 Today: H 70° \ L 42° Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  19mph Visibility: 9 mi

Record High: 82°[1991]   Record Low: 18°[1971]

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Quote of the Day

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

~Hedy Lamarr

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Observances Today                                                  

Change A Light Day Link

Country Inn Bed & Breakfast Day

Guardian Angels Day Intergeneration Day

International African Diaspora Day

International Blessings of The Fishing Fleet Day (South Africa)

International Day of Non-violence

Islamic New Year

Name Your Car Day

National Custodial Worker Day

Oktoberfest in Germany ends

Phileas Fogg's Wager Day

Rosh Hashanah

World Communion Day

World Farm Animals Day

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Observances This Week

1-5	Trichotillomania, Skin Picking & Related BFRB Awareness Week  Link
1-7	National Walk Your Dog Week Link
1-7	Universal Children's Week
1-10	Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Link
2-8	4-H Week Link
2-8	Great Books Week
2-8	International Post Card Week Link
2-8	Mental Illness Awareness Week
2-8	Mystery Series Week
2-8	National Carry A Tune Week
2-8	National Chimney Safety Week
2-8	National Midwifery Week Link
2-8	National Work From Home Week
2-8	Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week

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Today’s US Historical Highlights

Today’s World Historical Highlights

1789 George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification

1836 Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle (after 5 years)

1866 J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener

1871 Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrested for bigamy

1889 1st Pan American conference (Washington, D.C.)

1889 In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.

1895 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper

1902 Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" is published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London

1916 San Diego Zoo founded

1919 US President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed 1935 Mussolini's Italian army attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1936 1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas

1939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF

1950 1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks", later "Peanuts", by Charles M. Schulz published in 9 papers

1957 NY Yankees appear in their 25th World Series

1957 "The Bridge on the River Kwai", directed by David Lean and starring William Holden and Alec Guinness, is released (Best Picture 1958)

1961 "Ben Casey" premieres on NBC-TV

1967 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice

1968 Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed

1970 Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30

1975 The Ulster Volunteer Force kill 7 civilians in a series of attacks across Northern Ireland; 6 were Catholic civilians and 1 was a Protestant civilian

1978 Syrian & Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed

1979 Pope John Paul II visits New York City, and at the U.N. denounces all concentration camps and torture

1982 The Portland Building, designed by Michael Graves, considered the 1st postmodern building is opened in Portland Oregon

1988 24th Olympic games close at Seoul, Korea

1991 Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 professional tennis matches

2001 NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11

2006 Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.

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My Rambling Thoughts

So much for weather people. Last night we were told to expect a dry and warm weekend. By mid-afternoon we have already had 3 rain storms and it still isn’t clearing up. Not complaining about the moisture we can always use. Just with the weather people were a tad more accurate.

Started the day doing some laundry as I looked into the sky and saw the ominous clouds I decided not to head out for anything.

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Brain Teasers

(answers at the end of post)

Alternate

Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.

In the young, I am found,

A maker of games,

A leap, and a bound

From reality's reins.

When no muse is to be found,

Artists turn to me;

Marvel in my sights and sounds

And copy what they see.

Inventors ride upon my back,

Jump over truths that block the way;

In this way escape the track

And drag back home their prey.

Have me, use me, hold me dear

But never fall in love with me.

From me you have nothing to fear

Unless of course you trust me.

A child's plaything,

An artist's friend,

An inventor's steed,

And sanity's end.

What am I?

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Today’s Trivia Hive

(answers at the end of post)

What percentage of the human brain is water?

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…Harper’s Index…

20 – Percentage of adults in the UK who have forgotten how to calculate percentages

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2 jokes for the day

Keep the Line Open

“Hello, police department? I’ve lost my cat and… "

“I'm sorry lady, but this is not a police job, you can try calling…"

“But you don’t understand, this is a very intelligent cat. He is almost human. He can practically talk.”

“Well, in that case ma'am, you’d better hang up. He may be trying to call you right now.”

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How Many Bricks? 

While visiting Annapolis, a lady tourist noticed several students on their hands and knees assessing the courtyard with pencils and clipboards in hand.

"What are they doing?" she asked the tour guide.

"Each year," he replied with a grin, "the upperclassmen ask the freshmen how many bricks it took to finish paving this courtyard."

When they were out of earshot of the freshmen, the curious lady asked the guide: "So, what's the answer?"

The guide replied: "One."

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Yep, It Really Happened

*-- Angry deer attempts to enter SUV after being hit by driver --*

HOWELL, N.J. - A New Jersey woman fended off an attack from an angry deer seeking revenge after she hit the animal with her car. Howell police Patrolman Nicholas Austin captured dash cam footage of the encounter between driver Ellen Sager and the angry deer who crossed the road and attempted to enter her vehicle, according to New Jersey.com. "It was mad, real mad," Sager said. "It happened so fast. I just grabbed a handful of antlers and tried to keep it from killing me." The deer managed to pry Sager's door open, ultimately forcing her to kick the wounded animal down to the ground, according to PIX11. Sager suffered a minor knee injury from the scuffle and police said the deer eventually died due to injuries sustained from the crash.          

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Somewhat Useless Information

In 1966, Time Magazine predicted, "By 2000, the machines will be producing so much that everyone in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy." In that year too CoCo Chanel said about miniskirts: "It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming."

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In 1954, a concert manager fired Elvis Presley, saying, "You ought to go back to driving a truck." In 1962, Decca Records rejected the Beatles, "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."

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In 1894, A.A. Michelson, who with E.W. Morley seven years earlier experimentally demonstrated the constancy of the speed of light, said that the future of science would consist of "adding a few decimal places to the results already obtained."

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After the invention of the transistor in 1947, several US electronics companies rejected the idea of a portable radio. Apparently it was thought nobody would want to carry a radio around. When Bell put the transistor on the market in 1952 they had few takers apart from a small Japanese start-up called Sony. They introduced the transistor radio in 1954.

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Irish scientist, Dr. Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859) didn't believe that trains could contribute much in speedy transport. He wrote: "Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers 'would die of asphyxia' [suffocation]."

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In 1943, Thomas Watson, the chairman of IBM forecast a world market for "maybe only five computers." Years before IBM launched the personal computer in 1981, Xerox had already successfully designed and used PCs internally... but decided to concentrate on the production of photocopiers. Even Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, said in 1977, "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

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How products got their name

Popsicle

When Frank Epperson applied for a patent on his frozen treat back in 1924, the product was called "the Epsicle ice pop." Legend has it that his children prompted the name change of their pop's "sicle."

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Birthdays Today

“[ ]” indicates age at death

[86] Groucho Marx, [Julius], comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life), born in NYC [d1977]

[86] [Henry] Graham Greene, English novelist (Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory), born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire (d. 1991)

[84] H V Porter, basketball pioneer, created fan shape backboard [d1975]

[78] Mahatma Gandhi [Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi], Indian pacifist and spiritual leader, born in Porbandar, Kathiawar Agency, India (d. 1948)

[78] Bud Abbott, Asbury Pk NJ, comedian (Abbott & Costello) [d1974]

78- Rex Reed, movie critic/actor (Myra Breckinridge), born in Fort Worth, Texas

[73] Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff], Famous Russian clown, born in Dvinsk, Russian Empire (d. 1974)

71- Don McLean, New Rochelle NY, singer/songwriter (American Pie, Vincent)

68- Donna Karan, Forest Hills NY, fashion designer (Coty Award-1977)

[67] Johnnie Cochran, attorney (OJ Simpson defense attorney) [d2005]

67- Annie Leibovitz, American photographer (Rolling Stones), born in Waterbury, Connecticut

65- Sting, [Gordon Sumner], rock vocalist (Police-Roxanne)/actor (Dune)

[64] George Emmett McFarland, Dallas, act (Spanky-Our Gang/Little Rascals) [d1993]

62- Lorraine Bracco, actress (Sopranos, Goodfellas), born in Brooklyn, New York

[57] Chris LeDoux, Biloxi Miss, country singer (Ridin' for a Fall) [d2005]

55- Esai Morales, American actor (Bad Boys, La Bamba), born in New York City, New York

46- Kelly Ripa, actress (Hayley Vaughan-All My Children), born in Statford, New Jersey

[37] Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist, author, and occultist (d. 1952)

[31] Nat Turner, American leader of a major slave rebellion in 1831, born in Southampton County, Virginia (d. 1831)

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Historical Obits Today

@92-1846 Benjamin Waterhouse, American physician co-founder of Harvard Medical School and smallpox vaccine pioneer

@91-1998 Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (b. 1907)

@87-2005 Nipsey Russell, American comedian

@84-1973 Paul Hartman, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction)

@83-1993 Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus)

@81-1968 Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (Nude Descending a Staircase)

@81-1803 Samuel Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party) and politician

@80-1994 Harriet Nelson, American actress

@76-1973 Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi, who won 6 Olympic gold medals

@59-1985 Rock Hudson, actor (MacMillian & Wife), AIDS

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Brain Teasers Answers

Imagination

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Trivia Hive  Answers

73%

Water is so important to the human body. 64% of your skin contains water, your muscles and kidneys are 79%, your bones are made of 31% water and even your brain is 73% water. Make sure that you are getting your hydration by drinking between 2.2 to 3 liters of water a day! Source: USGS Water Science School

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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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