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10.24.16 Week: 43
\ Day: 298
October Averages:
63°\31°
86004 Today: H 71° \ L 41°
Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts:
31mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 79°[1959]
Record Low: 9°[1975]
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Quote of the Day
Change before you have to.
~Jack Welch
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Observances
Today
Food Day Link
Lung Health Day Link
World Development Information Day
Independence
Day (Zambia-1964-from UK)
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Observances This
Week
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17-24
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Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
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23-29
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National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Link
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23-29
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National Massage Therapy Week Link
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23-29
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National Respiratory Care Week Link
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23-29
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Give Wildlife a Brake! Week Link
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23-29
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Kids Care Week
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23-29
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Pro Bono Week Link
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23-29
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Rodent Awareness Week
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23-31
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Red Ribbon Week Link
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24-30
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Disarmament Week
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24-28
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Nuclear Science Week
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24-31
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Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week
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24-11/11
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World Origami Days
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Today’s US
Historical Highlights
♦ Today’s World Historical Highlights
♦ 1260 The
spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX
of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
♦ 1818 Felix
Mendelssohn, 9, performs his first public concert (Berlin)
1836 Earliest American patent
for a phosphorus friction match by Alonzo Dwight Phillips of Springfield,
Massachusetts
1861 First US transcontinental
telegram is sent (from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.)
1871 Mob in Los Angeles,
California hang 18 Chinese
♦ 1881 Levi
P Morton, US ambassador to France drives first rivet in Statue of Liberty
♦ 1901 First
woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)
1911 Orville Wright remained
in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North
Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.
1926 Harry Houdini's last
performance, at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan
1929 "Black
Thursday", start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%
1931 George Washington Bridge
linking New York City and New Jersey dedicated, opens the next day
1933 Langston Hughes'
"Mulatto" premieres in NYC
♦ 1935 Italy
invades Ethiopia
♦ 1939 Nazi
require wearing of Star of David by Jews
1939 Nylon stockings go on
sale for first time (Wilmington, Delaware)
♦ 1945 Charter
of United Nations comes into effect
1947 Series of forest fires
$30 million of timber (New England States)
1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges
United States support to South Vietnam
1956 Margaret Towner becomes
first woman to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the United States of
America (PCUSA)
1962 Cuban missile crisis: US
blockade of Cuba begins
♦ 1964 18th
Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan
1970 Nancy Walker creates Ida
Morgenstein role on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
1976 7th NYC Marathon won by
Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10
♦ 1981 Pablo
Picasso's 1937 painting Guernica goes on display in Madrid Spain to celebrate
the centenary of the artist's birth
♦ 2008 "Bloody
Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experienced the worst
declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.
♦ 2009 First
International Day of Climate Action, organized with 350.org, a global campaign
to address a claimed global warming crisis.
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My Rambling
Thoughts
So glad that it is almost Election Day. So tired of the blah, blah,
blah.
Nice quiet Sunday. Caught up on the news programs and am still shaking
my head with the stories on American politics. The only hard thing for me to
understand is how there can be any ‘undecided’ voters. However, I’m sure they
have decided and are just looking to get on TV or be interviewed.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Words Within a Word #4
Language brain teasers are those that involve the
English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
In this teaser you must place a 3-letter word on the dashes to complete
a word on the left and to begin another word with those letters on the right.
Example:
e a r _ _ _ m e = e a r T H Y/ T H Y m e
1. f e a t _ _ _ o i c = ?
2. c o u r _ _ _ n d a = ?
3. d i s p _ _ _ o v e r = ?
4. k e e _ _ _ s i s t = ?
5. r u n _ _ _ i c e = ?
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Today’s Trivia
Hive
(answers at the end of post)
What icon of horror cinema is known for his razor-studded shearing glove
and striped sweater?
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…Harper’s Index…
4,000,000 – Estimated number
of South Korean teenagers who attend Internet-addiction-prevention programs
each year
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2 jokes for the
day
True hospitality is making your guests feel like they ARE at home...
... all the while you really wish they WERE at home!
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Owner of an aircraft manufacturing company stopped by the aircraft
testing airfield to check on the newest test pilot.
He asked the supervisor how the new guy was doing. "Terrible! He has
already crashed four planes this week!"
Owner replied, "How is this possible? Where did he work before coming
here?"
Supervisor said, "He designed Windows software for Microsoft."
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Yep, It Really
Happened
*---- Pepper Burned Hole in Man's Esophagus ----*
A team of San Francisco-area doctors detailed the case of a 47-year-old man
whose attempt at eating ghost peppers caused a rupture in his esophagus. The
Journal of Emergency Medicine case report, authored by Dr. Craig Smollin and
his team, said the man was participating in an eating contest at a San
Francisco restaurant when he wolfed down a hamburger topped with ghost peppers,
which have more than twice the heat of habanero peppers. "To our
knowledge, no significant adverse effects of ghost pepper ingestion have been
reported," the case report's abstract states. The man suffered severe
vomiting and dry-heaving after ingesting the peppers, leading him to be
admitted to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. Doctors
discovered the man had suffered a 1-inch rupture in his esophagus, which
allowed food debris and air to end up inside his chest and collapse one of his
lungs. "There are many people who have ghost peppers and most people don't
develop any type of severe symptoms," Smollin told The Los Angeles Times.
"This case serves as an important reminder of a potentially
life-threatening surgical emergency initially interpreted as discomfort after a
large spicy meal," the study authors wrote.
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Usually
Mis-learned in School
George
Washington's teeth were made out of wood
A popular misconception is that George Washington had wooden teeth. In
actuality, Washington had teeth that were made out of a number of different
things. This included bone, hippopotamus ivory, human teeth, brass screws,
lead, and gold metal wire, gold, donkey
teeth, and human teeth.
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Birthdays Today
“♦” indicates age at death
♦ 90- Antony
van Leeuwenhoek, Hol, naturalist (Philosophical Transactions) [d1723]
♦ 85- Main
Rousseau Bocher, uniform designer (Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Waves) [d1976]
♦ 83 Bob
Kane, American cartoonist.(DC Comics-Batman) (d. 1998)
80- Bill
Wyman, England, rocker (Rolling Stones-Under My Thumb)
♦ 74 David
Nelson, American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), born in NYC, New
York [d2011]
69- Kevin
Kline, actor (Sophie's Choice, Big Chill), born in St.
Louis, Missouri
♦ 57 Moss Hart,
playwright (You Can't Take it With You, Act 1), born in The Bronx, [d1951]
56- B
D Wong, actor (Freshman, Mystery Date), born in San Francisco, California
30- Drake [Aubrey
Drake Graham], rapper
♦ 28- Big
Bopper, [JP Richardson], Sabine Pass Tx, vocalist (Chantiily Lace) [d1959]
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Historical Obits
Today
@95-2015 Maureen O'Hara
[FitzSimons], Irish-American actress and singer (Miracle on 34th St, The Quiet
Man)
@92-2005 Rosa
Parks, American civil rights activist
@70-1991 Gene
Roddenberry, creator (Star Trek), cardiac arrest
@70-1852 Daniel
Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, stroke
@64-1842 Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean
independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule, heart disease
@54-1994 Raul
Julia, actor (Addams Family), stroke
@53-1972 Jackie
Robinson, 1st African American baseball player (Bkln
Dodgers), heart attack
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Brain Teasers
Answers
1. featHER / HERoic
2. courAGE / AGEnda
3. dispLAY / LAYover
4. keePER / PERsist
5. runOFF / OFFice
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Trivia Hive Answers
Freddy Krueger
Freddy Krueger made his movie debut in 1984's "A Nightmare on Elm
Street." With his disfigured face, razor-studded gloves and sardonic
attitude, he has gone on to terrorize the dreams of fictional teenagers for
over thirty years. Source: IMDB
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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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