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11.10.16 Week: 45 \ Day: 315
November Averages: 51°\22°
86004 Today: H 59° \
L 31° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 71°[1973] Record Low: 5°[1946]
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Quote of the Day
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times
control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
<John Muir
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Observances Today
Area
Code Day
Guinness
World Records Day
International
Tempranillo Day Link
Kristallnacht
USMC Birthday
- 1775
NET Cancer Awareness Day Link
Sesame Street Day
Windows Day (Microsoft)
World Science Day for Peace and Development Link
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Observances This Week
6-12
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week Link
7-11
Give
Wildlife A Brake! Week
Link
National
Young Reader's Week Link
7-13
Dear
Santa Letter Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
• Today’s World Historical Highlights
•1619 René
Descartes has the dream that inspire his "Meditations on First
Philosophy"
•1674 Dutch
formally cede New Netherlands (New York) to the English
•1793 France
ends forced worship of God
•1871 Henry
Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake
Tanganyika in Central Africa, with the immortal words 'Dr Livingstone, I
presume?'
•1885 German
engineer Gottlieb Daimler unveils the world's first motorcycle
1891 1st Women's Christian Temperance Union meeting
held (in Boston)
1908 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1911 Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie
Corporation (for scholarly & charitable works)
1917 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White
House
•1917 New
bolshevik government under Lenin suspends freedom of press
(temporary) during October Revolution
•1918 Western
Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded
message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on
land, sea and in the air
1919 1st observance of National Book Week
1919 American Legion's 1st national convention
(Minneapolis)
1924 Dion
O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by
members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in
Chicago.
•1937 Brazilian
dictator Getulio Vargas proclaims "Estado novo"
1938 Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck
(Good Earth)
•1938 Second
day of Kristallnacht: pogrom against the Jews in Germany and Austria after
assassination of a German diplomat in Paris
1940 Walt Disney begins serving as an informer
for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on
Hollywood subversives.
1950 Nobel for literature awarded to William
Faulkner
1951 1st long distance telephone call without
operator assistance
1954 Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag)
dedicated in Arlington
1969 "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV
1971 US table tennis team arrived in China
1975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29
lost in storm on Lake Superior
• 1975 PLO
leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC
1980 Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays
$12.55 fare
1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened
1983 US Federal government shut down
1991 Martina Navratilova ties Chris Evert with
157 pro tennis tournament wins
•1995 In
Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight
others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are
hanged by government forces
1997 Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to
tax fraud & time served
•2007 ¿Por
qué no te callas? ("Why don't you shut up?") incident between King
Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.
2012 The final US presidential election results are
declared after Barack Obama wins Florida to defeat Mitt Romney 332-206
in Electoral College votes
2014 Ethel Kennedy is awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom
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My Rambling Thoughts
OK,
I watched history take place last night and this morning. Certainly not the
history I had hoped for by a long shot. When I crashed last night, it didn’t
look good but I decided that I needed a good night’s sleep so I could clearly
think when the results were finalized. I woke up at 5a and turned on NPR.
Decided to stay in bed and listen, contemplate, and deal with the results.
Later this morning I heard Hillary and Obama talk to all Americans. I did feel
a little better. Went to Sam’s for my weekly shopping there. The lady who
usually checks me out said her ‘regulars’ just want to talk and talk to deal with
today. I didn’t talk politics with her, never do, but she was happy just to
talk about our beautiful fall weather.
I
have always rallied behind a new President, even when I thought the country had
made the wrong choice. This time feels different. I just hope I can accept his
win and watch our country become united.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Compound Couples
Language brain teasers are those that involve
the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Compound
words are pairings of existing words; e.g. brainstorm. Each word affects the
overall meaning.
Some word pairs can be compounded in two ways. Use the given clues to find
these "compound couples".
** EXAMPLE **
short range firearm & the blast from a firearm [7]
= shotgun & gunshot
** CLUES **
1. pass & company merger [8]
2. escape & the start of a war [8]
3. delay & maintain [6]
4. shelf set & detective's diary [8]
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
Which
document did U.S. President James Madison sign on June 18, 1812?
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…Harper’s Index…
2/5 – Portion of European countries that have laws
prohibiting women from wearing certain religious attire
♦
1/5 – Of Middle Eastern and North African countries that
have laws requiring women to wear certain religious attire
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2 jokes for the day
My
credit is so bad, I received a credit card offer that was PRE-DECLINED
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Johnny
paid his way through college by being a waiter in a restaurant.
"What's the usual tip?" asked a customer.
"Well," said Johnny, "this is my first day, but the other guys
said that, if I got five dollars out of you, I'd be doing great."
"Is that so?" growled the customer. "In that case, here's twenty
dollars."
"Thanks. I'll put it in my college fund," Johnny said.
"By the way, what are you studying?" asked the customer.
"Applied psychology."
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Yep, It Really Happened
Then
Again, Maybe the Australians Are Onto Something
A
father was arrested after shooting his baby while he was repairing his gun. The
North Dakota father was arrested for shooting his 6-month-old daughter while
she was in his care. 36-year-old Christopher Simmons was charged with reckless
endangerment, and he faces five years in prison. Bismarck police said the
Simmons told officers that his rifle malfunctioned so he tried to repair it
when it accidentally fired a round. The bullet hit the baby in the left side of
the neck, police said. The baby was rushed to a hospital and she is expected to
recover.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Sweating
from stress and sweating to cool down are chemically different. When you sweat
because you're hot, it comes from your eccrine glands, but when you sweat
because you're stressed, it comes from your apocrine glands.
***
You
have between 2 and 4 million sweat glands in your body. Your feet alone have
about 250,000 sweat glands between them.
***
The
name for absent sweating (or not sweating at all) is anhidrosis, which is
dangerous because your body can overheat.
***
The
more in shape you are, the more quickly and profusely your body will sweat. It
does this to cool itself down so you can work out at a greater intensity for a
longer period of time.
***
Sweat
has a stinky reputation, but sweat itself doesn't actually smell. The odor
comes from the bacteria on your skin instead.
***
Hippos'
sweat is red. The colored pigment both acts a sunscreen and kills bacteria.
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Birthdays Today
•indicates age at death
•77- Claude Rains, actor
(Invisible Man, Casablanca), born in London, England [d1967]
•77- George Fenneman,
American radio and TV announcer (You Bet Your Life), born in Peking China (d.
1997)
•75- Roy Scheider, actor
(Jaws, The French Connection, Marathon Man, Paper Lion) (d. 2008)
74- Robert
F. Engle, American economist and 2003 Nobel laureate for
economic time series analysis, born in Syracuse, New York •72- Russell
Means, Native American activist, (d. 2012)
•72- Jane Froman,
singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1980)
71- Donna
Fargo, NC, country singer (Happiest Girl in Whole USA)
♦
•62- Martin Luther,
Founder of Protestantism, born in Eisleben Germany (d. 1546)
60- Sinbad
[David
Adkins], comedian/actor (Different World, At the Apollo)
♦
•58- Richard Burton, stage
and screen actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf), born in Pontrhydyfen, South Wales
[d1984]
57- MacKenzie
Phillips, Alexandria Va, actress (Julie-1 Day at a Time)
♦
38- Eve
[Jeffers-Cooper], American rapper and actress, born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
•36- Patrick Pearse, Irish
political activist (d. 1916)
•35- 2nd Earl of
Essex/cousin/lover of Elizabeth I [1601]
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Historical Obits Today
@91-2010 Dino
De Laurentiis, Italian film producer
•
@87-2006 Jack
Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
@84-2007 Norman
Mailer, American novelist
@80-1956 Harry
Ford Sinclair, founder of Sinclair Oil
•
@79-1970 Charles
DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French)
@75-1982 Leonid
Brezhnev, Soviet Leader, General Secretary (1964-82), heart
attack
@71-1992 Kevin Joseph Aloysius ‘Chuck’
Connors, US NBA Boston Celtics; baseballer; actor (rifleman)
•
@66-2001 Ken
Kesey, American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), surgery complications
•
@57-ish-1777 Cornstalk,
Shawnee chief-killed when visiting Fort
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
overtake & takeover
2. breakout & outbreak
3. holdup & uphold
4. casebook & bookcase
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Declaration
of War
On
June 8, 1812, President James Madison declared war on England by signing
Congress' official declaration of war. While there may have been many
underlying motives that started the war, one of the main reasons it began was
because Britain blockaded French ports. They demanded that American ships dock
in Britain first and pay a fee before making their way to France. Source:
americaslibrary.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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