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11.13.16 Week: 46 \ Day: 318
November Averages: 51°\22°
86004 Today: H 59° \
L 27° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts: 11mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 72°[1967] Record Low: -3°[2000]
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Quote of the Day
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We
ourselves must walk the path.
• Buddha
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Observances Today
International Day of Prayer for The Persecuted Church Link
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Observances This Week
7-13
Dear Santa Letter Week
11-13
National Donor Sabath
12-20
National Hunger &
Homeless Awareness Week Link
13-19
Geography Awareness Week Link
International Restorative Justice Week Link
Perioperative Nurse Week Link
National Radiologic Technology Week Link
National Split Pea Soup Week Link
World Kindness Week Link
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
•Today’s World Historical Highlights
•1715 Battle
of Sheriffmuir during Jacobite rebellion. Battle inconclusive but Government
forces halt advance of Jacobite army lead by Scottish Earl of Mar
1775 American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal
1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . .
certain but death & taxes"
•1841 James
Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study
of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
1843 Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts
1851 The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first
settlers of what would become Seattle, Washington.
1865 US issues 1st gold certificates
1868 American Philological Association organized in
NY
1895 First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
•1902 "Heart
of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad is first published in one volume
(previously serialized) by William Blackwood in Edinburgh
1909 Collier's magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of
the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
1913 1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary
Phelps Jacob
1920 Hudson River frozen at Albany
1921 "The
Sheik", a silent film starring Rudolph Valentino, is released
1922 Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY
1933 1st modern sit-down strike by Hormel meat
packers in Austin, Minnesota
1937 NBC forms first full-sized symphony orchestra
exclusively for radio
1938 America's first saint, Mother Frances Cabrini,
beatified
1940 Walt
Disney's animated film "Fantasia" released
1942 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1946 First artificial snow produced from a natural
cloud, Mt Greylock, MA
1952 False fingernails 1st sold
1955 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign
country-Havana Cuba
1956 US Supreme court rules race separation on
buses in Alabama unconstitutional
•1968 William
Craig, Home Affairs Minister, bans all marches, with the exception of
'customary' parades, in Derry, Northern Ireland; the exception of 'customary'
parades meant that Loyalist institutions could parade but civil rights marches
could not
1970 VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives
"impudent snobs"
1977 Final Al Capp comic strip of "Li'l
Abner" (1934-77)
1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington,
D.C.
1986 US President Reagan confesses weapon
sales to Iran
2001 War on Terrorism: In the first such act since
World War II, US President George W. Bushsigns an executive order allowing
military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist
acts or planned acts on the United States.
2002 Eminem releases single 'Lose Yourself'
from soundtrack of 8 Mile, 1st rap song to win Academy Award Best Original Song
•2015 Terror
attacks in Paris at 3 locations leave at least 129 dead. Isis claim
responsibility
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another
nice fall day at 7000’. Blue sky, not too cool, lots of kids playing outside…really
enjoy this town.
Bill
Maher, the comedian, did a great show that I watched this morning. He is very
liberal, but gave some sage advice to those who did not support the winner.
Glad I watched it, as it puts the events of the last week in a better
perspective.
Time
to update the Focus Travel Club site…just got an email with the new Louisiana
tour. It will be up on the internet machine on Sunday,..
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Love
Riddles
are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles
frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
I
represent love.
I'm the daughter of Heaven and Sea.
You may find me in the sky above,
And many envy my beauty.
My love belongs to fire,
But if I said I was true to him
I would be a liar,
But I have no shame for my whims.
My son taught many to love.
To me the only earthly items of worth
Are myrtle, sparrow, swan, and dove.
And no one remembers my birth.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
Archivist
and music historian Alan Lomax worked for what American cultural organization?
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…Harper’s Index…
457 – Number of stolen weapons returned to the Israel
Defense Forces during an amnesty period this year
1,247,744 – Number of rounds of ammunition
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2 jokes for the day
A
man takes his place in the theater, but his seat is too far from the stage. He
whispers to the usher, "This is a mystery, and I have to watch a mystery
close up. Get me a better seat, and I'll give you a handsome tip."
The usher moves him into the second row, and the man hands the usher a quarter.
The usher looks at the quarter, leans over and whispers, "The wife did
it."
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Wife:
"No, I'm telling you, I'm right! He couldn't eat the Trix because he was
an adult rabbit and Trix were only supposed to be for kids."
Husband: "Well, I always thought it was just because he was a rabbit and
not a person."
[A period of silence -- the wife looks down at her food.]
Husband: "What's wrong?"
Wife: "I'm just really getting tired of you always being wrong."
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Yep, It Really Happened
*----------
They Went Out With a Bang ----------*
A young
couple having sex in a car inside a garage reportedly made the deadly mistake
of turning on the ignition to keep warm. The pair died from carbon monoxide
poisoning, according to Russian media. Relatives found them naked and locked in
each other's arms in the garage of the man's parents. Russian media reportedly
identified the couple as 18-year-old Artem S. and 20-year-old Anna D. from Ufa,
in southern central Russia. Police said they believed the pair wanted to turn
the heat on as temperatures dipped below freezing. Family members said Artem
and Anna claimed they were going out for a walk -- but wound up in his car. The
two had been dating for just a few months. He'd just graduated from catering
college and wanted to open an auto body shop, because they teach drastically
different things in catering colleges in Russia.
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Birthdays Today
•indicates age at death
•84- Louis D Brandeis, Mass,
68th Supreme Court Justice (d1941)
•81- Garry Marshall, TV and
film director (Happy Days, Pretty Woman), born in NYC, New York (d. 2016)
69- Joe
Mantegna, actor (House of Games, Weeds), born in Chicago, Illinois
•67- Richard Mulligan, actor
(Soap, Empty's Nest, Big Bus), born in The Bronx, [d2000]
62- Scott
McNealy, American CEO of Sun Microsystems
62- Christopher
Noth, US actor (Law and Order, The Good Wife), born in Madison, Wisconsin
•61- Oskar Werner, film
actor/director (The Shoes of the Fisherman, Das Ekel) [d1984]
61- Whoopi
Goldberg [Caryn Johnson], American actress, comedian and
singer (Color Purple, Burglar), born in NYC
•52- Dack Rambo, Delano
California, actor (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas) [d1994]
49- Steve
Zahn, American actor (Reality Bites)
49- Jimmy
Kimmel, American TV host and producer (Jimmy Kimmel Live!), born in Brooklyn,
New York
•44- Robert Louis Stevenson,
Scottish author (Treasure Island), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1894)
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Historical Obits Today
@77-1973 Elsa Schiaparelli,
Italian fashion designer
@76-1868 Gioachino
(Antonio) Rossini, composer (Barber of Seville), pneumonia
@73-1903 Camille Pissarro,
French Impressionist painter
@72-2005 Vine
Deloria, Jr., Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist,
stroke
@62-1093 Malcolm
III (Canmore, "Big Head") King of Scots, dies in battle at Alnwick,
Northumberland. Historical figure Shakespeare's character based on.
@57-1983 "Alvin"
Junior Samples, country singer (Hee Haw), heart attack
@28-1974 Karen
Silkwood, killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances
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Brain Teasers Answers
The
goddess Venus.
Line 1: She represents love, fertility, and beauty.
2: She is known as the daughter of Heaven and Sea.
3: Venus is also a Planet.
4: Same as line 1.
6-8: She was married to Vulcan the God of fire, but had affairs with many
others.
9: Her son was Cupid.
10-11: Those were known to be sacred to her.
12: There are 2 theories of her birth.
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Library
of Congress
Lomax
worked for the Library of Congress from 1933 to 1996. During his time at the
institution, he traveled the country documenting key American folk artists,
including Howlin Wolf, Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie. He passed away in 2002 at
the age of 87, leaving behind a huge library of field recordings. Source: The
American Folklife Center.
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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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