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11.14.16 Week: 46 \ Day: 319
November Averages: 51°\22°
86004 Today: H 60° \
L 29° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 15mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 70°[1967] Record Low: -5°[1985]
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Quote of the Day
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
• Victor Hugo
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Observances Today
International Girls Day
International Selfie Day (Diabetes Foundation) Link
Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day
National American Teddy Bear Day Link
National Girls Day
National Spicy Guacamole Day Link
National Pickle Day
Spirit of NSA (National Speakers Association) Day
World Orphans Day
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Observances This Week
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
14-18
American Education Week Link
14-20
National Book Awards Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
•Today’s World Historical Highlights
•1524 Francisco
Pizarro begins his 1st great expedition, near Colombia
♦
1732 First professional librarian in north America,
Louis Timothee, hired in Philadelphia
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1832 First streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason)
debuts in NYC; fare 12 cents rode on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Sts
1851 "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville first
published by Harper and Brothers in the US
1881 Charles J. Guiteau put on trial for the
assassination of US President Garfield
1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth
Cochrane) begins her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's
Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in under 80 days. She succeeds,
finishing the trip in 72 days, 6 hours
•1896 Power plant at Niagara Falls
begins operation
♦
1904 King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade
•1908 Albert Einstein presents
his quantum theory of light
1957 The Appalachian Meeting outside Binghamton,
New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are
arrested.
1960 Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind"
reaches #1
1965 US
government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam
•1967 The
Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa
Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
1968 "National Turn in Your Draft Card
Day" features draft card burning
1968 Yale University announces it is going
co-educational
1969 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US
•1985 Volcano Nevado del Ruiz
Colombia erupts, 1000s killed
1987 "La Cage aux Folles" closes at
Palace Theater NYC after 1761 performances
1993 Don Shula becomes the coach with the most
wins in NFL history
1997 Disney's "Lion King" sets Broadway
record of $2,700,000 daily sale
♦
•2002 Argentina defaults on an $805
million World Bank payment.
2002 The
United States House of Representatives votes not to create an independent
commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Quiet
Sunday…get to watch the Broncos play and later the Cardinals. Why work? I
started to post the New Orleans trip on the Focus website, but ran into a
problem when I converted a PDF to a Word document. For some reason I can’t copy
pictures and can’t copy some of the text from the PDF…that should now be a Word
document. Frustrating. This will take some real concentration and just can’t
get it going today.
I
did watch my Sunday morning news programs. But for some unknown reason I didn’t
get my Sunday paper. I started checking about 7am and finally called the Call
Center somewhere in Montana. Automated voice said that it had been reported to
my carrier. BFD…she got the message, maybe, and didn’t bring the paper, or she
didn’t get the message. No humans until Monday. Frustrating. Oh, maybe there
just wasn’t enough news to print a paper. Oh well.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Diagramless
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
Diagramless
is a special form of crossword puzzle. It is the same, just you have no idea
where the black squares are, you have to use the answers to the clues and the
numbers of them to figure that out.
Can you figure this diagramless out?
It is just a small, 4x4 grid, and there are two black squares.
Across Clues:
1. Water Sport
5. Best Grade
6. __ top of; above
7. Place of relaxation
9. Water Level
Down Clues:
1. Opposite of future
2. Oxygen
3. Fill by putting on
4. Opposite of off
8. 3.14
10. Vowel between C and H
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
The
19th century meatpacker Samuel Wilson inspired what well-known image we see to
this day?
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…Harper’s Index…
2/3 – Portion of people who believe that businesses bear
as much responsibility as governments do for ‘positive social change’
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2 jokes for the day
"Hold
on, I get a feeling I've been here before."
"Why do you say that?"
"My phone automatically connected to the WiFi."
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As
patrons were shopping at the mall around Christmas, Bill and Fred heard a
commotion coming from the area where Santa greets the children. "What do
you suppose is going on?" asked Bill.
A nearby shopper told them that the new Santa Clause, an eccentric old fellow,
had attached dozens of clocks, watches, and other various timepieces onto his
big wide belt, circling his whole body.
"Let's go see him," said Fred. "He sounds like a nut, but it's
worth checking out."
"Naw, I'm not interested," replied Bill.
"Why don't you want to see Santa with a bunch of clocks tied around his
midriff?"
"I'll tell you why. It's a waist of time!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
*--
Men Take Taxi to Robbery, Don't Pay Driver --*
Two
men in New Jersey were arrested after taking a taxi to rob a home and refusing
to pay their driver. Kenneth Burke, 46, and Timothy Foote, 38, took a taxi to a
neighborhood in Deal Township and asked the driver to wait outside as the
entered a home. The two later emerged from the home with a television and
several liquor bottles and rode the cab back to an apartment in Asbury Park.
Upon their arrival Burke and Foote left the taxi without paying their fare,
prompting the driver to call Asbury Park police. Asbury Park police contacted
police in Deal, who determined the house had been burgled and returned the
stolen items. Burke and Foote taken to Monmouth County Correctional Institution
and charged with burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary, criminal trespassing
and theft.
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Birthdays Today
•indicates age at death
•94- Astrid Lindgren, Swedish
children book author (Pipi Longstocking) [d2002]
•94- Sherwood Schwartz, TV
creator (Brady Bunch, Gilligan Is), born in Passaic, New Jersey [d2011]
•90- Aaron Copland,
American composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring) (d. 1990), born in
Brooklyn, New York
•90- Rosemary DeCamp,
Prescott Az, actress (Love That Bob, That Girl) [d2001]
♦
•86- Claude Monet,
impressionist (Water Lilies), born in Paris, France (d. 1926)
♦
•77- Charles Lyell,
Scottish geologist (Principles of Geology), born in Kinnordy, Angus, Scotland
(d. 1875)
•75- Brian Keith, actor
(Bill-Family Affair, Loneliest Runner), born in Bayonne, New Jersey [d1997]
•74- Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st
Indian PM (1947-64) [d1964]
♦
69- P
J O'Rourke, writer (Easy Money) [d1996]
•68- McLean Stevenson, Normal
Ill, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry)
68- Prince
Charles [Charles Philip Arthur George], Prince of
Wales/Duke of Cornwall, born in London
62- Yanni,
new age musician (Live at the Acropolis, Sand Dance)
62- Condoleezza
Rice, 1st female African-American U.S. Secretary of State (2005-09), born in
Birmingham, Alabama
♦
•58- Dick Powell, Mt View
Ark, actor (Cry Danger, Dick Powell Theater) [d1963]
57- Bryan
Stevenson, American social justice activist and founder of
the Equal Justice Initiative, born in Milton, Delaware
52- Joseph
"Run" Simmons, New York, American rapper (Run DMC)
•50- Veronica Lake,
[Constance Ockleman], actress (I Married a Witch) (d. 1973)
♦
•49- Robert Fulton,
American inventor and engineer (1st commercial steamboat), born in Little
Britain, Pennsylvania (d. 1815)
•48- Joseph McCarthy,
American Senator, (Rep - Wisconsin) who claimed anti-communists had infiltrated
the US government, born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin (d. 1957)
44- Josh Duhamel, actor [transformers], married to Fergi, born in minot,
ND
•40- Ray Sharkey, actor (Wise
Guys, Wired, Caged Fear), born in Brooklyn, [d1993]
♦
•30- Marie François Xavier bichat,
anatomist and physiologist (tissue theory), born in Paris, France (d. 1802)
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Historical Obits Today
@91-2000 Robert
Trout, American journalist
♦
@84-1995 Jack
Finney, author (Body Snatchers), pneumonia
♦
@77-2014 Glen
Larson, American television producer & writer, esophageal cancer
♦
@63-1991 Tony
Richardson, British director (Tom Jones), AIDs
♦
@59-1915 Booker
T. Washington, educator/organizer, congestive heart failure
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@49-976 T'ai
tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty, murdered?
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Brain Teasers Answers
Here
are the answers to the rows.
Row 1 - POLO, Row 2 - A-ON, Row 3 - SPA-, Row 4 - TIDE
Here are the answers to the columns:
Column 1 - PAST, Column 2 - O-PI, Column 3 - LOAD, Column 4 - ON-E
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Uncle
Sam
Samuel
Wilson (1766-1854) was a meatpacker in Troy, New York, known for supplying
provisions to soldiers during the War of 1812. Notorious for stamping his meat
barrels with "U.S.," this developed into the nickname "Uncle
Sam" being circulated by the troops. 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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