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11.16.16 Week: 46 \ Day: 321
November Averages: 51°\22°
86004 Today: H 67° \
L 31° Average Sky Cover: %
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts: 9mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 70°[1981] Record Low: -1°[1964]
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Quote of the Day
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always
some reason in madness.
< Friedrich Nietzsche
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Observances Today
Admission Day (Oklahoma)
International Day for Tolerance Link
National Educational Support Professionals Day
UN International Day for Tolerance
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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
•1532 Francisco
Pizarro captures Incan Emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca
1676 1st colonial prison organized, Nantucket Mass
1764 Native Americans surrender to British in Indian
War of Chief Pontiac
1798 Kentucky becomes first state to nullify an act
of Congress
1801 First edition of New York Evening Post
1824 NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
1835 Charles
Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society
•1849 A Russian court sentences
Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical
intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1875 William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to
impact gold into cavities
•1894 6,000 Armenians
massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
•1920 Australia's Qantas airways
founded in Winton, Queensland as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial
Services Limited
1925 American Association for Advancement of
Atheism forms (NY)
1933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations
with USSR
•1938 LSD (Lysergic acid
diethylamide) is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the
Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
1939 Al
Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
1945 Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY,
1st US Jewish College
1945 Founding of UNESCO (United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
1945 "The Lost Weekend", based on Charles
R. Jackson's novel, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland
and Jane Wyman is released (Best Picture 1946)
•1948 Operation Magic Carpet - 1st
plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
•1950 Egyptian King Faruk demands
departure of all British troops
1950 US president Harry Truman proclaims emergency
crisis caused by communist threat
1957 Celtic Bill Russell sets NBA record
of 49 rebounds beat Philadelphia 111-89
1959 "Sound of Music" opens at Lunt
Fontanne Theater NYC for 1443 performances
•1961 United Kingdom limits
immigration from Commonwealth countries
1961 US President JFK decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing US combat troops
1963 Touch-tone telephone introduced
1965 Walt Disney launches Epcot Center:
Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
•1968 The Derry Citizens Action
Committee defies a ban on marches in Derry, Northern Ireland, by marching with
an estimated 15,000 people
•1969 1968 Mỹ
Lai massacre of between 347 and 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by US
soldiers is first reported
1969 US President Nixon becomes first president to
attend a season NFL game while in office: the Dallas Cowboys beat the
Washington Redskins 41-28
•1971 The Compton inquiry is
published, acknowledging that there was ill-treatment of internees, but
rejected claims of systematic brutality or torture (Northern Ireland)
1973 US President Richard Nixon authorizes
construction of Alaskan pipeline
1976 Rick Barry (SF), ends then longest NBA
free throw streak of 60
1981 President Reagan decides on a covert plan
to block the Cuban aid to Nicaragua and El Salvador
1985 President Reagan arrives in Geneva for a
summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
•1988 Pakistan's Benazir
Bhutto's PPP wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years
•1993 Russian President Yeltsin
shuts Lenin museum
•1997 After nearly 18 years of
incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a
pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
2000 Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S.
President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
•2015 Largest diamond discovered in
more than a century - 1,111 carat stone found in the Karowe mine, Botswana
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My Rambling Thoughts
Had
to go on another search for light bulbs…I can’t believe it. In my laundry there
is a fixture with an enclosed white glass dome. None of my new-fangled
lightbulbs would fit and allow the cover to be put back on. Headed to Home
Depot and found some 60W daylight LED bulbs. They ain’t cheap, and are
guaranteed to last 22 years. Oh well, they fit, make the laundry room much
brighter, so I am satisfied.
I
started out the day trying to update the Focus Travel website. Finally gave up
and called our contact at Tumlare about my problem. She sent me the original
word document and things are working. Saved all the stuff I needed to, will
proof it tomorrow morning and ‘take it live’. I learned many moons ago no to
publish anything when it is finished. It must sit and be re-read for simple
errors. The one exception is this post…which I know has the occasional mess up.
Ye
olde weatherman tells us that this is our last day of warm temps for quite a
while. A cold front is on the way and will bring big wind tomorrow with temps
about 20° cooler than we have had. Not
ready, but I guess that doesn’t matter.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Word
Jumble 5 - The Gemstone Series
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
Unscramble
the words below, then take the letters from each word as instructed to form
another word that is the answer to this teaser:
TLEM - Take letters 1,2 & 4
ELTA - Take letters 1 & 3
MSURT - Take letter 1
HMEYR - Take letters 2 & 3
Unscramble the letters you collected... what do you get?
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
What
day of remembrance is also commemorated on Veteran's Day?
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…Harper’s Index…
$28,000 – Amount a Swiss firm charges parents for names
designed to maximize their child’s future success
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2 jokes for the day
Carlos
told his wife he wanted a guitar to play while sitting in the Jacuzzi.
The next day she bought him an electric guitar.
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At
a party of professionals, a doctor was having difficulty socializing. Everyone
wanted to describe their symptoms and get an opinion about diagnosis. The
doctor turned to a lawyer acquaintance and asked, "How do you handle
people who want advice outside of the office?"
"Simple," answered the lawyer, "I send them a bill. That stops
it."
The next day, the doctor, still feeling a bit reserved about what he had just
finished doing, opened his mailbox to send out the bills. Much to his surprise,
there sat a bill from the lawyer.
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Somewhat Useless Information
In
colonial times and into the early decades of the 19th century, most teachers were
men. From the 1820s to 1830s, as more public schools (called Common Schools)
were built and more men were siphoned off by more prestigious professions,
women began to take over the schoolroom. The feminization of teaching not only
change how society perceived women, but how women perceived themselves.
A University of Pennsylvania study found that 33 percent of teachers leave
within the first three years of beginning their careers and 46 percent leave
within the first five. The numbers have been increasing since the late 1980s.
The most common reason a person leaves teaching is the low salary.
Researchers
note a teacher should be compared to those of other high stress jobs, such as
air-traffic controllers, firefighters, or pilots.
Teachers have an equal turnover rate to police officers and less than child
care workers, secretaries, and paralegals. Teaching has a higher turnover rate
than nursing and a far higher turnover than "traditionally respected
professions" such as law, engineering, architecture, and academia.
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Birthdays Today
indicates age at death
•101-
Camden New Jersey, American Chemist and Educator whose work on the chemistry of
solutions helped treat divers with the 'bends' through the introduction of
helium and oxygen breathing mixtures [d1983]
•89- Burgess Meredith,
actor (Mr Novak, The Penguin in Batman, Rocky), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d.
1997)
•87- José Saramago,
Portuguese writer and Nobel laureate, born in Azinhaga, Santarém, Portugal (d.
2010)
87- Clu
Gulager, Holdenville Oklahoma, actor (Virginian, Survivors, Tall Man)
•84- W. C. Handy,
American composer and musician known as the "Father of the Blues"
(Memphis Blues, St Louis Blues), born in Florence, Alabama (d. 1958)
•82- Chinua Achebe,
Nigerian author (Christmas in Biafra), born in Ogidi, Anambra, Nigeria (d. 2013)
•68- Guy
Stockwell, actor (Chris-Adventures in Paradise), born in NYC, New York [d2002]
66- David
Leisure, actor (Joe Isuzu, Airplane, Charley-Empty Nest)
•65- Jean-Baptiste Le
Rond d'Alembert, French Enlightenment philosopher and
mathematician (Encyclopédie), born in Paris (d. 1783)
58- Marg
Helgenberger, North Bend Nebraska, actress (China Beach)
53- Zina
Garrison Jackson, tennis star (1988/90 Wimbledon), born in
Houston, Texas
49- Lisa
Bonet, SF, actress (Cosby Show, Different World, Angel Heart)
39- Maggie
Gyllenhaal, American actress (Donnie Darko, The Dark Knight),
born in NYC, New York
34- Amare
Stoudemire, American basketball player
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Historical Obits Today
@94-2006 Milton Friedman,
American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
@92-2005 Ralph
Edwards, American TV host (This is Your Life)
@87-1966 Cluny MacPherson,
Canadian inventor of the gas mask
@79-1961 Sam
Rayburn, Speaker of the House for 17 years, cancer
@77-2015 David
Canary, American actor (Bonanza, One Life to Live)
@71-1950 Bob
Smith, American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous, colon cancer
@59-1960 Clark Gable,
actor (Gone With the Wind), blood clot
@52-1806 Moses
Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio
@41-1885 Louis Riel,
Canadian rebel leader and "Father of Manitoba", hanged for treason
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Brain Teasers Answers
TLEM
Take letters 1,2 & 4 - MELT, take M,E,T
ELTA Take letters 1 & 3 - TEAL, take T,A
MSURT Take letter 1 - STRUM, take S
HMEYR Take letters 2 & 3 - RHYME, take H,Y
Unscramble the above to get 'Amethyst'.
The amethyst is a beautiful gemstone of purple hue. In ancient times, it was
associated with celibacy and controlling drunkenness. It was also believed to
have the ability to dissipate evil thoughts and quicken the intelligence.
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Armistice
Day
Armistice
Day marks the end of World War I, when the peace treaty between the Allies and
Germany was signed. While Armistice Day is still celebrated annually by many
allied nations, the United States expanded the holiday to honor all military
veterans in 1947, giving way to what is now Veteran's Day in the United States.
We at Trivia Hive thank all of our veterans for their brave service to our
country! Source: va.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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