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11.20.16 Week: 47 \ Day: 325
November Averages: 51°\22°
86004 Today: H 62° \
L 23° Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 18mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 71°[1976] Record Low: -5°[1964]
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Quote of the Day
Education
is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
<John Dewey
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Observances Today
African Industrialization Day
Crystal Skull World Day Link
Do Dah Day (Pasadena) Link
Globally Organized Hug A Runner Day aka G.O.H.A.R.D. Link
Name Your PC Day
National Peanut Butter Fudge Day Link
Revolution Day (Mexico-1910)
Transgender Day of Remembrance
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims Link
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Observances This Week
12-20
National Hunger &
Homeless Awareness Week Link
14-20
National Book Awards Week
18-24
National Farm-City Week
18-27
American Sand Sculpting Competition Link
20-26
GERD Awareness Week Link
International Bible Week
International Fraud Awareness Week Link
National Family Week
National Game & Puzzle
Week
Better Conversation Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
•Today’s World Historical
Highlights
·
1431 First meeting of Order of
the Golden Fleece
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1521 Arabs attribute shortage
of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine
·
1695 Zumbi last leaders of
Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil and ex-slave, is executed
1789 New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of
Rights
1817 First Seminole War begins in Florida
1866 Howard University founded (Washington, D.C.)
1866 Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle
·
1910 Revolution broke out in
Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
1914 US State Department starts requiring
photographs for passports
·
1917 First successful tank use
in battle (Britain breaks through German lines) at Battle of Cambrai WWI
1919 1st municipally owned airport in US opens
(Tucson Az)
1920 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W
Wilson
·
1929 Salvador Dali's first
one-man show
1931 Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T)
1938 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US
radio (by Father Coughlin)
1947 "Meet the Press" makes network TV
debut on NBC
1947 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel
(New Jersey)
·
1949 Jewish population of
Israel reaches 1,000,000
·
1962 USSR agrees to remove
bombers from Cuba, & US lifts blockade
1966 "Cabaret" opens at Broadhurst
Theater NYC for 1166 performances
1967 At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of
Commerce ticks past 200 million
1969 Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant
Native Americans
·
1969 Brazilian soccer icon Pele scores
his 1,000th goal
1974 The US files antitrust suit to break-up
AT&T
·
1977 Egyptian
Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
·
1981 El Salvador guerrilla
group FMLN opens "limited offensive"
1983 "Terms of Endearment" from the book
by Larry McMurtry, directed by James L. Brooks and starring Shirley
MacLaine and Debra Winger premieres in New York (Best Picture 1984)
1984 McDonald's makes its 50 billionth hamburger
1984 SETI Institute (Search for ExtraTerrestrial
Intelligence) is founded.
1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
·
1992 Queen Elizabeth's home
Windsor Castle catches fire
1993 Savings and Loan scandal: The United States
Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan
Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles
Keating.
1995 FDA approves new therapy for use as an initial
AIDS treatment, 3TC
·
1997 Yohannes
Haile-Selassie discovers the partial skull of a 2.5 million year old human
ancestor, confirming and establishing the new species Australopithecus garhi,
in Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia
·
1998 A court in
Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a
man without a sin" in regard to the
·
1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya
and Tanzania.
2001 US President George W. Bush dedicates
the US Department of Justice headquarters as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice
Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th
birthday
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My Rambling Thoughts
Busy
Saturday…cleaned the 3 bathrooms, did some laundry, caught up on some other
stuff I have been letting slide for too long.
We
had another very chilly night, but today is nice.
In
2016 we are used to expecting rather fast, if not instantaneous results. Turn
on the radio and it is expected to come on immediately. TV’s used to be that
way, but the newer ones don’t. Well, in our small town we just learned
yesterday the final results of our City Council election. We had three council seats
open and the first two were settled by quite a margin. The third seat would go
back and forth every day since November 9. Finally, yesterday the final
provisional ballot was counted. The two were separated by 59 votes in the end.
Not happy with the outcome, but glad it is finally over. Seemed so odd to see a
new story every day in the local paper with one ahead one day and the other ahead
the next.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
The Protector
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a
question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a
requirement.
I
am a protector.
I sit on a bridge.
One person can see right through me, while others wonder what I hide.
What am I?
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NEW “Contronym”—word
that is its own antonym
Sanction (via
French, from Latin sanctio(n-), from sancire ‘ratify,’)
can mean ‘give official permission or approval for (an action)’ or conversely,
‘impose a penalty on.’
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
Which
land mammal has the longest gestation period?
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…Harper’s Index…
3/4 - Portion of US workers who commute alone in a car
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Yep, It Really Happened
*--
'Highlanders' Aren't What They Used to Be --*
A
woman in Scotland managed to ward off a sword-wielding attacker at a fast food
restaurant armed with only a plastic fork. Julie Crighton, 23, chased the
attacker, 20-year-old Arthur Rennie, with the plastic utensil after he entered
Cowden's News and Fast Food Shop with a sword and demanded she empty the cash
register.
"This
was a large sword and the incident must have been very frightening," Judge
Lady Rae of the High Court in Glasgow said. "She is an extremely brave
young woman who tackled Mr. Rennie despite the fact he had that sword."
Crighton said the man entered the store brandishing a 2-foot sword and entered
the store while an accomplice waited at the door.
"He
came towards me and pushed me and I pushed him back. I think he realised I
wasn't going to give him anything. He went out and I went out the shop after
him. I wasn't thinking of catching him. Just seeing where he was going."
She was able to identify the weapon in court and Rennie was sentenced to four
years in prison.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Emily
Dickinson (1830-1886), America's most famous female poet, published only seven
poems in her lifetime; all were published anonymously and against her will. It
wasn't until after her death, at 56, that her nearly 2000 poems were
discovered.
***
Sharks
and rays share the same kind of skin: instead of scales, they have small
tooth-like spikes called denticles. The spikes are so sharp that shark skin has
long been used as sandpaper.
***
More
than 50 percent of the people who are bitten by venomous snakes in the United
States and who go untreated still survive.
***
During
the first 90 years of this century, the USA dominated the race for the title of
the tallest building in the world. In 1974 Chicago's Sears Tower was completed,
and generally seen as the 'tallest building' in the world. Sears Tower held on
to that title for over 20 years.
***
A
mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance. On the ocean, a
nautical mile measures 6,080 feet. A land or statute mile is 5,280 feet.
***
To
clean tarnished copper bottoms of pots and pans, spread a little ketchup onto
the bottom. Let it sit for a couple minutes. Wipe it clean and rinse.
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Birthdays Today
• indicates age at death
· 95- Alistair
Cooke, TV host (Masterpiece Theatre), born in Manchester, England [d2004]
·
92- Robert
Byrd, US Senator (Democrat-WV, 1959-2010), majority leader and once the
longest-serving Senator in history, born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
(d. 2010)
90- Kaye
Ballard, actress/comedienne (Kaye-Mothers-in-Law), born in Cleveland, Ohio
· 86- Rex
Reason, actor (Man Without a Gun, Roaring 20s), born in Berlin, Germany [d2015]
·
82- Dick
Clark, American radio and television personality
(American Bandstand), born in Mount Vernon, New York (d. 2012)
· 81- Selma
Lagerlöf, Swedish author and Nobel laureate (The Wonderful
Adventures of Nils), born in Mårbacka, Värmland (d. 1940)
· 70- Jack
Linkletter, TV host (Haggis Baggis, Hootenanny), born in San Francisco,
California [d2007]
77- Dick
Smothers, comedian (Smother Brothers' Show), born in NYC
74- Joe
Biden, 47th US Vice President (2009-), born in Scranton,
Pa
73- Veronica
Hamel, actress (Joyce-Hill St Blues, 79 Park Ave), born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
70- Judy
Woodruff, newscaster (McNeil Lehrer Report)
· 69- Judy
Canova, comedienne/actress (Cannonball), born in Jacksonville, Florida [d1983]
· 63- Edwin
Hubble, American astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red
shift) born in Marshfield, Missouri (d. 1953)
60- Bo
Derek, [Mary Collins], actress (10, Tarzan the Ape Man), born in Long Beach,
California
· 42- Robert
F. Kennedy, American politician (D-Sen-NY, US Attorney
General), born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1968)
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Historical Obits Today
·
@82-1975 Francisco
Franco, Spanish dictator (1936-75)
· @82-1910 Leo
Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich], Russian novelist (Anna
Karenina, War & Peace), pneumonia
· @48-1973- Allan
Sherman, parodist (Camp Granada, Harvey & Sheila), emphysema
· @42-1903 Tom Horn American gunfighter and outlaw, hanged
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Brain Teasers Answers
Sunglasses.
(they sit on the bridge of your nose)
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Elephants
The
average elephant pregnancy lasts for about 95 weeks - compared to only 40 weeks
for humans. Most elephants only carry one baby at a time, though twins occur in
1 percent to 2 percent of all pregnancies. Source: livescience.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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