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11.21.16 Week: 47 \ Day: 326
November Averages: 51°\22°
86004 Today: H 64° \
L 22° Average Sky Cover: 95%
Wind ave: 16mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 70°[1950] Record Low: -5°[1979]
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Quote of the Day
No man was ever wise by chance.
<Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Observances Today
Alascattalo Day (About Alaska & humor)
World Television Day
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Observances This 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
21-25
Church/State Separation Week
21-27
National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
•Today’s World
Historical Highlights
·
164 BC During Maccabbean
revolt Judas Maccabaeus recaptures Jersusalem and rededicates the Second
Temple, commemorated since as Jewish festival Hanukkah
1620 Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor,
Mass
1620 Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims at Cape
Cod, [O.S. Nov 11]
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1783 Jean-François Pilâtre de
Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st manned free balloon flight in a
Montgolfier balloon
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1818 Russia's Tsar Alexander I
petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1865 Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC
1871 Moses F Gale patents a cigar lighter (NYC)
1877 Tom Edison announces his "talking
machine" invention (phonograph) - first machine to play and record sound
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1906 China prohibits the opium
trade
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1917 Maxim Gorky calls Vladimir
Lenin a blind fanatic/unthinking adventurer
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1918 The German High Seas
Fleet of 5 battlecruisers, 9 battleships, 7 cruisers and 49 destroyers
surrendered to the British Grand Fleet and were shepherded into the Firth of
Forth
1942 Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in
"Tale of Two Kitties"
1946 Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to
travel in a submerged sub
1946 "Best Years of Our Lives", directed
by William Wyler and starring Fredric March and Dana Andrew premieres in New
York (Best Picture 1947)
1959 Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano)
play their famed duet
1974 Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress
over President Ford's veto
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1974 Birmingham pub bombings:
21 civilians killed when bombs explode at two pubs in Birmingham, England
(deadliest attack in England during "the Troubles")
1976 "Rocky" directed by John G. Avildsen
and starring Sylvester Stallone premieres in New York (Best Picture
1977)
1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode
(Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill) in the US
1981 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical"
single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks
1989 Law banning smoking on most domestic flights
signed by US President George H. W. Bush
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1989 TV cameras permitted in
British House of Commons
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My Rambling Thoughts
Cloudy
day with forecast calling for light snow early tomorrow morning. They say some
will even stick. They also say that it may rain later today. Strange fall.
I
learned years ago to check the validity of any story I read on the internet machine.
I recall when our very conservative state senator posted a story on Facebook
that insane. I checked Snopes…a good place to check validity…and found that the
post was a couple of years old and was completely false. I called her on it in
a reply. She countered that Snopes was a left wing joke…it is not. I refused to
argue with an idiot and told her we would have to agree to disagree. She responded
that that it is hard for her to even agree to that, since I was wrong.
Now,
the big news story is ‘fake’ news on the internet. Duh…it has been there since
the birth of the internet. This blog has always had a disclaimer at the end. I
readily admit it is much harder to verify a story on the internet machine. But,
just because it is harder doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to verify it. Since I
believe that ‘you should keep your friends close, and your enemies closer’,
some of my FB friends are politically on another planet. So I am getting more
and more ‘fake’ news stories. It is kinda like reading the Tabloids at the
supermarket. I try real hard to verify before liking or sharing.
As
an example of the craziness of the internet machine, the above quote about
friends has been attributed to Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, or Petrarch. The first published source found is Michael
Corleone saying it in The Godfather, Part II. Hmmm.
Finally,
always remember President Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote: You can’t believe
everything you read on the internet.
Thanks
to Saturday Night Live for its closing last night with a T-shirt that said NO #DAPL.
Several people I know well are or have been at the demonstrations around the
country and have visited the protest site in North Dakota. If you are not familiar
with the Dakota Access Pipeline and its plan to carry oil from ND to Patoka,
Ill., now is the time to start learning about it. Sending 1 million gallons of
oil through that a very long pipeline
will lead to disaster somewhere.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Faults
of Technology
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
I
have a common English phrase. I feed this phrase into a computer translation
program. This translates it into a foreign language then back into English
again. Unfortunately, because computers do not understand idiom and sarcasm,
the phrase has been changed. It now reads:
BLIND, INSANITY.
What was the original phrase?
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“Contronym”—word that is its own antonym
Oversight is the
noun form of two verbs with contrary meanings, “oversee” and “overlook.”
“Oversee,” from Old English ofersēon ‘look at from above,’
means ‘supervise’ (medieval Latin for the same thing: super- ‘over’
+ videre ‘to see.’) “Overlook” usually means the opposite: ‘to
fail to see or observe; to pass over without noticing; to disregard, ignore.’
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
What
is the scientific name for the highest level of the Earth's atmosphere?
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…Harper’s Index…
93 – Percentage of the Great Barrier Reef that was
bleached this year because of ocean warming
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2 jokes for the day
My
girlfriend and I often laugh about how competitive we are...
But I laugh more!
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Two
men sank into adjacent train seats after a long day in the city. One asked the
other, "Your son go back to college yet?"
"Two days ago."
"Hmm. Mine's a senior this year, so it's almost over. In May, he'll be an
engineer. What's your boy going to be when he gets out of college?"
"At the rate he's going, I'd say he'll be about thirty."
"No, I mean what's he taking in college?"
"He's taking every penny I make."
"Doesn't he burn the midnight oil enough?"
"He doesn't get in early enough to burn the midnight oil."
"Well, has sending him to college done anything at all?"
"Sure has! It's totally cured his mother of bragging about him!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-----
You Have to Appreciate the Ingenuity -----*
A
Cologne drinks vendor modified a bottle-recycling machine to swindle tens of
thousands of euros from the German recycling system. The German bottle
recycling system is simple enough. Place the bottle in the machine, press the
button, take your receipt, and get a few cents back. But the 37-year-old drinks
salesman manipulated a bottle-recycling machine in the cellar of his drinks
shop to earn a lot more than a bit of spare change. Having installed a magnet
sensor into the machine, the man was able to feed the bottle into the
mechanism, receive the compensation, and retrieve the bottle without it being
shredded. The vendor was able to extract 44,362.75 Euros from the machine by
inserting the same bottle into the machine a staggering 177,451 times. He might
not have gotten caught if he hadn't rigged a machine in the basement of his own
business. Then again, standing around someone elses recycling machine for the
days it must have taken to insert a single bottle 177,451 times might have
looked suspicious too.
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Birthdays Today
• indicates age at death
· 92- Stan
Musial, MLB outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat
champ), born in Donora, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
92- Joseph
Campanella, actor (Dr Steffen-The Nurses, Lou-Mannix), born in NYC
<>
· 81- henrietta (Hetty)
Green, American financier (Witch of Wall Street), born in New Bedford,
Massachusetts (d. 1916)
· 83- Voltaire [Francois-Marie
Arouet], French writer, philosopher and playwright (Candide), born in Paris (d.
1778)
<>
· 67- William
Beaumont, American surgeon and father of gastric
physiology, born in Lebanon, Connecticut (d. 1853)
<>
51- Bjork,
Icelandic singer (Like Someone in Love), born in Reykjavik
50- Troy
Aikman, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys - Super Bowl 1992)
<>
47- Ken
Griffey, Jr., Donora, Pennsylvania, American baseball center fielder (Seattle
Mariners, MVP 1997)
45- Michael
Strahan, NFL defensive end (NY Giants), TV host
<>
31- Carly
Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer (“Call Me Maybe”), born in
Mission, British Columbia
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Historical Obits Today
·
@85-2011 Anne McCaffrey,
sci-fi author
<>
·
@75-1981 Harry Von Zell, TV
announcer (Burns & Allen), cancer
· @73-1963 Robert Stroud, American
convict “Birdman of Alcatraz”, in prison
<>
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@64-1924 Florence
Harding, American First Lady, renal failure
<>
· @50-1959 Max Baer, American
heavyweight boxing champion (1934-35), series of heart attacks
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Brain Teasers Answers
Out
of sight, out of mind.
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Exosphere
The
exosphere stretches up to 10,000 kilometers and represents the last official
layer of the atmosphere. It's so thin that some argue it actually isn't a part
of the Earth at all since it's similar to the conditions of outer space.
Regardless, the exosphere is home to orbiting satellites and sits over the
thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere and troposphere, descending in that
order. The ionosphere is a separate region which reaches across the other
layers. Source: NASA, UCAR
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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