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11.24.16 Week: 47
\ Day: 329
HAPPY
THANKSGIVING
November Averages:
51°\22°
86004 Today: H 54° \ L 21°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 14mph\Gusts:
-mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 68°[1970]
Record Low: -7°[1902]
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Quote of the Day
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is
perpetual.
<Henry David Thoreau
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Observances
Today
Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day
D.B. Cooper Day Link
National Day of
Mourning (Thanksgiving Day) Link
Tie One On Day(Day Before
Thanksgiving)
Thanksgiving Day
Turkey-free Thanksgiving
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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
23-29
National Deal Week
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Today’s US
Historical Highlights
•Today’s
World Historical Highlights
•
1434 River Thames in London freezes over
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1639 1st observation of transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and
William Crabtree - helped establish size of the Solar System
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1642 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land
(Tasmania)
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1655 English Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell bans Anglicans
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1715 London's Thames River freezes over
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1759 Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
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1859 English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes "On
the Origin of Species"
1869 American Woman's Suffrage
Association forms (Cleveland)
1871 National Rifle
Association organized (NYC)
1874 American inventor Joseph
Glidden patents barbed wire
1880 Southern University forms
1896 1st US absentee voting
law enacted by Vermont
1947 John Steinbeck's novel
"Pearl" published
1947 The US House of
Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities finds "Hollywood
10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were
communists
1960 Wilt Chamberlain pulls
down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)
1966 1st TV station in Congo,
Kinshasa (Zaire)
1966 400 die of respiratory
failure & heart attack in killer NYC smog
1969 Lt William L Calley
charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968,
ordered to stand trial by court martial
1974 Gerald Ford and Leonid
Brezhnev sign the SALT-2 treaty to reduce each side's number of nuclear
weapons
1979 US admits troops in
Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange
•
1983 PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians &
Lebanese
•
1991 Monica Seles, sets female tennis record winning $2,457,758 in
a year
1993 Brady bill passes
establishing 5-day waiting period for US handgun sales
•
1995 Ireland votes to end 58-year-old amendment on divorce (50.28%
to 49.72%)
2012 The continued NHL lockout
results in all games to December 14 being cancelled
2014 A 12-year-old boy is shot
dead by police in Cleveland, after brandishing what turned out to be a fake gun
in a playground
2015 Chicago police officer
Jason Van Dyke is charged with first-degree murder of 17 year old African
American Laquan McDonald in 2014
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Cold temps hit last night. Felt sorry for all the working people around
my unit who had to spend time scraping windows before going to work. On the
good side, that meant there was moisture in the air in our high desert
community.
Taking the day off tomorrow to enjoy Thanksgiving. Not getting up early
on Friday for any Black Friday sales. I don’t need anything to be out in the
dark buying it. I may hit the stores later in the day, if some ad strikes my
fancy. The nice thing about life in a small town, is that our Black Friday
stuff doesn’t get as cray as it does other places. I will be out shopping local
on Saturday.
Enjoy your holiday, wherever you are.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Next Word
Series teasers are where you try to complete the sequence of a series of
letters, numbers or objects.
What word is missing?
begin inch chapel elastic ==?== cellar arisen end
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“Contronym”—word
that is its own antonym
Seed can also go either way. If you seed the lawn you add seeds, but if
you seed a tomato you remove them.
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Today’s Trivia
Hive
(answers at the end of post)
Who beat the Cleveland Indians in their last World Series appearance in
1997?
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…Harper’s Index…
496 – Minimum number
of environmental advocates murdered in Latin America since 2009
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2 jokes for the
day
After the honeymoon, the new wife tells her husband, “I think it’s time
for you to stop playing golf. In fact, you might as well sell all of your
clubs.”
The husband replies, “You’re starting to sound like my ex-wife.”
His wife says, “I thought you said you’ve never been married before?”
The husband says, “I haven’t.”
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The father of five children had won a toy at a raffle. He called his
kids together to ask which one should have the present.
“Who is the most obedient?” he asked. “Who never talks back to mother? Who does
everything she says?”
Five small voices answered in unison. “Okay, dad, you get the toy.”
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Yep, It Really
Happened
*-------- Deer 'Driving' ATV on Highway --------*
A Michigan hunter pranked fellow highway drivers with a dead deer posed
like it was drinking a beer and driving an ATV down the road. Jeremy Roomsburg
posted a video showing the deer sitting in the driver's seat of an ATV loaded
onto the back of a flatbed trailer being pulled by a pickup truck on a stretch
of Interstate. Roomsburg, of Muskegon, said he was with his father and brother
on a drive from Grand Rapids to Muskegon when she spotted the unusual sight.
"We were all stunned and were like, 'did we really just see that?' We had
to slow down and actually drive past the guy again to get the video." The
"driving" deer turned out to have been set up by hunter Mike Huntoon,
who had been returning with his friends from a hunting trip. Huntoon said the
prank started as a simple lack of space for one of the five deer bagged by the
group. "We thought, let's just have a little fun with it," the hunter
said. "We have to get the deer home, let's see if we can create a little
humor...and apparently it worked."
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Somewhat Useless
Information
The first record of the term 'pilgrim' applying to some of the Mayflower
passengers and those of the group that followed later appeared in William
Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation". In it he used biblical imagery
to describe the Pilgrim's departure from Leiden in 1620; "So they lefte
goodly and pleasante citie which had been ther resting place, here 12 years;
but they knew they were pilgrimes and looked not much on these things, but lift
up their eyes to ye heavens their dearest cuntrie and quieted their
spirits."
***
Sarah Hale is considered the "Mother of Thanksgiving". She
urged President Abraham Lincoln to make it a National Holiday. She also wrote
the popular song "Mary Had A Little Lamb."
***
Turducken is becoming more popular in Thanksgiving. Originating in
Louisiana, a turducken is a de-boned turkey stuffed with a de-boned duck, which
itself is stuffed with a small de-boned chicken. The cavity of the chicken and
the rest of the gaps are filled with, at the very least, a highly seasoned
breadcrumb mixture (although some versions have a different stuffing for each
bird).
***
The term 'turkey shoot' comes from an early Thanksgiving tradition.
Original turkey shoots dating at least to the time of James Fenimore Cooper,
were contests in which live turkeys were tied down in a pen and shot from 25-35
yards. If the turkey died, the shooter received it as a prize.
***
Due to white meat being the most popular part of a turkey, turkeys have
been bred to have huge breasts. So much so, that modern day domesticated
turkeys are no longer typically able to mate due to the breasts getting in the
way of the male mounting the female. As such, most hatcheries use artificial
insemination to fertilize the eggs of domestic turkeys.
***
To debunk a popular turkey tale, Benjamin Franklin did not advocate for
the turkey as the National Bird. However, according to The Franklin Institute,
he was against the Bald Eagle, stating in a letter to his daughter that it was
a "Bird of bad moral Character" whereas the turkey was a "much
more respectable Bird...a Bird of Courage."
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Birthdays Today
• indicates age
at death
• 83 Walter Goetz, British illustrator
cartoonist/painter [d1995]
• 82 William F. Buckley Jr,
New York, American conservative author and commentator (National Review, Firing
Line)[d2008]
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78- Oscar
Robertson [The Big O], NBA guard (Cincinnati, Milwaukee,
Olympic gold 1960), born in Charlotte, Tennessee
• 74 Frances Hodgson Burnett,
British-American playwright and children's author ("The Secret
Garden"), born in Manchester (d. 1924)
• 73 Kirby Grant, Butte Mont,
actor (Sky King) [d1985]
• 70 Junipero Serra, Spanish
missionary priest/saint, founded 1st missions in California, born in Petra,
Majorca [d1784]
<>
• 67 Bat Masterson, American
gunfighter (d. 1921)
• 65 Zachary Taylor,
12th US President (Mar 5, 1849 - July 9, 1850), born in Barboursville, Virginia
(d. 1850)
• 64 Charles
"Lucky" Luciano,
Italian-American gangster of the New York mafia, born in Sicily, Italy (d. 1962)
• 63 Collodi, [Carlo
Lorenzini], Italian author (Pinocchio) [d1890]
<>
• 48 Scott Joplin,
American ragtime entertainer and composer (The Entertainer), born in Texarkana,
Texas (d. 1917)
45- Cosmas
Ndeti, three-time Boston Marathon winner
• 42 Ted Bundy,
American serial murderer during the 1970s, born in Burlington, Vermont (d. 1989)
<>
38- Katherine
Heigl, actress (Grey's Anatomy), born in Washington, D.C.
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Historical Obits
Today
@85-1980 George
Raft, American actor (Scarface, Johnny Angel, Mr Ace)
@83-2004 Arthur
Hailey, British-born author (hotel, airport)
<>
@73-2005 Pat
Morita, American actor (Happy Days, Karate Kid), kidney failure
@70-1957 Diego Rivera,
Mexican painter
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@64-1807 Joseph
Brant [Thayendanegea], Mohawk leader
@60-1962 James
J Kilroy, tank inspector (Kilroy was here)
<>
@51-1541 Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of
Scotland, palsy
@50-2012 Héctor
Camacho, Puerto Rican professional boxer, gunshot injuries
<>
@45-1991 Freddie
Mercury, British singer (Queen), AIDS
@41-1991 Eric
Carr [Paul Charles Caravello], American drummer (Kiss), cancer
<>
@24-1963 Lee
Harvey Oswald, JFK's assassinator 2 days earlier, shot dead by
nightclub owner Jack Ruby live on TV
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Brain Teasers
Answers
Ice: each word begins with the last two letters of the previous word.
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Trivia Hive Answers
Florida Marlins
This year, the Cleveland Indians lost the World Series in extra innings
to the Chicago Cubs, and sometimes, history repeats itself. In 1997, the
Indians and the Marlins were tied 2-2 in the bottom of the 11th inning during
game 7. Marlins shortstop Édgar Rentería hit a walk-off single that allowed
infielder Craig Counsell to score the winning run. Source:
realsport101.comBefore establishing the Nobel Prize in 1896, what was inventor
Alfred Nobel's defining creation?
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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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