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11.8.16 Week: 45 \ Day: 313
November Averages: 51°\22°
86004 Today: H 61° \
L 31° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts: 18mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 74°[1973] Record Low: 8°[1918]
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Quote of the Day
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
~Andy Warhol
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Observances Today
Abet
and Aid Punsters Day
Admission Day (Montana-41st-1889)
General Election Day (US)
National Parents As Teachers Day
National S.T.E.M./S.T.E.A.M. Day
Link
National Young Reader's Day Link
X-ray Discovery Day
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Observances This Week
1-7
National
Fig Week
National Patient Accessibility Week
World Communication Week
6-12
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week Link
7-11
Give
Wildlife A Brake! Week
Link
National
Young Reader's Week Link
7-13
Dear
Santa Letter Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
Today’s World Historical Highlights
392 Roman
Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion the state religion
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1519 1st meeting of Moctezuma
II & Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico
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1520 Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A
successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of
around 100 people.
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1602 The Bodleian Library at
Oxford University is opened
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1701 William Penn presents Charter of Privileges
1731 In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens
1st US library
1789 Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by
Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky)
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1880 Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made US debut
at NY's Booth Theater
1895 German physicist Wilhelm
Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength
range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
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1904 Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell
receives the first U.S. patent for a separable electric attachment plug
1910 1st Washington State election in which women
could vote
1910 For the first time since 1894, the US elects a
Democratic Congress, including the first socialist ever to sit in Congress,
Victor L Berger of Milwaukee
1933 FDR creates Civil Works Administration
1935 "Mutiny on the Bounty" directed by
Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable premieres
in New York (Best Production/Picture 1936)
1950 1st jet-plane battle ever, in
Korean War
1977 Ed Koch is elected Mayor of New York (his 1st
term)
1992 300,000
demonstrate against racism in Berlin
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2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: UN
Security Council under Resolution 1441 unanimously approves a resolution on
Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious
consequences"
2014 Mikhail Gorbachev warns
that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the
brink of a new Cold War
2014 US President Obama authorizes
deployment of 1500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish
forces fighting Islamic State militants
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My Rambling Thoughts
Just
as I was headed out to do some shopping, the phone rang. Imagine my surprise
when I heard Pres. Obama reminding me how important it is to vote tomorrow.
Just think, the US President called my number. WOW. He talked very fast, after all
he is a busy man, and when he stopped talking I started to thank him for his
service, but he just hung up. So damn grateful to live in a new swing state. Not!
For
most of my life, buying lightbulbs was an easy task. About a decade ago, the
new bulbs came out and I bought some to replace burned out ones. Not happy with
their brightness so finally found some of the new bulbs called ‘daylight’. I
like them so my house has been filled with them. Now they are starting to burn
out. It has been a decade. None of my regular stops have them. Finally found
daylight bulbs at Home Depot, so I am set for another decade. Had to smile a
little while there. They have 4 self-checkout lanes. Three had customers and
one was empty, but the light above it was not on, so I waited until one with
the light on was open. The ‘watcher-lady’ was helping one guy. He finished
first and as I headed that way the ‘watcher-lady’ said to use the one without
the light on. She took my lightbulbs out of my hand and scanned them. I said
that I figured it was closed because the light was off. She told me bulb was
burned out. I smiled and said, they are on Aisle 10. She said that on Thursday
last week she informed the front manager and he had started the necessary
paperwork to get the bulb replaced. She smiled and said, it just takes time. It's Home Depot for goodness sake.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Word
Combinations
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about
and manipulate words and letters.
In
each group below, I have listed four (4) unrelated words. Your job is to try
and find a word that can either precede or follow each word in each group.
Example:
1. picture, inner, top, test
Answer: picture TUBE, inner TUBE, TUBE top, test TUBE.
1. ankle, puppet, wind, away
2. draft, hall, belly, root
3. alphabet, bowl, spoon, kitchen
4. upright, wire, grand, tuner
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
In
what state does the Mississippi River begin?
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…Harper’s Index…
36 – Percentage of young Arab adults who believe that
the Arab world is better off since the Arab Spring
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2 jokes for the day
I
opened my electric bill at the same time I opened my water bill.
Needless to say, I was shocked.
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As
the bus pulled away, a woman realized she had left her purse under the seat. Later
she called the company and was relieved to find out the driver had found it.
When she went to pick it up, several off-duty bus drivers greeted her.
One of the men handed over her handbag and a box. "We're required to
inventory found wallets and purses," he explained. "I think you'll
find everything here."
As she started to put her belongings back into the purse, the man continued,
"I hope you don't mind if we watch. Even though we all tried, none of us
could fit everything into your purse... and we'd like to see just HOW you do
it."
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Somewhat Useless Information
Ben
Franklin gets credit for thinking up the idea of daylight saving time. As
ambassador to Paris, Franklin wrote a letter to the Journal of Paris in 1784 of
his "discovery" that the sun gives light as soon as it rises, and
needling Parisians for their night-owl, candle-burning ways.
***
William
Willett, an Englishman who loved his early-morning horseback rides, managed to
get the idea of moving the clock forward during the summer months proposed in
Parliament in 1908, but it was shot down. So Willett proposed it again in 1909,
1910, 1911, and Parliament rejected it all those times.
***
If
Willett couldn't convince the British populace that daylight saving time was
needed, the Germans could. In 1916, with World War I ratcheting up, Germany put
itself on daylight saving time to save energy for the war effort. Britain followed
a month later.
***
When
the United States got involved in the war in 1918, they too instituted daylight
saving time. President Woodrow Wilson even wanted to keep the new system after
the war ended. But at the time, the country was mostly rural. Farmers hated the
time change, because their jobs were dependent on the sun, and daylight saving
time put them out of sync with the city people who sold them goods and bought
their products. Congress repealed daylight saving time, Wilson vetoed the
repeal, and Congress promptly overrode his veto, a fairly rare occurrence.
***
When
World War II hit, daylight saving time came back into vogue, again to save
energy for the war effort. The U.S. instituted daylight saving time less than a
month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
***
In
1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time act of 1966, specifying that states
didn't have to get on the daylight saving bandwagon, but that if they did, the
whole state had to comply. And the federal government would determine the days
of "springing forward" and "falling back".
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Birthdays Today
indicates age at death
101- Peter Mondavi, Napa
Valley winemaker (Charles Krug), born in Virginia, Minnesota (d. 2016)
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85- Edmund Halley, English
astronomer (comet of Halley) [d1742]
85- Patti Page [Clara
Ann Fowler], American singer (Tennessee Waltz), born in Claremore, Oklahoma (d.
2013)
84- Morley Safer, Canadian
American TV newscaster (60 Minutes), born in Toronto, Canada (d. 2016)
81- Jack Kilby,
American electrical engineer and Nobel laureate (handheld calculator,
integrated circuit), born in Jefferson City, Missouri (d. 2005)
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78- Esther Rolle, Pompano
Beach Fla, actress (Florida-Good Times, Maude) [d1998]
74- Milton Bradley, American
game manufacturer (d. 1911)
74- Angel
Cordero Jr, jockey (won over 6,000 races)
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68- Frank Speck, American
Anthropologist (Algonquin Tribes and Eastern Woodland Native Americans), born
in Brooklyn, [d1950]
66- Mary
Hart, Sioux Falls SD, TV hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
64- Bram Stoker,
Irish theater manager and author (Dracula), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1912)
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55- Leif
Garrett, Hollywood Cal, singer/actor (Devil x 5, 3 for the Road)
50- Gordon
Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality
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49- Joe Flynn, actor
(McHale's Navy), born in Youngstown, Ohio [d1974]
48- Margaret Mitchell,
author (Gone With the Wind), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1949)
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30- Jack
Osbourne, English television star
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24- Riker Lynch, bassist, DWTS
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Historical Obits Today
@96-1986 Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (Finland named the
Molotov cocktail after him)
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@89-2011 Bil
Keane, American cartoonist (Family Circle)
@84-1978 Norman
Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers)
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@65-1674 John
Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost)
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@59-1860 Charles
Fellows, English Archaeologist who discovered ruins of the cities of ancient
Lycia and brought to Lycian marbles to England, dies
@52-1965 Dorothy
Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist, OD
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@36-1887 Doc
Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter, long
illness/alcoholism
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
ankle SOCK, SOCK puppet, wind SOCK, SOCK away
2. draft BEER, BEER hall, BEER belly, root BEER
3. alphabet SOUP, SOUP bowl, SOUP spoon, SOUP kitchen
4. upright PIANO, PIANO wire, grand PIANO, PIANO tuner
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Minnesota
The
source of the 2,348-mile-long waterway is Lake Itasca, located in Clearwater
County, Minnesota. From there, the Mississippi River flows southward,
eventually emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. Source: Mississippi Headwaters
Board.
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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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