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11.9.16 Week: 45
\ Day: 314
November Averages:
51°\22°
86004 Today: H 60° \ L 38°
Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts:
10mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 71°[1973]
Record Low: 3°[1898]
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Quote of the Day
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
~James
Whistler
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Observances
Today
Kristallnacht-10
World Freedom Day Link
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Observances This
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
1494 Family
de' Medici become rulers of Florence
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1580 Spanish troops land in
Ireland
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1620 After a month of delays
off the English coast and about two months at sea, the Mayflower spots land
(Cape Cod)
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1764 Mary Campbell, a captive
of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces
commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte
becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
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1821 1st US pharmacy college
holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
1842 The first U.S. design
patent for typefaces and borders was issued to George Bruce of New York City
1851 Kentucky marshals abduct
abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take
him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1857 Atlantic Monthly magazine
1st published
1862 US General Ulysses
S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
1864 Sherman issues
preliminary plans for his "March to the Sea"
1872 The Great Boston Fire of
1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
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1904 1st airplane flight to
last more than 5 minutes
1906 Theodore Roosevelt is
1st US President to visit another country (Puerto Rico and Panama)
1913 Storm "Freshwater
Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
1925 Robert A. Millikan confirms
the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National
Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin
1932 Hurricane storm wave sweeps
over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
1936 American fashion designer
Ruth Harkness captures a panda cub (Su Lin) in China - becomes 1st live panda
cub to enter the US
1938 Al Capp, cartoonist of
Lil' Abner, creates Sadie Hawkins Day
1938 Kristallnacht begins: pogrom
against Jews in Germany and Austria - first large-scale physical act of
anti-Jewish violence, begins
1939 Nobel
for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron)
1944 Red Cross wins Nobel peace
prize
1946 US President Harry
Truman ends wage/price freeze
1955 UN disapproves of South
Africa's apartheid politics
1961 The X-15 rocket plane
achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet
(30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude
1965 Several U.S. states and
parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the
Northeast Blackout of 1965.
1976 UN
General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
1980 Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1984 Wes Craven's horror film
"A Nightmare on Elm Street" premieres in the US
1985 Gary Kasparov becomes the
youngest ever world chess champion aged 22
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2014 United
States lead air strikes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul against Islamic
State (IS)
2014 Celebrations held in Germany
to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; white balloons
marking a stretch of the wall symbolize its disappearance
2015 World Anti-Doping Agency
commission report recommends Russian Federation be banned from athletics
competitions for running a "state-supported" doping program
2015 San Diego's SeaWorld
announces it will overhaul its killer whale show after controversy over the
whale’s treatment
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Must have eaten something that didn’t agree with me. I was up and down
most of the night. Went to bed at 10p, up at 11:20, 2:30; 4:00; 5:15. Oh well,
it can be a lazy day after I voted. The
polling place had about 9 places to vote. I walked in and all but one was full.
I was in and out in less than 10 minutes and away from home only 20 minutes
total. We have a great county recorder!
When I got home the Phx stations were all showing long lines around
Phoenix with 2+ hour waits. And the little tablets they use to verify you were
not working in Phoenix. The primary in
Phoenix had the same problems…they must not have a very good county recorder.
Oh wait, my area usually votes very democratic, while Phoenix (Maricopa County)
usually votes Republican. Several minority groups are seriously talking about
voter suppression. Maybe, or just incompetence.
When Carter was running for President our polling place was the school I
worked at. I got off work at 5p and headed to the gym to vote. It was a long
line. I didn’t get to vote until about 7:30p, even though the polls closed at
7p. There were lots of people behind me. The last voter got out of the gym
about 10p. After that unexpected turnout, every election after that had 3 new polling
places…and I never stood in a long line again. I read where Trump’s lawyers
filed a lawsuit against a county somewhere that let people vote in the primary
after 7p. He didn’t know that there were two poll workers sanding at the end of
the line at 7p who would not let anyone else get in line. So sad he doesn’t
understand our American political system.
I hope I don’t have to say up too late tonight to see who wins. This has
been what seems like the longest election process, the grossest in my memory,
and one that has divided this country like never before. Tomorrow will be
almost important as Election Day, when the President-elect speaks to reunite
our country. Wonder how the media will handle tomorrow? Hopefully they will
join the forces who want to unite us.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
14 Finger T-shirt
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting
orientations to represent common phrases.
In Handland the currency is fingers. What does the cost of the following
sale item represent?
1 T-shirt
Normal price: 19 fingers
Sale price: 14 fingers
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Today’s Trivia
Hive
(answers at the end of post)
What government entity first employed infamous FBI director J. Edgar
Hoover?
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…Harper’s Index…
44 – Number of arson
attacks committed against refugee shelters in Germany this year
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2 jokes for the
day
Did you hear about the professional golfer who got arrested for
assaulting his chauffeur?
All he did was take out his driver.
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A mother was reading a book about animals to her 3 year old daughter.
Mother: "What does the cow say?"
Child: "Moo!"
Mother: "Great! What does the cat say?"
Child: "Meow."
Mother: "Oh, you're so smart! What does the frog say?"
And this wide-eyed little 3 year-old looked up at her mother and in her deepest
voice replied, "Bud."
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Osmium is the most dense metal! Many people are familiar with lead (11.3
kg/mL), but Osmium is twice as dense (22.6 kg/L)! Each liter of Osmium weighs
22.6 kg (50 lbs). For comparison, each liter of water weighs only 1 kg (about
2.2 lbs). Some other heavy metals include Tungsten and Gold (19.3 kg/L), which
are almost as dense as Osmium.
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The Large Hadron Collider made a matter known as quark-gluon plasma.
It's a hundred thousand times hotter than the inside of the sun and denser than
anything in the universe, except black holes.
Quark-gluon plasma is what scientists believe the entire universe was like
immediately after the Big Bang. It's made up of quarks, which are the elementary
building blocks of positive charged protons and neutral neutrons and gluons,
particles that glue quarks together using the strong force. A physicist says
that "if you had a cubic centimeter of this stuff, it would weigh 40
billion tons."
To make that magic matter, the LHC was used to smash together lead ions at
nearly the speed of light.
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Birthdays Today
indicates age at death
95- Sargent
Shriver, MD, Dem VP candidate (1972)/directed Peace Corp [d2011]
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86- Imre Kertész,
writer (Nobel Laureate 2002) and concentration camp survivor, born in Budapest
(d. 2016)
85- Hedy Lamarr,
actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah), born in Vienna, Austria [d2000]
81- Florence
Sabin, American Scientist who was the first woman to graduate from Johns
Hopkins and the first lifetime woman member of the National Academy of Sciences
[d1953]
81- Thomas
Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima (d. 2000)
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79- Ed
Wynn, [Isaiah Edwin Leopold], comedian (Ed Wynn Show), born in Philadelphia, [d1966]
77- Spiro
Theodore Agnew, (R) 39th VP (1968-75), resigns on tax evasion charges d1996]
74- Benjamin Banneker,
African American mathematician/surveyor of Washington D.C., born around
Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1806)
72- Gail
Borden, Norwich New York, American Manufacturer and Inventor of condensed milk
[d1874]
72- Mary Travers,
folk singer (Peter Paul & Mary), born in Louisville, Kentucky [d2009]
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62- Carl
Sagan, Bkln, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca's Brain) [d1992]
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55- Lou
Ferrigno, American body builder/actor (Incredible Hulk), born in Brooklyn
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48- Tom Fogerty,
American rocker (Creedence Clearwater Revival), born in Berkeley, Ca (d. 1990)
44- Eric
Dane, American actor [grey’s anatomy-McSteamy]
42- Dorothy
Dandridge, American actress/singer/dancer (Porgy & Bess), born in
Cleveland, Ohio [d1965]
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36- Vanessa
Minnillo, Filipino-born American TV personality
(Entertainment Tonight), born in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines
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Historical Obits
Today
@85-2003 Art
Carney, American actor
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@79-1970 Charles
de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69), ruptured blood
vessel
@78-1953 Abdulaziz Ibn Saud,
Founder and first King of Saudi Arabia (1932-53), heart attack
@71-1940 Arthur Neville Chamberlain,
British Prime Minister (1937-40), bowel cancer
@70-1991 Yves Montand, actor
(Idol, Grand Prix), heart attack
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@65-2006 Ed
Bradley, American journalist, leukemia
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@59-1938 Edward
Murray East, American Botanist and Geneticist who developed hybrid corn
@58-1911 Howard Pyle, American young people author,
kidney infection
@50-2004 Stieg
Larsson, Swedish author (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), heart
attack
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@39-1953 Dylan
Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), pneumonia
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Brain Teasers
Answers
5 finger discount.
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Trivia Hive Answers
Library of Congress
Hoover worked as a messenger for the Library of Congress from 1913 until
1917, when, at the age of 22, he was admitted to the Washington D.C. bar and
earned a position in the Department of Justice. Source: Library of Congress.
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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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