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November
29, 2015 Week:
48 \ Day: 333
November Averages:
51°\22°
86004 Today: H 43° \ L 11° Average
Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts:
15mph
Ave. High: 47° Record High: 68°[1949]
Ave. Low: 19° Record Low: -8°[1905]
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Observances
Today:
Electronic Greetings Day
International Day of Solidarity With The Palestinian People
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Observances
This Week:
23-29
Better
Conversation Week
*Church/State Separation Week
National
Deal Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1781 - Crew of the slave ship Zong murder approx.
142 African slaves by dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance.
1864
- Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado militia kills
about 150 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians including Cheyenne chief One-Eye.
Over 700 Colorado volunteers under Chivington attack Black Kettle and his Cheyenne and Arapaho followers at Sand Creek
in southeastern Colorado. The Indians have been told to camp in this area while
they awaited a peace conference with Colorado authorities. The soldiers have
four cannons with them. As a result of the fight, fourteen soldiers are killed
and forty are wounded. The exact number of Indians killed is widely disputed.
Chivington reported over 500 Indian dead. Other estimates range from 100 to 600
killed. White Antelope is killed while he is trying to surrender.
1877
- First Mormon settlers arrived on the San Pedro River and established what is
now the town of Saint David.
1923 - The Dawes Commission, chaired by the
American Banker Charles Dawes, is set up to look into the German economic
situation and make recommendations that the US can accept
1932 - Cole Porters musical "Gay
Divorcee" premieres in NYC
1933 - 1st state liquor stores authorized
(Pennsylvania)
1935
- Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes
his famous thought experiment 'Schrödinger's cat', a paradox that illustrates
the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
1942 - US rations coffee
1953 - American Airlines begins 1st regular coml
NY-LA air service
1961 - Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus
station in Miss
1972 - Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari)
releases Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp's
Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.
1975 - Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
1995
- US President Bill Clinton lifts
ban on exports of oil from the Alaskan North Slope; the ban was imposed after
the oil embargo by Arab oil producers in 1973
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
526 - Antioch in modern day Syria struck by
Earthquake, about 250,000 die
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into
Manchester & occupies Carlisle
1775 - Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
1897 - 1st motorcycle race (Surrey, England)
2001 - UN Security Council unanimously approves a
resolution extending the Oil-for-Food program in Iraq for another six-month
period
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
A cool Saturday, and a day to kick back and relax. We had a few
snow flurries late yesterday afternoon, but not enough to even wet the
pavement. The storm blew right through and the flurries ended after about 15
minutes.
Still don’t know why the gunman in Colorado Springs took lives.
One thing for sure, either the citizens accept that we are a violent country
that allows anyone to enter anywhere and kill our families, friends, or
strangers OR we start demanding our elected officials to put some controls on
gun ownership.
When terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, the government
moved quickly to take away much of our privacy in the name of freedom, with
minimal talk about the Constitution. Yet when a homegrown crazed terrorist
kills innocents, our government’s elected official’s talk about the 4th
Amendment. This has to end.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Six
letters have I, and many more;
One word tells what the others are for;
Conceal a thing is what I do;
So what am I? Need a clue?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
The sun puts out more power in 1 second than
mankind has ever used within human existence.
There's a plant that has survived in a sealed
bottle for 63 years. It was watered just once in 53 years.
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…Crazy
Law…
Kentucky
Dye a baby chick, duckling, or rabbit any hue
of the rainbow in Kentucky and you’ll be charged a $100-$500 fine. You’re also
not allowed to sell them. Since this only pertains to live animals, you’re
presumably in the clear if you’re gifted a deceased green chick. Should you
want to keep that gift, though, you may have some other issues to address.
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…Harper’s
Index…
4.6 – factor by
which polygamous Saudi and Emeriti men are more likely that monogamous ones to
suffer from heart disease.
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
Rays of orange light cutting through the
barnacle crusted pillars of the #PismoBeachPier at
sunset. Barnacles are an incredibly resilient type of arthropod, related to
crabs and lobsters. Typically found clinging to permeant fixtures feeding on
plankton and other micro foods. Their shells can be razor sharp from the
constant polish of the sea. Fossilized barnacles can be traced as far back as
500 million years during the Middle Cambrian period.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The Bill of Rights originally consisted of 12 amendments, but only
ten were passed.
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2
jokes for the day
First Day Of Driving A Cab
A businessman hailed a cab from his hotel and
asked to be driven to the hospital about a mile away.
The cabby started driving but he was only
going about 15 mph.
The passenger banged on the partition and said
speed it up.
The cabby screamed hit the gas and plowed into
a tree.
The passenger said what the heck is wrong with
you?
This is my first day driving a cab.
I drove for a funeral home for 15 years and no
one ever banged on my partition.
You scared the living-daylights out of me!
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Wookie Cookie
What do you call Chewbacca with chocolate in
his hair?
A chocolate chip wookie.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
OTTAWA - A free yoga class at the University of
Ottawa was cancelled after a group of student leaders deemed it to be an
example of cultural appropriation. Jennifer Scharf, who taught the free class
for students with and without disabilities for seven years, said she was told
the class would be cancelled when she met with the university's Center for
Students with Disabilities in September. The center outlined their reasoning
for canceling the class in an email. "While yoga is a really great idea,
and accessible and great for students ... there are cultural issues of
implication involved in the practice," they wrote. One of the issues
Scharf believes they are referring to is instructors who falsely claim
expertise in the spiritual aspect of yoga, though she said her focus is
strictly on the physical benefits. "I'm not claiming it's anything more
than a physical practice within that class," she told CBC News.
"There's been so much positivity and so many people positively helped by
this, and that's part of the reason why I'm fighting so hard to keep it."
Scharf looked to find a compromise by renaming the course from "yoga"
to "mindful stretching" but issues regarding how the phrase would
translate to French ultimately led to the program being suspended. She has also
said she is open to teaching the class in a "more accessible" form,
but has yet found a place or organization on campus to host it.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
"Taking
the No. 11 bus" is slang for walking, with the 1's representing your own
two legs.
There are competing theories for the origin of the term "86" it.
Article 86 of the New York state liquor code spelled out when a customer should
be refused alcohol. A soup kitchen during the Depression only made enough soup
for 85 people. Delmonico's restaurant in New York City had rib-eye steak listed
as No. 86 on the menu and often ran out.
Formulaic screenwriting rules require that a protagonist face an episode of
soul-searching despair before rising to conquer the world. Some call this a
"low point" or a "dark night of the soul," but no-nonsense
Hollywood producers refer to it simply as "Page 75."
Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson legally changed his name in 2008
to Chad Ocho Cinco, to reflect the Spanish translation of each number on his
uniform. When No. 85 first started calling himself Ocho Cinco, his coach
referred to the athlete as "Ocho Psycho."
"1661" is slang for an older woman who dresses in young women's
clothes. The sexist male term comes from the observation that some women look
16 years old from the back but 61 years old from the front.
The number 714 is an odd touchstone in American culture. It's the badge number
of cop Joe Friday in the TV show Dragnet. It's Babe Ruth's career home run
total. It's the number of the Friends episode when Jennifer Aniston's character
turns 30. It's a slang term for Quaaludes, because the number was marked on the
tablets. And it's the area code for Disneyland.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(88) - Madeleine L'Engle, [Franklin], US, sci-fi author
(Ilsa, Love Letters) (d.2007)
88 - Vin Scully, American sportscaster (Los Angeles
Dodgers), born in Bronx, NY
75 - Chuck Mangione, jazz hornist (Feels So Good), born in
Rochester, NY
69 - Suzy Chaffee, US, skier/chapstick user (Olympics-1968)
66 - Garry Shandling, comedian (Garry Shandling, Larry
Sanders Show)
(65) - Merle Travis, Muhlenberg County KY, country singer (d.
1983)
(64) - C. S. Lewis [Clive Staples], Belfast, sci-fi
author (Silver Chair), (d. 1963)
(63) - Adam Clayton Powell Jr, (Rep-D-NY)/minister (d.1972)
60 - Howie Mandel, comedian (Dr Wayne Fiscus-St Elsewhere),
born in Toronto, Ontario
(55) - Louisa May Alcott, Germantown PA, Am. author (Little
Women) (d.1888)
54 - Kim Delaney, American actress (All My Children, NYPD
Blue), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
51 - Don Cheadle, actor (Boogie Nights)
(49) - Christian Doppler, Salzburg, Austria, physicist
(Doppler effect), (d. 1853)
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Historical
Obits Today
@87 - Ralph Bellamy, actor (Rosemary's Baby, His Girl
Friday), 1991
@82 - Cary Grant, British-born American actor ('Charade,'
'North by Northwest') -1986
@79 - Coleman Young, 1st African American mayor of Detroit, 1997
@78 - Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (Jackie
Kennedy), 1992
@65 - Giacomo Puccini, Ital composer (Mme Butterfly), 1924
@61 - Horace Greeley, US founder/publisher (NY Tribune), 1872
@58 - George Harrison, English singer, guitarist and
songwriter, cancer-2001
@57 - Tom Terrell, musicologist, NPR reviewer, deejay,
cancer-2007
@43 - Natalie Wood, American actress (West Side Story),
drowns -1981
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Brain
Teasers Answers
A riddle!
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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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