10-17-11


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TODAY’s “Geez”                                                                                                .
1904 - Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors
1933 - Albert Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany
1959 - Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 [2010$-$1035.23] for withdrawing her race horse
1979 - Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize
2007 - The Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal

♪♪ Happy Birthday To:♪♪                                                                            .                     

Free Rambling Thoughts                                                                              .
I started getting ready for my Ethiopia trip today…not packing but putting stuff I need in piles. Ellie called to be sure I had all her emails and tickets. I asked her if my last roommate was meeting us in Denver or in DC. I have a list of participants but didn’t’ really pay any attention. Well, turns out the Southern Baptist minister isn’t going. He remarried this summer. I knew he had a hard time living alone, but was surprised to say the least. Good luck to him. I’ll get the whole story on my trip…and from the way Ellie told me, it will be a little odd.

I ordered new glasses today and will pick them up on Tuesday. With my script, they ain’t cheap. I am really blind in one eye and I need to get the thinnest lenses they make so I don’t have what used to be called pop bottles. I will get a second pair when they have a 50% off sale. I decided I didn’t want to see Ethiopia through scratched lenses.

I finished the PBS series on Prohibition this afternoon. What a great series. Watching and listening to those responsible for and finally those who worked to repeal was amazing. Even back then, it was Protestants v Roman Catholics as much as wet v dry. It was also immigrants v those born here as much as wet v dry. It was also women leading the cry for prohibition, then other women leading the cry for repeal. I must have been asleep several times during those history classes I took in high school and college. Thank you Mr. Burns, again.

Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)                                                 .
1.     Alphabetically, what animal comes last in the Chinese horoscope?
2.    What type of animal is the symbol of medicine?
3.    Which type of semi aquatic animal is a lutra-lutra?
4.   What animals make a sound called nuzzing?
5.    What animal is the symbol of long life in Korea?
6.    A Curry Comb is used on what type of creature?
7.    The llama belongs to what family to what family of animals?
8.   Eskimos call what kind of creature a nanook?
9.    Which animal has the longest lifespan in captivity?
10.  In Peru, what animal provides 50% of all the protein eatin?
11.   What animal pollinates banana plants in the wild?
12.  A fennec is what type of animal?
13.  What kind of creature always gives birth to same sex twins?

Wuzzles…What concept or phrase do these suggest?                           .

Hmmmmm                                                                                                       .
Chances that an American believes the country is still in a recession or depression: 1 of 2
Estimated percentage change in chief executive pay at America’s publicly traded corporations in 2010: +11%

Somewhat Useless Information                                                                     .
Texas boasts the Guadalupe, Trinity, Rio Grande, Brazos, and Colorado rivers. It contains many other rivers as well, including the Pecos, Red, Sabine, and San Antonio rivers. Most of these rivers eventually flow into the Gulf of Mexico.
Colorado is bordered by Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
At 2,565 miles (4,130), the Missouri River is the longest river in the United States and drains approximately one sixth of the North American continent. It serves as a tributary of the Mississippi River. The combined Missouri-Mississippi river system is the fourth longest river in the world.

Yeah, It Really Happened                                                                             .            
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - A spa chain in Vancouver, Canada, is offering $50 "Calm Down" vouchers to anyone who took part in hockey riots last June who surrenders to police. The chain of seven Eccotique spa outlets has begun an ad campaign inviting rioters to visit a spa and describe their looting or arson on June 15 when the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins.
The confessors will leave a fingerprint on a spa card and then turn themselves into police. When they return to the spa with a police arrest form, they receive the $50 voucher to be used toward massages, manicures, pedicures or waxing, the company said in a release.
Eccotique President Milajne Soligo said the offer was not a reward for bad behavior. "Suspects can finally come to terms with their conscience, while the police can see justice is done" Soligo said. "These people obviously had a lot of pent-up anger during all the chaos. We think they need to learn how to calm down and relax." The company published an ad showing a rioter in a police mug shot wearing a spa face pack.

Guffaw…or at least smile                                                                             .
In the middle of a forest, there was a hunter who was suddenly confronted by a huge, mean bear.
In his fear, all attempts to shoot the bear were unsuccessful. Finally, he turned and ran as fast as he could. The hunter ran and ran and ran, until he ended up at the edge of a very steep cliff. His hopes were dim.
Seeing no way out of his predicament, and with the bear closing in rather quickly, the hunter got down on his knees, opened his arms, and exclaimed, "Dear God! Please give this bear some religion!"
The skies darkened and there was lightning in the air. Just a few feet short of the hunter, the bear came to abrupt stop, and glanced around, somewhat confused.
Suddenly, the bear looked up into the sky and said, "Thank you God, for the food I'm about to receive..."

Searchin’ “You Tube” I found                                                                     .     

Daybook Information                                                                                    .
…Happening This Week:
10-16
Home-based Business Week / Kids' Goal Setting Week / Take Your Medicine Americans Week / World Rainforest Week
16-22

Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week / Kids Care Week / National Save For Retirement Week / Teen Read Week / National Chemistry Week / YWCA Week without Violence / National Character Counts Week / National Food Bank Week / National Forest Products Week / National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week / Freedom From Bullies Week / Freedom of Speech Week /Medical Assistants Recognition Week / National School Bus Safety Week


TODAY IS                                                                                                           .
Black Poetry Day
Boss's Day (or National Boss's Day)
Gaudy Day
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Mulligan Day
National Cake Decorating Day
National Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day

Today’s Events                                                                                                .
ARTS
1707 - German composer Johann S Bach marries his niece Maria Bach
1961 - NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd
1967 - "Hair" premieres on Broadway  
ATHLETICS
1860 - 1st British Golf Open: Willie Park shoots a 164 at Prestwick Club
1885 - Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 [2010$: $23951.25 - $47902.50] for 1885 season
1992 - 1st World Series with non-US team, Toronto loses 3-1 to Braves
BUSINESS
1920 - Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play 1st NFL game, win 7-0
2003 - The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest highrise
EDUCATION
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1782: Cherokee will sign the "Long Swamp" treaty with General Andrew Pickens in Selacoa, Georgia. They will cede land in Georgia as reparations for the fighting during the Revolutionary War
1788 - Gillespie's Station is located near Knoxville in Tennessee. It is protected by a small group of local settlers and frontiersmen. Today, a force of Chickamaugas, led by Bloody Fellow, Categisky, Glass and John Watts, will attack the station. The settlers were able to hold off the attack until their ammunition ran out. The Chickamaugas then entered the buildings and killed all of the men, and took the women as prisoners. Two warriors claimed the daughter of Colonel Gillespie as a prisoner. To settle the argument, the warriors stabbed her to death. Most of the prisoners would eventually be traded for captured Indians.
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration
1346 - Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years
1922 - Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London
1970 - Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt
1975 - UN passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism"
RELIGION
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SCIENCE
1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie)
US POLITICS
1781 - Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
1871 - President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus
1931 - Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison

Today’s Birthdays                                                                                            .
ARTISTS:  (AUTHORS, COMPOSERS,…)
1915 - Arthur Miller, playwright (Death of a Salesman, Crucible)
1898 - Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher
ATHLETES
1848 - William "Candy" Cummings, created curve ball
1938 - Robert "Evel" Knievel, motorcycle daredevil (Snake River Canyon Jump s)
ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
1900 - Jean Arthur, American actress (Shane, Mr Smith Goes to Washington)
-Timothy Bottoms, actor (Adam-East of Eden) is 62
1886 - Spring Byington, actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride)
1920 - Montgomery Clift, actor (From Here to Eternity)
-Eminem, rapper will be 39
1919 - Rita Hayworth, [Marguerita C Casino], actress (Gilda, Pal Joey)
-Alan Jackson,  country singer (Here in the Real World)turns 53
-Margot Kidder, actress (Lois Lane, Amityville Horror) is 63
-Norm Macdonald, comedian is 48
-Michael McKean, actor (Laverne & Shirley, SNL, Spinal Tap) is 64
1921 - Tom Poston, actor (Steve Allen Show, Newhart)
-Gary Puckett, vocalist (& Union Gap-Woman Woman, Young Girl) is 69
-George Wendt, actor (Norm-Cheers) is 63
ENTREPRENEURS & EDUCATORS
-Jimmy Breslin, columnist (NY Post, News, Newsday) is 81
POLITICIAL FIGURES
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SCIENTISTS & THEOLOGISTS
1912 - John Paul I, [Albino Luciano], 263rd Roman Catholic pope

Today’s Obits                                                                 .
1990 - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies of blood clots at 64
2007 - Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack dies at 89
2007 - Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer ("Till I Waltz Again With You" ) at 76
1849 - Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies of TB[?]at 39
1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer (Gospel), dies of liver disease at 72
1910 - Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic ), dies at 91
2009 - Vic Mizzy, American composer (themes to Green Acres and  The Addams Family) dies at 93
1958 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer dies of lung cancer at 62

ANSWERS                                                                            
Trivia Quiz
1.     Alphabetically, what animal comes last in the Chinese horoscope?
a.     Tiger
2.     What type of animal is the symbol of medicine?
a.     Snake
3.     Which type of semi aquatic animal is a lutra-lutra?
a.     An Otter
4.     What animals make a sound called nuzzing?
a.     Camels
5.     What animal is the symbol of long life in Korea?
a.     The Deer
6.     A Curry Comb is used on what type of creature?
a.     Horse
7.     The llama belongs to what family to what family of animals?
a.     Camel
8.     Eskimos call what kind of creature a nanook?
a.     Polar Bear
9.     Which animal has the longest lifespan in captivity?
a.     Giant Tortoise
10.  In Peru, what animal provides 50% of all the protein eaten?
a.     The Guinea Pig
11.  What animal pollinates banana plants in the wild?
a.     Bats
12.  A fennec is what type of animal?
a.     A Desert Fox
13.  What kind of creature always gives birth to same sex twins?
a.     Armadillo

Wuzzle
Two left feet
Continuing Education

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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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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