11-12-11


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TODAY’s “Geez”                                                                                            .
  • 1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anesthetic
  • 1933 - 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
  • 1936 - 1st TV Gardening show
  • 1945 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
  • 1946 - 1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago)
  • 1775 - General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks

 ♪♪ Happy Birthday To:♪♪                                                                   .                     

Free Rambling Thoughts                                                                              .
A very cloudy day…trying real hard to snow or rain, but alas…nada, zilch, none. I took off early today, just in case, to run necessary errands. I left early partially because I thought it was going to snow and partially because it is Vets Day and lots of people are off work. I missed the crowds at all my stops, so that was good. Weather guy still saying we will get about an inch of snow this weekend.

I’m still not back into the right sleep cycle, but tonight should solve that. I woke up at 3a and finally I got back to sleep. Then I woke again at 5am and gave up on getting back to sleep. I didn’t take any naps today—just fought it off. Tonight should get me back on track.

I did download my Ethiopia pictures and started my blog. Still have to download the videos. I spent time from 6am to 8:30am to catch up on lots of email that was just piling up. Lots of good wishes from friends who knew I was traveling. One piece of sad news, Mary’s 99 year old mom passed while I was gone. She was only in Hospice for about 3 weeks and seems to have passed peacefully. It is always hard to lose a parent. The first one is usually a shocker while the second one is much harder when you realize that you are an orphan. I found that helping my mom after my dad’s passing helped our family grieve. My brother and I were there to help each other when our mom passed, but there was no one to care for. It is something we all have to go through and until one goes through it, they don’t really understand the loneliness when both are gone. As my friends go through this life changing experience, I am reminded of the passing of my parents…and can really understand.




Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)                                                 .
1.     Who was Nevada's capital city named after?
2.    Which lake is linked by anal to the St. Lawrence and Hudson rivers?
3.    Which mountain system stretches from Alabama to Quebec?
4.    Where are the headquarters of Coca Cola?
5.    Charleston is on which river?
6.    Which is the largest of the inlets on the Atlantic coast?
7.    Cleveland is on which of the Great Lakes?
8.    What is the third largest city of the USA?
9.    Denver is on which river?
10.  The Black Hills are composed of which rock?

Wuzzles…What concept or phrase do these suggest?                           .

NEW: Rules of Thumb                                                                          .
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
  • For men: The year you start growing dark hair on your chest is the year that the loss rate of your head hair exceeds its growth rate.

Hmmmmm                                                                                                       .
  • Percentage change in the number of US whites under the age of 18 in the past decade: -9.8
  • Blacks: -2.8
  • Hispanics: +38.8

Somewhat Useless Information                                                                     .
  • Fortune cookies, egg foo young, chow mein, and chop suey were all invented in the United States.
  • Fajitas are from the North American state of Texas, whereas hot dogs and hamburgers are thought to have come from Germany in some variation.

Yeah, It Really Happened                                                                               .            
SEATTLE - An anthropology graduate student in Seattle said he is studying Dumpster-diving culture to bring awareness to the amount of edible food that ends up as trash. University of Washington grad student David Giles, 31, an Australia native, said he has been vaulting into Dumpsters and scrounging for edibles as part of his thesis project, which he said he hopes will inspire people to donate leftover food to the hungry rather than throwing it out, The Seattle Times reported Friday.
"The first thing that hits you in the face is how good the stuff in the Dumpster is," Giles said. "It's thrown away because it's not profitable." Giles said his Dumpster-diving research has cut his monthly grocery bill down to $100 and he knows others who sustain themselves strictly on what they find in the trash. The graduate student said he plans to write a book about his experiences when he finishes his thesis next year.

Guffaw…or at least smile                                                                               .
An Antartian named Babbette finds herself in dire trouble. Her business has gone bust and she's in serious financial trouble. She's so desperate that she decides to ask God for help. She begins to pray... "God, please help me. I've lost my business and if I don't get some money, I'm going to lose my house as well. Please let me win the lotto."
Lotto night comes and somebody else wins it. Babbette again prays..."God, please let me win the lotto! I've lost my business, my house and I'm going to lose my car as well."
Lotto night comes and Babbette still has no luck.
Once again, she prays..."My God, why have you forsaken me?? I've lost my business, my house and my car. My children are starving. I don't often ask you for help and I have always been a good servant to you. PLEASE just let me win the lotto this one time so I can get my life back in order."
Suddenly there is a blinding flash of light as the heavens open and Babbette is confronted by the voice of God Himself: "Babbette, meet Me halfway on this. Buy a ticket."

Searchin’ “You Tube” I found                                                                        .     

Song of the South Original Clip


Daybook Information                                                                                    .
…Happening This Week:
6-12 
Health Information and Technology Week
International Fraud Awareness Week
National Nurse Practioners Week 
National Rad Tech Week
7-13
Dear Santa Letter Week 
National Young Reader's Week
Pursuit of Happiness Week
World Kindness Week 

TODAY IS                                                                                                         .
  • Birth of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i)
  • Domino Day National
  • Donor Sabbath Days
  • National Gaming Day-- Communities across the U.S. (and internationally!) are coming together in the spirit of play for the American Library Association’s 4th Annual National Gaming Day @ your library, sponsored by FamilyandPartyGames.com. This year’s event expects to draw more than 20,000 people at more than 1,200 libraries.
  • National Pizza With The Works Except Anchovies Day

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  • Mexico--Postman Day's

Today’s Events                                                                                                .
ARTS
1910 - 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1936 - Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy"
1946 - Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released
1969 - Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
ATHLETICS
1927 - Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
1969 - Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP
BUSINESS
1859 - Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name
1900 - World's Fair in Paris opens (50 million visitors)
1927 - 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens
EDUCATION
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1794: A treaty (7 stat. 44) is concluded at Canandaigua (Konondaigua), New York, with the "Six Nations." The United States acknowledges the treaties signed by the Six Nations and New York. Boundaries are established. The Six Nations will not submit further land claims. A wagon trail is established from Fort Schlosser to Buffalo Creek on Lake Erie. The Indians receive $10,000 in goods now. The annuity agreed to in the treaty of April 3, 1792 is increased from $1500 to $4500 in goods. The treaty is signed by Thomas Pickering for the United States, and by fifty-nine Indians.
1865: Medicine Bottle and Little Shakopee, two of the leaders of the Santee Sioux uprising are executed at Pine Knob. They both had escaped to Canada, but officials there aided Americans in their kidnapping, and return to the United States
POLITICS [International]
1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament
1974 - South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
POLITICS [US]
1942 - In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began
1954 - Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
1968 - Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional
1979 - US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
RELIGION
1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism
SCIENCE
1915 - Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
1987 - Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine

Today’s Birthdays                                                                                          .
ARTISTS:  (AUTHORS, COMPOSERS,…)
1889 - DeWitt Wallace, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921)
ATHLETES
Derek Bell, outfielder (Houston Astros) is 43
Nadia Comaneci, [Gheorghe], Romania, gymnast (1st 10/Olymp-gold-1976 ) is 50
Tonya Harding, figure skater (Oly-8th-1994/US Champ 1994) is 41
Al Michaels, sportscaster ( ABC Monday Night Football and Baseball) is 66
ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
Ryan Gosling, actor is 31
Anne Hathaway, actor is 29
Brian Hyland, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy ... Bikini) is 68
1928 - Grace Kelly, actress (Rear Window)/Princess (Monaco)
Megan Mullally, actor [Will and Grace] is 53
David Schwimmer, actor is 45
1918 - Jo Stafford, singer (I'll Never Smile Again)
Neil Young, singer/songwriter (Cosby, Sills & Young) is 66
ENTREPRENEURS & EDUCATORS
1917 - Joseph Coors, CEO (Adolph Coors Co Brewery)
POLITICIAL FIGURES
1528 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese general 
1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist (80 Years & More)
1866 - Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC & PRC) (traditional)
Charles Manson, [No Name Maddox], criminal (Tate-Labianco)  is 77
SCIENTISTS & THEOLOGISTS
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Today’s Obits                                                                                   
1990 - Eve Arden, actress (Our Miss Brooks), dies at 82
2003 - Jonathan Brandis, American actor commits suicide at 27
1916 - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona and pacifist dies after stroke at 61
2003 - Penny Singleton, American actress (Blondie Bumstead, voice of Jane Jetson) dies at 95

ANSWERS                                                                            
Trivia Quiz
Who was Nevada's capital city named after?
A: Kit Carson.
Which lake is linked by anal to the St. Lawrence and Hudson rivers?
A: Champlain.
Which mountain system stretches from Alabama to Quebec?
A: Appalachians.
Where are the headquarters of Coca Cola?
A: Atlanta.
Charleston is on which river?
A: Kanawaha.
Which is the largest of the inlets on the Atlantic coast?
A: Chesapeake Bay.
Cleveland is on which of the Great Lakes?
A: Erie.
What is the third largest city of the USA?
A: Chicago.
Denver is on which river?
A: South Platte.
The Black Hills are composed of which rock?
A: Granite.

Wuzzle
The following day
Envious
High rise

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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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.