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TODAY’s “Geez”                                                                                            .
1888 - USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game
1889 - New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, finishing the trip in January in 72 days and 6 hours
1906 - Roosevelt becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country (Panama)
1956 - Hungarian revolt put down
1960 - OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms
1968 - "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning
1982 - Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa freed

♪♪ Happy Birthday To:♪♪                                                                   .                     

Free Rambling Thoughts                                                                              .
Cloudy and raining most of the day. Figured we would have snow, but not yet.

I spent time this morning cleaning the bedroom and dealing with my mail. I seem to have lots of cleaning energy whenever it is cloudy…works for me. I’m grateful that we don’t have many cloudy days as I don’t need to spend my retirement cleaning.

I got my videos downloaded onto my computer…things are moving in getting them ready for publication. I did get a good video of two of our river crossings...exciting and camera was fairly steady. Some of the shorter videos are from the vehicle and move a little too fast. They are good for me as I was there, but not for publication. I’m trying to find a program that will slow them down…hope I find one.

Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)                                                 .
1.     Who ruled England from 827 until 860?
2.    300,000 Chinese troops invaded a country in February of 1979, what was the country?
3.    World’s most remote weather station is located in what country?
4.    What European country was in an official state of emergency from 1933 until 1945?
5.    Which country lost over seventeen percent of its entire population in World War II?
6.    Which two countries share Victoria Falls?
7.    Adolf Hitler was born in what country?
8.    In 1989, what country did the United States invade in what George Will dubbed "an act of hemispheric hygiene"?
9.    What country did Ion Iliescu take over after its previous president was arrested, tried and shot?
10.  What North American country enacted the War Powers Act to quell a separatist rebellion in 1970?
11.   Aruba maintains the strongest ties to what European country?

Wuzzles…What concept or phrase do these suggest?                           .

NEW: Rules of Thumb                                                                          .
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
  • People are willing to walk for seven minutes to get to a McDonald's. That's why you'll find McDonald's restaurants a 14 minute walk apart in downtown areas.

Hmmmmm                                                                                                       .
  • Estimated percentage of the US college class of 2011 who are moving back home after graduation: 85

 Somewhat Useless Information                                                                     .
  • The federal law that established "daylight time" in the United States does not require any area to observe daylight saving time. However, if it does decide to observe DST, it must follow the starting and ending dates set by the law.
  • From 1986 to 2006 this was the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October, but starting in 2007, it is observed from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, adding about a month to daylight saving time.
  • Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Nation) and Hawaii and the territories of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa are the only places in the U.S. that do not observe DST but instead stay on "standard time" all year long.
  • Most of Canada uses Daylight Saving Time. Some exceptions include the majority of Saskatchewan and parts of northeastern British Columbia.
  • It wasn't until 1996 that Mexico adopted DST. Now all three Mexican time zones are on the same schedule as the United States.
  • In the Southern Hemisphere, where summer arrives in what we in the Northern Hemisphere consider the winter months, DST is observed from late October to late March.

Yeah, It Really Happened                                                                               .            
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Stockholm transport officials said a flock of pigeons have begun using a subway train for daily trips to a city shopping center. Rasmus Sandsten, spokesman for underground operator MTR, said the pigeons have been catching the train from Farsta Strand to the Farsta Centrum shopping center, only one stop away, where they regularly forage for food, The Local reported Thursday. "They stand calmly at the platform and wait for the subway train to arrive. When it does they get on, travel one stop, jump off and then head for their favorite haunts," Sandsten said. Sandsten said the food they find at the shopping center apparently gives the pigeons the energy they need to fly home. "We haven't been told of as many incidents of pigeons on the tube on the way back, so we think they fly on their way back," Sandsten said.

Guffaw…or at least smile                                                                               .
There was a man driving a pickup truck down a country road, when suddenly he was broad sided by a trailer truck. Some time went by, and the case got to court. The defense attorney said to the plaintiff, "How can you be suing my client now when you told a trooper after the accident that you felt fine?"
The man replied, "Well sir, it was like this. We was drivin' down the road, mindin' our own business, when a big trailer truck came out of nowhere and creamed us. When I came to, I was in the ditch, and a trooper was pullin' up with his car. He looked at the hogs, and they was 'most dead, so he shot 'em. Then he looked at my dog, and he was hurt real bad, so he shot him. Then he came over to me and he said, 'How you feeling?'" "I said, I never felt better in my life."

Searchin’ “You Tube” I found                                                                        .     

Claude Monet Paintings


Daybook Information                                                                                    .
…Happening This Week:
13-19 American Education Week
Geography Awareness Week National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week
National Global Entrepreneurship Week
TODAY IS                                                                                                         .
Girls Day
Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day
National American Teddy Bear Day
National Operation Room Nurse Day
Spirit of NSA (National Speakers Association) Day
Universal Children's Day
World Diabetes Day
World Orphans Day
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India: Children's Day

Today’s Events                                                                                                .
ARTS
1851 - "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published
1960 - Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" reaches #1
ATHLETICS
1973 - Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP Award unanimously
1981 - Paul 'Bear' Bryant ties Amos Alonzo Stagg with 314 football wins
BUSINESS
1896 - Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
1994 - 1st trains for public run in Channel Tunnel under English Channel
EDUCATION
1732 - 1st US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Phila
1968 - Yale University announces it is going co-educational
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
603: Maya King K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I (Ruler 1) ascends to the throne in Piedras Negras, Mexico
1851: Lieutenant Colonel J.J. Abercrombie and members of the Fifth Infantry begin the construction of Fort Phantom Hill, north of Abilene, Texas. The fort is often visited by the local Comanches, Lipan-Apaches, Kiowas and Kickapoos
POLITICS [International]
1524 - Pizarro's begins 1st great expedition, near Colombia
1991 - American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103
POLITICS [US]
1935 - FDR proclaims Philippine Islands a free commonwealth
1965 - US govt sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam
RELIGION
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SCIENCE
1666 - Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
1908 - Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light

Today’s Birthdays                                                                                          .
ARTISTS:  (AUTHORS, COMPOSERS,…)
Wendy (Walter) Carlos, composer (Switched on Bach) is 72
1900 - Aaron Copland, American composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring)
1907 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children book author (Pipi Longstocking)
1840 - Claude Monet, French impressionist (Water Lilies)
P J O'Rourke, writer (Easy Money) is 64
ATHLETES
Darrien Gordon, NFL cornerback (SD Chargers, Broncos-Superbowl 32) is 41
ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
1910 - Rosemary DeCamp, Prescott Az, actress (Love That Bob, That Girl)
1904 - Dick Powell, actor (Cry Danger, Dick Powell Theater)
1916 - Sherwood Schwartz, Passaic NJ, TV creator (Brady Bunch, Gilligan Island)
Josh Duhamel, actor is 39
1927 or 1929 - McLean Stevenson, American actor
D.B. Sweeney, actor is 50
Yanni, new age musician (Live at the Acropolis, Sand Dance) is 57
ENTREPRENEURS & EDUCATORS
1765 - Robert Fulton, built 1st commercial steamboat 
POLITICIAL FIGURES
1896 - Mamie G Doud Eisenhower, 1st lady (1953-61)
Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian secretary-general of UN is 89
1935 - Hussein ibn Talal I, king of Jordan
1909 - Joseph R McCarthy, (Sen-R-Wisc), anti-communist
Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State is 57
1974 - Adam Walsh, American murder victim…led to Adam’s Law, America’s Most Wanted 
SCIENTISTS & THEOLOGISTS
1776 - Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
Fred W Haise Jr, astronaut (Apollo 13 STS T-1, T-3, T-5) is 78

Today’s Obits                                                                 
1870 - David [James] Glasgow Farragut, admiral, heart attack at 69
1951 - William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies at 88
1982 - Patrick Magee, Northern Irish actor (Clockwork Orange, King Lear), heart attack at 60
1999 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player dies at 81
1932 - Rin Tin Tin, US Hollywood-dog, dies in arms of Jean Harlow at 13

ANSWERS                                                                            
Trivia Quiz
1.     Who ruled England from 827 until 860?
a.    Egbert, Ethelwulf and Ethelbald?
2.    300,000 Chinese troops invaded a country in February of 1979, what was the country?
a.    Vietnam.
3.    World’s most remote weather station is located in what country?
a.    Canada.
4.    What European country was in an official state of emergency from 1933 until 1945?
a.    Germany.
5.    Which country lost over seventeen percent of its entire population in World War II?
a.    Poland.
6.    Which two countries share Victoria Falls?
a.    Zimbabwe and Zambia.
7.    Adolf Hitler was born in what country?
a.    Austria.
8.    In 1989, what country did the United States invade in what George Will dubbed "an act of hemispheric hygiene"?
a.    Panama.
9.    What country did Ion Iliescu take over after its previous president was arrested, tried and shot?
a.    Romania.
10.  What North American country enacted the War Powers Act to quell a separatist rebellion in 1970?
a.    Canada.
11.   Aruba maintains the strongest ties to what European country?
a.    Netherlands

Wuzzle
Eye Shadow
3 square meals
Leaning slightly to the left

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.