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TODAY’s “Geez”
1752 - US adopts Gregorian calendar (becomes Sept 14)
1838 - Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor
1917 - 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes
1934 - Tunisia began its move for independence
1938 - 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland
1940 - US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
1986 - Astros & Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game
Free Rambling Thoughts…
A whole lot cooler today…can fall be in the air? We had lots of clouds but no moisture. A nice day to spend some time outside. So I did.
Someone made a post on my FB site with a picture of one of the guides I had in Africa. He was the guide who helped pull out a stuck vehicle while a leopard watch on. An amazing guy who was crawling over vehicles and then under vehicles to attach the chain, while we just sat in the non-stuck jeep, watching. We had been told many times that none of the Big 5 will attack our jeeps, but if we are away from the jeep or our arms or legs are outside the jeep, any of the Big 5 will attack. Anyway, it seems he was burning some brush a month ago and somehow got burned over 30% of his body, he was in the ICU for 5 days and has had numerous surgeries to remove the most badly burned skin on his legs and arms. He is going to OK and should be going home in about two weeks. Then he will have many weeks of recovery and probably some more surgeries. He had not posted on his FB page, but his family and friends did post a lot. I didn’t get any of those posts on my page until one friend of his tagged his photo. Then I went to his page and found the whole story. What an ordeal for a young man.
I decided to go the County Fair tomorrow so I could see the bagpipers do their thing. I’ll check out the rest of the fair before and after their noon performance. Should be a good Saturday.
I was happy that the Broncos were playing the Cardinals last night, as it was on TV. Then the game started, the text messaging started and the Broncos played like they hadn’t ever seen a football. Oh, well. It was pre-season. But I certainly didn’t need all the ribbing from the Tuba people.
Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)
1. In square miles, how big is Lake Ontario?
2. How old would Otis Redding have been had he lived to the end of the 20th century?
3. Stephens College is in which state?
4. John F. Kennedy was one of how many children?
5. What is Fidel Castro's real last name?
6. Where is the world's largest soccer stadium?
7. Who wrote that the female of the species is more deadly that the male?
8. Jeffrey Hunter was the lead in the original pilot for which successful series?
9. Who was Herbert Hoover's Vice President?
10. Which veteran rock musician said, "If I had my time again I would like to take up archaeology?"
11. What was Van Halen's first album after Dave Lee Roth left?
12. Which was the last US battalion to leave Vietnam?
13. What was the only hit single by Jaggerz?
Zoom-ed in Picture…Can you Identify what this is? (Answer at end of post)
Hmmmmm…
2800 ‘behavior-detention officers in TSA have flagged 288,000 people for examination.
Percentage of those that led to an arrest: .07 or 201 individuals
Somewhat Useless Information…
· The chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus, is a domestic subspecies of the red junglefowl, a member of the pheasant family that is native to Asia.
· Chickens are omnivores. They'll eat seeds and insects but also larger prey like small mice and lizards.
· Baby chickens are chicks. Female chickens are pullets until they're old enough to lay eggs and become hens. Male chickens are called roosters, cocks or cockerels, depending on the country you're in.
· A rooster announces to a flock of chickens that he's found food with a "took, took, took." But the hens don't pay attention if they already know that there is food around.
· Roosters perform a little dance called 'tidbitting' in which they make sounds (food calls) and move their head up and down, picking up and dropping a bit of food. Researchers have found that females prefer males that often perform tidbitting and have larger, brighter combs on top of their heads.
· A female chicken will mate with many different males but if she decides, after the deed is done, that she doesn't want a particular rooster's offspring and can eject his sperm. This occurs most often when the male is lower in the pecking order.
Yeah, It Really Happened…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — This summer's Las Conchas fire in New Mexico scorched tribal lands, threatened one of the nation's premier nuclear facilities and pushed bears into nearby cities. But it somehow spared more than 9,000 marijuana plants in a remote area of Bandelier National Monument.
Officials said no arrests have been made in the sophisticated growing operation in the park's backcountry. But authorities said Friday they were looking for at least two suspects. They estimate the plants were 6 to 10 feet tall had a street value of around $10 million.
"It was a lot larger than we anticipated," BNM Superintendent Jason Lott said. "It (was) much bigger and more sophisticated than we ever expected."
The marijuana operation had an irrigation system and a possible evacuation route for those overseeing the plants, Lott said. Temporary housing structures, trash and food caches were also found nearby.
The pot was discovered in rugged terrain during an Aug. 23 helicopter flight surveying a flash flood, Lott said. That flooding was caused when monsoonal rains fell on the charred area of the monument, where soil and rocks had been loosened by the fire, the largest in New Mexico history.
Local and federal law enforcement agencies raided the area early Thursday morning. No one was captured, but investigators say at least two men were seen at the grow site earlier in the week.
The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office and the New Mexico National Guard both lent helicopters to the operation and a National Guard Blackhawk helicopter airlifted the marijuana out, the National Park Service said. Most of it was transported to an undisclosed location for proper disposal and some was retained for testing as evidence.
Officials said Thursday's bust was the first marijuana growing operation detected in Bandelier National Monument, which features centuries-old dwellings carved into canyon walls by ancestors of the Native American pueblos that surround the area.
The Las Conchas fire burned more than 244 square miles over 36 days in the mountains surrounding the town of Los Alamos and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Guffaw…or at least smile…
Investigators at a major research institute have discovered the heaviest element known to science. This startling new discovery has been tentatively named Administratium (Ad).
The new element has no protons or electrons, thus having an atomic number of 0. It does, however, have 1 neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons, and 111 assistant vice neutrons, for an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since it has no electrons, Administratium is inert.
However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it came into contact.
According to the discoverers, a minute amount of Administratium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would normally take less than a second. Administratium has a normal half-life of approximately three years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons, vice neutrons, and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. In fact, an Administratium sample's mass will actually increase over time, since with each reorganization some of the morons inevitably become neutrons, forming new isotopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to speculate that Administratium is formed whenever morons reach a certain concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as the "Critical Morass".
Searchin’ “You Tube” I found…
Daybook Information…
…Happening This Week:
1-7
Self-University Week
1-10
International Enthusiasm Week
TODAY IS
Skyscraper Day
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Qatar--Independence Day (1971 from British)
San Marino--National Day (since 301-- oldest surviving sovereign state and constitutional republic in the world)
Today’s Events:
IN ARTS
1951 - TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS
1967 - Final episode of "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly
1977 - Last broadcast of "Mary Tyler Moore Show" on NBC-TV
IN ATHLETICS
1881 - 1st US Men’s Tennis: Richard D Sears beats William E Glyn (6:0 6:3 6:2)
1895 - 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn)
1902 - Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennant (full season)
1904 - St Louis Olympics closes
1925 - 1st international handball match held
1965 - Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to CA
IN BUSINESS
1833 - NY Sun begins publishing (1st US daily newspaper)
1912 - World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy
IN EDUCATION
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FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
523: Maya King Ahkal Mo' Naab' II is born. Eventually, he rules over Palenque, Mexico
1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1680: Don Antonio de Otermin is the Governor of the province which contains modern Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Pueblo Indians staged a revolt in August. Otermin enters Isleta Pueblo and discovers it is abondoned.
IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
1651 - Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists
2004 - The Beslan school massacre (Russia) ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children
IN RELIGION
1189 - 30 Jews are massacred at King Richard I (lion hearted) coronation
1882 - French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die
IN SCIENCE
1803 - English scientist John Dalton started using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements
IN US POLITICS
1783 - Treaty of Paris signed (ending US Revolutionary War)
1964 - Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson
1971 - Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office
ARTISTS: AUTHORS: COMPOSERS
Mort Walker, cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois) turns 88
ATHLETES
Dick Motta, NBA coach (856 wins, Its not over 'til the fat lady sings) turns 80
Damon Stoudamire, NBA guard (U of AZ, Toronto Raptors) turns 38
Shaun White, American snowboarder turns 25
ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
Eileen Brennan, actor turns 76
Mitzi Gaynor, actress/vocalist (Les Girls, South Pacific) turns 80
Costas Mandylor, Australian-born actor turns 46
Valerie Perrine, model, actor turns 68
Charlie Sheen, actor turns 46
ENTREPRENEUR & EDUCATORS
1860 - Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established US credit union movement
1820 - George Hearst, American businessman and father of William Randolph Hearst
1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche, Volkswagen)
1856 - Louis Henri Sullivan, father of modern US architecture
POLITICIANS
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SCIENTISTS / THEOLOGISTS
1811 - John Humphrey Noyes, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists)
1710 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist
Today’s Obits:
1991 - Frank Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94
1658 - Oliver Cromwell, British general (1653-58)/Lord Protector, dies of septicemias at 59
1962 - e[dward] e cummings, US poet (Tulips & Chimneys), dies of hemorrhage at 67
1967 - Woody Guthrie, rocker, dies of Huntington's Chorea at 55
1970 - Vince Lombardi, football coach (Packers), dies of colon cancer at 57
1969 - Ho Chi Minh, [Nguyen Ta't-Tanh], N Vietnamese president, dies of heart failure at 79
1984 - Duncan Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid), dies at 80
2005 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States dies at 81
1420 - Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland dies at about 80
1981 - Alec Waugh, English writer die at 83
ANSWERS:
Trivia Quiz
1. In square miles, how big is Lake Ontario?
a. 7,550 (the smallest of the Great Lakes)
2. How old would Otis Redding have been had he lived to the end of the 20th century?
a. 58
3. Stephens College is in which state?
a. Missouri
4. John F. Kennedy was one of how many children?
a. Nine: Patrick, John, Rosie, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert, Jean, Edward
5. What is Fidel Castro's real last name?
a. Ruz: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
6. Where is the world's largest soccer stadium?
a. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (the Maracana)—seats for 82,238
7. Who wrote that the female of the species is more deadly that the male?
a. Rudyard Kipling
8. Jeffrey Hunter was the lead in the original pilot for which successful series?
a. Star Trek
9. Who was Herbert Hoover's Vice President?
a. Charles Curtis: was English, Welsh, Scottish from father and French, Kaw, Osage, and Pottawatomie from his mother
10. Which veteran rock musician said, "If I had my time again I would like to take up archaeology?"
a. Bill Wyman: bass player Rolling Stones
11. What was Van Halen's first album after Dave Lee Roth left?
a. 5150 (CA police code for mentally disturbed person)
12. Which was the last US battalion to leave Vietnam?
a. 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry
13. What was the only hit single by Jaggerz?
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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 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] may not be totally accurate.
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