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TODAY’s “Geez”
1813 - "Uncle Sam" was 1st used to refer to US (Troy Post of NY)
1903 - Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY
1923 - Interpol forms in Vienna
1936 - Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation
1944 - Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12)
1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut
Free Rambling Thoughts…
I started the short week with a visit to the dentist. It was just a cleaning. Not bad. When I got up this morning, it was raining. I put on my shorts, sandals, and shirt and went out to get the paper. I quickly realized, this was going to be a long pants day, and a long sleeve shirt day. Fall was certainly in the air. I closed some of the windows today—first time in a few months—to stop most of the breeze in the house. Fall is in the air….and I’m not ready.
Tonight I am listening to the city council meeting. Four speakers kept the Snowbowl issue in the public view. Not that many people tonight. I wonder how many meetings have to have speakers before the council puts anything on the agenda. It seems like such odd way to run a meeting. The council sits quietly, listens, the mayor thanks them for their comments and moves on. Nothing seems to change.
Watching the fires in Texas. How scary. One reporter said that one home is being burned every 4 seconds. That seems pretty high, but that fire can be seen by the astronauts on the space shuttle. So weird to have floods in the east, fires in Texas and no way to get the water to the places where it will do the most good. When will man learn that we cannot control Mother Nature.
I did a little more work on the new web site for Martha. Things are moving along fine. She still needs to get me some information about purchase, but that will come when the book is actually available. Right now I’m looking for some borders that fit the site.
Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)
1. What fat substitute got FDA approval for use in snack foods, despite reports of diarrhea and cramps?
2. What plant's meltdown was dubbed "Russian Roulette" by nuclear power wags?
3. What is a single unit of quanta called?
4. What will fall off of the Great Sphinx in 200 years due to pollution and erosion, according to scholar Chikaosa Tanimoto?
5. What suntan lotion was developed by Dr. Ben Green in 1944 to protect pilots who bailed out over the Pacific?
6. What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from opium and use as a pain reliever?
7. What substance nets recyclers the most money?
8. What are you shopping for if you are sized up by a Brannock Device?
9. What animal travels at 25 mph under water but finds it easier to toboggan on its belly on land?
10. What's the itchy skin condition tinea pedis better known as?
11. What uncooked meat is a trichina worm most likely to make a home in?
12. How many of every 10 victims infected by the Ebola virus will die in two days?
13. What computer company was named after a founder's memories of spending a summer in an Oregon orchard?
Zoom-ed in Picture…Can you Identify what this is? (Answer at end of post)
Hmmmmm…
Percentage of voters in the 2010 midtrms who were members of a union household: 17
Percentage change in US labor productivity since 1972: +114
Percentage change in wages during that same period: -4
Somewhat Useless Information…
Rather than wring every dime he could out of the popular "Matrix" movie series, Keanu Reeves signed away his back-end deal for the two sequels to the films' special-effects and costume-design teams -- an act of benevolence that cost him many millions.
Named after his uncle, Henry Keanu Reeves, the actor's first name roughly translates to "cool mountain breeze" in Hawaiian.
Yeah, It Really Happened…
LAS CRUCES, N.M — Should a drug suspect have to pay the bill for undergoing a court-ordered cavity search that finds nothing?
No, says a New Mexico woman who wants Doña Ana County officials to pay the $1,122 hospital bill she received after undergoing such a search on suspicion she was hiding heroin, The Las Cruces Sun-News reported.
The woman's identity was not being released.
Her lawyer, Michael Lilley of Las Cruces, filed a claim Aug. 30 against the county to justify her demand that authorities pay for her forcible body cavity search, according to the newspaper. Here's what happened, the newspaper said:
The Metro Narcotics Agency had "credible information from a reliable source" that the woman had concealed up to an ounce of heroin, which led to a search warrant on July 1, said Metro Sgt. Mike Alba.
The woman was searched at Memorial Medical Center, which then billed her for $1,122.
No heroin or any other narcotic was recovered from the exam.
The woman was not arrested or charged.
The woman had no criminal history in New Mexico.
County officials would not comment on a pending lawsuit, the newspaper reported.
Guffaw…or at least smile…
A guy runs into the bar and says, "Quick, pour me 5 shots of your best scotch."
The bartender pours them and the man drinks them as fast as he can.
"Wow that's the fastest I've seen anyone drink," says the bartender.
"Well you'd drink that fast if you had what I had," The man says
"Oh my god," the bartender says, "What do you have?"
The man replies "50 cents."
Searchin’ “You Tube” I found…
Daybook Information…
…Happening This Week:
1-7
Self-University Week
1-10 International Enthusiasm Week
4-10 National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week:
National Waffle Week Suicide Prevention Week 6-10 National Payroll Week:
Play Days TODAY IS
- Neither Rain Nor Snow Day
- Google Commemoration (Founded) Day--1998
- Grandma Moses Day
- Salami Day
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- Brazil: Independence Day (1822 from Portugal)
Today’s Events:
IN ARTS
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IN ATHLETICS
1880 - Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters
1957 - 71st US Women’s Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Louise Brough (63 62)
1986 - 100th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Helena Sukova (63 62)
IN BUSINESS
1876 - Bank robbery by James/Younger fails (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested)
IN EDUCATION
1954 - Integration begins in Wash DC & Baltimore MD public schools
FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1778 - Today through the 17th, the Shawnee attack Boonesborough. Captain Antoine Dagneaux de Quindre, with eleven soldiers, and 444Shawnees, including Chief Blackfish (Chinugalla), demand the surrender of Boonesborough. Daniel Boone is commanding the sixty American sharpshooters in the fort. After losing thirty-five warriors to the Kentucky fighters, the Indians quit on the 20th. Boone's forces report only four men killed in the fighting. Some sources put the settlers' numbers at thirty men, and twenty young men, with a few women and children. The losses are also reported at thirty-seven Shawnee, and two settlers.
1957 - An Act of Congress gives the Chilkat Indians mineral rights to their lands near Klukwan. They are one of only a very small number of Alaskans with this provision
IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
1599 - Earl van Essex & Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty
1901 - Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China
1977 - Ethiopia drops diplomatic relations with Somalia
IN RELIGION
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IN SCIENCE
1888 - Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby place in an incubator
1909 - Eugene Lefebvre (1878-1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
IN US POLITICS
1914 - NY Post Office Building opens to public
1916 - Workmen's Compensation Act passed by Congress
1995 - Sen Bob Packwoord (R-Ore) resigns rather than face expulsion
2008 - The US Government takes control of the two largest largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
ARTISTS: AUTHORS: COMPOSERS
1900 - "Janet" Taylor Caldwell, English novelist (Melissa)
1909 - Elia Kazan, Turkish director (Streetcar Named Desire)
1885 - Harry Sinclair Lewis, writer (Babbitt, Nobel 1930)
1860 - Grandma "Anna Maria" Moses, primitive painter (Old Oaken Bucket)
ATHLETES
Cedric Davis, NFL cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)turns 39
1931 - Al McGuire, US, basketball coach (Marquette)
ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
Corbin Bernsen, actor will be 57
1923 - Peter Lawford, English actor (Mrs Miniver, Thin Man)
Devon Sawa, actor will be 33
Richard Roundtree, actor (Shaft, Earthquake) turns 69
Evan Rachel Wood, actor will be 24
ENTREPRENEUR & EDUCATORS
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POLITICIANS
1533 - Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of English king Henry VIII & Anna Boleyn1924 - Daniel Ken Inouye [井上 建], Sen- Hawaii
Peggy Noonan, author (What I Saw at the Revolution), politician—special asst. to Reagan turns 61
SCIENTISTS / THEOLOGISTS
1908 - Michael E DeBakey, artificial heart pioneer
1914 - James Van Allen, US physicist (discovered Van Allen radiation belts)
Today’s Obits:
1969 - Everett McKinley Dirksen, (Sen-IL), dies at 73
1892 - John G Whittier, Quaker poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies at 84
ANSWERS:
Trivia Quiz
1. What fat substitute got FDA approval for use in snack foods, despite reports of diarrhea and cramps?
a. Olestra
2. What plant's meltdown was dubbed "Russian Roulette" by nuclear power wags?
a. Chernobyl's
3. What is a single unit of quanta called?
a. A quantum
4. What will fall off of the Great Sphinx in 200 years due to pollution and erosion, according to scholar Chikaosa Tanimoto?
a. It's head
5. What suntan lotion was developed by Dr. Ben Green in 1944 to protect pilots who bailed out over the Pacific?
a. Coppertone
6. What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from opium and use as a pain reliever?
a. Morphine
7. What substance nets recyclers the most money?
a. Aluminum
8. What are you shopping for if you are sized up by a Brannock Device?
a. Shoes
9. What animal travels at 25 mph under water but finds it easier to toboggan on its belly on land?
a. The penguin
10. What's the itchy skin condition tinea pedis better known as?
a. Athlete's foot
11. What uncooked meat is a trichina worm most likely to make a home in?
a. Pork
12. How many of every 10 victims infected by the Ebola virus will die in two days?
a. Nine
13. What computer company was named after a founder's memories of spending a summer in an Oregon orchard?
a. Apple
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Wringer Washer
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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