Today’s “Geez”
1804 - Impeachment
trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins
1872 - 1st
international soccer game, Scotland-England 0-0 (Glasgow)
1900 - A
German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
1983 - Radio Shack
announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)
1987 - Afghanistan
Constitution adopted
1995 - Official
end of Operation Desert Storm
♪♪ Happy Birthday To:♪♪
Free Rambling Thoughts
I stayed home and worked
on videos most of the day. All that is left to do is make a movie of my videos.
I tried a new program from Kim Komando, but didn’t like it very much. The
slideshow was OK, but I couldn’t add any captions or add music at the end. What
a pain. How does one know how long the music should be until the slideshow is
downloaded? And I’m sure there must be a way to add captions but sure couldn’t
find it. So I reverted to the program I have been using. I also cut some of the
videos down when I had been unable to hold the camera still enough. I think I
can put those on my slideshow program, but they are saved in a file I have
never heard of. Tomorrow will tell.
Ethiopia was such a
great adventure. Looking over the pictures only brings back such great
memories. I was so fortunate to be able to be with such nice people, in such an
historical country.
Four years for assisting
in the death of a human being. Really? And due to overcrowding he probably will
only serve two? No punishment will bring back the eccentric superstar, father,
son, uncle. I hope the other Dr. Feel Goods think hard in the future.
NPR Sunday Puzzle…(answers
at the end of post)
Each answer is a compound word or a familiar
two-word phrase containing the consecutive letters H-H-O, as in H2O. For example, given the clue
"Dutch province containing Rotterdam and The Hague," the answer would
be "South Holland."
1.
A
period from noon to one o’clock:
2.
A
familiar name for a bar at a golf club:
3.
A
place to put a worm:
4.
A
domicile along a sandy shore :
5.
Low
priced lodging for vacationing kids:
6.
It
you are contemptuous, they would tell you to get off your:
7.
Former
name for Belize:
8.
Words
before ‘and charity”:
9.
Something
fed to livestock to make them get bigger artificially:
10. Passover:
11. Elasticized stocking:
12. Exclamation from 7 dwarfs as they go
to work:
13. Translation of cum lade:
Wuzzles…What concept or
phrase do these suggest?
returns tomorrow
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
- A restaurant is never better than its bread.
Hmmmmm
- Percentage of Americans who ‘feel safer’ since bin Laden was killed: 14
Somewhat Useless Information
- Excessive heat causes not only physical stress, but psychological stress as well, to a degree that causes an increase in violent crime.
- In July 1995, a sudden and sever heat wave killed over 700 people in Chicago in just three days.
- In 2008, Houston ranked fourth for highest increase in the local technological innovation over the preceding 15 years, according to Forbes magazine.
- American Lung Association rated the Houston's metropolitan area's ozone level as the 6th worst in the United States in 2006.
Yeah, It Really Happened
ORNSKOLDSVIK, Sweden -
Swedish police said personnel will receive further training after a loaded
rifle was sent to a forensic lab through the mail. Ornskoldsvik police said the
rifle was apparently not examined closely enough before it was sent to the
Swedish National Laboratory of Forensic Science in Linkoping, Swedish news
agency TT reported Tuesday.
"These things
happen now and again, unfortunately," said Tore Olsson of the Swedish
National Laboratory of Forensic Science.
Officer Dick Danielsson
at the Ornskoldsvik station said the incident was reported to the Work
Environment Authority and all personnel will receive further training. He said
a committee has been assembled to review weapon handling procedures.
"It was lucky that
nothing happened and we are treating it as a very serious matter that the
weapon was sent off without anyone checking if it was loaded," Danielsson
said.
Guffaw…or at least smile
Q: What do you call a short
fortuneteller on the run from the law?
A: A small medium at large.
--
Doctor: What’s wrong
with your bother?
Boy: He thinks he is a
chicken.
Doctor: really? How long
has this been going on?
Boy: Five years.
Doctor: Five years!
Boy: We would have
brought him in earlier, but we needed the eggs.
Searchin’ “You Tube” I found
Scotland the brave - Robert Wilson
Daybook Information
…Happening This Week:
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Today Is
Christmas Tree Annual Lighting Rockefeller Center
Computer Security Day
National Meth Awareness Day
Saint Andrew's Day: the founder and first bishop of
the Church of Byzantium and is consequently the patron saint of the Ecumenical
Patriarchate of Constantinople: patron saint of Scotland as led Scotland's
conversion to Christianity.
Stay At Home Because You're Well Day
~*~
Barbados: Independence Day (1966
from UK)
Yemen: Independence Day (1918 from Ottoman Empire & 1967 from UK)
Today’s Events
Arts
1940 - Lucille Ball
weds Desi Arnaz
2004 - Longtime
Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving
him with $2,520,700 USD, television's all-time biggest game show haul
Athletes
1952 - Jackie
Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism
Business
1886 - 1st
commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo
1983 - Police free
kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam
Education
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Indigenous People
1769 - Gaspar de Portolá
has led an expedition to explore parts of the central California coastline.
While near San Jose Creek, a group of local Indians provides them with some
food.
1836 - The United States
signs a treaty (7 stat. 527) with the Wahpaakootah, Susseton, and Upper
Medawakanton tribes of Sioux Indians.
Politics [International]
1735 - States
of Holland forbid Free Masonry
1776 - Capt
Cook begins 3rd & last trip to Pacific (South Sea)
1961 - USSR vetoes
Kuwait’s application for UN membership
1962 - U Thant
of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of UN unanimously
Politics [US]
1967 - Sen Eugene
McCarthy begins run for US presidency
2004 - Department
of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns.
Religion
1678 - Roman
Catholics banned from English parliament
Science
1630 - 16,000
inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague
1731 - Beijing
hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die
1924 - 1st
photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
1974 - Most
complete early man skeleton found (Johanson & Gray in Ethiopia) Lucy
(Australopithecus)
Photo taken 10-24-11 at National Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Today’s Birthdays
Artists: [Authors, Composers]
1835 - Samuel
L Clemens, [Mark Twain], author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn)
1912 - Gordon
Parks, film director/author (Learning Tree)
1667 - Jonathan
Swift, English satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal)
Athletes
Bo Jackson,
baseball/football player (KC Royals, LA Raiders) is 49
1931 - Bill
Walsh, NFL coach (SF 49ers)/sportscaster
Paul Westphal, NBA guard
(Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns) is 61
Entertainers [Actors, Singers…]
Dick Clark, TV Host
(American Bandstand) is 82
1926 - Richard
Crenna, actor (Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles)
Robert Guillaume,
[Williams], actor (Benson, Soap) is 84
Billy Idol, [William
Broad], rocker (White Wedding) is 56
1920 - Virginia
Mayo, actress (Out of the Blue, White Heat)
Mandy Patinkin, actor is 59
Ben Stiller, comedian,
TV actor is 46
1918 - Efren
Zimbalist Jr, actor (77 Sunset Strip, FBI, Scruples)
Entrepreneurs & Educators
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Political Figures
1924 - Shirley
Chisholm, (Rep-NY)
1874 - Winston
Churchill, (C) Brit PM (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953)
1466 - Andrea
Doria, Genoese statesman/admiral
1936 - Abbie
Hoffman, aka Free, Yippie/activist/author (Steal this Book)
G[eorge] Gordon Liddy,
head CIA/ate a rat/Watergate felon/radio host is 81
Scientists & Theologians
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Today’s Obits
1987 - James
Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies of stomach cancer at 63
1990 - Norman
Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75
1986 - Cary
Grant [Archibald Alexander Leach], Brit/US actor (Awful Truth, Charade, Father
Goose), dies of Cerebral hemorrhage at 82
2007 - Evel
Knievel [Robert Craig Knievel], American motorcycle daredevil dies of idiopathic
pulmonary fibrosis at 69
1694 - Marcello
Malpighi, father of microscopic anatomy, dies of apoplexy at 66
1979 - Zeppo Marx,
[Herbert], US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 78
1996 - Tiny Tim,
[Herbert Khaury], entertainer (Tip Toe), dies of heart attack at 71
1900 - Oscar
Wilde, Irish author, dies of cerebral meningitis at 46
Answers
NPR Sunday Puzzle
A period from noon to
one o’clock: lunch hour
A familiar name for a
bar at a golf club: 19th hole
A place to put a worm:
fish hook
A domicile along a sandy
shore: beach house
Low priced lodging for
vacationing kids: youth hostile
It you are contemptuous,
they would tell you to get off your: high horse
Former name for Belize:
British Honduras
Words before ‘and
charity”: Faith, hope
Something fed to
livestock to make them get bigger artificially: growth hormone
Passover: Jewish holiday
Elasticized stocking:
stretch hosiery
Exclamation from 7
dwarfs as they go to work: high ho
Translation of cum lade:
with honors
Wuzzle
Returns tomorrow
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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