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Today’s Historical Highlights
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Free Rambling
Thoughts
When my Sunday paper hadn’t
arrived by 8a, I called the paper. When it wasn’t here by 11a I called again.
About noon the paper delivery guy called. I already know he is disabled, and he
called to tell me that his knee was really hurting and he would deliver it
later this afternoon. About 3p my phone rang and the guy was sitting outside
the house, in his vehicle, awaiting my arrival to get the paper. I went out and
listened to him bitch about how big the paper was, and how tomorrow it will be
so small and how the newspaper staff should keep the paper the same size every
day. Then he handed me the paper with no apology. I thanked him, but was upset.
I do feel some empathy for him—the whole ‘there but for the grace…’ but I also
pay for a service, and I tip quite well. Thankfully this doesn’t happen very
often, so I just blew it off.
Our discussion group had
a little stumbling block when the moderator was prepared to talk of the wrong
article, one we had done previously. We did have a good discussion with some
new points since he hadn’t been at the previous presentation. He works at NAU
and had just returned from Dubai and Saudi Arabia on a recruitment trip for new
students. According to him, in most countries there is a whole industry that
helps, for a charge, students find foreign universities—mostly in the US,
Canada, and the UK. He is very limited on his travels and only meets with students
of the particular company that invited him to the country. He does have
evenings free and parts of the day…prayer time..to see the city. The problem is
all the shops and tourist spots close during prayers. I also learned that many
Arab countries will not allow tourists into their country if they have an
Israeli stamp in their passport. To combat this, Israel will simply stamp a
piece of paper and place it inside your passport and it is taken back when you
leave Israel.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A close up
picture of what?
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NPR Sunday Puzzle
You are
given clues to two words, each with two syllables. The vowel sound in the first
syllable of the first word is a long A. Change that vowel to a short I, and
phonetically you will get a new word that answers the second clue. For example,
given "president after Polk" and "part of a boat," the
answer would be "Taylor" and "Tiller."
1.
William Penn, for example; more astute:
2.
Occurring every 24 hours; Lulu:
3.
A worker who makes bread; to argue:
4.
Heavy; clever:
5.
Tasty; 1920’s car, informally:
6.
Procrastinator’s word; trash:
7.
To rouse from sleep; a witch:
8.
A watch brand: a person who is deranged and does bad things:
9.
Banality; quiet:
10.
City in Italy; part of baby bottles:
Riddle of the day
What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else?
Anagram: unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s Index
Percentage of Republicans
who say the current economic order ‘favors a very small portion of the rich’:
62
Percentage increase in
total congressional new worth since 2008: 24
Found on You Tube
Johnny Unitas
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
Little Johnny was not paying attention in class so the math teacher called on him and said, “Johnny! What are 5, 2, 28 and 40?”
Little Johnny quickly replied, “NBC, CBS, HBO, and Cartoon Network!”
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
The materials for a mass-produced electronic device should cost about 10 percent of the retail price of the finished product.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
PALATKA, Fla. - A pair of Florida mud-bogging enthusiasts married at the same mud pit where the groom proposed a year ago. Kodie Umphenour, 24, and Carina Pasco, 31, were wed Saturday at the Hog Waller Mud Bog & ATV mud pit in Putnam County in a ceremony described on the invitations as "Our Big Ol' Muddy Redneck Wedding," The St. Augustine Record reported Wednesday.
The wedding was preceded by several minutes of mud tossing among guests and independent visitors to the mud pit. ATV riders were asked to silence their engines during the ceremony. The wedding blended the families of Umphenour, who has two children, and Pasco, who has four.
Umphenour said the wedding doubled as a honeymoon. "I've got to get back to work Monday," he said. "This is our honeymoon."
Somewhat Useless
Information
Female horse winners at the Kentucky Derby: Regret became the first to do it in 1915. She was followed by Genuine Risk in 1980 and Winning Colors in 1988Nixon attended the 1968 Derby won by Forward PassOnly three horses have ever run the Kentucky Derby in less than two minutes: Monarchos, Secretariat and Sham
Calendar Information
…Happening This Week:
1-7
Bread Pudding Recipe Exchange Week
Update Your References Week
6-12
Anxiety & Depression Awareness
Week
Be Kind To Animals Week
Dystonia Awareness Week
Children's Mental Health Week
Choose Privacy Week
Drinking Water Week
Flexible Work Arrangement Week
Goodwill Industries Week
International Wildlife Film Week
Kids Win Week
NAOSH Week
National Alcohol & Drug Related
Birth Defects Awareness Week National
National Family Week
National Hug Holiday Week
National Nurses Day and Week
National Occupational Safety &
Health Day
National Pet Week
National Raisin Week
National Wildflower Week
North American Occupational Safety
& Health Week
PTA Teacher Appreciation Week
7-13
Children's Book Week
Dating and Life Coach Recognition
Week
National Correctional Officer's Week
National Stuttering Awareness Week
Teacher Appreciation Week
Work At Home Moms Week
Today Is
Accountant's Day or Accounting Day
Beaufort Scale Day A scale of wind
velocity ranging from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)
International Tuba Day
Melanoma Monday
Mother Ocean Day
National Babysitters Day
National Homebrew Day
National Roast Leg of Lamb Day
National Babysitters Day
National Homebrew Day
National Roast Leg of Lamb Day
Paste Up Day like they
used to do with newspapers
Spring Astronomy Day
World Fair Trade Day
World Fair Trade Day
Today’s Other Events
See yesterday’s list. I missed all
events by one day. Oops
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Pete V Domenici,
(Sen-R-NM, 1973- ) is 80
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In their 40’s
Traci Lords, actress,
producer, singer is 44
Remembered for being born on this day
Anne Baxter, Mich City
Ind, actr (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel) in 1923
Robert Browning, London
England, poet (Pied Piper) in 1812
Johannes Brahms, Hamburg
Germany, composer in 1833
Totie Fields, American
comedienne in 1930
Darren McGavin, Spokane
Wash, actor (Night Stalker, Tribes, Turk 182) in 1922
Eva Peron-Duarte [Evita],
Argentina, 1st lady/actress, in 1919
Tim Russert, Buffalo
NY,American television journalist and host of NBC’s Meet the Press in 1950
Josip Broz Tito, WW II
partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80) in 1892
Johnny Unitas, NFL QB
(Balt Colts, San Diego); one of the greats in 1933
Today’s Obits
Dawn Addams, actress
(Alan Young Show, Star Maidens), dies of cancer in 1985 at 54
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.,
American actor, WWII hero dies in 2000 at 90
Sir James George Frazer,
Scottish anthropologist dies in 1941 at 87
William Buell Sprague,
American clergyman and author dies in 1876 at 81
Alfred G Vanderbilt, US
millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania in 1915 at 37
Correction from yesterday:
Henry David Thoreau died in 1862
Answers
Brain Game: Close Up
Picture
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Riddle of the day
Your word
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
William Penn, for example; more astute: Quaker, quicker
2.
Occurring every 24 hours; Lulu: daily; dilly
3.
A worker who makes bread; to argue: baker, bicker
4.
Heavy; clever: weighty; witty
5.
Tasty; 1920’s car, informally: flavor; flivver
6.
Procrastinator’s word; trash: later; liter
7.
To rouse from sleep; a witch: waken; wiccan
8.
A watch brand: a person who is deranged and does bad things: Seiko; sick-o
9.
Banality; quiet: staleness; stillness
10.
City in Italy; part of baby bottles: Naples; nipples
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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] the dates
may not be totally accurate.
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