10-12-14

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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 285 / Week: 42 
October Averages: 63° \ 31°

    Holiday Observances Today:
Clergy Appreciation Day 
Cookbook Launch Day
Day of the Six Billion--1999
Emergency Nurses Day
Free Thought Day
International Day for Disaster Reduction
International Moment Of Frustration Scream Day
International Top Spinning Day
Moment of Frustration Day
Old Farmer's Day
Spanish Language Day
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Columbus Day (traditional)
Dia De La Raza (Mexico-to honor the many races that live(d) there)
Discovery Day (Bahamas-1492-greeted by the TAINO tribe)
Hispanity Day (Spain-honors Columbus)
Independence Day (Equatorial Guinea-1968-from Spain)

           
Quote of the Day



Historical Highlights for Today
1792 - First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
1850 - First women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens
1871 - US President Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan
1879 - British troops occupy Kabul, Afghanistan
1892 - US Pledge of Allegiance first recited in public schools during Columbus Day
1901 - Theodore Roosevelt renames "Executive Mansion," "The White House"
1915 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile
1915 – T. Roosevelt criticizes US citizens who identify themselves, with dual nationalities
1920 - Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting NJ & NYC
1928 - 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)
1933 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
1952 - KBTV (now KUSA) TV channel 9 in Denver, CO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 – 1st commercial flight between California & Antartica
1960 -  Khrushchev bangs his shoe on his desk at UN General Assembly session
1964 - 1st time 3 people in space
1968 - 19th Olympic Games open at Mexico City, Mexico
1969 - 1st time 5 people in space
1973 - Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP
1975 - Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries
1976 - Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party
1984 - IRA bombs hotel where British PM Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die
1986 - Elizabeth II & Prince Philip, visit the People's Republic of China
2000 - The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen
2012 - The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize
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  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today



My Rambling Thoughts   
Our discussion groups meet tonight to discuss ‘Water in AZ’. Lots of studies have been done regarding our ongoing drought. It is not an anomaly if one looks at the entire history of the region, but this is one of our longest. Should be enlightening.
We started out with a very sunny, warm day so I decided it would be a good day to plant some new bulbs. As I was working the clouds rolled in and there were a few droplets of rain. The bulbs won’t come out until early spring and mid-spring, but I can easily wait.
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Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Below are incomplete words. Place four (4) letters in each bracket so that you can complete the word on the left and begin the word on the right. Good luck.
dar (_ _ _ _) er
but (_ _ _ _) ish
disap (_ _ _ _) ly
cove (_ _ _ _) ing
sp (_ _ _ _) ings
sin (_ _ _ _) al


Found on You Tube with some relevance to today






OK Then…


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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
Brain Facts…
After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
           
***NEW***Children Facts…
In Japan, there are more pets than there are children.
           
Computer Facts…
The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
           
Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO
Richard Hoffman was arrested on Saturday for the theft of five chickens and charged with petty theft. He was given 10 days in the county jail by Justice of the Peace Max Miller and must pay for the chickens within 30 days or be jailed for another 20 days.
The Santa Fe plans to doubletrack the main line between Double Track Junction and Joseph City in a $21 million project that includes new boxcars, coal cars, flat cars, refrigerator cars, gondolas and freight cars. This project also includes large steel bridges at LeDoux Wash and Rio Puerco.
           
Harper’s Index…
Percentage change since 1980 in the number of private security guards employed in the US: +100
           
***NEW***Law Facts…
In 2011, Russia acknowledged beer as an alcoholic beverage. Before then, any drink under 10% volume was considered a soft drink.
In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig, because they are prone to loneliness.
           
Rules of Thumb…   
GAMBLING TIPS
To calculate the odds of getting a certain roll from a pair of dice, take the difference between the number you want and 7, then subtract the result from 6. This will tell you how many chances in 12 you have of winning.
           
Unusual Fact of the Day…
Geologists believe that about half the unmined gold in the world is in South Africa.      
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Joke-of-the-day
A famous lawyer, who had been a public defender for years, dies. He finds himself standing at the back of an enormous queue outside the gates of Heaven. The queue before him is enormous. The number of people who die in a single day appalls him. He can barely see St Peter sitting up on a podium outside the gates with a large book. Every now and then St Peter glances down the queue to see how he is going. Suddenly he catches the eye of the lawyer. He looks very surprised. He jumps down from the podium and comes running along the line until slightly out of breath he arrives beside the lawyer. He embraces him. He pulls him out of the queue and motions for him to come to the front of the queue. Another person questions what is happening and another angel speaks to the person. Word is passed along the queue and the lawyer is surprised, as people start nodding and clapping. He becomes embarrassed by all the attention and asks St Peter why he is getting the special attention.
St Peter stops suddenly and looks concerned.
"You are a lawyer aren't you?'
"Yes" the lawyer replies. "Does this happen to all lawyers in heaven?"
"Oh, no, "Said St Peter. "It's just you are the first one to ever get here."    


Yep, It Really Happened
NEWRY, Maine (UPI) - Organizers of the North American Wife Carrying Championship in Maine said the winner will receive their wife's weight in beer and five times her weight in cash. The organizers announced the Oct. 11 competition at the Sunday River Resort in Newry will feature a 278-yard obstacle course and the fastest finisher will receive their wife's weight in beer and five times the woman's weight in cash as a prize. The event will also offer prizes for the team with the greatest combined weight and the spousal pairing with the greatest combined age. The Wife Carrying Championship was inspired by 19th century outlaw Herkko Rosvo-Ronkainen, who legend holds would lead raids on towns in Finland and he and his henchmen would carry off women they chose as their brides. The legends inspired Sonkajarvi, Finland, to host the first Wife Carrying World Championships in 1992.        

Somewhat Useless Information   
Shopping online was not so commonplace back to 1990. Jeff Bezos was clearly an optimist because he gave up his career in New York and set up a website called Amazon.com to sell books from his garage.
Bezos decided to make his website more user-friendly by adding a feature that allowed customers to write reviews about books they had bought and read.
That was considered to be the starting point of massive orders and Amazon.com was soon selling 100 books per day.
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Did you know that the vast majority of homes in South Korea have cheap and fast internet access?
According to the head of the country’s main internet addiction counselling center, Korea has been very aggressive in promoting the Internet.
A study carried out in Seoul demonstrated that 30 per cent of South Koreans under 18 are at risk of internet addiction, spending a minimum of two hours a day playing games or chatting online.
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Since fresh air is in short supply in China a philanthropist called Chen Guangbiao, put it in cans and started selling it!
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Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta  
Fall Astronomy Week 
World Space Week 
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Customer Service Week 
Drive Safely Work Week 
Financial Planning Week
Kids' Goal Setting Week
National Health Care Food Service Week
National Metric Week
National Physician’s Assistant Week
Spinning & Weaving Week  
World Dairy Expo
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Take Your Medicine Americans Week           
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            Today’s Events through History  
1654 - The Delft Explosion (gunpowder) devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100
1773 - America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
1933 -  George Francis Barnes, aka Machine Gun Kelly, is sentenced to life
1963 - At 4 am, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck
1966 - Jimi Hendrix Experience forms
1991 - Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN
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Birthday’s Today                                                        
Dick Gregory, comedian/political activist/dietician (Bahamian Diet) is 81
Chris Wallace, newscaster (NBC Weekend News) is 67
Susan Anton, actress (Golden Girl, Spring Fever) is 64
Sally Little, Cape Town, LPGA golfer (1982 Dinah Shore) is 63
Adam Rich, actor (Nicholas-8 is Enough) is 46
Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer (X-men) is 46
Nancy Ann Kerrigan, figure skater (Olympics-silver-1994) is 45
Kirk Cameron, actor (Mike-Growing Pains) is 44
Marion Jones, track and field athlete/drug cheat (5 forfeited Olympic medals) is 39
Bode Miller, Olympic alpine ski-racer is 37
Josh Hutcherson, actor (The Hunter Games) is 22

Remembered for being born today
Edward VI, Tudor, King of England (1537-1553)
Luciano Pavarotti, operatic tenor (3 Tenors), (1935-2007)
William Raspberry, columnist (Pulitzer 1994), (1935-2012)
Lane Frost, professional bull rider, (1963-1989)
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Historical Obits Today                                                           
Ray Conniff, bandleader and musician, 2002, @85
Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (NPR), brain cancer, 2003, @75
Johnny Olsen, TV announcer (Price is Right), stroke. 1985, @75
Willie Shoemaker, jockey, 2003, @72
Jay Ward, cartoonist (Rocky & His Friends), kidney cancer, 1989, @69
Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist, stroke, 1845, @65
Wilt Chamberlain, basketball player, congestive heart failure, 1999, @63
Susan Sutherland Isaacs, educational psychologist, cancer, 1948, @63 
Robert E. Lee, US General of Confederate Army, stroke, 1870, @63
Tom Mix, American actor (Texan), car accident, 1940, @60
Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer, 1692, @60
Sonja Henie, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1928, 32, 36), leukemia, 1969, @57
John Denver, country music star, plane crash, 1997, @53
Matthew Shepard, hate crime victim, 1998, @21
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Brain Teasers                                         
darling - linger
butcher - cherish
disappear - pearly
covering - ringing
splash - lashings
sincere - cereal       

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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 contains mistakes and sadly once 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.
§…And That Is All for Now…§


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