10-15-14

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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 288 / Week: 42 
October Averages: 63° \ 31°
 


Holiday Observances Today:
Hagfish Day
Information Overload Day
International Day of Rural Women
I Love Lucy Day-1951 debut
National Cake Decorating Day
National Fossil Day
National Take Your Parents to Lunch Day
National Grouch Day
National Latino AIDS Awareness Day
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day
Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce
Sweetest Day
White Cane Safety Day
           
Quote of the Day



Historical Highlights for Today
1520 - King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall
1705 - English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile
1860 - 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard
1866 - Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses
1880 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists
1881 - 1st American fishing magazine, American Angler published
1924 - Pres Calvin Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument
1932 - Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight
1933 - 20th Amendment goes into effect: Pres term begins in Jan not March
1939 - LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC
1940 - "The Great Dictator", a satiric social commentary film is released
1949 - Billy Graham begins his ministry
1966 - LBJ signs a bill creating US Dept of Transportation
1966 - Black Panther Party was created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale
1968 - The Nationalist Party of Northern Ireland (NPNI) withdraws from its role as 'official' opposition within the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont
1969 - Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war
1971 - The start of the 2,500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia
1993 - Nelson Mandela & F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize 
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today



My Rambling Thoughts
What a really beautiful day it was today. Clear blue sky, little wind, and fairly warm for fall. Great day for a nice walk.
I headed out early to do some shopping. Turned out to be one of those trips where I loaded up on everyday items I was running short of. Quite a trip, but worthwhile.
I have never been a hot drink person. If it’s cold and has ice, I’ll drink it. I have started drinking flavored coffee for the past week. I’m even drinking several mugs a day, while hardly having only one cold drink a day. Strange that my taste would change, but it is good…coffee is much cheaper than Coke Zero.
I have also become semi-addicted to Netflix. Since I hooked it up last week, hardly a day goes by that I don’t watch at least one movie…which is much more than I used to watch. The only problem is, once I start a movie, it is hard to multi-task and do other things, like I do when the regular TV is on. I have found some great movies though.
Ebola frustration is rampant. It is hard to tell whom we should believe about its spread. Around the major power countries it seems to be the blame game is in full swing. Here’s an idea…start really studying the virus and look for either a cure or a vaccine. I saw a horrible political cartoon that showed a hospital ward full of black patients and one white patient, with all the caregivers surrounding the white patient. So wrong.
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Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
In this teaser, I have given you a 9-letter word. Your job is to break up this word into 9 separate letters and place them on the dashes to spell a 7-letter word, a 5-letter word, and a 3-letter word. You can use each letter only once.

TEMPORARY

_ N _ M _ R _

_ O _ O _

_ I _     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today




           
OK Then…


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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
Brain Facts…
The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.

Unconsciousness will occur after 8-10 seconds after loss of blood supply to the brain.
           
Children Facts…
Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.

As a child, Jim Carrey wore tap shoes to bed just in case his parents needed cheering up in the middle of the night.
           
Computer Facts…
There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
           
Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO
Two crack houses were uncovered this week. One at the American Hotel in East Flagstaff and the other in the Brannen Homes area by the Arizona Department of Public Safety Northern Metro Squad. Randy Weems, Flagstaff Police.

Harper’s Index…
Chance that a citizen of Pakistan believes that Internet access free of government censorship is important: 1 in 5    
Law Facts…
In Japan, gambling is illegal. However, they circumvent the law by giving out prizes instead of cash, which the winner can then sell back to the establishment for cash.

Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
           
Rules of Thumb…
DEAD MAN'S CORNER
In the typical suburban shopping center, with a parking lot in front, the smart business man will avoid the area at the inside corner of an L shaped building. It may have a lot of floor area, but it typically has little frontage or exposure to the public view. 
Unusual Fact of the Day…
Chinese Checkers is not Chinese. It was created in America to circumvent the patent for a popular board game called Halma, invented by a Boston surgeon named George Howard Monks.
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Joke-of-the-day
Little Johnny watched, fascinated, as his mother smoothed cold cream on her face. 'Why do you do that, mommy?' he asked. 'To make myself beautiful,' said his mother, who then began removing the cream with a tissue.
'What's the matter?' asked Little Johnny. 'Giving up?'


Yep, It Really Happened
MOORESTOWN, N.J. — The Latin motto engraved on the wall of a new library in southern New Jersey got lost in translation.
Officials had thought the phrase "Nos Secundus Coniecto Omnia" meant "we confirm all things twice." But it actually means "we second-guess all."
Moorestown architect Rick Ragan tells the Burlington County Times he learned of the problem from residents who translated it online.
Ragan says he'll pay a stone cutter to change the phrase to "We encourage all." He'll also have the Roman numerals fixed to reflect the proper year.
Mayor Chris Chiacchio tells the newspaper a mistake is only a mistake if you do not have the courage to correct it.
           
Somewhat Useless Information
The purpose of building the Indianapolis catacombs is unknown
Did you know that Indianapolis Catacombs are approximately 20,000 square feet of underground passageways on the northeast corner of Market and Delaware streets in downtown Indianapolis?
Several tours were given in early 2012, where visitors could see passages and walkways of brick archways, as well as limestone columns.
The catacombs were built back in 1880s, however, the purpose of the building is still unknown.
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Fresh air available in cans.
Although it sounds over the top, more than 10 million can have been sold already.
What message does Chen Guangbiao try to get across? He wants to raise awareness of the dangerous air pollution in China and gets the government to put the health of the country’s citizens first.
And for the history… Guangbiao won the title of China’s top do-gooder.
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Although Mick Jagger has been married twice, he had several other relationships in his life, as well as children and grandchildren!
A paradox about his life is that although he has four grandchildren, he also has a 15 year old son with Luciana Gimenez. His name is Lucas Maurice Morad Jagger and he was born in 1999.      
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Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
--- 10-16
Take Your Medicine Americans Week
--- 12-18
Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week
Earth Science Week
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
National Chestnut Week
National Food Bank Week
Teen Read Week
Veterinary Technicians Week
YWCA Week Without Violence
World Rainforest Week
National School Lunch Week
YWCA Week Without Violence 

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Today’s Events through History
1937 - Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published
1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesized the first oral contraceptive
1959 - "Untouchables" premieres
1962 - Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court
1973 - Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed
1977 - Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life" goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
1984 - Central Intelligence Agency Information Act passes
1985 - Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds
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Birthday’s Today
Lee A Iacocca, CEO (Chrysler Corp) is 90
Barry McGuire, singer (Eve of Destruction) is 79
Linda Lavin, actress (Alice) is 77
Penny Marshall, Bronx, actress (Laverne & Shirley)\director is 71
Roscoe Tanner, tennis player (Wimbledon Finals 1979)  is 63
Tanya Roberts, [Leigh], Bronx, actress (Charlie's Angels) is 59

Remembered for being born today
Virgil, (Publius Vergilius Maro) poet (Aeneid), (70BC-19 BC)
Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet, publisher, wig maker (1686-1758)
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (Beyond Good and Evil), (1844-1900)
John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ (1858-1918)
P G Wodehouse, British-American writer (Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves)(1881-1975)
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)
Mario Puzo, NYC, novelist (Godfather, Cotton Club, Earthquake), (1920-1999)
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Historical Obits Today
Pat O'Brien, actor (Some like it hot), 1983, @83
Edie Adams, singer and Broadway actress, 2008, @81
Carlo Gambino, Italian-American gangster, heart attack, 1976, @74
Cole Porter, composer (Still of the Night), kidney failure, 1964, @73
Leonard Bernstein, composer (West Side Story), heart attack, 1990, @72
Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, suicide in prison, 1946, @53
Mata Hari (Margaretha MacLeod), Dutch dancer/German spy, executed, 1917, @41
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. ANYMORE
2. MOTOR
3. RIP            

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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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