10-19-14

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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 292 / Week: 43 
October Averages: 63° \ 31°
 


Holiday Observances Today:
Evaluate Your Life Day
Hagfish Day
National Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day
World Toy Camera Day
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Missouri Day (Mo-1915- "to foster love for our state’s history and to teach rising generations of boys and girls the glories of Missouri.")
           
Quote of the Day
 


Historical Highlights for Today
1781 - British General Cornwallis surrenders; US Revolutionary War ends
1818 - US Government & Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty
1870 - 1st African Americans (4) elected to US House of Representatives
1872 - World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales
1901 - Edward Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance March," premieres in Liverpool
1914 - US post office 1st used an automobile to collect & deliver mail
1919 - 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman
1924 - General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium
1925 - Italian army takes Somalia
1941 - 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico
1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated
1944 - US Navy says black women can join WAVES
1950 - UN forces entered Pyongyang, capital of North Korea
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Texas Women's Golf Open
1960 - US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba
1968 - Derry Citizen's Action Committee, formed on Oct 9, stage an illegal sit-down at Guildhall Square as part of large civil disobedience campaign
1971 - A group of f Northern Ireland Members of Parliament begin a 48 hour hunger strike against the policy of Internment
1975 - "Chorus Line" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 6137 performances
1977 - Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in NYC
1983 - Senate establishes Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday
1988 - Senate passes bill curbing ads during children`s TV shows
1998 - The Earth Liberation Front sets fire to the Vail Mountain ski resort in Vail, Colorado, and causing $12 million in damage.
2003 - Mother Teresa of Calcutta is beatified by Pope John Paul II
2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
 


My Rambling Thoughts
Word to the Wise re: Netflix…set a limit to the number of movies to watch in a 24 hr period. Those who fail to follow this advice, prepare to spend some late nights in front of the TV. My normal bedtime is 10pm, but with Netflix, I’m sometimes up until 2a. Great movies though.
I expected a quiet day, but about 8a Mary called and said wanted to know if I would like to go with her to the Greek Festival here in Flag. It was a small gathering but great food. Little did I know that the Greek Orthodox Church is renting the downtown Catholic Church for its services. The Catholic Church moved its services to a new church between downtown and East Flag. Then I read in today’s paper that the former East Flag Catholic Church is being sold to a charter school. Guess I am not keeping up with the religious community of Flag.
The weatherman predicted possible rain showers and luckily they didn’t come until I was back home. Sure smells nice right now.
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Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
T he name GEORGe mIchAel has the state GEORGIA hidden inside it, in order from left to right. Can you find the states hidden in each of the following?

1. MUSTACHE
2. MAX STEINER
3. GEORGE HARRISON
4. THAT'S THE WAY IT IS
5. INTERDENOMINATIONAL
6. JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME
7. JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON

           
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today




OK Then…


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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
Brain Facts…
-The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
-The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
           
Computer Facts…
-While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
-There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
           
**NEW**Dinosaur Facts…
-In 2005, a portion of T-Rex bone was dissolved in acid, it revealed soft tissue with sections of possible DNA.
-In Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs are only on the screen for 15 minutes. The movie is over two hours long.
           
Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 years ago
On the 16th our Mexican population fittingly celebrated the Mexican holiday that corresponds to our 4th of July. There was a grand ball at the Majestic on Wednesday evening with music by the Domas Brothers. It was a highly pleasant and enjoyable occasion.
           
Harper’s Index…
Portion of people living in Illinois who say they weould moved elsewhere if they could: 1/2
           
**NEW**Halloween Facts…
-Because the movie Halloween (1978) was on such a tight budget, they had to use the cheapest mask they could find for the character Michael Meyers, which turned out to be a William Shatner Star Trek mask. Shatner initially didn’t know the mask was in his likeness, but when he found out years later, he said he was honored.
-The first Jack O’Lanterns were actually made from turnips.
-Halloween is the second highest grossing commercial holiday after Christmas.

Law Facts…
-In 1970, Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substance Act into law, making DMT and many other substances illegal. However, DMT is produced naturally by the body, and found in a multitude of human bodily fluids and tissues. Essentially, this makes all humans illegal.
-In the Bemba tribe of southern Africa, if someone does something hurtful, they take the person to the center of the town where the entire tribe comes and surrounds them. For two days they tell him every good thing he has ever done, because they believe that every person comes into the world as good.
           
Rules of Thumb…
HIRING HELP FOR A PARTY
You need 1 waiter per 10 guests for a buffet supper or 3 waiters per 20 guests for seated dinner service. For receptions or cocktail parties, you will need 1 bartender, 1 kitchen helper (a waiter may double in this function), and 1 waiter per 50 guests. For more than 50 guests, you will need a supervisor as well.
           
Unusual Fact of the Day…
Tuesday is the most popular day of the week for giving birth. Part of that factor has nothing to do with Nature and everything to do with hospital staffing; elective C-sections and induced labors are often scheduled during traditional working hours.
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Joke-of-the-day
Two roofers, Larry and Joe were on the roof laying tile, when a sudden wind gust came and knocked down their ladder.
“I have an idea” said Larry. “We’ll throw you down, and then you can pick up the ladder.”
“What, do you think, I’m stupid?”
“I have an idea” said Joe. “I’ll shine my flashlight, and you can climb down on the beam of light.”
“What, do you think I’m stupid?”
“You’ll just turn off the flashlight when I’m halfway there.”

Yep, It Really Happened
TAIYUAN, China (UPI)
A Chinese man donned a cartoon bear costume to conceal his identity when he claimed an $87 million lottery jackpot. The man dressed in the yellow bear suit Monday morning when he visited the Shanxi province facility to collect his $85 million winnings, the third-largest jackpot in the history of the Shanxi lottery, and he kept the costume on when he spoke to the media. The mystery winner said he spends $3,200 to $4,900 on lottery tickets each year. He said he plans to donate some of his winnings to charity. The man is not the first in China to don a costume to keep his identity a secret when claiming a lottery prize -- a person dressed as Mickey Mouse collected a $65 million jackpot in August.        

Somewhat Useless Information
-Did you know that saffron is the most expensive spice in the world? A pound of saffron costs more than a pound of gold.
The saffron crocus, probably descends from Crocus cartwrightianus, which originated in Crete.
The Minoans portrayed saffron in their palace frescoes by 1600–1500 BC; they hint at its possible use as a therapeutic drug.
-Did you know that in Saudi Arabia there are no movie theatres and that producing movies there is religiously prohibited?
A Saudi Arabian documentary film “Cinema 500 km”, premiered in 2006, depicted the story of a 21-year-old Saudi, who travelled 500 kilometers to Bahrain to see a movie in a cinema for the first time in his life!
-Did you know that the name of the first President of Zimbabwe was Canaan Banana and that he held his presidency from 1980 to 1987?
However, because of his funny name, a law was passed in 1982 forbidding citizens from making jokes.
Banana died in 2003 and was buried without the full honors that are traditionally accorded to former heads of state.
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Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
--- 17-24
Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
--- 19-25

Bullying Bystanders Unite Week
Freedom From Bullies Week
International Infection Prevention Week
Mediation Week
National Character Counts Week
National Chemistry Week
National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week
National Forest Products Week
National Friends of Libraries Week
National Hospital and Health-System Pharmacy Week   
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week
National Massage Therapy Week
National Respiratory Care Week
National Save For Retirement Week
Pastoral Care Week
Red Ribbon Week
Ally Week- a national youth-led effort empowering students to be allies against anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) bullying, harassment and name-calling in K-12 schools           

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Today’s Events through History
  439 - The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa
1907 - 1st printing of Dutch Tribune (Wijnkoop/Van Ravesteyn/Ceton)
1932 - Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech
1963 - Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
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Birthday’s Today
Tony Lo Bianco, actor (Ann Jillian Story) is 78
Peter Max, Berlin, American psychadelic artist (Dynamite Chicken) is 77
John Lithgow, actor (Harry & Hendersons) is 69
Evander Holyfield, boxer (Oly-bronze-1988)/champ is 52
Ty Pennington [Gary Tygert Burton], television host (Extreme Makeover) is 50

Remembered for being born today
John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (1680-1740)
Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/diplomat (Nobel 1967), (1899-1974)
LaWanda Page, actress (Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons) (1920-2002)
Jack Anderson, journalist (Wash Post) (1922-2005)
Robert Reed, actor (Mike-Brady Bunch) (1932-1992)
Peter Tosh [Winston Hubert McIntosh], Jamaica, reggae musician (1944-1987)
Divine, [Harris Glenn Milstead],  actress (Pink Flamingo) (1945-1988)
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Historical Obits Today
Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic, 2008, @86
Tom Bosley, American actor (Happy Days), 2010, @83
Rudy Ray Moore (Rudolph Frank Moore), comedian and actor, 2008, @81
Martha Raye, actress (Pin Up Girl), Alzheimer's, 1994, @78
Jonathan Swift, English writer (Gulliver's Travels), 1745. @77
Gig Young, actor, kills his bride\commits suicide, 1978, @64
Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist, fall, 1950, @58
King John of England (1199-1216), agreed to the Magna Carta, 1216, @49
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Brain Teasers Answers
 1. Utah
2. Maine
3. Ohio
4. Hawaii
5. Indiana
6. Nevada
7. Montana   

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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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