10/2/14

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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 275 / Week: 40 
October Averages: 63° \ 31°

    Holiday Observances Today:
National Custodial Worker Day
Name Your Car Day
Guardian Angels Day
International Day of Non-violence
National Custodial Workers Day
Phileas Fogg's Wager Day
World Farm Animals Day

Country Inn, Bed-and-Breakfast Day
Guardian Angels Day
Intergeneration Day
National Custodial Workers' Day
Phileas Fogg's Wager Day
UN International Day of Non-Violence
World Communion Sunday
World Farm Animals Day

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Fast of Gedalya (Jewish)
Independence Day (Guinea-1958-from France)

Quote of the Day



Historical Highlights for Today
1263 - The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians and Scots.
1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal)
1656 - British North American colony of Connecticut passes law against Quakers
1789 - George Washington transmits the proposed Bill of Rights to the states
1909 - 1st rugby match (Twickenham)
1916 - San Diego Zoo founded
1919 - Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed
1942 - "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
1942 - 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
1950 - "Li'l Folks", later "Peanuts", byCharles M. Schulz 1st published in 9 papers
1955 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres
1967 - Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
1968 - Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed
1975 - The Ulster Volunteer Force kill 7 civilians in a series of attacks across Northern Ireland; 6 were Catholic civilians and 1 was a Protestant civilian
1975 - Four Ulster Volunteer Force members killed after a bomb they are carrying prematurely explodes in Farrenlester, near Coleraine
1988 - 24th Olympic Games close at Seoul, Korea
1991 - Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 professional tennis matches
2002 - The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks
2005 - NFL plays first regular season game outside US- AZ Cardinals defeat 49ers in Mexico City, Mexico
2009 - The economic crisis in Ireland is considered to be the driving force behind the largest migration of Irish people to London in 20 years, it is reported today
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  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today



My Rambling Thoughts   
Our free day in Dublin was a much needed slow down before our flight home. I had walked to Temple Bar, an area of Dublin with shops, pubs, restaurants, and lot of night life the night before. What a hopping place. Bob and I walked back to Trinity U as they had the best gift shop we saw on the trip. Then we meandered over to Temple Bar and did some tourist shopping—t-shirts, key chains, etc. Lunch was a split order of Fish and Chips and my last ½ pint of Guinness while in Ireland. The Guinness Brewery (St. John’s Gate) is now a storage facility but still interesting. Our hotel was right in central downtown Dublin. The entry was decorated in Royal Purple with two purple long couches for laying and relaxing. The walls were purple, the whole damn place was purple. Many of the women were a little freaked out as it really looked like a whorehouse. We were there because it was the only 4-star in central Dublin, with everything within walking distance. It was a good hotel, once you got past the entry. On our last morning I asked the doorman what kind of décor it was. He smiled and said ‘old and purple, they are redecorating soon.’ I asked him ‘How soon?’, his reply ‘not soon enough.’
Today was another beautiful day. I took my vehicle in for needed maintenance to the tune of $1200. It took all day but the dealer has a shuttle service, so I came home and did my laundry from the trip. Sure glad that is now done. All my travel stuff is now packed away, awaiting my next adventure. I also figured out how to change the start screen colors and desktop page on my computer now has an Ireland castle picture. Tomorrow will be time to get pics from the computer to the iPad so I can have Ireland pics to show people.
Finally, yesterday I watched some of the congressional hearings on the Secret Service. Not surprised that the head resigned today. She was a true bureaucrat who couldn’t really know what was wrong. Scary how the Secret Service has deteriorated over the years.
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Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
What is represented by the following?

Hit. Der.

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today





OK Then…


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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
Age Facts…
According to official documents, Luo Meizhen was born in 1885, which would make her 127 years old when she died in 2013 and the oldest person ever to have lived.

Brain Facts…
Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.

Computer Facts…
If you opened up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures. One for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO
The first of eight steam engines for the new Williams to Grand Canyon Railroad has arrived. The first three trips with 450 passengers each at $40 per person are sold out.

Fun Facts…
In Japan, there are more pets than there are children.

Harper’s Index…
Percentage of children in single-mother Scandivian families who are lining in poverty: 11
In single-mother US families: 55
 
Rules of Thumb…   
SUPERINSULATED HOUSES
A super insulated house should have 12 square feet of windows for every 100 square feet of floor. At least two-thirds of the windows should be facing south.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
Will Smith actually did solve a Rubik's Cube in one minute in the 2006 film The Pursuit of Happyness thanks to instruction from the Mao Brothers, co-founders of the World Cube Association. The brothers both held world records of solving; Toby Mao with a 3x3x3 single solve in 10.48 seconds and Tyson Mao with a total cube solve of 1 minute, 5 seconds.
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Joke-of-the-day
There was a student who was desirous of taking admission for a study course. 
He was smart enough to get through the written test, a GD and was to appear for the personal interview. Later, as the interview progressed, the interviewer found this boy to be bright since he could answer all the questions correctly. The interviewer got impatient and decided to corner the boy. 
"Tell me your choice;" said he to the boy, "What's your choice: I shall either ask you ten easy questions or ONE real difficult. Think well before you make up your mind." 
The boy thought for a while and said, "My choice is ONE real difficult question." 
"Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice!" said the man on the opposite side. Tell me: What comes first, Day or Night?" 
The boy was jolted first but he waited for a while and said: "It's the DAY, sir." 
"How???????" the interviewer was smiling ("At last, I got you!" he said to himself.) 
"Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!" 
Admission for the course was thus secured.


Yep, It Really Happened
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (UPI) - A New Zealand woman said she awoke recently to discover her home and car had been covered in what she believes to be human feces from an airplane. Karen Bass of Auckland said she awoke Sunday to discover there were splotches of brown matter all over her house and her silver car, which she believes to be human waste dropped from an airplane. Bass said her home is directly in the flight path for planes coming into Auckland International Airport. "The first thing when I walked out of my door this morning and I saw it, I thought an airplane [expletive] on us. You open the door and it smells like [expletive]," she told the New Zealand Herald. "I'm absolutely disgusted at the moment. The amount of crap everywhere is horrendous," she said. Bass said she is going to have a sample of feces independently tested to verify it came from humans. "There's no way it's a bird or animal poo, it's horrible. I'm sure it's human, what else could it be with huge clumps like that?" she said. An Airways New Zealand spokeswoman suggested Bass complain directly to the offending airline, but the homeowner said she would not know which airline to address as she did not see the plane.

Somewhat Useless Information   
• The patron saint of dentists: St. Apollonia. She reportedly had her teeth pulled out in A.D. 249 by an anti-Christian mob.
• Despite the popular myth, George Washington didn't have wooden teeth - his four sets of dentures were made of hippopotamus bone, elephant ivory and eight human teeth from dead people, held together with gold palates and springs.
• Thanks to fluoride and other preventives, baby boomers are probably the last generation to have a lot of cavities in their permanent teeth.
In 1959, dentists performed 34 extractions for every 100 people; now its half that rate.
• Drugs can cause cavities. Antidepressants, antihypertensives, antihistamines, decongestants and muscle relaxants all inhibit production of saliva, a natural bacteria destroyer.
• Tiny gold hearts, butterflies and other tattoo images have become popular among some trendy groups. The downside is that from a distance of more than about three feet it just looks like you have food stuck in your teeth.

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Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
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National Walk Your Dog Week 
Universal Children's Week
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Great American Beer Festival 
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            Today’s Events through History  
1833 - NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
1871 - Brigham Young, Mormon leader, arrested for bigamy
1961 - "Ben Casey" premieres on NBC-TV
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Birthday’s Today                                                        
Rex Reed, movie critic/actor (Myra Breckinridge) is 76
Don McLean, singer/songwriter (American Pie, Vincent) is 69
Annie Leibovitz, photographer (Rolling Stones) is 65
Sting, [Gordon Sumner], rock vocalist (Police-Roxanne)/actor (Dune) is 63
Lorraine Bracco, Brooklyn, actress (Sopranos) is 60
Kelly Ripa, actress\talk show host is 44  
Tiffany [Renee Darwich], rocker (I Think We're Alone Now) is 43

Remembered for being born today
Nat Turner, leader of major slave rebellion (1800-1831)
Mahatma Gandhi, pacifist and spiritual leader, (1869-1948)
Groucho Marx, [Julius], comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life) (1890-1977)
Bud Abbott, comedian (Abbott & Costello) (1895-1974)
Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff], Famous Russian clown (1900-1974)
[Henry] Graham Greene, England, prolific novelist (Brighton Rock) (1904-1991)
Steve Sabol, filmmaker (35 Emmy awards, founder of NFL Films) (1942-2012)
Chris LeDoux, country singer (Ridin' for a Fall) (1948-2005)
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Historical Obits Today                                                           
Gene Autry, singer, actor, and entrepreneur, 1998, @91
Nipsey Russell, American comedian, 2005, @87
Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), 1993, @83
Marcel Duchamp, Fr. Painter\sculptor (Nude Descending a Staircase), 1968, @81
Samuel Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Tea Party) and politican, 1803.@ 81
Harriet Nelson, actress, 1994, @80
George Bancroft, actor (Texas, Stagecoach, Little Men), 1956, @74
Rock Hudson, actor (MacMillian & Wife), AIDS, 1985, @59
Frank Lovejoy, actor (Man Against Crime), heart attack, 1962, @48
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Brain Teasers                                         
 One hit wonder. (one "hit", one "der")
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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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