11-1-14

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Almanac: Week: 44 \ Day: 305 
November Averages: 51° \ 22°


Holiday Observances Today:
All Saint's Day Book
Dia de Los Muertos
Digital Scrapbooking Day
Extra Mile Day
Give Up Your Shoulds Day
International Games Day (Libraries)
Lovers Day
National Authors' Day
National Family Caregiver Day
National Family Literacy Day
National Go Cook for Your Pets Day
Prime Meridian Day
Sadie Hawkins Day
World Vegan Day
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Independence Day (Antigua-1981-from UK)
Independence Day (Barbuda-1981-from UK)
Liberty Day (Virgin Islands-1915- commemorates David Hamilton Jackson and the institution of Free Press in the Danish West Indies)
Revolution Day (Algeria-1954-against French)
           
Quote of the Day



Historical Highlights for Today
1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel first exhibited
1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" first presented
1611 - Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Tempest" 1st presented
1755 - Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000
1800 - John Adams becomes the first US president to live in White House
1834 - First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
1848 - First US women's medical school opens (Boston)
1867 - "Harper's Bazaar" publishes
1870 - US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
1884 - The Gaelic Athletic Association is founded to promote Irish sport and games
1896 - First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic
1928 - 1st celebration of Authors' Day
1936 - Benito Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis"
1936 - Rodeo Cowboys Association founded
1939 - First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1945 – 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson
1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Pres Harry Truman at Blair House
1951 - Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson
1953
1955- KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting

1957 - World longest suspension bridge opens (Mackinac Straits Mich)
1967 - "Cool Hand Luke", starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, is released
1968 - Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
1972 - 1st gay theme TV movie - "That Certain Summer"
1982 - Honda becomes the 1st Asian automobile company to produce cars in the US
2012 - Google's Gmail becomes the world's most popular email service
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today



My Rambling Thoughts
Ah, Halloween! I debated this year about whether or not to participate. Not that many kids come by, compared to Tuba; it is usually a little cold and so the door can’t stay open; I’m a tad old for Halloween dress up. But in the end, I spent the morning decorating the outside and getting ready for the little tykes. Should be fun. Even got the music ready.
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Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Most people by now have me
Many people have paid much to get rid of me
And many of the same have paid to get me
I am constantly in your business and sometimes make things very easy
Other times I am a pest and ruin most things I touch

What am I?   

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today



           
OK Then…


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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
Brief History…
The US Won the Cuba Missile Crisis Standoff.
The 1962 crisis that almost developed into a nuclear war is usually portrayed as a great American victory.  We looked the Soviets in the eye and they blinked.  Actually, the Soviets had sent nuclear missiles to Cuba in response to the US basing similar nuclear missiles in Turkey.  The Soviets did not agree to remove the nukes until the US removed the nukes from Turkey, thus, the Soviets actually achieved their goal, not the other way around.  The part about the US backing down on deployment of nukes to Turkey is usually ignored in American sources.

Educator’s Answers…
“Why do you make them read so much and write so many essays? Why do you give such hard grades?”
Because it’s my job. Because my students are here to learn. Because they’ll need these skills to survive in the world. How many reasons do you need?

Flagstaff, AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO
The City Council has OK'd the lease for the nonprofit company that has taken over management of Buffalo Park and Game Preserve. The city will receive $1 per month rent, maintain the roads and provide 1,000 gallons of water daily. There were 47,000 visitors during the first full season and it is to remain open all winter. There are enough funds to feed the 200 animals. BPK Pres. James Potter.
           
Harper’s Index…
Factor by which a US woman is more likely than a US man to answer ‘I don’t know’ to a poll question:  1:5          
Law Facts…
-In Georgia, US, members of the State Assembly cannot be ticketed for speeding while the State Assembly is in session.
-In Georgia, US, donkeys may not be kept in bathtubs.
           
That’s Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
73—the percentage of the vote that the government of Azerbaijan stated the president had received during the past election. Note: the results were accidentally leaked a day before anyone voted.

Religious Facts…
-In a century's time Islam had converted one-third of the world.
-The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

Rules of Thumb…
ESTIMATING THE COST OF A DOCTOR VISIT
The fee for a routine office visit is the same price as a first-class postage stamp multiplied by 100.
           
Unusual Fact of the Day…
The first fielding gloves in baseball were flesh-colored so that fans wouldn't notice that the players were wearing them.
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Joke-of-the-day
A skeleton walks down empty Main Street. Suddenly he sees another skeleton carrying a gravestone.
"Hey, what are you doing?”
The other skeleton answers "Just strolling",
"Why do have the gravestone, buddy?",
"Because I always want to have some ID”.
           
Yep, It Really Happened
Does the terror group ISIS have no scruples? Is there no depth of depravity to which they will not sink? Apparently not, because one of their agents has committed a crime against nature right here on our soil. 
The whole sordid affair began when Connecticut resident Alice Woodruff noticed a commotion in her yard. When she went to investigate she found her neighbor rolling around naked with her pit bull. 
"I thought my dog had killed somebody because I saw a man underneath her," Woodruff explained to local news. "I started to scream 'get off my dog, you have to get out of here.' He said, 'No, today is the day we are going to spend the rest of our lives together.'"
As it turned out, it was the intruder who was attacking the dog, with his genitals. 
Woodruff said the man appeared mentally ill as he was telling her that the terror group ISIS sent him.
"He pranced through the yard naked, yelling 'this is our day and you have to prosper in it,'" Woodruff said. "I ran in, got my gun out of the bedroom and showed him the clip went in, but I always kept the gun at my side while I was talking to him. He kept saying this is the plan, that we were going to die today in a massacre. He didn't seem to care that I had the gun, and I kept it down. Then I gave him a warning and shot the gun to the right into the dirt."
"He put his arms out and started walking toward me, telling me to kill him, but to know that as soon as I kill him that we were going to die," Woodruff said. "Honestly, the whole time I thought there was a bomb or gun and he was going to take it out and do a massacre."
I'm not sure where Ms. Woodruff thought he was keeping a bomb if he was completely naked. 
The Waterbury Police Department is investigating the incident. Authorities plan to charge him with cruelty to an animal, sexual assault and breach of peace.
The man is currently hospitalized.         

Somewhat Useless Information
-Halloween, also known as All Hallows' Eve, can be traced back about 2,000 years to a pre-Christian Celtic festival held around Nov. 1 called Samhain (pronounced "sah-win"), which means "summer's end" in Gaelic. 
-Samhain was an annual communal meeting at the end of the harvest year, a time to gather resources for the winter months and bring animals back from the pastures.
-The tradition of dressing in costumes and trick-or-treating may go back to the practice of "mumming" and "guising," in which people would disguise themselves and go door-to-door, asking for food. The practice may also be related to the medieval custom of "souling" in Britain and Ireland, when poor people would knock on doors on Hallowmas (Nov. 1), asking for food in exchange for prayers for the dead. 
-Trick-or-treating didn't start in the United States until World War II, but American kids were known to go out on Thanksgiving and ask for food - a practice known as Thanksgiving begging. 
-Apples are associated with Halloween, both as a treat and in the game of bobbing for apples, a game that since the colonial era in America was used for fortune-telling. Legend has it that the first person to pluck an apple from the water-filled bucket without using his or her hands would be the first to marry.
-Another Halloween ritual involved looking in a mirror at midnight by candlelight, for a future husband's face was said to appear. (A scary variation of this later became the "Bloody Mary" ritual familiar to many schoolgirls.)      

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Check Your Calendar
Observances This Month:
A
Adopt A Senior Pet Month 
Adopt A Turkey Month
American & National Diabetes Month
American Indian Heritage Month  
Aviation History Month
B
Banana Pudding Lovers Month
D
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
E
Epilepsy Awareness Month
F
Family Stories Month
G
Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month
H
Historic Bridge Awareness Month
L
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
M
Manatee Awareness Month
Movember
Military Family Appreciation Month
N
National Adoption Month
National PPSI AIDS Awareness Month
National Alzheimer's Disease Month
National COPD Month
National Diabetes Month
National Entrepreneurship Month
National Family Caregivers Month
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Healthy Skin Month
National Home Care & Hospice Month
National Impotency Month
National Inspirational Role Models Month
National Memoir Writing Month
National Long-term Care Awareness Month
National Marrow Awareness Month
National Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Awareness & Appreciation Month
National Native American Heritage Month
National Family Literacy Month
National Novel Writing Month
National Peanut Butter Lovers Month
National Pet Cancer Awareness Month
National Pomegranate Month
National PPSI Aids Awareness Month
National Runaway Prevention Month
National Scholarship Month
NoSHAVEmber (US -Beard Month or Movember; Australia - Moustache Month)
P
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
Pet Diabetes Month
Picture Book Month
Prematurity Awareness Month
PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month
S
Stomach Cancer Awareness Month
Sweet Potato Awareness Month  
T
Teff and Millet Month
V
Vegan Month
W
Worldwide Bereaved Siblings Month
World Sponge Month

Observances This Week:
National Fig Week: 1-7
National Patient Accessibility Week: 1-7
World Communication Week: 1-7 


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Today’s Events through History

1787 – 1st free school in NYC (African Free School) opens
1910 – 1st issue of "Crisis" published by editor W.E.B. Du Bois
1921 - National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League

1948 - Mao's Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria
1954 - General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba
1966 - Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner
1977 - US President Jimmy Carter raises minimum wages of $2.30 to $3.35
1998 - The European Court of Human Rights is instituted
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Birthday’s Today
Betsy Palmer, actress (Mr Roberts, Friday the 13th) is 88
Gary Player, Johannesburg, South African PGA golfer (Brit Open-1959, 68, 74) is 79
Bill Anderson, country singer (Still, From This Pen) is 77
Barbara Bosson, actor (Fay-Hill St Blues, Hooperman) is 75
Larry Flynt, magazine publisher (Hustler) is 72
Lyle Lovett, country singer (God Will) is 57
Fernando Valenzuela, Navajua Mexico, pitcher (Dodgers, Padres) is 54
Jenny McCarthy, playmate host (The View) is 42

Remembered for being born today
Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (1727-1797)
Stephen Crane, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage), (1871-1900)
Barry Sadler, American singer (1940-1989)
Marcia Wallace, actress (Carol-Bob Newhart Show), (1942-2013)
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Historical Obits Today
Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General (Enola Gay), 2007, @92
Ezra Loomis Pound, US poet (Throne), 1972, @ 87
Skitch Henderson, English-born bandleader, 2005, @87
Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States, 1979, @82
George Sheehan, cardiologist/marathoner, cancer, 1993, @74
Phil Silvers, comedic actor (Sgt Bilko), in his sleep, 1985, @73
Dale Carnegie, American writer, 1955, @66
Walter Payton, Hall of Fame Running Back, bile duct cancer, 1999 @45
Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse, 1947, @30
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Brain Teasers Answers
 A mouse! 
People call exterminators to get rid of them.
People buy them for their computers.    

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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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