11-13-14

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Almanac: Week: 46 \ Day: 317 
November Averages: 51° \ 22°



Holiday Observances Today:
National Indian Pudding Day
Sadie Hawkins Day
World Kindness Day
Quote of the Day



Historical Highlights for Today
1553 - English Lady Jane Grey and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer accused of high treason
1715 - Battle of Sheriffmuir during Jacobite rebellion. Battle inconclusive but Government forces halt advance of Jacobite army lead by Scottish Earl of Mar
1789 - Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"1833 - A phenomenal meteor shower, seen all over North America
1839 - 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
1841 - James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, leads hypnosis
1843 - Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts
1895 - First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
1907 - French cyclist Paul Cornu flies 1st helicopter (twin rotor)
1913 - 1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob
1920 - Hudson River frozen at Albany
1921 - "Sheik", a silent film starring Rudolph Valentino, is released
1931 - Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed first US woman senator
1933 - 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minn
1938 - America's first saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified
1940 - Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released
1952 - False fingernails 1st sold
1956 - Supreme Court rules race separation on buses in Alabama unconstitutional
1982 - Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
1986 - US President Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today



My Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful day, but windy most of the day. Did some running around. Had my monthly computer check up done by the guys who fixed it last month. A few error messages were found, but no intrusions on my computer. I must say, Tech Alliance is a really good company, once you get used to the foreign accents. They are fast and friendly. They took over my computer for about 20 minutes, called me when they were done, had me check to be sure everything was working. Worth it for about $8 a month.
Our country has no Attorney General. Our President has named his nominee. Now Harry Reid, a member of the Democratic Party, has said he would prefer that hearings be delayed until the new Congress comes in. The Far Right Media issued a story last week that the nominee had served on the Clinton lawyer team regarding Whitewater. Turns out it was not the Black nominee, but a white lawyer with the same name. It took them 2 days to mention that their story was false. Our political system and our media needs a huge makeover.
OMG…a probe, the size of a washing machine, has landed on a comet some 30 million miles away that is  traveling at 40,000mph. Amazing. And it is sending back data about the comet. WOW! Not a science geek, but I find this fascinating.  
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Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Reveal the quote by eliminating the letters of the alphabet that are not part of the quote. The unused letters go in alphabetical order from A-Z.

ATBAKCEDCAERFEOGFHTIHEJMINKUT
ELSFOMRTHNEOPHOURQSWRILLTSATKEUCAVREOFWTHXEMSYELVZES

           
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today




           
OK Then…
 
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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
Dog Facts…
—Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
—Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.

England Facts…
—US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
—Omar bin Laden (Osama's son) was denied citizenship in Britain in 2007 because "Omar failed to provide his father's permanent address".

Flagstaff, AZ History…
From 1889
—Brian Black, who was out to Rogers Lake on Wednesday, says the lake is literally covered with ducks and a good chance for our nimrods.
—Dagg Bros. shipped to Louis Hunning of Las Lunas, New Mexico, 70 head of their celebrated American Merino rams, for which they received $10 a head.
           
Hair Facts…
—Valentine Tapley promised to never shave again if Abraham Lincoln was elected president. He died in 1910 with a 12-foot-long beard.
—Only 2% of the Earth's population are natural redheads.

Harper’s Index…
Estimated number of French carrier pigeons used in the WWI: 20,000
           
Internet Facts…
—Porn is illegal in the Ukraine, unless it’s prescribed for medical use.
—According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.

That’s Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
In the Courtroom:
How does legal abuse become especially outrageous? 
• A man illegally brought a gun into a bar, got injured in a fight, and then sued the bar for not searching him for a weapon.
• Kids sued their mother for sending birthday cards without gifts.
• A woman disagreed with a store over an 80-cent refund and then sued for $5 million.
• A convict sued a couple he had kidnapped for not helping him evade police.
• A mother filed suit against an exclusive preschool over her child’s college prospects.
• A woman sued a theater over a movie trailer, saying there wasn’t enough driving in Drive.
• A mom sued Chuck E. Cheese’s, arguing that the restaurant’s video games encouraged gambling in children.


Rules of Thumb…
WINNING A DUEL
When dueling with firearms, always aim lower than your opponent's vital area--to pierce the heart, aim at the knees.
           
Unusual Fact of the Day…
Before it became PG, the "parental guidance" movie rating was known for one year as GP (for General audience,Parental guidance suggested)
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Joke-of-the-day
The man charged into the jewelry shop, slammed his fists angrily on the showcase, removed a wristwatch from his pocket and shook it under the nose of the owner. “You said this watch would last me a lifetime,” he yelled.
“Yeah,” admitted the owner. “But you looked pretty sick the day you bought it.”
           
Yep, It Really Happened
Tampa Bay Times
Brad Culpepper played defensive tackle for nine NFL seasons and, not surprisingly, applied for disability when he retired, since his medical folder listed 14 MRIs, head and knee trauma and neurological and vision problems -- which resulted in doctors declaring him "89 percent" disabled and the Fairmont Premier insurance company giving him a $175,000 settlement. Fairmont sued recently to get its money back, claiming that Culpepper is, and was, "exquisitely fit," as evidenced by a September 2013 Tampa Bay Times feature on his gym workouts, and in his having earned a martial-arts Black Belt, and in his participation for 14 days in the grueling TV series "Survivor: Blood vs. Water" in 2013.
           
Somewhat Useless Information
Cods are sent from Scotland to China to be filleted
The Atlantic cod is one of the most common ingredients in fish and chips, along with haddock and plaice in the United Kingdom.
Scottish people are great fans of it. However, since shipping is cheap, they prefer to send cod 10,000 miles over to China to be filleted and returned to Scotland rather than fillet their own fish. It is cheaper for Scotland!
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Viruses can catch viruses
A group of researchers at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France has initiated the discovery that even some viruses can have viruses.
A tiny virus, called ‘Sputnik’, is the first virus ever discovered that is a parasite of another virus.
As livescience.com points out, when it reproduces in a cell infected by the larger virus, its action impairs the reproduction of mamavirus particles. The group sequenced Sputnik’s genetic code and discovered that a number of its gene sequences are similar to those found in a massive survey of genetic material taken from oceans all over the globe. This suggests that a whole class of viruses might exist that infect other viruses!
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Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13
Geography Awareness Week; National Nurse Practioner's Week: 9-15   
National Young Reader's Week; World Kindness Week: 10-16   

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Today’s Events through History
1642 - Battle at Turnham Green outside London: King Charles I vs English parliament
1865 - PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
1875 - National Bowling Association organized in NYC
1970 - VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
1977 - Final Al Capp comic strip of "Li'l Abner" (1934-77)
1985 - Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
1994 - Sweden agrees to join European Union
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Birthday’s Today
Garry Marshall, producer (Laverne & Shirley) is 80
Joe Mantegna, actor (Weeds) is 67
Frances Conroy, actress (Six Feet Under) is 61
Christopher Noth, actor (Law and Order) is 60
Whoopi Goldberg [Caryn Johnson], actress, comedian, and singer is 59
Vinny Testaverde, NFL quarterback (Browns, Ravens) is 51
Jimmy Kimmel, comedian, actor, TV host is 47
Steve Zahn, American actor/comedian is 47
Gerard Butler, Scottish actor is 45

Remembered for being born today
Edward John Trelawney, traveler/author (Adv of Younger Son) (1792-1881)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh, author (Treasure Island), (1850-1894)
John Lowry, NYC builder (Radio City Music Hall)
Jack Elam, Miami, Arizona, actor (Rio Lobo) (1920-2003)
Oskar Werner, film actor/director (Shoes of the Fisherman) (1922-1984)
Richard Mulligan, actor (Soap, Empty's Nest, Big Bus) (1932-2000)
Dack Rambo, actor (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas) (1941-1994)
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Historical Obits Today
Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer, 1973, @83
Gioachino (Antonio) Rossini, composer (Barber of Seville), pneumonia, 1868, @76
Vine Deloria, Jr., Native American author, theologian, historian, activist, aneurysm, 2005, @72
Henry the Navigator, prince of Portugal, 1460, @66
Malcolm III (Canmore, "Big Head") King of Scots, dies in battle, 1093, @63
"Alvin" Junior Samples, country singer (Hee Haw), heart attack, 1983, @57
Karen Silkwood, car crash under suspicious circumstances, 1974, @27
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Brain Teasers Answers
 TAKE CARE OF THE MINUTES FOR THE HOURS WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.           
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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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