11-14-14

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Almanac: Week: 46 \ Day: 318 
November Averages: 51° \ 22°

Holiday Observances Today:
International Girls Day
Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day
National American Teddy Bear Day
National Pickle Day
National Spicy Guacamole Day
Operating Room Nurse Day
Spirit of NSA (National Speakers Association) Day
World Diabetes Day
World Orphans Day
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Children's Day (India)
           
Quote of the Day



Historical Highlights for Today
   603 - Maya King K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I (Ruler 1) ascends to the throne in Mexico
1524 - Francisco Pizarro begins his 1st great expedition, near Colombia
1732 - 1st US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Phila
1832 - 1st streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12 cents rode on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Sts
1851 - "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville published
1881 - Charles J Guiteau went on trial for assassination of President Garfield
1888 - USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game
1889 - New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, finishing the trip in January in 72 days and 6 hours
1908 - Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light
1910 - 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va
1935 - FDR proclaims Philippine Islands a free commonwealth
1959 - Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)
1960 - Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on its policy on Congo
1960 - OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms
1965 - US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam
1968 - "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning
1968 - Yale University announces it is going co-educational
1997 - Disney's "Lion King" sets Broadway record of $2,700,000 daily sale
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today



My Rambling Thoughts
Windy day, but still able to move around.
Cheryl and I had lunch, while Mary was busy with her brother in Phx. Cheryl got her hearing checked today, and was fitted with hearing aids right there and walked out with them in her ears.. She is very excited. Her life is going to be so much better. She said she didn’t realize how loud her car alarm was when she unlocked the doors with her key fob. So glad she took the step.
Saturday is fund raising for Juvenile Diabetes in her grandson’s hometown. He has a team and I donated to his fund. Very excited to see how it all works out. So tough for a pre-teen to have to have shots several times a day…and multiple blood tests between shots.  
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Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
We are often dangerous
But to some we are fun
To others we are frightening
Causing them to run
We come together 
Though we seem apart
You see me and you hear my brother
Who oft times makes little ones run to their mothers,
I am bright and my brother is loud
And it may seem that we come from a cloud, What are we?

           
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today



           
OK Then…


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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
Dog Facts…
—One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
—Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound.

England Facts…
—A study in the UK states that men need at least two "guys nights out" each week to stay healthy.
—Black Friday in the UK is the Friday before Christmas. Instead of shopping, many people get very drunk!

Flagstaff, AZ History…
From 1889
On two or three occasions lately, shots have been fired downtown late at night. Now this country is getting too far advanced in customs and usages of civilization for this kind of monkey business to continue to be tolerated. The person or persons who enjoy this kind of pastime should be given a potato pop gun and have a target setup in the county jail to practice on.
           
Hair Facts…
—Blonde hair is not exclusive to Europeans. Melanesians of the south Pacific evolved a different gene for blonde hair.
—In 1996, research found that having excessive body hair is linked to higher intelligence.

Harper’s Index…
—Percentage of US children, under the age of fifteen who expect their partents to pay for most or all of college: 53
—Parents who plan to do so: 29

Internet Facts…
—MDIF, a New York based non-profit organization, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
—Taiwan is the first country in the world to offer free Wi-Fi connectivity to its citizens and all its foreign tourists.

That’s Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
Federal dollars safeguard our nation and aid the poor. Congress also granted: $113,227 to the International Center for the History of Electronic Games for video game preservation; $606,000 to Columbia University to study online dating; $492,005 to researchers at Wellesley College to answer the question, Do you trust your Twitter feed? $55,382 to a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher toward a study on hookah smoking by Jordanian students; $198,195 to University of California, Riverside, to study whether happy or unhappy people spend more time on social media and $592,527 to primate researchers to study in part what feces-throwing among chimps reveals about communication skills.

Rules of Thumb…
WATERING YOUR GARDEN
Don't water your garden unless the soil is dry past the depth of your index finger.
           
Unusual Fact of the Day…
One of the most interesting mysteries of Death Valley National Park is the sliding rocks at Racetrack Playa (a playa is a dry lake bed). These rocks can be found on the floor of the playa with long trails behind them. Somehow these rocks slide across the playa on their own, cutting a furrow into the sediment as they move. Nobody knows how they move!
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Joke-of-the-day
Man: What’s your name?
Woman: Tammy
Man: You should change it to Campbells, cause you're mmm mmm GOOD!


Yep, It Really Happened
BOARDMAN, Ohio (UPI) - An Ohio group called Clowns for Christ is working to spread the Christian message with help of puppets and balloon animals. Judy Zyvith said she has been "clowning around for Christ" for about 17 years with three different churches, most recently with Clowns for Christ, a ministry of Boardman United Methodist Church. Zyvith, who serves as the group's coordinator, told the Youngstown Vindicator she was inspired to don her "Flowers" clown persona by a clown ministry from Westminster College in Pennsylvania that visited her church while she was in college. The clowns use puppets, balloon animals and other props to illustrate biblical stories and prayers. However, Zyvith said they perform without makeup when ministering to kids. "We've found many children are afraid or intimidated by the makeup," Zyvith said. The Rev. Pamela Buzalka said the clowns "add visual arts, which makes the story come alive for children." 
           
Somewhat Useless Information
—Celebrated annually on November 11th, Veterans Day is the anniversary of the end of World War I.
—There are 19.6 million veterans in the United States. There are 1.6 million female veterans. There are 9.3 million U.S. veterans are over the age of 65.
—There are 39,890 veterans of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War still living.
—It was in 1919 that President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11 as Armistice Day. In 1938, it became a federal holiday.
—In 1968, Congress changed the date of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October in order to give federal employees a three-day weekend. However, in 1975, President Gerald Ford changed the date of Veterans Day back to November 11.
—On November 11, 1921, the first Unknown Soldier is reburied at Arlington National Cemetery. The tomb has the words inscribed, "Here rests in honored glory An American Soldier Known but to God."         

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Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
Geography Awareness Week; National Nurse Practioner's Week: 9-15   
National Young Reader's Week; World Kindness Week: 10-16    
National Donor Sabath: 14-16 

           
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Today’s Events through History
1680 - Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680 (Kirch's Comet/Newton's Comet)
1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt visits Panama
1960 - Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" reaches #1
1993 - Don Shula becomes the coach with the most wins in NFL history
2002 -  House of Representatives votes not to create an independent commission to investigate the 9-11 attacks
2013 - Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is sentenced to 2 consecutive life terms+5 years  
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Birthday’s Today
P J O'Rourke, writer (Easy Money) is 67
Yanni (Yiannis Hrysomallis), new age musician (Live at the Acropolis) is 60
D B Sweeney, actor (Cutting Edge) is 53
Curt Schilling, Anchorage AK, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies) is 48
Josh Duhamel, actor/fashion model is 42

Remembered for being born today
Robert Fulton, inventor and engineer (1st commercial steamboat), (1765-1815)
Charles Lyell, Scotland, geologist (Principles of Geology) (1797-1875)
Claude Monet, Paris, impressionist (Water Lilies), (d. 1926)
Aaron Copland, Brooklyn, composer (Appalachian Spring) (1900-1990)
Dick Powell, actor (Dick Powell Theater) (1904-1963)
Joseph McCarthy, Senator, (WI) claimed communists in US govt (1908-1957)
Rosemary DeCamp, Prescott Az, actress (Love That Bob, That Girl) (1910-2001)
Sherwood Schwartz, TV creator (Brady Bunch, Gilligan Is) (1916-2011)
Brian Keith, actor (Bill-Family Affair) (1921-1997)
Veronica Lake, [Constance Ockleman], actress (I Married a Witch) (1922-1973)
McLean Stevenson, American actor-M*A*S*H (1927-1996)
Ray Sharkey, Brooklyn, actor (Wise Guys) (1952-1993)
Adam Walsh, American murder victim (1974-1981)
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Historical Obits Today
Robert Trout, American journalist, 2000, @91
Booker T. Washington, educator/organizier, heart failure, 1915, @59
Sing T'ai tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty, 976, @49
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Brain Teasers Answers
Lightning & Thunder         
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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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