11-3-14

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Almanac: Week: 45 \ Day:  307
November Averages: 51° \ 22°



Holiday Observances Today:
Cliché Day
Fill Our Staplers Day
Housewife's Day
 Job Action Day
National Men Make Dinner Day
Sandwich Day
Traffic Directors Day
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Culture Day (Japan)
National Day (Dominica-1978-from UK)
Independence Day (Micronesia-1986)
Independence Day (Panama-1903-from Columbia)
           
Quote of the Day



Historical Highlights for Today
1796 - John Adams elected president of the United States of America
1868 - Ulysses Grant (R) wins US presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1896 - William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president
1908 - William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan
1936 - President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1964 - LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres
1992 - Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over President Bush (R)
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1752 - George Frideric Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation
1762 - Spain acquires Louisiana-Treaty of Fountainbleau
1883 - US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans
1911 - Chevrolet officially enters the auto market in competition w/Ford Model T
1953 – 1st live color US coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1956 - "Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV)
1988 - Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken by skinhead on TV
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today



My Rambling Thoughts
Watched the Cards win, and looks like I’m watching the Broncos losing. Tough loss for Denver.
Day started with high winds, rain, light snow, rain, and then the front moved out and we had fairly clear skies. None of the white stuff stuck, but sure looked like winter for about 30 minutes this morning.
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Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
I run forever,
With a roaring call.
Yet I have no throat,
Or any legs at all.

Rock wears away,
Whilst I grow.
You try to race me,
And receive a blow.

What am I?   

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today


OK Then…


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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
Brief History…
Paul Revere’s Ride
Glorified in the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, we grew up believing Paul Revere saved the Americans from the British in 1775 by riding out shouting “The British are coming!” to alert American militias in Massachusetts. In reality, Revere and William Dawes did go around alerting the militia to British troop movements, but not by galloping through towns and yelling.  Their notifications were somewhat stealthier than that, and being “British” themselves, they did not call the Redcoats “British” but referred to them as “regulars,” saying “The regulars are coming out.”  In addition to that, Revere was captured and told the British what he was up to.  A final nail in the Paul Revere Myth coffin is that he led the 1779 Penobscot Expedition, one of the most disastrous forays of the Revolutionary War that resulted in his forced resignation from the army. 

**NEW**Dog Facts
-Dogs can detect sadness in humans and often attempt to make their owners happy by initiating cuddling.
-Dogs sometimes fake being sick to get attention.

Educator’s Answers…
“Ohh, you teach kindergarten. That must be fun — playing and singing all day.”
Yes, my life is just like Disney movie. I sing and the children and the little animals of the forest come running. Actually, in kindergarten, we teach our students the foundational literacy and math skills — as well as the social and emotional skills — that set them up for success in every grade to follow.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO
-Beginning on this Sunday the ban on smoking in most public places will be in effect.
-The Jay Lively Skating Rink reopened this Friday with new lighting in place and new ice ready for skating. Adults $2, Students under 17, $1
           
**NEW**Gender Facts…
-In Japan, it is tradition for husbands to get a monthly allowance from their wives.
-In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.

Harper’s Index…
-Factor by which a male college student is more likely than a femal college student to drive drunk: 4.6
-To drive stoned: 11.5       
That’s Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
78—the number of antiriot vehicles bought by German police. During a public exhibition of one of the 22-ton vehicles—which was advertised as withstanding bricks, stones, and Molotov cocktails—was damaged by tennis balls, eggs, and plastic bottles filled with water.
Religious Facts…
-1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.
-Contrary to popular belief, there are almost no Buddhists in India, nor have there been for about a thousand years.

Rules of Thumb…
WORKING WITH RIVETS
You can figure that a properly riveted joint will have three-fourths of the strength of the pieces it joins together.
           
Unusual Fact of the Day…
According to doctors, humans have an average of 14 episodes of flatulence per day.
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Joke-of-the-day
There once was an old man who was about to die. He told his wife to put a bag of money in the attic "When I die I'll get it on my way up." chuckled the old man. Well when the old man died the wife went up to the attic and found that the bag of money was still there. "I knew I should have put that money in the cellar!" said the old woman.
           
Yep, It Really Happened
HOUSTON (UPI)
Texas prosecutors said a former school district officer told a woman she could go if she let him smell her feet or handed over her underwear. The Harris County District Attorney's Office said Cy-Fair School District Officer Patrick Quinn, who has since been fired, pulled over a woman at 3 a.m. Aug. 11 for an expired sticker and told her that her vehicle smelled of marijuana. Quinn, who prosecutors said should not have been conducting traffic stops as a school resource officer, claims to have found a marijuana grinder in the woman's car. The woman, who denied ownership of the grinder, told authorities Quinn put her in the back of his patrol car. She said the officer told her she could go free if she allowed him to smell her feet or if she gave him her underwear. Documents filed by prosecutors say Quinn told the woman if she allowed him to smell her feet, "he was probably going to lick them, too." However, Quinn apparently had a change of heart and told the woman to "forget about it," the district attorney's office said. The woman, who Quinn allowed to leave the scene, reported the incident the following day. Her insurance card was found at the scene of the traffic stop and fingerprints on the card matched Quinn, prosecutors said. Quinn was charged with two counts of official oppression.

Somewhat Useless Information
Which was the first Pokémon game?
Did you know that the first Pokémon game ever were both Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue?
Then the special yellow version came out, which is the same as Blue and Red, but there’s a Pikachu at the beginning.
The next Pokémon games were:
Pokémon Gold and Silver
Crystal, same as Gold and Silver
Ruby and Saphire
Leaf Green and Fire Red (Remakes of Red and Blue)
Emerald, same as Ruby and Saphire
The next games are all DS, which are Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Heart Gold, and Soul Silver
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Which was the first movie?
Did you know that the first motion pictures appeared in 1893 and that at a trade fair in America, crowds queued up to view 90-second-long black and white films?
As they were unenlarged, each individual had to peer through a hole in a box to see the moving pictures.
When the first public screening of a movie took place in 1895 in Paris, the audience stared at the screen in wonder.
Back then, nobody could envisage the extent to which the “movies” would become part of our lives.
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Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:

National Fig Week: 1-7
National Patient Accessibility Week: 1-7
World Communication Week: 1-7 
National Radiologic Technology Week: 2-8 

Drowsy Driving Prevention Week: 2-9 
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week: 3-7  
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week: 3-9  
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Today’s Events through History
1791 - Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St Clair/killed 637 soldiers
1885 - Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1913 - The USA introduces an income tax
1955 - Alabama woman bruised by a meteor
1975 - Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman)
1978 – 1st broadcast of "Diff'rent strokes" on NBC TV
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Birthday’s Today
Ken Berry, actor (F Troop) is 82
Larry Holmes, heavyweight boxing champ (1978-85) is 66
Roseanne, [Barr Arnold], comedienne/TV star (Roseanne) is 63
Dennis Miller, comedian/TV host (SNL, Dennis Miller Show) is 61
Kathy Kinney, actress (Mimi-Drew Carey Show) is 61
Adam Ant, [Stuart Goddard], English punk rocker (If I Strip For You) is 61
Dolph Lundgren, Stockholm, actor (Rocky IV) is 58
Elizabeth A. Smart, American abductee and activist is 27

Remembered for being born today
Willem Kalf, Rotterdam Neth, painter (still lifes) (1619-1693)
William George Barker, Canadian flying ace (Victoria Cross recipient) (1894-1930)
Andre Malraux, [Berger], Paris, novelist/art historian (1901-1976)
Charles Bronson, actor (Magnificent Seven), (1923-2003)
D. James Kennedy, American theologian (1930-2007)
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Historical Obits Today
Bob Kane, comic artist and Batman co-creator, 1998, @83
Henri E B Matisse, French painter/sculptor (Dance II), 1954, @84
Paul Mauriat, French musician (Love is Blue), 2006, @81
Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan), cancer, 1990, @76
Annie Oakley, US sharp shooting star, anemia, 1926, @66
John Bainbridge, English astronomer, 1643, @61
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Brain Teasers Answers
 A waterfall. 
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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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