11-7-14

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Holiday Observances Today:
Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
Job Action Day
National Medical Science Liaison Awareness & Appreciation Day
Republican Elephant Day
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Solidarity Day (Bangladesh-1975 uprising)
         
Quote of the Day


Historical Highlights for Today
1820 - James Monroe re-elected US president
1848 - General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of US
1876 - Pres Rutherford B. Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral College selects Hayes (R)
1916 - Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected US President
1944 - FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)
1972 - Pres Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)
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1512 - Medici's discharge Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence
1519 - Spaniards have their first view of Tenochtitlán (modern Mexico City)
1637 - Anne Hutchinson tried in Massachusetts Bay Colony as a heretic
1651 - King Louis XIV of France (13) declared of full age
1665 - 1st edition of "London Gazette"
1786 - Stoughton Musical Society, oldest musical organization in the US is founded
1805 - Lewis and Clark sight Pacific Ocean
1874 - 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast
1893 - US State Colorado accepts female suffrage
1914 – 1st issue of The New Republic magazine is published
1916 - Jeannette Rankin (Mont) elected to Congress as its 1st woman Rep
1929 - NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
1932 - 1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio
1933 - Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1933 - Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City
1942 - 1st US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1954 - US spy plane shot down North of Japan
1967 - LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1990 - Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the 1st former First Lady to win public office
2012 - Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve same-sex marriage
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today



My Rambling Thoughts
Good lunch downtown with our retirement group. New restaurant in historic building. Interesting. Discussed a lot of politics. Wandered around downtown for a little while. Due to the difficulty in finding parking, I seldom go downtown, even if someone else is driving. I was amazed at the number of restaurants down there. Can’t imagine how they all stay in business. At the place we went, we were the only ones in there during the lunch rush. Good food but don’t think they will be around that long.
Yesterday Obama was understanding of the results and said he would continue to work for the American People. Senate and House leaders said they too wanted to get things done. That didn’t even last 24 hours. I say that everyone listen to the polls of the American people and do what we want. All polls show that Americans are happy with Obamacare (with some tweeks)…that America needs to raise the minimum wage…and more jobs are needed. All you politicians…Get busy and do it.
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Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Created I was, in 1841,
By someone with the name of an evil one,
He was a Belgian, living in Paris,
This man had to be very zealous.

Fourteen of me, this young man made,
Some above A, but not quite B,
With some higher than D, but lower than E,
And some that are C, and three halves above D,
That's why my popularity's so easy to see.

Golden with lacquer, I usually am,
I sometimes am used to honor Uncle Sam,

Patented I was in 1846,
I'm the one who gives some their kicks,
I'm shaped like a J - with a hook on the end,
So, can you tell what I am?           

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today





           
OK Then…


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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
Dog Facts…
—Dogs turn in circles before lying down because in the wild this turns long grass into a bed.
—Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.

Facebook Facts…
—A woman in Britain was sentenced to 20 months in jail for creating fake Facebook profiles and trolling herself.
—You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO
—Mr. D. S. Carlos brought in samples of cabbage and potatoes from his ranch at Turkey Tank. They’re sure to be prize winners at the State Fair and show the splendid success of working a dry ranch.
—G. W. Hunt, Albert Wyatt, and Thomas Garrison are back from a quail hunt in the lower country where they bagged six dozen quail, about 40 croppie and successfully battled a huge rattler who was the proud possessor of 14 rattles and a button.
           
Gender Facts…
—Women have about four times as many foot problems as men; lifelong patterns of wearing high heels often are the culprit.
—According to a U.K. study, women are better at parking a car than men.

Harper’s Index…
—Number of local government jobs lost since 2010: 351,000
—Portion of those jobs that were in education: 3/4
           
Internet Facts…
—20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
—The town of Villa Las Estrellas in Antarctica is the most remote town on Earth, and there's only three computers with internet access!

That’s Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
Helplessness is defined by slipping a dollar into the office vending machine, only to watch your Twix get stuck on the coils. That’s what happened to an Iowa man. But unlike the rest of us, he had a forklift at his disposal, which he used to jostle the machine until it freed his booty. He was fired the next day.

Rules of Thumb…
ABLESON'S RULE OF TIMING
"Companies which do well tend to report [their quarterly] earnings earlier than those which do poorly."        

Unusual Fact of the Day…
7-Up was originally called "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda."
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Joke-of-the-day
Why did Dorothy get lost in Oz?
She had three men giving her directions.          


Yep, It Really Happened
HUEYTOWN, Ala. (UPI)
A man who robbed four Subway restaurants in four days with a gun claims he did it because he was mad the "Jared Diet" didn't work for him. Zachary Torrance, 18, was arrested Friday by Hueytown police after someone saw surveillance videos on the Hueytown Police Department's Facebook page and recognized Torrance from having witnessed him purchase a gun holster at a Walmart. Police say he was even wearing the same clothing and shoes as the suspect was the day of the robbery.
"He stated in the course of his interview he had tried the 'Jared Diet' and it hadn't worked for him like he thought it should have," Police Chief Chuck Hagler told WJBF. "He was trying to get his money back." He has confessed to the crime and will face sentencing. He is currently being held with a $250,000 bail.         

Somewhat Useless Information
The inventors of Hot Wheels and Barbie were married
Both Ruth Marianna Handler (1916 – 2002) and Elliot Handler (1916 – 2011) were American businesspeople, as well as inventors.
Ruth handler served as the president of the toy manufacturer Mattel Inc., and is remembered for her role in marketing the Barbie doll.
Elliot Handler was the co-founder of Mattel, and together with his wife, he was a developer of some of the biggest-selling toys in American history, including Barbie dolls, Chatty Cathy, Creepy Crawlers and Hot Wheels.
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Bruce Dickinson is not only a rock star but also a pilot
Bruce Dickinson, born in 7 August 1958, is widely known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
However, because of his love for aviation, Dickinson learned to fly in the 1990s and holds an airline transport pilot’s license.
As a captain he regularly flew Boeing 757s for the now-defunct UK charter airline Astraeus, which, from 16 September 2010, employed him as Marketing Director.    
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Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
National Fig Week; National Patient Accessibility Week; World Communication Week: 1-7 
National Radiologic Technology Week; Drowsy Driving Prevention Week: 2-9 

Give Wildlife A Brake! Week; National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week: 3-9 
Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13  

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Today’s Events through History
1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeats the Native Americans of the Tecumesh Confederation
1876 - Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to receive a PhD from a US college (Yale)
1907 - Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University
1917 - October Revolution (Oct 25 OS)-Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power
1918 - Robert Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
1918 - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, kills 7,542 (about 20% of the population) 
1962 - Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more
1967 - Carl B Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland
1982 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1991 - Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from LA Lakers
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Birthday’s Today
Barry Newman, actor (Petrocelli) is 76
Johnny Rivers, [Ramistella], singer (Secret Agent Man) is 72
Joni Mitchell, [Roberta J Anderson], singer (Clouds) is 71
Jeremy London, actor (I'll Fly Away, Party of Five) is 42
Marcus Luttrell, United States Navy SEAL ("Lone Survivor") is 39

Remembered for being born today
Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Warsaw, discovered radium (Nobel) (1867-1934)
Leon Trotsky[Leib Bronstein], revolutionary and Theorist (1879-1940)
Dean Jagger, actor (Elmer Gantry) (1903-1991)
Albert Camus, Algeria, author (The Just-Nobel 1957), (1913-1960)
Al Hirt, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World) (1922-1999)
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Historical Obits Today
Will Durant, US author (story of civilization), 1981, @96
John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer, 1881, @90
Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist, 1913, @90
Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champ, 1978, @80
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), cardiac failure, 1962, @78
Joe Frazier, Olympic Heavyweight Boxer, liver cancer, 2011, @67
Jack Kelly, actor (Maverick), stroke, 1992, @65
Steve McQueen, actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt), cancer, 1980, @50
Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], train\bank robber, shot 1908, @42
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Brain Teasers Answers
A Saxophone.

Created I was, in 1841,
By someone with the name of an evil one,
He was a Belgian, living in Paris,
This man had to be very zealous.

Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in 1841. Adolphe Sax's name has a resemblance to Adolf Hitler, an evil one indeed...

Fourteen of me, this young man made,
Some above A, but not quite B,
With some higher than D, but lower than E,
And some that are C, and three halves above D,
That's why my popularity's so easy to see.

Sax made 14 different types of saxes. Seven pitched in C and F (F is three half-steps above D, hence three halves above D), and seven pitched in Eb (That's E Flat for you non-musicians, which is above D and lower than E) and Bb (above A and not quite B).

Golden with lacquer, I usually am,
I sometimes am used to honor Uncle Sam.

Saxes are usually golden, and the covering is referred to a lacquer. Saxes are also used in Military bands, thus "honoring Uncle Sam"

Patented I was in 1846,
I'm the one who gives some their kicks,
I'm shaped like a J-with a hook on the end,

Most saxes are J shaped with a hook with the exception of the Soprano Sax. Many Jazz enthusiasts get their "kicks" or enjoyment from saxophone players.       

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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.
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