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Almanac: Day: 251
/ Week: 37
September
Averages: 73° \ 42°
Today:
Average Sky Cover: 65%
H 73°… L 54°… Ave. humidity: 63%
Wind: ave:
3mph;
Gusts: 12mph
Average High: 76° Record High: 88° (1977)
Average Low: 44°
Record Low: 33° (1935)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.
1535
- Cartier reaches Stadacone, where the modern city Quebec is located
1545 - English Earl of Hertford leads retaliatory
mission against Scotland
1565 - 1st permanent non-indigenous settlement in
US forms (St Augustine, Florida)
1858 - Lincoln makes a speech about when you can
fool people
1914 - HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, sister ship of
RMS Titantic, sinks off Scotland
1920 - US Air Mail service begins (NYC to SF)
1921 - 1st Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman of
Washington DC)
1930 - 1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"
1930 - NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew
1939 - FDR declares "limited national
emergency" due to war in Europe
1952 - Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man & the
Sea" published
1971 - John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
opens in Washington DC
2013
- Serena Williams wins her fifth Women's Singles US Open title
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
This is the last blog until I return from Ireland. Enjoy whatever
you are doing.
Bags are packed and I’m ready to go. Thank goodness for Space
Bags. Belfast, Dublin, and the Blarney stone await my arrival. I pick up the
shuttle at 9a, then Phx, then Denver. We leave as a group on Tuesday morning.
Had a nice visit with my brother. He spent the weekend in WI at an
in-laws Navy thing. Now they are off to LA for a week of photo shoots for her
new line. They get back to NYC on the 15th.
This afternoon brought a nice monsoon rain…at least I’m ready for
Ireland’s rain.
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Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
I'm
full of keys whenever I'm made
I came about wooden when the Renaissance played
Hundreds of years later, I was divided
And two new keys to me were provided
Then in 1760, and that's forty years later
Three keys were added by Florio, Gedney, and Potter
Around the 80's of the century mentioned
I was used by Mozart and Haydn
Over the years, new keys were gained
In the 1830's, Beethoven used me to entertain
Near the end of the 1800's, or the 19th century
I was used by Brahms, Strauss, and Tchaikovsky
Now, modern renditions are made of me
Without my holes, I wouldn't be
What am I?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain :
Brain
Facts…
Music has the ability to repair brain damage and return lost
memories.
Computer
Facts…
Facebook pays at least $500 if you can find a way to hack the
site.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS
AGO
Lee Mackie is to serve 1 - 2 years in the State Pen following a
plea of guilty to burglary in Superior Court before Judge H.K. Mangum. Deputy
Sheriff Ernest Yost and Hank Young, city policeman, took him to Florence on Thursday.
Fun
Facts…
After being in captivity for 23 years, the orca from Free Willy,
Keiko, was set free in 2002. Weeks later, he appeared at a Norwegian fjord
apparently seeking human contact and even gave rides to children on his back.
Harper’s
Index
Factor by which a wealthy American is more likely than a poor
American to vote in a midterm election: 2
Portion of poor and affluent men, respectively, who favor raising
the minimum wage to $15/hour: 72, 35
Language
Facts…
There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
Rules of
Thumb…
INSTALLING HARDWARE IS A SNAP!
If you are
installing a new computer part, remember that you should never have to force
equipment into the desired slot. If you find a part hard to insert into a slot
on the motherboard, chances are you need to rotate the card or chip to face the
opposite direction. Computers motherboards are designed to be put together with
Zero Insertion Force (ZIF). A proper installation will quickly *snap* into the
socket and feel solid.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The
dishwasher was invented by Josephine Cochrane— a socialite who was tired of
servants breaking her expensive dishes.
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Joke-of-the-day
Q: What's the definition of mixed emotions?
A: When you see your mother-in-law backing off a cliff in your brand new car.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
AUSTIN, Texas (UPI) - A Texas man accused of attacking his
neighbor allegedly told police the other man was using
"triangulation" to speak to him inside his head. The Austin Police
Department said Steven Anthony Garza, 34, allegedly entered his neighbor's yard
about 7:30 p.m. Aug. 28 and used "aggressive" hand gestures the
neighbor interpreted as an invitation to fight. Garza allegedly head-butted his
neighbor and broke the antenna of the radio the other man was using to speak to
his father. Police said the neighbor fled inside his home and Garza then dumped
the other man's radio and remote-controlled drone over a fence, causing $4,000
in damage to the devices. Garza told officers he believed his neighbor was using
the equipment to spy on him and the other man was using
"triangulation" to speak inside his head, the arrest report said.
Garza was taken to the Travis County Jail on charges of assault causing bodily
injury and criminal mischief. He was ordered held in lieu of $10,000 bond.
Somewhat
Useless Information
The Coliseum, also
known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, is the largest amphitheater
of the Roman Empire, as well as the largest amphitheater in the
world.
Did
you know that the outer wall is estimated to have required over 100,000 cubic meters of travertine stone
which were set without mortar; they were held together by 300 tons of iron
clamps.
However,
due to earthquakes it has suffered extensive damage over the centuries, with
large segments having collapsed.
*****
Did
you know that 11% of the world’s countries sue citizens for blasphemy? Muslim
countries, Germany, Greece, Italy, as well as Ireland are some of them,
according to the Washington Post.
Penalties
vary from just a fine or even to death, like it recently happened in Sudan.
However,
as the newspaper points out, although the law is into force in many of these
countries, citizens are not actually sued.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
7-12
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week
National Assisted Living Week
International Housekeepers Week
Suicide Prevention Week
Today
Is
Salami Day
International Literacy Day
National Boss/Employee Exchange Day
Pardon Day (Nixon-1974)
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses Day
World Physical Therapy Day
++
Independence
Day (Macedonia-1991-from Yugoslavia)
Today’s
Events through History
1966 - "Star Trek" premieres on NBC-TV
1968 - "Funny Girl" with Barbra Striesand
premieres
1985 - "USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears
in 255 newspapers
1986 - 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is first
broadcast nationally
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Birthday’s
Today
Sam Nunn,
American politician (Sen-D-Georgia) is 76
Bernie
Sanders, Senator (VT) is 73
Heather
Thomas, actress, screenwriter, author and political activist is 57
David
Arquette, actor, director and producer (Scream, Kiss & Tell) is
43
Pink [Alecia
Beth Moore], singer (Get the Party Started) is 35
Jonathan
Taylor Thomas, actor (Randy-Home Improvement) is 33
Remembered
for being born today
Richard I,
[Richard the Lion Hearted], King of England (1157-1199)
George
Crook, Major General (Union volunteers), (1829-1890)
Frederic
Mistral, Provencal poet (Nobel 1904), (1830-1914)
AntonÃn
Dvořák, composer (New World Symphony) (1841-1904)
Robert A
Taft, (Sen-R-Ohio, Taft-Hartley Act) (1889-1953)
[James Charles] Jimmie
Rodgers, country singer/singing brakeman (1897-1933)
Sid
Caesar, comedian (Your Show of Shows) (1922-2014)
Peter
Sellers, England, actor and goon (Pink Panther), (1925-1980)
Patsy
Cline, country singer (Crazy) (1932-1963)
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Historical
Obits Today
Frank
Thomas, Disney animator, 2004, @92
Richard
Strauss, German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra), 1949, @85
Jean
Piaget, Swiss psychologist/theory/educator, 1980, @84
Roy
Wilkins, American civil rights activist, 1981, @80
Clement
III, [Wibert van Ravenna], 1st anti-pope, 1100, @71
Zero [Samuel
J] Mostel, US actor (Fiddler on the
Roof), aneurysm, 1977, @62
Adam Opel, German
manufacturer (motorcars), 1895, @58
Ann Lee, founded
Shakers, frailty, 1784, @48
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Brain
Teasers
The Flute…The keys are the
sounds made.
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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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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
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