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Almanac: Day: 271
/ Week: 40
September
Averages: 73° \ 42°
Today:
Observances Today:
Ask a Stupid Question Day
Fish Tank Floorshow
Night
National Drink Beer Day
National Good Neighbor Day
National Women's Health and Fitness Day
International Right to
Know Day
World Heart Day
World Rabies Day
Gold Star Mother's Day
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1066 - William the Conqueror invades England
landing at Pevensey Bay, Sussex
1701 - Divorce legalized in Maryland, USA
1785 - Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from
the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)
1787 - Congress sends Constitution to state
legislatures for their approval
1889 - The first General Conference on Weights and
Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines
on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at
the melting point of ice.
1928 - 1st recording session in Nashville
(Warmack's Gully Jumpers)
1928
- Prussia forbids speech from Adolf
Hitler
1953 - KOAT TV channel 7 in Albuquerque, NM
(ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting
2008 - SpaceX launches the first ever private
spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit
2013 - 27 villagers are killed by Boko Harem in
northeast Nigeria
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
I’m home from a great holiday in Ireland for the past 16 days.
Ironically, we were in Ireland and had only one morning of light rain and when
I got back to Flag last night, the weather report was heavy rain with possible
tornado through Saturday. I am so glad I went to Ireland. It is a beautiful
country with great people, and many ways to fix potatoes for every meal.
We flew from Chicago to Dublin in about 7 hours. Not bad. Then we
headed for Belfast and a few days in Northern Ireland. I thought I understood
the story of Northern Ireland and Ireland on a basic level. Now after my visit
I am more confused than ever. In Northern Ireland we used the pound while in
Ireland we used the Euro.
Belfast is known for its linen. But it also the town that built
the Titanic and other ships. There is an amazing museum/exhibition of that
great ship. We stayed in the Europa Hotel, the most bombed hotel during the Troubles
(Na Trioblóidí).
Belfast and Northern Ireland have been fairly peaceful since 1998 and have grown
economically. The remnants of the
Troubles are still visible including many street murals, high fences, and
bullet holes in some buildings. Over the days there we also visited the Giant’s
Causeway—a beautiful rock formation on the sea and the Bushmill Irish Whiskey Distillery
where we had a lot of tasting. Bushmill distillery is on the river Bush, near
the linen mills which came long before the distillery. We also visited Derry,
the largest walled city in Europe. Really interesting to walk on top of much of
the wall.
Tomorrow I’ll ramble about the Republic of Ireland.
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Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
What
phrase is described by the following rebus?
serGeant
geNeral
ensIgn
priVate
colOnel
adMiral
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Brain
Facts…
The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can
actually trigger emotions.
Computer
Facts…
HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart
from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS
AGO
The Chamber of Commerce has moved into its new quarters at the
Monte Vista beside Dr. A. G. Pilchard’s office. Their new space is 12-by-20
feet, giving them plenty of room. The rooms have been repainted with ivory
walls and blue/green woodwork.
Fun
Facts…
In 2008, a beach was stolen in Jamaica. The 500 truckloads of sand
remain missing to this day.
Harper’s
Index
Minimum amount stolen through wage theft by US employees during
2012: $280,000,000
Estimated amount stoen in street, bank, and convenience store
thefts that year: $139,000,000
Language
Facts…
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange,
purple, and month!
Rules of
Thumb…
TUNING A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
A stringed
instrument is less apt to slip out of pitch if the strings are tuned up from
flat than it is if the strings are tuned down from sharp.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The
toilet featured in Hitchcock's Psycho was the first flushing toilet
to appear on-screen.
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Joke-of-the-day
A
policeman brought four boys before a judge.
"They were causing an awful lot of commotion at the zoo, your Honor,"
he said.
"Boys," said the judge sternly, "I never like to hear reports of
juvenile delinquency.
Now I want each of you to tell me your name and what you were doing
wrong."
"My name is George," said the first boy, "and I threw peanuts
into the elephant pen."
"My name is Pete," said the second boy, "and I threw peanuts
into the elephant pen."
"My name is Mike," said the third boy, "and I threw peanuts into
the elephant pen."
"My name is Peanuts," said the fourth boy.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI) - The Kansas of Division of Emergency
Management said October will be "Zombie Preparedness Month" to help
residents prepare for the undead and other disasters. The department said Gov.
Sam Brownback will sign a proclamation Sept. 26 designating October as
"Zombie Preparedness Month." Devan Tucking of the Kansas of Division
of Emergency Management said the zombie theme is a means of encouraging Kansas
residents to be ready for a number of potential real-life emergency scenarios.
"If you're equipped to handle the zombie apocalypse then you're prepared
for tornadoes, severe storms, fire and any other natural disaster Kansas usually
faces," Tucking said. "This is a fun and low-stress way to get
families involved, and past turnouts have proven it to be effective."
Angee Morgan, deputy director of the division, said officials incorporated
zombies into the public information campaign "because it is an engaging
way to get people on board with emergency preparedness." Officials said
members of the public will be encouraged to prepare home emergency kits with
survival supplies to last at least three days and disaster-on-the-go packs will
be free for the first 300 participants at a zombie preparedness event Oct. 25
at the Crestview Shelter House in Topeka.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Twelve words English ought to incorporate
Adam Jacot de Boinod, a researcher for BBC
quiz programs, has collected words from all over the world, which do not exist
in English but ought to had been.
Bakkushan
(Japanese): A woman you think is pretty when you see her from behind, but is
not when you see her from the front.
Drachenfutter
(German): The presents guilty husbands give their wives.
Fucha
(Polish): A job you do in your free time without paying any tax.
Lampadato
(Italian): An adjective to describe a person whose skin has been tanned too much
by a sun lamp.
Neko
neko (Indonesian): To have a creative idea which
only makes things worse.
Puntare
(Italian): To stare intensely at a person you are attracted to.
Rujuk
(Indonesian): To remarry a woman to whom you had been married before.
Seigneur-terrasse
(French): A person who spends a lot of time but very little money in a cafe.
Sunasorpok
(Inuit): To eat what other people have left.
Termangu-mangu
(Indonesian): Sad and not sure what you should do.
Zechpreller
(German): Someone who leaves without paying the bill.
Zhengron
(Chinese): A person whose looks have been improved by plastic surgery.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
22-30
International Interpreters and Translators Week
International Women's E-Commerce Days
Today’s
Events through History
48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on
orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt
1931 - Peking (200,000 demonstrators demand
declaration of war on Japan)
1945
- "Mildred Price" starring Joan
Crawford opens
1949 - "My Friend Irma" is 1st of 12
films starring Dean Martin &Jerry Lewis
1950 - Indonesia becomes 60th member of UN
1957 - "Honeycomb," by Jimmie Rodgers
hits #1
1959 - "Hennesey" debuts on CBS-TV
1960 - "Millionaire" last airs on CBS-TV
1961 - "Hazel" starring Shirley Booth
debuts on NBC-TV
1962 - "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" debuts
on ABC-TV
1963 - "Shari Lewis Show" last airs on
NBC-TV
1963 - "Tennessee Tuxedo" cartoon debuts
on CBS-TV
1968 - Beatles' "Hey Jude" single goes #1
and stays #1 for 9 weeks
1973 - ITT Building in NYC bombed to protest ITT's
involvement in the September 11 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
1991 - "Commish" debuts on ABC-TV
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Birthday’s
Today
Brigitte
Bardot, Paris France, sex kitten (And God Created Women) is 80
Janeane
Garofalo, comedienne (SNL, Truth about Cats & Dogs) is 50
Naomi
Watts, British actress is 46
Mira
Sorvino, actress (Quiz Show, Norma Jean & Marilyn) is 46
Hilary
Duff, actress and singer (Lizzie McGuire) is 27
Remembered
for being born today
Confucius, Chinese
philosopher (founder of Confucianism) (551BC-479BC)
Richard
Bright, England, physician (Bright's Disease/nephritis) (1789-1858)
Freidrich
Engels, German social philosopher (1820-1895)
Frances E
C Willard, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance Union) (1839-1898)
Avery
Brundage, CEO (Intl Olympic Committee, 1952-72) (1887-1975)
Ed
Sullivan, TV variety show host/gossip columnist (1901-1974)
Max
Schmeling, German world heavyweight boxing champ (1905-2005)
Al Capp, [Alfred
Gerald Caplin], cartoonist (Li'l Abner) (1909-1979)
Julius
Rosenberg, 1st US civilian executed for espionage (1918-1953)
Peter
Finch, actor (Network, Windom's Way, Raid on Entebbe) (1916-1977)
Marcello
Mastroianni, Italian actor (1924-1996)
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Historical
Obits Today
Pierre
Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada, 2000. @ 80
George
Buchanan, Scottish historian, 1582, @76
Harpo [Arthur]
Marx, comedian (Marx Bros), heart
attack, 1964, @75
Herman
Melville, writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), heart attack, 1891, @72
Louis
Pasteur, French bacteriologist (Pasteurization), stroke, 1895, @72
Pope John
Paul I (Albino Luciani), 263rd Catholic Pope, heart attack, 1978, @65
Miles
Davis, jazz trumpeter, pneumonia, 1991, @65
Edwin
Hubble, American astronomer, 1st to announce existence of other
galaxies, stroke, 1953, @63
Richard
Sears, businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company), Bright’s Disease,
1914, @50
Eric
Fleming, actor (Gil-Rawhide), drowned, 1966, @41
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Brain
Teasers
Moving up through the ranks (this is a list of military ranks; one
letter in each of the ranks is uppercase; the uppercase letters spell
"moving" from bottom to top, or up).
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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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