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Almanac: Day: 281
/ Week: 41
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances Today:
American Touch Tag Day
Emergency Nurses Day
Alvin C. York Day (Sgt., one of most decorated in WWI)
International Top
Spinning Day
National Bring Your
Teddy Bear To Work & School Day
National Pierogy Day (Commonly considered to be the national dish of Poland)
Pet Obesity Awareness
Day
S.A.V.E. (Stop America's
Violence Everywhere)
Stop Bullying Day
Walk To School Day
World Octopus Day
Universal Music Day
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Yom Kipper (Jewish)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1492 - Columbus'
fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico
1541
- de Soto fights with Caddo Indians,
today, in Tula, Arkansas
1604 - Supernova
"Kepler's nova" first sighted
1633 - Massachusetts
Bay Colony forms its first government
1769 - Captain James
Cook is the 1st European to land in New Zealand
1775 - Officers
decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army
1818 - Two
English boxers are first to use padded gloves
1821 - The
government of General José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy
1871 - Gas
explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin
1871 - Chicago Great Fire kills 200, destroys over
4 square miles & original Emancipation Proclamation
1873
- First
women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute
1917 - Bolshevik
Leon Trotsky named chairman of the Petrograd Soviet
1918 - Sgt
Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
1927 - Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of
Ottoman occupation)
1932 - The
Indian Air Force is established
1957 - Brooklyn
Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
1962 - North Korea reports 100% election turnout,
miraculously 100% vote for the Workers' Party
1967 - Guerrilla
leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia
1970 - Soviet
author Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1992 - Nobel
Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
So today,
the team finished sealing our parking area. Nice. My side of the area has more
parking spaces than the other side, so no problems for anyone.
That
hurricane, now tropical storm, on the west side of Mexico is sending lots of much
needed moisture to our state. Today was very cloudy but no rain yet. Weather guy
says it will be here tomorrow and Thursday. Today was very nice and warm, another
door and windows wide open all day.
My
retirement group is headed for Sedona tomorrow. Mary’s brother is coming in on
Thursday so we moved it up a day. Cheryl is going to buy some Mexican tiles to
post her address at her newly sided house. I have a feeling Mary is going to
follow suit for her newly painted house. I would too, but the HOA would never
approve it. Then we will find a place for lunch down there…with lots to choose
from.
A couple
of days ago the Seattle, WA city council voted to change a holiday. It will now
be Indigenous Peoples Day rather than Columbus Day. Good for them. Anyone who
has studied history realizes that Columbus was not the first European to find
the Western Hemisphere. He also never landed anywhere close to our country. He
did discover many thriving cultures and people which he reported back to Spain,
and Europe then decided that they should conquer the people and destroy what
they had.
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Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
As you may know, a
group of fish is called a "school", a group of lions is called a
"pride", and a group of seagulls is called a "flock". Some
are a little more unusual. See if you can guess what animals belong to the
following groups:
Crash
Exaltation
Mob
Murder
Parliament
Pod
Sounder
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Age
Facts…
The
oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered
in 2007.
Brain
Facts…
Chocolate
is associated with the release of serotonin, the hormone that makes you feel
relaxed, calm, and happy.
Computer
Facts…
On eBay,
there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
G. M.
Willard of the State Game Department is working to arrange to secure another
herd of about 35 elk from Yellowstone.
Fun
Facts…
Sloths
can swim three times faster than they can move on land. They can also hold
their breath for up to 40 minutes.
Harper’s
Index…
Percentage
increase in the past two decades in the portion of new US marriages between
people of different races: +67
Rules of
Thumb…
AVOIDING
OTHER AIRPLANES
If you spot another airplane and it is above the
horizon, it is above you. If it is below the horizon, it is below you. If the
other airplane is at the same level as the horizon, it is at your altitude. If
an approaching airplane appears motionless, it is on a collision course with
you.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The Kit Kat bar got
its name from the Kit Kat Club in London’s West End, a joint famous for bringing
dance-band music to the city in the 1920s.
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Joke-of-the-day
After
drinking, Men talk unnecessarily, become emotional,
drive badly, dtop thinking, fight for nothing.
Women can do all these without drinking!
Yep, It
Really Happened
A
Halloween horror came early for some amusement park goers in England when a
roller coaster hit a deer and covered the passengers in blood.
A spokeswoman for the Lightwater Valley theme park near Ripon, England,
confirmed the deer wandered onto the track of The Ultimate, billed as Europe's
longest roller coaster, and was struck by the car.
"We can confirm a young deer did unfortunately get hit by the Ultimate
train yesterday and was killed instantly," the spokeswoman said.
"There is a large perimeter fence surrounding the theme park but
occasionally wild animals do manage to stray onto the park during the
night."
The roller coaster was closed for 30 minutes before resuming normal operations.
Reports indicate passengers were sprayed with the animal's blood, but there
were no human injuries from the crash.
A deer previously wandered onto The Ultimate's tracks in 1994 and was struck by
a car, resulting in the hospitalization of a 12-year-old boy.
Somewhat
Useless Information
In the depth of
winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Deep summer is when
laziness finds respectability.
Sam Keen
I know that if odour
were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
Robert Bridges
Summer has always
been my favorite season. I feel happier.
Zooey Deschanel
It was one of those
March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer
in the light, and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens
Oh, the summer night,
Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
Bryan Procter
Now I take the summer
off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we’re gonna start another
season.
Jerry Orbach
For one swallow does
not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does
not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle
It will not always be
summer; build barns.
Hesiod
Summer is a great
time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools –
only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.
Jerry Saltz
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
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4-H
Week
No Salt Week
--- 4-12
Albuquerque
International Balloon Fiesta
Fall Astronomy Week
World Space Week
--- 5-11
Emergency
Nurses Week
Fire Prevention Week
International Post Card Week
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week
National Midwifery Week
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine Week
--- 6-12
Customer
Service Week)
Drive Safely Work Week
Financial Planning Week
Kids' Goal Setting Week
National Health Care Food Service Week
National Metric Week
National Physician’s Assistant Week
Spinning & Weaving Week
World Dairy Expo
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Today’s
Events through History
1822 - First
eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
1835 - Charles
Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago, on HMS Beagle
1860 - Telegraph
line between LA & SF opens
1895 - Ohio
Valley Improvement Association forms
1904 - 1st
Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY)
1934 - Bruno
Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Charles Lindbergh's son
1942 - Comedy
duo Abbott and Costello launch their weekly radio show
1945 - US
President Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret
1961 - Betsy
Rawls wins LPGA Bill Brannin's Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1965 - Post Office Tower opens in London, tallest
building in England
1971 - John
Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"
1981 - 1st
broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" on ABC-TV
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Birthday’s
Today
Paul Hogan, Australia, actor
(Crocodile Dundee) is 75
Jesse Jackson, clergyman/presidential
candidate is 73
Chevy Chase, comedian/actor
(SNL, Caddyshack) is 71
R. L. Stine, children's book
writer (Goosebumps) is 70
Sigourney Weaver [Susan
Alexandra], actress (Alien) is 65
Michael Dudikoff, actor (American
Ninja, TRON) is 60
Darrell Hammond, actor, comedian is 59
Matt Biondi, US 100m swimmer
(Olympics-3 gold-84, 88, 92) is 49
Matt Damon, actor (Bourne
trilogy) is 44
Nick Cannon, actor and rapper,
TV host is 34
Angus T. Jones, actor (Two and a
Half Men) is 21
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Remembered
for being born today
J Frank Duryea, inventor (1st auto
built & operated in US) (1869-1967)
Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator "Ace
of Aces" (WW I) (1890-1973)
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Historical
Obits Today
Al Davis,
American football executive, 2011, @82
Willy
Brandt, chancellor of West Germany, cancer, 1992, @78
Felix
Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria writer (Bambi), 1945, @78
Fernando
Lamas, actor/director (Lost World), cancer, 1982, @67
Franklin
Peirce, 14th president, cirrhosis, 1869, @64
Nigel
Bruce, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman), heart attack, 1953 @58
Philip
Chevron, Irish musician (Pogues), esophageal cancer, 2013, @56
John
Hancock, US merchant/statesman (Decl of Independence), 1793, @56
Wendell
Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician, heart attack, 1944, @52
Henry
Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), asthma, 1754, @47
B.J.
Wilson, English musician (Procol Harum), long illness, 1990, @43
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Brain
Teasers
Crash -
Rhinoceros
Exaltation - Lark
Mob - Kangaroo
Murder - Crow
Parliament - Owl
Pod - Whale
Sounder - Pig/Hog
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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…§
