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Almanac: Day: 282
/ Week: 41
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances Today:
Curious Events Day
Fire Prevention Day
International African Diaspora Day
Leif Erikson Day
Moldy Cheese Day
National Chess Day
National Pro-Life
Cupcake Day
National Depression
Screening Day
World Dairy Expo
World Post Day
World Sight Day
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Grandmother's Day (Fl)
Alphabet Day (Korea)
Leif Erikson Day (Iceland)
Independence Day (Uganda-1962-from UK)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
768 - Charlemagne and
his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks
1000 - Leif
Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada)
reputedly becoming first European to reach North America
1290 - Last
of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves
1776 -
Mission at San Francisco is started today
1824 - Slavery
is abolished in Costa Rica.
1877 - American
Humane Association organizes (Cleveland)
1888 - Washington
Monument opens for public admittance
1915
- Woodrow Wilson becomes first US President to attend a World Series
game
1926 - NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
1936 - Hoover Dam
begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
1958 - Israeli
navy inaugurates its first submarine
1975
- Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
1989 - Penthouse Magazine's Hebrew edition hits
newsstands
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Our
retirement group had a great day in Sedona. I hadn’t been there for a decade or
so…to spend time walking around. The city has certainly changed and mostly for
the better. They now have a series of roundabouts that means traffic keeps
moving. Cheryl, our driver, was a little freaked out by them, but after 5 or 6
was fine with them. Both Cheryl and Mary found nice Mexican tiles for their
house addresses. We had a great, but expensive, lunch then as we walked around
town, I found a $5 Carmel Apple that was really good. They found some great
candy. Sedona is really tourist friendly now with several public free parking
lots just off the main drag and trash bins every few stores. They even have several
defibrillators along the sidewalks. We spent about 4 hours there. Good day all
the way around.
The
promised rain hasn’t arrived, but looks like it has been overcast all day here
in our little mountain town.
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Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
There is a common
English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it,
it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single
letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after
removing one letter at a time?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Age
Facts…
The
world's oldest crow was 59 years old. Its name was Tataji.
Brain
Facts…
Curvy
hips indicate smart women who will deliver intelligent children.
Computer
Facts…
"Stewardesses"
is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
The
Arizona and New Mexico Railroad Co. has been sending carloads of men, women and
children from Metcalf, where they have been laid off since the depression in
the copper mines. It is intended that they will work in cotton fields in Texas
or return to their Old Mexico homes.
Fun
Facts…
In 1961,
the only surgeon in the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, Leonid Rogozov, removed
his own inflamed appendix under local anesthesia.
Harper’s
Index…
Percentage
of US women prisoners who are mothers of young children: 61
Rules of
Thumb…
LET
GRAVITY BE YOUR FRIEND
Always park the truck above the project so that you
can shovel downhill into the project. If you are loading a truck, park it on
the downside of the project to ease the shoveling effort.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Tattoos have been
around for a long time. Ancient Greeks used them to brand spies, Romans used
them to mark slaves, Māori used
them as symbols of rank and lineage, and Ainu women were tattooed as a
prerequisite for marriage and the afterlife.
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Joke-of-the-day
A
mother mouse and a baby mouse were walking along, when all of a sudden, a cat
attacked them. The mother mouse goes, "BARK!" and the cat runs away.
"See?" says the mother mouse to her baby. "Now do you see why
it's important to learn a foreign language?"
Yep, It
Really Happened
BRUNN AM
GEBIRGE, Austria (UPI) - Firefighters in Austria said they freed a 3-year-old
boy who became locked in a large postal box during a game of hide-and-seek. The
Modling Fire Department said the boy was visiting a residential complex in
Brunn am Gebirge with his parents Monday and he chose the mailbox as a hiding
spot for a game of hide-and-seek. Emergency responders needed to be summoned
about 7 p.m., however, when the box's door locked behind the boy, trapping him
inside. Firefighters, who used a hydraulic spreader and a crowbar to get into
the box, said the boy was "amazingly brave" and greeted them with a
smile once they got the box open.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Before World War I,
Aspirin was a registered trademark of the German company Bayer. When Germany
lost the war, Bayer gave the trademark to the Allies as a reparation in the
Treaty of Versailles.
Thanks to some clever marketing during World War II, Old Spice aftershave
became part of the soldier's standard-issue toiletry kit and "changed the
smell of things."
Early contact lenses were made from wax molds (wax was poured over the eyes).
The lenses, made of glass, cut off tear flow and severely irritated the eyes.
In fact, the whole ordeal was so painful that scientists recommended an
anesthetic solution of cocaine.
On average, each person uses 54 feet of dental floss every year. That may sound
like a lot, but dentists recommend the use of one and a half feet of dental floss
each day. That's equal to 548 feet a year.
In the late 1940s aerosol hair spray was a growing fad among women. The only
problem was that it was water insoluble, which made it hard to wash out. This
was because the earliest fixative was shellac, more commonly used to preserve
wood.
Ancient Chinese, Roman, and German societies frequently used urine as
mouthwash. Surprisingly, the ammonia in urine is a good cleanser.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
--- 3-11
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
1837 - Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy
establishes the U.S. Naval Institute
2012 - 25,000
people in Athens protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel
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Birthday’s
Today
Joe
Pepitone, Brooklyn, MLB 1st baseman (NY Yankees) is 74
Jackson
Browne, rock voclaist is 66
Sharon
Osbourne, music manager, TV personality (America's Got Talent) is 62
Tony
Shalhoub, actor (Monk) is 61
Scott
Bakula, actor (Quantum Leap) is 60
Michael
Pare, actor (Eddie and the Cruisers) is 56
Guillermo
del Toro, Mexican film director is 50
Sean Ono
Lennon, New York USA, John & Yoko's Son is 39
Zachery
Ty Bryan, Denver CO, actor (Brad-Home Improvement) is 33
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Remembered
for being born today
Robert de
Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris (1201-1274)
Ivo
Andric, Yugoslavia, novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel-1961) (1892-1975)
John Winston
Ono Lennon, The Beatles (Imagine), (1940-1980)
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Historical
Obits Today
Louis Nye,
American comedian and actor, 2005, @92
Clare A
Booth Luce, US diplomat/journalist, 1987, @84
Pius XII,
[Eugenio Pacelli], Pope, 1958, @82
James
Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), 1994, @75
Benjamin
Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, 1806, @74
Fred
Lebow, US founder of New York Marathon, cancer, 1994, @62
Ioannis
Kapodistrias, founding father of modern Greece, killed, 1831, @ 55
Ernesto "Che" Guevara,
revolutionary\physician, executed 1967. @39
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Brain
Teasers
starting
- staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I
starling - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I
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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…§
