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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 285
/ Week: 42
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances Today:
Clergy Appreciation
Day
Cookbook Launch Day
Day of the Six Billion--1999
Emergency Nurses Day
Free Thought Day
International Day for
Disaster Reduction
International Moment Of Frustration Scream Day
International Top Spinning Day
Moment of Frustration
Day
Old Farmer's Day
Spanish Language Day
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Columbus Day (traditional)
Dia De La Raza (Mexico-to honor the many races that live(d)
there)
Discovery Day (Bahamas-1492-greeted by the TAINO tribe)
Hispanity Day (Spain-honors Columbus)
Independence Day (Equatorial Guinea-1968-from Spain)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1792 - First
celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
1850 - First
women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens
1871 - US
President Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan
1879 - British
troops occupy Kabul, Afghanistan
1892 - US
Pledge of Allegiance first recited in public schools during Columbus Day
1901 - Theodore
Roosevelt renames "Executive Mansion," "The White
House"
1915 - Ford
Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile
1915
– T. Roosevelt criticizes US citizens who identify themselves, with
dual nationalities
1920 - Construction begins on Holland Tunnel
connecting NJ & NYC
1928 - 1st
use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)
1933 - Alcatraz
becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
1952 - KBTV (now KUSA) TV channel 9 in Denver, CO
(ABC) begins broadcasting
1957
– 1st commercial flight between California & Antartica
1960 -
Khrushchev bangs his shoe on his desk at UN General Assembly session
1964 - 1st
time 3 people in space
1968 - 19th Olympic Games open at Mexico City,
Mexico
1969 - 1st
time 5 people in space
1973 - Nixon
nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP
1975 - Archbishop
Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries
1976 - Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Zedong as chairman
of Communist Party
1984 - IRA
bombs hotel where British PM Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die
1986
- Elizabeth II & Prince Philip, visit the People's Republic of
China
2000 - The
USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen
2012 - The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace
Prize
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Our
discussion groups meet tonight to discuss ‘Water in AZ’. Lots of studies have
been done regarding our ongoing drought. It is not an anomaly if one looks at
the entire history of the region, but this is one of our longest. Should be
enlightening.
We
started out with a very sunny, warm day so I decided it would be a good day to
plant some new bulbs. As I was working the clouds rolled in and there were a
few droplets of rain. The bulbs won’t come out until early spring and
mid-spring, but I can easily wait.
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Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Below are incomplete
words. Place four (4) letters in each bracket so that you can complete the word
on the left and begin the word on the right. Good luck.
dar (_ _ _ _) er
but (_ _ _ _) ish
disap (_ _ _ _) ly
cove (_ _ _ _) ing
sp (_ _ _ _) ings
sin (_ _ _ _) al
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Brain
Facts…
After age
30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
***NEW***Children
Facts…
In Japan,
there are more pets than there are children.
Computer
Facts…
The
world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His
next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning
electro-mechanical computer.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS
AGO
Richard
Hoffman was arrested on Saturday for the theft of five chickens and
charged with petty theft. He was given 10 days in the county jail by Justice of
the Peace Max Miller and must pay for the chickens within 30 days or be jailed
for another 20 days.
The Santa
Fe plans to doubletrack the main line between Double Track Junction and Joseph
City in a $21 million project that includes new boxcars, coal cars, flat
cars, refrigerator cars, gondolas and freight cars. This project also includes
large steel bridges at LeDoux Wash and Rio Puerco.
Harper’s
Index…
Percentage
change since 1980 in the number of private security guards employed in the US:
+100
***NEW***Law
Facts…
In 2011,
Russia acknowledged beer as an alcoholic beverage. Before then, any drink under
10% volume was considered a soft drink.
In
Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig, because they are prone
to loneliness.
Rules of
Thumb…
GAMBLING
TIPS
To calculate the odds of getting a certain roll from
a pair of dice, take the difference between the number you want and 7, then
subtract the result from 6. This will tell you how many chances in 12 you have
of winning.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Geologists believe
that about half the unmined gold in the world is in South Africa.
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Joke-of-the-day
A
famous lawyer, who had been a public defender for years, dies. He finds himself
standing at the back of an enormous queue outside the gates of Heaven. The
queue before him is enormous. The number of people who die in a single day
appalls him. He can barely see St Peter sitting up on a podium outside the
gates with a large book. Every now and then St Peter glances down the queue to
see how he is going. Suddenly he catches the eye of the lawyer. He looks very
surprised. He jumps down from the podium and comes running along the line until
slightly out of breath he arrives beside the lawyer. He embraces him. He pulls
him out of the queue and motions for him to come to the front of the queue.
Another person questions what is happening and another angel speaks to the
person. Word is passed along the queue and the lawyer is surprised, as people
start nodding and clapping. He becomes embarrassed by all the attention and
asks St Peter why he is getting the special attention.
St Peter stops suddenly and looks concerned.
"You are a lawyer aren't you?'
"Yes" the lawyer replies. "Does this happen to all lawyers in
heaven?"
"Oh, no, "Said St Peter. "It's just you are the first one to
ever get here."
Yep, It
Really Happened
NEWRY,
Maine (UPI) - Organizers of the North American Wife Carrying Championship in
Maine said the winner will receive their wife's weight in beer and five times
her weight in cash. The organizers announced the Oct. 11 competition at the
Sunday River Resort in Newry will feature a 278-yard obstacle course and the
fastest finisher will receive their wife's weight in beer and five times the
woman's weight in cash as a prize. The event will also offer prizes for the
team with the greatest combined weight and the spousal pairing with the
greatest combined age. The Wife Carrying Championship was inspired by 19th
century outlaw Herkko Rosvo-Ronkainen, who legend holds would lead raids on
towns in Finland and he and his henchmen would carry off women they chose as
their brides. The legends inspired Sonkajarvi, Finland, to host the first Wife
Carrying World Championships in 1992.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Shopping online was
not so commonplace back to 1990. Jeff Bezos was clearly an optimist because he
gave up his career in New York and set up a website called Amazon.com to sell
books from his garage.
Bezos decided to make
his website more user-friendly by adding a feature that allowed customers to
write reviews about books they had bought and read.
That was considered
to be the starting point of massive orders and Amazon.com was soon selling 100
books per day.
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Did you know that the
vast majority of homes in South Korea have cheap and fast internet access?
According to the head
of the country’s main internet addiction counselling center, Korea has been
very aggressive in promoting the Internet.
A study carried out
in Seoul demonstrated that 30 per cent of South Koreans under 18 are at risk of
internet addiction, spending a minimum of two hours a day playing games or
chatting online.
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Since fresh air is in
short supply in China a philanthropist called Chen Guangbiao, put it in cans
and started selling it!
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
--- 4-12
Albuquerque
International Balloon Fiesta
Fall Astronomy Week
World Space 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
--- 10-16
Take Your
Medicine Americans Week
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Today’s
Events through History
1654 - The
Delft Explosion (gunpowder) devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing
more than 100
1773 - America's
first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in
Virginia
1933 - George Francis Barnes, aka Machine Gun
Kelly, is sentenced to life
1963 - At 4 am, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on
each deck
1966 - Jimi
Hendrix Experience forms
1991 - Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN
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Birthday’s
Today
Dick
Gregory, comedian/political activist/dietician (Bahamian Diet) is 81
Chris
Wallace, newscaster (NBC Weekend News) is 67
Susan
Anton, actress (Golden Girl, Spring Fever) is 64
Sally
Little, Cape Town, LPGA golfer (1982 Dinah Shore) is 63
Adam Rich, actor
(Nicholas-8 is Enough) is 46
Hugh
Jackman, Australian actor and singer (X-men) is 46
Nancy Ann
Kerrigan, figure skater (Olympics-silver-1994) is 45
Kirk
Cameron, actor (Mike-Growing Pains) is 44
Marion
Jones, track and field athlete/drug cheat (5 forfeited Olympic medals) is
39
Bode
Miller, Olympic alpine ski-racer is 37
Josh
Hutcherson, actor (The Hunter Games) is 22
Remembered
for being born today
Edward VI, Tudor,
King of England (1537-1553)
Luciano
Pavarotti, operatic tenor (3 Tenors), (1935-2007)
William
Raspberry, columnist (Pulitzer 1994), (1935-2012)
Lane
Frost, professional bull rider, (1963-1989)
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Historical
Obits Today
Ray
Conniff, bandleader and musician, 2002, @85
Joan Kroc,
American philanthropist (NPR), brain cancer, 2003, @75
Johnny
Olsen, TV announcer (Price is Right), stroke. 1985, @75
Willie
Shoemaker, jockey, 2003, @72
Jay Ward,
cartoonist (Rocky & His Friends), kidney cancer, 1989, @69
Elizabeth
Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist, stroke, 1845, @65
Wilt
Chamberlain, basketball player, congestive heart failure, 1999, @63
Susan
Sutherland Isaacs, educational psychologist, cancer, 1948, @63
Robert E.
Lee, US General of Confederate Army, stroke, 1870, @63
Tom Mix,
American actor (Texan), car accident, 1940, @60
Giovanni
Battista Vitali, composer, 1692, @60
Sonja
Henie, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1928, 32, 36), leukemia, 1969, @57
John
Denver, country music star, plane crash, 1997, @53
Matthew
Shepard, hate crime victim, 1998, @21
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Brain
Teasers
darling -
linger
butcher - cherish
disappear - pearly
covering - ringing
splash - lashings
sincere - cereal
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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…§
