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Almanac: Day: 289
/ Week: 42
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Bosses Day
Conflict Resolution
Day
Department Store Day
Dictionary Day
Get Smart About
Credit Day
Get to Know Your
Customers Day
International Credit
Union Day
National Feral Cat
Day
Spirit Day
World Food Day
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1841 - Queens
University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is chartered
1846 - Dentist
William T Morton demonstrates effectiveness of ether
1847 - Charlotte
Bronte's book "Jane Eyre" published
1848 - 1st
US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
1859 - John
Brown leads 21 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va
1869 - Hotel
in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing
1875
- Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah
1916
- Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (46 Amboy St, Bkln)
1923 - Disney
Brothers Cartoon Studio founded
1925 - Texas School Board prohibits teaching of
evolution
1934 - Mao
Zedong & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March
1941 - "Gordo"
comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers
1942 - Natl Boxing Association freezes titles of
those serving in armed services
1946 - 10
Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
1950 – 1st
edition of C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"
released
1962
- Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK becomes aware of missiles
in Cuba
1968 - During Olympics Tommie Smith & John
Carlos give black power salute
1968 - The People's Democracy (PD), formed on Oct 9,
organize a march of 1,300 students from the Queen's University of Belfast to
the City Hall in the center of the city, Northern Ireland
1984 - Baboon
heart transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl
1978
- Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected Pope John Paul II
1984 - Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins
Nobel Peace Prize
1993 - IRA bomb attack on fish & chips
restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed
1995 - Million Man March held in Wash DC (over
800,000 black men attend)
2013 - US ends its 16-day government shut
down-avoids default
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Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Kinda an overcast day…no moisture, just lots of greyish clouds but
warm...a little odd.
This Ebola thing is really ramping up the news media. I get it,
Texas is not exempt from mistakes, just because they are Texas. To all those ‘isolationists’
out there that don’t want us dealing with world problems need to shut their
mouths and open up the pocketbook. No area of the world, except maybe
Antarctica, is going to be free of the possibility of having someone show up
with Ebola. The only way to stop this outbreak is to get to where it has
started. And then to get the money needed to find either a vaccine or a way to
stop it. The world has known about Ebola for decades. All the previous
outbreaks have been small, by global standards, and mostly in Africa…the Dark
Continent that few Americans know anything about. Since colonization basically
ended in the 1960’s, there has been little seen in Africa worth the time and
money needed to help/exploit. What a sad
commentary that the world will be dealing with for decades ahead. The latest
figures show 1000 new cases of Ebola in 3 countries in Africa every week. There
is a projection that this will increase to 10,000 cases a week by December of
this year. If these cases end up in one of the third world countries in our
hemisphere the results will be even more devastating.
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Game Center (answers at
the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Decipher
this:
T
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GO
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Brain
Facts…
The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
The cat brain weighs about 30g.
Children
Facts…
44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.
Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a
McDonald’s restaurant.
Computer
Facts…
E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half
the normal rate of 20.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS
AGO
Facing a meeting filled with protesters, the City Council has
finally given up on its 2-year attempt to erect a shopping center on Fort
Valley Road across from the Museum.
There was a great blowup on Tuesday as the Bertson
Contracting Co. ignited 3,000 pounds of explosives blowing up the old Country
Club bridge. The new bridge is already underway.
Harper’s
Index…
Percentage of the world’s 25 largest news organizations that have
been targeted by state-backed hackers: 84
Law
Facts…
John F. Kennedy ordered over 1,000 Cuban cigars for personal use
just hours before he made them illegal.
In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33
states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
Rules of
Thumb…
PLANNING A NEWS BROADCAST
A half-hour network
news broadcast reduced to type will fill about half the front page of a
newspaper.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The
length of your ring finger in comparison to your index finger indicates the
amount of testosterone you were exposed to as a fetus. Longer ring fingers
equates to more testosterone.
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Joke-of-the-day
Wife: “There’s trouble with the car. It has
water in the carburetor.”
Husband: “Water in the carburetor? That’s ridiculous.”
Wife: “I tell you the car has water in the carburetor.”
Husband: “You don’t even know what a carburetor is. Where’s the car?”
Wife: “In the swimming pool.”
Yep, It
Really Happened
EDINBURGH, Scotland (UPI) - Daniela Liverani, of Edinburgh,
Scotland, came home from a trip to Vietnam with an unpleasant souvenir up her
nose. The 24-year-old backpacker suffered frequent nosebleeds after a
motorcycle accident, and assumed that a dark protrusion sticking out of her
nostril was congealed blood. "When I was in the shower, he would come
right out as far as my bottom lip and I could see him sticking out the bottom
of my nose," Liverani told The Daily Mail on Sunday.
"So when that happened, I jumped out of the shower to look
really closely in the mirror and I saw ridges on him. That's when I realized he
was an animal." Liverani rushed to the hospital, where doctors spent half
an hour pulling a three-inch leech out of her nose.
"It was agony -- whenever the doctor grabbed him, I could
feel the leech tugging at the inside of my nose," she said. A doctor told
Liverani that the leech -- which she could have picked up while swimming in
Vietnam -- might have eventually made its way into her brain.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Christopher
Columbus wasn't the first European to find the Americas, as he set foot on
islands in the Bahamas. Technically, Columbus never entered North America and
never knew he discovered a continent. And even if he had set foot in 1492, the
Native Americans were already in America and the region is believed to have
been discovered 500 years before Christopher Columbus' birth by Norse explorer
Leif Erikson.
***
While
the federal holiday is called Columbus Day in the United States, it is called
Dia de la Raza ("Day of the Race") in many Latin American countries.
In the US, four states do not recognize Columbus Day. Those states are Hawaii,
Alaska, Oregon and South Dakota. Instead, Hawaii celebrates Discoverers' Day,
South Dakota celebrates the day as Native American Day and Oregon does not
recognize or commemorate the day. Other states, like Nevada and Iowa, do not
celebrate the day as an official holiday.
***
You are not at risk for Ebola infection unless you are in direct contact with
bodily fluids of someone with Ebola while they have viral symptoms such as
fever, vomiting, and cough. New infections come from close contact with an
infected person, especially with blood, body fluids, or contaminated needles,
late in the disease when viral levels are high.
The flu virus, on the other hand, is highly contagious: When an infected person
coughs, sneezes or talks, respiratory droplets are generated and transmitted
into the air, and can then can be inhaled by anyone nearby.
***
The single deadliest flu pandemic in history was the Spanish flu pandemic
during 1918-1919. Occurring in the three waves of increasing lethality, the
Spanish flu killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS did in 24 years. It also
killed more people in one year than smallpox or the Black Plague did in 50
years.
The Spanish flu killed more Americans in one year than the combined total who
died in battle during WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
--- 10-16
Take Your Medicine Americans Week
--- 12-18
Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week
Earth Science Week
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
National Chestnut Week
National Food Bank Week
Teen Read Week
Veterinary Technicians Week
YWCA Week Without Violence
World Rainforest Week
National School Lunch Week
YWCA Week Without Violence
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Today’s
Events through History
1834 - Much
of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster (parliament) in London
is burnt down
1942 - Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000
south of Calcutta India
1956 - William J Brennan Jr becomes a Supreme Court
Justice
1970 - Anwar
Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
1973 - Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded
Nobel peace prize
1987 - 175-kph
winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England
1990 - US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf
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Birthday’s
Today
Angela
Lansbury, London, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote) is 89
Barry
Corbin, actor (Maurice-Northern Exposure) is 74
Suzanne
Somers, actress (3's Company) is 68
Tim
Robbins, actor (Shawshank Redemption) is 56
Flea,
[Michael Balzary], bassist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) is 52
Remembered
for being born today
Noah
Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary) (1758-1843)
William
Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (1795-1876)
Oscar
Wilde, [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray) (1854-1900)
David
Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (1886-1973)
Eugene
O'Neill, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936) (1888-1953)
Michael
Collins, Irish revolutionary leader (1890-1922)
William O
Douglas, 81st Supreme Court justice (1898-1980)
[Leon] Goose Goslin,
baseball hall of famer (1900-1971)
Alice
Pearce, comedienne/actress (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched) (1917-1966)
Charles W
Colson, presidential adviser (Watergate figure) (1931-2012)
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Historical
Obits Today
Marie
Antoinette, Queen of France, beheaded, 1793, @37
Leo G
Carroll, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle), 1972, @80
Gene
Krupa, US swing drummer (Sing Sing Sing), cancer, 1973, @64
Dan
Dailey, dancer and actor, anemia, 1978, @62
George
Marshall, US army general (Marshall Plan, WWII), 1959, @78
Moshe
Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, heart attack, 1981, @66
Cornel
Wilde, actor (Gargoyles), cancer, 1989, @74
Tennessee
Ernie Ford, country singer (16 Tons), liver failure, 1991, @72
Shirley
Booth, actress (Hazel), 1992, @94
Audra
Lindley, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers), cancer, 1997, @79
James A. Mitchner, author
(Hawaii), 1997, @90
Jean
Shepherd, American writer and actor, 1999, @79
Pierre Salinger, JFK’s White
House Press Secretary, heart failure, 2004, @79
Deborah
Kerr, Scottish actress, 2007, @86
Barbara
Billingsley, actress (June Cleaver-Leave It To Beaver), 2010, @94
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Brain Teasers Answers
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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.
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