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Almanac: Day: 296
/ Week: 43
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances
Today:
iPod Day-Introduced in 2001
Mother-in-Law Day
National Mole Day
National Pharmacy
Technician Day
Swallows Depart from
San Juan Capistrano Day
TV Talk Show Host Day
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Peace Treaty Day
(Cambodia-1991)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
4004 BC - Creation of the world
begins according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher
1091 - Tornado
(possible T8/F4) demolished the then wooden London Bridge
1641 - Outbreak
of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 - Catholic uprising in Ulster
1760 - 1st
Jewish prayer books printed in US
1814 - 1st
plastic surgery is performed (England)
1824 - 1st
steam locomotive is introduced
1884 - 1st
World Series-Providence (NL) beats NY Mets (AA) 6-0
1915
- 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
1941 - Walt
Disney's "Dumbo" released
1947 - NAACP
petition on racism "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN
1947 -
Dr Carl Cori & Dr Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel
Prizes
1956 - 1st
video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
1958
- Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1983
- 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against cruise missile
1984
- NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Was out doing some running around when NPR interrupted their
broadcast to tell about the shooting in Ottawa, Canada’s parliament building. We
live in such frightening times. So once again, that is all that is on the news.
I ran into the Director of a Rez Charter School that I haven’t
seen for years. We caught up for a few minutes. He is working with the state to
renew his charter for another 15 years…the problem is that test scores are not
where they should be. He said they made great progress, but still not high
enough. So they are into the appeals process. Reminded me how glad I’m out of
the current educational system in this country.
It was a really nice day here in Flagstaff. Able to take a nice
walk up into the forest.
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Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
A
doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive
girl with the unusual name of Pibbles. The bus driver had to go on a long bus
trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Pibbles seven apples. Why?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Dinosaur
Facts…
Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and
sharks.
Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
The smallest known dinosaur is Compsognathus.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 years
ago
At no charge to the city, a seismograph of the Inner Basin is
being done by USGS using instruments used for finding oil
deposits. Results are very encouraging, indicating bedrock at
approximately 180 bedrock below the surface and a water table at 90 feet.
Harper’s
Index…
Request to remove search results Google received in 24 hrs after
the EU court established a ‘right to be forgotten’: 12,000
Halloween
Facts…
-The first known mention of trick-or-treating in print in North
America occurred in 1927 in Blackie, Alberta, Canada.
-“Halloween” is short for “Hallows’ Eve” or “Hallows’ Evening,”
which was the evening before All Hallows’ (sanctified or holy) Day or Hallowmas
on November 1. In an effort to convert pagans, the Christian church decided
that Hallowmas or All Saints’ Day (November 1) and All Souls’ Day (November 2)
should assimilate sacred pagan holidays that fell on or around October 31.
-Black and orange are typically associated with Halloween. Orange
is a symbol of strength and endurance and, along with brown and gold, stands
for the harvest and autumn. Black is typically a symbol of death and darkness
and acts as a reminder that Halloween once was a festival that marked the
boundaries between life and death.
Law
Facts…
-Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility
because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
-In France, by law a bakery has to make all the bread it sells
from scratch in order to have the right to be called a bakery.
Rules of
Thumb…
WEARING
A TREAD
A pair of shoes is
good for 1,000 miles. A pair of bicycle tires is good for 4,000 miles.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The
first rhinoplasty was performed in India around the 5th century CE. It involved
a creeper vine leaf, a hunk of flesh sliced off of the patient’s cheek, and two
small pipes to serve as nostrils. The procedure was wildly popular—albeit
involuntary. At the time, Hindu law decreed that the schnozzes be sliced off
all adulterers and—human nature being what it is—that turned out to include an
awful lot of people.
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Joke-of-the-day
Q. How many programmers does it take to change
a light bulb?
A. None. That's a hardware issue.
Yep, It
Really Happened
PAW PAW,
Mich. (UPI)
Police in Michigan said an alleged drunk driver pulled into the
county jail parking lot and thought she had arrived at another bar. The Van
Buren County Sheriff's Office said the 39-year-old Hartford woman, whose name
was not released, pulled into the county jail parking lot just after 2 a.m.
Sunday and was seen trying to convince her boyfriend to get back into her
vehicle. Deputies said the woman smelled heavily of alcohol and a breathalyzer test
indicated her blood alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit of .08.
Police said the woman admitted to investigators she had been out drinking at a
bar and she had believed the parking lot was for another bar. The sheriff's
office said the woman is expected to face drunken driving related charges.
Somewhat
Useless Information
-Pumpkins
are a member of the gourd family, which includes cucumbers, honeydew melons,
cantaloupe, watermelons and zucchini. These plants are native to Central
America and Mexico, but now grow on six continents.
-In 1584, after French explorer Jacques Cartier explored the St. Lawrence
region of North America, he reported finding "gros melons." The name
was translated into English as "pompions," which has since evolved into
the modern "pumpkin."
-Pumpkin seeds should be planted between the last week of May and the middle of
June. They take between 90 and 120 days to grow and are picked in October when
they are bright orange in color. Their seeds can be saved to grow new pumpkins
the next year.
-A carved pumpkin illuminated by candles is known as a 'jack-o-lantern'. The
tradition is believed to have come from Ireland, where they used to carve faces
into turnips, beet and other root vegetables as part of the Gaelic festival of
Samhain.
-The largest pumpkin pie ever made was over five feet in diameter and weighed
over 350 pounds. It used 80 pounds of cooked pumpkin, 36 pounds of sugar, 12
dozen eggs and took six hours to bake.
-In early colonial times, pumpkins were used as an ingredient for the crust of
pies, not the filling.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
--- 17-24
Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
--- 19-25
Bullying Bystanders Unite Week
Freedom From Bullies Week
International Infection Prevention Week
Mediation Week
National Character Counts Week
National Chemistry Week
National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week
National Forest Products Week
National Friends of Libraries Week
National Hospital and Health-System Pharmacy Week
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week
National Massage Therapy Week
National Respiratory Care Week
National Save For Retirement Week
Pastoral Care Week
Red Ribbon Week
Ally Week
--- 20-26
Freedom of Speech Week
Medical Assistants Recognition Week
National Health Education Week
National Nuclear Science Week
National School Bus Safety Week
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Today’s
Events through History
1910 - Blanche
Scott became first woman solo a public airplane flight
1935
- Chophouse Massacre: Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard
"Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot
1963 - Neil
Simon's "Barefoot in the Park" premieres in NYC
1970
- Charles Haughey and two others are found not guilty of illegal arms
importation by a Dublin jury; the 'Arms Trial' began on 28 May 1970
1977
- Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 34-billion-year-old
one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered
1981 - US
national debt hits $1 trillion
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Birthday’s
Today
Chi Chi
Rodriguez, PGA golfer is 79
Ang Lee,
Taiwanese-born director (Brokeback Mountain) is 60
Dwight
Yoakam, country singer (Honky Tonk Man) is 58
Weird Al
Yankovic [Alfred Matthew], parody singer (Naked Gun) is 55
Ryan
Reynolds, Canadian actor and comedian is 38
Remembered
for being born today
John
Russell Bartlett, American linguist (1805-1886)
Adlai
Stevenson, 23rd VP (1835-1914)
John Heisman, pioneering football
coach/trophy namesake (1869-1936)
Gummo [Milton]
Marx, actor\comedian (Marx Brothers)
(1893-1977)
Johnny
Carson, comedian (Tonight Show, Who Do You Trust) (1925-2005)
Michael
Crichton, novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker), (1942-2008)
Randy
Pausch, American computer science professor, author (1960-2008)
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Historical
Obits Today
John
McCarthy, American computer scientist and pioneer in Artificial
Intelligence, 2011, @84
John B
Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), 1921, @81
Maybelle
Carter, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), long illness, 1978, @69
Zane Grey, US
western writer (Spirit of the Border), heart failure, 1939, @67
Al Jolson, [Asa
Yoelson], singer/actor (Jazz Singer), heart attack, 1950, @64
Christian
Dior, French designer (New Look), heart attack, 1957, @52
Jessica
Savage, newscaster (NBC Weekend), auto accident, 1983, @36
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Brain Teasers Answers
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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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…§
