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Almanac: Week: 47 \ Day: 320
November
Averages: 51° \ 22°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Admission Day (Oklahoma-1907-46th)
Day of Declaration of Sovereignty (Estonia-1988)
++
Button Day
Have a Party With Your Bear Day
International
Day for Tolerance
National Educational Support Professionals
Day
World Day
of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
Observances This
Week:
National Donor Sabath: 14-16
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1676 - 1st colonial prison organized, Nantucket Mass
1764 - Native Americans surrender to British in
Indian War of Chief Pontiac
1771 - West Indian Company & Amsterdam divide
up Suriname
1811 -
Tecumseh predicts a "light across the sky" tonight. appeared, as
predicted 1824 - NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
1835 - Charles Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge
Philosophical Society
1894 - 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in
Kurdistan
1914 - Federal Reserve System formally opens
1920 - 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford
Conn
1925 - American Association for Advancement of
Atheism forms (NY)
1938 - LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist
Dr. Albert Hofmann in Switzerland
1939 - Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
1945 - UNESCO is founded
1948 - Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from
Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
1950 - Harry Truman proclaims emergency crisis
caused by communist threat
1963 - Touch-tone telephone introduced
1968 - Derry Citizens Action Committee defies a ban;
15,000 march in Derry
1969 - 1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai S
Vietnam, by US is 1st reported
1973 - US Presidennt Richard Nixon authorizes
construction of Alaskan pipeline
1989 - 6 Jesuit priests are killed by El
Salvadorian troops
1993 - Russian President Yeltsin
shuts Lenin museum
2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S.
President to visit Vietnam since end of War
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Hmmm, another chilly, windy, overcast day. Enough already. At
least there should be some precip to make this dreary weather worth something.
I read the articles on Ebola’s impact. Not only is there the human
cost of this epidemic, there is a huge economic cost to three very poor
countries. With most of the world running for cover away from these countries,
their health care systems have fallen apart…not good for stopping the Ebola
virus. Then all the schools...from early childhood to college have been shut
down…not good for the future of these poor countries. While several countries and organizations,
including the US and UN and Red Cross have made some decent promises, the
actual aid is slow in coming. It is a
very bleak picture for three countries that most of the world knows little
about. Should be an interesting discussion tonight.
Today became technology day…again. I spent 25 minutes on the phone
with iTunes to figure out why I couldn’t get my newly downloaded songs to
download. She couldn’t figure it out, but showed me a work around. At least I
know what to do now for the next time.
Then it was time to tackle Expedia and my Christmas trip. I have
used Expedia for most of my US flights. My Christmas trip to Merida was not
showing up on my itinerary…but I could locate it by typing in a very long number.
The flight is OK. Turns out I didn’t sign in to Expedia when I made the flight
so it shows up as a ‘guest’ flight under my email address. Their magic
technology will not let them change it to my actual account, so whenever I need
to verify something, I have to type in that number. So I saved the number in an
app on my phone, and I can copy and paste that long number into the Expedia app
to get the information. Lesson leaned.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
common phrase is represented by this rebus?
ccollaboratorrmateicomrademaccomplicee
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Dog Facts…
—Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front
feet.
—The average cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of
eleven is $16,400 US
England
Facts…
—"Big Ben" in London isn't a tower, the bell inside the
tower is called "Big Ben", the tower itself is called "The
Elizabeth Tower".
—Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children
after an accident.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
—David Goodfellow, who lives at the famous Natural Bridge, brought
us a box of apples that were monstrous in size and unexcelled quality that were
grown on top of the natural wonder.
—John Taylor and Mr. Brown captured on their third try a
9-foot mountain lion that had killed a young colt, using a trap with the
colt carcass as bait.
Hair
Facts…
—Redheads require up to 20% more anesthesia to be knocked out.
—The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
Harper’s
Index…
Portion of US school superintendents who approve of physically
restraining children as punishment: 1/5
Internet
Facts…
—A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over
the internet.
—IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on
Usenet in 1990 as a list of "actresses with beautiful eyes".
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
The Transportation Security Administration gave travelers at
airports more reasons to gripe this past year. Among their indiscretions: A
95-year-old leukemia patient was forced to remove her adult diaper for a
pat-down; A teenager was told that the pistol design on her purse was a federal
offense; A Bangladeshi tourist had $5,000 stolen from his jacket as it went
through an X-ray conveyor belt.
Rules of
Thumb…
USING
A CHAINSAW
Plan on spending
half an hour of maintenance for each two hours of chainsaw use.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Grand
Duke Francesco I of Tuscany (1541-1587) promised his clever mistress, Bianca
Cappello, that he would marry her—but only if she bore him a son. Not willing
to let anything get in her way, the barren Bianca simply pretended to be
pregnant for nine months. She then adopted the newborn son of an unmarried
girl, smuggled the infant into her bedroom, and secured the crown.
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Joke-of-the-day
An obnoxious drunk stumbles into the front
door of a bar and orders a drink, the bartender says, "No way buddy you're
too drunk."
A few minutes later the drunk comes in through
the bathrooms, again he slurs, "give me a drink", bartender says
"No man I told you last time you're too drunk"
Five minutes later the guy comes in through
the back door and orders a drink, again the bartender says, "You're too
drunk"
The drunk scratches his head and says
"Damn I must be... the last two places said the same thing."
Yep, It
Really Happened
COLORADO SPRINGS (UPI) - A Colorado family said several children
ages 2-8 were mistakenly served the alcoholic versions of drinks at a Joe's
Crab Shack location. The Montoya family said they went to the Colorado Springs
restaurant with visiting relatives and six children, ages 2-8, ordered the
alcohol-free "Shark Nibble" mixed drinks from the menu. Family
members said a waitress came to their table about 30 minutes after the drinks
were delivered to inform the family they had mistakenly received alcoholic
"Shark Bite" drinks. One of the children, a 2-year-old girl, had
already finished her drink, which contained Bacardi Limon rum, Skyy vodka, blue
Curacao and grenadine. The family said the children were examined by Colorado
Springs paramedics before being sent home. Joe's Crab Shack's corporate office
released a statement in response to the incident. "Joe's Crab Shack is
aware of this incident at the Colorado Springs Location, and we are
investigating this matter internally. We do not condone underage service of any
kind. Our guests can rest assured that our processes are continuously examined
so that incidents like this are avoided." Colorado Springs Police said the
incident is under investigation by the department's liquor team.
Somewhat
Useless Information
—Arms
akimbo (a standing person whose extended arms are out in a V pattern with the
hands placed on the hips, thumbs backward) is a powerful territorial display
that is used to establish dominance or indicate that there are
"issues." Women tend to use arms akimbo less often than men.
—The
"hooding affect" is a powerful territorial display among humans.
Interlaced hands behind the head are indicative of comfort and dominance.
Usually the senior person at a meeting will pose or "hood" this way.
—Fingertips
planted and spread apart on a surface are a significant territorial display of
confidence and authority.
—Hand-steepling
may be the most powerful high-confidence hand gesture. It involves touching the
spread fingertips of both hands in a gesture similar to praying hands, but the
fingers are not interlocked and the palms may not be touching. In the U.S.,
women tend to steeple low (at the waist), while men tend to steeple at chest
level.
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Today’s
Events through History
534 - Second and final revision of the Codex
Justinianus is published
1801 - First edition of New York Evening Post
1841 - Life preservers made of cork are patented by
Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
1957 - Celtic Bill Russell sets NBA
record of 49 rebounds beat Phila 111-89
1965 - Disney launches Epcot Center: Experimental
Prototype Community of Tomorrow
Birthday’s
Today
Clu
Gulager, Holdenville Oklahoma, actor (Virginian) is 86
David
Leisure, actor (Charley-Empty Nest) is 64
Marg
Helgenberger, actress (China Beach) is 56
Dwight
Gooden, pitcher (NY Yankees, NY Mets) is 50
Dean
McDermott, Canadian actor (Tori and Dean) is 48
Lisa
Bonet, actress (Cosby Show) is 47
Oksana
Baiul, Ukraine, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1994) is 37
Maggie
Gyllenhaal, actress (The Dark Knight) is 37
Remembered
for being born today
David
Kalakaua of Hawaii, Hawaiian king (1836-1891)
Henri
[Ferdinand M J] Bosco, French
author/poet (Gogol) (1888-1976)
Burgess
Meredith, actor (Rocky), (1907-1997)
Chinua
Achebe, Nigerian author (Christmas in Biafra), (1930-2013)
Guy
Stockwell, actor (Chris-Adventures in Paradise) (1934-2002)
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Historical
Obits Today
Milton
Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 2006, @94
Cluny
MacPherson, Canadian inventor of the gas mask, 1966, @ 87
Sam
Rayburn, Speaker of the House for 17 years, cancer, 1961, @ 79
Bob Smith, doctor,
co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous, cancer, 1950, @71
Clark
Gable, actor (Gone With the Wind), heart attack, 1960, @59
Moses
Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio, 1806, @52
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Brain Teasers Answers
"Partners-in-crime"
Synonyms of "partner" are in the word "CRIME":
C collaborator R mate I comrade M accomplice E.
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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…§
