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Almanac: Week: 47 \ Day: 325
November
Averages: 51° \ 22°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Alascattalo
Day (About Alaska & humor)
Beaujolais
Nouveau Day-yearly vintage release of the French Red Wine
False Confession Day
World Hello Day
World
Television Day
Observances This
Week:
National Farm-City Week:
21-27
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1620 - Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape
Cod
1787 - Andrew Jackson admitted to bar
1789 - North Carolina ratifies constitution,
becomes 12th US state
1794 - Honolulu Harbor discovered
1847 - Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake
Michigan, kills 200
1871 - The first human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is
shot
1906 - China prohibits opium trade
1922 - Rebecca L Felton (Ga) sworn in as first
female US Senator
1940 - Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in
Netherlands
1942 - Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in
"Tale of Two Kitties"
1946 - Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to
travel in a submerged sub
1964 - World's longest suspension bridge
"Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC)
1973 - Pres Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt,
reveals presence of 18½ minute gap
1977 – 1st
flight of Concorde (London to New York)
1980 - Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode
(Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill) in the US
1981 - 400,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against
cruise missiles
1989 - Law banning smoking on most domestic flights
signed by President Bush
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice late fall day here in Flag, with no controlled burns so we
had a nice blue sky.
Lunch was nice with our retiree group. Mary is headed to Phx for
Thanksgiving with her in-laws and her kids—2 meals on Thursday. Hmmm. Cheryl is
headed to CA to be with her son and his family. She leaves Tuesday and gets
back sometime Saturday. Cheryl is really happy with her new hearing aids but
admits it does take some getting used to. Mary’s brother visited Phoenix last
weekend so we saw lots of pics from his visit with his wife. They had a good
time.
Tomorrow I have a follow up with my PCP to see if everything is
still on track with cutting down on a medication I don’t need. Should be a
quick visit.
I will be listening to Obama’s speech on immigration tonight.
Anxious to see what he says. The Far Right is predicting chaos throughout the
country…doubt if that will happen.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I
had a mistress, with beauty and grace,
With a curious hand and fair of face.
She was the first on earth, and made of clay.
I was a gift to Epimethius on their wedding day.
The Gods, they warned her to let me be.
But none of their warnings did she heed.
You see, my mistress was alone one day,
When to me her inquisitive hand did stray.
She gave you sickness, destruction, and greed,
And all of the things from which evil does feed.
But do not be angry, do not mope.
The last she gave you? It was hope.
What am I and who was my mistress?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
England
Facts…
—Prince William's nickname in college was "P-Willy".
—Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation
(over twenty times more than Americans)
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS
AGO
The cops are getting tough on the student parties drawing large
crowds with their high volume music, underage alcohol consumption and general
disturbing of the peace as well as the increase in the number of traffic
accidents ensuing from these activities.
Hair
Facts…
—Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
—Human hair and fingernails appear to grow after death; it is the
shrinking of the skin as it dehydrates.
Harper’s
Index…
Chance that a US Google employee is black: 1 in 50
Internet
Facts…
—In October 1997, when Internet Explorer 4.0 was released, some
Microsoft employees left a giant "From the IE team... We Love You" on
Netscape's lawn.
—The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in
2011.
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
Consider the case of the young man caught relieving
himself in a reservoir in Portland, Oregon. Disgusting? Yes. As the guy himself
admitted, he should have known better. But the same goes for the city. In
reaction to a pint of fluid, it drained the entire reservoir – eight million
gallons. What do the bureaucrats think the fish are doing in there?
Pilgrim
Fact…
The First
Thanksgiving
That initial Thanksgiving, in 1621, was a three-day celebration of
the first successful harvest, bringing together Pilgrims, Native Americans, and
a bounty of food. The meal included venison, a large number of turkeys and waterfowl,
cod, and bass — plus the harvest, which consisted of wheat, corn, barley, and
perhaps peas. On top of that, there were foods native to the area, like clams,
mussels, lobster, eel, ground nuts, acorns, black walnuts, chestnuts, squashes,
and beans, along with fruits and berries such as strawberries, raspberries,
grapes, and gooseberries that were growing wild. Now that’s a feast!
Rules of
Thumb…
PRODUCING
CHAMPAGNE
The amount of
champagne a winery sells in three years is the amount it should have in its
cellars to be properly stocked.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Morse
Code was made for letters, not numbers. In fact, signaling the number
"one" requires five dots and dashes.
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Joke-of-the-day
Maurice an 82 year-old man went to the doctor
for his physical.
A few days later the doctor saw Maurice walking down the street with a gorgeous
young lady on his arm.
A couple of days later do doctor spoke to Maurice and said, “You’re really doing
great, aren’t you?”
Maurice replied, “Just doing what you said, Doc: “Get a hot mamma and be
cheerful.”
The doctor said, “I did not say that. I said, “You got a heart murmur. Be
careful.”
Yep, It
Really Happened
GREENACRES,
Fla. (UPI)
A man in South Florida was arrested Thursday for multiple crimes,
including resisting arrest when he latched onto a nearby tree, according to
authorities. Police say Homer Stacey, 50, acted feisty and confrontational when
officers arrived at his home in response to a disturbance, The Palm Beach Post
reports. An arrest report suggests that Stacey claimed he would cause problems
and that he would get his friends to help. At least one family member told
police that the suspect was drunk, to which Stacey admitted. After Stacey
yelled at one officer, police attempted to arrest him, but he held onto a
nearby palm tree and reportedly yelled, "You're not going to [expletive]
take me!" Police used a Taser on the suspect's ribs. He let go of the tree
and was apprehended, but not before trying unsuccessfully to tackle one
officer. "If you take these cuffs off me, I'm going to kill you!"
Stacey said as he was put into a patrol car, police said. The Greenacres
resident was booked into jail and charged with resisting arrest, disorderly
intoxication and threatening an officer.
Somewhat
Useless Information
—The
"thumbs-up" sign means "good" to Westerners,
"one" to Italians, "five" to Japanese, and "up
yours" in Greece. In Iran, it represents a penis.
—The "hang loose" sign (thumb and little finger extended) means,
"stay cool, relax" in Hawaii, "six" in Japan, and
"would you like a drink?" in Mexico.
—Nodding
the head means "yes" in most societies, but means "no" in
some parts of Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Turkey.
An ear grasp means "I'm sorry" in parts of India. Cupping the ear
means "I can't hear you" in all societies. Pulling the ear means
"you are in my heart" for Navajo Indians.
Somewhat Useful
Information from fivethrityeight.com
FBI Crime Info
—The
FBI’s report recorded 1.16 million violent crimes in the U.S. in 2013, a 4.4
percent decline from 2012 and 37.4 percent decline from 1994. These figures
look even better adjusted for population; per capita violent crime was down 5.1
percent from 2012 and 48.4 percent from 1994.
—According
to the FBI’s newest Uniform Crime Report (UCR), released this week, 461 people
were killed by police in “justifiable homicides” in 2013. This number has
gotten some media attention, both because it’s considered by some to be the
“best authoritative data available” and because it represents an 8 percent jump
in these homicides from 2012.
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• • •
Today’s
Events through History
1807 - Spanish trader
Manuel Lisa builds Fort Raymond at the confluence of the Yellowstone and
Bighorn Rivers
1877 - Tom Edison announces his "talking
machine" invention (phonograph) - first machine to play and record sound
1935 - First commercial crossing of Pacific by
plane (China Clipper)
1959 - Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano)
play their famed duet
Birthday’s
Today
Joseph Campanella, actor
(Dr Steffen-The Nurses, Lou-Mannix) is 90
Marlo Thomas, [Mrs
Phil Donahue], actress-That Girl! is 77
Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, NBA
Guard (Knicks, Bullets) is 70
Goldie Hawn, actress
(Laugh-in, Private Benjamin) is 69
Nicollette Sheridan, actress
(Paige-Knots Landing) is 51
Bjork, Iceland, singer (Like Someone in
Love) is 49
Troy Aikman, NFL
quarterback (Dallas Cowboys - Super Bowl 1992) is 48
Remembered
for being born today
Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, essayist,
philosopher (1694-1778)
Stan Musial, MLB
outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ) (1920-2013)
• • • •
Historical
Obits Today
Anne McCaffrey, sci-fi
author, 2011, @85
Harry Von Zell, TV
announcer (Burns & Allen), cancer, 1981, @75
Robert Stroud,
"bird man of Alcatraz", in prison, 1963, @73
Florence Harding,
American First Lady, renal failure, 1924, @64
Max Baer, US, heavyweight boxing champ (1934),
heart attack, 1959, @49
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Brain Teasers Answers
The poem is written from the point of view of Pandora's Box;
"my mistress" refers to Pandora.
According to Greek mythology, Pandora was created out of clay. Before Pandora,
there were only men on earth. Pandora was fashioned by Zeus as part of his
punishment for Prometheus' theft of the secret of fire. She was gifted with
beauty, grace, musical talent and a gift for healing. Finally, Zeus gave her
curiosity. He gave her as a gift to Epimethius and presented the box as her
dowry, telling them both not to open it. Pandora's curiosity got the better of
her and she opened the box releasing all the evil that is in the world today.
However, some good came from it; at the bottom of the box was hope.
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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…§
