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Almanac: Week: 47 \ Day: 326
November
Averages: 51° \ 22°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Independence Day (Lebanon-1943-from France)
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Family
Volunteer Day
Go For a Ride Day
International
Aura Awareness Day
National Adoption Day Humane Society Anniversary Day
National
Survivors of Suicide Day
Observances This
Week:
National Farm-City Week:
21-27
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1842 - Mount
St Helens in Washington erupts
1903 - Franklin
Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt are engaged
1906 - International
Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1919 - Labor
conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day & 48-hour week
1927 - 1st
snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc)
1927 - Neil
Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250 W 52nd St NYC
1928 - "Bolero"
by Maurice Ravel first performed publicly (Paris)
1930 - 1st
Irish Sweepstake run
1934 - "Santa
Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show
1954 - Humane
Society forms
1956 - 16th
modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
1957 - Simon &
Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom & Jerry"
1963 - President John
F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
1963 - Lyndon B.
Johnson sworn in as the 36th US president
1965 - "Man
of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC for 2329 perfs
1968 - 1st
interracial TV kiss (Star Trek-Kirk & Uhura)
1968 - Terence
O'Neill, then Northern Ireland Prime Minister, announced a package of reform
measures granting concessions to the Catholic minority, in response to protest
movement
1974 - UN General
Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty
1976 - Comic strip
"Cathy" by Cathy Guisewhite debuts
1977 – 1st three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected,
eventually became the Internet
1984 - Fred
Rogers of PBS "Mr Rogers Neighborhood" presents a sweater to
Smithsonian Institution
1989 - Conjunction
of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & Moon
1995 - Toy Story is
released as the first feature-length film created completely using
computer-generated imagery
2005 - Angela
Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
A decent cool fall day. Still trying to get used to the much
cooler temps.
I woke up this morning and was shocked, I say shocked, to find out
that our country had NOT deteriorated into anarchy as was suggested by a right
wind Senator yesterday. Obama made a passionate, sensible speech to help out
millions of innocent children caught up in our broken immigration system. It
didn’t solve the problem, but will give the do nothing Congress one more chance
to fix the mess.
My medical appointment went well, but the Dr. was upset with me
for not getting the Pneumonia shot
when I got my flu shot. Turns out they now have two shots, one this year, one
next year, then no more for a long time. I stopped at the pharmacy and got the
first shot. Can’t get the next one until next year in November, but marked it
on my calendar so I don’t forget. My next appointment will be a ‘wellness’ checkup
as suggested and paid for by Medicare for us old-er folks. He says it’s a bunch
of multiple choice questions, his nurse says it takes about 2 hours…can’t wait.
My usual appointments take about an hour with the doctor, teaching me things to
watch out for.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
does this rebus represent?
shadddes
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
**NEW**Actor
Facts…
—Jim Carrey was offered the role of the 8th doctor in Doctor Who,
but he declined.
—Yoda in Star Wars and Miss Piggy in The Muppets were voiced by
the same person.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS
AGO
—The current drought has brought new low levels in many lakes. At
Lake Powell, where artificial habitats for fish have been in place for many
years, they are now exposed, unsightly and a hazard to boaters.
—The U. S. Forest Service has made available for personal use
only, 100 cords of green aspen firewood at $10 a cord in the Mormon Lake
District. Cutting permit required.
Harper’s
Index…
Number of film companies that have aksed the FAA for permits to
use drones: 7
Internet
Facts…
—The Gmail logo was designed the night before it was launched.
—Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
In Germany, until recently, one could deduct bribes. All that was
required was the names of the briber and the bribed. Americans are a bit more
creative when it comes to avoiding taxes: A dog owner tried to
deduct the cost of a dog walker by using a day care tax credit. An exotic
dancer wrote off breast-enlargement surgery, saying it was a business expense.
A Pittsburgh furniture-store owner paid an arsonist $10,000 to burn down his
business so that he could collect the insurance money. He then tried to deduct
the payment, calling it a consulting fee.
Pilgrim
Fact…
Lemon
Juice
Sickness was a constant threat to the Pilgrims. Scurvy, a nasty
disease caused by a lack of vitamin C, was high on the list. Lemon juice was
taken to help prevent scurvy. Talk about an immune boost.
Rules of
Thumb…
CONSULTING
A consultant should
charge at least three times the rate he or she would expect to receive for
comparable full-time work with fringe benefits.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
—The
Bill of Rights originally consisted of 12 amendments, but only ten were passed.
—The
first one that didn’t pass the states was a formula for setting the number of
Representatives. Had it passed we would now have about 6000 members of the House
of Representatives.
—The
second one that didn’t pass the states was stating that any pay increases to
Congress would not take effect until there had been an election and then the
new Congress would benefit. That amendment passed much later as the 27th
Amendment.
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Joke-of-the-day
Two buddies are fishing, but they haven’t
caught anything all day. Then, another fisherman walks by with a huge load of
fish. They ask him "excuse me, but where did you get all those fish?"
The other fisherman replies,” If you just go down the stream until the water
isn't salty, there are a ton of hungry fish."
They thank him and go on their way. 15 minutes later, one fisherman says to the
other "fill the bucket up with water and see if the water is salty."
He dips the bucket in the stream and drinks some. "Nope. Still
salty." 30 minutes later, he asks him to check again.
"Nope, still salty." One our later they check again. "Nope.
Still salty."
"This isn't good," the fisherman finally says. "We have been
walking for almost two hours and the water is still salty!"
"I know," says the other. "And the bucket is almost empty!"
Yep, It
Really Happened
Deltona,
FL
42-year-old Angela Stoldt of Deltona, Florida is accused of
killing her neighbor, a limousine driver named James Sheaffer, last year.
According to court documents, Sheaffer had come to Stoldt's house to discuss a
delinquent loan he had taken from her father. The discussion apparently was not
going well, so Stoldt served Sheaffer a cocktail of vodka and peach schnapps,
laced with her father's prescription muscle relaxer.
It was after the drugs and alcohol made Sheaffer drowsy and confused that
Stoldt took him to Osteen Cemetery. You have to think that she had something in
mind by this point.
At the cemetery the argument became violent. Sheaffer began swinging his arms
and yelling, so Stoldt stabbed him in the eye with an ice pick.
That didn't quite do the trick, so she strangled him with a cord.
While brutal, this murder is no more unusual or inhuman than hundreds of other
murders that occur all over the country every year, but what she did next is.
It would seem like leaving the body in the cemetery would be a no-brainer, but
Stoldt was more than a little obsessed with getting rid of the body.
At first, she placed the body in a baby pool in her garage. The next day she
took a hacksaw to her neighbor's body and tried to cook away evidence. One leg
went in the oven. Other parts went into pots.
Stoldt's house smelled of burning flesh, but she assured her daughter it was
just a rat broiling in the oven, which apparently is something people in Deltona
do.
"Thursday is when I was cooking him," Stoldt told investigators.
"Friday is when I was dumping him."
Three weeks after the death, Stoldt showed up suicidal at her parents' house
confessing to the killing. It was Stoldt's sister who called authorities and
led investigators to further question her.
She is being held without bail in Daytona Beach.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Ten
quotes by Emmanuel Kant! Emmanuel Kant was a German philosopher and a central
figure for modern philosophy. Here are some of his most famous quotes:
—Science
is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
—Experience
without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual
play.
—Happiness
is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
—Always
recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your
end.
—I
had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
—May
you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal
law.
—Religion
is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
—From
such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be
fashioned.
—Nothing
is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
—All
thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate
ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no
other way can an object be given to us.
Somewhat Useful
Information from fivethrityeight.com
“The Rate of Domestic
Violence Arrests Among NFL Players,”
1. For most crimes, NFL
players have extremely low arrest rates relative to national averages.
2. Their relative arrest
rate for domestic violence is much higher than for other crimes.
3. Although the arrest
rate for domestic violence may appear low relative to the national average for
25- to 29-year-old men, it is probably high relative to NFL players’ income
level (more than $75,000 per year) and poverty rate (0 percent).
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Today’s
Events through History
1752 - The "Mick
Mack" of Nova Scotia sign a treaty with the British
1923 - Calvin Coolidge pardons WW I German spy
Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1975 - Drummuckavall
Ambush: 3 British Army soldiers are killed and one captured when the
Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a watchtower in South Armagh, North
Ireland
Birthday’s
Today
Robert Vaughn, actor
(Napolean Solo-Man from UNCLE, I Spy) is 82
Billie Jean King, tennis
pro (Wimbledon 1968, 72, 73, 75) is 71
Steve Van Zandt,
musician, actor is 64
Richard Kind, actor,
comedian is 58
Jamie Lee Curtis, actress
(Anything But Love, Halloween) is 56
Mariel Hemingway, actress
(Personal Best, Civil Wars) is 53
Boris Becker, tennis
player (Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89) is 47
Mark Ruffalo, actor,
director is 47
Scarlett Johansson, actress
(The Prestige) is 30
Remembered
for being born today
Thomas Cook, founder
(Cook travel bureau) (1808-1892)
Andre Gide, French
writer (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947) (1869-1951)
Charles de Gaulle, President
of France, (1890-1970)
Wiley Post, aviator/parachutist
(crashed in Alaska) (1898-1935)
Howard ‘Hoagy’ Carmichael, actor/songwriter (Stardust) (1899-1981)
Doris Duke, multi-millionaire
(American Tobacco heiress) (1912-1993)
Rodney Dangerfield, [John
Cohen], comedian (Caddyshack) (1921-2004)
Geraldine Page,
Kirksville Mo (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful) (1924-1987)
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Historical
Obits Today
Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), 1980,
@87
Mary Kay Ash,
businesswoman, fMary Kay Cosmetics, 2001, @83
Scatman Crothers, actor
(Shining, Zapped), pneumonia, 1986, @76
Molla Mallory, 8-time
U.S. Open tennis champion, 1959, @75
C. S. Lewis [Clive
Staples], Irish author (Silver Chair), renal failure, 1963, @64
Shemp Howard, actor
(3 Stooges), heart attack, 1955, @60
Wilfred Bill Bixby, actor (My Favorite
Martian), cancer, 1993, @59
Michael Conrad, actor
(Hill Street Blues), cancer, 1983, @58
Arthur S Sullivan,
England, composer (Mikado), heart failure, 1900, @58
Lorenz Hart,
lyricist, pneumonia, 1943, @48
John F. Kennedy, 35th
president, assassinated, 1963, @46
J. D. Tippit, Dallas
Police Officer, shot, 1963, @39
Blackbeard (Edward
Teach), notorious English pirate, in battle, 1718, @38
George Washington Gale Ferris,
inventor (Ferris wheel), typhoid, 1896, @37
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Brain Teasers Answers
3D glasses
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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…§
