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Sept  16, 2015
Almanac: Week: 38 \ Day: 259
September Averages: 74°\42°
86004 Today: H 70° \ L 49° Average Sky Cover: 35% 
Wind ave:   9mph\Gusts:  30mph
Ave. High: 74° Record High: 88°[2000] Ave. Low: 42° Record Low: 28°[1971]
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Observances Today:                         
Anne Bradstreet Day
International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
National Guacamole Day Link  
National POW/MIA Recognition Day
Play-doh Day
School Backpack Awareness Day
Stay Away From Seattle Day Link
Trail of Tears Commemoration Day  

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Independence Day (Papua New Guinea-1975-from Australia)
Independence Day (Mexico – 1810-from Spain)

Observances This Week:
13-19
Balance Awareness Week Link          
Child Passenger Safety Week Link                  
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week  
International Housekeepers Week Link
National Assisted Living Week
National Environmental Services Week Link
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week Link


14-18

Health Information and Technology Week Link  
Line Dance Week
National Love Your Files Week Link 
National Postdoc Appreciation Week Link                                       
National Staffing Employee Week Link

16-20

National Guitar Flat-Picking Days
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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1630 – Mass. village of Shawmut changes name to Boston
1782 - Great Seal of US used for 1st time
1858 - 1st overland mail for California
1893
- 100,000 people participate in the "run" for land in the recently purchased Cherokee Strip of Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma). The Cherokees were pressured into selling the land to the Federal Government

1908 - Carriage-maker, William Durant, founds General Motors in Flint, Michigan
1919 - American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
1928 - Tucsonans gathered to celebrate the anniversary of Mexico's independence from Spain.
1964 - "Shindig" premieres on ABC-TV
1968 - Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in"
1976 - American Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop
1983 - Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen
1991 - US trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins
2012 - Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, seeks a court order to resolve a week long teachers strike
2013 - 12 people are killed - gunman opens fire at a naval yard in Washington, D.C.
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1701 - James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
1795 - British capture Capetown, South Africa
1847 - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust buys bard's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon
1848 - Slavery abolished in all French territories
1906 - Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole
1913 - 1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage
1963
- Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak form Malaysia

1971 - A number of Unionists resign over the proposed tripartite talks involving Northern Ireland, Britain, and the Republic of Ireland
2013 - 21 people are killed by Hurricane Ingrid in Mexico
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Fall is quickly arriving in our little mountain town. Lots of wind today, cooler temps both day and night. I’m not really ready for fall, but guess I will just have to get used to it.
So I’m confused…we have not gotten involved in Syria’s civil war. ISIS is there, with others, fighting against the regime. We don’t like ISIS and we don’t like the regime. We have been watching the thousands of men, women and children who are fleeing Syria and heading for Europe. So today Mr. Putin sends lots of war stuff to Syria to help the regime and stop ISIS. And now the war people in the USofA are freaking out saying we can’t let Russia get away with this. What am I missing?
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can you decipher this phrase:
O_er_t_o_

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing Facts…
Shakira has been making music for more than 23 years, can play the guitar, drums, percussion, and harmonica, speaks 7 different languages, is the founder of a charity called Pies Descalzos, and is a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.

In 1987, an 18 year old freshmen named Mike Hayes funded his education by asking 2.8 million people for one penny.
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
Saturday and Sunday, it rained on the Coconino County Fair. People came anyway, petted the animals, and the Kiwanis Burger Stand did a grand office business in coffee. Fair Days were extended onto 10 p.m. Monday to make up for the horrific storm. Overall attendance was down about 15 percent, although 30,000 people jammed the gates after the rain ceased.

A 14-foot wall water swept over the Havasupai village, washing away and completely destroying many of the homes as well as their water line.
368 more students are attending school with 78 buses transporting our 5,300 students.
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…Harper’s Index…
25 – percentage of Russians who had a negative view in of the US in 2003
81 – who do today
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…Instagram Photo of the Day… 

natgeoPhoto @lucalocatelliphoto In front of the unit 6,7 and 8 of the Lubmin nuclear power plant in Germany while covering a story for @natgeo about energy transition. Lubmin was the biggest nuclear power plant during the cold war and it was locked down in 1991 for security reason right after the German reunification. For more than 30 years, around 1.000 workers are still working on the site for dismantling operations of the plant. Germany wants to shut down all their nuclear power plants by 2020 and to substitute with wind and solar energy.
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…Foreigners Find These American Customs Offensive…
23. Not declining gifts
Americans are quick to accept gifts, favors, and invitations, and often without offering something in return. However, many cultures (like in Japan) expect you to decline things a few times before ultimately accepting them. In China, you're even expected to refuse a gift three times before accepting it.
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…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Most people know that "Video Killed the Radio Star" was MTV's first video, but do you know the second video to air? It was Pat Benetar's "You Better Run."
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2 jokes for the day
What can you catch but not throw?

A cold.

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HOW TO KEEP A HEALTHY LEVEL OF INSANITY AND DRIVE OTHER PEOPLE INSANE Submitted by Jonalee Echols from Bullard Texas.

1. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.

2. Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Always wear them one day after your boss does. This is especially effective if your boss is the opposite gender.

3. Put mosquito netting around your cubicle.

4. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.

5. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "IN."

6. When driving colleagues around, insist on keeping your car's windshield wipers running during all weather conditions to keep 'em tuned up.

7. Reply to everything someone says with, "That's what you think."

8. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers, then cc them to your boss.

9. Finish all your sentences with "in accordance with the prophecy."

10. At lunchtime, sit in your parked car and point a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.

11. Specify that your drive-thru order is "to go."

12. Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.       

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Yep, It Really Happened
Former VA state Delegate Joseph Morrissey, already scheduled for trial for submitting false documents in one case, was foiled in qualifying for a state Senate primary because 750 of the 972 voter signatures he submitted were found to be bogus. Morrissey was sworn in as a delegate while wearing an ankle monitor as part of his sentence for having sex with an underage girl, but resigned to run for the Senate.    
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Somewhat Useless Information
When he was first informed about it on the evening of 7 December at Führer Headquarters, was that he claimed “We can’t lose the war at all. We now have an ally which has never been conquered in 3.000 years”, according to wikipedia.org.

Hirō Onoda, a Japanese soldier that lived a very unusual military service!
That a Japanese soldier was stranded on an island for 30 years, not knowing that the second world war had ended for 30 years, according to wikipedia.org.
His commander came to the island to personally dismiss him in 1974.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(95) - James Cash Penney, department store founder (J C Penney) d. 1971
(91) - Lee Kuan Yew, Founding father of modern Singapore d.2015
(89) - Lauren Bacall, American actress (Dark Passage, Key Largo) d.2014
(89) - B.B. King, blues guitarist and singer (Thrill is Gone) d.2015
(84) - Allen Funt, Brooklyn, American TV host & creator (Candid Camera) d.1999
(83) - Peter Falk, Ossining NY, actor (Colombo, Scared Straight) d.2011
81 - George Chakiris, Norwood Ohio, actor (West Side Story)
81 - Elgin Baylor, NBA star (1958-59 Rookie of Year-Lakers)
(80) - Anne Francis, Ossining NY, actress (Honey West, Pancho Villa) d.2011
(78) - H.A. Rey, American children's author, creator of "Curious George" d. 1977
(74) - Charlie Byrd, guitarist (Desfinado) d.1999
67 - Rosemary Casals, tennis doubles (5X Wimbledon)
66 - Ed Begley Jr, LA Cal, actor (Eating Raoul, St Elsewhere, Parenthood)
(65) - Jack Kelly, Astoria Queens, actor (Bart-Maverick, Get Christie Love) d.1992
63 - Mickey Rourke, American boxer/actor (Wild Orchid, Barfly)
59 - David Copperfield, [Kotkin], Metuchen, New Jersey, magician
(47) - John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera) d.1732
46? - Marc Anthony, American singer
44 - Amy Poehler, American comedian (Saturday Night Live)
23 - Nick Jonas, American singer, member of The Jonas Brothers
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Historical Obits Today
Sheb Wooley, singer and actor-2003@82
McGeorge Bundy, US national security advisor (1961-66), heart attack-1996@77
Mary Travers, American singer (Peter, Paul, and Mary), leukemia-2009@72
John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem), pneumonia-1945@61
Anne Bradstreet, New England's first published poet-1672@60
Maria Callas, American-born prima donna, heart attack-1977@53
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Brain Teasers Answers
PAINLESS OPERATION
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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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