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Almanac: Week: 36 \ Day: 246
September Averages: 74°\42°
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 50° Average Sky Cover: 65% 
Wind ave:   5mph\Gusts:  18mph
Ave. High: 77° Record High: 91°[1948] Ave. Low: 45° Record Low: 34°[1973]
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Observances Today:                         
Penny Press Day

Independence Day (Qatar-1971-from UK)
National Day (San Marino-301-from Roman Empire)
Observances This Week:
1-5 National Payroll Week

1-7 International Enthusiasm Week                  
      National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India) Link

      Self-University Week Link
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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1680 - Don Antonio de Otermin is the Governor of the province which contains modern Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Pueblo Indians staged a revolt in August. Otermin enters Isleta Pueblo and discovers it is abandoned
1709 - 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC
1752 - Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar, losing 11 days. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives
1777 - Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time
1833 - New York Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
1838
 - Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor

1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children
1881 - 1st U.S. Men's National Championship: Richard Sears beats William E. Glyn (6-0, 6-3, 6-2)
1891 - Cotton pickers organize union & stage strike in Texas
1904 - St Louis Olympics closes
1964 - Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson1971 - Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office
1967 - Dragsters converged on Tucson for the Arizona State Drag Championships at the Tucson Dragway on Houghton Road.
1995 - eBay founded.
2013 - Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 Billion
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World Historical Highlights for Today
  301 - San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus
1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned in Westminster. 30 Jews are massacred after the coronation - Richard ordered the perpetrators be executed
1650 - Battle of Dunbar: England vs Scotland
1812 - World's first cannery ( Donkin, Hall and Gamble) opens in London, England to supply food to the Royal Navy
1935 - 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph)
1938 - 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland
1949 - Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives
1971 - A baby girl and an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldier are killed in separate shooting incidents in Northern Ireland
1988 - Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Interesting follow up to my med story. Got a text message about 15 minutes after I got home saying that my thyroid meds were ready…the ones they were out of 30 minutes earlier. So as I was running around, I stopped in this morning about 9a. The meds were ready. I thanked the tech for getting them from the other pharmacy in town. She smiled and said, well actually, the computer said we were out, but when the pharmacist went to the shelf, they were there. SMH and smiling.
And I continue to SMH in politics…not Trump, this time…this time it is the elected head of Education in AZ. She won by a small margin and her main campaign promise was to rid the state of Common Core. As the lawsuits pile up on her management style and power grabbing attempts, finally a petition to recall her has begun. Their main cry is that she is not serving the students of AZ. She stopped background checks on teachers, basically stopping new hiring and recertifying teachers. Then she refused to open the website where districts post their stats to get Federal funding. And she has yet to provide any help to the legislators to improve education…not one little plan. If this happens she would be the 2nd elected official to be recalled. The first was a few years ago for the State Senator who presented SB1070—the immigration mess—and worked to get it passed. He was voted out regarding a fraud issue, sadly not because he was a racist.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can you figure out these five?
Hint: flowers
1. an implement + flesh around mouth
2. foppish + a large carnivorous wildcat
3. to wed + a soft yellow element
4. a false statement + be deficient in
5. indicates an alternative + child

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing Facts…
Capt. Robert Campbell, a British officer captured during World War I, was granted leave to visit his dying mother on one condition - that he return to captivity. He kept his word and returned, only to try escaping as soon as he returned.

The human testicles can produce 1,500 sperm during every heartbeat.
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
Kit Carson of the Chamber of Commerce says there are 4,057 hotel and motel rooms in Flagstaff with 255 more about to open. Finding a room during the week is relatively easy, but each weekend is filled up. The Chamber is running a “Room Bank.”

Sales at The Mall are up 5 percent. With 68 shops and a 94% occupancy rate, people are enjoying just strolling along looking and dropping into the shops.
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…Harper’s Index…
4 – percentage of NYC’s population that is lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender

4.7 – of Salt Lake City’s population
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…Instagram Photo of the Day… 

natgeophoto by @randyolson | words by @neilshea13 Kenya’s Lake Turkana — He arrives early every morning to the rock pile by the roadside, takes up his hammer and begins. Breaks big volcanic cobbles down into smaller ones. Clack-tap, clink-tink, sharp sounds cutting out through the desert. At 2 pm he stops, finds some shade, falls asleep. At 4 he returns to making gravel, though it isn’t any cooler. The sun still crushes—it might do the work for him if he’d only wait. He holds the stones in place with the sole of a sandal, then brings the hammer down just hard enough. Economy of motion: every desert creature knows. He tosses the pieces onto the pile, which grows and does not grow, never much bigger than this, never much smaller. There is always someone coming to gather it up and cart it away.
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…Foreigners Find These American Customs Offensive…
11. Wearing sweatpants, flip flops, wrinkly clothing, or baseball caps in public
Sure "athleisure" (stylish sportswear worn outside of the gym) is a hot new trend stateside, but in most countries, notably Japan and most of Europe, this sort of sloppy appearance is considered disrespectful.
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…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Dolph Lundgren, who played Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, has a master's degree in chemical engineering. He's also Swedish.
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2 jokes for the day
“Hello, Ginger!”
Her brother called cheerily to his sister.
“Don’t call me Ginger!” she snapped furiously. “My hair is the color of gold.”
“Yeah,” he replied with a jeer, “twenty-two carrots!”

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There were three idiots who were in another country and they didn't know the language.
So they decided that they would go to the local village and they would each learn one new phrase.
So they went to the village, and the first idiot was watching a girl sing, "Me,me,me,me,me!!" So that was the first idiot's phrase.
The second idiot saw a street vender who was selling silverware and who was saying "Forks and knifes." And that was the second idiot's phrase.
The third idiot went to a park and saw a boy saying, "Swing me first!" And that was the third idiot's phrase.
The three idiots met back and were about to tell each other their new phrases when a policeman ran up and said, "There has been a murder. Who did it?"
The idiots decided to use their new phrases, so the first one said, "Me,me,me,me,me!"
The policeman said, "What was the murder weapon?" The second idiot said, "Forks and knifes."
The policeman said, "Y'all are going to have to hang for this."

The third idiot said, "Swing me first!"    
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Yep, It Really Happened
ST. CHARLES, Ill. - An Illinois job applicant texted his way out of an offered position when he accidentally sent the human resources manager a nude selfie, police said. Elmhurst police said the human resources manager at a St. Charles company contacted authorities Aug. 14 to report receiving two nude pictures via text message Aug. 11 and 13 from a man who had been offered a position with the company. "There was a conditional offer of employment made to this particular applicant," Elmhurst Police Chief Michael Ruth told the Chicago Tribune. "He texted the HR director and sent a nude photo of himself." Ruth said the company learned the identity of the sender when he later used the same phone number for a follow-up call. Police said the man who sent the pictures told investigators the nude selfies were sent accidentally. "[Police] contacted the offender who admitted to sending the photographs, explaining they were actually meant for another individual and were sent to the victim in error," the police report of the incident states. "[Police] advised the offender to cease any contact with the victim." The victim decided not to press charges, but police said the man's actions were not free from consequences. "My understanding is they've rescinded the offer of employment," Ruth said. 
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Somewhat Useless Information
Bananas were never really heard of until 1880. However, by 1910, they were so popular that cities had a problem disposing of used banana peels. Back then, there was no urban sanitation and people were literally slipping on banana peels and hurting themselves.

In 1910, the City of St. Louis had an ordinance specifically prohibiting people from throwing banana peels on the ground. And for much of the early 1900s, one of the suggested Boy Scout manual good deeds of the day was to pick up banana peels from the street.

Today, bananas are so popular due to the entrepreneurial drive of the early banana barons who founded a company in the 1880s called United Fruit (which is now Chiquita.) When they introduced the banana, Americans generally didn't know what a banana was and had to be taught how to peel and determine if they were ripe.

There are more than 1,000 varieties of amazing and delicious bananas - most of them are in Africa and Asia. But in the United States, we only eat one called the Cavendish. The Cavendish is a more bland banana compared to those in India where 600 banana varieties are grown. 

The Cavendish, the banana we currently eat, is not the original breed that was introduced into the United States. That breed was called the Gros Michel, but was eradicated by a fungus. "Yes, We Have No Bananas," the famous song from the 1920s, may be related to that banana shortage.

Up through the 1950s, Chiquita released banana cookbooks full of interesting and sometimes odd recipes. Making a big push to get people to eat bananas with every meal, they tried to position the banana as both a sweet fruit and a vegetable, like a potato. You could find recipes for ham banana rolls with cheese sauce, bananas with mint jelly, and banana soup.

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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(96) - Kitty Carlisle Hart, actress (Animal Crackers) d. 2007
  92 - Mort Walker, cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois)
(86) - Prudence Crandall, founder (School for "young ladies of color") d.1890
  86 - Whitey Bulger [James Joseph Bulger Jr.], American gangster
  84 - Dick Motta, NBA coach (856 wins, Its not over 'til the fat lady sings)
(75) - Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche, Volkswagen) d.1951
(75) - Terry Wilson, California, actor (Bill-Wagon Train) d.1999
  73 - Al Jardine, Lima Oh, guitarist/singer (Beach Boys-Surfin, In My Room)
  72 - Valerie Perrine, actress and model (Steam Bath, Superman, Lenny)
(67) - Louis Sullivan, American architect (father of skyscrapers) d.1924
(50) - Alan Ladd, Hot Springs AR, actor (Shane, Carpetbaggers) d.1964
  50 - Charlie Sheen, [Carlos Estavez], actor (Wall St, Two & Half Men)
(46) - Maya King Ahkal Mo' Naab' II rules over Palenque, Mexico d.470
(42) - Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler d. 1973
  29 - Shaun White, snowboarder (Olympic gold - 2006, 2010)
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Historical Obits Today
Frank Capra, American film director (It's a Wonderful Life)-1991@94
Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist-2012@92
William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States-2005@80
Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Vietnamese communist revolutionary\President of North Vietnam, heart failure-1969@79
Barbara O'Neil, actress (All This and Heaven Too), heart attack-1980@70
e[dward] e cummings, US poet (Tulips & Chimneys), stroke-1962@67
Oliver Cromwell, English general/Lord Protector, septicaemia-1658@59
Vince Lombardi, football coach (Packers), cancer-1970@57
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Tulip (tool + lip)
2. Dandelion (dandy + lion)
3. Marigold (marry + gold)
4. Lilac (lie + lack)
5. Orchid (or + kid)

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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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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.