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Sept 12, 2015
Almanac:
Week: 37 \ Day: 255
September
Averages: 74°\42°
86004
Today: H 81° \ L 45°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 22mph
Ave.
High: 75° Record High: 88°[1990]
Ave. Low: 43° Record Low: 25°[1985]
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Observances
Today:
Farmers' Consumer Awareness Day Link
International Day for
South-South Cooperation Link
National Boss/Employee Exchange Day
National Day of Remembrance for Aborted
Children Link
International Drive Your
Studebaker Day
National Hollerin' Day Link
National Iguana Awareness Day Link
Prairie Day
Video Games Day
Moon
Festival (China)
Observances
This Week:
6-12
National
Waffle Week
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week
Suicide Prevention Week
Play
Days
10-12
Popcorn
Days
11-13
Mushroom
Days
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1893 - Cattlemen and
farmers of Cochise County, AZ were warned to go armed at all times as the Apache
Kid was believed to be in the area.
1907 - Lusitania arrives in NYC after 5 day
crossing of Atlantic (record)
1910 - World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins
Wells, appointed (LAPD)
1954 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1956 - Black students enter & are barred from
Clay Ky elementary school
1958 - US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high
school to integrate
1958 - Jack Kilby demonstrates his first
integrated circuit (IC) to his supervisor
1959 - "Bonanza" premieres on NBC-TV
1960 - John F. Kennedy avers he does not speak
for the Roman Catholic Church, and neither does the Church speak for him.
1964 - Canyonlands National Park is designated as a
National Park.
1994 - Cessna crashes in White House front yard
2001 - Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked
for the first and only time in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks
against the United States of America.
2005 - The bodies of more than 40 patients
discovered in a flooded hospital in New Orleans.
2012 - Apple unveils its iPhone 5 and iOS 6
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1624 - 1st submarine publicly tested in London on
the Thames before James I
1759 - British soldiers capture the town of Quebec.
1920 - 7th Olympic Games close in Antwerp Belgium
1970 - Palestinian terrorists blow up three
hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in
various undisclosed locations in Amman.
1974 - Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in
Ethiopia (National Day)
1984 - Ethiopia forms socialist republic
1997 - The UN passes a resolution allowing Iraq to
reach the $2.14 billion oil sales limit under its oil-for-food program
2000 - Holland (the Netherlands) passes law
allowing same-gender marriage, adoption and divorce.
2012 - Excavators
announce that they may have found the remains of King Richard III of England
under a carpark in Leicester
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Quiet day. Ran a few errands this afternoon. Beautiful weather,
monsoon doesn’t return until next week, so it will be dry and hot for the
weekend.
Today would have been my mother’s 96th birthday, but
she only made it to 89. Not a bad life for sure. Still missed by my brother and
me.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I
am where the sky is orange;
I am where the grass is red;
I am the land of violet bananas
and the home to blue oranges.
What am I?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
A blind American man taught himself to
navigate using echolocation. His hobbies include hiking and mountain-biking,
and he has now trained over 500 students in his ‘tongue-click’ technique.
An artist in Iowa named Patrick Acton built a
complete model of Hogwarts out of matchsticks.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
Local aliens are storming our Post Office to get their new forms.
With the new registration regulations from the Federal Government any male over
the age of 10 is required to register. Our local Post Office has run out and is
awaiting a new shipment of forms to fill the need.
U. S. Civil Service Exams will be held on Sept. 19, 1940, for
Structural Draftsman. $1,800,
Chief Draftsman $2,600. High school diploma required. Freight Rate Clerk
$2,300, Assistant Curator Smithsonian Museum $3,200. All these exams are open,
competitive and for men only. Exams for Senior Stenographer $1,600, Junior
Typist $1,200, positions open to both men and women will also be given.
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…Harper’s
Index…
+382 –
percentage change since 1909 in the number of drug-overdose deaths among white
US women aged 15-54
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @argonautphoto (Aaron Huey). #DallSheep above the
#ToklatRiver in #DenaliNationalPark, Alaska.
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…Foreigners
Find These American Customs Offensive…
19. Touching
Americans are notoriously friendly, but hugging and touching
others, even if only on the arm, is offensive in places like China, Thailand,
Korea, and the Middle East. Respect that personal space varies from country to
country.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The flashes of colored light you see when you rub your eyes are
called "phosphenes."
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2
jokes for the day
Q: What did the boy ghost say to the girl
ghost after he saw her all dressed up for Halloween?
A: You look boo-tiful!
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Frank was madly in love with Susan, but
couldn’t get up enough courage to pop the question face to face.
Finally he decided to ask her on the telephone.
“Darling! He blurted out, “Will you marry me?”
“Of course, I will, you silly boy,” she replied, “Who’s speaking?”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Omaha, NE- Nikko Jenkins, convicted of murder in a 213
spree and trying to avoid a scheduled sentencing hearing, recently self-mutilated
(for the 2nd time), which he told a judge was evidence of his mental
disorder that should render him ineligible for death row. Jenkins told the
judge that a ‘serpent god’ had ordered him to carve the ‘number of the beast’
into his forehead, but apparently because Jenkins was looking into a mirror as
he carved, his forehead display more resembled an upside down 999 (or a lower
case ddd) than it did 666.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
During
World War II, U.S. pilots began reporting odd balls of light or shiny metallic
spheres that could fly circles around their planes. These UFOs came to be
called Foo Fighters. British and German pilots also reported seeing these
strange lights, and each side thought that they were some sort of secret weapon
developed by the enemy. The phenomenon was never explained.
The earliest known report of a UFO sighting was by Julius Obsequens, a Roman
writer, in 100 B.C.. He claimed to have seen "things like ships" in
the sky over Italy.
The U.S. Air Force conducted a 22-year investigation, based out of
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, called Project Blue Book which studied
evidence for the existence of UFOs. J. Allen Hynek, Project Blue Book's lead
investigator from 1948 to 1969, investigated hundreds of UFO reports each year.
The official conclusion of the project was that no evidence of
extraterrestrials or extraterrestrial vehicles existed.
In October (some sources say January) 1969, Jimmy Carter observed a UFO in the
skies near Leary in southwestern Georgia. This unidentified flying object,
which appeared just after dusk, was a single luminous object about 30 degrees
above the horizon that Carter estimated to be about 300 to 1000 yards away.
Carter and about a dozen other men watched the object for about 10 to 12
minutes as it hovered, changed course several times, and eventually disappeared
in the distance.
MUFON, or the Mutual UFO Network, was founded on May 31, 1969, shortly after
the publication of the University of Colorado "Condon Report", as a
vehicle to promote the investigation of UFO phenomena.
On September 24, 1235, General Yoritsume and his army observed mysterious
globes of light flying loops in the night sky near Kyoto, Japan. The General's
advisors told him not to worry - it was merely the wind blowing the stars
about.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(89)- Beryl L. Frazier,
my mom d.2008
(83) - Maurice Chevalier, French actor and
singer, "thank heaven for little girls" (Gigi) d.1972
(81) - George Jones, singer (Golden Rings, Oh
Lonesome Me) d. 2013
75 - Linda Gray, actress (Sue Ellen
Ewing-Dallas)
72 - Maria Muldaur, Greenwich Village, NY,
singer (Midnight at the Oasis)
71 - Leonard Peltier, American activist-AIM
(66) - Jesse Owens, track star, spoiled
Hitler's 1936 Olympics with 4 gold d.1980
60 - Peter Scolari, actor (Newhart, Bosom
Buddies)
(58) - Barry White, Galveston Tx, singer
(Love's Theme) d. 2003
(58) - Irene Joliot-Curie, Paris, physicist,
(Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935), (d. 1956), daughter of Marie Curie
d.1956
55 - Lynn Connelly, LPGA golfer (1988 USX
Golf Classic-6th)
(52) - Frank McGee, Monroe La, news anchor
(NBC Evening News) d.1974
(41?) - Henry Hudson, English navigator and
explorer (Hudson River) d.1611
(40) - Paul Walker, actor (The Fast and the
Furious series) d.2013
34 - Jennifer Hudson, actress and singer
(Dreamgirls, Jennifer Hudson)
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Historical
Obits Today
Tom Ewell, [S
Yewell Tompkins], US actor (7 Year Itch)-1994@85
Sarah
Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer-1927@80
William
Boyd, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy)-1972@77
Raymond
Burr, actor (Perry Mason), liver cancer-1993@76
Johnny
Cash, singer and guitarist, diabetes-2003@71
Anthony
Perkins, actor (Psycho), AIDs-1992@60
Steven
Biko, South African black student leader, police custody-1977@30
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Brain
Teasers Answers
I am a film negative.
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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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