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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 279
/ Week: 41
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances Today:
Child Health Day
Come and Take It Day
Ecological Debt Day
German-American Day
Jackie Mayer Rehab Day (stoke survivor, Miss America motivational speaker)
Mad Hatter Day
National German-American Day
Physician Assistant Day
Techie's Day
World Day of Architecture
World Habitat Day
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Armed Forces Day (Egypt- 1973-Egyptian
Army's successful crossing of the Suez Canal that culminated in the capture of
the Bar Lev Line)
Dasara / Vijaya Dasami (Hindu - Lord Rama's
victory over the ten-headed demon king Ravana, the victory of Goddess
Durga over the demon Mahishasur)
Ivy Day (Ireland- in emory of the prominent nationalist politician Charles
Stewart Parnell (1846–1891))
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1499 - French
King Louis XII occupies Milan
1683 - 13
Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown Pa (Phila)
1783 - Benjamin
Hanks patents self-winding clock
1853 - 4th
National Women's Rights Convention opens in Cleveland Ohio
1857 - American
Chess Association organized; 1st major US tournament (NYC)
1861 - Revolt of Russian student shuts down
university of Petersburg
1866 - 1st
train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000)
1876 - American
Library Association organized in Philadelphia
1882 - 1st
World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0
1893 - Nabisco
Foods invents Cream of Wheat
1900 - Britain
annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
1945 - Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis
buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series & is escorted out, he
casts goat curse on Cubs
1952 - Agatha
Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)
1956 - Dr
Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
1961 - JFK advises
Americans to build fallout shelters
1966 - LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first
declared illegal in CA
1967 - Haight-Ashbury
hippies throw a funeral to mark end of hippies
1995 - Colorado Avalanche (former Que Nordiques)
1st NHL game, beat Detroit
2013 - 53
people are killed in political clashes in Egypt
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Had a
good Saturday when some old friends dropped by and spent the afternoon and
evening. Thus, no blog yesterday.
Sunday
has been another beautiful fall day with little wind and great temps. Having a
hard time watching the Bronco/Cardinal game. Always been a Bronco fan, but it
is hard when you live in AZ. Good game anyway.
So much
to watch on Sunday news shows. Lots on Ebola, with everyone with knowledge saying
not to panic, and still watching all the missteps taken in Texas. One crazy
fear monger was suggesting that we stop all flights to and from Africa—all of
Africa—and take the temperatures of every passenger entering the US from
anywhere in the world that still has flights to Africa—again the entire
continent. He, I am sure, also wants the border sealed with a big very tall
electrified fence.
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Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
TTTTIIIIMMMMEEEE
AB DE
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Age
Facts…
Anyone
under the age of 21 who takes out household trash containing even a single
empty alcohol beverage container can be charged with illegal possession of
alcohol in Missouri.
Brain
Facts…
The human
brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.
Computer
Facts…
The
Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. 20 times faster, in fact.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
From
1889: Having opened The Bank Hotel on Railroad Avenue, I will
spare no pains to make it the leading hotel of Arizona Territory with rooms by
the day, week or month. Dining is in the attached building, where nothing but
the best the market affords will be served to our guests. J. Coalter,
Proprietor.
The Grand
Canyon of the Colorado River, heretofore inaccessible to tourists, can now be
reached by taking the stage from Peach Springs for a journey of 23 miles to
view this tremendous river.
Fun
Facts…
After
octopuses breed, they develop dementia. They then live the rest of their lives
in this confused, seemingly lost state, with apparently no knowledge of
previous events.
Harper’s
Index…
Percentage
of white Americans who support paying college athletes: 24
Of black Americans
who do: 51
Rules of
Thumb…
SPOTTING
THE MURDERER
In a mystery play on your local stage, the murderer
will be the best actor among the suspects. In a mystery TV show, the murderer
will be the best-known actor.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
You can order a 6'
aluminum Festivus pole for $39 from FestivusPoles.com. They promise a very high
strength-to-weight ratio.
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Joke-of-the-day
A
schoolteacher asked her primary six class to construct sentences with the
words: defeat, detail, and defense.
There was a pause before a pupil raised his hand and said he could make a
sentence with them; "The cow jumped over defense and detail went over
defeat."
Yep, It
Really Happened
HONDA,
Colombia (UPI) - Workers at a Colombia clinic said a woman inserted a potato
into her vagina as a means of contraception and the spud grew roots inside of
her. Staff at a medical clinic in the town of Honda said a 22-year-old woman
came in this week complaining of severe pain in her lower abdomen and attending
nurse Carolina Rojas said she was shocked to discover roots coming out of the
woman's vagina. "My mom told me that if I didn't want to get pregnant, I
should put a potato up there, and I believed her." the patient was quoted
as saying. Rojas said the potato had been inside the woman for about two weeks
and was growing roots inside her. The nurse said doctors were able to remove
the spud without surgery and they do not expect the woman to experience any
long-term effects from the experience -- except, perhaps, a newfound aversion
to using potatoes as contraception.
Somewhat
Useless Information
The word “husband”
comes from two Old Norse words, which is the language spoken by the Vikings,
which mean ‘house’ and ‘owner’.
The word originally
had nothing to do with marital status, except for the fact that home ownership
made these men extremely desirable marriage partners.
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Did you know that
administering anesthesia to babies during surgeries was not common in the past,
as it was believed that babies could not feel pain?
Until 1987, heart
surgery, as well as other surgeries, could be performed on babies with no
anesthesia.
Fortunately, this is
not the case anymore, as even the premature babies get painkillers.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
--- 1-7
National
Walk Your Dog Week
Universal Children's Week
--- 3-11
4-H
Week
No Salt Week
--- 4-12
Albuquerque
International Balloon Fiesta
Fall Astronomy Week
World Space Week
--- 5-11
Emergency
Nurses Week
Fire Prevention Week
International Post Card Week
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week
National Midwifery Week
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine Week
--- 6-12
Customer
Service Week)
Drive Safely Work Week
Financial Planning Week
Kids' Goal Setting Week
National Health Care Food Service Week
National Metric Week
National Physician’s Assistant Week
Spinning & Weaving Week
World Dairy Expo
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Today’s
Events through History
1890 - Mormon
Church outlaws polygamy
1911 - Cy
Young's farewell appearance in a major league game
1927 - "Jazz
Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
1948 - The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000
in the Turkmen SSSR
1948 - Paleoanthropologist Mary
Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an
ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya.
1978 - Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in
"Some Girls"
1979 - Pope John
Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House
1990 - US
67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
1996 - Bob
Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate
2012 - Paolo
Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, is found guilty of leaking
confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
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Birthday’s
Today
Britt
Ekland, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Wicker Man) is 72
Stephanie
Zimbalist, actress (Remington Steele) is 58
Elisabeth
Shue, actress (Cocktail, Adv in Babysitting) is 51
Jim Sharp, US
rodeo bull rider is 49
Jeremy
Sisto, actor (6 feet Under) is 40
Remembered
for being born today
Jenny
Lind, Swedish soprano (1820-1887)
George
Westinghouse, entrepreneur\engineer, (1846-1914)
Li
Ta-chao, co-founder w/ Mao Zedong (Chinese Communist Party) (1889-1927)
Helen
Wills Moody, tennis player (8 Wimbledon titles) (1905-1998)
Janet
Gaynor, actress (Sunrise, A Star Is Born) (1906-1984)
Carol
Lombard [Jane Alice Peters], actress (My Man Godfrey) (1908-1942)
Thor
Heyerdahl, Norway, anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki) (1904-2002)
Fred
Travalena, comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell) (1942-2009)
Shana
Alexander, journalist (60 Minutes) (1925-2005)
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Historical
Obits Today
Will
Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer, 1951, @91
Alfred
Lord Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate, 1892, @83
Bette
Davis, actress (All About Eve), 1989, @81
Bruno of
Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order, 1101, @71
Nelson
Riddle, American bandleader, kidney failure, 1985 @ 64
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Brain
Teasers
Long time
no see.
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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…§
