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Sept
13, 2015
Almanac:
Week: 38 \ Day: 256
September
Averages: 74°\42°
86004
Today: H 83° \ L 47° Average
Sky Cover: 40%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 16mph
Ave.
High: 75° Record High: 89°[1990]
Ave. Low: 43° Record Low: 26°[1952]
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Observances
Today:
International
Chocolate Day Link
Kids
Take Over The Kitchen Day Link
National Celiac
Awareness Day: 13
National Peanut
Day Link
Roald Dahl Day
Scooby-Doo Day
Miss America Pageant
National Celiac Awareness Day
National
Hug Your Hound Day
Observances
This Week:
11-13
Mushroom
Days
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
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1788 - NY City becomes 1st capital of US
1789 - 1st loan to US government (from NYC banks)
1926 - The Tucson
Landmarks Association acquired the site of the Wishing Shrine, or El Tiradito,
on Main Street
1963 - "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC TV
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
122 - Building begins on Hadrian's Wall
1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his statue
of David.
1759 - The Battle of
Quebec takes place. The French lose.
1959 - USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact
another celestial body
1990 - Iraqi troops storm residence of French
ambassador in Kuwait
1997 - Mother Teresa's State Funeral held in India
2012 - 33,000 people are evacuated after
Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice day, warm, but nice.
A new sporting goods store opened this morning, so I headed over
to check it out. Big crowd, got a free hat and free water bottle. Nice store
with lots of good stuff. I’ll go back after the grand opening. Then this
afternoon I went to the Route 66 car show. Saw the make and model of my first
car, make and model of my first NEW car. Both were the wrong color. Good
memories for sure. Those were the days when cars had class and style. Now they
are just tech wonders. Not complaining, just remembering.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
do these sentences translate to?
"A research team proceeded towards the apex of a natural geologic
protuberance, the purpose of their expedition being the procurement of a sample
of fluid hydride of oxygen in a large vessel, the exact size of which was
unspecified. One member of the team precipitously descended, sustaining severe
damage to the upper cranial portion of his anatomical structure; subsequently
the second member of the team performed a self-rotational translation oriented
in the same direction taken by the first team member."
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
It has been estimated that a bite from a
grizzly bear can crush a bowling ball.
In 2010, Gary Richmond was beaten into a coma.
He woke up with amnesia and no memory of his wife of 20 years. Subsequently, he
ended up falling in love with her all over again!
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
D. C. Thomas, our new local agent for Signal Oil, is constructing
a new storage tower 1 mile east of town on Route 66.
The college dorms are full to capacity and there is to be a Get
Acquainted Dance this coming Monday night.
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…Harper’s
Index…
13 –
percentage of substances seized by the DIA and believed to be ecstasy that test
positive for MDMA
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by Pete McBride @pedromcbride // Bird’s eye view of a
giraffe in Botswana, Africa.
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…Foreigners
Find These American Customs Offensive…
20. Keeping your clothes on in saunas and steam rooms
© Provided by Business Insider--While not offensive per se, people
from Scandinavian countries and Turkey will think you're prude if you keep your
clothes on in saunas, spas, and steam rooms.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Dogs can experience a runner's high.
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2
jokes for the day
Q: What do you call a mushroom that brings all
the beer to your party?
A. A fungi (fun guy).
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A group of friends who went deer hunting
separated into pairs for the day.
That night, one hunter retuned alone, staggering under an eight-point buck.
“Where is Mike?” asked another hunter.
“He fainted a couple of miles up the trail,” Mike’s partner answered.
“You left him lying there alone and carried the deer back?”
“A tough call,” said the hunter. “But I figured no one is going to steal Mike.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*--- Man Stops Burglars with Samurai Sword ---*
An Arizona homeowner foiled two teen burglars with a samurai sword
after coming home early in the morning and finding them inside his house. One
of them, a 16-year-old male, fled the scene. The homeowner used the sword,
known as a katana, to detain the other teen, forcing him to wait on the couch
until police arrived. Deputies took the 15-year-old into custody and later
arrested the second teen. One of the teens showed deputies where he discarded a
backpack used during the burglary. The backpack contained about $900 worth of
items taken from the house. "They are fortunate that this case ended with
them just being arrested and that they were not injured by the homeowner who
came home to find them burglarizing his home," a Pinal County sheriff said.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Mattel
made and sold Wonder Woman’s “invisible jet” as a collectible. The package was
an empty plastic shell with nothing inside, and was originally intended as an
April Fool’s joke.
Oxford
University is at least 400 years older than the Aztec Empire!
George
Aldrich has worked for NASA for over 40 years, and his job is to smell things,
according to spaceflight.nasa.gov.
Thanks
to George Aldrich and his team of NASA sniffers, astronauts can breathe a
little bit easier.
Aldrich
is a chemical specialist or “chief sniffer” at the White Sands Test Facility’s
Molecular Desorption and Analysis Laboratory in New Mexico. His job is to smell
items before they can be flown in the space shuttle.
This
is to ensure that there are no unpleasant smells on ISS and the shuttle. Oh and
his nose also gets calibrated and tested every four months.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(92) - Claudette Colbert [Lily Chauchoin],
French-born actress (It Happened One Night) d.1996
(88) - Milton S. Hershey, chocolate tycoon (Hershey
Chocolate Company) d. 1945
(87) - John J. Pershing (Blackjack), US
commander (WW I), d. 1948
(84) - Maurice Jarre, French composer (Doctor
Zhivago-Acad Award 1966) d.2009
84 - Barbara Bain, actress (Cinnamon-Mission
Impossible, Space 1999)
(82) - Andrew Noble, Scottish Physicist-founder
of the science of ballistics d.1915
(74) - Roald Dahl, Llandaff, author (Over to
You, Taste, 2 Fables) d. 1990
(73) - Mel Tormé, American singer d. 1999
70 - [Winifred] Jacqueline Bisset, England, actress
(Class, Deep, Secrets)
64 - Jean Smart, actress (Charlene-Designing
Women)
(54) - Nell Carter, Birmingham Ala, actress
(Nell-Gimme a Break, Lobo) d.2003
(51) - Walter Reed, Army Surgeon, proved
mosquitoes transmit yellow fever d.1902
46 - Tyler Perry, TV
PRODUCER
35 - Ben Savage, actor (Little Monsters,
Wild Palms)
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Historical
Obits Today
George
Wallace, American politician, septic shock-19998@79
Ann
Richards, 46th Governor of Texas, cancer-2006@73
Tupac
Shakur, rap star/actor drive by shooting-1996@25
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Jack and Jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
and Jill came tumbling after
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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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