~~~Free Ramblings
LAST BLOG UNTIL MID NOVEMBER.
I got my final packing done. I got all my bills paid. I am overly ready to hit the friendly skies. I’ll be flying to Denver tomorrow, and then our group takes off Friday morning for South Africa. Adventure awaits.
Notifying my banks so that my debit and credit cards would work was easy with one bank and a real pain with the other. Something was wrong with the Wells Fargo computer and the lady had to call me back to let me know that my card was tagged to accept out of country charges. It’s always a little scary to do this and scary not to do this. To do it, if I lose my cards, the bank won’t worry about charges on the card until I call them. If I don’t call them, they will just refuse the purchase. Hard to tell which to do.
The wind really died down today. My deck is covered with dry pine needles. My front area is covered with dry pine needles. The home owner’s assoc will take care of the front, but I will have to deal with the deck when I get back. I’m sure there will be at least one snow while I am gone, so it will be quite a mess. I just didn’t want to take time today to deal with it.
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~~~Random Facts
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens
every year.
"Go" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The guy featured in the NBA logo is former Laker, Jerry West.
~~~Unusual News
ST. GALLEN, Switzerland – Swiss police said an Italian man set a record for traffic violations in their country by racking up 15 moving violations in the space of 11 minutes.
Police in St. Gallen said the 47-year-old’s spree of road violations began when he drove past police while speeding 100 mph in a 60 mph zone during the weekend, the Daily Mail reported. Officers said the ensuing offenses include driving too close to other cars, driving too close to the curb, weaving across the white dividing line, failing to stop for police sirens, barreling through red lights, speeding through a construction zone and driving on a hard shoulder of a roadway. The driver was finally stopped at a roadblock and issued additional violations including driving under the influence of drugs, failing to drive with due care and attention and using a mobile telephone at the wheel.
“This character will be getting his driving license back around the time Haley’s Comet makes its next appearance,” a St. Gallen police spokesman said.
Note: The comet should be back July 28, 2061.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Before beginning his musical career, Johnny Mathis was a star high jumper at San Francisco State College and was invited to try out for the 1956 US Olympic Team.
Matthew McConaughey spent a year in Australia after high school shoveling chicken manure.
As a teenager, Ed McMahon worked as a bingo caller and carnival barker. He also sold gadgets on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, most notably the Morris metric vegetable slicer.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 24 Oct
Disarmament Week
Give Wildlife A Break Week
Peace, Friendship, and Good Will Week
~~~22 OCT Observances
295 days so far this year…70 days remain in 2009
Wombat Day
• India, Mauritius, Singapore : Deepavali Day-- 'Lead us from the unreal to the Real; from darkness to Light; from death to Immortality.'
• Japan : Jidai Matsuri/Festival of the Eras (1895)
• Puerto Rico : Veterans Day
• Vatican City : National Day
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS)
1811__Franz Liszt Raiding, Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist
1845__Sarah Bernhardt France, silent film actress
1903__Curly Howard (Jerome Lester Horwitz) comedian: The Three Stooges
1919__Doris Lessing novelist (Golden Notebook)
1920__Timothy Leary Harvard prof, LSD taker
1930__Dory Previn songwriter: Come Saturday Morning
1938__Christopher Lloyd Stamford Ct, actor (Taxi, Back to the Future)
1942__Annette Funicello Utica NY, actress (Mickey Mouse Club and Beach movies)
1943__Catherine Deneuve [Dorleac], actress
1952__Jeff Goldblum actor
~ATHLETICS
1925__Slater Martin Basketball Hall of Famer
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1701 – Maria Amaliaof Austria Holy Roman Empire Empress
1734 – Daniel Boone American pioneer and hunter
1939 – Joaquim Chissano President of Mozambique
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1896__Charles Glenn King biochemist (discovered vitamin C)
~~~In Remembrance–
1883__Thomas Mayne Reid Irish-American novelist died of acute melancholia @ 65
1906__Paul Cezanne French painter @ 67 of pneumonia
1918__Myrtle Gonzalez American silent film (78) actress @ 73
1934__Pretty Boy (Charles Arthur) Floyd American gangster shot by FBI @ 30
1973__Pablo Casals Catalan cellist and conductor @ 97
~~~Historical Events on this day
1746__Princeton University (NJ) received its charter
1804__Lewis & Clark visit a Sioux war party today.
1836__Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas
1883__Original Metropolitan Opera House (NYC) grand opening (Faust)
1914__Congress pass the Revenue Act mandating the first tax on incomes over $3,000—that’s $63,060 in 2009.
1928__Pres Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"
1938__1st Xerox copy made by inventor Chester Carlson
1939__The first televised pro football game was telecast Brooklyn beat Philadelphia, 23-14
1978__Karol Józef Wojtyła first non-Italian Pope since Adrian VI (1522-1523), the first Polish Pope, and the youngest Pope since Pius IX (1846-1878) becomes Pope John Paul II
1979__Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest
1981__The first French TGV / high-speed train service(200 mph) begins
1986__The pressure on the South African government to dismantle its apartheid policies continues to mount as more American companies withdraw from doing business in South Africa
~ Holy Mackerel
1998__The Lion population in Krugar National Park are facing the biggest threat—TB--to their existence since they were nearly hunted to extinction by man.
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Jeopardy Categories Quiz
(These answers all relate to artists or authors who tried to depict life in a truthful manner)
1. A French painter of the mid-19th Century, this artist was known for such starkly realistic works such as The Stonebreakers which depicted two laborers, one too old for the job, another too young.
2. An American photographer who made sensitive portraits of migrant workers and dust bowl refugees, she is known for "Migrant Mother."
3. This 19th century Russian playwright is known for such works as The Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters. His style emphasizes internal drama rather than plot.
4. This Depression-Era singer and songwriter is well known for his songs such as "This Land is Your Land," and his autobiography Bound for Glory. He had a great influence on many contemporary musicians, including Bob Dylan.
5. Critics called this playwright's A Doll's House (1879) "an open drain" because of its frank treatment of socially unaccepted topics.
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2. Who is Dorothea Lange?
3. What is Anton Chekhov'?
4. Who is Woody Guthrie?
5. Who is Henrik Johan Ibsen?
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Wednesday
~~~Free Ramblings
I’m getting lots done for my trip. I had lunch with a friend and she will let me leave my vehicle at her house, take me to the shuttle to Phoenix and pick me up when I get back. That is good. I had planned to leave my vehicle at my house, but didn’t really like that. While I speak to my neighbors whenever I see them, I don’t know them very well. I really didn’t want to tell them I would be gone and yet, if my vehicle remained parked for that long, they might get concerned. I am ‘the old guy’ in our section of homes. This way, with my vehicle gone, they will know I’m gone and not be concerned. This would have been the first time I had left my vehicle in the parking lot, and I’m glad I don’t have to do that.
So I’m set. Tickets to Phoenix—check. Tickets to Denver—check. Motel in Denver with free shuttle—check. Tickets to Dulles and Johannesburg—check. Passport—check. Cash and credit cards—check. iPod loaded with Dan Brown’s latest and some good music—check. Luggage packed—almost.
This exciting trip will have me missing Halloween for the first time. As a little kid, I was always out trick or treating. I have some great memories. When I moved to AZ, I always had candy ready for kids. Yeah, even in isolated Shonto there was door to door trick or treating. A few neighborhood kids would go through the neighborhood. The little dorm kids—all 400+ of them (up to about 4th grade) would make masks and come through the neighborhoods with their dorm aides. For many years in Tuba, parents from all of Tuba would drop their kids off at the first BIA compound street, and pick them up after they had wandered through all the neighborhoods. Here in Flagstaff, we have a decent turnout. I always get a little irked with some neighbors. I first noticed it in Tuba, and it is the same here in Flagstaff. Some neighbors will close their curtains, turn off their lights and ignore the trick or treaters. I understand that some people leave their home and go out for the evening. That’s cool. But to just sit in the dark…I don’t get it. I’ve heard lots of reasons for this bizarre behavior but they all seem more like excuses. I guess it is because I used to have such a great time, I want this generation to have the same great memories. This year I won’t be able to participate. I hope the kids understand.
Tomorrow will be my last blog until I get back. I know that many people somehow find the time to add to their blogs while they are traveling. I just haven’t figured out how to find the time. I do try to see as much as possible, and only use the room to sleep. I do find time to check my email once in a while, just to let people I am still alive and kicking.
Well the weatherman sure hit it today. He said it would be windy…it was. We had gusts to about 40 with a steady 10-15mph wind. That breeze was a cool one too. We only made it to 53° today, but it sure felt colder than that—maybe it was the 65% humidity along with the biting wind. It will be cool here the rest of the week. I have no idea what it will be like when I get back, but I expect it to be much cooler. Actually I expect to come home to find snow on the ground.
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~~~Random Facts
A blue whale's aorta (the main blood vessel) is large enough for a human to crawl through.
In Pakistan, goats are often sacrificed to improve the performance of the stock market.
~~~Unusual News
WESTON, Fla. – The Florida man who holds the world record for largest collection of model cars, 7,000, said he broke his own record by growing the collection to 12,000. Sergio Goldvarg, 53, said Guinness World Records informed him this month that it is replacing his old record, certified in 2005, with a new record reflecting his current 12,000 total, which he reached in May with the addition of a model Formula One Ferrari featured in the 2008 Chinese Grand Prix, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Thursday. “In my house, I have a museum of the history of cars,” Goldvarg said. Gregg Hutchings, editor of Model Cars Magazine, hailed Goldvarg’s achievement. “Twelve-thousand is a pretty good number,” he said. “Hopefully it re-sparks the interest that everybody had when they were younger for model cars.”
~~~Before They Were Famous
Ralph Macchio, the Karate Kid, began his career in the 70's doing commercials for Bubble Yum and Dr. Pepper.
Madonna worked at a Dunkin' Donuts restaurant at one time.
Barry Manilow was fired from a job at a brewery, when he reportedly left the truck door open & spilled the beer all over the road.
Steve Martin was a performer at two amusement parks: Disneyland (in the Magic Shop on Main Street, USA) and Knott's Berry Farm.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 17 Oct
Food & Drug Interaction Education and Awareness Week
Teen Read Week
Nat’l Chemistry Week
Nat’l Character Counts Week
Nat’l Forest Products Week
Nat’l School Bus Safety Week
~~~21 OCT Observances
294 days so far this year…71 days remain in 2009
Internat’l Stuttering Awareness Day
Internat’l Credit Union Day
• British Empire: Trafalgar Day — celebrated in the 19th and early 20th Century
• Honduras : Army Day (1956)
• Hong Kong : Kite Flying Festival
• Laos : Full Moon Holiday
• Republic of China: Overseas Chinese Day
• Somalia/Sudan : Revolution Day (1964)
• United Kingdom: Apple Day
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1772__Samuel Taylor Coleridge England, poet (Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
1917__Dizzy Gillespie trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
1921__Malcolm Arnold Northampton England, composer (Bridge over River Kwai)
1925__Joyce Randolph actress (Trixie-Honeymooners)
1940__Manfred Mann (Michael Lubowitz) rocker "Do Wah Diddy Diddy"
1956__Carrie Fisher actress (Star Wars-Princess Lelia)
~ATHLETICS
1928__Edward "Whitey" Ford hall of fame pitcher (NY Yankees)
1959__George Bell Dom Rep, outfielder (Blue Jays)
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1922 – Liliane de Bettencourt heir to L'Oreal
1949 – Benjamin Netanyahu 9th Prime Minister of Israel
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1833__Alfred Bernhard Nobel Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes
1950__Ronald E. McNair physicist, astronaut: mission specialist aboard the ill-fated Challenger Space Shuttle
~~~In Remembrance–
1765__Giovanni Paolo Pannini Italian painter and architect @ 74
1805__Horatio Nelson British admiral- from injuries at Trafalgar
@ 47
1831__Nat Turner & 19 associates, led slave rebellion-hung @ 31
1969__Jack Kerouac American novelist- of cirrhosis @ 47
1992__Jim Garrison American attorney @ 71
~~~Historical Events on this day
2137 -BC__1st recorded total eclipse of the sun China
1520__Magellan entered the strait which bears his name
1879__Thomas Edison perfects the carbonized cotton filament light bulb
1944__HMAS Australia is attacked by the first kamikaze
1945__Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time
1950__Chinese forces occupy Tibet
1959__Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC)
1976__American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1997__Elton John’s tribute to Princess Diana, Candle in the Wind was declared by The Guinness Book of Records to be the biggest-selling single record of all time. In 37 days, the single reached 31.8 million copies sold, eclipsing the previous record held by Bing Crosby’s White Christmas. The Crosby song sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide -- in 55 years.
~ Holy Mackerel
1918__Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min
1989__1st black owners (Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m
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Jeopardy Categories Quiz
(these are things you should know…maybe)
1. In 1987, Wilma Mankiller became the first modern female chief of this Native American Nation, whose name can mean "The Real People," "Cave Dwellers," or "People of Fire."
2. This American poet explored new freedoms of language, structure, and subject matter in his collection Leaves of Grass.
3. This is the name given to the path of the forced removal of the Cherokee by the U.S. government from their homelands in the southeastern woodlands to western reservations after the discovery of gold on their lands in the 1830's.
4. This author whose novel The Bell Jar (1962) was released just before her suicide is most famous for her confessional poetry.
5. This poet-singer and cultural icon energized a generation with such songs as "The Times They Are A-Changin'," and has greatly influenced a-thinkin', a-writin', and music since the early 1960's.
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2. Who is Walt Whitman?
3. What is the Trail of Tears?
4. Who is Sylvia Plath?
5. Who is Robert Allen Zimmerman—Bob Dylan?
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I’m getting lots done for my trip. I had lunch with a friend and she will let me leave my vehicle at her house, take me to the shuttle to Phoenix and pick me up when I get back. That is good. I had planned to leave my vehicle at my house, but didn’t really like that. While I speak to my neighbors whenever I see them, I don’t know them very well. I really didn’t want to tell them I would be gone and yet, if my vehicle remained parked for that long, they might get concerned. I am ‘the old guy’ in our section of homes. This way, with my vehicle gone, they will know I’m gone and not be concerned. This would have been the first time I had left my vehicle in the parking lot, and I’m glad I don’t have to do that.
So I’m set. Tickets to Phoenix—check. Tickets to Denver—check. Motel in Denver with free shuttle—check. Tickets to Dulles and Johannesburg—check. Passport—check. Cash and credit cards—check. iPod loaded with Dan Brown’s latest and some good music—check. Luggage packed—almost.
This exciting trip will have me missing Halloween for the first time. As a little kid, I was always out trick or treating. I have some great memories. When I moved to AZ, I always had candy ready for kids. Yeah, even in isolated Shonto there was door to door trick or treating. A few neighborhood kids would go through the neighborhood. The little dorm kids—all 400+ of them (up to about 4th grade) would make masks and come through the neighborhoods with their dorm aides. For many years in Tuba, parents from all of Tuba would drop their kids off at the first BIA compound street, and pick them up after they had wandered through all the neighborhoods. Here in Flagstaff, we have a decent turnout. I always get a little irked with some neighbors. I first noticed it in Tuba, and it is the same here in Flagstaff. Some neighbors will close their curtains, turn off their lights and ignore the trick or treaters. I understand that some people leave their home and go out for the evening. That’s cool. But to just sit in the dark…I don’t get it. I’ve heard lots of reasons for this bizarre behavior but they all seem more like excuses. I guess it is because I used to have such a great time, I want this generation to have the same great memories. This year I won’t be able to participate. I hope the kids understand.
Tomorrow will be my last blog until I get back. I know that many people somehow find the time to add to their blogs while they are traveling. I just haven’t figured out how to find the time. I do try to see as much as possible, and only use the room to sleep. I do find time to check my email once in a while, just to let people I am still alive and kicking.
Well the weatherman sure hit it today. He said it would be windy…it was. We had gusts to about 40 with a steady 10-15mph wind. That breeze was a cool one too. We only made it to 53° today, but it sure felt colder than that—maybe it was the 65% humidity along with the biting wind. It will be cool here the rest of the week. I have no idea what it will be like when I get back, but I expect it to be much cooler. Actually I expect to come home to find snow on the ground.
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~~~Random Facts
A blue whale's aorta (the main blood vessel) is large enough for a human to crawl through.
In Pakistan, goats are often sacrificed to improve the performance of the stock market.
~~~Unusual News
WESTON, Fla. – The Florida man who holds the world record for largest collection of model cars, 7,000, said he broke his own record by growing the collection to 12,000. Sergio Goldvarg, 53, said Guinness World Records informed him this month that it is replacing his old record, certified in 2005, with a new record reflecting his current 12,000 total, which he reached in May with the addition of a model Formula One Ferrari featured in the 2008 Chinese Grand Prix, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Thursday. “In my house, I have a museum of the history of cars,” Goldvarg said. Gregg Hutchings, editor of Model Cars Magazine, hailed Goldvarg’s achievement. “Twelve-thousand is a pretty good number,” he said. “Hopefully it re-sparks the interest that everybody had when they were younger for model cars.”
~~~Before They Were Famous
Ralph Macchio, the Karate Kid, began his career in the 70's doing commercials for Bubble Yum and Dr. Pepper.
Madonna worked at a Dunkin' Donuts restaurant at one time.
Barry Manilow was fired from a job at a brewery, when he reportedly left the truck door open & spilled the beer all over the road.
Steve Martin was a performer at two amusement parks: Disneyland (in the Magic Shop on Main Street, USA) and Knott's Berry Farm.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 17 Oct
Food & Drug Interaction Education and Awareness Week
Teen Read Week
Nat’l Chemistry Week
Nat’l Character Counts Week
Nat’l Forest Products Week
Nat’l School Bus Safety Week
~~~21 OCT Observances
294 days so far this year…71 days remain in 2009
Internat’l Stuttering Awareness Day
Internat’l Credit Union Day
• British Empire: Trafalgar Day — celebrated in the 19th and early 20th Century
• Honduras : Army Day (1956)
• Hong Kong : Kite Flying Festival
• Laos : Full Moon Holiday
• Republic of China: Overseas Chinese Day
• Somalia/Sudan : Revolution Day (1964)
• United Kingdom: Apple Day
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1772__Samuel Taylor Coleridge England, poet (Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
1917__Dizzy Gillespie trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
1921__Malcolm Arnold Northampton England, composer (Bridge over River Kwai)
1925__Joyce Randolph actress (Trixie-Honeymooners)
1940__Manfred Mann (Michael Lubowitz) rocker "Do Wah Diddy Diddy"
1956__Carrie Fisher actress (Star Wars-Princess Lelia)
~ATHLETICS
1928__Edward "Whitey" Ford hall of fame pitcher (NY Yankees)
1959__George Bell Dom Rep, outfielder (Blue Jays)
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1922 – Liliane de Bettencourt heir to L'Oreal
1949 – Benjamin Netanyahu 9th Prime Minister of Israel
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1833__Alfred Bernhard Nobel Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes
1950__Ronald E. McNair physicist, astronaut: mission specialist aboard the ill-fated Challenger Space Shuttle
~~~In Remembrance–
1765__Giovanni Paolo Pannini Italian painter and architect @ 74
1805__Horatio Nelson British admiral- from injuries at Trafalgar
@ 47
1831__Nat Turner & 19 associates, led slave rebellion-hung @ 31
1969__Jack Kerouac American novelist- of cirrhosis @ 47
1992__Jim Garrison American attorney @ 71
~~~Historical Events on this day
2137 -BC__1st recorded total eclipse of the sun China
1520__Magellan entered the strait which bears his name
1879__Thomas Edison perfects the carbonized cotton filament light bulb
1944__HMAS Australia is attacked by the first kamikaze
1945__Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time
1950__Chinese forces occupy Tibet
1959__Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC)
1976__American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1997__Elton John’s tribute to Princess Diana, Candle in the Wind was declared by The Guinness Book of Records to be the biggest-selling single record of all time. In 37 days, the single reached 31.8 million copies sold, eclipsing the previous record held by Bing Crosby’s White Christmas. The Crosby song sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide -- in 55 years.
~ Holy Mackerel
1918__Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min
1989__1st black owners (Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m
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Jeopardy Categories Quiz
(these are things you should know…maybe)
1. In 1987, Wilma Mankiller became the first modern female chief of this Native American Nation, whose name can mean "The Real People," "Cave Dwellers," or "People of Fire."
2. This American poet explored new freedoms of language, structure, and subject matter in his collection Leaves of Grass.
3. This is the name given to the path of the forced removal of the Cherokee by the U.S. government from their homelands in the southeastern woodlands to western reservations after the discovery of gold on their lands in the 1830's.
4. This author whose novel The Bell Jar (1962) was released just before her suicide is most famous for her confessional poetry.
5. This poet-singer and cultural icon energized a generation with such songs as "The Times They Are A-Changin'," and has greatly influenced a-thinkin', a-writin', and music since the early 1960's.
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2. Who is Walt Whitman?
3. What is the Trail of Tears?
4. Who is Sylvia Plath?
5. Who is Robert Allen Zimmerman—Bob Dylan?
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Tuesday
~~~Free Ramblings
Here I am at T-4—I leave on the 22nd—and I did get a lot done for the trip. I got both my still camera and my video camera ready. I had to clean up the camera stick from Egypt. That was easy. Then I tried to erase the stuff off my video camera. It is one of those with a 30 gig hard drive. Well I finally gave up and went to the manual. Turns out you can only delete data from the camera from the camera. That means you can’t do it from the computer. I had about 10 short 3 minute or less movies on there. I followed the instructions and it took 45 minutes to delete those files. I did get a little nervous as it asked me three different times if I really wanted to do that. But everything seems to be working fine. And I will have a clean hard drive for my Safaris. Cool.
Tomorrow I will lay out all my stuff. Then on Wednesday I’ll actually pack it. It needs to sit out for a day, so I can study it. Don’t want to forget anything. I will also measure my second bag to be sure it can be a carry on. I have several sizes of suitcases and some make the measurement, some don’t. Amazing how organized I sound. I just wish I felt organized. I’m hoping I don’t forget anything I really need. I also don’t want to take anything I don’t need. Decisions, decisions, decisions.
On my trip to Egypt, I returned to find out I had missed out on most of the Susan Boyle story. Luckily, thanks to the internet I was able to catch up on that story fairly quickly. I wonder if I will miss any big news while I am gone this time.
Another beautiful day in the neighborhood. We hit a rather balmy 71° and it only dropped to 43°. The nice breeze picked up to a quite a bit this afternoon, to about 35mph. Earlier in the day there was a small fire just north of The Peaks. It was contained to 100 acres. The wind made even that more difficult. It seems it was from an unattended campfire on private land. There are currently 4 fires within 75 miles of Flagstaff. This dry weather needs to end.
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~~~Random Facts
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile
The higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on his wife.
~~~Unusual News
WESSON, Miss. – A Mississippi high school student says she is fighting to get her picture in the yearbook after officials rejected it because she wore a tuxedo. Ceara Sturgis of Wesson, a senior at Wesson Attendance Center, said officials rejected her senior portrait because she chose to wear a tuxedo for the picture instead of traditional feminine clothing, WLBT-TV, Jackson, Miss., reported Thursday.
“It makes me feel I’m not important enough. Like just because I’m wearing a tux I can’t be in my senior yearbook. It’s like I never even went there. That’s my yearbook. This is my senior year and I’m not gonna be able to be in there because I’m wearing a tux. I don’t think it matters what we’re wearing” said Sturgis, who is openly gay. A Copiah County School District spokeswoman said yearbook photo decisions are left up to the principal. Principal Ronald Greer declined to comment. Sturgis’ mother, Veronica Rodriguez, said she has hired an attorney to help get her daughter’s picture in the yearbook.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Eva Longoria can be seen in a 2000 episode of Beverly Hills, 90210. Her acting career didn't start until after she had graduated from college with a degree in Kinesiology.
In the 90s, Jennifer Lopez was a back-up dancer for Janet Jackson.
Patty Lovelace was a waitress at Alston Bridges Barbeque restaurant in Shelby, NC before making it big in Nashville.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 17 Oct
Food & Drug Interaction Education and Awareness Week
Teen Read Week
Nat’l Chemistry Week
Nat’l Character Counts Week
Nat’l Forest Products Week
Nat’l School Bus Safety Week
~~~20 OCT Observances
293 days so far this year…72 days remain in 2009
National Support your Chamber of Commerce Day*
• Bahá'í Faith – Holy Day – Birth of the Báb [1819 Mirza Ali Mohammad]
• Buddhist-Laos: End of Buddhist Fast
*Not to be too political but the Chamber seems to loosing paying members due to its stance on environmental issues.
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1889__Margaret Dumont actress-Marx Brothers' foil
1905__Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay) author: mystery series
1913__Grandpa (Louis Marshall) Jones Country Music Hall of Famer: Hee Haw
1928__Dr. Joyce Brothers psycholgist
1932__William Christopher actor (Father Mulcahy-M*A*S*H)
1934__Martin Landau actor (Mission Impossible)
1936__Bobby Seale political activist: cofounder: Black Panthers
1953__Tom Petty singer (Heartbreakers)
~ATHLETICS
1931__Mickey Charles Mantle NY Yankee, home run slugger
1953__Keith Hernandez NY Met 1st baseman (9 golden gloves)
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1856__James Mann lawyer; U.S. Congressman: authored the Mann Act aka the White Slave Traffic Act
1859__John Dewey philosopher, educational theorist/writer
1925__Art Buchwald Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist
1946__Connie Chung news anchor
1951__Richard Frazier brother extraordinaire and CFO
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1632__Sir Christopher Wren England, astronomer/great architect
~~~In Remembrance–
1935__Arthur Henderson Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize founded Labour Party in Great Britain @ 72
1936__Anne Sullivan American teacher to Helen Keller @ 70
1964__Herbert Hoover 31st President of the US @ 90
1990__Joel McCrea, American actor @ 85
1994__Burt Lancaster, American actor @ 81
2006__Jane Wyatt American actress @ 96
~~~Historical Events on this day
1803__US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
1818__49th parallel established as the border between US & Canada
1944__30 blocks of Cleveland OH burn after a liquid gas factory explodes
1962__With Halloween just around the corner, Bobby “Boris” Picket and the Crypt Kickers reached the top of the charts this day (for two weeks) with The Monster Mash
1973__President Nixon fired special prosecutor Archibold Cox and abolished the Watergate prosecution force. He also accepted the resignation of Attorney General Elliot L Richardson and fired all his deputies.
1973__OPEC oil embargo begins
1990__Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
~ Holy Mackerel
1947__The House Un American Activities Committee began investigating alleged Communist activities involving Hollywood entertainers.
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Jeopardy Categories Quiz
(these are all artists whose works express a vision of reality beyond that of the visible world)
1. He is a Spanish surrealist painter whose most famous work, Persistence of Memory, is known for its dreamlike images of insects and melting clocks.
2. One of the most famous Pop Artists, this painter helped make the musical group Velvet Underground and other members of his studio "The Factory" famous.
3. This Irish writer explored shifts in consciousness in his monumental novel Ulysses.
4. This English novelist used stream-of-consciousness in such works as Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One's Own.
5. This British rock group gained fame with such psychadelic-influenced albums as Dark Side of the Moon, and incorporated light and laser spectacles into their live performances.
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1. Who is Salvador Dali? The painting is also known as Melting Clocks
2. Who is Andy Warhol?
3. What is James Joyce?
4. Who is Virginia Woolf?
5. Who is Pink Floyd?
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Here I am at T-4—I leave on the 22nd—and I did get a lot done for the trip. I got both my still camera and my video camera ready. I had to clean up the camera stick from Egypt. That was easy. Then I tried to erase the stuff off my video camera. It is one of those with a 30 gig hard drive. Well I finally gave up and went to the manual. Turns out you can only delete data from the camera from the camera. That means you can’t do it from the computer. I had about 10 short 3 minute or less movies on there. I followed the instructions and it took 45 minutes to delete those files. I did get a little nervous as it asked me three different times if I really wanted to do that. But everything seems to be working fine. And I will have a clean hard drive for my Safaris. Cool.
Tomorrow I will lay out all my stuff. Then on Wednesday I’ll actually pack it. It needs to sit out for a day, so I can study it. Don’t want to forget anything. I will also measure my second bag to be sure it can be a carry on. I have several sizes of suitcases and some make the measurement, some don’t. Amazing how organized I sound. I just wish I felt organized. I’m hoping I don’t forget anything I really need. I also don’t want to take anything I don’t need. Decisions, decisions, decisions.
On my trip to Egypt, I returned to find out I had missed out on most of the Susan Boyle story. Luckily, thanks to the internet I was able to catch up on that story fairly quickly. I wonder if I will miss any big news while I am gone this time.
Another beautiful day in the neighborhood. We hit a rather balmy 71° and it only dropped to 43°. The nice breeze picked up to a quite a bit this afternoon, to about 35mph. Earlier in the day there was a small fire just north of The Peaks. It was contained to 100 acres. The wind made even that more difficult. It seems it was from an unattended campfire on private land. There are currently 4 fires within 75 miles of Flagstaff. This dry weather needs to end.
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~~~Random Facts
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile
The higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on his wife.
~~~Unusual News
WESSON, Miss. – A Mississippi high school student says she is fighting to get her picture in the yearbook after officials rejected it because she wore a tuxedo. Ceara Sturgis of Wesson, a senior at Wesson Attendance Center, said officials rejected her senior portrait because she chose to wear a tuxedo for the picture instead of traditional feminine clothing, WLBT-TV, Jackson, Miss., reported Thursday.
“It makes me feel I’m not important enough. Like just because I’m wearing a tux I can’t be in my senior yearbook. It’s like I never even went there. That’s my yearbook. This is my senior year and I’m not gonna be able to be in there because I’m wearing a tux. I don’t think it matters what we’re wearing” said Sturgis, who is openly gay. A Copiah County School District spokeswoman said yearbook photo decisions are left up to the principal. Principal Ronald Greer declined to comment. Sturgis’ mother, Veronica Rodriguez, said she has hired an attorney to help get her daughter’s picture in the yearbook.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Eva Longoria can be seen in a 2000 episode of Beverly Hills, 90210. Her acting career didn't start until after she had graduated from college with a degree in Kinesiology.
In the 90s, Jennifer Lopez was a back-up dancer for Janet Jackson.
Patty Lovelace was a waitress at Alston Bridges Barbeque restaurant in Shelby, NC before making it big in Nashville.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 17 Oct
Food & Drug Interaction Education and Awareness Week
Teen Read Week
Nat’l Chemistry Week
Nat’l Character Counts Week
Nat’l Forest Products Week
Nat’l School Bus Safety Week
~~~20 OCT Observances
293 days so far this year…72 days remain in 2009
National Support your Chamber of Commerce Day*
• Bahá'í Faith – Holy Day – Birth of the Báb [1819 Mirza Ali Mohammad]
• Buddhist-Laos: End of Buddhist Fast
*Not to be too political but the Chamber seems to loosing paying members due to its stance on environmental issues.
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1889__Margaret Dumont actress-Marx Brothers' foil
1905__Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay) author: mystery series
1913__Grandpa (Louis Marshall) Jones Country Music Hall of Famer: Hee Haw
1928__Dr. Joyce Brothers psycholgist
1932__William Christopher actor (Father Mulcahy-M*A*S*H)
1934__Martin Landau actor (Mission Impossible)
1936__Bobby Seale political activist: cofounder: Black Panthers
1953__Tom Petty singer (Heartbreakers)
~ATHLETICS
1931__Mickey Charles Mantle NY Yankee, home run slugger
1953__Keith Hernandez NY Met 1st baseman (9 golden gloves)
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1856__James Mann lawyer; U.S. Congressman: authored the Mann Act aka the White Slave Traffic Act
1859__John Dewey philosopher, educational theorist/writer
1925__Art Buchwald Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist
1946__Connie Chung news anchor
1951__Richard Frazier brother extraordinaire and CFO
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1632__Sir Christopher Wren England, astronomer/great architect
~~~In Remembrance–
1935__Arthur Henderson Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize founded Labour Party in Great Britain @ 72
1936__Anne Sullivan American teacher to Helen Keller @ 70
1964__Herbert Hoover 31st President of the US @ 90
1990__Joel McCrea, American actor @ 85
1994__Burt Lancaster, American actor @ 81
2006__Jane Wyatt American actress @ 96
~~~Historical Events on this day
1803__US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
1818__49th parallel established as the border between US & Canada
1944__30 blocks of Cleveland OH burn after a liquid gas factory explodes
1962__With Halloween just around the corner, Bobby “Boris” Picket and the Crypt Kickers reached the top of the charts this day (for two weeks) with The Monster Mash
1973__President Nixon fired special prosecutor Archibold Cox and abolished the Watergate prosecution force. He also accepted the resignation of Attorney General Elliot L Richardson and fired all his deputies.
1973__OPEC oil embargo begins
1990__Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
~ Holy Mackerel
1947__The House Un American Activities Committee began investigating alleged Communist activities involving Hollywood entertainers.
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Jeopardy Categories Quiz
(these are all artists whose works express a vision of reality beyond that of the visible world)
1. He is a Spanish surrealist painter whose most famous work, Persistence of Memory, is known for its dreamlike images of insects and melting clocks.
2. One of the most famous Pop Artists, this painter helped make the musical group Velvet Underground and other members of his studio "The Factory" famous.
3. This Irish writer explored shifts in consciousness in his monumental novel Ulysses.
4. This English novelist used stream-of-consciousness in such works as Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One's Own.
5. This British rock group gained fame with such psychadelic-influenced albums as Dark Side of the Moon, and incorporated light and laser spectacles into their live performances.
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1. Who is Salvador Dali? The painting is also known as Melting Clocks
2. Who is Andy Warhol?
3. What is James Joyce?
4. Who is Virginia Woolf?
5. Who is Pink Floyd?
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Monday
~~~Free Ramblings
A really nice day here in Flagstaff. The Cardinals played a good game against an evenly matched team. Neither team is havin’ a good season, but saw some good football. The Broncos play tomorrow night, so I will get to see them.
It is amazing to me what lengths people will go to for their 15 minutes. The Balloon Boy hoax is the latest to get caught. The kids that were involved will be messed up for years, if not their whole lives. I really wish there was someone to blame, but it is such an overwhelming mess. The Cable channels that put families’ lives on TV are to blame. The people who watch the shows are to blame. The companies that advertise on these programs are to blame. There have been so many children ruined when they became ‘child stars’. I know that many were not ruined and became happy, successful adults. From my view, way too many of these kids got two chances at their 15 minutes—first as child stars and again when they hit bottom. I don’t have any answers, just questions as to why or how a parent would allow this to be done.
The other 15 minutes story in the news that is bothering me is the Sedona Tragedy. Three people died. In this case, the people who participated and paid big bucks, were not looking for their 15 minutes, they were just looking for seeing the world in a new way. The leader wanted his 15 minutes. Now that the three deaths have been ruled homicide, we will all see this plays out. My concern is that many more will be hurt through no fault of their own. Many Native tribes do a sweat. Of course the news media picked up on that, and thankfully one Native reminded everyone that there is always a danger when one tries to imitate something that is not fully understood. I have heard this before, when so many used to go to a Sun Dance at Big Mountain. Many traditional Navajos declined to participate because the Sun Dance is not a tradition of the Dine’. The New Age people are another group that will probably be hurt. I must admit I don’t understand their beliefs, but the New Age people I have met, though a very small number, do not seem to be looking for their 15 minutes. They are just looking for answers to questions we all have at some time in our lives. Some have turned “new age” into a business, for sure. From my point of view, they are not the true believers. Maybe I’m just naive.
I’m glad Flagstaff is staying warm this fall. We hit 75° today and only dropped to 42° last night. This kind of weather will make the 80’s and 90’s in Africa a little more bearable. I can’t imagine leaving Flagstaff if the highs here were in the 40’s and ending up in really hot weather in Africa. I’m sure the return in mid November will provide me with enough cold temperatures.
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~~~Random Facts
Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
~~~Unusual Oklahoma Laws
Dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate in groups of three or more on private property.
Oklahoma will not tolerate anyone taking a bite out of another’s hamburger.
It is illegal to have the hind legs of farm animals in your boots.
People who make “ugly faces” at dogs may be fined and/or jailed.
Cars must be tethered outside of public buildings.
Oral sex is a misdemeanor and is punishable by one year in jail and a $2,500 fine.
Anyone arrested for soliciting a hooker must have their name and picture shown on television.
Fish may not be contained in fishbowls while on a public bus.
Tissues are not to be found in the back of one’s car.
It is illegal for the owner of a bar to allow anyone inside to pretend to have sex with a buffalo.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Rush Limbaugh was a shoe shiner at one point.
Lucy Liu was an aerobics instructor at one point.
The only non-entertainment job LL Cool J had as a kid was a brief stint as a paper boy.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 17 Oct
Food & Drug Interaction Education and Awareness Week
Teen Read Week
Nat’l Chemistry Week
Nat’l Character Counts Week
Nat’l Forest Products Week
Nat’l School Bus Safety Week
~~~19 OCT Observances
292 days so far this year…73 days remain in 2009
Evaluate Your Life Day
Albania – Mother Teresa Day.
Brazil – Independence Day of State of Piauí
Niue – Constitution Day in honor of the country's independence (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) 1974.
Mauritania : Independence Day from France(1960) East coast of Africa
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1931__John Le Carré, pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell spy novelist
1932__Robert Reed actor (Mike-Brady Bunch)
1937__Peter Max (Finkelstein) pop artist: psychedelic best-selling poster
1945__John Lithgow actor 3rd Rock from the Sun
1945__Jeannie C. Riley (Stephenson) singer: Harper Valley P.T.A.
~ATHLETICS
1850__Annie Peck mountain climber Matterhorn
1949__Lynn Dickey football: Green Bay Packers
1962__Evander Hollyfield Heavyweight boxing champ
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1748__Martha Jefferson (Wayles) 1st lady
1784__John McLoughlin Hudson's Bay Co pioneer in Oregon Country
1885__Charles Merrill stock company mogul: founded Merrill-Lynch
1922__Jack Anderson columnist
1945__Patricia Ireland social activist: president of NOW
1967__Amy Carter Pres Carter's daughter
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1680 – John Abernethy Irish Protestant minister
1720 – John Woolman American Quaker preacher and abolitionist
~~~In Remembrance–
1745__Jonathan Swift Irish author @ 78
1950__Edna St. Vincent Millay American poet @ 58 from a fall
1978__Gig Young actor-- kills his bride of 3 weeks & then commits suicide @ 64
1994__Martha Raye American comedian and actress @78
~~~Historical Events on this day
1781__Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends
1818__CHICKASAW treaty: cede their claims to lands in Tennessee. (7 stat.192)
1849__Elizabeth Blackwell became 1st woman in US to receive medical degree
1870__1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps
1933__Basketball was introduced to the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games
1960__The US Places an embargo on exports to Cuba.
1988__Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
1988__S African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize
1988__A bill passed by the senate limits the number of ads that can be shown during children's TV programs.
~ Holy Mackerel
1951__Pres Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
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Jeopardy Categories Quiz
(these writers or composers can be found at the movies)
1. This nineteenth century German Romantic composer's tempestuous life was depicted in the film, Immortal beloved.
2. This Elizabethan playwright's tragedy about star-crossed lovers became a feature film released in 1997, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
3. Victorian author whose classic novel, Great Expectations has been reset in contemporary Florida in a current release of the same title starring Ethan Hawke and Gweneth Paltrow.
4. This author, whose novel The Color Purple was made into a movie starring Whoopi Goldberg, has also published several volumes of poetry.
5. Austrian child prodigy and composer whose last years were dramatized in the Broadway play and feature film, Amadeus.
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1. Who is Ludwig von Beethoven?
2. Who Is Alexandre Dumas?
3. What is Charles Dickens?
4. Who is Alice Walker?
5. Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
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A really nice day here in Flagstaff. The Cardinals played a good game against an evenly matched team. Neither team is havin’ a good season, but saw some good football. The Broncos play tomorrow night, so I will get to see them.
It is amazing to me what lengths people will go to for their 15 minutes. The Balloon Boy hoax is the latest to get caught. The kids that were involved will be messed up for years, if not their whole lives. I really wish there was someone to blame, but it is such an overwhelming mess. The Cable channels that put families’ lives on TV are to blame. The people who watch the shows are to blame. The companies that advertise on these programs are to blame. There have been so many children ruined when they became ‘child stars’. I know that many were not ruined and became happy, successful adults. From my view, way too many of these kids got two chances at their 15 minutes—first as child stars and again when they hit bottom. I don’t have any answers, just questions as to why or how a parent would allow this to be done.
The other 15 minutes story in the news that is bothering me is the Sedona Tragedy. Three people died. In this case, the people who participated and paid big bucks, were not looking for their 15 minutes, they were just looking for seeing the world in a new way. The leader wanted his 15 minutes. Now that the three deaths have been ruled homicide, we will all see this plays out. My concern is that many more will be hurt through no fault of their own. Many Native tribes do a sweat. Of course the news media picked up on that, and thankfully one Native reminded everyone that there is always a danger when one tries to imitate something that is not fully understood. I have heard this before, when so many used to go to a Sun Dance at Big Mountain. Many traditional Navajos declined to participate because the Sun Dance is not a tradition of the Dine’. The New Age people are another group that will probably be hurt. I must admit I don’t understand their beliefs, but the New Age people I have met, though a very small number, do not seem to be looking for their 15 minutes. They are just looking for answers to questions we all have at some time in our lives. Some have turned “new age” into a business, for sure. From my point of view, they are not the true believers. Maybe I’m just naive.
I’m glad Flagstaff is staying warm this fall. We hit 75° today and only dropped to 42° last night. This kind of weather will make the 80’s and 90’s in Africa a little more bearable. I can’t imagine leaving Flagstaff if the highs here were in the 40’s and ending up in really hot weather in Africa. I’m sure the return in mid November will provide me with enough cold temperatures.
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~~~Random Facts
Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
~~~Unusual Oklahoma Laws
Dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate in groups of three or more on private property.
Oklahoma will not tolerate anyone taking a bite out of another’s hamburger.
It is illegal to have the hind legs of farm animals in your boots.
People who make “ugly faces” at dogs may be fined and/or jailed.
Cars must be tethered outside of public buildings.
Oral sex is a misdemeanor and is punishable by one year in jail and a $2,500 fine.
Anyone arrested for soliciting a hooker must have their name and picture shown on television.
Fish may not be contained in fishbowls while on a public bus.
Tissues are not to be found in the back of one’s car.
It is illegal for the owner of a bar to allow anyone inside to pretend to have sex with a buffalo.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Rush Limbaugh was a shoe shiner at one point.
Lucy Liu was an aerobics instructor at one point.
The only non-entertainment job LL Cool J had as a kid was a brief stint as a paper boy.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 17 Oct
Food & Drug Interaction Education and Awareness Week
Teen Read Week
Nat’l Chemistry Week
Nat’l Character Counts Week
Nat’l Forest Products Week
Nat’l School Bus Safety Week
~~~19 OCT Observances
292 days so far this year…73 days remain in 2009
Evaluate Your Life Day
Albania – Mother Teresa Day.
Brazil – Independence Day of State of Piauí
Niue – Constitution Day in honor of the country's independence (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) 1974.
Mauritania : Independence Day from France(1960) East coast of Africa
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1931__John Le Carré, pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell spy novelist
1932__Robert Reed actor (Mike-Brady Bunch)
1937__Peter Max (Finkelstein) pop artist: psychedelic best-selling poster
1945__John Lithgow actor 3rd Rock from the Sun
1945__Jeannie C. Riley (Stephenson) singer: Harper Valley P.T.A.
~ATHLETICS
1850__Annie Peck mountain climber Matterhorn
1949__Lynn Dickey football: Green Bay Packers
1962__Evander Hollyfield Heavyweight boxing champ
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1748__Martha Jefferson (Wayles) 1st lady
1784__John McLoughlin Hudson's Bay Co pioneer in Oregon Country
1885__Charles Merrill stock company mogul: founded Merrill-Lynch
1922__Jack Anderson columnist
1945__Patricia Ireland social activist: president of NOW
1967__Amy Carter Pres Carter's daughter
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1680 – John Abernethy Irish Protestant minister
1720 – John Woolman American Quaker preacher and abolitionist
~~~In Remembrance–
1745__Jonathan Swift Irish author @ 78
1950__Edna St. Vincent Millay American poet @ 58 from a fall
1978__Gig Young actor-- kills his bride of 3 weeks & then commits suicide @ 64
1994__Martha Raye American comedian and actress @78
~~~Historical Events on this day
1781__Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends
1818__CHICKASAW treaty: cede their claims to lands in Tennessee. (7 stat.192)
1849__Elizabeth Blackwell became 1st woman in US to receive medical degree
1870__1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps
1933__Basketball was introduced to the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games
1960__The US Places an embargo on exports to Cuba.
1988__Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
1988__S African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize
1988__A bill passed by the senate limits the number of ads that can be shown during children's TV programs.
~ Holy Mackerel
1951__Pres Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
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Jeopardy Categories Quiz
(these writers or composers can be found at the movies)
1. This nineteenth century German Romantic composer's tempestuous life was depicted in the film, Immortal beloved.
2. This Elizabethan playwright's tragedy about star-crossed lovers became a feature film released in 1997, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
3. Victorian author whose classic novel, Great Expectations has been reset in contemporary Florida in a current release of the same title starring Ethan Hawke and Gweneth Paltrow.
4. This author, whose novel The Color Purple was made into a movie starring Whoopi Goldberg, has also published several volumes of poetry.
5. Austrian child prodigy and composer whose last years were dramatized in the Broadway play and feature film, Amadeus.
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1. Who is Ludwig von Beethoven?
2. Who Is Alexandre Dumas?
3. What is Charles Dickens?
4. Who is Alice Walker?
5. Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
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Sunday
~~~Free Ramblings
It’s Fair Weekend in Tuba. While I attended and helped students and staffs participate in every fair while I was working, I must say I don’t miss the traffic. I do miss the parade, the food booths, seeing lots of families I taught, and the Ye’ Bi Cheii. I may go back up there next year, but was glad to just talk to friends up there and find out that everything was going well and of course, traffic is worse than ever.
Our fall weather stays warm. We hit 75° today and it dropped to 35° last night. There was very little breeze. It was nice one of my neighbors, as today was one of their girl’s birthdays. They had a nice party out by the trees across the parking lot. The most fun was watching the little ones attempt to break the piñata. Each relative had a role in the breaking. Mom helped the little one with the stick get close without getting hit herself. A pre-teenage brother got his first change to be the one who swings the piñata from the rope. This was really a rite of passage, as the dad stood off to the side, giving up that role for the first time. Aunties and older children were busy trying to keep the screaming little ones away from the stick. As the kids reached a frenzy, a young man appeared from almost nowhere and busted the piñata as everyone dove for the candy. A great day for a birthday party.
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~~~Random Facts
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue
Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.
~~~Unusual News Story
ALAMO HEIGHTS, Texas – A Texas museum dedicated to a retired plumber’s artwork — decorated toilet seats —has been named the Wackiest Attraction in America by a popular Web site. TripAdvisor.com bestowed that designation on the Toilet Seat Museum, in the garage of Alamo Heights artist and retired plumber Barney Smith. The museum features 900 hand-carved, painted and decorated toilet seats for the viewing pleasure of the public,KSAT-TV, San Antonio, Texas, reported Thursday. Smith has toilet seats decorated as tributes to celebrities, famous historical scenes and even lids with relics attached from the space shuttle Challenger explosion and Nazi concentration camps.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Grammy Award-winning John Legend said he used to clean musical instruments & work at Sears.
In the 1970s, Jay Leno got his show biz start with a two-word part in an episode of the detective show Holmes & Yoyo.
David Letterman was a stock boy at Atlas grocery store in Indianapolis. He also was a weatherman on the local news in Indianapolis.
Olympic medalist Carl Lewis once worked at McDonald's.
Jerry Lewis was once a bell boy.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 17 Oct
Food & Drug Interaction Education and Awareness Week
Teen Read Week
Nat’l Chemistry Week
Nat’l Character Counts Week
Nat’l Forest Products Week
Nat’l School Bus Safety Week
~~~18 OCT Observances
291 days so far this year…74 days remain in 2009
World Menopause Day
Nat’l Chocolate Cupcake Day
Alaska—Alaska Day (1867 switched from Russia to US flag)
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1877__Florence Dahl Walrath humanitarian, founded Cradle society
1915__Victor Sen Yung SF Calif, actor (Bonanza)
1922__Little Orphan Annie comic strip character
1926__Chuck Berry St Louis, rocker
1926__George C Scott Wise Va, actor
1934__Inger Stevens Stockholm Sweden, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter)
1947__Laura Nyro Bronx, singer/songwriter
1948__Ntozake Shange (Paulette Williams) poet, playwright
1951__Pam Dawber Detroit, actress (Mindy-Mork & Mindy)
1961__Wynton Marsalis New Orleans La, jazz trumpeter
~ATHLETICS
1939__Mike Ditka Pro & College Football Hall of Famer
1956__Martina Navratilova Prague Czech, tennis
1958__Thomas Hearns Heavyweight Boxing Champ
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1919__Pierre Elliot Trudeau (L) 15th Canadian PM
1927__Katherine Fanning Chicago, editor (Christian Science Monitor)
1935__John B Coleman Boston, hotel magnate (Ritz Carlton)
1939__Lee Harvey Oswald JFK assassin
~~~In Remembrance–
1541__Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland @ 52 stoke
1911__Alfred Binet, French psychologist IQ test @ 54
1931__Thomas Edison, American inventor @ 84
1982__Bess Truman former 1st lady @ 97
~~~Historical Events on this day
1648__1st US labor organization forms (Boston Shoemakers)
1767__The Mason-Dixon Line is established.
1898__American troops raise the U.S. flag over Puerto Rico.
1922__British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established
1954__Texas Instruments sells first commercially successful transistor radio, the Regency TR-1
1967__Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released
1968__Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas
~ Holy Mackerel
1776__In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"
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Jeopardy Categories Quiz
(these answers all relate to the idea of water)
1. This American architect is known for the House of Falling Water .
2. La Mer or The Sea is an impressionistic composition by this 19th Century French musician.
3. This film by Elia Kazan starred Eva Marie Saint and Marlon Brando, who "Coulda been a contenda."
4. This composer of The Messiah is also known for his collection Water Music.
5. This Renaissance painter is known for his painting of Venus arising from the sea.
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2. Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
3. Who Is Claude Debussy?
4. What is “On the Waterfront”?
5. Who is Georg Frideric Handel?
6. Who is Sandro Botticelli?
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It’s Fair Weekend in Tuba. While I attended and helped students and staffs participate in every fair while I was working, I must say I don’t miss the traffic. I do miss the parade, the food booths, seeing lots of families I taught, and the Ye’ Bi Cheii. I may go back up there next year, but was glad to just talk to friends up there and find out that everything was going well and of course, traffic is worse than ever.
Our fall weather stays warm. We hit 75° today and it dropped to 35° last night. There was very little breeze. It was nice one of my neighbors, as today was one of their girl’s birthdays. They had a nice party out by the trees across the parking lot. The most fun was watching the little ones attempt to break the piñata. Each relative had a role in the breaking. Mom helped the little one with the stick get close without getting hit herself. A pre-teenage brother got his first change to be the one who swings the piñata from the rope. This was really a rite of passage, as the dad stood off to the side, giving up that role for the first time. Aunties and older children were busy trying to keep the screaming little ones away from the stick. As the kids reached a frenzy, a young man appeared from almost nowhere and busted the piñata as everyone dove for the candy. A great day for a birthday party.
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~~~Random Facts
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue
Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.
~~~Unusual News Story
ALAMO HEIGHTS, Texas – A Texas museum dedicated to a retired plumber’s artwork — decorated toilet seats —has been named the Wackiest Attraction in America by a popular Web site. TripAdvisor.com bestowed that designation on the Toilet Seat Museum, in the garage of Alamo Heights artist and retired plumber Barney Smith. The museum features 900 hand-carved, painted and decorated toilet seats for the viewing pleasure of the public,KSAT-TV, San Antonio, Texas, reported Thursday. Smith has toilet seats decorated as tributes to celebrities, famous historical scenes and even lids with relics attached from the space shuttle Challenger explosion and Nazi concentration camps.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Grammy Award-winning John Legend said he used to clean musical instruments & work at Sears.
In the 1970s, Jay Leno got his show biz start with a two-word part in an episode of the detective show Holmes & Yoyo.
David Letterman was a stock boy at Atlas grocery store in Indianapolis. He also was a weatherman on the local news in Indianapolis.
Olympic medalist Carl Lewis once worked at McDonald's.
Jerry Lewis was once a bell boy.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 17 Oct
Food & Drug Interaction Education and Awareness Week
Teen Read Week
Nat’l Chemistry Week
Nat’l Character Counts Week
Nat’l Forest Products Week
Nat’l School Bus Safety Week
~~~18 OCT Observances
291 days so far this year…74 days remain in 2009
World Menopause Day
Nat’l Chocolate Cupcake Day
Alaska—Alaska Day (1867 switched from Russia to US flag)
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1877__Florence Dahl Walrath humanitarian, founded Cradle society
1915__Victor Sen Yung SF Calif, actor (Bonanza)
1922__Little Orphan Annie comic strip character
1926__Chuck Berry St Louis, rocker
1926__George C Scott Wise Va, actor
1934__Inger Stevens Stockholm Sweden, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter)
1947__Laura Nyro Bronx, singer/songwriter
1948__Ntozake Shange (Paulette Williams) poet, playwright
1951__Pam Dawber Detroit, actress (Mindy-Mork & Mindy)
1961__Wynton Marsalis New Orleans La, jazz trumpeter
~ATHLETICS
1939__Mike Ditka Pro & College Football Hall of Famer
1956__Martina Navratilova Prague Czech, tennis
1958__Thomas Hearns Heavyweight Boxing Champ
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1919__Pierre Elliot Trudeau (L) 15th Canadian PM
1927__Katherine Fanning Chicago, editor (Christian Science Monitor)
1935__John B Coleman Boston, hotel magnate (Ritz Carlton)
1939__Lee Harvey Oswald JFK assassin
~~~In Remembrance–
1541__Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland @ 52 stoke
1911__Alfred Binet, French psychologist IQ test @ 54
1931__Thomas Edison, American inventor @ 84
1982__Bess Truman former 1st lady @ 97
~~~Historical Events on this day
1648__1st US labor organization forms (Boston Shoemakers)
1767__The Mason-Dixon Line is established.
1898__American troops raise the U.S. flag over Puerto Rico.
1922__British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established
1954__Texas Instruments sells first commercially successful transistor radio, the Regency TR-1
1967__Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released
1968__Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas
~ Holy Mackerel
1776__In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"
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Jeopardy Categories Quiz
(these answers all relate to the idea of water)
1. This American architect is known for the House of Falling Water .
2. La Mer or The Sea is an impressionistic composition by this 19th Century French musician.
3. This film by Elia Kazan starred Eva Marie Saint and Marlon Brando, who "Coulda been a contenda."
4. This composer of The Messiah is also known for his collection Water Music.
5. This Renaissance painter is known for his painting of Venus arising from the sea.
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2. Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
3. Who Is Claude Debussy?
4. What is “On the Waterfront”?
5. Who is Georg Frideric Handel?
6. Who is Sandro Botticelli?
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Saturday
~~~Free Ramblings
Today I needed to get a haircut. So I call the place. My lady doesn’t work there anymore. So I called her cell phone. Turns out she changed chains. Amazing how these ladies move around. Well her new location is in a shopping center, so there is plenty of parking. Turned out to be very little hassle. I also learned that one of her relatives—who died in 1964—left her 20 acres of land on Hopi. I didn’t know there were land owners there, but turns out, some families do own land from 1868 and while the tribe tries to buy the land back, it is up to the land owner. Good for her. She and her family won’t live there, but will do something with it. They go to Kykotsmovi on Monday to see the land.
Before my haircut, I went to get some annual blood work done. The lady who came in informs me she is a student from the local community college and is learning to be a Phlebotomist and would it be OK if she drew my blood. I said sure. Then a certified phlebotomist came in to observe. She missed the first time, and told the certified lady to do it. I told her she would never learn unless she practiced. So she stuck me again. This time she got the blood she needed. She seemed grateful that I allowed her to do it again. I told them I had a career in education and that everybody needs to learn. Then she asked me if I could come back again, because she had to do 90 successful sticks for her class. I graciously declined. I didn’t tell her the last time I had this done, the certified person missed twice and had to call in another person for a third stick. I guess I work hard to make my blood and will not give it up willingly.
I had to check the trees today. We got up to 70° and last night was only 42°. It was breezy, but sure didn’t feel like fall. In all my errand running today, I had to run the A/C in my car. If nothing else Flagstaff always keeps us guessing about the weather. The forest service decided to do another prescribed burn today. I was one of the smokiest we have had in a long time. It didn’t make it to the East side, but as the temps cool, I’m sure we will get some. These fires sure look ominous if you don’t know they are ‘prescribed.’ Actually they look ominous even when you know it is planned, especially with the breezes we had today.
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~~~Random Facts
25% of adults say online romances “don’t count as cheating
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Smearing shaving cream over the bathroom mirror will reduce
that pesky fogging for about a week or two.
~~~Unusual News Story
VERNON, Conn. – Police in Connecticut said they arrested a man in ninja garb who was allegedly waving Nunchakus and talking about wanting to beat up politicians. Investigators said they received numerous reports of a man in a ninja costume waving Nunchakus Sunday on a Vernon street corner, the Hartford (Conn.) Courant reported Monday. The man was shouting about his desire to beat up U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, Ind-Conn., and other subjects, police said.
They said the man became cooperative when he saw officers with bean bags and Taser stun guns. Garland Eastman, 30, was charged with breach of peace. He was taken to Rockville General Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Before her notable role as Xena, Lucy Lawless had traveled to Australia and worked for a gold-mining company in a small outback town.
Long before the TV series Friends, Matt LeBlanc had trained to be a professional carpenter.
Heath Ledger's first acting gig was in a 1996 Australian TV series called "Sweat" where he played a gay elite cyclist.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 17 Oct
Food & Drug Interaction Education and Awareness Week
Teen Read Week
Nat’l Chemistry Week
Nat’l Character Counts Week
Nat’l Forest Products Week
Nat’l School Bus Safety Week
~~~17 OCT Observances
290 days so far this year…75 days remain in 2009
Internat’l Day for the Irradiation of Poverty
Mulligan Day—Do-Over Day
^India Dasara: 9 days of dancing and singing
^Haiti – Death of Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1806), leader of revolution and first
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1711__Jupiter Hammon 1st American black to publish poetry
1886__Spring Byington Colo Springs, actress (December Bride)
1903__Irene Ryan El Paso Texas, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies)
1903__Nathanael West American novelist (Day of the Locusts)
1914__Jerry (Jerome) Siegel cartoonist: Superman
1915__Arthur Miller playwright (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible)
1919__Rita Hayworth (Alzheimer victim), actress
1920__Montgomery Clift actor
1921__Tom Poston actor
1941__James Seals Sidney Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)
1942__Gary Puckett vocalist (& the Union Gap)
1948__George Wendt Chicago Ill, actor (Norm-Cheers)
1958__Alan Jackson country singer
1959__Dolph Lundgren actor 1963__Norm Macdonald actor, comedian, celebrity impersonator
1972__Eminem (Marshall Bruce Mathers III) rapper
~ATHLETICS
1848__William "Candy" Cummings created the curve ball
1946__Bob Seagren National Track & Field Hall of Famer: Olympic gold medalist
1938__Robert "Evel" Knievel motorcycle daredevil
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1780__Richard Johnson 9th U.S. Vice President
1930__Jimmy Breslin newspaper columnist
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1912__Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani) 263rd pope
~~~In Remembrance–
1849__Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer @ 39 of TB or Cystic Fibrosis
1889__Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher @ 61
1910__Julia Ward Howe composer (Battle Hymn of the Republic), @ 91
1991__Tennessee Ernie Ford, singer and TV @ 72
2007__ Joey Bishop, member of the Rat Pack @ 89
2007__ Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer @ 76
~~~Historical Events on this day
1777__ The Battles of Saratoga, a campaign that helped decide the outcome of the American Revolution, end.
1781__ Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
1860__ 1st pro golf tournament held (Scotland) (Willie Park wins)
1888__ The first issue of National Geographic Magazine published
1933__Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany
1934__"The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio “HENRY…”
1957__Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit White House
1961__NY Museum of Modern Art hung Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down, It wasn't corrected until December 3rd
1967__The play "Hair" open in NY
1968__Two black athletes make the Black Power Salute @ Mexico Olympics
1979__Mother Teresa of India, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1989__Earthquake in SF (6.9) cancels 3rd game of 86th World Series
~ Holy Mackerel
1845__According to a Boston newspaper, the entire audience walked out of a reading of The Raven. The audience walked out, not because of the material, but because of their objection to Edgar Allan Poe, the reader and author of the macabre poem.
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Jeopardy Categories Quiz
(these authors all wrote about journeys.)
1. This American patriot was inspired by European designs on his travels. His design for Monticello reflected the influence of Palladio.
2. This medieval English author told tales of the pilgrimage to Canterbury.
3. This Florentine author journeyed to hell and back. He was guided home by his love, Beatrice.
4. This storyteller's character Odysseus took the long way home from the Trojan War.
5. This American writer revolutionized the use of everyday speech in his tale about Huck Finn's journey on the Mississippi.
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2. Who is Thomas Jefferson?
3. Who Is Geoffrey Chaucer?
4. Who is Dante (Durante degli Alighieri )?
5. Who is Homer (0μηρος Homēros)?
6. Who is Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)?
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Today I needed to get a haircut. So I call the place. My lady doesn’t work there anymore. So I called her cell phone. Turns out she changed chains. Amazing how these ladies move around. Well her new location is in a shopping center, so there is plenty of parking. Turned out to be very little hassle. I also learned that one of her relatives—who died in 1964—left her 20 acres of land on Hopi. I didn’t know there were land owners there, but turns out, some families do own land from 1868 and while the tribe tries to buy the land back, it is up to the land owner. Good for her. She and her family won’t live there, but will do something with it. They go to Kykotsmovi on Monday to see the land.
Before my haircut, I went to get some annual blood work done. The lady who came in informs me she is a student from the local community college and is learning to be a Phlebotomist and would it be OK if she drew my blood. I said sure. Then a certified phlebotomist came in to observe. She missed the first time, and told the certified lady to do it. I told her she would never learn unless she practiced. So she stuck me again. This time she got the blood she needed. She seemed grateful that I allowed her to do it again. I told them I had a career in education and that everybody needs to learn. Then she asked me if I could come back again, because she had to do 90 successful sticks for her class. I graciously declined. I didn’t tell her the last time I had this done, the certified person missed twice and had to call in another person for a third stick. I guess I work hard to make my blood and will not give it up willingly.
I had to check the trees today. We got up to 70° and last night was only 42°. It was breezy, but sure didn’t feel like fall. In all my errand running today, I had to run the A/C in my car. If nothing else Flagstaff always keeps us guessing about the weather. The forest service decided to do another prescribed burn today. I was one of the smokiest we have had in a long time. It didn’t make it to the East side, but as the temps cool, I’m sure we will get some. These fires sure look ominous if you don’t know they are ‘prescribed.’ Actually they look ominous even when you know it is planned, especially with the breezes we had today.
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~~~Random Facts
25% of adults say online romances “don’t count as cheating
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Smearing shaving cream over the bathroom mirror will reduce
that pesky fogging for about a week or two.
~~~Unusual News Story
VERNON, Conn. – Police in Connecticut said they arrested a man in ninja garb who was allegedly waving Nunchakus and talking about wanting to beat up politicians. Investigators said they received numerous reports of a man in a ninja costume waving Nunchakus Sunday on a Vernon street corner, the Hartford (Conn.) Courant reported Monday. The man was shouting about his desire to beat up U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, Ind-Conn., and other subjects, police said.
They said the man became cooperative when he saw officers with bean bags and Taser stun guns. Garland Eastman, 30, was charged with breach of peace. He was taken to Rockville General Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Before her notable role as Xena, Lucy Lawless had traveled to Australia and worked for a gold-mining company in a small outback town.
Long before the TV series Friends, Matt LeBlanc had trained to be a professional carpenter.
Heath Ledger's first acting gig was in a 1996 Australian TV series called "Sweat" where he played a gay elite cyclist.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 17 Oct
Food & Drug Interaction Education and Awareness Week
Teen Read Week
Nat’l Chemistry Week
Nat’l Character Counts Week
Nat’l Forest Products Week
Nat’l School Bus Safety Week
~~~17 OCT Observances
290 days so far this year…75 days remain in 2009
Internat’l Day for the Irradiation of Poverty
Mulligan Day—Do-Over Day
^India Dasara: 9 days of dancing and singing
^Haiti – Death of Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1806), leader of revolution and first
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1711__Jupiter Hammon 1st American black to publish poetry
1886__Spring Byington Colo Springs, actress (December Bride)
1903__Irene Ryan El Paso Texas, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies)
1903__Nathanael West American novelist (Day of the Locusts)
1914__Jerry (Jerome) Siegel cartoonist: Superman
1915__Arthur Miller playwright (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible)
1919__Rita Hayworth (Alzheimer victim), actress
1920__Montgomery Clift actor
1921__Tom Poston actor
1941__James Seals Sidney Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)
1942__Gary Puckett vocalist (& the Union Gap)
1948__George Wendt Chicago Ill, actor (Norm-Cheers)
1958__Alan Jackson country singer
1959__Dolph Lundgren actor 1963__Norm Macdonald actor, comedian, celebrity impersonator
1972__Eminem (Marshall Bruce Mathers III) rapper
~ATHLETICS
1848__William "Candy" Cummings created the curve ball
1946__Bob Seagren National Track & Field Hall of Famer: Olympic gold medalist
1938__Robert "Evel" Knievel motorcycle daredevil
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1780__Richard Johnson 9th U.S. Vice President
1930__Jimmy Breslin newspaper columnist
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1912__Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani) 263rd pope
~~~In Remembrance–
1849__Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer @ 39 of TB or Cystic Fibrosis
1889__Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher @ 61
1910__Julia Ward Howe composer (Battle Hymn of the Republic), @ 91
1991__Tennessee Ernie Ford, singer and TV @ 72
2007__ Joey Bishop, member of the Rat Pack @ 89
2007__ Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer @ 76
~~~Historical Events on this day
1777__ The Battles of Saratoga, a campaign that helped decide the outcome of the American Revolution, end.
1781__ Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
1860__ 1st pro golf tournament held (Scotland) (Willie Park wins)
1888__ The first issue of National Geographic Magazine published
1933__Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany
1934__"The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio “HENRY…”
1957__Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit White House
1961__NY Museum of Modern Art hung Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down, It wasn't corrected until December 3rd
1967__The play "Hair" open in NY
1968__Two black athletes make the Black Power Salute @ Mexico Olympics
1979__Mother Teresa of India, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1989__Earthquake in SF (6.9) cancels 3rd game of 86th World Series
~ Holy Mackerel
1845__According to a Boston newspaper, the entire audience walked out of a reading of The Raven. The audience walked out, not because of the material, but because of their objection to Edgar Allan Poe, the reader and author of the macabre poem.
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Jeopardy Categories Quiz
(these authors all wrote about journeys.)
1. This American patriot was inspired by European designs on his travels. His design for Monticello reflected the influence of Palladio.
2. This medieval English author told tales of the pilgrimage to Canterbury.
3. This Florentine author journeyed to hell and back. He was guided home by his love, Beatrice.
4. This storyteller's character Odysseus took the long way home from the Trojan War.
5. This American writer revolutionized the use of everyday speech in his tale about Huck Finn's journey on the Mississippi.
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2. Who is Thomas Jefferson?
3. Who Is Geoffrey Chaucer?
4. Who is Dante (Durante degli Alighieri )?
5. Who is Homer (0μηρος Homēros)?
6. Who is Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)?
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Friday
~~~Free Ramblings
Our Tuba Group had lunch at a new BBQ place here in Flagstaff. Not bad. Catching up was nice. I won’t see them again till I get back from Africa. I’m sure they will do just fine. Mary’s mom had to move into a higher level care center. She’s 97 and still in good spirits. Cheryl had quite a saga to tell. She had to change her home flight when her mom passed. The return flight cost only a few dollars less than the round trip. Otis, her dog, had to stay a few extra days at the doggy care place and those few days cost a lot more, because she hadn’t planned it. Her house was not in danger from the Williams fire, but turns out, the fire was on the mountain not that far away. She said the neighbors, while not in danger, could watch the whole thing from their front yards.
An interesting political story made the front page of our local paper. Mayor Sara was meeting with a colleague at a local park. She noted that another park goer appeared to be selling drugs. So she sat on the bench while her colleague went to call the police. Cops arrive and an arrest follows. Then Mayor Sara walked around the park introducing herself to young park goers and giving a business card to them. She then asked the kids to have their parents give her a call. She told reporters that if any parent called she would tell the caller that their children are hanging out in a park where there is drug activity. Hmmm. I’m sure most of the kids figured the Mayor was just campaigning at the park. Won’t they be surprised if one of his/her parents actually calls the Mayor. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like the idea of dealers in parks. I just don’t like Mayor Sara seeing it as her responsibility to notify parents, when none of the young people she talked to were involved in the incident. If the park is a known drug dealer area, then as mayor, she should work to get the park to be a safer place. Mayor Sara has many other alternatives that don’t include scaring parents who allow their kids go to the park. The parks should be for young people. She needs to know that most kids are not at the park to ‘make a deal.’
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~~~Random Facts
10% of us switch tags in the store to pay less for an item
Dirty snow melts faster than clean snow
~~~Unusual News Story
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax.
Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said.
Linda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an hours-long shopping spree that began when she hired a stretch Hummer limousine to drop her off at a Burlington Coat Factory store, police Sgt. Lt. Michael Deakins said. Brown walked to a cash register and loudly announced she had won the lottery and would pay for each person's merchandise up to $500, he said.
"Well, of course, people like to hear that," Deakins said. "Apparently they were in line calling relatives who were not at the store and told them to come."
People flooded the registers as cashiers began ringing up purchase after purchase, but Brown had not yet paid the bill, Deakins said. At least 500 people filled the aisles and another 1,000 were outside trying to get in, he said.
"She was telling people she won $1.5 million," Deakins said. "But it ends up she didn't win anything. She had no money to pay for anything."
About an hour later, Brown had the limousine driver take her to a bank to withdraw money, but she returned empty-handed, police Detective Steven Nace said. By then, store employees had called in two dozen police officers to handle the crowds.
Shopper Candace Jordan said she told Brown she didn't need clothes, she needed help paying her rent.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Just before being signed by MGM, Angela Lansbury was working in Bullocks department store in Los Angeles with her mother Moyna.
Queen Latifah worked for a short time at Burger King.
Cyndi Lauper used to have a job cleaning out dog kennels.
Ralph Lauren sold sweaters and gloves at department stores.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 12 Oct
National School Lunch Week
World Rainforest Week
~~~16 OCT Observances
289 days so far this year…76 days remain in 2009
World Food Day
Nat’l Boss’ Day
Dictionary Day
Mammography Day
^Jewish Holy day Succoth-feast
^Poland Pope John Paul II Day
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1854__Oscar Wilde [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin author
1888__Eugene (Gladstone) O’Neill Nobel Prize [1936] and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
1913__Alice Pearce NYC, comedienne/actress (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched)
1925__Angela Lansbury London England, actress
1927__Günter (Wilhelm) Grass novelist: Dog Years, The Tin Drum; won 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature
1946__Suzanne Somers San Bruno, CA actress
~ATHLETICS
1900__Leon (Goose) Goslin baseball hall of famer
1941__Tim (James Timothy) McCarver baseball: catcher
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1758__Noah Webster lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary)
1886__David Ben-Gurion Plonsk Poland, 1st PM of Israel
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1752 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian @ 75-Father of New Testament criticism
~~~In Remembrance–
1774__Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet @ 24 (head injury)
1793__Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) @ 38
1981__Moshe Dayan, Israeli general @ 66 (heart attack)
1992__Shirley Booth, American actress @ 94
2007__Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress @ 86
~~~Historical Events on this day
1846__Dentist William T Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
1848__1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
1859__John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va
1869__Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
1916__Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (46 Amboy St, Brooklyn)
1923__Disney Co founded
1928__The frosted electric light bulb was patented
1946__10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
1946__President Truman lifts the price controls placed during the war on the sale of meat.
1962__Cuban Missile Crisis begins
1964__The People's Republic of China becomes the fifth country in the world with atomic bomb capability joining the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France.
1974__Rioting prisoners set fire to the Long Kesh Maze prison near Belfast.
1995__The Million Man March a political march convened by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan marches on Washington, DC.
~ Holy Mackerel
1940__American men are registering for draft and signing up at a rate of 1 million or more an hour. That’s 13+ months before Pearl Harbor.
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Jeopardy Categories Quiz
Correction: yesterday the answer to #1 should have been Georgia O’Keefe. To my knowledge there is no state named Irmgard and while she did write a book named ‘Red Poppy’, she was not a painter.
(these subjects are connected by an interest in light.)
1. This Polish astronomer of the 1500's laid the foundation for modern astronomy. He theorized that the sun was the center of our planetary system.
2. This French clergyman used height and light in his design for the first Gothic cathedral.
3. He was blinded by the light on the road to Damascus, and went on to spread Christianity throughout the Roman Empire.
4. This Greek philosopher felt that all human beings were locked in a dark cave, unaware of the light of truth.
5. This Dutch painter's interiors seem to contain their own sources of light. He is known for such works as Young Woman with a Water Jug.
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2. Who Is Abbot Suger?
3. Who is Paul?
4. Who is Plato?
5. Who is Johannes Vermeer?
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Our Tuba Group had lunch at a new BBQ place here in Flagstaff. Not bad. Catching up was nice. I won’t see them again till I get back from Africa. I’m sure they will do just fine. Mary’s mom had to move into a higher level care center. She’s 97 and still in good spirits. Cheryl had quite a saga to tell. She had to change her home flight when her mom passed. The return flight cost only a few dollars less than the round trip. Otis, her dog, had to stay a few extra days at the doggy care place and those few days cost a lot more, because she hadn’t planned it. Her house was not in danger from the Williams fire, but turns out, the fire was on the mountain not that far away. She said the neighbors, while not in danger, could watch the whole thing from their front yards.
An interesting political story made the front page of our local paper. Mayor Sara was meeting with a colleague at a local park. She noted that another park goer appeared to be selling drugs. So she sat on the bench while her colleague went to call the police. Cops arrive and an arrest follows. Then Mayor Sara walked around the park introducing herself to young park goers and giving a business card to them. She then asked the kids to have their parents give her a call. She told reporters that if any parent called she would tell the caller that their children are hanging out in a park where there is drug activity. Hmmm. I’m sure most of the kids figured the Mayor was just campaigning at the park. Won’t they be surprised if one of his/her parents actually calls the Mayor. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like the idea of dealers in parks. I just don’t like Mayor Sara seeing it as her responsibility to notify parents, when none of the young people she talked to were involved in the incident. If the park is a known drug dealer area, then as mayor, she should work to get the park to be a safer place. Mayor Sara has many other alternatives that don’t include scaring parents who allow their kids go to the park. The parks should be for young people. She needs to know that most kids are not at the park to ‘make a deal.’
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~~~Random Facts
10% of us switch tags in the store to pay less for an item
Dirty snow melts faster than clean snow
~~~Unusual News Story
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax.
Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said.
Linda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an hours-long shopping spree that began when she hired a stretch Hummer limousine to drop her off at a Burlington Coat Factory store, police Sgt. Lt. Michael Deakins said. Brown walked to a cash register and loudly announced she had won the lottery and would pay for each person's merchandise up to $500, he said.
"Well, of course, people like to hear that," Deakins said. "Apparently they were in line calling relatives who were not at the store and told them to come."
People flooded the registers as cashiers began ringing up purchase after purchase, but Brown had not yet paid the bill, Deakins said. At least 500 people filled the aisles and another 1,000 were outside trying to get in, he said.
"She was telling people she won $1.5 million," Deakins said. "But it ends up she didn't win anything. She had no money to pay for anything."
About an hour later, Brown had the limousine driver take her to a bank to withdraw money, but she returned empty-handed, police Detective Steven Nace said. By then, store employees had called in two dozen police officers to handle the crowds.
Shopper Candace Jordan said she told Brown she didn't need clothes, she needed help paying her rent.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Just before being signed by MGM, Angela Lansbury was working in Bullocks department store in Los Angeles with her mother Moyna.
Queen Latifah worked for a short time at Burger King.
Cyndi Lauper used to have a job cleaning out dog kennels.
Ralph Lauren sold sweaters and gloves at department stores.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 12 Oct
National School Lunch Week
World Rainforest Week
~~~16 OCT Observances
289 days so far this year…76 days remain in 2009
World Food Day
Nat’l Boss’ Day
Dictionary Day
Mammography Day
^Jewish Holy day Succoth-feast
^Poland Pope John Paul II Day
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1854__Oscar Wilde [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin author
1888__Eugene (Gladstone) O’Neill Nobel Prize [1936] and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
1913__Alice Pearce NYC, comedienne/actress (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched)
1925__Angela Lansbury London England, actress
1927__Günter (Wilhelm) Grass novelist: Dog Years, The Tin Drum; won 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature
1946__Suzanne Somers San Bruno, CA actress
~ATHLETICS
1900__Leon (Goose) Goslin baseball hall of famer
1941__Tim (James Timothy) McCarver baseball: catcher
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1758__Noah Webster lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary)
1886__David Ben-Gurion Plonsk Poland, 1st PM of Israel
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1752 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian @ 75-Father of New Testament criticism
~~~In Remembrance–
1774__Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet @ 24 (head injury)
1793__Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) @ 38
1981__Moshe Dayan, Israeli general @ 66 (heart attack)
1992__Shirley Booth, American actress @ 94
2007__Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress @ 86
~~~Historical Events on this day
1846__Dentist William T Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
1848__1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
1859__John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va
1869__Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
1916__Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (46 Amboy St, Brooklyn)
1923__Disney Co founded
1928__The frosted electric light bulb was patented
1946__10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
1946__President Truman lifts the price controls placed during the war on the sale of meat.
1962__Cuban Missile Crisis begins
1964__The People's Republic of China becomes the fifth country in the world with atomic bomb capability joining the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France.
1974__Rioting prisoners set fire to the Long Kesh Maze prison near Belfast.
1995__The Million Man March a political march convened by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan marches on Washington, DC.
~ Holy Mackerel
1940__American men are registering for draft and signing up at a rate of 1 million or more an hour. That’s 13+ months before Pearl Harbor.
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Jeopardy Categories Quiz
Correction: yesterday the answer to #1 should have been Georgia O’Keefe. To my knowledge there is no state named Irmgard and while she did write a book named ‘Red Poppy’, she was not a painter.
(these subjects are connected by an interest in light.)
1. This Polish astronomer of the 1500's laid the foundation for modern astronomy. He theorized that the sun was the center of our planetary system.
2. This French clergyman used height and light in his design for the first Gothic cathedral.
3. He was blinded by the light on the road to Damascus, and went on to spread Christianity throughout the Roman Empire.
4. This Greek philosopher felt that all human beings were locked in a dark cave, unaware of the light of truth.
5. This Dutch painter's interiors seem to contain their own sources of light. He is known for such works as Young Woman with a Water Jug.
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1. Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
2. Who Is Abbot Suger?
3. Who is Paul?
4. Who is Plato?
5. Who is Johannes Vermeer?
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Thursday
~~~Free Ramblings
I got a call from my dermatologist’s nurse this morning. Seems my nose does need surgery. I will be getting it when I get back from Africa. According to them, it is not a big deal, just a ‘little bump in the road’ of life. Easy for them to say, they aren’t having their nose cut. Oh well, this will be another experience many people go through. This procedure was not on my ‘bucket list’.
So I call BCBS to get my prescriptions. As expected, to get to a human I was challenged to listen to no less than 4 menus, and my choice was usually number five or six. I don’t know how many there were. The last time I had to do this, the lady wanted to know the exact date I was leaving, returning, and what countries I would be in. This time I told her I was going on vacation and she wanted no more information. I asked why she didn’t ask about my plans, and she said, “You said you were going on vacation. That means you are not being deployed. That is all we need to know.” Great. For those who care about this stuff, Federal BCBS uses Caremark Pharmacy as their pharmacy that determines how one can get refills. Interesting side note, my mother’s nursing home also used Caremark Pharmacy for part of the time she was there. It is odd to me that one Pharmacy gets to decide about refills for its competitors. When I get back, I’ll check into using Caremark and see if they use the same restrictions that they place on refills made by competitors when I buy from them. I really don’t want to get my meds by mail. I like talking to the pharmacist, and seeing them count out the tablets.
Another piece of good news today, that rainy day secret account my mom had, that I just learned about…I called the bank and found out it was ‘frozen’ because it had been inactive since 2004. I faxed them the letter I got, Greg from the bank called me back in about an hour. All I have to do now is fax them a letter that I want to close the account, since my name was also on it, and they will send me a cashier’s check for the amount in the account. Very cool, my trip to Africa is now a gift from my parents and my brother can get some more work done on their hacienda down in Mexico.
We had a nice day here. There was a small human caused fire on the Peaks. Well, small according to the forest service—about 8 acres. Whenever it is breezy and one sees a plume of smoke on the Peaks, concern certainly is appropriate. There were several ‘prescribed’ burns planned for today, but all were cancelled. It was hard to tell from the news report if the burn cancellation was due to the 15 mph breeze or the gusts to 30mph or the fact that many forest service people were at the 8 acre fire. Luckily they were able to put it out quickly. We made it to 64° this afternoon, and last night only dropped to 41°, so I could enjoy the fresh air. The breeze did remind me that it’s time for another hair cut.
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~~~Random Facts
The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo da Vinci, under the final portrait.
~~~Unusual News Story
JERSEY CITY, N.J. – New Jersey police said an incident that started with a public urination summons ended with a woman attempting to attack another woman with a samurai sword.
Jersey City Police Lt. Edgar Martinez said an off-duty officer spotted a man urinating on a tree at about 1 a.m. Sunday and six people emerged from a house where a party was taking place to argue with the officer while he was writing the man a summons, The Jersey Journal, Jersey City,reported. Investigators said Thanh Huynh, 39, emerged from the party during the argument and attempted to cut one of the women speaking with the officer with a three-foot-long samurai sword. Huynh was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes and unlawful possession of a weapon.
Police said they do not know Huynh’s motive for allegedly attacking the other woman.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Beyonce Knowles formed Destiny's Child in 1990 at the age of nine with her best friend.
Ashton Kutcher once pursued a career in biochemical engineering at the University of Iowa.
Burt Lancaster once worked as an acrobat in a circus until an injury forced him to quit.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 12 Oct
National School Lunch Week
World Rainforest Week
~~~15 OCT Observances
288 days so far this year…77 days remain in 2009
Get Smart About Credit Day
Nat’l Grouch Day
White Cane Safety Day
Global Hand Washing Day
^Brazil Teachers' Day
^Fiji Independence Day (from Great Britain since 1874)
^French Guiana : Cayenne Holiday
^Tunisia : Evacuation Day
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
70 B.C. __Virgil poet
1831__Helen Maria Hunt Jackson author (Ramona)
1844__Friedrich Nietzsche Germany, philosopher/anti-Semite
1881__P.G. Wodehouse British-American writer
1921__Mario Puzo author (Godfather and others)
1937__Barry McGuire Oklahoma City, singer (Eve of Destruction)
1937__Linda Lavin Portland Maine, actress (Alice)
1942__Penny Marshall Bronx NY, actress & director
1945__Jim (James Alvin) Palmer Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
1959__Emeril Lagasse celebrity chef, TV host
~ATHLETICS
1858__John L Sullivan Mass, heavyweight boxing champ
1946__Jim Beirne football: Houston Oilers
1951__Roscoe Tanner tennis player
1965__Trace Armstrong football-Bears, Dolphins, Raiders, Pres of NFL Players Assoc.
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1908__John Kenneth Galbraith writer/economist
1917__Arthur Schlesinger Jr historian/author
1924__Lee A Iacocca CEO Chrysler Corp.
1959__Sarah Ferguson [Fergie], Duchess of York
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1904__Marty Mann social activist: first woman to stay sober in Alcoholics Anonymous [AA]
~~~In Remembrance–
1880__Victorio, (Bidu-ya) Chiricahua Apache leader @ 55
1917__Mata Hari Dutch dancer/German spy executed by firing squad in Paris @ 41
1930__Herbert Henry Dow American chemical industrialist @ 64
1946__Hermann Goering Nazi Reich marshal, poisons himself in prison @ 53
1964__Cole Porter American composer @ 73
1976__Carlo Gambino American gangster @ 74
2003__Ben Metcalfe Canadian environmental activist @ 84
~~~Historical Events on this day
1789__1st presidential tour-George Washington in New England
1878__Edison Electric Light Company incorporated
1892__The U.S. government convinced the Crow Indians to give up 1.8 million acres of their reservation for 50 cents per acre
1937__Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published
1940__Charlie Chaplin's satirical comedy The Great Dictator opens.
1949__Billy Graham begins his ministry
1951__"I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV .
1964__Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev is deposed.
1984__Three feet of snow falls near Colorado Springs.
~ Holy Mackerel
1860__11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard. He does, the rest is history.
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Jeopardy Categories Quiz
Correction: yesterday the answer to #1 should have been Georgia O’Keefe. To my knowledge there is no state named Irmgard and while she did write a book named ‘Red Poppy’, she was not a painter.
(These answers all relate to nobility or royalty)
1. This American jazz composer was given a noble nickname because of his elegant manners and style.
2. This Kentucky poet laureate based All the King's Men on the life of former Louisiana governor Huey Long.
3. This French king entertained the nobles at court with ballets and performances of Moliere's {Jean-Baptiste Poquelin} comedies.
4. A contemporary of Michelangelo and Leonardo, this writer is known for his treatise on power, The Prince.
5. This Russian Count wrote Anna Kerinina and War and Peace but was exiled when a spiritual conversion caused him to reject political and religious institutions.
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1. Who is William "Count" Basie?
2. Who Is Robert Penn Warren?
3. Who is Louis XIV?
4. Who is Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ?
5. Who is Leo Tolstoy?
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I got a call from my dermatologist’s nurse this morning. Seems my nose does need surgery. I will be getting it when I get back from Africa. According to them, it is not a big deal, just a ‘little bump in the road’ of life. Easy for them to say, they aren’t having their nose cut. Oh well, this will be another experience many people go through. This procedure was not on my ‘bucket list’.
So I call BCBS to get my prescriptions. As expected, to get to a human I was challenged to listen to no less than 4 menus, and my choice was usually number five or six. I don’t know how many there were. The last time I had to do this, the lady wanted to know the exact date I was leaving, returning, and what countries I would be in. This time I told her I was going on vacation and she wanted no more information. I asked why she didn’t ask about my plans, and she said, “You said you were going on vacation. That means you are not being deployed. That is all we need to know.” Great. For those who care about this stuff, Federal BCBS uses Caremark Pharmacy as their pharmacy that determines how one can get refills. Interesting side note, my mother’s nursing home also used Caremark Pharmacy for part of the time she was there. It is odd to me that one Pharmacy gets to decide about refills for its competitors. When I get back, I’ll check into using Caremark and see if they use the same restrictions that they place on refills made by competitors when I buy from them. I really don’t want to get my meds by mail. I like talking to the pharmacist, and seeing them count out the tablets.
Another piece of good news today, that rainy day secret account my mom had, that I just learned about…I called the bank and found out it was ‘frozen’ because it had been inactive since 2004. I faxed them the letter I got, Greg from the bank called me back in about an hour. All I have to do now is fax them a letter that I want to close the account, since my name was also on it, and they will send me a cashier’s check for the amount in the account. Very cool, my trip to Africa is now a gift from my parents and my brother can get some more work done on their hacienda down in Mexico.
We had a nice day here. There was a small human caused fire on the Peaks. Well, small according to the forest service—about 8 acres. Whenever it is breezy and one sees a plume of smoke on the Peaks, concern certainly is appropriate. There were several ‘prescribed’ burns planned for today, but all were cancelled. It was hard to tell from the news report if the burn cancellation was due to the 15 mph breeze or the gusts to 30mph or the fact that many forest service people were at the 8 acre fire. Luckily they were able to put it out quickly. We made it to 64° this afternoon, and last night only dropped to 41°, so I could enjoy the fresh air. The breeze did remind me that it’s time for another hair cut.
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~~~Random Facts
The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo da Vinci, under the final portrait.
~~~Unusual News Story
JERSEY CITY, N.J. – New Jersey police said an incident that started with a public urination summons ended with a woman attempting to attack another woman with a samurai sword.
Jersey City Police Lt. Edgar Martinez said an off-duty officer spotted a man urinating on a tree at about 1 a.m. Sunday and six people emerged from a house where a party was taking place to argue with the officer while he was writing the man a summons, The Jersey Journal, Jersey City,reported. Investigators said Thanh Huynh, 39, emerged from the party during the argument and attempted to cut one of the women speaking with the officer with a three-foot-long samurai sword. Huynh was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes and unlawful possession of a weapon.
Police said they do not know Huynh’s motive for allegedly attacking the other woman.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Beyonce Knowles formed Destiny's Child in 1990 at the age of nine with her best friend.
Ashton Kutcher once pursued a career in biochemical engineering at the University of Iowa.
Burt Lancaster once worked as an acrobat in a circus until an injury forced him to quit.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 12 Oct
National School Lunch Week
World Rainforest Week
~~~15 OCT Observances
288 days so far this year…77 days remain in 2009
Get Smart About Credit Day
Nat’l Grouch Day
White Cane Safety Day
Global Hand Washing Day
^Brazil Teachers' Day
^Fiji Independence Day (from Great Britain since 1874)
^French Guiana : Cayenne Holiday
^Tunisia : Evacuation Day
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
70 B.C. __Virgil poet
1831__Helen Maria Hunt Jackson author (Ramona)
1844__Friedrich Nietzsche Germany, philosopher/anti-Semite
1881__P.G. Wodehouse British-American writer
1921__Mario Puzo author (Godfather and others)
1937__Barry McGuire Oklahoma City, singer (Eve of Destruction)
1937__Linda Lavin Portland Maine, actress (Alice)
1942__Penny Marshall Bronx NY, actress & director
1945__Jim (James Alvin) Palmer Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
1959__Emeril Lagasse celebrity chef, TV host
~ATHLETICS
1858__John L Sullivan Mass, heavyweight boxing champ
1946__Jim Beirne football: Houston Oilers
1951__Roscoe Tanner tennis player
1965__Trace Armstrong football-Bears, Dolphins, Raiders, Pres of NFL Players Assoc.
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1908__John Kenneth Galbraith writer/economist
1917__Arthur Schlesinger Jr historian/author
1924__Lee A Iacocca CEO Chrysler Corp.
1959__Sarah Ferguson [Fergie], Duchess of York
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1904__Marty Mann social activist: first woman to stay sober in Alcoholics Anonymous [AA]
~~~In Remembrance–
1880__Victorio, (Bidu-ya) Chiricahua Apache leader @ 55
1917__Mata Hari Dutch dancer/German spy executed by firing squad in Paris @ 41
1930__Herbert Henry Dow American chemical industrialist @ 64
1946__Hermann Goering Nazi Reich marshal, poisons himself in prison @ 53
1964__Cole Porter American composer @ 73
1976__Carlo Gambino American gangster @ 74
2003__Ben Metcalfe Canadian environmental activist @ 84
~~~Historical Events on this day
1789__1st presidential tour-George Washington in New England
1878__Edison Electric Light Company incorporated
1892__The U.S. government convinced the Crow Indians to give up 1.8 million acres of their reservation for 50 cents per acre
1937__Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published
1940__Charlie Chaplin's satirical comedy The Great Dictator opens.
1949__Billy Graham begins his ministry
1951__"I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV .
1964__Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev is deposed.
1984__Three feet of snow falls near Colorado Springs.
~ Holy Mackerel
1860__11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard. He does, the rest is history.
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Jeopardy Categories Quiz
Correction: yesterday the answer to #1 should have been Georgia O’Keefe. To my knowledge there is no state named Irmgard and while she did write a book named ‘Red Poppy’, she was not a painter.
(These answers all relate to nobility or royalty)
1. This American jazz composer was given a noble nickname because of his elegant manners and style.
2. This Kentucky poet laureate based All the King's Men on the life of former Louisiana governor Huey Long.
3. This French king entertained the nobles at court with ballets and performances of Moliere's {Jean-Baptiste Poquelin} comedies.
4. A contemporary of Michelangelo and Leonardo, this writer is known for his treatise on power, The Prince.
5. This Russian Count wrote Anna Kerinina and War and Peace but was exiled when a spiritual conversion caused him to reject political and religious institutions.
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1. Who is William "Count" Basie?
2. Who Is Robert Penn Warren?
3. Who is Louis XIV?
4. Who is Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ?
5. Who is Leo Tolstoy?
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Wednesday
~~~Free Ramblings
I got some good mail today. First I got my monthly check for my propane investment. It was three times its normal size. Actually the dollar amount was three times its normal size, the check was the same size it is every month. I also got a letter from a bank in Denver that my mother must have had an account at that I didn’t know about. It too was a goodly sum. Must have been a rainy day fund.
The Health Care debate is just getting crazier. The new ‘report’ was put out by the Insurance companies who want to scare the be-Jesus out of everyone. It seems that everyone in the know is aware it is a flawed report but it is still making the news. Like all reports that come out, many will believe it, just because it is in writing. On that note, BCBS has changed the way they send out their notices of payment. In the past, an office visit would show no money would be charged to me and my co-pay of $20 was listed as paid. Now the co-pay is not listed, and it shows that I could be billed $20. It’s just another way to confuse us. I am also sure that some not-so-honest physicians will try to bill their patients twice for this co-pay. The insurance companies continue to make so much profit overall and are seldom held accountable. Whenever money is involved all we can do is be vigilant to be sure we aren’t paying too much or too little.
It was a little breezy here today, but not bad. We only made it to 58° and last night was a balmy 45°. So hard to know what to wear when going out these days, long sleeves, short sleeves, sweater, light jacket…so many choices and I seem to always make the incorrect ones.
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~~~Random Facts
The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds
The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
~~~Unusual News Story
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Police in Indiana said a woman invited to spend the night at a man’s apartment apparently summoned an armed attempted robber with a text message. The South Bend (Ind.) Tribune reported that South Bend police said the 22-year-old man told them the woman he invited to spend the night at his apartment began sending frequent text messages after she saw him remove a large roll of money from his jacket pocket. The man said he soon heard a knock at the door and answered it to find a masked man holding a gun. He said the armed man hit him in the head and demanded money, but instead the man fled and called police from another part of the apartment complex. The armed man and the woman were gone when police arrived and the man said there did not appear to be anything missing from his apartment.
~~~Before They Were Famous
When Nicole Kidman was 15, she appeared in a music video for Australian singer Pat Wilson. The song was called "Bop Girl."
Val Kilmer at the age of 17 was the youngest person ever to be accepted to Julliard's prestigious drama program. He then co-authored and starred in the play "How It All Began" at the New York Shakespeare Festival before becoming a film star.
Stephen King’s first two jobs were at a mill in Lisbon Falls, bagging loose fabric, and at the New Franklin Laundry. His experiences here inspired later stories such as "Graveyard Shift" and "The Mangler".
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 12 Oct
National School Lunch Week
World Rainforest Week
~~~14 OCT Observances
287 days so far this year…78 days remain in 2009
Be Bald and Be Free Day
Internat’l Top Spinning Day
Nat’l Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work or School Day
World Standards Day
^Bangladesh : Durga Puja
^Malagasy Republic : Independence Day (1958)
^Poland National Education Day
^ South Yemen (Dem Rep of Yemen) : Independence Day (1962)
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1894__e. e. cummings Cambridge Mass, poet
1896__Lillian Gish silent film/stage actress
1927__Roger Moore London England, actor
1939__Ralph Lauren fashion designer
1952__Harry Anderson actor: Night Court
~ATHLETICS
1873__Raymond C Ewry Indiana, polio victim who won 10 Olympic golds
1910__John Wooden basketball coach (UCLA)
1947__Charlie Joiner Pro Football Hall of Famer
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1644__William Penn English Quaker & founder of PA
1857__Elwood Haynes auto pioneer, built one of 1st US autos
1890__Dwight D Eisenhower Denison, Tx (R) 34th Pres
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1916__C Everett Koop surgeon general
~~~In Remembrance
1318__Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland @ 38
1758__Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal @ 62
1944__Erwin Rommel German field marshall---chose cyanide over going to trial @ 53
1959__Errol Flynn Australian actor @ 50
1977__Bing Crosby American singer and actor @ 74
1986__Keenan Wynn American actor @ 74
1990__Leonard Bernstein American composer and conductor @ 72
1998__Cleveland Amory American writer & animal rights activist @ 81
2006__Freddy Fender American musician @ 69
~~~Historical Events on this day
1066__Battle of Hastings in which William the Conqueror wins England
1884__George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
1912__Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning
1930__”I Got Rhythm”, by Ethel Merman, was a show-stopper
1947__Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)
1960__Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK
1964__Martin Luther King Jr wins Nobel Peace Prize
1986__Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize
1994__Yasser Arafat, Israeli Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin shared the Nobel Peace Prize
~ Holy Mackerel
1973__The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., draws 200,000 people.
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(these answers are all names of women artists/writers from the USA)
1. This 20th century painter was known for Red Poppy and was married to photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Her first name is one of the states.
2. Known for her realistic paintings of women and children, she left the USA for Paris and became one of the Impressionists of the late 19th Century.
3. This author explores her Chinese-American heritage in such novels as The Joy Luck Club.
4. This African-American novelist won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature for such works as Beloved and Jazz.
5. Called "the first major woman sculptor of the 20th century," this American artist uses found pieces of wood as her medium, and is known for such works as America--Dawn, done in 1962.
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2. Who Is Mary Cassatt?
3. Who is Amy Tan?
4. Who is Toni Morrison?
5. Who is Louise Nevelson?
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I got some good mail today. First I got my monthly check for my propane investment. It was three times its normal size. Actually the dollar amount was three times its normal size, the check was the same size it is every month. I also got a letter from a bank in Denver that my mother must have had an account at that I didn’t know about. It too was a goodly sum. Must have been a rainy day fund.
The Health Care debate is just getting crazier. The new ‘report’ was put out by the Insurance companies who want to scare the be-Jesus out of everyone. It seems that everyone in the know is aware it is a flawed report but it is still making the news. Like all reports that come out, many will believe it, just because it is in writing. On that note, BCBS has changed the way they send out their notices of payment. In the past, an office visit would show no money would be charged to me and my co-pay of $20 was listed as paid. Now the co-pay is not listed, and it shows that I could be billed $20. It’s just another way to confuse us. I am also sure that some not-so-honest physicians will try to bill their patients twice for this co-pay. The insurance companies continue to make so much profit overall and are seldom held accountable. Whenever money is involved all we can do is be vigilant to be sure we aren’t paying too much or too little.
It was a little breezy here today, but not bad. We only made it to 58° and last night was a balmy 45°. So hard to know what to wear when going out these days, long sleeves, short sleeves, sweater, light jacket…so many choices and I seem to always make the incorrect ones.
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~~~Random Facts
The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds
The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
~~~Unusual News Story
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Police in Indiana said a woman invited to spend the night at a man’s apartment apparently summoned an armed attempted robber with a text message. The South Bend (Ind.) Tribune reported that South Bend police said the 22-year-old man told them the woman he invited to spend the night at his apartment began sending frequent text messages after she saw him remove a large roll of money from his jacket pocket. The man said he soon heard a knock at the door and answered it to find a masked man holding a gun. He said the armed man hit him in the head and demanded money, but instead the man fled and called police from another part of the apartment complex. The armed man and the woman were gone when police arrived and the man said there did not appear to be anything missing from his apartment.
~~~Before They Were Famous
When Nicole Kidman was 15, she appeared in a music video for Australian singer Pat Wilson. The song was called "Bop Girl."
Val Kilmer at the age of 17 was the youngest person ever to be accepted to Julliard's prestigious drama program. He then co-authored and starred in the play "How It All Began" at the New York Shakespeare Festival before becoming a film star.
Stephen King’s first two jobs were at a mill in Lisbon Falls, bagging loose fabric, and at the New Franklin Laundry. His experiences here inspired later stories such as "Graveyard Shift" and "The Mangler".
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 12 Oct
National School Lunch Week
World Rainforest Week
~~~14 OCT Observances
287 days so far this year…78 days remain in 2009
Be Bald and Be Free Day
Internat’l Top Spinning Day
Nat’l Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work or School Day
World Standards Day
^Bangladesh : Durga Puja
^Malagasy Republic : Independence Day (1958)
^Poland National Education Day
^ South Yemen (Dem Rep of Yemen) : Independence Day (1962)
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1894__e. e. cummings Cambridge Mass, poet
1896__Lillian Gish silent film/stage actress
1927__Roger Moore London England, actor
1939__Ralph Lauren fashion designer
1952__Harry Anderson actor: Night Court
~ATHLETICS
1873__Raymond C Ewry Indiana, polio victim who won 10 Olympic golds
1910__John Wooden basketball coach (UCLA)
1947__Charlie Joiner Pro Football Hall of Famer
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1644__William Penn English Quaker & founder of PA
1857__Elwood Haynes auto pioneer, built one of 1st US autos
1890__Dwight D Eisenhower Denison, Tx (R) 34th Pres
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1916__C Everett Koop surgeon general
~~~In Remembrance
1318__Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland @ 38
1758__Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal @ 62
1944__Erwin Rommel German field marshall---chose cyanide over going to trial @ 53
1959__Errol Flynn Australian actor @ 50
1977__Bing Crosby American singer and actor @ 74
1986__Keenan Wynn American actor @ 74
1990__Leonard Bernstein American composer and conductor @ 72
1998__Cleveland Amory American writer & animal rights activist @ 81
2006__Freddy Fender American musician @ 69
~~~Historical Events on this day
1066__Battle of Hastings in which William the Conqueror wins England
1884__George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
1912__Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning
1930__”I Got Rhythm”, by Ethel Merman, was a show-stopper
1947__Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)
1960__Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK
1964__Martin Luther King Jr wins Nobel Peace Prize
1986__Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize
1994__Yasser Arafat, Israeli Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin shared the Nobel Peace Prize
~ Holy Mackerel
1973__The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., draws 200,000 people.
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(these answers are all names of women artists/writers from the USA)
1. This 20th century painter was known for Red Poppy and was married to photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Her first name is one of the states.
2. Known for her realistic paintings of women and children, she left the USA for Paris and became one of the Impressionists of the late 19th Century.
3. This author explores her Chinese-American heritage in such novels as The Joy Luck Club.
4. This African-American novelist won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature for such works as Beloved and Jazz.
5. Called "the first major woman sculptor of the 20th century," this American artist uses found pieces of wood as her medium, and is known for such works as America--Dawn, done in 1962.
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2. Who Is Mary Cassatt?
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4. Who is Toni Morrison?
5. Who is Louise Nevelson?
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Tuesday
~~~Free Ramblings
Today was a holiday for many, just another work day for others. Our fine city workers voted to exchange Columbus Day with the Friday after Thanksgiving. That meant city offices were open today and will be closed the day after Thanksgiving. It’s a simple change that doesn’t affect me at all. So if they are happy, maybe they will work harder.
I got a call from Hamdy this morning. It seems that one of our fellow travelers is 85 years old and traveling with his nurse. I already knew about this. Well, turns out he and his nurse were very late in paying their travel fees. By the time they paid, one of our Safari camps was sold out. Hamdy called to see if it was OK for the two of us to stay at another camp and have a private driver for those three nights. I told him it would be fine. He said he was worried that I would feel cheated, so he got an upgrade at the camp where we are staying. This guy is amazing. When we were on the Nile, he was given another room because the ship was not full. So I got a private room for the five days. Now we are staying at an upgrade. I guess it pays to have a tour guide as your roommate.
The Jet Stream keeps moving north. It gave Colorado and points north some snow and cold temperatures. Here in Flag it was a nice day. Last night was only 35° and today we hit 63°. As the Stream moved north, it took any moisture with it, so it was a very dry day. The 13mph breeze, with gusts to 30mph only helped to really dry thing out even more.
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~~~Random Facts
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Men get hiccups more often than women.
The Pentagon has twice as many restrooms as necessary.When it was built, segregation was still in place in Virginia, so separate restrooms for blacks and whites were required by law.
~~~Unusual News Story
TARNSJO, Sweden – The Church of Sweden said it is preparing to open the country’s first church-operated gas station near a Central Sweden town with no other fuel pumps. The gas station near the village of Tarnsjo, (pop 1200) which hasn’t had its own gas station since last winter, is set for a grand opening Saturday alongside a connected convenience store, The Local reported. The church said a joint-stock company it created will be responsible for operating the service station, which was built using a $715,000 investment from parish members. “Our own petrol station is important for the survival of the whole village,” parish council chair Per Eriksson said.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Before finding fame, Ashley Judd graduated from the University of Kentucky, Lexington with a degree in French.
Boris Karloff was a truck driver, asphalt spreader, and farm hand before making it big.
In 1985, Alicia Keys appeared in an episode of The Cosby Show titled "Slumber Party." She was one of several girls appearing as Rudy Huxtable's sleepover friends.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 12 Oct
National School Lunch Week
World Rainforest Week
~~~13 OCT Observances
286 days so far this year…79 days remain in 2009
Face Your Fears Day
^ Burundi : Hero of the Nation Day
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1754__Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) American heroine
1917__Burr Tillstrom Chicago Ill, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
1920__Nipsey Russell Atlanta Ga, comedian
1925__Frank Gilroy American writer (Subject Was Roses)
1925__Lenny Bruce comedian
1942__Paul Simon Newark NJ, singer/actor
1949__Sammy Hagar singer-musician (Van Halen-Jump)
1959__Marie Osmond Ogden Ut, singer/actress
~ATHLETICS
1921__Lou Saban football: Head Coach: Denver Broncos & others
1948__Randy (Randall James) Moffitt baseball: pitcher brother of tennis great Billie Jean King
1969__Nancy Kerrigan Olympic ice skating medalist
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1925__Margaret (Hilda) Thatcher (Roberts) ‘The Iron Lady’: British leader: Prime Minister of Great Britain [1979-1990]
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1769__Horace H Hayden cofounded 1st dental college
~~~In Remembrance
1938__E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) @44
1945__Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon @ 88
1968__Bea Benaderet, “Petticoat Junction” and more @ 62
1974__Ed Sullivan, American television personality @ 73
1989__Jay Ward animator (Rocky & His Friends), @ 69
~~~Historical Events on this day
1792__The cornerstone of what was termed the President’s House was laid by George Washington in Washington, DC. The name, White House, was not officially adopted until 1902.
1843__B'nai B'rith founded in NY
1860__1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston
1923__Ankara becomes the capital of modern Turkey, succeeding the Ottoman capital of Constantinople
1947__"Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres
1958__The first of a series of books featuring Paddington Bear is published
1962__A young 34-year-old named Edward Albee brought his play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, to Broadway.
~ Holy Mackerel
1983__Ameritech Mobile Communications, LLC provides cellular mobile phone service to the general public in Chicago.
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Jeopardy Categories
(these answers all contain the "O" sound in 'go')
1. Often classified as an expressionist, this 19th Century painter spent time in Arles painting wheat fields in the year preceding his mental breakdown.
2. This American woman is known for her eerie western landscapes, cow's sculls, and gigantic flowers.
3. This Athenian philosopher was interested in "What is real?" and "What is eternal?" He is known for his Allegory of the Cave.
4. This Spanish painter is known as "The Greek." His paintings, such as View of Toledo, have eerie distortions.
5. This early Renaissance painter experimented with a new sense of space in works such as The Lamentation.
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2. Who Is Georgia O’Keeffe?
3. Who is Plato?
4. Who is El Greco?
5. Who is GIOTTO di Bondone?
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Today was a holiday for many, just another work day for others. Our fine city workers voted to exchange Columbus Day with the Friday after Thanksgiving. That meant city offices were open today and will be closed the day after Thanksgiving. It’s a simple change that doesn’t affect me at all. So if they are happy, maybe they will work harder.
I got a call from Hamdy this morning. It seems that one of our fellow travelers is 85 years old and traveling with his nurse. I already knew about this. Well, turns out he and his nurse were very late in paying their travel fees. By the time they paid, one of our Safari camps was sold out. Hamdy called to see if it was OK for the two of us to stay at another camp and have a private driver for those three nights. I told him it would be fine. He said he was worried that I would feel cheated, so he got an upgrade at the camp where we are staying. This guy is amazing. When we were on the Nile, he was given another room because the ship was not full. So I got a private room for the five days. Now we are staying at an upgrade. I guess it pays to have a tour guide as your roommate.
The Jet Stream keeps moving north. It gave Colorado and points north some snow and cold temperatures. Here in Flag it was a nice day. Last night was only 35° and today we hit 63°. As the Stream moved north, it took any moisture with it, so it was a very dry day. The 13mph breeze, with gusts to 30mph only helped to really dry thing out even more.
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~~~Random Facts
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Men get hiccups more often than women.
The Pentagon has twice as many restrooms as necessary.When it was built, segregation was still in place in Virginia, so separate restrooms for blacks and whites were required by law.
~~~Unusual News Story
TARNSJO, Sweden – The Church of Sweden said it is preparing to open the country’s first church-operated gas station near a Central Sweden town with no other fuel pumps. The gas station near the village of Tarnsjo, (pop 1200) which hasn’t had its own gas station since last winter, is set for a grand opening Saturday alongside a connected convenience store, The Local reported. The church said a joint-stock company it created will be responsible for operating the service station, which was built using a $715,000 investment from parish members. “Our own petrol station is important for the survival of the whole village,” parish council chair Per Eriksson said.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Before finding fame, Ashley Judd graduated from the University of Kentucky, Lexington with a degree in French.
Boris Karloff was a truck driver, asphalt spreader, and farm hand before making it big.
In 1985, Alicia Keys appeared in an episode of The Cosby Show titled "Slumber Party." She was one of several girls appearing as Rudy Huxtable's sleepover friends.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 12 Oct
National School Lunch Week
World Rainforest Week
~~~13 OCT Observances
286 days so far this year…79 days remain in 2009
Face Your Fears Day
^ Burundi : Hero of the Nation Day
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1754__Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) American heroine
1917__Burr Tillstrom Chicago Ill, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
1920__Nipsey Russell Atlanta Ga, comedian
1925__Frank Gilroy American writer (Subject Was Roses)
1925__Lenny Bruce comedian
1942__Paul Simon Newark NJ, singer/actor
1949__Sammy Hagar singer-musician (Van Halen-Jump)
1959__Marie Osmond Ogden Ut, singer/actress
~ATHLETICS
1921__Lou Saban football: Head Coach: Denver Broncos & others
1948__Randy (Randall James) Moffitt baseball: pitcher brother of tennis great Billie Jean King
1969__Nancy Kerrigan Olympic ice skating medalist
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1925__Margaret (Hilda) Thatcher (Roberts) ‘The Iron Lady’: British leader: Prime Minister of Great Britain [1979-1990]
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1769__Horace H Hayden cofounded 1st dental college
~~~In Remembrance
1938__E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) @44
1945__Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon @ 88
1968__Bea Benaderet, “Petticoat Junction” and more @ 62
1974__Ed Sullivan, American television personality @ 73
1989__Jay Ward animator (Rocky & His Friends), @ 69
~~~Historical Events on this day
1792__The cornerstone of what was termed the President’s House was laid by George Washington in Washington, DC. The name, White House, was not officially adopted until 1902.
1843__B'nai B'rith founded in NY
1860__1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston
1923__Ankara becomes the capital of modern Turkey, succeeding the Ottoman capital of Constantinople
1947__"Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres
1958__The first of a series of books featuring Paddington Bear is published
1962__A young 34-year-old named Edward Albee brought his play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, to Broadway.
~ Holy Mackerel
1983__Ameritech Mobile Communications, LLC provides cellular mobile phone service to the general public in Chicago.
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Jeopardy Categories
(these answers all contain the "O" sound in 'go')
1. Often classified as an expressionist, this 19th Century painter spent time in Arles painting wheat fields in the year preceding his mental breakdown.
2. This American woman is known for her eerie western landscapes, cow's sculls, and gigantic flowers.
3. This Athenian philosopher was interested in "What is real?" and "What is eternal?" He is known for his Allegory of the Cave.
4. This Spanish painter is known as "The Greek." His paintings, such as View of Toledo, have eerie distortions.
5. This early Renaissance painter experimented with a new sense of space in works such as The Lamentation.
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2. Who Is Georgia O’Keeffe?
3. Who is Plato?
4. Who is El Greco?
5. Who is GIOTTO di Bondone?
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Monday
~~~Free Ramblings
A great Sunday afternoon. Denver won in an OT. I didn’t get to see the whole game, but after the Cardinal win, they switched to the Denver game and I got to see the last 5 minutes of regulation and the OT. Denver is still undefeated. Arizona finally got a win. It’s hard to get into a football game when its 60° outside, but when your team is playing you do what has to be done. Here is Flag we dropped to 29° last night, so soon the flowers will be gone for another season.
AOL ran an interesting piece today. It seems that students in many elementary, middle, and high schools are learning more about Columbus and his impact on the Native population that was already here. This has been happening in Native schools for a long time. Glad to see it is finally happening across the country. The word ‘discovery’ and its variations are being downplayed. One State Superintendent commented that it is hard to teach ‘discovery’ when people were already here.
The next step in this process is to teach students that just because you find something, you can’t claim it as your own. It is an easy lesson if you ‘find’ a set of keys and try to keep them without looking for the owner. Even that is a culture-based example. For centuries the various European cultures have believed that just about anything can be claimed for your leader. If the culture that is already there doesn’t fight you and win, then your claim holds back home. A sad commentary is that too many cultures believe that it is OK to take things and people if you are stronger than they are. Most, if not all, of the cultures that do not believe this have been taken over and destroyed by those who do believe you can take and keep whatever you want.
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~~~Random Facts
As of 2008, Harry Potter books have sold over 400 million
copies and have been translated into 67 languages
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the keyboard.
The drive-through line on opening day at the McDonald's
restaurant in Kuwait City, Kuwait was at times seven miles long.
~~~Crazy News
McDonald’s know what sells in various cultures…
In India, there are no Big Macs because the Hindu people don’t eat beef. However, they have the Maharaja Mac, which is a Big Mac made of lamb or chicken meat. There is also a vegetarian burger, the McAloo Tikki.
It’s bottoms up in Germany, where McDonald’s serves – Beer!
In parts of Canada, have a lobster dinner with the McLobster lobster roll. Pardon me – “McHomard” (in French).
Japan totally reinvents McDonald’s with its Ebi Filet-O (shrimp burgers), Koroke Burger (mashed potato, cabbage and katsu sauce, all in a sandwich), Ebi-Chiki (shrimp nuggets) and Green Tea-flavored milkshake!
In fish-loving Norway, they have the McLaks, a sandwich made of grilled salmon and dill sauce.
In Chile, you can dress your burgers with – not ketchup – avocado paste!
In Costa Rica, unsurprisingly, you can order Gallo Pinto, meaning rice and beans.
It’s not Greek without pita, so when in Greece, have a Greek Mac, a burger made of patties wrapped in pita.
Rice-loving Hong Kong, has – of course – Rice Burgers, where the burgers are in between, not burger buns, but two patties of glutinous rice.
Despite Jewish religious dietary laws, most McDonald’s are not Kosher (there are a few exceptions), and they serve “McPitzutz” ice creams and cheeseburgers… and Israel is one of the only countries that cooks the meat over charcoal versus frying. They also have the McKebab, two patties with Middle Eastern seasonings, stuffed into a pita bread.
In Uruguay, they have the McHuevo, which is like a regular hamburger, but it is topped with a poached egg.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Don Johnson appeared as a contestant on "The Dating Game" in the late 1960s.
Angelina Jolie admitted in an interview that when she was younger she wanted to be a funeral director.
Tommy Lee Jones was once roommates with Al Gore at Harvard.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 12 Oct
National School Lunch Week
World Rainforest Week
~~~12 OCT Observances
285 days so far this year…80 days remain in 2009
Columbus Day
Free Thought Day
Nat’l Kick Butt Day
Nat’l Salesperson Day
^Equatorial Guinea – Independence Day (from Spain, 1968)
^Malawi – Mother's Day
^Spain – National Day—for Columbus’ landing
^Latin America - El Dia de la Raza
^Brazil – Children's Day
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1844__George W Cable American writer (Northampton Years)
1929__Robert Coles Milton Mass, author (Pulitzer 1973)
1932__Dick Gregory comedian/political activist
1935__Luciano Pavarotti Modena Italy, operatic tenor
1947__Chris Wallace Chicago Ill, newscaster
1970__Kirk Cameron Panorama City Calif, actor
~ATHLETICS
1906__Joe (Joseph Edward) Cronin Baseball Hall of Fame
1935__Tony (Anthony Christopher) Kubek baseball: outfielder/shortstop
1951__Sally Little golf champion
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1923__Jean Nidetch Brooklyn, founded Weight Watchers
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1860__Elmer A Sperry inventor (gyrocompass)
~~~In Remembrance
1870__Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general @ 63
1940__Tom Mix, American actor @ 60
1969++Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater @ 57
1985__Johnny Olson, American game show announcer @ 75
1989__Jay Ward, American animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.) @ 69
1997__John Denver, American singer @ 54
1999__Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player @ 63
2003__Willie Shoemaker, American jockey @ 72
~~~Historical Events on this day
1823__Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs)
1920__Construction of the Holland Tunnel got underway
1931__Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller is chosen to play Tarzan in the movies 1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session
1968__19th modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City
1975__Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries
~ Holy Mackerel
1999__The United Nations Population Fund designate today in history as the approximate day on which world population reached six billion
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Jeopardy Categories
(these answers are all pairs of people who collaborated on works or shared a style)
1. Two 20th Century Americans who depicted dust bowl refugees with sympathy and understanding. One wrote Of Mice and Men; the other, a photographer, is known for her Migrant Mother.
2. Two French Impressionists. One was known for his paintings of water lilies. The other, a composer, wrote La Mer or The Sea.
3. One's a dancer and one's a composer. They worked together on the Ballet Russe production of The Rites of Spring.
4. Two 20th Century Americans who combined symphony and ballet. The first is a composer who created the score for Appalachian Spring. The second is the choreographer who collaborated with him on the same production, and was also an innovator in modern dance.
5. Often performing together, their folk-rock music of the early 1960s expressed rebellion and desire for change. She is a 3 octave vocal range folk singer known for her version of the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome," and he is known for such early folk songs as "Blowin In the Wind," as well as his current Grammy-winning rock music.
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1. Who are John Steinbeck and Dorothea Lange?
2. Who are Monet and Debussy?
3. Who are Nijinsky and Stravinsky?
4. Who are Aaron Copeland and Martha Graham?
5. Who are Joan Baez and Bob Dylan?
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A great Sunday afternoon. Denver won in an OT. I didn’t get to see the whole game, but after the Cardinal win, they switched to the Denver game and I got to see the last 5 minutes of regulation and the OT. Denver is still undefeated. Arizona finally got a win. It’s hard to get into a football game when its 60° outside, but when your team is playing you do what has to be done. Here is Flag we dropped to 29° last night, so soon the flowers will be gone for another season.
AOL ran an interesting piece today. It seems that students in many elementary, middle, and high schools are learning more about Columbus and his impact on the Native population that was already here. This has been happening in Native schools for a long time. Glad to see it is finally happening across the country. The word ‘discovery’ and its variations are being downplayed. One State Superintendent commented that it is hard to teach ‘discovery’ when people were already here.
The next step in this process is to teach students that just because you find something, you can’t claim it as your own. It is an easy lesson if you ‘find’ a set of keys and try to keep them without looking for the owner. Even that is a culture-based example. For centuries the various European cultures have believed that just about anything can be claimed for your leader. If the culture that is already there doesn’t fight you and win, then your claim holds back home. A sad commentary is that too many cultures believe that it is OK to take things and people if you are stronger than they are. Most, if not all, of the cultures that do not believe this have been taken over and destroyed by those who do believe you can take and keep whatever you want.
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~~~Random Facts
As of 2008, Harry Potter books have sold over 400 million
copies and have been translated into 67 languages
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the keyboard.
The drive-through line on opening day at the McDonald's
restaurant in Kuwait City, Kuwait was at times seven miles long.
~~~Crazy News
McDonald’s know what sells in various cultures…
In India, there are no Big Macs because the Hindu people don’t eat beef. However, they have the Maharaja Mac, which is a Big Mac made of lamb or chicken meat. There is also a vegetarian burger, the McAloo Tikki.
It’s bottoms up in Germany, where McDonald’s serves – Beer!
In parts of Canada, have a lobster dinner with the McLobster lobster roll. Pardon me – “McHomard” (in French).
Japan totally reinvents McDonald’s with its Ebi Filet-O (shrimp burgers), Koroke Burger (mashed potato, cabbage and katsu sauce, all in a sandwich), Ebi-Chiki (shrimp nuggets) and Green Tea-flavored milkshake!
In fish-loving Norway, they have the McLaks, a sandwich made of grilled salmon and dill sauce.
In Chile, you can dress your burgers with – not ketchup – avocado paste!
In Costa Rica, unsurprisingly, you can order Gallo Pinto, meaning rice and beans.
It’s not Greek without pita, so when in Greece, have a Greek Mac, a burger made of patties wrapped in pita.
Rice-loving Hong Kong, has – of course – Rice Burgers, where the burgers are in between, not burger buns, but two patties of glutinous rice.
Despite Jewish religious dietary laws, most McDonald’s are not Kosher (there are a few exceptions), and they serve “McPitzutz” ice creams and cheeseburgers… and Israel is one of the only countries that cooks the meat over charcoal versus frying. They also have the McKebab, two patties with Middle Eastern seasonings, stuffed into a pita bread.
In Uruguay, they have the McHuevo, which is like a regular hamburger, but it is topped with a poached egg.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Don Johnson appeared as a contestant on "The Dating Game" in the late 1960s.
Angelina Jolie admitted in an interview that when she was younger she wanted to be a funeral director.
Tommy Lee Jones was once roommates with Al Gore at Harvard.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 12 Oct
National School Lunch Week
World Rainforest Week
~~~12 OCT Observances
285 days so far this year…80 days remain in 2009
Columbus Day
Free Thought Day
Nat’l Kick Butt Day
Nat’l Salesperson Day
^Equatorial Guinea – Independence Day (from Spain, 1968)
^Malawi – Mother's Day
^Spain – National Day—for Columbus’ landing
^Latin America - El Dia de la Raza
^Brazil – Children's Day
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1844__George W Cable American writer (Northampton Years)
1929__Robert Coles Milton Mass, author (Pulitzer 1973)
1932__Dick Gregory comedian/political activist
1935__Luciano Pavarotti Modena Italy, operatic tenor
1947__Chris Wallace Chicago Ill, newscaster
1970__Kirk Cameron Panorama City Calif, actor
~ATHLETICS
1906__Joe (Joseph Edward) Cronin Baseball Hall of Fame
1935__Tony (Anthony Christopher) Kubek baseball: outfielder/shortstop
1951__Sally Little golf champion
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1923__Jean Nidetch Brooklyn, founded Weight Watchers
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1860__Elmer A Sperry inventor (gyrocompass)
~~~In Remembrance
1870__Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general @ 63
1940__Tom Mix, American actor @ 60
1969++Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater @ 57
1985__Johnny Olson, American game show announcer @ 75
1989__Jay Ward, American animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.) @ 69
1997__John Denver, American singer @ 54
1999__Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player @ 63
2003__Willie Shoemaker, American jockey @ 72
~~~Historical Events on this day
1823__Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs)
1920__Construction of the Holland Tunnel got underway
1931__Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller is chosen to play Tarzan in the movies 1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session
1968__19th modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City
1975__Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries
~ Holy Mackerel
1999__The United Nations Population Fund designate today in history as the approximate day on which world population reached six billion
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Jeopardy Categories
(these answers are all pairs of people who collaborated on works or shared a style)
1. Two 20th Century Americans who depicted dust bowl refugees with sympathy and understanding. One wrote Of Mice and Men; the other, a photographer, is known for her Migrant Mother.
2. Two French Impressionists. One was known for his paintings of water lilies. The other, a composer, wrote La Mer or The Sea.
3. One's a dancer and one's a composer. They worked together on the Ballet Russe production of The Rites of Spring.
4. Two 20th Century Americans who combined symphony and ballet. The first is a composer who created the score for Appalachian Spring. The second is the choreographer who collaborated with him on the same production, and was also an innovator in modern dance.
5. Often performing together, their folk-rock music of the early 1960s expressed rebellion and desire for change. She is a 3 octave vocal range folk singer known for her version of the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome," and he is known for such early folk songs as "Blowin In the Wind," as well as his current Grammy-winning rock music.
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1. Who are John Steinbeck and Dorothea Lange?
2. Who are Monet and Debussy?
3. Who are Nijinsky and Stravinsky?
4. Who are Aaron Copeland and Martha Graham?
5. Who are Joan Baez and Bob Dylan?
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Sunday
~~~Free Ramblings
T-12 and my trip lists are coming together. My next big hurdle is to get a couple of my medications. For some unknown reason, BCBS needs to give me permission to buy my regular medications ahead of time. The three meds are set up on a monthly refill. I can only refill them a couple of days before they are due. Since I will be out of the country when the refill comes due, I have to call BCBS and get permission. These are not narcotics. They aren’t meds that expire quickly. They have no ‘street’ value. When I went to Egypt I had to give them my itinerary. This trip is longer, and I’m sure they will want the same. As far as I’m concerned, where I go is none of their damn business. I really don’t like strangers knowing that I will be out of the country. I am not that private a person, but I don’t hand out private information when it is not necessary. I have no problem letting the bank know that I will be traveling…since they might shut down my cards due to ‘unusual’ purchases. I’ve talked to several people who didn’t tell their bank, or the told the bank, and the bank forgot. They were in European countries and it was still a hassle. I’m sure being in Botswana would surely set off some bell somewhere at the bank that would freeze the card. I’m just as sure that it would be very difficult to get the card thawed. No one on a vacation wants to spend time on a phone, calling a bank and proving it is necessary the card work. So on Tuesday I’ll start working with BCBS.
Flagstaff had a nice fall day. Cool at night—about 33°, and only up to 63° during the day. It got a little breezy this afternoon, but overall just a typical fall day. I talked to a friend in Colorado, and they are having their first snow storm. Guess it is time for the ol’ snow shovel up there, and soon we will be in the same boat.
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~~~Random Facts
The average human head has about 100,000 hairs
Just under 500,000 babies are born each year in the U.S. to teenage mothers
Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
~~~Crazy Superstitions
In Iceland, an unmarried person who sits at the corner of a table won’t marry for seven years. A pregnant woman who drinks from a cracked cup risks having a baby with a harelip.
In Japan, picking up a comb with its teeth facing your body brings bad luck.
In Malta, churches with two towers are fitted with a clock face in each but the two clocks always tell different times to confuse the Devil about the time of the service.
In Nigeria, a man hit with a broom becomes impotent unless he retaliates seven times with the same broom. Sweeping a house at night brings misfortune to the occupants.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Hugh Jackman once worked as a clown, reportedly making about $50.00 per show.
Samuel L. Jackson was once expelled from Morehouse College for a civil rights demonstration in which he and other students held hostage members of the Morehouse board of trustees. He then moved to L.A. and worked in social services for two years before returning to Morehouse to major in drama.
Mick Jagger used to be a porter in a mental hospital. As a child, he also had a summer job selling ice cream from a refrigerated trolley.
Waylon Jennings was a disc jockey in West Texas before becoming a country artist. He was part of history when he played bass guitar for Buddy Holly during his final tour.In a very early tour, he played the Tuba City Chapter House and then went to a 49er with the locals.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 11 Oct
Emergency Room Nurses Week
Get the World to Beat A Path to Your Door Week
Home-based Business Week
International Credit Union Week
National Food Bank Week
~~~11 OCT Observances
284 days so far this year…81 days remain in 2009
Clergy Appreciation Day
Internat’l African Diaspora Day
Nat’l Coming Out Day
^Republic of Macedonia – Revolution Day (1941)
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1932__Dottie West Tenn, country singer (Here Comes My Baby)
1948__Daryl Hall rocker/songwriter (Hall & Oates-Sara Smile)
~ATHLETICS
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1827__Sir George Williams England, founder YMCA
1844__Henry John Heinz founded prepared-foods company (57 varieties)
1884__Eleanor Roosevelt 1st lady/crusader and UN Delegate
1896__Roman Jakobson linguist/Slavic scholar (Fundamentals of Language)
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1906__Charles Revson cosmetic mogul: founder of the Revlon Co
~~~In Remembrance
1809__Meriwether Lewis, American explorer suicide @ 35
1961__Chico Marx, American comedian @ 74
1971__Nikita Khrushchev @ 77
1987__Lorne Greene actor (Bonanza), @ 72
1988__Peter Tosh reggae singer shot @ 43
1991__Redd Foxx American comedian and actor @ 69
2005__Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan @ 88
2007__Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers @ 92
~~~Historical Events on this day
1864__Slavery abolished in Maryland
1881__Roll film for cameras was patented
1890__Daughters of the American Revolution founded
1939__Albert Einstein wrote his famous letter to FDR about the potential of the atomic bomb.
1983__Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
1987__200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
2000__America Online becomes the biggest, richest and most successful Internet company with nearly 30 million subscribers
2002__Former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts at ending the middle east conflict
~ Holy Mackerel
1975__William Jefferson Clinton and Hillary Rodham tied the knot
1975__The comedy-variety show Saturday Night Live premiered with George Carlin as the host Years later, Bill and Hillary were prominent in many skits.
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Game Today
Jeopardy Categories
(these answers all contain the word night)
1. This Shakespearean comedy features pairs of lovers who are found by the king and queen of the fairies.
2. These Islamic stories were supposedly narrated by Scheherazade to entertain a sultan.
3. This expressionistic painting by Van Gogh features a night sky and is recognizable by its swirling blues and golds.
4. This painting by Rembrandt depicts members of a military unit falling into action.
5. This play won a Pulitzer prize for Louisville native Marsha Norman.
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1. What is ‘Twelfth Night’?
2. What is ‘One Thousand and One Nights’?
3. What is ‘The Starry Night’?
4. What is ‘The Night Watch’?
5. What is ‘night, Mother’?
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T-12 and my trip lists are coming together. My next big hurdle is to get a couple of my medications. For some unknown reason, BCBS needs to give me permission to buy my regular medications ahead of time. The three meds are set up on a monthly refill. I can only refill them a couple of days before they are due. Since I will be out of the country when the refill comes due, I have to call BCBS and get permission. These are not narcotics. They aren’t meds that expire quickly. They have no ‘street’ value. When I went to Egypt I had to give them my itinerary. This trip is longer, and I’m sure they will want the same. As far as I’m concerned, where I go is none of their damn business. I really don’t like strangers knowing that I will be out of the country. I am not that private a person, but I don’t hand out private information when it is not necessary. I have no problem letting the bank know that I will be traveling…since they might shut down my cards due to ‘unusual’ purchases. I’ve talked to several people who didn’t tell their bank, or the told the bank, and the bank forgot. They were in European countries and it was still a hassle. I’m sure being in Botswana would surely set off some bell somewhere at the bank that would freeze the card. I’m just as sure that it would be very difficult to get the card thawed. No one on a vacation wants to spend time on a phone, calling a bank and proving it is necessary the card work. So on Tuesday I’ll start working with BCBS.
Flagstaff had a nice fall day. Cool at night—about 33°, and only up to 63° during the day. It got a little breezy this afternoon, but overall just a typical fall day. I talked to a friend in Colorado, and they are having their first snow storm. Guess it is time for the ol’ snow shovel up there, and soon we will be in the same boat.
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~~~Random Facts
The average human head has about 100,000 hairs
Just under 500,000 babies are born each year in the U.S. to teenage mothers
Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
~~~Crazy Superstitions
In Iceland, an unmarried person who sits at the corner of a table won’t marry for seven years. A pregnant woman who drinks from a cracked cup risks having a baby with a harelip.
In Japan, picking up a comb with its teeth facing your body brings bad luck.
In Malta, churches with two towers are fitted with a clock face in each but the two clocks always tell different times to confuse the Devil about the time of the service.
In Nigeria, a man hit with a broom becomes impotent unless he retaliates seven times with the same broom. Sweeping a house at night brings misfortune to the occupants.
~~~Before They Were Famous
Hugh Jackman once worked as a clown, reportedly making about $50.00 per show.
Samuel L. Jackson was once expelled from Morehouse College for a civil rights demonstration in which he and other students held hostage members of the Morehouse board of trustees. He then moved to L.A. and worked in social services for two years before returning to Morehouse to major in drama.
Mick Jagger used to be a porter in a mental hospital. As a child, he also had a summer job selling ice cream from a refrigerated trolley.
Waylon Jennings was a disc jockey in West Texas before becoming a country artist. He was part of history when he played bass guitar for Buddy Holly during his final tour.In a very early tour, he played the Tuba City Chapter House and then went to a 49er with the locals.
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~~~October Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month
~~~Week of 11 Oct
Emergency Room Nurses Week
Get the World to Beat A Path to Your Door Week
Home-based Business Week
International Credit Union Week
National Food Bank Week
~~~11 OCT Observances
284 days so far this year…81 days remain in 2009
Clergy Appreciation Day
Internat’l African Diaspora Day
Nat’l Coming Out Day
^Republic of Macedonia – Revolution Day (1941)
~~~Births on this day
~ The ARTS
1932__Dottie West Tenn, country singer (Here Comes My Baby)
1948__Daryl Hall rocker/songwriter (Hall & Oates-Sara Smile)
~ATHLETICS
~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1827__Sir George Williams England, founder YMCA
1844__Henry John Heinz founded prepared-foods company (57 varieties)
1884__Eleanor Roosevelt 1st lady/crusader and UN Delegate
1896__Roman Jakobson linguist/Slavic scholar (Fundamentals of Language)
~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1906__Charles Revson cosmetic mogul: founder of the Revlon Co
~~~In Remembrance
1809__Meriwether Lewis, American explorer suicide @ 35
1961__Chico Marx, American comedian @ 74
1971__Nikita Khrushchev @ 77
1987__Lorne Greene actor (Bonanza), @ 72
1988__Peter Tosh reggae singer shot @ 43
1991__Redd Foxx American comedian and actor @ 69
2005__Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan @ 88
2007__Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers @ 92
~~~Historical Events on this day
1864__Slavery abolished in Maryland
1881__Roll film for cameras was patented
1890__Daughters of the American Revolution founded
1939__Albert Einstein wrote his famous letter to FDR about the potential of the atomic bomb.
1983__Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
1987__200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
2000__America Online becomes the biggest, richest and most successful Internet company with nearly 30 million subscribers
2002__Former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts at ending the middle east conflict
~ Holy Mackerel
1975__William Jefferson Clinton and Hillary Rodham tied the knot
1975__The comedy-variety show Saturday Night Live premiered with George Carlin as the host Years later, Bill and Hillary were prominent in many skits.
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Game Today
Jeopardy Categories
(these answers all contain the word night)
1. This Shakespearean comedy features pairs of lovers who are found by the king and queen of the fairies.
2. These Islamic stories were supposedly narrated by Scheherazade to entertain a sultan.
3. This expressionistic painting by Van Gogh features a night sky and is recognizable by its swirling blues and golds.
4. This painting by Rembrandt depicts members of a military unit falling into action.
5. This play won a Pulitzer prize for Louisville native Marsha Norman.
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Answers:
1. What is ‘Twelfth Night’?
2. What is ‘One Thousand and One Nights’?
3. What is ‘The Starry Night’?
4. What is ‘The Night Watch’?
5. What is ‘night, Mother’?
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About Me
- Retired, Not Dead
- Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
- I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.