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TODAY’s “Geez”
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1897 - 1st frontier days rodeo celebration
(Cheyene Wyoming)
1986
- Congress selects the rose as US
national flower
♪♪ HaPpY BiRtHdAy to♪♪
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Free Rambling Thoughts
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It’s
only been a couple of weeks since my last angioedema episode. About 9pm last
night I felt another one coming on. I was early this time in taking my meds.
Didn’t do much good. I was limited to about 30 minutes of sleep at a time, then
wake up, fall back to sleep in about 30 minutes, wake up soon after that. I
probably got about an hour of sleep last night. The swelling went down about
6am. What a pain in the butt. I was tired all day. Today was Don’t Drive..Find Alternative Transportation Day…and
I didn’t drive but I didn’t use alternative transportation either. I was too
tired to go anywhere. Even a one hour afternoon nap didn’t catch me up. I’ll be
fine tomorrow, but hate losing a whole day to this crazy thing.
It
was a nice day outside. I was able to have windows open all day. I got a letter
from the HOA that they are going to install gutters at all the townhouses. That
will definitely help during monsoon season and might even help during snow
season. Time will tell.
Trivia Quiz…(answers at
the end of post) .
1.
Small seedless
grapes called currants were named for their place of origin. Where was it?
2.
The largest Greek
population in the world outside of Greece is where?
3.
The Greek Communist
Party provided cash to what former Soviet newspaper to keep it alive during the
90s?
4.
According to Greek
legend, Alexander the Great cut what?
5.
The Greeks named
what ancient African country for the "sunburnt faces" of its natives?
6.
What fruit did early
Greek Olympians sometimes wear as medals?
7.
Dimitrios Synodinos
was also known by what name in the sporting world?
8.
What is poliosis?
9.
In Greek, what does
the word climax mean?
10.
The last letter of
the Greek alphabet is what?
11.
We get the word
cosmetics form the Greek word kosmetikos, which means what?
12.
The Astronomical
term "Galaxy" comes from the Greek word for what?
13.
The Colossus of
Rhodes was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. How was it destroyed?
14.
In Athens, Greece,
what temple is atop the Acropolis?
Wuzzles…What concept or
phrase does this suggest? .
Hmmmmm
.
Chance
that a U.S. high-school student says he or she has stolen something from a
store in the past year: 1 in 3
Number
of White House officials in 2006 and 2007 authorized to discuss pending
criminal cases with the DOJ: 711
Number
of Clinton officials ever authorized to do so: 4
Somewhat Useless
Information
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A
molecule is the smallest unit of a substance that retains the properties of
that substance.
"Buckyballs"
are microscopic spheres of 60 atoms of pure carbon in a spherelike structure
that resembles a geodosic dome. Also called fullerenes or
buckminsterfullerenes, they were named after R. Buckminster Fuller who invented
the geodosic dome.
Liquids
have a definite volume but no definite shape. Because the intermolecular forces
are weak in a liquid, it is able to change its shape to conform to its
container.
Yeah, It Really Happened
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STOCKHOLM,
Sweden - Hundreds of leeches were applied to a woman's face to treat a large
wound inflicted by her own dog, doctors in Sweden said. The woman was rushed to
a hospital after the dog unexpectedly attacked her, ripping off a large piece
of her face from her upper lip to her eye, The Local reported Tuesday.
After
doctors worked to reattach the torn part, leeches were applied to help
re-establish blood circulation to the woman's face. "The most important
thing was to get blood into the torn off body part, which we managed to do
within an hour of the start of the operation," specialist Stina Klasson
said.
The
358 leeches, by sucking blood and introducing blood-thinning fluids, helped the
process. "The grower who supplies the hospital with leeches ran out. More
leeches had to be flown in from the United Kingdom," Klasson said. Doctors
said the surgery was a success, although additional reconstructive procedures
would probably be necessary.
Guffaw…or at least smile .
A
guy was walking beside a pond when a frog jumped out and told him that she was
really a beautiful princess and if he were to kiss her, she would make him VERY
happy! He picked up the frog and put it into his pocket.
A
few minutes later, the frog poked her head out and said, "Didn't you hear
me?! I'm a beautiful princess and if you kiss me I will stay with you and do
ANYTHING you want!"
The
guy took the frog out and said, "Look, I understand what you are saying,
but I am a computer programmer and right now I don't have time for a
girlfriend,........but a talking FROG is REALLY, REALLY COOL!"
Searchin’ “You Tube” I
found
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Greek Alphabet Song 4
Daybook Information
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…Happening
This Week:
17-23
Balance
Awareness Week
Constitution
Week
Deaf Awareness Week
National Clean Hands Week
National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week
National Dog Week
National
Love Your Files Week
National
Singles Week
Pollution Prevention Week
Substitute
Teacher Appreciation Week
Tolkien Week
Turn Off Week
TODAY IS
.
Autumnal
Equinox--Fall: Begins Northern Hemisphere: Spring Begins Southern Hemisphere
Celebrate
Bi-sexuality Day
Checkers
Day for 1952 Nixon Speech
Dogs
In Politics Day
Hug
A Vegetarian Day
Love
Note Day
Restless
Legs Awareness Day
~*~
Liechtenstein:
Independence Day (German empire - 1719)
Saudi
Arabia: Kingdom Unification (1932)
Today’s Events
.
IN
ARTS
1912 - 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone
Comedy" movie released
1961 - 1st movie to become a TV series-How to
Marry a Millionaire
IN
ATHLETICS
1845 - 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers
organize, adopt rule code
1976
- South Africa decides to allow
multi-racial teams to represent them
IN
BUSINESS
1862 - Lincoln's Emancipation is published in
Northern Newspapers
2002 - The first public version of the web
browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
IN
EDUCATION
1908
- University of Alberta opens
FOR
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1519
- Hernán Cortés and his army
arrive at the gates to the Mexican city of Tlascala. A large crowd turns out to
the the Spaniards
1839
- The Cherokee Nation's Supreme Court is established
IN
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
1942 - Auschwitz begins experimental gassing
executions
IN
RELIGION
--
IN
SCIENCE
1806 - Lewis & Clark return to St Louis
from Pacific Northwest
1879
- Richard Rhodes invented a
hearing aid called the Audiophone
1889 - Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo
Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the
playing card game Hanafuda.
1938
- Time capsule, to be opened in
6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's
pipe & 1,100' of microfilm)
IN
US POLITICS
1779 - John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme
Richard" defeats HMS Serepis
1780 - Brit Maj John Andre reveals
Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Pt
1957
- White mob forces 9 black
students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw
Today’s Birthdays
.
ARTISTS: (AUTHORS, COMPOSERS,…)
--
ATHLETES
--
ENTERTAINERS
(ACTORS/SINGERS…)
Jason Alexander, TV actor turns 52
1930
- Ray Charles, American musician
Mary Kay Place, TV actor turns 64
Paul Petersen, actor (Jeff Stone-Donna Reed Show) turns 66
Mickey Rooney, actor turns 91
Dwight Yoakam, singer turns 55
ENTREPRENEURS
& EDUCATORS
1800 - William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey
Readers)
POLITICIAL
FIGURES
1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire
SCIENTISTS
& THEOLOGISTS
William C McCool, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut turns 50
Today’s Obits
.
1974 - Cliff Arquette, comedian (Charlie Weaver), dies of stroke at 68
1939 - Sigmund Freud, created psychoanalysis,
dies at 83
1987 - Bob Fosse, choreographer (All the
Jazz), dies of heart attack at 62
1902 - John Wesley Powell, US geologist (Grand
Canyon), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 68
1981 - Geswanouth Slahoot (Chief Dan George), tribal
leader/actor (Harry & Tonto, Little Big Man), dies at 82
ANSWERS
.
Trivia Quiz
1.
Small seedless
grapes called currants were named for their place of origin. Where was it?
a.
Corinth, Greece
2.
The largest Greek
population in the world outside of Greece is where?
a.
Melbourne, Australia
3.
The Greek Communist
Party provided cash to what former Soviet newspaper to keep it alive during the
90s?
a.
Pravda
4.
According to Greek
legend, Alexander the Great cut what?
a.
The Gordian Knot
5.
The Greeks named
what ancient African country for the "sunburnt faces" of its natives?
a.
Ethiopia
6.
What fruit did early
Greek Olympians sometimes wear as medals?
a.
Figs
7.
Dimitrios Synodinos
was also known by what name in the sporting world?
a.
Jimmy "The
Greek" Snyder
8.
What is poliosis?
a.
When your hair turns
gray. It comes from the Greek word for Gray
9.
In Greek, what does
the word climax mean?
a.
Ladder. In Greece it
is spelled Klimax
10.
The last letter of
the Greek alphabet is what?
a.
Omega
11.
We get the word
cosmetics form the Greek word kosmetikos, which means what?
a.
Skilled in
decorating
12.
The Astronomical
term "Galaxy" comes from the Greek word for what?
a.
Milk. In Greek, gala
means "milk”
13.
The Colossus of
Rhodes was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. How was it destroyed?
a.
An earthquake in 224
B.C.
14.
In Athens, Greece,
what temple is atop the Acropolis?
a.
The Parthenon
Wuzzle
Look out below or Look Outside the Box
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel
free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet
sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned
that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there,
many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events
occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be
totally accurate.
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