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TODAY’s “Geez”
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1888 - USC Trojans
(then Methodists) play their 1st football game
1889 - New
York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to
surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around
world in less than 80 days She succeeded, finishing the trip in January in 72
days and 6 hours
1906 - Roosevelt
becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country (Panama)
1956 - Hungarian
revolt put down
1960 - OPEC
(Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms
1968 - "National
Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning
1982 - Polish Solidarity
chairman Lech Walesa freed
♪♪ Happy Birthday To:♪♪
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Free Rambling Thoughts
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Cloudy and raining most
of the day. Figured we would have snow, but not yet.
I spent time this
morning cleaning the bedroom and dealing with my mail. I seem to have lots of cleaning
energy whenever it is cloudy…works for me. I’m grateful that we don’t have many
cloudy days as I don’t need to spend my retirement cleaning.
I got my videos
downloaded onto my computer…things are moving in getting them ready for
publication. I did get a good video of two of our river crossings...exciting
and camera was fairly steady. Some of the shorter videos are from the vehicle
and move a little too fast. They are good for me as I was there, but not for
publication. I’m trying to find a program that will slow them down…hope I find
one.
Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)
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1. Who ruled
England from 827 until 860?
2. 300,000 Chinese
troops invaded a country in February of 1979, what was the country?
3. World’s most
remote weather station is located in what country?
4. What European
country was in an official state of emergency from 1933 until 1945?
5. Which country
lost over seventeen percent of its entire population in World War II?
6. Which two
countries share Victoria Falls?
7. Adolf Hitler was
born in what country?
8. In 1989, what
country did the United States invade in what George Will dubbed "an act of
hemispheric hygiene"?
9. What country did
Ion Iliescu take over after its previous president was arrested, tried and
shot?
10. What North
American country enacted the War Powers Act to quell a separatist rebellion in
1970?
11. Aruba maintains
the strongest ties to what European country?
Wuzzles…What concept or phrase do these suggest? .
NEW: Rules of Thumb
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Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
- People are willing to walk for seven minutes to get to a McDonald's. That's why you'll find McDonald's restaurants a 14 minute walk apart in downtown areas.
Hmmmmm
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- Estimated percentage of the US college class of 2011 who are moving back home after graduation: 85
- The federal law that established "daylight time" in the United States does not require any area to observe daylight saving time. However, if it does decide to observe DST, it must follow the starting and ending dates set by the law.
- From 1986 to 2006 this was the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October, but starting in 2007, it is observed from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, adding about a month to daylight saving time.
- Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Nation) and Hawaii and the territories of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa are the only places in the U.S. that do not observe DST but instead stay on "standard time" all year long.
- Most of Canada uses Daylight Saving Time. Some exceptions include the majority of Saskatchewan and parts of northeastern British Columbia.
- It wasn't until 1996 that Mexico adopted DST. Now all three Mexican time zones are on the same schedule as the United States.
- In the Southern Hemisphere, where summer arrives in what we in the Northern Hemisphere consider the winter months, DST is observed from late October to late March.
Yeah, It Really Happened .
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -
Stockholm transport officials said a flock of pigeons have begun using a subway
train for daily trips to a city shopping center. Rasmus Sandsten, spokesman for
underground operator MTR, said the pigeons have been catching the train from
Farsta Strand to the Farsta Centrum shopping center, only one stop away, where
they regularly forage for food, The Local reported Thursday. "They stand
calmly at the platform and wait for the subway train to arrive. When it does
they get on, travel one stop, jump off and then head for their favorite
haunts," Sandsten said. Sandsten said the food they find at the shopping
center apparently gives the pigeons the energy they need to fly home. "We
haven't been told of as many incidents of pigeons on the tube on the way back,
so we think they fly on their way back," Sandsten said.
Guffaw…or at least smile
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There was a man driving
a pickup truck down a country road, when suddenly he was broad sided by a
trailer truck. Some time went by, and the case got to court. The defense
attorney said to the plaintiff, "How can you be suing my client now when
you told a trooper after the accident that you felt fine?"
The man replied,
"Well sir, it was like this. We was drivin' down the road, mindin' our own
business, when a big trailer truck came out of nowhere and creamed us. When I
came to, I was in the ditch, and a trooper was pullin' up with his car. He
looked at the hogs, and they was 'most dead, so he shot 'em. Then he looked at
my dog, and he was hurt real bad, so he shot him. Then he came over to me and
he said, 'How you feeling?'" "I said, I never felt better in my
life."
Searchin’ “You Tube” I found
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Claude Monet Paintings
Daybook Information
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…Happening This Week:
13-19 American Education Week
Geography Awareness Week
National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week
TODAY IS
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Girls Day
Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day
National American Teddy Bear Day
National Operation Room Nurse Day
Spirit of NSA (National
Speakers Association) Day
Universal Children's Day
World Diabetes Day
World Orphans Day
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India: Children's Day
Today’s Events
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ARTS
1851 - "Moby
Dick," by Herman Melville, published
ATHLETICS
1973 - Reggie Jackson
wins AL MVP Award unanimously
1981 - Paul 'Bear'
Bryant ties Amos Alonzo Stagg with 314 football wins
BUSINESS
1896 - Power
plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
1994 - 1st
trains for public run in Channel Tunnel under English Channel
EDUCATION
1732 - 1st US
professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Phila
1968 - Yale
University announces it is going co-educational
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
603: Maya King K'inich
Yo'nal Ahk I (Ruler 1) ascends to the throne in Piedras Negras, Mexico
1851: Lieutenant Colonel
J.J. Abercrombie and members of the Fifth Infantry begin the construction of
Fort Phantom Hill, north of Abilene, Texas. The fort is often visited by the
local Comanches, Lipan-Apaches, Kiowas and Kickapoos
POLITICS [International]
1524 - Pizarro's
begins 1st great expedition, near Colombia
1991 - American and
British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence
officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103
POLITICS [US]
1935 - FDR
proclaims Philippine Islands a free commonwealth
1965 - US govt
sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam
RELIGION
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SCIENCE
1666 - Samuel
Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
1908 - Albert
Einstein presents quantum theory of light
Today’s Birthdays
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ARTISTS:
(AUTHORS, COMPOSERS,…)
1900 - Aaron
Copland, American composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring)
1907 - Astrid
Lindgren, Swedish children book author (Pipi Longstocking)
1840 - Claude
Monet, French impressionist (Water Lilies)
P J O'Rourke, writer
(Easy Money) is 64
ATHLETES
Darrien Gordon, NFL
cornerback (SD Chargers, Broncos-Superbowl 32) is 41
ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
1910 - Rosemary
DeCamp, Prescott Az, actress (Love That Bob, That Girl)
1904 - Dick Powell,
actor (Cry Danger, Dick Powell Theater)
Josh Duhamel, actor is 39
1927 or 1929 - McLean
Stevenson, American actor
D.B. Sweeney, actor is 50
ENTREPRENEURS & EDUCATORS
1765 - Robert
Fulton, built 1st commercial steamboat
POLITICIAL FIGURES
1896 - Mamie G
Doud Eisenhower, 1st lady (1953-61)
Boutros Boutros Ghali,
Egyptian secretary-general of UN is 89
1935 - Hussein ibn
Talal I, king of Jordan
1909 - Joseph
R McCarthy, (Sen-R-Wisc), anti-communist
Condoleezza Rice, United
States Secretary of State is 57
1974 - Adam Walsh,
American murder victim…led to Adam’s Law, America’s Most Wanted
SCIENTISTS & THEOLOGISTS
1776 - Henri
Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
Fred W Haise Jr, astronaut
(Apollo 13 STS T-1, T-3, T-5) is 78
Today’s Obits
1870 - David
[James] Glasgow Farragut, admiral, heart attack at 69
1951 - William
Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies at 88
1982 - Patrick
Magee, Northern Irish actor (Clockwork Orange, King Lear), heart attack at 60
1999 - Pee Wee
Reese, American baseball player dies at 81
1932 - Rin Tin
Tin, US Hollywood-dog, dies in arms of Jean Harlow at 13
ANSWERS
Trivia Quiz
1. Who ruled
England from 827 until 860?
a. Egbert,
Ethelwulf and Ethelbald?
2. 300,000 Chinese
troops invaded a country in February of 1979, what was the country?
a. Vietnam.
3. World’s most
remote weather station is located in what country?
a. Canada.
4. What European
country was in an official state of emergency from 1933 until 1945?
a. Germany.
5. Which country
lost over seventeen percent of its entire population in World War II?
a. Poland.
6. Which two
countries share Victoria Falls?
a. Zimbabwe and
Zambia.
7. Adolf Hitler was
born in what country?
a. Austria.
8. In 1989, what
country did the United States invade in what George Will dubbed "an act of
hemispheric hygiene"?
a. Panama.
9. What country did
Ion Iliescu take over after its previous president was arrested, tried and
shot?
a. Romania.
10. What North
American country enacted the War Powers Act to quell a separatist rebellion in
1970?
a. Canada.
11. Aruba maintains
the strongest ties to what European country?
a. Netherlands
Wuzzle
Eye Shadow
3 square meals
Leaning slightly to the
left
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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