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Today’s “Geez”
1814 - The Times in London
is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the
German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the
beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience
1843 - Ka Lahui:
Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by
the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation
1925 - Grand Ole
Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville TN1895 - America's 1st
auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH
1948 - 1st Polaroid
camera sold
♪♪ Happy Birthday To:♪♪
Free Rambling Thoughts
A nice day here is Flag.
Got in a nice walk around 10a…cool but not cold. I also got the music onto two
of my movies and will posting them soon. I still have at least one more to make
that will include some of my actual videos.
And I got my tickets to
Merida for my brother’s 60th b-day bash. It should be a lot of fun.
Now I just have to figure out how to get to Phx. I’ll either drive or take the
shuttle. One never knows what the weather will be in early January. I’ll decide
as the time gets closer. Thankfully the shuttle prices don’t change. It should
be a great break…right after the break to Chicago. That’s a lot of breaks in
the next few months.
Denver played on TV
today and won. Guess they should be on the AZ channels more often. They waited
until OT to go ahead, but it was a good game. The Cards won earlier today so I’m
a happy camper.
NPR Sunday Puzzle…(answers
at the end of post)
You will be given a five-letter word and
seven-letter word. Rearrange the letters of one of these words to get a synonym
of the other. For example, if you are given "alloy" and
"devoted," the answer would be "loyal," which is an anagram
of "alloy."
- Coach, terrain:
- Optic, subject:
- Snake, present:
- Stuck, redhead:
- Least, purloin:
- Pesky, smokier:
Wuzzles…What concept or
phrase do these suggest?
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
- Twenty percent of any group will be critical of the rest.
Hmmmmm
- Centimeters by which a neutron falls short of being perfectly round: 0.0000000000000000000000000001
Somewhat Useless Information
- A tittle is the dot that is placed over a lowercase j or i in the English language. Other tittles include diacritic marks found above or below letters (façade, résumé), which are found mostly in other languages.
- An aglet is the metal, plastic, wood, etc. fastener that binds the fibers of shoe laces at their ends.
N EW YORK - A 60-year-old New York man
suing a music competition for age discrimination claims the 88-year-old judge
assigned to his case is "unable to function."
Martin Stoner, a
violinist suing the non-profit Young Concert Artists for only allowing musicians
less than one-third his age, said he admits trying to get U.S. District Judge
Robert Patterson, 88, off his case may seem hypocritical, but the judge is
"slow-witted and unable to function," the New York Daily News
reported Monday.
"Judge Patterson
could barely see unless he put his face almost on top of a document,"
Stoner wrote in his judicial complaint. "Judge Patterson should be removed
from the bench, both because of his mental and physical limitations,"
Stoner wrote. "With all due respect, he may have been a very learned
jurist in his day."
Patterson declined to
comment but colleagues defended his skills on the bench as beyond reproach.
Guffaw…or at least smile
A passerby noticed a
couple of city workers working along the city sidewalks. The man was quite
impressed with their hard work, but he couldn't understand what they were
doing.
Finally, he approached
the workers and asked, "I appreciate how hard you're both working, but
what the heck are you doing? It seems that one of you digs a hole, and then the
other guy immediately fills it back up again.
One of the city workers explained, "The
third guy who plants the trees is off sick today."
Searchin’ “You Tube” I found
Daybook Information
…Happening This Week:
--
Today Is
Cyber Monday
Make Your Own Head Day
~*~
Albania: Independence Day (1912 from Ottoman Empire)
Mauritania: Independence
Day (1960 from France)Chad: Republic Day
(1960)
Today’s Events
Arts
1901 - Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony in G, premieres
1942 - Cocoanut
Grove nightclub fire kills 602 (Boston Mass)
1963 - Beatles "She Loves You"
returns to #1 on UK record chart
Athletes
1969 - Ted Sizemore
becomes 7th Dodger to win NL Rookie of Year
1981 - Bear Bryant
wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg & become college
football's winningest coach
1989 - Romanian
gymnast Nadia Comaneci flees to Hungary
Business
1922 - Capt Cyril
Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (NYC) Turner spelled out
"Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called
1960 - CBS radio
expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes
Education
--
Indigenous People
1729 - Natchez
Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort
Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi
1745 - -29] French
troops attack Indians of Saratoga, NY
Politics [International]
1520 - Ferdinand
Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean
1660 - London Royal
Society forms
1916 - 1st (German)
air attack on London
1919 - US-born Lady
Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament
Politics [US]
1775 - 2nd
Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy
1853 - Olympia forms
as capital of Washington Territory
Religion
--
Science
--
Today’s Birthdays
Artists: [Authors, Composers]
1757 - William
Blake, English poet/painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience)
1820 - Friedrich
Engels, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator
Athletes
Paul Warfield, NFL/WFL
wide receiver (Cleveland, Miami, Memphis) is 69
Entertainers [Actors, Singers…]
apl.de.ap, American
rapper (Black Eyed Peas) is 37
1925 - Gloria
Grahame, actress (Sue-Rich Man Poor Man)
Ed Harris, actor is 61
1902 - Victor
Jory, actor (Kings Row, Manhunt)
1931 - Hope Lange, actress
(Ghost & Mrs Muir)
Judd Nelson, actor is 52
S Epatha Merkerson,
Saginaw MI, actress (Jacob's Ladder, Terminator 2) is 59
1943 - Randy
Newman, vocalist (Short People, Love LA, Raindrops) is 68
Paul Shaffer, band
leader is 62
1967 - Anna
Nicole "Vickie" Smith, Houston Tex, playmate (May 1992)
Jon Stewart, comedian is 49
Entrepreneurs & Educators
1866 - Henry Bacon,
architect (Lincoln Memorial)
Berry Gordy Jr, record
company owner (Motown) is 82
Political Figures
Gary Hart, (Sen- Co,
1975-86) is 75
1923 - Ted Stevens,
(Sen-AK )
Scientists & Theologians
1628 - John
Bunyan, English cleric/author (Pilgrim's Progress)
Today’s Obits
1994 - Jeffrey
Dahmer, [Butcher of Milwaukee], killer, killed in prison at 34
1954 - Enrico
Fermi, Italian/US physicist (Nobel 1938), dies of stomach cancer at 53
1859 - Washington
Irving, US author (Geoffrey Crayon, gent), dies of heart attack at 76
1993 - Garry Moore,
TV host (I've Got A Secret), dies of emphysema at 78
1939 - James A
Naismith, creator of basketball, dies at 78
2010 - Leslie
Nielsen, Canadian actor dies at 85
1994 - Jerry Rubin,
US anti-war activist (Youth Party), dies after auto accident at 56
Answers
NPR Sunday Puzzle
- Coach, terrain: trainer
- Optic, subject: topic
- Snake, present: serpent
- Stuck, redhead: adhered
- Least, purloin: steal
- Pesky, smokier: irksome
Wuzzle
- Written all over your face
- Three inches thick
- There’s honor among theives
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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