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Today’s “Geez“
- 1866 - 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean
- 1905 - 120°F (49°C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)
- 1909 - Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- 1932 - SF's coldest day (27°F) - it snows
- 1941 - Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
- 1961 - Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel
- 1964 - Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in NYC. An unknown terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech.
- 1981 - Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick
- 2008 - Bernard Madoff arrested and charged with securities fraud in $50 billion Ponzi scheme
Free Rambling Thoughts
A good Saturday. Had to
make a run to the drug store for my blood pressure meds. While I was there I
got a flu shot. I should have done it a few weeks ago, but always ended up with
a long sleeve shirt or sweater, and I don’t like undressing at the drug store.
Anyway, arm is a little sore, but I am protected…I guess.
I also picked up a few
stocking stuffers, then headed for the grocery store. I don’t like shopping on
weekends, but had to pick up some staples and couldn’t wait till Monday.
Actually the store wasn’t as busy as I expected. And they had no lines…even
better.
NPR Sunday Puzzle (answers
at the end of post)
You are given a
statement and must determine whether it is true or false.
1.
Fjord
is only common five letter word in which ‘j’ is the second letter:
2.
No
common word rhymes with month.
3.
Mimic
is the only common five letter word that can be spelled using Roman Numerals:
4.
Six
common words can be used to spelled using the letters o p s t:
5.
Albany
is the only state capital with it’s last two letters are the state abbreviation
for its state:
6.
The
foot is the only body part where the oo is changed to ee:
7.
Bejing
is the only well known common place that has three consecutive ‘dotted’
letters:
8.
Albuquerque
is the only state capital with the letter ‘q’. False—Santa Fe is the capital
Wuzzles What concept or
phrase do these suggest?
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
- A good guide for exposing film on a clear day with the sun at your back is to set the aperture at f16 and the shutter speed to the ASA of the film.
Hmmmmm
- Percentage of Mississippians who are unhappy with the outcome of the Civil War: 27
Somewhat Useless
Information
- The Tigris river runs through Baghdad. It is about 1,150 miles (1,800 km) long. The name "Tigris" comes from Old Persian and translates as "the fast one".
- With a toothy coastline of 2,650 miles (4,265 km), Chile accounts for more than half of the western coastline of South America.
- Currently, Asia is Earth's largest continent at approximately 17,300,000 square miles (44,806,812 sq km). Africa comes in second at about 11,700,000 square miles (30,300,000 sq km).
Yeah, It Really Happened
SAKURA, Japan - The
Japanese owner of the canine certified as the world's oldest living dog by
Guinness World Records said the dog has died at the age of 26 years, 9 months.
Yumiko Shinohara of Sakura said Pusuke, a male crossbreed, died Monday
afternoon after refusing to eat in the morning and appearing to have difficulty
breathing, Kyodo News reported Thursday. Shinohara said Pusuke died only a few
minutes after she arrived home from running errands. "I think (Pusuke)
waited for me to come home," she said. The dog, which had aged to the
equivalent of 125 years in human terms, was certified in December 2010 as the
world's oldest living dog.
A Laff or at least smile
A young woman visits her
parents and brings her fiancé to meet them. After an elaborate dinner, the
mother tells her husband to find out about the young man. The father invites
the fiancée to his library for a drink. “So what are your plans?” The father asks
the young man.
“I am a Torah scholar.”
He says.
“A Torah scholar, Hmmm,”
the father says. “Admirable, but what will you do to provide a nice house for
my daughter to live in, as she is accustomed to?”
“I will study,” the
young man said, and God will provide for us.”
“And how will you buy
her a beautiful engagement ring, such as she deserves?” asks the father.
“I will concentrate on
my studies,” the young man replies, “God will provide for us.”
“And children?” asks the
father. “How will you support children?”
“Don’t worry, sir, God
will provide,” replies the fiancé.
The conversation
continues like this, and each time the father questions, the young idealist
insist that God will provide.
Later, the mother asks,
“How did it go, Honey?”
The father answers, “He
has no job and no plans, but the good news is he thinks I’m God.”
Found on YouTube
Daybook Information
…Happening
This Week:
6-12
- National Handwashing Awareness Week
- Human Rights Week
- International Mountain Day [an opportunity to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development and to build partnerships that will bring positive change to the world’s mountains and highlands.]
- International Shareware Day
- National Noodle Ring Day
- UNICEF Birthday
- World Choral Day
- Worldwide Candle Lighting Day
~*~
- US: Indiana: Admission Day (1816—19th state)
Today’s
Events
Arts
1953 - KTVA TV
channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
1961 - Elvis
Presley's "Blue Hawaii", album goes to #1 & stays #1 for
20 wks
Athletes
1951 - Joe DiMaggio
announces his baseball retirement
1966 - Al Nelson
sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards
2009 - Tiger Woods
announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage
Business
1888 - French Panama
Canal company fails
1997 - Fed judge
orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows
Education
--
Indigenous People
1833 - Captain Page, and
almost 700 Choctaw, reach their destination at Fort Towson, in eastern Indian
Territory. The others in the group had split off and gone to Fort Smith.
Politics [International]
1906 - US president
Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo
1928 - Buenos Aires
police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover
1941 - Japanese
occupy Guam
1967 - People's
front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established
1986 - South Africa
censors press
2001 - The People's
Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization
Politics [US]
1620 - 103 Mayflower
pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
1917 - 13 black
soldiers hanged for participation in Houston riot
1961 - JFK provides
US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
1971 - The
Libertarian Party of the United States is formed
Religion
--
Science
1719 - 1st recorded
display of Aurora Borealis in US (New England)
1844 - 1st dental
use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
1992 - Nor'easter
storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage
Today’s
Birthdays
Artists: [Authors,
Composers]
1913 - Carlo
Ponti, Milan Italy, married to Sophia Loren/director (2 Women)
1918 - Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970)
Athletes
--
Entertainers [Actors,
Singers…]
Teri Garr, American film
actress is 67
Lynda Day George, actress
(Casey-Mission Impossible) is 62
Brenda Lee, [Brenda Mae
Tarpley], singer (I'm Sorry) is 67
Mo'Nique [Monica Imes
Hicks], actor is 44
Donna Mills, actress
(Knots Landing, Incident) is 69
Rita Moreno, actor will
be 80
Nikki Sixx, American
musician (Mötley Crüe) is 53
Rider Strong, actor
(Shawn Hunter-Boy Meets World) is 31
Ken Wahl, actor
(Wanderers, Wise Guys) is 58
Entrepreneurs &
Educators
--
Political Figures
Tom Hayden, 60's
activist/Mr Jane Fonda/(Rep-Ca) is 72
John Kerry, Senator-MA
is 68
1882 - Fiorello
La Guardia, (Mayor-NYC, 1933-45)
1465 - Ashikaga
Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun
Scientists &
Theologians
1781 - David
Brewster, Scottish physicist/inventor (kaleidoscope)
1843 - Robert
Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905)
Today’s
Obits
1282 - Llywelyn the
Last, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells,
south Wales at 59
2010 - Dick
Hoerner, American football player dies at 88
1991 - Robert Q
Lewis, US comic/TV panel member (RQL Show), dies of emphysema at 70
1971 - Maurice
"Mac" McDonald, American fast-food pioneer dies at 69
2007 - Grace Paley,
American writer dies at 85
2008 - Bettie
Page, American model and pin up girl dies at 85
1880 - Oliver
Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician(rifle) dies at 70
Answers
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Fjord
is only common five letter word in which ‘j’ is the second letter: False—eject
2.
No
common word rhymes with month. True
3.
Mimic
is the only common five letter word that can be spelled using Roman Numerals:
False: civic, livid, vivid
4.
Six
common words can be used to spelled using the letters o p s t: True--stop,
post, tops, pots, spot, opts
5.
Albany
is the only state capital with it’s last two letters are the state abbreviation
for its state: True
6.
The
foot is the only body part where the oo is changed to ee: False-tooth, teeth
7.
Beijing
is the only well known common place that has three ‘dotted’ letters: False-Fiji
8.
Albuquerque
is the only state capital with the letter ‘q’. False—Santa Fe is the capital
Wuzzle
- Personable
- Speaks with an accent
- Born again
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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