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Today’s Historical Highlights
1763: Samuel Johnson meets his
future biographer James Boswell in London
1770: Marie Antoinette (14)
marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France
1817: Mississippi River
steamboat service begins
1836: Edgar Allan Poe marries
his 13-year-old cousin Virginia
1860::18] Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln candidate
1866: Congress authorizes
nickel 5 cent piece (replaces silver half-dime)
1868: By one vote, Senate
fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson
1891: George A Hormel & Co
introduce Spam
1910: US Bureau of Mines forms
1920: Joan of Arc (Jean D'arc)
canonized a saint
1939: Food stamps are 1st
issued
1956: Egypt recognizes
People's Republic of China
1985: Michael Jordan named NBA
Rookie of Year
2005: Kuwait permits women's
suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote
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Free Rambling
Thoughts
I learned quite a bit
today about Wells Fargo Bank. I have had an account with them since my days in
Tuba. I didn’t keep much money in the account and only used it for cash I
needed during the week as there was no ATM for Chase in Tuba. When I was on a detail,
I used it more to keep my records straight. I then used it for travel. I
noticed a few months ago that I was paying an $8 fee/month. I knew I had really
dropped the balance of the linked savings account for my trips. So today I
stopped by to find out what total balance I needed for no fees. Well it seems WF
changed my account to make it a non-free checking account. They said that they
sent me an email, but I guess I didn’t read the ‘fine print’. I told them that
I wanted a free account or I would close both accounts. After way too many
questions I got it. Then I found out that my mom’s name was never removed from
the account, even though I took a death certificate in. The guy says that she
is marked ‘deceased’ on the account, but without scanning in death certificate,
it would still be possible for someone to steal her identity and use that
account. He played with the phone, used a bunch of numerical verbal codes and
finally said I had to bring in the death certificate AGAIN. A nice guy but a
total bureaucrat with no power. Interestingly, his trainee, who had to sit
though all this, was from Shonto. I knew his mom, an aide who became a teacher,
and we had a good conversation. I let the trainee know something too. An
elderly Navajo grandpa was at the other desk, trying to get information. He
spoke some English, but was having trouble. He kept saying that his grandson
was in the truck outside. Neither of the two people helping him went out to get
the grandson. They just kept stumbling through and getting nowhere. I told the
trainee that it was too bad that the bank didn’t have a translator to help the
customer. As I was leaving, the young lady, another trainee, went outside and
got the grandson…who was in his thirties.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A close up
picture of what?
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NPR Sunday Puzzle
Given anagrams plus an
extra letter that must be unscrambled to name a river. For example, given
"roil" plus E, the answer would be "Loire," the river in
France.
Goal + v:
Heir + n:
Goon + c:
Bite + r:
Agnes + g:
Haste + m:
Grits + i:
Gnome + k:
Unbag + i:
Preheats + U:
Riddle of the day
There are four brothers
in this world that were all born together. The first runs and never wearies.
The second eats and is never full. The third drinks and is always thirsty. The
fourth sings a song that is never good.
Anagram: unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s Index
Portions of the Veterans Health Administration’s budget devoted to veterans with mental-health or addiction problems: 1/3
Found on You Tube
Monty Python – Spam
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
Officer to driver going the wrong way up a one way street. "And where do you think you are going?" Driver: - "I'm not sure, but I must be late as everyone else is coming back."
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
Returns tomorrow
Yeah, It Really
Happened
STOCKHOLM, N.Y. (AP) --Authorities say a northern New York man had his friend shoot him in the leg with a rifle because he wanted to know what it feels like to be shot.State police in St. Lawrence County say the shooting occurred around 5 p.m. Sunday in the rural town of Stockholm when 25-year-old Shawn Mossow of neighboring Norfolk relented to his friend's repeated requests and shot him once in the right leg with a .22-caliber rifle.The 24-year-old man from Norfolk is expected to make a full recovery. Police haven't released his name.Mossow was charged with reckless endangerment. He's being held in the county jail on $10,000 bail. It could be immediately determined if he had a lawyer.
Somewhat Useless
Information
- When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
- Whales and dolphins can literally fall half asleep. Their brain hemispheres alternate sleeping, so the animals can continue to surface and breathe.
- Unlike most fish, electric eels cannot get enough oxygen from water. Approximately every five minutes, they must surface to breathe, or they will drown. Unlike most fish, they can swim both backwards and forwards.
- The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
- The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to that of the sun from July 3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days of the dog."
- The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.
Calendar Information
…Happening This Week:
10-16
Universal Family Week
12-19
National Tourism Week
National Nursing Home Week
Reading is Fun Week
Salute to Moms 35+ Week
National Return To Work Week
National Women's Health Week
American Craft Beer Week
National Bike to Work Week
National Etiquette Week
National Hospital Week
15-21
National Dog Bite Prevention Week
National Educational Bosses' Week
National New Friends, Old Friends Week
National Police Week
National Transportation Week
World Trade Week
EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Week
Today Is
Biographer's Day
National Employee Health & Fitness Day
National Sea Monkey Day
Turn Beauty Inside Out Day
Wear Purple for Peace Day
Today’s Other Events
1500’s
1568: Mary Queen of Scotland
flees to England
1600’s
1606: 2,000 foreigners
murdered in Russia
1700’s
1760: Creek warrior Chief
Hobbythacco (Handsome Fellow) has often supported the English, but, at the
outbreak of the Cherokee war, he decides to support the Cherokees. He leads an
attack on a group of English traders in Georgia. Thirteen of the traders are
killed during the fighting. Creek Chief "The Mortar" also
participates in the fighting.
1792: Denmark abolishes slave
trade
1800’s
1864: Last battles at Drewry's
Bluff, Virginia (6,666 casualties)
1875: Quake in Venezuela & Colombia
kills 16,000
1879: Antonin Dvorák's
"Slavic Dancing," premieres
1881: World's 1st electric
tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
1894: Fire in Boston destroys
baseball stadium
& 170 other buildings
1900’s
1903: George Wyman makes 1st
motorcycle trip across the US
1927: Supreme Court ruled
bootleggers must pay income tax
1941: Germans made their last
major air attack on Britain (Birmingham)
1944: 1st of 180,000+
Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
1951: The first regularly
scheduled transatlantic flights begin between John F Kennedy International
Airport in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines
1956: Kraft Theater presents
an act from "Profiles in Courage"
1966: Beach Boys' "Pets
Sounds" is released
1971: 1st class postage now
costs 8 cents (was 6 cents)
1975: Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron
Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1986: "Top Gun,"
premieres 1986: Bobby Ewing (Patrick
Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas
1988: Surgeon Gen C Everett
Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin
1991: Queen Elizabeth becomes
1st British monarch to address US congress
2000’s
2003: In Casablanca,
Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the
Casablanca terrorist attacks
2007: Alex Salmond is
elected First Minister of Scotland. He is the first Scottish National Party
leader to be elected as First Minister after winning a historic victory at the
Scottish general election on the 3rd May
2011: Space shuttle
Endeavour launches for its final commission in space
Today’s Birthdays
Remembered for being born on this day
Philip Danforth Armour,
founder (Armour Foods) in 1832
Ernest Watson Burgess, US
sociologist (ecological school) in 1886
Billy Martin, baseball
2nd baseman/manager (NY Yankees, Oakland A's) in 1928
Levi Parsons Morton, (R)
22nd US VP (1889-93) in 1824
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody,
educator/founder (US kindergarten) in 1804
William H. Seward, United
States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre in 1801
Studs Terkel, NYC,
author/host (Stud's Place, Working) in 1912
Robert Tisdall, Ireland,
400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1932) in 1907
In their 50’s
Debra Winger, Columbus
Oh, actress (Officer & Gentleman) is 57
In their 40’s
David Boreanaz, actor
(Bones, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is 41
Tracey Gold, NYC, actress
(Carol-Growing Pains, Incredible Sunday)is 43
Janet Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer,
Michael's sister (Control) is 46
John Salley, NBA star (Detroit Pistons
is 48
In their 30’s
Tori Spelling, actress is 39
Under 30 years old
Megan Fox, Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
American actress (Transformers) and model is 26
Today’s Obits
Lean Bear (Awoninahku),
Cheyenne chief, murdered in 1864 at about 50
Levi P. Morton, United
States Vice President under Benjamin Harrison dies in 1920 at 96
Mugg, an Arosaguntacook
Indian Chief, dies in 1677 in Black
Point, Maine. At the outset of King Philip's war, Mugg attempted to arrange a
peace treaty with the British. Instead they jail him for a short time, and gain
a bitter enemy. He destroys much of Black Point, Maine in a raid on October 12,
1676. Later he captures a few ships and stages a brief naval war before his death
Eliot Ness, American
federal agent dies of heart attack in 1957 at 54
Answers
Brain Game: Close Up
Picture
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Riddle of the day
Water, fire, earth, wind
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Goal + v: Volga
2.
Heir + n: Rhine
3.
Goon + c: Congo
4.
Bite + r: Tiber
5.
Agnes + g: Ganges
6.
Haste + m: Thames
7.
Grits + i: Tigris
8.
Gnome + k: Mekong
9.
Unbag + i: Ubangi
10.
Preheats + u: Euphrates
Anagrams
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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