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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 274
/ Week: 40
October
Averages: 62° \ 32°
Today:
Holiday Observances Today:
Balloons
Around The World Day
CD Player Day
Fall Astronomy Day
Fire
Pup Day
International Day of Older Persons
International Music Day
Model T Day
National Lace Day1
UN International Day of Older Persons
World Card Making Day
World
Vegetarian Day
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Armed
Forces Day (South Korea-1950)
Independence Day (Cyprus-1960-from UK)
Independence Day (Nigeria-1960-from UK)
National Day (People’s Rep. of China-since 1949)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1653 - Russian parliament accepts annexation of
Ukraine
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France
1829 - South African College is founded in Cape
Town,; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African
College Schools.
1843 - News of the World began publication in
London.
1867 - Karl Marx' "Das Kapital" published
1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes new director
of US Marine Corps Band
1888 - National Geographic magazine publishes for
1st time
1890 - Yosemite National Park forms
1891 - Stanford University opens its doors.
1907 - Plaza Hotel (5th Av & 59th Str, NY) opens
1908 - Henry Ford introduces the Model T car
(costs $825)
1918 - Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence
of Arabia") capture Damascus.
1928 - USSR launches its first 5-year plan
1937 - Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters
1942 - Little Golden Books (children books) begins
publishing
1948 - California Supreme Court voids state statute
banning interracial marriages
1949 - Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island
of Formosa
1964
- Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley
1971 - Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens
1982 - EPCOT Center opens in Orlando Florida
1984 - Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip
resumes after 2-year hiatus
1994 - South African President Nelson
Mandela visits US
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Back in Dublin we visited Trinity College and the Book of Kells
that are located in the ‘long room’. What a site. Rows and Rows of books about
12 shelves high. Interestingly the books are categorized in some very strange
way that has to do with the size of the book and when it was received. These
ancient texts are now on a data base. The potential reader looks up the
title-say Alice in Wonderland’. The data base says that it can be found at
D-ff-27. The librarian goes to Row D. One side of Row D is single letters of
the alphabet, the other side is double letters. Then it is to shelf ‘ff’ and
then count the books till you get to the 27th book on the shelf. The
librarian pulls out the book and takes it to the reading room, sorry no
checkouts. An amazingly simple and complicated system. Then it was off to St.
Patrick’s Cathedral, which is Irish Anglican-not Catholic. Beautiful. Then off
to Kilmainham Gaol, a prison. It kept lots of prisoners, many political who
were involved in the many failed uprisings and rebellions from 1798 until is
closure in the early 1900’s. Very depressing since it housed women and children
and men in the same place. Many of the women and children were arrested for
stealing food during the Famine. Lots of excursions and lots of people sent by
ship to Australia. We saw so much
history today, by the end of the day, I was exhausted mentally.
Fall seems to have arrived in Flag. It was quite chilly this morning.
It turned out to be a nice day.
I had 24 phone messages on my home machine. Most were hang ups
from robo-calls. One turned out quite beneficial. My mother’s financial advisor’s
new assistant called to talk about some investments Mom had that were never
turned over to us. A little upset, because I was told there were no more
investments. Anyway, my brother and I spent the day on the phone, tracking down
the investments and the stock she had that we didn’t know about. We will have
lots of paperwork, but it will pay off well and I will be able to have a few
trips in the future because of these windfalls.
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Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
For each clue below,
think of a common expression which mentions two body parts.
Some phrases refer to two different body parts (mix), others use the same body
part twice (match).
Example: The law of retaliation. Answer: An eye for an eye.
1. To be in agreement
2. A couple strolling
3. Suddenly in love
4. Intimate discussion
5. Very expensive
6. Done at a ballroom
7. Poor, nothing extra
Bonus: The title of this children's action song mentions four different body
parts.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Age Facts…
Shirley
Henderson, the girl who played Moaning Myrtle (the ghost in the bathroom) was
actually 37 years old when she played the character in the Harry Potter series.
Brain
Facts…
You can
only remember 4 things at a time.
Computer
Facts…
Hewlett
Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO
The gates
at Glen Canyon Dam have been opened further to increase the flow to 6,000 cubic
feet per second. The water is on the way to Lake Mead, where an outflow of
1,000 cubic feet per second will allow it to fill its downstream obligations.
There is hope that power generation can begin at Glen Canyon soon.
Fun
Facts…
Milt,
known as a delicacy around the world, is actually fish sperm.
Harper’s
Index…
Percentage
more per patient that Medicare pays the average male doctor htan the average
female doctor: 24
Percentage
of US doctors who say they would discourage an aspirant from joining the profession:
9/10
Rules of
Thumb…
In general, people will not walk more than 14 or 15 steps to throw away a piece
of trash, so place trash cans at most every 25 paces (so that people always
find they're within 13 steps of a receptacle).
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Omar Knedlik of
Coffeyville, Kansas, invented the Icee (also called a Slurpee, Slush, or Mr.
Misty) in the late 1950s. The first flavor he offered was root beer.
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Joke-of-the-day
A
young woman went to her doctor complaining of pain.
"Where are you hurting?" asked the doctor."You have to help me,
I hurt all over", said the woman.
"What do you mean, all over?" asked the doctor, "be a little
more specific."
The woman touched her right knee with her index finger and yelled, "Ow,
that hurts." Then she touched her left cheek and again yelled, "Ouch!
That hurts, too." Then she touched her right earlobe, "Ow, even THAT
hurts", she cried. The doctor checked her thoughtfully for a moment and
told her his diagnosis, "You have a broken finger."
Yep, It
Really Happened
Known fact:
turtles are not illegal in Canada (or the United States), so I am not sure what
the advantage of smuggling them across the border might be... which is what
makes this story particularly bizarre.
It seems a Canadian was caught at the border with 51 live turtles stuffed down
his pants. His is now facing charges in the U.S. over an alleged reptile
smuggling operation.
The U.S. federal court documents show officers with the Canada Border Services
Agency intercepted Kai Xu as he attempted to cross into Windsor, Ont., from
Detroit last month (apparently a hotbed of turtle smuggling).
"During the secondary inspection, Xu was found to have 51 live turtles
taped to his person," Kenneth Adams, a special agent with U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, stated in an affidavit.
"Specifically, Xu had 41 turtles taped to his legs and 10 hidden between
his legs."
Canadian authorities seized the turtles, which included North American
varieties such as eastern box turtles, red-eared sliders and diamondback
terrapins - some of which sell for $800 each - and turned them over to American
officials.
And this isn't even the first time Xu has been caught with contraband reptiles.
It is speculated that the cache was headed for China where turtles are
apparently prized as food or pets.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Genoa in Italy,
called ‘Gene’ by sixteenth – century Europeans, was the first city to make
denim cloth and was famous for its cotton corduroy.
Jeans used to be
exported by sailors during the Republic of Genoa throughout Europe.
It is said that
‘Gênes’, the French word for Genoa, may therefore be the origin of the
word “jeans”.
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Pluto is not
exactly a planet but the largest object in the Kuiper belt, as well
as the tenth-most-massive body observed directly orbiting the Sun.
However, did you know
that Russia, the largest country by land mass on Earth (17,098,322 square
kilometers) is bigger than Pluto?
Pluto has a land mass
of just 16,647,940 square kilometers!
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Month:
Adopt A
Dog Month
Adopt A Shelter Dog Month
AIDS Awareness Month
American Cheese Month
American Pharmacists Month
Antidepressant Death Awareness Month
Apple Month
•••
Bat Appreciation Month
Black Speculative Fiction Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Bullying Prevention Month
(World) Blindness Awareness Month
•••
Caffeine
Addiction Recovery Month
Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Celebrating The Bilingual Child Month
Children's Magazine Month
Christmas Seal Campaign
Church Library Month
Church Safety and Security Month
Class Reunion Month
Co-op Awareness Month
Country Music Month
Cut Out Dissection Month
•••
Domestic
Violence Awareness Month
Down Syndrome Awareness Month
Dyslexia Awareness Month
•••
Eat Better,
Eat Together Month
Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
Emotional Wellness Month
Employee Ownership Month
Energy Management is a Family Affair-Improve Your Home Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
•••
Fair
Trade Month
Financial Planning Month
Feral Hog Month or Hog Out Month
•••
Gay &
Lesbian History Month
German-American Heritage Month
Global ADHD Awareness Month
Global Diversity Awareness Month
Go Hog Wild - Eat Country Ham
•••
Halloween
Safety Month
Head Start Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
Home Eye Safety Month
•••
Italian-American
Heritage Month
International Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness
Month
International Starman Month
International Strategic Planning Month
International Walk To School Month
Intergeneration Month
•••
LGBT
History Month
Long Term Care Planning Month
•••
Month of
Free Thought
•••
National
AIDS Awareness Month
National Animal Safety and Protection Month
National Arts & Humanities Month
National Audiology Awareness Month
National Bake and Decorate Month
National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
National Caramel Month
National Chili Month
National Chiropractic Health Month
National Cookbook Month
National Crime Prevention Month
National Critical Illness Awareness Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Depression Education & Awareness Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
National Down Syndrome Month
National Ergonomics Month
National Family Sexuality Education Month - Let's Talk!
National Field Trip Month
National "Gain The Inside Advantage" Month
National Go On A Field Trip Month
National Kitchen & Bath Month
National Liver Awareness Month
National Medical Librarian Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Physical Therapy Month
National Popcorn Poppin' Month
National Pork Month
National Protect Your Hearing Month
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
National Reading Group Month
National Roller Skating Month
National RSV Awareness Month
National Sarcastic Awareness Month
National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
National Stamp Collecting Month
National Stop Bullying Month
National Substance Abuse Prevention Month
National Toilet Tank Repair Month
National Window Covering Safety Month
National Work and Family Month
National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month
•••
Organize
Your Medical Information Month
•••
Photographer
Appreciation Month
Pizza Month
Polish American Heritage Month
Positive Attitude Month
•••
Raptor
Month
Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
Right Brainers Rule! Month
•••
Sausage
Month
Self-Promotion Month
Spinach Lovers Month
Squirrel Awareness Month
•••
Tackling
Hunger Month
Talk About Prescriptions Month
•••
Vegetarian
Month
•••
Wishbones
for Pets Month
Women Walking In Their Own Shoes Month
Workplace Politics Awareness Month
World Menopause Month
Observances
This Week:
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National
Walk Your Dog Week
Universal Children's Week
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Today’s
Events through History
1189 - Grandmaster of the Knights Templar is killed
in the Siege of Acre.
1893 - 3rd worst hurricane in US history kills
1,800 (Mississippi)
1910 - Explosion at LA Times kills 21
1931 - The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel is opened in New York.
1945 - Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is
discharged from army
1955 - "Honeymooners" premieres
1962 - Barbra Streisand signs her 1st
recording contract (with Columbia)
1962 - Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show,
Joan Crawford guests
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev became president of
Soviet Union
1990 - US President Bush at UN, condemns
Iraq's takeover of Kuwait
2005 - Bombing kills 23 people in Bali
2013 - A partial United States federal government
shutdown
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Birthday’s
Today
Jimmy
Carter, Plains, Georgia, 39th US President is 90
Julie
Andrews, actress/singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins) is 79
Stella
Stevens, actress (Girls! Girls!, Manitou) is 76
Randy
Quaid, actor (Midnight Express) is 64
Mark
McGwire, MLB 1st baseman is 51
Cindy
Margolis, Model/actress is 49
Remembered
for being born today
James
Lawrence, naval hero (War of 1812-"Don't give up the ship!")
(1781-1813)
William
Edward Boeing, founded aircraft co (Boeing) (1881-1956)
Vladimir
Horowitz, Ukraine, pianist (Carmen) (1903-1989)
Bonnie
Parker, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), (1910-1934)
Walter
Matthau, actor (Odd Couple, Bad News Bears) (1920-2000)
James
Whitmore, actor (1921-2009)
William
Rehnquist, Supreme Court chief justice, (1924-2005)
Tom
Bosley, actor (Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote) (1927-2010)
George
Peppard, actor (Banacek, A-Team) (1925-1994)
Richard
Harris, Ireland, actor (Man Called Horse)/singer (1930-2002)
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Historical
Obits Today
Filaret, [Fjodor
N Romanov], patriarch of Moscow, 1633, @89
E. B.
White, author (New Yorker, Charlotte's Web), 1985, @86
Curtis E
LeMay, USAF General/VP candidate, 1990, @83
Tom
Clancy, Author 'The Hunt for Red October', heart, 2013, @66
Louis
Leakey, English anthropologist, heart attack, 1972, @68
Patrick
McGeown, IRA politician, 1996, @40
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Brain
Teasers
1. See eye to eye
2. Walk hand in hand (or arm in arm)
3. Fall head over heels (in love)
4. Have a heart to heart
5. Cost an arm and a leg
6. Dance cheek to cheek
7. Living hand to mouth
Bonus: "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"
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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 contains mistakes and sadly once 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.
§…And That Is All for Now…§
