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Almanac: Day: 275
/ Week: 40
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances Today:
National Custodial Worker Day
Name Your Car Day
Guardian Angels Day
International Day of Non-violence
National Custodial Workers Day
Phileas Fogg's Wager Day
World Farm Animals Day
Country Inn, Bed-and-Breakfast Day
Guardian Angels Day
Intergeneration Day
National Custodial Workers' Day
Phileas Fogg's Wager Day
UN International Day of Non-Violence
World Communion Sunday
World Farm Animals Day
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Fast of Gedalya (Jewish)
Independence Day (Guinea-1958-from France)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1263 - The
battle of Largs fought between Norwegians and Scots.
1535 - Jacques
Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal)
1656 - British
North American colony of Connecticut passes law against Quakers
1789 - George
Washington transmits the proposed Bill of Rights to the states
1909 - 1st
rugby match (Twickenham)
1916 - San Diego Zoo founded
1919
- Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed
1942 - "Queen
Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
1942 - 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction
demonstrated, Chicago
1950 - "Li'l
Folks", later "Peanuts", byCharles M. Schulz 1st
published in 9 papers
1955 - "Alfred
Hitchcock Presents" premieres
1967
- Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
1968 - Mexico City police fire on protesting
students, 300-500 killed
1975 - The
Ulster Volunteer Force kill 7 civilians in a series of attacks across Northern
Ireland; 6 were Catholic civilians and 1 was a Protestant civilian
1975 - Four Ulster Volunteer Force members killed
after a bomb they are carrying prematurely explodes in Farrenlester, near
Coleraine
1988 - 24th
Olympic Games close at Seoul, Korea
1991
- Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 professional
tennis matches
2002 - The
Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks
2005 - NFL
plays first regular season game outside US- AZ Cardinals defeat 49ers in Mexico
City, Mexico
2009 - The economic crisis in Ireland is considered
to be the driving force behind the largest migration of Irish people to London
in 20 years, it is reported today
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Our free
day in Dublin was a much needed slow down before our flight home. I had walked
to Temple Bar, an area of Dublin with shops, pubs, restaurants, and lot of
night life the night before. What a hopping place. Bob and I walked back to
Trinity U as they had the best gift shop we saw on the trip. Then we meandered
over to Temple Bar and did some tourist shopping—t-shirts, key chains, etc.
Lunch was a split order of Fish and Chips and my last ½ pint of Guinness while
in Ireland. The Guinness Brewery (St. John’s Gate) is now a storage facility
but still interesting. Our hotel was right in central downtown Dublin. The
entry was decorated in Royal Purple with two purple long couches for laying and
relaxing. The walls were purple, the whole damn place was purple. Many of the
women were a little freaked out as it really looked like a whorehouse. We were
there because it was the only 4-star in central Dublin, with everything within
walking distance. It was a good hotel, once you got past the entry. On our last
morning I asked the doorman what kind of décor it was. He smiled and said ‘old
and purple, they are redecorating soon.’ I asked him ‘How soon?’, his reply ‘not
soon enough.’
Today was
another beautiful day. I took my vehicle in for needed maintenance to the tune
of $1200. It took all day but the dealer has a shuttle service, so I came home
and did my laundry from the trip. Sure glad that is now done. All my travel
stuff is now packed away, awaiting my next adventure. I also figured out how to
change the start screen colors and desktop page on my computer now has an
Ireland castle picture. Tomorrow will be time to get pics from the computer to
the iPad so I can have Ireland pics to show people.
Finally,
yesterday I watched some of the congressional hearings on the Secret Service.
Not surprised that the head resigned today. She was a true bureaucrat who couldn’t
really know what was wrong. Scary how the Secret Service has deteriorated over
the years.
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Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
What is represented
by the following?
Hit. Der.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Age
Facts…
According
to official documents, Luo Meizhen was born in 1885, which would make her 127
years old when she died in 2013 and the oldest person ever to have lived.
Brain
Facts…
Optical
illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
Computer
Facts…
If you
opened up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures. One
for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO
The first
of eight steam engines for the new Williams to Grand Canyon Railroad has
arrived. The first three trips with 450 passengers each at $40 per person are
sold out.
Fun
Facts…
In Japan,
there are more pets than there are children.
Harper’s
Index…
Percentage
of children in single-mother Scandivian families who are lining in poverty: 11
In single-mother
US families: 55
Rules of
Thumb…
SUPERINSULATED
HOUSES
A super insulated house should have 12 square feet
of windows for every 100 square feet of floor. At least two-thirds of the
windows should be facing south.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Will Smith actually
did solve a Rubik's Cube in one minute in the 2006 film The Pursuit of
Happyness thanks to instruction from the Mao Brothers, co-founders of the
World Cube Association. The brothers both held world records of solving; Toby
Mao with a 3x3x3 single solve in 10.48 seconds and Tyson Mao with a total cube
solve of 1 minute, 5 seconds.
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Joke-of-the-day
There
was a student who was desirous of taking admission for a study course.
He was smart enough to get through the written test, a GD and was to appear for
the personal interview. Later, as the interview progressed, the interviewer
found this boy to be bright since he could answer all the questions correctly.
The interviewer got impatient and decided to corner the boy.
"Tell me your choice;" said he to the boy, "What's your choice:
I shall either ask you ten easy questions or ONE real difficult. Think well
before you make up your mind."
The boy thought for a while and said, "My choice is ONE real difficult
question."
"Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice!" said the man
on the opposite side. Tell me: What comes first, Day or Night?"
The boy was jolted first but he waited for a while and said: "It's the
DAY, sir."
"How???????" the interviewer was smiling ("At last, I got
you!" he said to himself.)
"Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult
question!"
Admission for the course was thus secured.
Yep, It
Really Happened
AUCKLAND,
New Zealand (UPI) - A New Zealand woman said she awoke recently to discover her
home and car had been covered in what she believes to be human feces from an
airplane. Karen Bass of Auckland said she awoke Sunday to discover there were
splotches of brown matter all over her house and her silver car, which she
believes to be human waste dropped from an airplane. Bass said her home is
directly in the flight path for planes coming into Auckland International
Airport. "The first thing when I walked out of my door this morning and I
saw it, I thought an airplane [expletive] on us. You open the door and it smells
like [expletive]," she told the New Zealand Herald. "I'm absolutely
disgusted at the moment. The amount of crap everywhere is horrendous," she
said. Bass said she is going to have a sample of feces independently tested to
verify it came from humans. "There's no way it's a bird or animal poo,
it's horrible. I'm sure it's human, what else could it be with huge clumps like
that?" she said. An Airways New Zealand spokeswoman suggested Bass
complain directly to the offending airline, but the homeowner said she would
not know which airline to address as she did not see the plane.
Somewhat
Useless Information
• The patron saint of
dentists: St. Apollonia. She reportedly had her teeth pulled out in A.D. 249 by
an anti-Christian mob.
• Despite the popular myth, George Washington didn't have wooden teeth - his
four sets of dentures were made of hippopotamus bone, elephant ivory and eight
human teeth from dead people, held together with gold palates and springs.
• Thanks to fluoride and other preventives, baby boomers are probably the last
generation to have a lot of cavities in their permanent teeth.
In 1959, dentists performed 34 extractions for every 100 people; now its half
that rate.
• Drugs can cause cavities. Antidepressants, antihypertensives, antihistamines,
decongestants and muscle relaxants all inhibit production of saliva, a natural
bacteria destroyer.
• Tiny gold hearts, butterflies and other tattoo images have become popular
among some trendy groups. The downside is that from a distance of more than
about three feet it just looks like you have food stuck in your teeth.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
--- 1-7
National
Walk Your Dog Week
Universal Children's Week
--- 2-4
Great
American Beer Festival
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Today’s
Events through History
1833 - NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
1871 - Brigham
Young, Mormon leader, arrested for bigamy
1961 - "Ben
Casey" premieres on NBC-TV
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Birthday’s
Today
Rex Reed, movie
critic/actor (Myra Breckinridge) is 76
Don
McLean, singer/songwriter (American Pie, Vincent) is 69
Annie
Leibovitz, photographer (Rolling Stones) is 65
Sting, [Gordon
Sumner], rock vocalist (Police-Roxanne)/actor (Dune) is 63
Lorraine
Bracco, Brooklyn, actress (Sopranos) is 60
Kelly
Ripa, actress\talk show host is 44
Tiffany [Renee
Darwich], rocker (I Think We're Alone Now) is 43
Remembered
for being born today
Nat
Turner, leader of major slave rebellion (1800-1831)
Mahatma
Gandhi, pacifist and spiritual leader, (1869-1948)
Groucho
Marx, [Julius], comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life) (1890-1977)
Bud
Abbott, comedian (Abbott & Costello) (1895-1974)
Coco the
Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff], Famous Russian clown (1900-1974)
[Henry] Graham Greene,
England, prolific novelist (Brighton Rock) (1904-1991)
Steve
Sabol, filmmaker (35 Emmy awards, founder of NFL Films) (1942-2012)
Chris
LeDoux, country singer (Ridin' for a Fall) (1948-2005)
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Historical
Obits Today
Gene
Autry, singer, actor, and entrepreneur, 1998, @91
Nipsey
Russell, American comedian, 2005, @87
Henry
Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), 1993, @83
Marcel
Duchamp, Fr. Painter\sculptor (Nude Descending a Staircase), 1968, @81
Samuel
Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Tea Party) and politican, 1803.@ 81
Harriet
Nelson, actress, 1994, @80
George
Bancroft, actor (Texas, Stagecoach, Little Men), 1956, @74
Rock
Hudson, actor (MacMillian & Wife), AIDS, 1985, @59
Frank
Lovejoy, actor (Man Against Crime), heart attack, 1962, @48
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Brain
Teasers
One hit wonder. (one "hit", one
"der")
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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…§
