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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 276
/ Week: 40
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances Today:
Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Day
Lee's National Denim Day
National Diversity Day Child Health Day
Techies Day
UN World Habitat Day
Virus Appreciation Day
World Smile Day first Friday of month
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National Foundation Day [Gaecheonjeo] (Korea-2333BC)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1691 - English
& Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland
1863 - Lincoln
designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
1906 - SOS
adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy
1908 - Pravda
newspaper founded; Leon Trotsky, & other Russian exiles in Vienna
1913 - Federal
Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
1935 - Italy
invades Ethiopia
1940 - US forms parachute troops
1942- FDR forms
Office of Economic Stabilization
1957
- Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene
1968 - The proposed civil rights march in Derry,
Northern Ireland, is banned from the area of the city center and the Waterside
area; the banning order is issued under the Public Order Act by William Craig,
then Home Affairs Minister
1971 - Billie
Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000
1974
- Pele retires as soccer player
1974 - Watergate trial begins
1981 - Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near
Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike
1994
- Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing "Far Side"
cartoon
1997
- Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record at 280.3 mph
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful
fall day here, warm after a cool morning. Had a nice lunch with my retiree
group. Cheryl got all her household redoing done. Mary has been busy helping
out the AZ Trails group.
Heard
today that an elderly former teacher from Tuba has been placed in a dementia
residence. Turns out her grandkids, except for one, are trying to get their
greedy big palms on her money. Her one stable grandson has Power of Attorney,
so hopefully he won’t cave in. A tough call for him.
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Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Fill in the sentence
below so that the first two words combine to make the third word. For example,
given "The _____ of the group was extremely _____, not just physically,
for he was also particularly _____", you would fill in HEAD, STRONG, and
HEADSTRONG.
The guilty _____ fitted the classic _____ for such a character, highlighted by
the fact that he looked to constantly _____ his next move.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Age
Facts…
The
oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
Brain
Facts…
Chewing
gum boosts your brain power.
Computer
Facts…
Computer
programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
Returns soon
Fun
Facts…
The
company that makes Nutella uses about 25% of the world's supply of hazelnuts.
Harper’s
Index…
Percentage
of US teenagers who receive no formal sex education before having sex for the
first time: 83
Rules of Thumb…
HIRING
EMPLOYEES
The overall cost to the company of hiring a new
salaried employee is roughly one-third of the position's annual salary.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Not all comets are as
"regular" as Halley's Comet. Astronomers believe that Comet West,
which last visited our neighborhood in 1975-76, won't be seen again for another
half-million years.
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Joke-of-the-day
A
man came home and was greeted by his wife dressed in a very sexy nightie. 'Tie
me up,' she purred, 'and you can do anything you want.'
So he tied her up and went golfing.
Yep, It
Really Happened
CONGLETON,
England (UPI) - A British cafe is testing the limits of good taste in the the
morning with "The Hibernator," a breakfast dish packing a whopping
8,000 calories. Mark Winder, owner of the Bear Grills cafe in Congleton,
England, said that only 20 customers have so far attempted to take on "The
Hibernator," which weighs 7 pounds and amounts to nearly four times the
daily recommended caloric intake for an adult man. Winder said no one has yet
succeeded in finishing the dish, which he requires diners to sign waivers
before attacking. "It's called 'The Hibernator' because if anyone
completes it, they'll have to sleep for a year," Winder said. The
breakfast includes four fried eggs, four strips of bacon, eight sausages, four
hash browns, a four-egg cheese omelet, four waffles, four pieces of toast, four
pieces of fried bread, four pieces of black pudding, two ladles of beans,
tomatoes, mushrooms, French fries and a 2,000-calorie milkshake to wash it all
down.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Did you know that the
word ‘cab’ originates from the French word ‘cabrioler’, which means ‘jump like
a goat’?
Back to 1760-70 the
first carriages for public hire bounced up and down so much that they reminded
people of goats jumping on a hillside!
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The Empire State
Building, America’s cultural icon, has been named as one of
the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of
Civil Engineers.
It stands a total
of 443 meters high and it stood as the world’s tallest
building for nearly 40 years until One World Trade
Center reached a greater height on April 30, 2012.
The Empire State
Building has 103 floors and in 2007, it was ranked number one on the AIA’s
List of America’s Favorite Architecture.
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Do you see the glass
half-full or half-empty? Have you chosen to be optimistic or pessimistic? Read
the list below with ten things that optimistic people do and find out!
What do optimistic
people do?
They consider problems
as chances to improve themselves.
They dream big!
Without limits.
They make things
simpler. They do not exaggerate facts.
They live for today
and they enjoy every single minute.
They sleep well and
wake up at the same time every day.
They use wisdom to
choose friends.
They do not care
about what other people say.
They do not only talk
but also listen carefully.
They eat proper food.
They are honest.
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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
---3-5
Fallen
Firefighters Memorial Weekend5
National
Storytelling Weekend
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Today’s
Events through History
1778 - Captain
Cook anchors at Alaska
1922 - 1st
facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC
1945 - Elvis
Presley's 1st public appearance at the age of 10
1948 - Columbia
University reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo
1954 - "Father
Knows Best" premieres
1955 - "Captain
Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain!
1955 - "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
1961 - "Mr Ed" premieres
2008 - OJ
Simpson found guilty of charges of kidnapping and armed robbery
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Birthday’s
Today
Chubby
Checker [Ernest Evans], singer-songwriter (The Twist) is 73
Roy Horn, Las
Vegas entertainer (Siegfried & Roy) is 70
Lindsey
Buckingham, guitarist/lead singer (Fleetwood Mac) is 65
Al
Sharpton, minister and civil rights activist (Keepin' It Real) is 60
Tommy Lee,
American musician (Mötley Crüe) is 52
Clive
Owen, British actor is 50
Gwen
Stefani, singer (No Doubt) is 45
Neve
Campbell, Canadian actress (Party of 5, Scream) is 41
Ashlee
Simpson, singer, actress is 30
Remembered
for being born today
John Ross (Guwisguwi- "Little White Bird"), Chief of the Cherokee (1790-1866)
George
Bancroft, American historian (History of the United States) (1800-1891)
Patrick
Manson, "Father of tropical medicine" (1844-1922)
Thomas
Wolfe, novelist (Look Homeward Angel) (1900-1930)
James
Herriot [Alfred Wight], veterinarian/novelist (All Creatures Great
and Small), (1916-1995)
Gore
Vidal, author (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln), (1925-2012)
Stevie
Ray Vaughan, guitarist (Sky is Crying, Texas Flood) (1954-1990)
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Historical
Obits Today
Queen
Fatima, former Libyan queen, 2009, @98
Janet
Leigh, American actress, heart attack, 2004, @77
Virginia
Dale, US actress/dancer (Holiday Inn), 1994, @77ish
Myles
Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, cancer, 1856, @72
Black
Hawk (chief), Sauk, 1838, @71ish
Roddy
McDowall, English actor, cancer, 1998, @70
Woodrow Wilson "Woody"
Guthrie, folk singer/guitarist, Huntington's, 1967, @55
Elias
Howe, American sewing machine pioneer, 1867, @48
Saint Francis
of Assisi, infection, 1226, @44
Kintpuash, [Captain Jack],
Modoc leader, hanged, 1873, @36ish
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Brain
Teasers
CON,
TEMPLATE, CONTEMPLATE
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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…§
