10-6-14

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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 279 / Week: 41 
October Averages: 63° \ 31°

    Holiday Observances Today:
Child Health Day
Come and Take It Day

Ecological Debt Day 
German-American Day

Jackie Mayer Rehab Day (stoke survivor, Miss America motivational speaker)
Mad Hatter Day 
National German-American Day
Physician Assistant Day

Techie's Day
World Day of Architecture
World Habitat Day

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Armed Forces Day (Egypt- 1973-Egyptian Army's successful crossing of the Suez Canal that culminated in the capture of the Bar Lev Line)
Dasara / Vijaya Dasami (Hindu -  Lord Rama's victory over the ten-headed demon king Ravana, the victory of Goddess Durga over the demon Mahishasur)
Ivy Day (Ireland- in emory of the prominent nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891))       

Quote of the Day



Historical Highlights for Today
1499 - French King Louis XII occupies Milan
1683 - 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown Pa (Phila)
1783 - Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock
1853 - 4th National Women's Rights Convention opens in Cleveland Ohio
1857 - American Chess Association organized; 1st major US tournament (NYC)
1861 - Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg
1866 - 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000)
1876 - American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
1882 - 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0
1893 - Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat
1900 - Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
1945 - Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series & is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs
1952 - Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)
1956 - Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
1961 - JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
1966 - LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in CA
1967 - Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funeral to mark end of hippies
1995 - Colorado Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
2013 - 53 people are killed in political clashes in Egypt
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  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today



My Rambling Thoughts   
Had a good Saturday when some old friends dropped by and spent the afternoon and evening. Thus, no blog yesterday.
Sunday has been another beautiful fall day with little wind and great temps. Having a hard time watching the Bronco/Cardinal game. Always been a Bronco fan, but it is hard when you live in AZ. Good game anyway.
So much to watch on Sunday news shows. Lots on Ebola, with everyone with knowledge saying not to panic, and still watching all the missteps taken in Texas. One crazy fear monger was suggesting that we stop all flights to and from Africa—all of Africa—and take the temperatures of every passenger entering the US from anywhere in the world that still has flights to Africa—again the entire continent. He, I am sure, also wants the border sealed with a big very tall electrified fence.
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Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today




           
OK Then…


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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
Age Facts…
Anyone under the age of 21 who takes out household trash containing even a single empty alcohol beverage container can be charged with illegal possession of alcohol in Missouri.
           
Brain Facts…
The human brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.
           
Computer Facts…
The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. 20 times faster, in fact.
           
Flagstaff, AZ History…
From 1889: Having opened The Bank Hotel on Railroad Avenue, I will spare no pains to make it the leading hotel of Arizona Territory with rooms by the day, week or month. Dining is in the attached building, where nothing but the best the market affords will be served to our guests. J. Coalter, Proprietor.
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, heretofore inaccessible to tourists, can now be reached by taking the stage from Peach Springs for a journey of 23 miles to view this tremendous river.
           
Fun Facts…
After octopuses breed, they develop dementia. They then live the rest of their lives in this confused, seemingly lost state, with apparently no knowledge of previous events.
           
Harper’s Index…
Percentage of white Americans who support paying college athletes: 24
Of black Americans who do: 51   

Rules of Thumb…   
SPOTTING THE MURDERER
In a mystery play on your local stage, the murderer will be the best actor among the suspects. In a mystery TV show, the murderer will be the best-known actor.      
Unusual Fact of the Day…
You can order a 6' aluminum Festivus pole for $39 from FestivusPoles.com. They promise a very high strength-to-weight ratio.
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Joke-of-the-day
A schoolteacher asked her primary six class to construct sentences with the words: defeat, detail, and defense.
There was a pause before a pupil raised his hand and said he could make a sentence with them; "The cow jumped over defense and detail went over defeat."

           
Yep, It Really Happened
HONDA, Colombia (UPI) - Workers at a Colombia clinic said a woman inserted a potato into her vagina as a means of contraception and the spud grew roots inside of her. Staff at a medical clinic in the town of Honda said a 22-year-old woman came in this week complaining of severe pain in her lower abdomen and attending nurse Carolina Rojas said she was shocked to discover roots coming out of the woman's vagina. "My mom told me that if I didn't want to get pregnant, I should put a potato up there, and I believed her." the patient was quoted as saying. Rojas said the potato had been inside the woman for about two weeks and was growing roots inside her. The nurse said doctors were able to remove the spud without surgery and they do not expect the woman to experience any long-term effects from the experience -- except, perhaps, a newfound aversion to using potatoes as contraception.        

Somewhat Useless Information   
The word “husband” comes from two Old Norse words, which is the language spoken by the Vikings, which mean ‘house’ and ‘owner’. 
The word originally had nothing to do with marital status, except for the fact that home ownership made these men extremely desirable marriage partners.
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Did you know that administering anesthesia to babies during surgeries was not common in the past, as it was believed that babies could not feel pain?
Until 1987, heart surgery, as well as other surgeries, could be performed on babies with no anesthesia.
Fortunately, this is not the case anymore, as even the premature babies get painkillers.
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Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
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National Walk Your Dog Week 
Universal Children's Week
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4-H Week 
No Salt Week 
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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta 
Fall Astronomy Week 
World Space Week 
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Emergency Nurses Week 
Fire Prevention Week
International Post Card Week 
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week
National Midwifery Week 
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine Week
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Customer Service Week) 
Drive Safely Work Week 
Financial Planning Week
Kids' Goal Setting Week
National Health Care Food Service Week
National Metric Week
National Physician’s Assistant Week
Spinning & Weaving Week  
World Dairy Expo

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            Today’s Events through History  
1890 - Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
1911 - Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game
1927 - "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
1948 - The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000 in the Turkmen SSSR
1948 - Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya.
1978 - Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls"
1979 - Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House
1990 - US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
1996 - Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate
2012 - Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
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Birthday’s Today                                                        
Britt Ekland, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Wicker Man) is 72
Stephanie Zimbalist, actress (Remington Steele) is 58
Elisabeth Shue, actress (Cocktail, Adv in Babysitting) is 51
Jim Sharp, US rodeo bull rider is 49
Jeremy Sisto, actor (6 feet Under) is 40

Remembered for being born today
Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (1820-1887)
George Westinghouse, entrepreneur\engineer, (1846-1914)
Li Ta-chao, co-founder w/ Mao Zedong (Chinese Communist Party) (1889-1927)
Helen Wills Moody, tennis player (8 Wimbledon titles) (1905-1998)
Janet Gaynor, actress (Sunrise, A Star Is Born) (1906-1984)
Carol Lombard [Jane Alice Peters], actress (My Man Godfrey) (1908-1942)
Thor Heyerdahl, Norway, anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki) (1904-2002)
Fred Travalena, comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell) (1942-2009)
Shana Alexander, journalist (60 Minutes) (1925-2005)
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Historical Obits Today                                                           
Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer, 1951, @91
Alfred Lord Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate, 1892, @83
Bette Davis, actress (All About Eve), 1989, @81
Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order, 1101, @71
Nelson Riddle, American bandleader, kidney failure, 1985 @ 64
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Brain Teasers                                         
Long time no see.   
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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.
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