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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 286
/ Week: 42
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances Today:
English Language Day
International African Penguin Awareness
Day
International Day for Failure
International Skeptics Day
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
Native American Day
National Kick Butt Day
National Peanut Festival
National Chess Day
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Columbus Day (US) or National
Day of Mourning (Native Americans)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
54 - Nero suceeds
Claudius to become Roman Emperor
1792 - "Old
Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published
1792 - Washington lays cornerstone of Executive
Mansion (White House)
1843 - B'nai
B'rith founded (NY)
1884 - Greenwich
established as universal time meridian of longitude
1913 - Explosion
& fire in Universal Coal Mine, South Wales
1914 - Garrett Morgan invents & patents gas mask
1923 - Angora
(Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital
1969 - 1st
time 7 people in space
1975 - 9th
Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins
1976 – 1st
electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained
1981 - Vice
President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt
1983 - Ameritech
Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the 1st US cellular network
1999 - US
Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
2010 - The
2010 Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó, Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners
arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting
rescue.
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Our
discussion group was small last night, but what a discussion. We were
discussing water issues of the Southwest. The pamphlet that led to the
discussion was very even handed in presenting the issues. While it is clear
that the Southwest is in a very long drought, there are things mankind can do
to allow us to continue to live here. The big question is ‘Will we do the
necessary things?” Over the history of the world, sometimes man has adapted,
other times man has left the area or just disappeared. It sounds like things
may be difficult for many decades but what will happen to future generations is
certainly in question. Great evening for sure.
Two in
our group have just built a new home in ‘Presidio’. This development was started
about a decade ago and went broke, was bought out, went broke again and is now
building again. When the couple was trying to get the bank to approve the
building, the address was not listed anywhere. When they moved in, it still
wasn’t on GPS. Now it is on GPS and all is good. I had always thought the development
was in the boonies of west Flagstaff. Wrong! It is easy to get to and is only
about a 5 minute drive to the NAU campus. They are an older couple and had
lived in a tri-level in Cheshire, a nice neighborhood in Flagstaff. Their new
home, the same sq footage as the old one, is a single level 3 bedroom, 3 bath
home with a huge kitchen and big great room. They love it, their two big dogs
love it, and so did we.
Broncos
won…great. Cards looking good too.
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Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Can you decipher this
phrase:
KNOWITNO
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Brain
Facts…
10
seconds is the amount of time until unconsciousness after the loss of blood
supply to the brain.
Children
Facts…
The most
children birthed by ONE mother was 69 children over 27 pregnancies: 16 sets of
twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. This was in Russia, in
the 1700s.
Computer
Facts…
The first
computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of
wood.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS
AGO
We had a
record voter turnout on Tuesday with 2,281 votes being cast.
The ASC
Homecoming Parade with the theme of “The Wonderful World of Entertainment” led
by Parade Marshall Gary Burnum drew 30 floats and 11 Arizona high school bands
traveling through downtown Flagstaff on Saturday morning.
Harper’s
Index…
Portion of
people employed in computer occupations in the US who are men: 2/3
Law
Facts…
According
to the IRS, self-employed criminals are required to declare the source of their
illegal income (like selling drugs) - and they can't prosecute for it!
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In 2015,
Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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The
longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to be the fight for
PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued People Eating Tasty
Animals to obtain the name – the case spanned from 1995 to 2001.
Rules of
Thumb…
RUNNING
AND TALKING
If you can't maintain a comfortable conversation
while exercising, you are probably working beyond your aerobic target zone.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Tigers, leopards, and
jaguars love Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men. The scent is used to attract
animals to cameras in the wilderness.
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Joke-of-the-day
Q.
What did the fish say when it swam into the wall?
A. Dam!
Yep, It
Really Happened
DETROIT
(UPI) - A Detroit homeowner selling an "investor special" house has
lowered the asking price from $5,000 to an iPhone 6, his real estate broker
said. Larry Else, real estate broker for the unidentified man, who lives in
Austria, said his client is willing to trade the run-down "investor
special" home for the latest iPhone, but he will also accept a 32 gigabyte
iPad. "This house is really not worth much at all," Else told ABC
News. He said his client purchased the house for $41,000 in 2010 and only later
learned the seller had purchased it for $10,500 only two weeks earlier. Else
said his client "was a victim himself." The home, which has no front
door, has since accumulated more than $6,000 in back taxes and is due to go
into foreclosure next year if the taxes remain unpaid. Else said there has been
some interest in the home since the offer went public, including a potential
buyer who offered an iPhone 5, an older model than the asking price, and
another who offered $850. The broker said one woman said she was interested in
the house "for the wood" because she needed white pine planks.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Seven trivia facts
about the first iPhone
The first iPhone
obtained its name in 2002 in many countries worldwide, as well as in the
European Union.
Its development was
initially covered under a secret project with the code name “Project Purple” in
2004.
Steve Jobs had
previously rejected countless designs for the iPhone before choosing the final
one.
The first iPhone had
only one camera of 2 Megapixel, without zoom or autofocus and with no video
support.
The first iPhone did
not have GPS.
The first iPhone was
purchased by 6.1 million people.
Because of the long
queues outside Apple Stores one day before its release, iPhone was given the
nickname “Jesus Phone”
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Which was the first
bank of Pakistan?
When did banking
first normally started in Pakistan and which was the first bank?
The first bank in
Pakistan was the State Bank of Pakistan, being the central bank of the nation,
as well, as banking started in Pakistan
during the period of British colonialism in the South Asia.
Its headquarters were
based in Karachi and only 7% of the population uses the banks.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
--- 10-16
Take Your
Medicine Americans Week
--- 12-18
Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week
Earth Science Week
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
National Chestnut Week
National Food Bank Week
Teen Read Week
Veterinary Technicians Week
YWCA Week Without Violence
World Rainforest Week
National School Lunch Week
YWCA Week Without Violence
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Today’s
Events through History
1864 - Battle of Harpers Ferry, WV
1870 - Gustav
Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert
1885 - The
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta
1988 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib
Mahfouz
1994 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to
Kenzaburo Oe
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Birthday’s
Today
Paul
Simon, singer/actor (Kodachrome) is 72
Demond
Wilson, actor (Sanford & Son) is 68
Sammy
Hagar, rock vocalist (Van Halen-Jump) is 67
Lacy J
Dalton, country singer is 68
Marie
Osmond, singer/actress is 55
Rob
Schneider, actor (Saturday Night Live) is 51
Kate
Walsh, actress (Grey’s Anatomy) is 47
Sacha
Baron Cohen, comedian/actor (Borat) is 43
Ashanti Douglas, singer
is 34
Remembered
for being born today
Jaques de
Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templars (1243-1314)
Rudolf
Virchow, German politician\pathologist (cell pathology), (1821-1902)
Arna
Bontemps, poet (100 years of negro freedom) (1902-1973)
Cornel
Wilde, actor (High Sierra) (1912-1989)
Burr
Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) (1917-1985)
Yves
Montand, France, actor/singer (Z) (1921-1991)
Margaret
Thatcher, British PM (1925-2013)
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Historical
Obits Today
Milton S. Hershey, chocolate tycoon,
1945, @86
Walter Houser
Brattain,
American physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), 1987, @85
Clifton Webb, actor (Razor's
Edge), heart attack, 1966, @76
Ed Sullivan, TV host (Ed
Sullivan Show), cancer, 1974, @73
Bea Benaderet, actress (Petticoat
Junction), lung cancer, 1968, @62
Peter Doyle, Australian pop
singer (The New Seekers), cancer, 2001, @52
E.C. Segar, American cartoonist
(Popeye), cancer, 1938, @43
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Brain
Teasers
No two
ways about it.
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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…§
