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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 290
/ Week: 42
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Alternative
Fuel Day
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Mulligan Day
National Pasta Day
Mammography Day
Wear Something Gaudy Day
World Student Day
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
415 - Jewish autonomy in Palestine ended by the
Romans
1855 - Bessemer steelmaking process patented
1919 - Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created
1920 - Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play 1st
NFL game, win 7-0
1931 - Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced
to 11 years in prison
1933 - Albert Einstein arrives in US, a
refugee from Nazi Germany
1961 - NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri
Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down not corrected until December 3rd
1967 - "Hair" premieres on Broadway
1973 - Arabs decrease oil production
1979 - Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel
Peace Prize
1979 - Pres Carter signs legislation creating Dept
of Education
1986 - US Senate approved immigration bill
prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who
entered prior to 1982
1989 - Earthquake in SF (6.9) cancels 3rd game of
World Series, kills 67
2005 - Colbert Report first airs.
2006 - United States population reaches 300 million.
2007 - Dalai Lama receives
the United States Congressional Gold Medal
2012 - Lance Armstrong loses a host of
endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
We had our weekly lunch. We went Chinese. Whiole we were eating a
busload of Japanese tourists from Tokoyo came in. They were headed to the Grand
Canyon. I spoke to the tour guide and she said they were enjoying their trip. Mary
is heading back to Portland for her 50th HS reunion. She’ll be gone
5 days next week. Cheryl has been having fun with her 2 dogs.
I did watch some of the Congressional hearings on Ebola.
Interesting and informative. Guess
everything turns into politics.
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Game Center (answers at
the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
They
set forth to behold the night,
Surrounding the dark with their gorgeous sight.
A sailor's guide, a child's fears,
They're lost to sight as daytime nears.
From Heaven, their tears descend,
Make a wish before darkness ends.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Brain
Facts…
Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain,
staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of
orgasms.
After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per
day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
Children
Facts…
Curvy hips indicate smart women who will deliver intelligent
children.
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each
year. Most of them are children.
Computer
Facts…
One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games,
has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000
hours on the mobile phone.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
From 1889: A surveying party left Flagstaff on Thursday
under the leadership of W. Howe to survey the extent of the Central Arizona
Railway to the south. They expect to be complete in about six weeks.
Harper’s
Index…
Ratio of public relations specialists to journalists working in the
US: 46:1
Law
Facts…
In downtown Churchill, Manitoba, it's illegal to lock your car
doors in case someone needs to escape from a polar bear.
In Cuba, hitchhiking is encouraged and government vehicles are
legally required to pick up hitchhikers.
Rules of
Thumb…
ANN LANDERS' PENCIL TEST
To determine whether
you need to wear a bra, place a pencil under you breast. If the pencil falls to
the floor, you don't need to wear a bra; if it stays, you need one.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Norwegian
cross country skier Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset attributed his disappointing silver
medal in the 4×10-kilometer relay at the 2010 Winter Olympics to
less-than-focused preparation. “I think I have seen too much porn in the last
14 days,” he said.
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Joke-of-the-day
A cannibal son and his father are out looking
for food. They are watching people walk down the street. The son suggested a
particularly plump woman and the father rejected saying that she's too fatty.
Later on the son asked about a very skinny woman. Again the father refused
saying that she’s too skinny. After a while the son pointed out a very
attractive woman.” sure son" the father replied, drooling. “We’ll take her
home and eat you mother!"
Yep, It
Really Happened
ST. PAUL, Minn. (UPI) - Police in Minnesota arrested a zombie
Santa Claus accused of drunkenly wandering into a home and frightening two
teenage residents. St. Paul police spokesman Sgt. Paul Paulos said officers
responded to a 911 call about 9:45 p.m. Saturday about a drunk man dressed in a
Santa suit and zombie makeup wandering into a home. Brock Quinn Johnson, a
senior at nearby University of St. Thomas, was cited for trespassing and taken
to the police's detoxification center. Police said the student had vomited on
himself and fallen asleep on a couch in the home. Police said Johnson did not
know where he was when he was woken up by officers. The home is located about
six blocks from the university. Homeowner Tom Sullivan said his 14-year-old son
and 16-year-old daughter were home at the time of the incident. The boy called
911 and ran for help from neighbors, while the girl locked herself in a
bathroom and called her parents to come home. "The police did a nice job
of calming them down and explaining the individual meant no harm,"
Sullivan told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. "Fortunately, it had a happy
ending, and no one will ever think of Santa the same way. If you're going to
have a break-in, this is the best kind -- someone who means no harm and was
looking for a place to sleep." It was not known Monday whether Johnson had
been attending his school's homecoming celebrations earlier Saturday evening.
There was also a "Zombie Pub Crawl" event Saturday in Minneapolis
that set a Guinness World Record, with 15,500 participants dressed in zombie
makeup.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Have
you ever wondered what the origin of the English words ‘hooligan’, ‘alarm’ and
‘tip’ is? Read the following article and find out!
It
is believed that the term ‘hooligan’ is originated from the surname of an
Irishman called “Patrick’, who, with his family terrorized a part of London in
190s.
“Alarm”
is derived from the Italian “To arms!”, which was what soldiers shouted when
they saw that the enemy was attaching.
“Tip”
was originally considered to be an acronym meaning “To Insure Promptness” that
is to make sure that the service of a restaurant, for example, was fast. However,
the world was underworld slang from the early 1600s meaning ‘to pass on a small
sum of money’.
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Louis
XIV, ruler of France, known as Louis the Great or the Sun King,
was the longest of any monarchs of a major country in European history,
having completed 72 years and 110 days of reign.
Regarding
the connection of Louis XIV and cutlery, it is said that in 1669,
he banned pointed knives, both at the table or in the streets or as
weapons, as he tried to reduce violence in 1669.
For
the history, the origin of the table knife is attributed by tradition to
Cardinal Richelieu back in 1637.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
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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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Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
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Today’s
Events through History
1781 - Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
1934 - "The Aldrich Family" premieres on
radio
1957 - French author Albert Camus awarded
Nobel Prize in Literature
1972 - Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-ling," is
#1
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Birthday’s
Today
Jimmy
Breslin, Queens, columnist (NY Post) is 84
Earl
Thomas Conley, country singer (Too Many Times) is 73
Gary
Puckett, vocalist (& Union Gap-Woman Woman, Young Girl) is 72
Michael
McKean, actor (Laverne & Shirley) is 67
George
Wendt, actor (Norm-Cheers) is 66
Margot
Kidder, actress (Lois Lane, Amityville Horror) is 66
Timothy
Bottoms, actor (Adam-East of Eden) is 64
Alan
Jackson, country singer (Here in the Real World) is 56
Norm
MacDonald, Canadian comedian is 51
Eminem [Marshall
Bruce Mathers III], rapper and movie star ('8 Mile') is 42
Remembered
for being born today
Jupiter
Hammon, 1st black American to publish poetry (1711-1806)
Spring
Byington, Colo Springs, actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride) (1886-1971)
John Paul
I, [Albino Luciano], 263rd Roman Catholic pope (1912-1978)
Jerry
Siegel, comic book writer (Superman) (1914-1996)
Arthur
Miller, playwright (Death of a Salesman), (1915-2005)
Montgomery
Clift, actor (From Here to Eternity) (1920-1966)
Tom Poston, actor
(Steve Allen Show, Newhart) (1921-2007)
Beverly
Garland, actress (My 3 Sons) (1926-2008)
Robert "Evel" Knievel,
motorcycle daredevil (Snake River Canyon), (1938-2007)
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Historical
Obits Today
Julia
Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), 1910, @91
Joey
Bishop, entertainer, member of the Rat Pack, 2007, @89
Teresa
Brewer, pop and jazz singer, neuromuscular disease, 2007, @76
S J
Perelman, US humorist\writer (The New Yorker), 1979, @75
Ralph
Abernathy, civil rights activist, blood clots, 1990, @64
Frederic
Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, TB (?), 1849, @39
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Brain Teasers Answers
Stars
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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…§
