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Almanac: Day: 293
/ Week: 43
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Get Smart About
Credit Day
International Credit
Union Day
Lung Health Day
Miss American Rose
Day
National Brandied
Fruit Day
National Clean Your
Virtual Desktop Day
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Birth of the Bab (Baha'i)
Revolution Day
(Guatemala-1944-coup)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1097 - 1st
Crusaders arrive in Antioch (First Crusade)
1603 - Chinese
uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed
1774 - Continental
Congress orders discouragement of entertainment
1803 - US
Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase
1818 - 49th
parallel forms as border between US & Canada
1864 - US
President Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday
1888 - Chicago
& All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ
1944
- US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines
1949 - Eugenie
Anderson becomes 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark)
1955
- Publication :"The Return of the King", final volume of
"The Lord of the Rings"
1963
- Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Hillside Golf Open
1973
- President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st ½
century
1988 - Britain ends suspects' right to remain
silent in crackdown on IRA
1997 - US
accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Quiet today, some news, some football, some cleaning, a lot of lazy.
Friends coming over for the Broncos game…good Sunday.
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Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
You
have no control over me,
I am not real, though sometimes you believe me,
I come back every night, but am often forgotten,
Though left alone, I will never become rotten,
Sometimes I remind you of things yet to come,
Sometimes, watching me, you do things you've never done,
I rarely ever turn out to be true,
Now I am done with this riddle for you.
What am I?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Brain
Facts…
-There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are
stars in the Milky Way.
-On average, there's 300 billion neurons in the octopus brain.
Computer
Facts…
-For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
-Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
Dinosaur
Facts…
-The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of
hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction
could begin.
-If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked
at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 years
ago
-It is alleged that the crashing of the big auto truck loaded
with reservoir finishing materials through the scales at Babbitt Brothers will
not delay the completion of the work on the new reservoir. It was loaded with about
10 tons of materials and backing onto the scales when it fell into the pit. The
truck was jacked out and resumed to business.
-The new street cleaning chain gang has made a wonderful
improvement in the appearance of the streets of Flagstaff.
Harper’s
Index…
Portion of Americans who are currently taking at least one prescription
drug: 1/2
Portion
who are taking five or more: 1/10
Halloween
Facts…
-The word “witch” comes from the Old English wicce, meaning “wise
woman.” In fact, wiccan were highly respected people at one time. According to
popular belief, witches held one of their two main meetings, or sabbats, on
Halloween night.
-An intense and persistent fear of Halloween is called
Samhnainophobia, the fear of Halloween
-Fifty percent of kids prefer to receive chocolate candy for
Halloween, compared with 24% who prefer non-chocolate candy and 10% who
preferred gum.
Law
Facts…
-South Korea has banned under 16 from playing online games between
midnight and 6am under the so-called "Cinderella Law".
-In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick,
stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic
means could be tried for witchcraft.”
Rules of
Thumb…
STORING
CHEESE
The harder the
cheese, the longer it will keep.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Whiskey
is clear when it is first distilled. It gets its color and much of its taste
from the oak barrels in which it is aged.
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Joke-of-the-day
A rapist, a gangster and a murderer are in the
same car...
Who is driving the car?
A police officer!
Yep, It
Really Happened
PLYMOUTH,
England (UPI)
British police said they responded with snare poles and riot
shields to a call that turned out to be about an inflatable toy crocodile.
Devon and Cornwall Police said a Plymouth, England, woman called authorities
for help shortly after noon Wednesday to report spotting a 3-foot crocodile in
her garden. Officers responded with snare poles, nets and riot shields while a
team of wildlife experts from Dartmoor Zoo were called to assist. The officers
became suspicious when they threw water on the animal and it failed to move.
"The beast turned out to be an inflatable toy crocodile. Police have
apprehended the crocodile," a police spokesman said. The spokesman said
police do not know how the toy ended up in the woman's garden.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Are
you and CEO Mark Zuckerberg friends on Facebook? Have you ever tried to block
him?
If
you try to block Zuckerberg on Facebook, you’ll get an error message that says,
“General Block failed error: Block failed”.
Moreover,
if you are fed up with Facebook’s choices, you can visit the website “Block
Zuck” that acts as a sort of catharsis!
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Watson,
IBM’s supercomputer, had to filter swear words from Urban Dictionary’s
data, regulated by volunteer editors, after it learned to swear!
According
to Eric Brown, an IBM research assistant, IBM’s team tried to make IBM’s
supercomputer sound more like a real human, using informal words and
expressions.
However, Watson
simply couldn’t distinguish polite discourse from profanity!
Finally,
the Urban Dictionary was removed from Watson’s vocabulary and a smart filter
was developed to keep Watson from swearing in the future.
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Not
randomly Starbucks has been appointed as one of the most successful companies
in the world just right after Google, Apple and Ikea.
It
seems that people of Starbucks take every single detail into consideration to
make customers feel comfortable and pleased.
An
example is that of round tables. Starbucks uses round tables in order to make
solo coffee drinkers feel less lonely since there “wouldn’t be empty seats” at
a round table!
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
--- 17-24
Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
--- 19-25
Bullying Bystanders Unite Week
Freedom From Bullies Week
International Infection Prevention Week
Mediation Week
National Character Counts Week
National Chemistry Week
National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week
National Forest Products Week
National Friends of Libraries Week
National Hospital and Health-System Pharmacy Week
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week
National Massage Therapy Week
National Respiratory Care Week
National Save For Retirement Week
Pastoral Care Week
Red Ribbon Week
Ally Week
--- 20-26
Freedom of Speech Week
Medical Assistants Recognition Week
National Health Education Week
National Nuclear Science Week
National School Bus Safety Week
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Today’s
Events through History
1786 - Harvard
University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US
1822 - 1st
edition of London Sunday Times
1873 - P
T Barnum Hippodrome featuring "Greatest Show on Earth," opens (NYC)
1880 - Amsterdam
Free University opens
1911 - Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole
1935 - 400,000
demonstrators against fascism in Madrid
1955 - Harry Belafonte records "Day-O"
(Banana Boat Song)
1973 - Queen Elizabeth
II opens Sydney Opera House
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Birthday’s
Today
Martin
Landau, actor (Mission Impossible) is 87
William
Christopher, actor (Father Mulcahy-M*A*S*H) is 81
Wanda
Jackson, country singer (Let's Have a Party) is 77
Connie
Chung, Washington DC, news anchor (NBC, CBS) is 69
Tom Petty, classic
rock singer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) is 64
Richard
Frazier, my brother, CEO, designer is 63
Viggo
Mortensen, actor, poet, musician is 56
Snoop
Dogg [Calvin Broadus], rapper (What's My Name) is 43
Remembered
for being born today
Christopher
Wren, astronomer/great architect (St. Paul's Cathedral), (1632- 1723)
The Báb, Persian
founder of the Bábà Faith (1819-1850)
John
Dewey, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing) (1859-1952)
Bela
Lugosi [Blaskó ], actor (Dracula) (1882-1956)
Margaret
Dumont, actress-Marx Brothers' foil (Day at the Races) (1882-1965)
Ferdinand "Jelly
Roll" Morton, jazz pianist/composer (1890-1941)
Grandpa [Louis M] Jones,
country musician (Hee-Haw) (1913-1998)
Tommy Douglas, Scotland,
Canadian politician ("Father of Medicare") (1904-1986)
Art
Buchwald, columnist/author (Have I Ever Lied to You) (1925-2007)
Joyce
Brothers, pop psychologist ($64,000 Question), (1927-2013)
Mickey
Mantle, NY Yankee, home run slugger (1956 Triple Crown) (1931-1995)
Jerry
Ohrbach, Bronx, actor (Law & Order, Dirty Dancing) (1935-2004)
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Historical
Obits Today
Jane
Wyatt, American actress, 2006, @96
Herbert
Hoover, 31st President of US (1929-33), 1964, @90
Burt
Lancaster, actor (Elmer Gantry), 1994, @80
Bob
Guccione, publisher (Penthouse magazine), cancer 2010, @79
Merle
Travis, country singer, heart attack, 1983, @75
Anne
Sullivan, American teacher, coma, 1936, @70
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Brain Teasers Answers
-A dream-
You cannot pick what your dream is going to be.
Though they are not real, when you are asleep it seems real.
You have a dream every night, but most people forget them.
No one ever bothers, visits, or takes care of dreams (of course not, you
can't!) but they don't get rotten (they're intangible, so how could they?)
Sometimes, if an important event is coming up, you will have a dream about it.
In dreams, you may do impossible things.
The events in dreams rarely happen.
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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…§
