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Almanac: Day: 294
/ Week: 43
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Babbling Day Count
Celebration of The
Mind Day
Global Iodine
Deficiency Disorder (IDD) Prevention Day
National Mammography
Day
National Pumpkin
Cheesecake Day
Pro-Life Day of
Silent Solidarity
Reptile Awareness Day
Your Buttons Day
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Overseas Chinese Day
(Taiwan)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1763
- Pontiac ends the siege of Detroit
1774 – 1st
display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in MA
1805 - Battle
of Trafalgar, Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet but shot and killed
1816 - The
Penang Free School is founded in Malaysia, oldest English-language school in
Southeast Asia
1854 - Florence
Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War
1858 - In
Paris, the Can-Can is 1st performed
1917 - 1st
Americans to see action on front lines of WW I
1923 - 1st
planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich
1957
- Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens
1959
- Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC)
1976
- Nobel prize for literature awarded to American Saul Bellow
1979 - Greta Weitz wins woman participation in NYC
marathon (02:27:33)
1993 - Gary Kasparov defeats Nigel Short for chess
championship
1997
- Elton
John's tribute to Diana, Princess of wales, breaks world record, 318 million
distribution
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Good Monday. Talked to my brother on his birthday this morning. He
is at his wife’s latest opening of her furniture designs. Having a great time.
Did some laundry… mostly linens and towels. Enough for one day.
Try to do the clothes tomorrow.
After reading the Sunday ads, tried to spend some money at Target
and Kohls. Not that successful, as I only spent about $30.
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Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
What
popular TV show is represented below?
MyForgottenChildhoodSweetheart.doc
MyOldCollegeGirlfriend.exe
MyDivorcedWife.bat
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Brain
Facts…
-On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
-An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has
10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain
as a human.
Computer
Facts…
-The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
-Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!
Dinosaur
Facts…
-If Earth’s history were condensed into 24 hrs, life would’ve
appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm,
and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
-There's a small town called Dinosaur, Colorado (USA), population
309. Some of its street names include Brontosaurus Blvd, Brontosaurus Bypass,
Stegosaurus Freeway, and Tyrannosaurus Trail.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 years ago
-The Mexican Independence Day celebration held here last Saturday
drew a large crowd from Williams, Winslow and Jerome. It was a huge success
with little disorder. There was a parade through downtown with decorated floats
and many cars. The dances Friday and Saturday night held at the Armory were
well-attended
-City firemen were called out at 6:25 a.m. on Wednesday for a
blaze from a broken gasoline line of a Standard Oil tank truck at the
intersection of Highway 79 and Route 66. Foam failed to put the fire out and
500 feet of hose were laid to the nearest hydrant before the flames were
doused. Damage was limited to the front and cab of the truck.
Harper’s
Index…
Estimated number of US children aged two or three being prescribed
ADHD medication: 14,000
Halloween
Facts…
-The owl is a popular Halloween image. In Medieval Europe, owls
were thought to be witches, and to hear an owl's call meant someone was about
to die.
-According to Irish legend, Jack O’Lanterns are named after a
stingy man named Jack who, because he tricked the devil several times, was
forbidden entrance into both heaven and hell. He was condemned to wander the
Earth, waving his lantern to lead people away from their paths.
-The largest pumpkin ever measured was grown by Norm Craven, who
broke the world record in 1993 with a 836 lb. pumpkin.
Law
Facts…
-In Mohave County, Arizona, if someone is caught stealing soap,
they must wash themselves with it until it has gone.
-It would take 76 work days (8 hours a day) for the average person
to read the Terms and Conditions they agree to in a year.
Rules of
Thumb…
DETECTING
A LEAK IN YOUR SWIMMING POOL
If your swimming
pool is losing one quarter inch or more of water over 24 hours, you've got a
problem and it's not evaporation - it's a leak.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Prior
to 1938, engagement rings were often comprised of a combination of the bride
and her mother’s birthstones, which meant that sapphires, rubies, and emeralds
were the order of the day.
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Joke-of-the-day
Returns tomorrow
Yep, It
Really Happened
Ahhh, the sweet, sweet charms of 15-year-old girls. Is there
anything more irresistible? The problem is; they tend to be so finicky,
especially when it comes to 28-year-old men.
So how do you entice them? Throw dildos at them, of course! At least that
appeared to be the strategy of 28-year-old Wisconsin man, Konrad Peters.
Peters is accused of being involved in three separate instances involving
dildos.
In one instance two girls told police that a black car would drive past the
alley they were walking down and slow down as it drove by them.
At one point, the car stopped about 100 feet in front of them. The driver of
the vehicle opened the driver side door and placed an unknown object on the
ground. The driver then shut the door and proceeded to drive past the girls.
The two girls inspected and found it to be a "giant purple dildo" and
told the police the man who put it there was sitting there staring at them from
his car.
Other reports had a similar MO.
A search warrant revealed "33 dildos and multiple sex toys." So
apparently he was going for volume.
Peters was arrested and is accused of exposing children to harmful materials.
Somewhat
Useless Information
-The
oldest known octopus fossil belongs to an animal that lived some 296 million
years ago, during the Carboniferous period.
-Octopuses have three hearts. Two of the hearts work exclusively to move blood
beyond the animal's gills, while the third keeps circulation flowing for the
organs. The organ heart actually stops beating when the octopus swims,
explaining the species' penchant for crawling rather than swimming, which
exhausts them.
-Octopus arms have a mind of their own. Two-thirds of an octopus' neurons
reside in its arms, not its head.
-Octopus ink doesn't just hide the animal. The ink also physically harms
enemies. It contains a compound called tyrosinase, which, in humans, helps to
control the production of the natural pigment melanin. But when sprayed in a
predator's eyes, tyrosinase causes a blinding irritation. It also garbles
creatures' sense of smell and taste.
-Octopuses have blue blood. To survive in the deep ocean, octopuses evolved a
copper rather than iron-based blood called hemocyanin, which turns its blood
blue. This copper base is more efficient at transporting oxygen then hemoglobin
when water temperature is very low and not much oxygen is around.
-The species practices external fertilization. Multiple males either insert
their spermatophores directly into a tubular funnel that the female uses to
breathe, or else literally hand her the sperm, which she always accepts with
one of her right arm (researchers do not know why). Males die shortly after;
when eggs hatch, the female’s body turns on her.
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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
335 - Roman Emperor Constantine the Great rules
laws against Jews
1512 - Martin
Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg
1553 - Volumes
of Talmud are burned
1895 - The
Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade
1969 - Willy Brandt elected chancellor of West
Germany
1971 - Nobel
prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda
1974 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cubic Corp Golf
Classic
1986 - US writer Edward A Tracy kidnap in Beirut
1987 - Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's
Supreme Ct nomination
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Birthday’s
Today
Edward
"Whitey" Ford, hall of fame pitcher (NY Yankees) is 86
Manfred
Mann, [Michael Lubowitz], South Africa, rocker (Mighty Quinn) is
73
Judge
Judy (Judith Sheindlin), Brooklyn, Jurist\TV personality is 72
Carrie
Fisher, actress (Princess Lelia-Star Wars) is 58
Ken
Watanabe, Japanese actor is 55
Will
Estes, American actor is 36
Kim
Kardashian, American socialite is 34
Remembered
for being born today
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner), (1772-1834)
Alfred
Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes, (1833-1896)
Dizzy Gillespie, [John B], jazz
trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz (1917-1993)
Celia
Cruz, Cuban singer, Queen of Salsa. (1925-2003)
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Historical
Obits Today
George
McGovern, US Politician, 2012, @90
Edmund
Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot), 1687, @81
Jim
Garrison, DA (investigate JFK assassination), cancer, 1992, @70
John T
Scopes, US teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), 1970, @70
Fred
Berry, actor (Rerun-What’s Happening), stroke, 2003, @52
Jack
Kerouac, US writer (Doctor Sax, On the Road), cirrhosis, 1969, @ 47
Admiral Horatio Nelson,
Battle of Trafalgar , 1805, @47
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Brain Teasers Answers
"The X-Files."
The Ex(Ex-wife, girlfriends etc)-Files (files of a computer).
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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…§
