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Almanac: Day: 299
/ Week: 44
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Howl at The Moon Night
Mother-In-Law
Day
Mule Day Honors the importation of the first Spanish Jacks to the US
National
Mincemeat Day
National Privacy Day
Visit A Cemetery Day
Xterra
World Championships
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National Day
(Austria-1955-honors neutrality after WWII)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1492 - Lead pencils first used
1529 - Thomas
More appointed English Lord Chancellor
1774 - First
Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia
1774 - Minute Men organized in colonies
1787 - "Federalist
Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution
1810 - US
annexes western Florida
1825 - Erie
Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened
1858 - Hamilton
Smith patents rotary washing machine
1861 - Pony
Express ends
1863 - Worldwide
Red Cross organized in Geneva
1881 - Wyatt
Earp, Doc Holliday & Clanton @ gunfight at OK Corral
1901 - 1st
use of "getaway car" occurs after holding up a shop in Paris
1916 - Margaret
Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
1941 - US savings bonds go on sale
1949 - President Harry
Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents
1950
- Mother Teresa founds Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India
1951
- Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden
1954 - Chevrolet
unveils V-8 engine
1955 - 1st
edition of "Village Voice" (NYC) published
1958 - PanAm
flies 1st transatlantic jet trip-NY to Paris
1968
- George Foreman wins gold at Mexico Olympic games (Heavyweight
boxing)
1970 - "Doonesbury"
comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
1971 - UN
votes to replace Taiwan with China
1972 - Guided
tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin
1978 - Menachem
Begin & Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1984 - "Baby
Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days
2001 - United
States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law
2003 - The
Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people,
consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
A tad windy last night and early this morning. Settled down about
8am and was a beautiful day. Took a nice walk, bought some groceries, and most
importantly, avoided anything to do with NAU homecoming.
I did some binge watching of Boardwalk
Empire, the final season. I have DVR’d this season, since I was out of town
for the first few episodes, but haven’t had time to watch any of the episodes.
I watched 3 today and am hooked again. Great show.
I spent some of the AM working on a slide show of my trip to
Ireland. Something wasn’t working right, so I just quit, instead of figuring
out how to fix what was wrong. Maybe tomorrow.
Thanks to NPR, I learned that the young student who shot
classmates/relatives at school was a member of the Tulalip
Tribes of Washington. It is a federally recognized tribe of Duwamish, Snohomish,
Snoqualmie, Skagit, Suiattle, Samish, and Stillaguamish people. It has a land
area of 35.3 sq mi (22,567 acres) and a population of 9,246 persons
residing within its boundaries. Many of his friends have been interviewed and
said that he was being bullied at the school. So sad.s
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Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
The
following are clues to words that start with "EX-", but the clues do
not refer to the words themselves. They refer to the two words formed when the
word is split after the word "EX".
For example, "Ships don't dock there any more" would result in the
word "EXPORT (EX PORT)".
Can you get all five words?
1. They don't publish the news any more.
2. Money that isn't worth anything anymore.
3. It's not boring any more.
4. It's not used to sleep in any more.
5. It's no longer at the end of the line.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
***NEW***Brief
History…
The Civil
War Was About “States’ Rights.”
You hear over and over that the US Civil War was not about
slavery, but “states’ rights.” What is neglected to be mentioned is that
the only 2 such “rights” at issue are the right to have slaves and the right to
secede from the union. Seriously, the war was fought about slavery.
Slave states would not have seceded except for this issue. To pretend
otherwise is misleading and a lie.
***NEW***Educator’s
Answers…
“We’ve all been to elementary school, so aren’t we all kind of
experts on it?”
Umm, no. You’ve been sick before — does that make you a doctor?
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
From 1889
-Ed Whipple says he will be ready to develop his silver claim in
early spring.
*A pleasant and interesting apron party was given at the residence
of Mrs. D. M. Riordan Thursday night. Mrs. Charles Howard carried away the
honors.
-Frank Moore, foreman at the big mill, had his hand severely cut
on Tuesday. Dr. D. J. Brannen is attending him and he is doing very well.
Harper’s
Index…
Rank of homicide among caauses of on-the-job death for American
women: 1
Halloween
Facts…
-Because Protestant England did not believe in Catholic saints,
the rituals traditionally associated with Hallowmas (or Halloween) became
associated with Guy Fawkes Night. England declared November 5th Guy Fawkes
Night to commemorate the capture and execution of Guy Fawkes, who co-conspired
to blow up the Parliament in 1605 in order to restore a Catholic king.
-Harry Houdini (1874-1926) was one of the most famous and
mysterious magicians who ever lived. Strangely enough, he died in 1926 on
Halloween night as a result of appendicitis brought on by three stomach
punches.
-According to tradition, if a person wears his or her clothes
inside out and then walks backwards on Halloween, he or she will see a witch at
midnight.
Law
Facts…
-In Australia, it is illegal to walk on the right-hand side of a
footpath.
-In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
***NEW***Religious
Facts…
-Jews account for 20% of all Nobel Prize laureates, despite being
only 0.2% of the world’s population.
-The National Church of Bey
formed a religion called Beyism. They believe Beyonce is a god who walks among
us and will transcend back to the spirit-world once her work on Earth is
complete.
Rules of
Thumb…
SHINING
UP YOUR HORSE
A horse with a dull
coat needs more corn in its diet.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
In
1912, Kazimierz (Casimir) Funk discovered the first vitamin, Niacin (or vitamin
B3)
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Joke-of-the-day
One of the courses I taught when I was a
college professor was Freshman English. To my first class of students I
described the basic parts of an essay: "Remember, the three parts of an
essay are the Introduction, the Body, and the Confusion".
Yep, It
Really Happened
MARYVILLE,
Tenn. (UPI)
Firefighters in Tennessee freed an 18-month-old boy who climbed
into stuffed animal claw machine while his grandmother's back was turned at a Laundromat.
Diane O'Neill, grandmother of Maryville toddler Colin Lambert, said she looked
up from checking a text message Tuesday at the Laundromat just in time to see
the boy climbing into the machine through the prize slot. "All I could see
was his feet. He had already crawled in," she told WBIR-TV. "I
grabbed his feet and he kicked my hand and got in. Climbed up over the glass
partition and sat down in the toys." The boy was rescued by firefighters
within a matter of minutes and they allowed Colin to keep one of the stuffed
animals from inside the machine. O'Neill told WATE-TV, Knoxville, her grandson
is a "sweet little monster" with a tendency to climb his way into
trouble. "Nothing surprises me with him. You just have to expect the worst
and usually it happens," she said. Colin's mom, Bridget Lambert, said she
wasn't at all surprised by the incident. "She tells me and shows me a
picture and my husband and I started laughing, because we're not surprised. It
was a matter of time before he did something like this," Lambert said.
Colin is not the first toddler to need emergency assistance for an escape from
a toy machine. Earlier this year, a 3-year-old in Nebraska wandered from home
to a bowling alley across the street and was discovered playing with the
stuffed animals inside a "Bear Claw" machine.
Somewhat
Useless Information
After
watching the film “Up” many people wondered how many balloons would it take to
lift a house or how many balloons did Carl tie so that lift his house and
travel to South America?
Pete
Docter, Up co-director,
said that technicians at Pixar estimated it would take 23.5 million
party balloons to lift a 1,800-square-foot house like Carl’s, though it’s
unclear exactly what size balloon they were using to make their calculations.
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In
every nation there are several traditions at a wedding having to do with who’s
in charge of things. Read the following four little tricks regarding Sweden!
- A bride must try
to see her bridegroom before he sees her if she wants to be in charge of
things.
- She ought to
have a specific feet position, having at least one foot in front of his
during the ceremony.
- She has to be
quick and sit down first at the wedding banquet.
- She should drop
something, as if by accident. Then her groom will bend over to pick it up,
and she will have assurance that he will “bend his back to her will” the
rest of the marriage.
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René
Lacoste together with André Gillier founded ‘La Chemise
Lacoste’ in 1933 and they started producing the revolutionary tennis
shirt Lacoste with the crocodile logo embroidered on the chest.
It
is said that people used to call René Lacoste “crocodile” due to his
speed, accuracy, as well as his amazing persistence during tennis.
Another
version is that Lacoste bet with the leader of the team that if he won a hard
game, he would be given a bag made of crocodile or alligator leather.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
--- 20-26
Freedom of Speech Week
Medical Assistants Recognition Week
National Health Education Week
National Nuclear Science Week
National School Bus Safety Week
--- 24-30
Disarmament Week
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week
World Origami Days
International Magic Week
Asexuality Week
Give Wildlife a Brake! Week
Kids Care Week
National Infertility Awareness Week
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Today’s
Events through History
740 - An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much
damage and death
1407 - Mobs
attack Jewish community of Kraków
1682 - William
Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York
1869 - 1st
American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, NY)
1912 - Woolwich Tunnel under Thames opens
1951 - Emile
Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m & 15 miles
1954 - Walt Disney's 1st television program,
"Disneyland", premieres on ABC
1955 - Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic
with himself as pres
1956 - UN's
International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved
1964 - Rolling
Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1970 - Tanzania begins building railway
Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam
1973 - President Nixon released first White House
tapes on Watergate scandal
1975 - Anwar
Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit US
1979 - Park
Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated
1980 - 10th
NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:25:41.3
1980 - 11th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in
2:09:41
2012 - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in the
Bahamas killing 2 people and causing over $300 million in damage
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Birthday’s
Today
Felix the
Cat, cartoon character is 95
Pat
Conroy, writer (Great Santini, Prince of Tides) is 69
Jaclyn
Smith, actress (Charlie's Angels) is 69
Pat Sajak, TV host
(Wheel of Fortune) is 68
Hillary
Rodham Clinton, First Lady, Senator, Secretary of State is 67
Dylan
McDermott, actor (The Practice) is 52
Seth
MacFarlane, American animator\actor is 41
Sasha
Cohen, American figure skater is 30
Remembered
for being born today
C. W.
Post, American entrepreneur (Post Cereals) (1854-1914)
Benjamin
Guggenheim, American businessman (1865-1912)
Mahalia
Jackson, gospel singer (Whole World in his Hands) (1911-1972)
Jackie
Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), (1914-1984)
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Historical
Obits Today
Dr.
Arthur Kornberg, US Nobel Prize laureate discovery DNA polymerase, 2007 @89
Princess
Beatrice of the UK, daughter of Queen Victoria, 1944, @87
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist, 1902, @86
Tony
Hillerman, writer, 2008, @83
Igor
Sikorsky, Russian-American aviation pioneer\helicopter builder, 1972, @83
Alfred
the Great, writer/king of Wessex, Crohn's disease, 899, @50ish
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. EXPRESS
2. EXTENDER or EXCHANGE
3. EXPLAIN
4. EXTENT
5. EXTERMINATION
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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…§
