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Almanac: Week: 45 \ Day: 307
November
Averages: 51° \ 22°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Cliché Day
Fill Our Staplers Day
Housewife's Day
Job Action Day
National Men Make
Dinner Day
Sandwich Day
Traffic Directors Day
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Culture Day (Japan)
National Day
(Dominica-1978-from UK)
Independence Day
(Micronesia-1986)
Independence Day
(Panama-1903-from Columbia)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1796 - John
Adams elected president of the United States of America
1868
- Ulysses Grant (R) wins US presidential election over Horatio
Seymour (D)
1896
- William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for
president
1908 - William
Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan
1936 - President FDR (D)
wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1964 - LBJ (D)
soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres
1992 - Bill
Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over President Bush (R)
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1752 - George
Frideric Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation
1762 - Spain acquires Louisiana-Treaty of
Fountainbleau
1883 - US Supreme Court decides Native Americans
can't be Americans
1911 - Chevrolet
officially enters the auto market in competition w/Ford Model T
1953
– 1st live color US coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1956 - "Wizard
of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV)
1988 - Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is
broken by skinhead on TV
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Watched the Cards win, and looks like I’m watching the Broncos
losing. Tough loss for Denver.
Day started with high winds, rain, light snow, rain, and then the
front moved out and we had fairly clear skies. None of the white stuff stuck,
but sure looked like winter for about 30 minutes this morning.
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Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
I
run forever,
With a roaring call.
Yet I have no throat,
Or any legs at all.
Rock wears away,
Whilst I grow.
You try to race me,
And receive a blow.
What am I?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Brief
History…
Paul
Revere’s Ride
Glorified in the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, we grew up
believing Paul Revere saved the Americans from the British in 1775 by riding
out shouting “The British are coming!” to alert American militias in
Massachusetts. In reality, Revere and William Dawes did go around alerting the
militia to British troop movements, but not by galloping through towns and
yelling. Their notifications were somewhat stealthier than that, and
being “British” themselves, they did not call the Redcoats “British” but referred
to them as “regulars,” saying “The regulars are coming out.” In addition
to that, Revere was captured and told the British what he was up to. A
final nail in the Paul Revere Myth coffin is that he led the
1779 Penobscot Expedition, one of the most disastrous forays of the
Revolutionary War that resulted in his forced resignation from the army.
**NEW**Dog Facts
-Dogs can detect sadness in humans and often attempt to make their
owners happy by initiating cuddling.
-Dogs sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
Educator’s
Answers…
“Ohh, you teach kindergarten. That must be fun — playing and
singing all day.”
Yes, my life is just like Disney movie. I sing and the children
and the little animals of the forest come running. Actually, in kindergarten,
we teach our students the foundational literacy and math skills — as well as
the social and emotional skills — that set them up for success in every grade
to follow.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS
AGO
-Beginning on this Sunday the ban on smoking in most
public places will be in effect.
-The Jay Lively Skating Rink reopened this Friday with new
lighting in place and new ice ready for skating. Adults $2, Students under 17,
$1
**NEW**Gender
Facts…
-In Japan, it is tradition for husbands to get a monthly allowance
from their wives.
-In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33
states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
Harper’s
Index…
-Factor by which a male college student is more likely than a
femal college student to drive drunk: 4.6
-To drive stoned: 11.5
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
78—the number of antiriot vehicles bought by German police. During
a public exhibition of one of the 22-ton vehicles—which was advertised as
withstanding bricks, stones, and Molotov cocktails—was damaged by tennis balls,
eggs, and plastic bottles filled with water.
Religious
Facts…
-1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.
-Contrary to popular belief, there are almost no Buddhists in
India, nor have there been for about a thousand years.
Rules of
Thumb…
WORKING
WITH RIVETS
You can figure that
a properly riveted joint will have three-fourths of the strength of the pieces
it joins together.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
According
to doctors, humans have an average of 14 episodes of flatulence per day.
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Joke-of-the-day
There once was an old man who was about to
die. He told his wife to put a bag of money in the attic "When I die I'll
get it on my way up." chuckled the old man. Well when the old man died the
wife went up to the attic and found that the bag of money was still there.
"I knew I should have put that money in the cellar!" said the old
woman.
Yep, It
Really Happened
HOUSTON
(UPI)
Texas prosecutors said a former school district officer told a
woman she could go if she let him smell her feet or handed over her underwear.
The Harris County District Attorney's Office said Cy-Fair School District
Officer Patrick Quinn, who has since been fired, pulled over a woman at 3 a.m.
Aug. 11 for an expired sticker and told her that her vehicle smelled of
marijuana. Quinn, who prosecutors said should not have been conducting traffic
stops as a school resource officer, claims to have found a marijuana grinder in
the woman's car. The woman, who denied ownership of the grinder, told
authorities Quinn put her in the back of his patrol car. She said the officer
told her she could go free if she allowed him to smell her feet or if she gave
him her underwear. Documents filed by prosecutors say Quinn told the woman if
she allowed him to smell her feet, "he was probably going to lick them,
too." However, Quinn apparently had a change of heart and told the woman
to "forget about it," the district attorney's office said. The woman,
who Quinn allowed to leave the scene, reported the incident the following day.
Her insurance card was found at the scene of the traffic stop and fingerprints
on the card matched Quinn, prosecutors said. Quinn was charged with two counts
of official oppression.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Which
was the first Pokémon game?
Did
you know that the first Pokémon game ever were both Pokémon Red and Pokémon
Blue?
Then
the special yellow version came out, which is the same as Blue and Red, but
there’s a Pikachu at the beginning.
The
next Pokémon games were:
Pokémon
Gold and Silver
Crystal,
same as Gold and Silver
Ruby
and Saphire
Leaf
Green and Fire Red (Remakes of Red and Blue)
Emerald,
same as Ruby and Saphire
The
next games are all DS, which are Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Heart Gold, and Soul
Silver
+++
Which
was the first movie?
Did
you know that the first motion pictures appeared in 1893 and that at a trade
fair in America, crowds queued up to view 90-second-long black and white films?
As
they were unenlarged, each individual had to peer through a hole in a box to
see the moving pictures.
When
the first public screening of a movie took place in 1895 in Paris, the audience
stared at the screen in wonder.
Back
then, nobody could envisage the extent to which the “movies” would become part
of our lives.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
National Fig Week: 1-7
National Patient Accessibility Week: 1-7
World Communication Week: 1-7
National Radiologic Technology Week:
2-8
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week: 2-9
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Today’s
Events through History
1791 - Battle
at Wabash: indians assault general St Clair/killed 637 soldiers
1885 - Tacoma
vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1913 - The
USA introduces an income tax
1955 - Alabama woman bruised by a meteor
1975 - Good
Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman)
1978 – 1st
broadcast of "Diff'rent strokes" on NBC TV
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Birthday’s
Today
Ken Berry, actor
(F Troop) is 82
Larry
Holmes, heavyweight boxing champ (1978-85) is 66
Roseanne, [Barr
Arnold], comedienne/TV star (Roseanne) is 63
Dennis
Miller, comedian/TV host (SNL, Dennis Miller Show) is 61
Kathy
Kinney, actress (Mimi-Drew Carey Show) is 61
Adam Ant, [Stuart
Goddard], English punk rocker (If I Strip For You) is 61
Dolph
Lundgren, Stockholm, actor (Rocky IV) is 58
Elizabeth
A. Smart, American abductee and activist is 27
Remembered
for being born today
Willem
Kalf, Rotterdam Neth, painter (still lifes) (1619-1693)
William
George Barker, Canadian flying ace (Victoria Cross recipient) (1894-1930)
Andre
Malraux, [Berger], Paris, novelist/art historian (1901-1976)
Charles
Bronson, actor (Magnificent Seven), (1923-2003)
D. James
Kennedy, American theologian (1930-2007)
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Historical
Obits Today
Bob Kane, comic
artist and Batman co-creator, 1998, @83
Henri E
B Matisse, French painter/sculptor (Dance II), 1954, @84
Paul
Mauriat, French musician (Love is Blue), 2006, @81
Mary
Martin, actress (Peter Pan), cancer, 1990, @76
Annie
Oakley, US sharp shooting star, anemia, 1926, @66
John
Bainbridge, English astronomer, 1643, @61
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Brain Teasers Answers
A waterfall.
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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…§
