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Almanac: Week: 45 \ Day: 310
November
Averages: 51° \ 22°
Holiday Observances
Today:
International Day for Preventing the
Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
Marooned without a Compass Day
National Men Make Dinner Day—No BBQing
either
National Nachos Day
Saxophone Day
Zero-Tasking Day
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1860 - Abraham
Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President
1861 - Jefferson
Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate president
1869 - 1st
intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
1888 - Benjamin
Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D)
1900
- President McKinley and his VP, T. Roosevelt, defeat William
Jennings Bryan
1928
- Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for US President
1940 - Franklin
Roosevelt re-elected US President
1956 - Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating
Adlai E Stevenson (D)
1968 - Nixon
elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey
1984 - President
Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)
2012
- Barack Obama re-elected as US President
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1572 - Supernova
is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia
1789 - Pope
Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in US
1850 - Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (SF Bay)
reserved for military use
1864 - Colonel
Kit Carson, leaves to "punish" the "hostile" Comanches\Kiowas
1868 - 4 Sioux leaders, including Red Cloud,
sign the Fort Laramie treaty (15 stat. 635).
1913 - Mohandas
K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa
1917 - Bolshevik
revolution bombards the Winter Palace in Petrograd
1917 - NY allows women to vote
1936 - RCA
displays TV for press
1961 - US
government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith
1962 - Saudi Arabia proclaims abolition of slavery
1966 - 1st
entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
1979 - Ayatollah
Khomeini takes over in Iran
1981 - Fernando
Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young Award
1986
- President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
1990 - Fire destroys some of Universal Studios'
stages
1991
- Russian president Boris Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Ah, our very chilly mornings have left us for a while. Much nicer
day than the last two. Still fall weather, but nicer for sure.
I was able to vote yesterday. Most of my choices didn’t make it,
as expected. Many of those who lost put very nice posts on FB. Some of our
elections are so close that they haven’t yet been called. We are in for some
possible changes both here in Flag, as well as the state and national level.
Our new governor says he wants better education policy and has stated that
parents should be able to pick their school without state interference. He also
wants no waiting lists at Charter Schools. I’m not a big fan of Charter Schools
here in AZ. The teachers and administrators don’t have to be certified. Just
about anyone can change professions and become a Charter School teacher…with
few if any education classes. While certification does not guarantee a great
teacher, it does insure some knowledge about how students learn. Guess it is
watch and see. He also wants lower taxes for all...sounds good, but where will
the tax money lost come from? He says that the increase in businesses coming to
our state will make up the lower tax rate. That sounds very iffy to me. As one of
the losing candidate posted “life goes on.’
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Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Think
laterally to replace each word and come up with a better known phrase or
saying. For example: "erasure group" would be "rubber
band".
Now solve: strike arid
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Dog Facts…
-In 1975, when officials in the Chinese city of Haicheng were
alarmed by odd and anxious behaviors of dogs and other animals. These
observations led them to order 90,000 residents to evacuate the city. Only a
few hours later a 7.3 magnitude earthquake destroyed nearly 90 percent of the
city’s buildings.
-Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to
instinctively understand human gesture.
Educator’s
Answers…
“Teaching is nice, but don’t you want to be more successful and
make more money?”
I teach because I want to make a difference. I teach because what
I do every day matters for kids.
Facebook
Facts…
-In 2011, more than a third of all US divorce filings contained
the word 'Facebook'.
-There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every
time a Facebook friend likes your status.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
Monroe Greenlaw and Mr. Shafer had an exciting runaway last
Saturday. A young horse owned by Monroe became unmanageable while hitched to
their buggy and set out on Birch Street at top speed. Instead of making the
bridge across the River de Flag, he went over the high bank, a drop of about 15
feet. Although the buggy was ruined, neither the men nor the horse were
injured.
Gender
Facts…
-In Russia, Women outnumber Men by about 11 Million.
-In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the
bills.
Harper’s
Index…
Portion of college freshmen from low-income backgrounds who will
receive a college degree by the age of 27: 1/4
Of freshmen from high-income backgrounds who will: 9/10
Internet
Facts…
-PornHub planted 15,473 trees in honor of their "PornHub
Gives America Wood" environmental campaign.
-Typing 'illuminati' backwards into the address bar, followed by
'.com', will take you to U.S. government's National Security Agency website.
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
4,500,000,000-the divorce judgment in dollars against Russian billionaire
Damitry Rybolovlev
Rules of
Thumb…
CHOOSING
A SUBWAY TRAIN
If there are two
trains in a station, take the one that was moving most recently.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Early
in his military career, General George S. Patton, Jr., took fifth place in the
first modern Olympic pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Games.
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Joke-of-the-day
Bubba and Johnny Ray, two good ole boys from
North Carolina, were sitting' on the front porch drinking beer when a large
truck hauling rolls and rolls of sod went by.
"I'm gonna do that when I win the lottery," said Bubba.
"Do what?" asked Johnny Ray.
"Send my grass out to be mowed," answered Bubba.
Yep, It
Really Happened
BRIGHTON,
England (UPI)
British doctors said a man who underwent brain surgery to get rid
of seizures awoke to find he had also lost his crippling fear of spiders. Dr.
Nick Medford, the man's observing physician at Brighton and Sussex Medical
School and co-author of the study published in the Neurocase journal, said the
44-year-old man suffered from severe arachnophobia before undergoing surgery on
his amygdala -- a portion of the brain partially responsible for handling fear
-- to stop his recurring seizures. The study, titled Abolition of lifelong
specific phobia: a novel therapeutic consequence of left mesial temporal
lobectomy, said the man reported he was no longer afraid of spiders after the
surgery. Medford said the man instead found spiders fascinating and could hold
a living arachnid without fear. The researchers said the man's fear may have
been stored in neural pathways in the part of the amygdala that was removed to
halt the man's seizures. Medford said further research on the subject could be
conducted without unnecessary invasive procedures. "It's not uncommon for
people to have temporal lobe surgery for severe epilepsy," he said.
"And arachnophobia is supposed to be reasonably common. So we might be
able to test people for that phobia, or any other kind, before and after
surgery."
Somewhat
Useless Information
Did
you know that employees in Disneyland have to be provided with a specialist
training so as to sign autographs as “Mickey”?
The
Disney experience requires everything to be perfect, including autographs, so
Mickey Mouse gives to fans the same signature 365 days of the week, year after
year.
So,
whenever someone visits Disneyland, the signature of Mickey Mouse will always
be the same!
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In
which country people got fined $26 because of not voting?
Do
you agree with the saying “Don’t vote. Don’t complain.”? Well, there are
several countries in the world, where people are prohibited by the law to vote
and if they don’t vote, they get fined.
In
Australia, for example voting is compulsory for federal and state elections for
citizens 18 years of age and above.
An
example of fining, was back to 2010, in the Tasmanian state election, where
about 6,000 people were fined $26 for not voting, and about 2,000 paid the
fine.
Some
other countries, where voting is compulsory, are Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador,
Luxemburg, North Korea, Singapore and Peru.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
National
Fig Week; National Patient Accessibility Week; World Communication Week:
1-7
National Radiologic Technology Week; Drowsy
Driving Prevention Week: 2-9
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Today’s
Events through History
1528 - Shipwrecked
Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the 1st known European
to set foot in Texas.
1850 - 1st
Hawaiian fire engine
1945 - House
Committee on Un-American Activities begins investigation of 7 radio
commentators
1978 - Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule
2005 - The military junta of Myanmar (Burma) moves gov’t
ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana
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Birthday’s
Today
Sally
Field, actress (Gidget) is 68
Glenn
Frey, rock vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy) is 66
Peter
DeLuise, actor (21 Jump Street) is 47
Ethan
Hawke, actor (Dead Poets Society) is 44
Emma
Stone, Scottsdale, AZ, actress (The Amazing Spider-Man) is 26
Remembered
for being born today
Charles
II, last Habsburg king of Spain (1661-1700)
Charles
Dow, journalist\economist (co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor-Wall St
Journal) (1851-1902)
John
Philip Sousa, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever), (1864-1932)
James
Naismith, inventor (basketball, football helmet), (1861-1939)
Jonathan
Harris, actor (Dr Zachary Smith-Lost in Space) (1914-2002)
Ray
Conniff, chorus director (1916-2002)
James
Jones, novelist (From Here to Eternity) (1921-1977)
Rebecca
Schaeffer, actress (Patti-My Sister Sam) (1967-1989)
Pat
Tillman, American football player (1976-2004)
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Historical
Obits Today
George
Osmond, Osmond family patriarch, 2007, @90
Gene
Tierney, actress (Laura, Whirlpool), emphysema, 1991, @70
Kate
Greenaway, English children book illustrator, cancer, 1901, @55
Pyotr
Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (Swan Lake), cholera, 1893, @53
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Brain Teasers Answers
Blow dry
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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…§
