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Almanac: Week: 46 \ Day: 313
November
Averages: 51° \ 22°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Chaos
Never Dies Day
Kristallnacht
World
Freedom Day
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Independence
Day (Cambodia-1953-from France)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
694 - Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding
Moslems/sentenced to slavery
1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte becomes dictator
(1st consul) of France
1821 - 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes,
Philadelphia
1842 – 1st
U.S. design patent for typefaces and borders
1857 - Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published
1858 - 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
1862 - US General Ulysses S. Grant issues
orders to bar Jews from serving under him
1872 - Great Boston Fire of 1872—1,000 buildings
destroyed
1875
- Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are ordered to go to the reservation
1904 - 1st airplane flight to last more than 5
minutes
1906 - T Roosevelt is 1st President to visit
other countries (Puerto Rico\Panama)
1927 - Giant Panda discovered, China
1944 - Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
1965
- Hurricane hits north east US/Canada
1966 - John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an
avant-garde art exposition in London
1970 - Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
1980 - Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein declares holy war against Iran
2005 - Suicide bombers attacked 3 hotels in Amman,
Jordan, killing 60 people
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Another cloudless day…a tad windy for me, but still a nice day.
Cleaned the deck and front of lots of pine needles. Didn’t do the gutters,
again, a little windy.
A day of catch up on DVR’d series I like to watch. Even a little
news between shows.
Glad to hear that the two Americans were released from N. Korea…but
the guy who went over there to leave Bibles has hopefully learned his lesson. I
get that many Christians feel that it is their duty to spread the word, one must
recognize that in this global world, not everyone wants to hear the word. He
knew the danger and did it anyway. Strange. On one of my trips my roommate was
a Southern Baptist crusader. He told me about his then recent trip to Cuba. He
talked about how he and his fellow religious travelers would share the word
with Cubans in their homes, under cover of darkness. His story got me excited
about going to Cuba. One of the surprises was that there were several fully
operating Catholic Churches in both Havana and Cienfuegos. Then I remembered that
he was spreading the word, as seen by the Southern Baptists, not the Roman
Catholics. Hmmm. I also have to wonder what would happen in my town if some
followers of Islam went door to door inviting people to their services. I am
sure that many would feel threatened since they know little of Islam.
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Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
When
I get there before the rest I get a nice surprise,
But all the rest that follow me see nothing 'fore their eyes,
And though I may be trapped and caught and held there in your palm,
There's another couple of me somewhere else, that you might harm,
For if your aim is true or if you are a lucky shot
With a rock, another pair of me, though dead, is what you've got.
Now fit the clues together and decipher this short quiz,
From the lines of rhyme seen up above tell me what this thing is.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Dog Facts…
—The most expensive dog in the world is the Tibetan Mastiff; worth
$1.5 million.
—Meysi is one of the world's smallest dogs, measuring in at just
7cm tall, 12cm long, and weighing a meagre 250 grams (only slightly heavier
than a hamster!)
Facebook
Facts…
—A computer programmer named Maneesh Sethi hired a woman to slap
him across the face every time he uses Facebook during working hours.
—The co-founder and CEO of SnapChat, 23-year-old Evan Spiegel,
turned down an offer of $3 billion from Facebook and then a $4 billion bid from
Google.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS
AGO
—Clem Etter and Baxter Womack, proprietors of the Milk Depot,
completed this week the remodeling and redecorating of their establishment at
22 N. San Francisco. There are four new brown leather booths with chrome
trim and black tables, 10 new leather topped stools at the soda fountain and
fine new “insides” for the fountain itself. A partition has been added making
two rooms, the north one of which houses the ice cream factory and the south
part the lunch room and fountain.
—Local dairy herds are OK'd by TB tests. W. E. Stanfill
Sanitation Inspector, County Health Dept. 273 milk cows were tested in the
Flagstaff District.
Gender
Facts…
—Men are twice as likely to be binge drinkers than women.
—On average, women have always lived longer than men.
Harper’s
Index…
—Estimated number of people held in forced labor worldwide:
21,000,000
—Portion who are 18 or younger: 1/4
Internet
Facts…
—Mathway.com solves all kinds of math homework problems with step
by step explanations.
—Ecosia is a search engine that helps to save the environment by
donating 80% of its income to planting trees in Brazil.
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
A Florida resident came home to find his apartment ransacked.
After speaking with neighbors, the police zeroed in on the culprit: the
break-in ‘victim’, who had been spotted acting suspiciously. The homeowner
admitted to staging the burglary because he just didn’t feel like going to
work.
Rules of
Thumb…
PASSING
A CAR
You can safely cut
in front of the car you are passing when you see its headlights in your inside
rearview mirror.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The
bikini style bathing suit was named for the Bikini atoll in the Pacific. When
the suit debuted on July 5th, 1946, it was named for the island on
which nuclear testing was commenced by the U.S. only 4 days earlier. The suit
was so scandalous that a Parisian stripper, Micheline Bernardini, had to be
hired to model it.
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Joke-of-the-day
Jeb and Jethro live in the hills, about 5
miles outside of town. Jeb asks Jethro to go in to town to pick up some lumber.
Jethro walks the 5 miles to town to the local
lumberyard.
"Jeb says we're gonna need some 4 x 2's" Jethro tells the yardman.
"Do you mean 2 x 4's?" asks the yardman.
"Well, I don't rightly know, I better go ask Jeb" says Jethro and
walks the 10 miles to the hills and back to town.
"Jeb says we're gonna need 2 x 4's" Jethro tells the yardman.
"Now, how many 2 x 4's will you need?" asks the yardman.
"Well, I don't rightly know, I better go ask Jeb." says Jethro, and
again walks the 10 miles to the hills and back to town.
"Jeb says were gonna need about 40 of 'em" Jethro tells the yardman.
"Now, how long will you need them?" asks the yardman.
"Well, I don't rightly know, I better go ask Jeb" says Jethro and yet
again walks the 10 miles to the hills and back to town.
Upon returning Jethro says to the yardman, "Jeb says you better give 'em
to us for a while . . . we're gonna build a barn."
Yep, It
Really Happened
CAIRO
(UPI)
An Egyptian bus driver who tried to fool a drug test by using his
wife's urine ended up being told that he's pregnant. Public Transportation
Authority officials said they became suspicious when the male driver's urine
test detected a pregnancy and they confronted the man and asked him to verify
the sample was his own urine. The man confirmed ownership of the sample,
leading officials to respond, "Congratulations, you're pregnant." The
driver admitted the urine came from his wife and said he was not aware she was
two months pregnant. The Public Transportation Authority said an investigation
into the incident is underway. Officials said they will avoid repeat incidents
by requiring blood samples for drug tests.
Somewhat
Useless Information
When
was the first keyboard invented?
The
typewriter is considered to be the greater ancestor of the computer and the
invention of the modern computer keyboard began with the invention of the
typewriter.
Did
you know that in 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patented the typewriter that we
commonly use today? Later, in 1877 it was the Remington Company which marketed
the first typewriters.
The
transition of the typewriter to the computer keyboard occurred after a few key
technological developments. The teletype machine, introduced in the 1930s,
combined the technology of the typewriter with the telegraph.
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Which
is Europe’s oldest pub?
Sean’s
Bar in Athlone is considered to be not only Ireland’s oldest pub, but also
Europe’s. It dates back to 900 AD and the walls were found to be made of wattle
and wicker during renovations in 1970.
It
is located on Main Street, Athlone and was originally known as Luain’s Inn.
In
2004 it received a certificate from Guinness World Records repeating the claim.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13
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Today’s
Events through History
1541 - Queen Catharine Howard confined in Tower of
London
1925 - Robert A. Millikan confirms the
existence of cosmic rays from outer space
1930 - 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
1939 - "Ninotchka," with Greta Garbo premieres
1961 - The X-15 rocket plane achieved a world
record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or
over 19 miles) altitude
1970 - The Irish School of Ecumenics is founded at
Trinity College-(the study of the nature, mission, problems, and strategy of
the Christian church from the perspective of its ecumenical character)
1982 - Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time
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Birthday’s
Today
Lou
Ferrigno, Brooklyn, body builder/actor (Incredible Hulk) is 63
Pepa (Sandra Denton),
rocker (Salt 'n' Pepa) is 45
Nick
Lachey, singer (98 Degrees) is 41
Vanessa
Minnillo, Filipino-born TV personality (Entertainment Tonight) is
34
Remembered
for being born today
Benjamin
Banneker, black mathematician/surveyor (Wash DC) (1731-1806)
Gail
Borden, Inventor of condensed milk (1801-1874)
Emile
Gaboriau, author (father of French detective novels)
Dmitry
Ivanovsky, Russian Botanist who discovered viruses (1864-1920)
Florence
Sabin, 1st woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins (1871-1953)
Ed Wynn, [Isaiah
Edwin Leopold], comedian (Ed Wynn Show) (1886-1966)
Leonard
Carmichael, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1898-1973)
Hedy
Lamarr, Vienna Austria, actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah) (1914-2000)
Sargent
Shriver, MD, Dem VP candidate (1972)/directed Peace Corp (1915-2011)
Spiro Theodore
Agnew, (R) 39th VP (1918-1996)
Dorothy
Dandridge, actress/singer/dancer (Porgy & Bess) (1922-1965)
Carl
Sagan, Bkln, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos) (1934-1996)
Mary
Travers, folk singer (Peter Paul & Mary) (1936-2009)
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Historical
Obits Today
Joel J.
Tyler, judge who pronounced 'Deep Throat' obscene, 2012, @90
Art
Carney, American actor (TV/movies), 2003, @85
Charles
de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69), 1970, @79
Henry
Cabot Lodge, American Senator, stroke, 1924, @77
Abdul-Aziz
ibn Sa'ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, heart disease, 1953, @73
Arthur Neville
Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), cancer, 1940, @71
Yves
Montand, actor (Idol, Grand Prix), heart attack, 1991, @70
Ed
Bradley, American journalist, leukemia, 2006, @65
Howard
Pyle, American author, Bright’s Disease, 1911, @58
Stieg
Larsson, author (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), heart attack, 2004, @ 50
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Brain Teasers Answers
"A bird" would
get you full marks as the answer to this prose,
For the early bird gets the worm as everybody knows.
Kept as pets and trained up well, birds are nice, although,
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush (though I do not quite know why
that's so).
If you've had fun and had to think this poetry has shown
That by reading through this riddle you've killed two birds with one stone.
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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…§
