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Almanac: Week: 46 \ Day: 318
November
Averages: 51° \ 22°
Holiday Observances
Today:
International
Girls Day
Loosen
Up, Lighten Up Day
National
American Teddy Bear Day
National
Pickle Day
National
Spicy Guacamole Day
Operating Room Nurse Day
Spirit of
NSA (National
Speakers Association) Day
World Diabetes Day
World Orphans Day
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Children's Day (India)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
603 - Maya King
K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I (Ruler 1) ascends to the throne in Mexico
1524 - Francisco Pizarro begins his 1st great
expedition, near Colombia
1732 - 1st US professional librarian, Louis
Timothee, hired in Phila
1832 - 1st streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts
in NYC; fare 12 cents rode on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Sts
1851 - "Moby Dick" by Herman
Melville published
1881 - Charles J Guiteau went on trial for
assassination of President Garfield
1888 - USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st
football game
1889 - New York World reporter Nellie Bly
(Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules
Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She
succeeded, finishing the trip in January in 72 days and 6 hours
1908 - Albert Einstein presents his quantum
theory of light
1910 - 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship,
Norfolk, Va
1935 - FDR proclaims Philippine Islands a free
commonwealth
1959 - Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in
Hawaii)
1960 - Belgium threatens to leave UN due to
criticism on its policy on Congo
1960 - OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries), forms
1965 - US government sends 90,000 soldiers to
Vietnam
1968 - "National Turn in Your Draft Card
Day" features draft card burning
1968 - Yale University announces it is going
co-educational
1997 - Disney's "Lion King" sets Broadway
record of $2,700,000 daily sale
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Windy day, but still able to move around.
Cheryl and I had lunch, while Mary was busy with her brother in
Phx. Cheryl got her hearing checked today, and was fitted with hearing aids
right there and walked out with them in her ears.. She is very excited. Her
life is going to be so much better. She said she didn’t realize how loud her
car alarm was when she unlocked the doors with her key fob. So glad she took
the step.
Saturday is fund raising for Juvenile Diabetes in her grandson’s hometown.
He has a team and I donated to his fund. Very excited to see how it all works
out. So tough for a pre-teen to have to have shots several times a day…and
multiple blood tests between shots.
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Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
We
are often dangerous
But to some we are fun
To others we are frightening
Causing them to run
We come together
Though we seem apart
You see me and you hear my brother
Who oft times makes little ones run to their mothers,
I am bright and my brother is loud
And it may seem that we come from a cloud, What are we?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Dog Facts…
—One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the
phone.
—Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound.
England
Facts…
—A study in the UK states that men need at least two "guys
nights out" each week to stay healthy.
—Black Friday in the UK is the Friday before Christmas. Instead of
shopping, many people get very drunk!
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
From 1889
On two or three occasions lately, shots have been fired
downtown late at night. Now this country is getting too far advanced in customs
and usages of civilization for this kind of monkey business to continue to be
tolerated. The person or persons who enjoy this kind of pastime should be given
a potato pop gun and have a target setup in the county jail to practice on.
Hair
Facts…
—Blonde hair is not exclusive to Europeans. Melanesians of the
south Pacific evolved a different gene for blonde hair.
—In 1996, research found that having excessive body hair is linked
to higher intelligence.
Harper’s
Index…
—Percentage of US children, under the age of fifteen who expect
their partents to pay for most or all of college: 53
—Parents who plan to do so: 29
Internet
Facts…
—MDIF, a New York based non-profit organization, is planning to
beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
—Taiwan is the first country in the world to offer free Wi-Fi
connectivity to its citizens and all its foreign tourists.
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
Federal dollars safeguard our nation and aid the poor. Congress
also granted: $113,227 to the International Center for the History of
Electronic Games for video game preservation; $606,000 to Columbia University
to study online dating; $492,005 to researchers at Wellesley College to answer
the question, Do you trust your Twitter feed? $55,382 to a Virginia Commonwealth
University researcher toward a study on hookah smoking by Jordanian students;
$198,195 to University of California, Riverside, to study whether happy or
unhappy people spend more time on social media and $592,527 to primate
researchers to study in part what feces-throwing among chimps reveals about
communication skills.
Rules of
Thumb…
WATERING
YOUR GARDEN
Don't water your
garden unless the soil is dry past the depth of your index finger.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
One
of the most interesting mysteries of Death Valley National Park is the sliding
rocks at Racetrack Playa (a playa is a dry lake bed). These rocks can be found
on the floor of the playa with long trails behind them. Somehow these rocks
slide across the playa on their own, cutting a furrow into the sediment as they
move. Nobody knows how they move!
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Joke-of-the-day
Man: What’s your name?
Woman: Tammy
Man: You should change it to Campbells, cause you're mmm mmm GOOD!
Yep, It
Really Happened
BOARDMAN, Ohio (UPI) - An Ohio group called Clowns for Christ is
working to spread the Christian message with help of puppets and balloon
animals. Judy Zyvith said she has been "clowning around for Christ"
for about 17 years with three different churches, most recently with Clowns for
Christ, a ministry of Boardman United Methodist Church. Zyvith, who serves as
the group's coordinator, told the Youngstown Vindicator she was inspired to don
her "Flowers" clown persona by a clown ministry from Westminster
College in Pennsylvania that visited her church while she was in college. The
clowns use puppets, balloon animals and other props to illustrate biblical
stories and prayers. However, Zyvith said they perform without makeup when
ministering to kids. "We've found many children are afraid or intimidated
by the makeup," Zyvith said. The Rev. Pamela Buzalka said the clowns
"add visual arts, which makes the story come alive for children."
Somewhat
Useless Information
—Celebrated
annually on November 11th, Veterans Day is the anniversary of the end of World
War I.
—There are 19.6 million veterans in the United States. There are 1.6 million
female veterans. There are 9.3 million U.S. veterans are over the age of 65.
—There are 39,890 veterans of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War
still living.
—It was in 1919 that President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11 as
Armistice Day. In 1938, it became a federal holiday.
—In 1968, Congress changed the date of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in
October in order to give federal employees a three-day weekend. However, in
1975, President Gerald Ford changed the date of Veterans Day back to November 11.
—On November 11, 1921, the first Unknown Soldier is reburied at Arlington
National Cemetery. The tomb has the words inscribed, "Here rests in
honored glory An American Soldier Known but to God."
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
National Donor Sabath: 14-16
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Today’s
Events through History
1680 - Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of
1680 (Kirch's Comet/Newton's Comet)
1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt visits
Panama
1960 - Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind"
reaches #1
1993 - Don Shula becomes the coach with the
most wins in NFL history
2002 - House of Representatives votes not to
create an independent commission to investigate the 9-11 attacks
2013 - Boston
gangster Whitey Bulger is sentenced to 2 consecutive life terms+5 years
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Birthday’s
Today
P J
O'Rourke, writer (Easy Money) is 67
Yanni (Yiannis
Hrysomallis), new age musician (Live at the Acropolis) is 60
D B
Sweeney, actor (Cutting Edge) is 53
Curt
Schilling, Anchorage AK, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies) is 48
Josh
Duhamel, actor/fashion model is 42
Remembered
for being born today
Robert
Fulton, inventor and engineer (1st commercial steamboat), (1765-1815)
Charles
Lyell, Scotland, geologist (Principles of Geology) (1797-1875)
Claude
Monet, Paris, impressionist (Water Lilies), (d. 1926)
Aaron
Copland, Brooklyn, composer (Appalachian Spring) (1900-1990)
Dick
Powell, actor (Dick Powell Theater) (1904-1963)
Joseph
McCarthy, Senator, (WI) claimed communists in US govt (1908-1957)
Rosemary
DeCamp, Prescott Az, actress (Love That Bob, That Girl) (1910-2001)
Sherwood
Schwartz, TV creator (Brady Bunch, Gilligan Is) (1916-2011)
Brian
Keith, actor (Bill-Family Affair) (1921-1997)
Veronica
Lake, [Constance Ockleman], actress (I Married a Witch) (1922-1973)
McLean
Stevenson, American actor-M*A*S*H (1927-1996)
Ray
Sharkey, Brooklyn, actor (Wise Guys) (1952-1993)
Adam
Walsh, American murder victim (1974-1981)
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Historical
Obits Today
Robert
Trout, American journalist, 2000, @91
Booker T.
Washington, educator/organizier, heart failure, 1915, @59
Sing T'ai
tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty, 976, @49
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Brain Teasers Answers
Lightning & Thunder
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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…§
