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Almanac: Week: 47 \ Day: 321
November
Averages: 51° \ 22°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Electronic Greeting Card
Day
Great American Smokeout
Homemade Bread Day
Take A Hike Day
World Peace Day Petroleum Day
World
Prematurity Awareness Day
Observances This
Week:
American Education Week; National
Book Awards Week; National Global Entrepreneurship Week: 17-23
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1278 - 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England
for counterfeiting coins
1603 – Sir
Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1785 - Church of England organizes in New England
1798 - Snow storms in New England, hundreds die
1800 - Congress held 1st session in Wash DC in
incomplete Capitol building
1853 - Street signs authorized at San Francisco
intersections
1855 - David Livingstone becomes the first
European to see Victoria Falls
1863 - Lincoln begins 1st draft of his Gettysburg
Address
1869 - Suez Canal (Egypt) opens, links
Mediterranean & Red seas
1876 - Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made
its premiere in Moscow
1913 - 1st US dental hygienists course forms,
Bridgeport, Ct
1914 - US declares Panama Canal Zone neutral
1928 - Boston Garden officially opens
1933
- United States recognizes Soviet Union, opens
trade
1936 - Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy become
overnight success on radio
1947 - The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an
anti-Communist loyalty oath
1953 - Remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket
Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland
1968
- "Heidi Game", NBC cuts to show "Heidi" and misses
Raider's rally to beat Jets
1973 - Nixon tells AP "... Well, I'm not a
crook"
1991 - 1st TV condom ad aired (FOX- TV)
1993 - US House of Representatives approve Nafta
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Our discussion group last night was very good. Our moderator has
worked for USAID on a 4 year grant to train in a Nursing Master’s Program. She
is still in contact with many of her former students. The grant was
two-fold-train nurses and have them take over the teaching of classes. Many
successes. Her fear now is that with the complete collapse of the medical
infrastructure the teaching part may take more time than Liberia has. When the ‘Back
to Africa’ movement was started in the late teens of the last century, Liberia was
colonized by Black Americans returning to Africa. English is the official
language. I also learned that Ebola—the disease—is named after the Ebola River in
the Congo (then Zaire) when it was first identified in 1996. The world
community has been very slow in providing aide with the virus. Man countries
seem to believe ‘it’s in Africa; it’s their problem”. Now the world is finally
seeing things differently. She gave us a lot positive data that this outbreak,
the 9th since first discovered, is being slowed greatly. Her biggest
concern now is that as the outbreak is contained, the money will stop. With a
country that is faltering economically, educationally, and medically Ebola
could return as well as other diseases. Right now more people are dying in Liberia
from Malaria than Ebola. Why? Because the one hospital that is open is only
treating Ebola and with no meds and no personnel available, no one is treating
Malaria. Economically, all the nations that were helping build industry and
infrastructure have pulled out. The Europeans left the iron mines—a main source
of local income and the Chinese left the road construction. Sad story.
Broncos lost to the Rams…really? It was like the team never
figured out the game. The Cards are still doing well against the Lions.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
do the following words have in common?
Vermont
Statuesque
Swedish
Arthur's
Africa
Sensation
Misunderstood
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
England
Facts…
—On April Fool's Day in 1977, the UK newspaper The Guardian ran a
7 page feature on the discovery of the fictitious island nation of "San
Seriffe."
ѿEnglish sailors were referred to as "limeys" because
sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS
AGO
The City Police assisted by the Sherriff’s Department are making
plans to deal severely with the young hoodlums who are caught destroying
property during Halloween. These “innocent” pranks are not funny and last
year’s damage at A. L. & T. and other places make this a serious matter.
Hair
Facts…
—An average person’s yearly
fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
—In 1911, pigtails were banned in China because they were seen as
a link with its feudal past.
Harper’s
Index…
Average number of hours per week US public-school teachers are required
to work to receive their pay: 38
Average number they actually work: 52
Internet
Facts…
—After coming across a "very sweet" homeless man from
Jamaica named Michael on a night out, Londoner Jenny Baker took to Twitter, and
within hours, using the hashtag #getmichaelhome, had raised thousands of pounds
so that he could return home to Jamaica where he said he would be "happy
again".
—Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their
desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To
achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
20 percent of Americans think that the sun revolves around the
earth; 47 percent of Americans don’t know how long it takes the earth to
revolve around the sun.
**NEW**Pilgrim
Facts…
—The Pilgrims are perhaps best known for the celebration of the
harvest that shared with their Native American neighbors: Thanksgiving. But
there is more to the Pilgrims than the Mayflower, religious persecution, and
that first Thanksgiving.
—Thanksgiving is a holiday for which old, traditional recipes make
an appearance, and cookbooks are out in full force. The Pilgrims also used
cookbooks, as evidenced by several "recipe books" from the period.
These books provide insight into cooking at that time. The most famous may be
Gervase Markham's The English Housewife, which was first published in 1615.
Rules of
Thumb…
WALKING
Without a pack, you
should be able to walk 25 miles a day without serious strain. With a pack
one-fourth your weight or less, 15 miles a day is reasonable on a decent trail.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The
only other country in the world to celebrate the United States' birthday, July
4th, is Denmark.
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Joke-of-the-day
The best answer to the question asked in an
interview, "Where do you see yourself in 5 years' time?" . . .
"In the mirror as always . . "
Yep, It
Really Happened
PARIS
(UPI)
French officials announced a law change that will allow homeowners
to install toilets in their kitchens and living rooms. Minister of Housing
Sylvia Pinel and Minister of Ecology Segolene Royal announced in the French
government's Official Journal Nov. 8 they are doing away with a law requiring
toilets to be kept separate from kitchens and living rooms. The ministers wrote
they were doing away with "the prohibition of direct communication between
the [bathrooms] and kitchens and living rooms" as part of "a process
of simplification of regulations." The decree goes into effect Dec. 1.
Somewhat
Useless Information
What extraordinary
did barbers do back in the Middle Ages?
Did
you know that back in the Middle Ages, barbers could conduct surgeries?
Unlike
doctors, “barber surgeons” were expected to do anything from cutting hair to amputating
limbs and were the most common medical practitioners of medieval Europe.
However,
nobody could guarantee the success of a surgery, as mortality at the time was
quite high due to loss of blood and infection.
+++
What is the highest
known temperature?
Did
you know that the highest observed temperature in the universe was briefly seen
at CERN at the Large Hadron Collider?
Its
magnitude was 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit.
Scientists
claim that theoretically we could go for even hotter temperatures. “The first
contender for the hottest temperature is the Planck Temperature, which equals
100 million million million million million degrees, or 1032 K. You
just can’t put this kind of temperature into perspective”.
**NEW**Somewhat Useful
Information from fivethrityeight.com
Note:
While listening to NPR this morning, I discover this site. Interesting stuff.
Tattoos:
—Somewhere
between 21 percent and 24 percent of American adults have tattoos.
—Among
18- to 29-year-olds, 12 percent said they had just one tattoo compared to 26
percent who said they had two or more.
—In
the NBA- Fifty-six percent of players are
tattooed.
—14
percent of respondents said they regret tattoos according to a 2012 poll that interviewed
2,016 adults, of which only 21 percent said they had a tattoo. So
that claim about regrets is only based on 423 people.
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Today’s Events through History
1558 - Elizabeth I ascends throne at death of
her half-sister "Bloody" Mary
1884 - Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for
being "cruel"
1889 - Union Pacific begins daily through service,
Chicago-Portland & SF
1967 - Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to
lift off Moon
2004 - Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears,
Roebuck and Co.
Birthday’s
Today
Gordon
Lightfoot, Ontario, Canadian folksinger (Sundown) is 76
Martin
Scorsese, Queens, director (Raging Bull) is 72
Lauren Hutton,
[Mary], model/actress (American Gigolo) is 71
Danny
Devito, actor (Taxi) is 70
Lorne
Michaels, [Lipowitz], Toronto Ontario, comedian (SNL) is 70
William R
Moses, actor (Cole-Falcon Crest) is 55
RuPaul (Andre
Charles), drag queen/model/actor (RuPaul Show) is 54
Daisy
Fuentes, model/MTV veejay (America's Funniest Videos) is 48
Remembered
for being born today
August Ferdinand Möbius,
German mathematician (1790-1868)
Grace
Abbott, Grand Island Neb, social worker (US Children Bureau) (1878-1939)
Lee
Strasberg, Austria, acting coach/actor (Somewhere in the Night) (1901-1982)
Rock
Hudson, actor (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms) (1925-1985)
Bob
Mathias, American decathlete (Olympic-gold-1948, 52) (1930-2006)
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Historical
Obits Today
Doris
Lessing, Iranian-British novelist and Nobel laureate, 2013, @94
Margaret
Yorke, English crime fiction writer, 2012, @ 88
Esther
Rolle, actress (Good Times), diabetes, 1998, @78
Auguste
Rodin, French sculptor (Thinker), 1917, @77
Robert
Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, 1990, @75
Catherine
the Great [Catherine II], Empress of Russia stroke, 1796, @67
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Brain Teasers Answers
They each contain an abbreviation of a weekday.
verMONt
staTUESque
sWEDish
arTHUR'S
aFRIca
senSATion
miSUNderstood
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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…§
