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Almanac: Week: 47 \ Day: 323
November
Averages: 51° \ 22°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Discovery Day (Puerto Rico-1493-Columbis 2nd
voyage)
National Holiday (Monaco)
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American
Made Matters Day
Equal
Opportunity Day
Family Volunteer Day
Gettysburg
Address Day
GIS
Day (Geographic Information Systems)
‘Have a Bad Day’ Day
International
Men's Day
National Day of Play
National
Educational Support Professionals Day
Rocky and
Bullwinkle Day-premier 1959
Women's Entrepreneurship
Day
World
Toilet 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
1620 - Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores
the coast
1805 - Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, first
European Americans to cross continent
1816 - Warsaw University is established
1824 - Storm causes St Petersburg flood, killing
10,000
1850 - Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet
Laureate, succeeding Wm Wordsworth
1863 - Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address
1903 - Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate
1919 - US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of
Versailles & League of Nations
1933 - Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right
wing)
1950 - US General Eisenhower becomes supreme
commander of NATO-Europe
1959 - Ford cancels Edsel
1962 - Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet
weapons
1965 - Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created
1972 - Leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Seán MacStiofáin arrested in Dublin
1975 - "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
starring Jack Nicholson released
1980 - CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ad
featuring Brooke Shields
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Another very cold morning…only 10° when I got up. Brrr. Didn’t
really warm up very much and the breeze kept things unpleasant to be outside.
My mother was a ‘Hoover’ mom. She strayed from Hoover once with a
Kirby, but returned as soon as possible. She bought a top of the line green
Hoover back in the 1980’s. When she moved from her independent living to her
care facility I got the Hoover. I’ve used it since then. I finally broke down
and got a Shark Rotator. I was amazed at how much dirt it picked up even after
using the Hoover the day before. I’m keeping the Hoover for the upstairs
cleaning, but am happy with the Shark downstairs. Best part, no bags with an
easy to empty container and lots of attachments.
The Keystone Pipeline is back in the news. While I do have
investments in gas/oil, I don’t see how this Pipeline is going to help
Americans. Interestingly, the pipeline must cross several native reservations.
The Rosebud Sioux council has passed a resolution that the pipeline should not
cross their land, as proposed, and if it does, it will be seen as ‘an act of
war’ against the Rosebud people. Not sure what that will mean, but it is
certainly an interesting development in the ongoing debate. Certainly something
worth following.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
word/phrase is described by the following rebus?
Julio Iglesias
Lana Turner
Dinah Shore
John Wayne
Robert Redford
John Ireland
Elizabeth Taylor
John Travolta
Barbara Eden
Jack Nicholson
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
England
Facts…
—The sun sets on 24 December at 3.55pm in the UK, and rises the
following morning at 8.05am.
—Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people
now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS
AGO
This week the Mars movies taken by Dr. Earl Slipher during his
recent rip to South Africa to study the Canals of Mars were shown to the
students of the Flagstaff State Teachers College in the library of the
Observatory. Dr. Slipher himself has been detained in New York City by an
illness contracted while in Africa.
Hair
Facts…
—A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
—Most of us have microscopic worm like mites named Demodex that
live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
Harper’s
Index…
—Percentage of Black public high school studnets who sa they carry
a weapon: 14
—Of white high school students: 17
Internet
Facts…
—The cat featured in the popular internet meme "grumpy
cat" has a permanently grumpy face is due to feline dwarfism. Her real
name is Tardar Sauce.
—There is a county in California called Yolo.
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
Our responses are getting bigger and bigger to smaller and smaller
threats. Did you ever flee from a spinning barbershop pole, fearing for life
and limb? No? Well, the town of Thornton, Colorado, just banned them. One town
official explained to the Denver Post, “We don’t want signs to be
distracting, especially to motorists.”
Pilgrim
Fact…
Dinner
Time
It’s interesting to note that in a Pilgrim household, while the
adults sat down to dinner, the children waited on them. We are sure parents
would love to go back to that arrangement.
Rules of
Thumb…
MAKING
A PERFECT MERINGUE
When beating egg
whites, the point where you have the meringue perfect is when you just lose the
shine from the egg whites.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Prohibition
made it a crime to produce, sell, or transport alcoholic beverages. But anyone
who already had bottles of old liquor stocked away was free to consume it at
his or her leisure within the confines of their home.
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Joke-of-the-day
Knock Knock
Who's there?
Alex
Alex who?
Alexplain later now let me in.
Yep, It
Really Happened
Here is a fun consequence of the recent trend toward conservatism
in this country; new and more stringent anti-abortion laws are being passed,
many of which advance the "personhood" rights of fertilized eggs,
embryos and fetuses.
You might be thinking, 'Good! Way too many women are getting abortions to the
point where it has become a form of birth control,' and I would agree with you,
but an interesting side-effect of this legal interpretation is that it is being
used to deprive some women of their human, constitutionally protected rights.
Such laws are increasingly being used as the basis for actually arresting women
who have no intention of ending a pregnancy and for preventing women from
making their own decisions about how they will give birth.
Here are a few illustrative anecdotes:
1. In Iowa, a pregnant woman who fell down a flight of stairs was reported to
the police after seeking help at a hospital. She was arrested for
"attempted fetal homicide."
2. In Utah, a woman gave birth to twins; one was stillborn. Health care
providers believed that the stillbirth was the result of the woman's decision
to delay having a cesarean. She was arrested on charges of fetal homicide.
3. In another case, a woman who had been in labor at home was picked up by a
sheriff, strapped down in the back of an ambulance, taken to a hospital, and
forced to have a cesarean she did not want. When this mother later protested
what had happened, a court concluded that the woman's personal constitutional rights
'clearly did not outweigh the interests of the State of Florida in preserving
the life of the unborn child.'
And it's getting more and more common. Last year, The New York Times published
a peer-reviewed study documenting 413 arrests or equivalent actions depriving
pregnant women of their physical liberty.
Even in these few examples you might notice a trend; it is the health care
providers who frequently involve the law in what, under normal circumstances,
should be a personal vent.
Somewhat
Useless Information
The
only McDonald’s in the world with no golden arches
All
those golden ‘Ms’ of the McDonalds’ arches remind us of the juicy burgers,
greasy fries, and gallons of soda pop.
However,
there’s a place in the world that the ‘M’ of the restaurant is blue and this
place is in Sedona, Arizona.
The
explanation is that the arches are blue so that they don’t mess with the
beautiful landscape surrounding the city.
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To
what depth can an emperor penguin dive?
Emperor
penguins are the largest of all penguins being about 115 centimeters tall ana
they live in the frigid surrounding waters on the Antarctic ice.
Did
you know that emperor penguins can dive deeper than any other bird, and deeper
than the operational range of most naval submarines?
They
can dive to a depth of 1,850 ft or 565 meters!
Somewhat Useful
Information from fivethrityeight.com
—One
company has transformed the Chinese holiday “Singles Day” from a small
celebration thought to have been started by university students in the early
1990s into the biggest online sales days of the year: Alibaba
—
1.35 billion people,
11 percent of women and 20 percent of men in China were single at age 30,
according to the country’s 2010 census
—Biggest
country of bachelors and bachelorettes is Denmark, where 24 percent of the
population age 20 and older is single and living alone. By contrast, that
figure is just 4 percent in Turkey. The US is at 13.4, between Bulgaria and
Hungary.
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Today’s Events through History
1794 - Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty,
signed with Great Britain
1879 - Natl Association of Trotting Horse Breeders
determines what "is" a trotter
1893 - 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
1911 - NY receives first Marconi wireless
transmission from Italy
1916 - Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn
establish Goldwyn Pictures
1947 - 200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar
1976 - Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1979 - Chuck Berry released from prison on income
tax evasion
1985 - US President Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev meet for 1st time
1995 - CNET launches www.shareware.com
Birthday’s
Today
Alan Young,
England, actor (Wilbur Post-Mr Ed) is 94
Larry King, radio/TV
host is 81
Allison Janney, Tony
and Emmy winning actress is 55
Meg Ryan, actress, is 53
Jodie Foster,
actress, director is 52
Remembered
for being born today
Charles I, King of
England; executed by Parliament (1600-1649)
James A Garfield, Ohio, Gen/20th
Pres (1831-1881)
Clifton Webb [Webb
Parmelee Hollenbeck], actor (Laura) (1889-1966)
Tommy Dorsey, orchestra
leader (1905-1956)
Indira Gandhi, Indian
PM (1917-1984)
Gene Tierney,
Brooklyn, actress (Laura) (1920-1991)
Roy Campanella, Dodger
catcher (1921-1993)
Jeane J Kirkpatrick, US
ambassador to UN (1926-2006)
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Historical
Obits Today
Dick Wilson, actor
(Mr. Wipple-Charmin), 2007, @91
William Seymour Tyler,
American educator and historian, 1897, @86
Michael Hastings, British
playwright, 2011, @74
Emma Lazarus, US poet
("Give us your tired & poor"), lymphoma, 1887, @38
Joe Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed,
1915, @36
Christine Onassis,
heiress, heart failure, 1988, @37
Franz Schubert,
Austrian composer (Die schöne Müllerin), typhoid, 1828, @31
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Brain Teasers Answers
It's written in the stars (using each star's last name, the
initials spell "itswritten").
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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…§
