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Sept 18, 2015
Almanac:
Week: 38 \ Day: 261
September
Averages: 74°\42°
86004
Today: H 73° \ L 43° Average
Sky Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 22mph
Ave.
High: 72° Record High: 86°[1956]
Ave. Low: 41° Record Low: 27°[1903]
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Observances
Today:
Chiropractic Founders Day Link
Clean Up The World Weekend: 18-20 Link
Constitution Day/Pledge Across America
Hug A Greeting Card Writer Day
National Ceiling Fan Day Link
National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day Link
National Respect Day Link
National Tradesmen Day
World Water Monitoring Day Link
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Independence Day (Chile-1810-from Spain)
Observances
This Week:
13-19
Balance
Awareness Week Link
Child
Passenger Safety Week Link
Dating
and Life Coach Recognition Week
International
Housekeepers Week Link
National
Assisted Living Week
National
Environmental Services Week Link
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week Link
14-18
Health
Information and Technology Week Link
Line
Dance Week
National
Love Your Files Week Link
National
Postdoc Appreciation Week Link
National
Staffing Employee Week Link
16-20
National
Guitar Flat-Picking Days
17-23
Constitution
Week
Hummingbird
Celebration Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1679 - New Hampshire becomes a county in
Massachusetts Bay Colony
1755 - Fort Ticonderoga, New York opens
1769 - John Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, builds
1st spinet piano
1789 - 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the
presidents & Congress
1793 - US President George
Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
1842 - 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
published
1851 - New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a
copy)
1927 - Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air
with 18 stations
1929
-The first case of bubonic plague ever found in Arizona was found in Yuma
1932 - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by
jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign.
1947 - National Security Act passes
1947
- US Air Force forms
1948
- Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN
mediator in Palestine
1957 - "Wagon Train" premieres
1964
- "The Addams Family" premieres on
ABC
1965 - "Get Smart" premieres
1965
- "I Dream of Jeannie" premieres on
NBC
1972 - 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los
Angeles vs San Diego)
1977
- US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of
Earth & Moon together1990 - 500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1
Times Square, NYC
1994
- Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on
PBS
1997
- Ted Turner gives $1 billion to UN
2001 – 1st
mailing of anthrax letters in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1759 - Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to
British who capture Quebec City
1812 - Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses &
1,000 churches
1846 - Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning exchange
last letters before eloping
1911 - Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short
S.39) test flown
1914
- Irish Home Rule bill receives Royal assent
1967 - Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW
Territories, Canada
1971
- Momofuku Ando markets the first Cup
Noodle, packaging it a waterproof polystyrene container
1988 - Burma suspends its constitution
1997
- Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) in a referendum on Welsh autonomy.
2007
- Buddhist monks join anti-government
protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
2014 - Scotland votes 'NO' in a referendum deciding
whether or not to stay with the United Kingdom
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Great lunch with our retirement group. Cheryl had a very good long
weekend with her son and his family. Grandkids are growing really fast. Mary is
not anxiously awaiting her hubby’s half marathon this weekend.
OK, so I watched the debates last night. I am either crazy or
something. All I learned was that none of the many, many GOP candidates are
exciting me to vote for them. They sure said a lot…about the other candidates.
I must admit that I didn’t know much, except for names, of most of the
candidates. Some I had never heard of. After last night, I wished I hadn’t ever
heard of any of them. ‘Fear of the Enemy’ was to scare all of us about most
people not white. Many were talking about this great country heading for ‘end
of days’ or at the very least failure. Sad.
Glad I’m not a teacher or administrator in Texas. Some back woods
school had a middle schooler arrested and detained at a police station for
bringing a homemade clock to school as a science project and then not
elaborating on what the clock was really
for. The acting principal decided that since he was an A-rab it must be
dangerous. President Obama later has invited the student to the White House and
the boy says he will doesn’t fit into that school’s culture and will be
attending another school.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
There
are three houses built exactly the same. One is filled with cotton, the other
with wood, and the third with iron. One day an arsonist sets them all on fire.
The sound of sirens was growing louder at the scene. People were screaming.
Which house did the ambulance try to put the fire out at first?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
Clint Eastwood was in a plane which crashed
into the sea. He and the pilot escaped the sinking aircraft and swam 3 miles to
safety.
Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose
named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either
by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
H. L. Hoffer, agent for the Shell Oil Co., is signing new
contracts for the 1940-41 winter season. Stove Oil 9.5 cents per gallon.
Furnace Oil 8.25 cents per gallon. PH. 149.
The Arizona Highway Patrol reports there were 79 accidents in
August. Excess speed 17. Driving on the wrong side 12, including one horse.
Driving while drunk 9. Blowouts 4. Obscured vision due to dust 3.
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…Harper’s
Index…
$18,000,000
– minimum amount NYC has spent to remove wet wipes from the sewer
system since 2010
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeo@RobertClarkphoto
#MarinaEliott gazes up to the top of #RisingStarCave in the remote
site in the #CradleOfHumanKind hear #Johannesburg #SouthAfrica.
The cave has yielded hundreds of fossil bones that represent a new
species of #human ancestor, called #HomoNaledi. #LeeBerger, a
#Paleoanthropologist from #WitsUniversity in South Africa who lead the team
says, "We found a most remarkable creature." For more pictures from
the cave and what was found please look at my feed, @RobertClarkphoto
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…Foreigners
Find These American Customs Offensive…
25. Blowing Your Nose
In countries like China, France, Japan, Saudi Arabia and even
Turkey, blowing your nose in public is not only rude, but considered repulsive.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Napoleon wasn't short. At 5 feet, 7 inches, he was taller than the
average French man of the era. The popular myth about his height is the result
of his nickname, Le Petit Caporal (The Little Corporal). Early in Napoleon’s
military career, French soldiers used the moniker to mock his low position on
the Army’s Officer totem pole. Unfortunately for Napoleon, the nickname stuck.
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2
jokes for the day
The choir had just come out of rehearsal.
“Am I to assume that you do a lot of singing at home?” Mr. Harris asked a
fellow choir member, David Grey.
“Yes, I sing a lot. I use my voice just to kill time,” said David.
Mr. Harris nodded, “You certainly have a fine weapon.”
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Chicago: One hand on wheel, one hand on horn.
New York: One hand on wheel, one finger out window.
New Jersey: One hand on wheel, one finger out window, cutting across all lanes
of traffic.
Boston: One hand on wheel, one hand on newspaper, foot solidly on accelerator.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
MAGNITOGORSK,
Russia - Russian police said a pair of 5-year-old boys used garden
spades to tunnel under a fence and escape their kindergarten in an attempt to
purchase a Jaguar. Police in Magnitogorsk said the boys slipped away from their
teacher on multiple occasions in the school yard and dug under the fence over
the course of several days. The boys were eventually able to squeeze through
the tunnel and made their way to a Jaguar showroom a few miles away from the
school. Police said the boys told a woman who approached them outside the
showroom that they were in the market for a "grown up car." The
children were taken to the Ordzhonikidze Police station, where they were
released into the custody of their parents. The parents did not pursue a formal
complaint against the school or the boys' teachers. Olga Denisenko, acting head
of preschool education at the school, was quoted by the Siberian Times as
saying disciplinary actions had been taken against employees. "This is a
very serious breach of rules. The head of the group that allowed this to happen
was fired," she said. "The acting head of the kindergarten has been
given administrative notice."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
first Oktoberfest was held in Munich in 1810. It was for the commemoration of
the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria and Princess Therese of
Saxe-Hildburghausen. The first celebration included a horse race.
Unbelievable, but in the beginning, beer was not available at the Oktoberfest.
Alcohol could only be purchased and enjoyed outside of the actual venue.
Authorities soon realized that it would make sense to open the Oktoberfest
venue to vendors and it was only then that the traditional beerhalls became
popular.
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Beer
consumption surpasses 5 million 1-liter mugs. The mugs themselves are a hot
item. Security guards annually recover approximately 150,000 from would-be
souvenir hunters. Many are not recovered; the Hofbrau tent alone averages
35,000 missing each year. The fine for stealing a souvenir mug: $60!
There are many problems every year with young people who overestimate their
ability to handle large amounts of alcohol. Many forget that German beer has
7.5 to 8 percent alcohol, and they pass out due to drunkenness. These drunk
patrons are often called "Bierleichen" (German for "beer
corpses").
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(85) - Jack Warden, Newark NJ, actor (NYPD,
Crazy Like a Fox, Norby) d.2006
(84) - Greta Garbo, Stockholm, actress (Grand
Hotel, Camille) d. 1990
82 - Robert Blake, Nutley NJ, (Baretta,
Little Rascals, Coast to Coast)
(75) - Samuel Johnson, English
lexicographer/writer (Boswell's Tour Guide) d.1784
(71) - Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, actor (Jack
Benny Show) d.1977
64 - Benjamin Carson, American neurosurgeon, politician GOP
(51) - James Gandolfini, Westwood New Jersey, actor
(Tony Soprano) d.2013
45 - Aisha Tyler, American actress and
comedian
44 - Lance Armstrong, road cyclist (7 Tour
de France wins) barred from sport for using banned drugs
44 - Jada Pinkett Smith, actress (Nutty
Professor, Menace II Society)
42 - James Marsden, American TV actor
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Historical
Obits Today
Ken
Norton, American heavyweight boxer, strokes-2013@70
Dag
Hammarskjoeld, UN Sect Gen, air crash over Congo-1961@56
Jimi
Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Haze), OD-1970@27
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Ambulances do not put out fires.
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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.
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Is All for Now…▲
