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Week: 36 \ Day: 246
September
Averages: 74°\42°
86004
Today: H 82° \ L 50°
Average Sky Cover: 65%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 18mph
Ave.
High: 77° Record High: 91°[1948]
Ave. Low: 45° Record Low: 34°[1973]
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Observances
Today:
Penny
Press Day
Independence
Day (Qatar-1971-from UK)
National
Day (San Marino-301-from Roman Empire)
Observances
This Week:
1-5
National Payroll Week
1-7
International Enthusiasm Week
National Nutrition Week
(UNICEF-India) Link
Self-University Week Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1680 - Don Antonio
de Otermin is the Governor of the province which contains modern Santa Fe, New
Mexico. The Pueblo Indians
staged a revolt in August. Otermin enters Isleta Pueblo and discovers it is
abandoned
1709 - 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists
reaches NC/SC
1752 - Britain and the British Empire (including
the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar, losing 11 days. People
riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives
1777 - Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of American
Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United
States was flown in battle for the first time
1833 - New York Sun begins publishing (1st daily
newspaper)
1838
- Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery
disguised as a sailor
1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under
American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a
Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children
1881 - 1st U.S. Men's National Championship:
Richard Sears beats William E. Glyn (6-0, 6-3, 6-2)
1891 - Cotton pickers organize union & stage
strike in Texas
1904 - St Louis Olympics closes
1964 - Wilderness Act signed into law by
President Lyndon B. Johnson1971 - Watergate
team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office
1967 - Dragsters
converged on Tucson for the Arizona State Drag Championships at the Tucson
Dragway on Houghton Road.
1995 - eBay founded.
2013 - Microsoft
purchases Nokia for $7.2 Billion
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
301 - San Marino, one of the smallest nations in
the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by
Saint Marinus
1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned in
Westminster. 30 Jews are massacred after the coronation - Richard ordered the
perpetrators be executed
1650 - Battle of Dunbar: England vs Scotland
1812 - World's first cannery ( Donkin, Hall and
Gamble) opens in London, England to supply food to the Royal Navy
1935 - 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir
Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph)
1938 - 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan
to Helsinki Finland
1949 - Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000
lives
1971 - A baby girl and an Ulster Defence Regiment
(UDR) soldier are killed in separate shooting incidents in Northern Ireland
1988 - Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish
civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in
aftermath of Iran-Iraq War
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Interesting follow up to my med story. Got a text message about 15
minutes after I got home saying that my thyroid meds were ready…the ones they
were out of 30 minutes earlier. So as I was running around, I stopped in this
morning about 9a. The meds were ready. I thanked the tech for getting them from
the other pharmacy in town. She smiled and said, well actually, the computer
said we were out, but when the pharmacist went to the shelf, they were there.
SMH and smiling.
And I continue to SMH in politics…not Trump, this time…this time
it is the elected head of Education in AZ. She won by a small margin and her
main campaign promise was to rid the state of Common Core. As the lawsuits pile
up on her management style and power grabbing attempts, finally a petition to
recall her has begun. Their main cry is that she is not serving the students of
AZ. She stopped background checks on teachers, basically stopping new hiring
and recertifying teachers. Then she refused to open the website where districts
post their stats to get Federal funding. And she has yet to provide any help to
the legislators to improve education…not one little plan. If this happens she
would be the 2nd elected official to be recalled. The first was a
few years ago for the State Senator who presented SB1070—the immigration mess—and
worked to get it passed. He was voted out regarding a fraud issue, sadly not
because he was a racist.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can
you figure out these five?
Hint: flowers
1. an implement + flesh around mouth
2. foppish + a large carnivorous wildcat
3. to wed + a soft yellow element
4. a false statement + be deficient in
5. indicates an alternative + child
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
Capt. Robert Campbell, a British officer
captured during World War I, was granted leave to visit his dying mother on one
condition - that he return to captivity. He kept his word and returned, only to
try escaping as soon as he returned.
The human testicles can produce 1,500 sperm
during every heartbeat.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
Kit Carson of the Chamber of Commerce says there are 4,057 hotel
and motel rooms in Flagstaff with 255 more about to open. Finding a room during
the week is relatively easy, but each weekend is filled up. The Chamber is
running a “Room Bank.”
Sales at The Mall are up 5 percent. With 68 shops and a 94%
occupancy rate, people are enjoying just strolling along looking and dropping
into the shops.
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…Harper’s
Index…
4 – percentage
of NYC’s population that is lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender
4.7 – of Salt
Lake City’s population
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeophoto by @randyolson | words by @neilshea13 Kenya’s Lake
Turkana — He arrives early every morning to the rock pile by the roadside,
takes up his hammer and begins. Breaks big volcanic cobbles down into smaller
ones. Clack-tap, clink-tink, sharp sounds cutting out through the desert. At 2
pm he stops, finds some shade, falls asleep. At 4 he returns to making gravel,
though it isn’t any cooler. The sun still crushes—it might do the work for him
if he’d only wait. He holds the stones in place with the sole of a sandal, then
brings the hammer down just hard enough. Economy of motion: every desert
creature knows. He tosses the pieces onto the pile, which grows and does not
grow, never much bigger than this, never much smaller. There is always someone
coming to gather it up and cart it away.
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…Foreigners
Find These American Customs Offensive…
11. Wearing sweatpants, flip flops, wrinkly clothing, or baseball
caps in public
Sure "athleisure" (stylish sportswear worn outside of
the gym) is a hot new trend stateside, but in most countries, notably Japan and
most of Europe, this sort of sloppy appearance is considered disrespectful.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Dolph Lundgren, who played Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, has
a master's degree in chemical engineering. He's also Swedish.
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2
jokes for the day
“Hello, Ginger!”
Her brother called cheerily to his sister.
“Don’t call me Ginger!” she snapped furiously. “My hair is the color of gold.”
“Yeah,” he replied with a jeer, “twenty-two carrots!”
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There were three idiots who were in another
country and they didn't know the language.
So they decided that they would go to the local village and they would each
learn one new phrase.
So they went to the village, and the first idiot was watching a girl sing,
"Me,me,me,me,me!!" So that was the first idiot's phrase.
The second idiot saw a street vender who was selling silverware and who was
saying "Forks and knifes." And that was the second idiot's phrase.
The third idiot went to a park and saw a boy saying, "Swing me
first!" And that was the third idiot's phrase.
The three idiots met back and were about to tell each other their new phrases
when a policeman ran up and said, "There has been a murder. Who did it?"
The idiots decided to use their new phrases, so the first one said,
"Me,me,me,me,me!"
The policeman said, "What was the murder weapon?" The second idiot
said, "Forks and knifes."
The policeman said, "Y'all are going to have to hang for this."
The third idiot said, "Swing me
first!"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
ST.
CHARLES, Ill. - An Illinois job applicant texted his way out of an offered
position when he accidentally sent the human resources manager a nude selfie,
police said. Elmhurst police said the human resources manager at a St. Charles
company contacted authorities Aug. 14 to report receiving two nude pictures via
text message Aug. 11 and 13 from a man who had been offered a position with the
company. "There was a conditional offer of employment made to this
particular applicant," Elmhurst Police Chief Michael Ruth told the Chicago
Tribune. "He texted the HR director and sent a nude photo of
himself." Ruth said the company learned the identity of the sender when he
later used the same phone number for a follow-up call. Police said the man who
sent the pictures told investigators the nude selfies were sent accidentally.
"[Police] contacted the offender who admitted to sending the photographs,
explaining they were actually meant for another individual and were sent to the
victim in error," the police report of the incident states. "[Police]
advised the offender to cease any contact with the victim." The victim
decided not to press charges, but police said the man's actions were not free
from consequences. "My understanding is they've rescinded the offer of
employment," Ruth said.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Bananas
were never really heard of until 1880. However, by 1910, they were so popular
that cities had a problem disposing of used banana peels. Back then, there was
no urban sanitation and people were literally slipping on banana peels and
hurting themselves.
In 1910, the City of St. Louis had an ordinance specifically prohibiting people
from throwing banana peels on the ground. And for much of the early 1900s, one
of the suggested Boy Scout manual good deeds of the day was to pick up banana
peels from the street.
Today, bananas are so popular due to the entrepreneurial drive of the early
banana barons who founded a company in the 1880s called United Fruit (which is
now Chiquita.) When they introduced the banana, Americans generally didn't know
what a banana was and had to be taught how to peel and determine if they were
ripe.
There are more than 1,000 varieties of amazing and delicious bananas - most of
them are in Africa and Asia. But in the United States, we only eat one called
the Cavendish. The Cavendish is a more bland banana compared to those in India
where 600 banana varieties are grown.
The Cavendish, the banana we currently eat, is not the original breed that was
introduced into the United States. That breed was called the Gros Michel, but
was eradicated by a fungus. "Yes, We Have No Bananas," the famous
song from the 1920s, may be related to that banana shortage.
Up through the 1950s, Chiquita released banana cookbooks full of interesting
and sometimes odd recipes. Making a big push to get people to eat bananas with
every meal, they tried to position the banana as both a sweet fruit and a
vegetable, like a potato. You could find recipes for ham banana rolls with
cheese sauce, bananas with mint jelly, and banana soup.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(96) - Kitty Carlisle Hart, actress (Animal
Crackers) d. 2007
92 - Mort
Walker, cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois)
(86) - Prudence Crandall, founder (School for
"young ladies of color") d.1890
86 - Whitey
Bulger [James Joseph Bulger Jr.], American gangster
84 - Dick
Motta, NBA coach (856 wins, Its not over 'til the fat lady sings)
(75) - Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor
(Porsche, Volkswagen) d.1951
(75) - Terry Wilson, California, actor
(Bill-Wagon Train) d.1999
73 - Al
Jardine, Lima Oh, guitarist/singer (Beach Boys-Surfin, In My Room)
72 - Valerie
Perrine, actress and model (Steam Bath, Superman, Lenny)
(67) - Louis Sullivan, American architect
(father of skyscrapers) d.1924
(50) - Alan Ladd, Hot Springs AR, actor
(Shane, Carpetbaggers) d.1964
50 - Charlie
Sheen, [Carlos Estavez], actor (Wall St, Two & Half Men)
(46) - Maya King Ahkal
Mo' Naab' II rules over Palenque, Mexico d.470
(42) - Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler d.
1973
29 - Shaun
White, snowboarder (Olympic gold - 2006, 2010)
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Historical
Obits Today
Frank
Capra, American film director (It's a Wonderful Life)-1991@94
Sun Myung
Moon, Korean evangelist-2012@92
William
Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States-2005@80
Ho Chi
Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Vietnamese communist
revolutionary\President of North Vietnam, heart failure-1969@79
Barbara
O'Neil, actress (All This and Heaven Too), heart attack-1980@70
e[dward] e cummings, US poet (Tulips &
Chimneys), stroke-1962@67
Oliver
Cromwell, English general/Lord Protector, septicaemia-1658@59
Vince
Lombardi, football coach (Packers), cancer-1970@57
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Tulip (tool + lip)
2. Dandelion (dandy + lion)
3. Marigold (marry + gold)
4. Lilac (lie + lack)
5. Orchid (or + kid)
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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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