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Almanac:
Week: 36 \ Day: 247
September
Averages: 74°\42°
86004
Today: H 77° \ L 48°
Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 21mph
Ave.
High: 77° Record High: 90°[1945]
Ave. Low: 45° Record Low: 27°[1961]
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Observances
Today:
Bring
Your Manners To Work Day
Cow
Chip Throwing days
Hug
Your Boss Day
International Drive Your
Studebaker Day
National
College Colors Day
National
Lazy Mom's Day
National
Wildlife Day
Animals' Day (Curacao)
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
1609 - Navigator Henry Hudson first European
to discover island of Manhattan
1781 - Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish
speaking mestizos in the Bahia de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes)
1807 - Robert Fulton begins operating his
steamboat
1813 - First US religious newspaper (Religious
Remembrancer (Christian Observer))
1833 - 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years
old-NY Sun)
1862 - General Lee invades North with 50,000
Confederate troops1866 - 1st
Hawaiian daily newspaper published
1863
- The Concow-Maidu had ancestral homes in the Butte County area
of northern California. Eventually, they were forced to move to different
lands. Many die or are killed along the way to these distant, hostile places.
One group of 461 Concows leaves Chico, but only 277 will survive the
two-week trip to Round Valley.
1882 - 1st large-scale test of Thomas Edison's
light bulb - lighting of NY's Pearl Street Station
1885 - 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)
1886 - Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders
ending last major US-Indian war
1888 - George Eastman patents 1st roll-film
camera & registers "Kodak"
1894 - In NYC, 12,000 tailors went on strike
protesting sweat shops
1924 - First Arizona
Indian cast his ballot under the provisions of a congressional act granting
citizenship to Native Americans.
1945 - US regains possession of Wake Island from
Japan
1951 - 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by US
President Harry Truman
1957 - Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel
1957 - Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls
out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high
school
1961 - US authorizes Agency for International
Development
1972 - US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to
win 7 Olympic gold medals
2008 - "The Hurt Locker" premieres at the
Venice Film Festival (Best Picture 2010)
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1682 - English astronomer Edmund Halley observes
the comet named after him
1884 - Britain ends its policy of penal
transportation to New South Wales in Australia.
1893 - English author Beatrix Potter first
writes the story of Peter Rabbit for a 5 year old boy
1933 - Coup on Cuban president De Cespedes by Fulgencio
Batista
1964 - Scottish Forth Road Bridge opens (then the
longest in Europe)
1970 - An Irish Republican Army (IRA) member,
Michael Kane (35), is killed in the premature explosion of the bomb he was
planting at an electricity transformer in Belfast
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Good lunch with the retirement group…hadn’t been to this restaurant
for a long time…couldn’t figure out why we waited so long…food great, service
great, and of course good conversation.
An interesting NPR discussion today on Trump. It seems the White
Nationalists are getting behind Trump with all his crazy immigrant talk.
Learned that on the far right there are two groups that have many of the same
beliefs…the White Supremacists and the White Nationalists. Both groups have
very radical ideas about citizens who are not white. The Supremacists believe
that the Whites are superior to all races while the Nationalists believe that
Whites should run the country and are most concerned that non-whites are taking
over. The line between these two groups is very, very blurry. Trump’s rhetoric
is playing well in both camps. Also Trump’s
rhetoric is also playing well for the many whites (not identified with either
group) who believe that non-whites are
taking away jobs, destroying the economy, and that soon whites will be the
minority. Scary for sure.
SMH over the clerk who won’t marry gay couples in KY because of
her religious beliefs, but she has been married 3 times.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
1-2-3-4-5-6
I am a 6 letter word.
Letters 6-5-2 spell out a drink.
Letters 4-5-2-3 spell out a fruit.
Letters 1-2-6 spell out a pet.
Letters 3-2-6 spell out a pest, which often gets eaten by 1-2-6.
What am I?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
Returns tomorrow
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…Amazing
Facts…
In 2012, a British man named Wesley Carrington
used a metal detector for the first time and found £100,000 worth of Roman gold
within 20 minutes.
Apple experts have created a sparkling apple
that fizzes in your mouth.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
Ross Simpson, who recently purchased one of those new motors for
bicycles, last Saturday took his side-winder on a trip out to Hibben’s Sheep
Camp. Something scared it and it headed for the woods, spilling Simpson into
the road. The bike is mostly all right and so is Simpson, though
considerably bruised. They are both expected to make a full recovery.
Saturday about 20 head of youngsters of this neighborhood mounted
a hay wagon and drove out to the mouth of Oak Creek Canyon, where they spent
the day inspecting those ancient ruins. They were chaperoned by Mrs. J. O.
Thrust.
More Normal School students have been arriving daily. Attendance
is at capacity. More dormitories will have to be built before more students can
be admitted.
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…Harper’s
Index…
2/5 – portion
of US medical students who say that they are uncomfortable caring for
transgender patients
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @argonautphoto (Aaron Huey). Earlier this week
President Obama changed the name of the Alaskan mountain that was officially
called Mt McKinley to DENALI
(meaning "the High One" or "The Great One" in the
Athabascan language).
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…Foreigners
Find These American Customs Offensive…
12. Altering your meal
In foodie cultures like France, Italy, Spain and Japan, asking for
ketchup, hot sauce, soy sauce or salt to alter your meal may raise some
eyebrows. Before you ask for a condiment, see if there are any on the tables -
if not, you should probably refrain.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
With a nurse and a calligrapher, Saddam Hussein had a copy of the
Koran written using his own blood.
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2
jokes for the day
A skeleton once wanted to go to a party but
then he realized he had NO-BODY to go with.
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A guy goes into a bar and orders seven shots
of tequila and one beer chaser.
The bartender lines up seven shots and goes to get the beer.
When he comes back with the beer only moments later, all seven shots were gone.
The bartender says, "Wow! You sure drank those fast."
The guy explains, You'd drink fast too if you had what I have."
The bartender asks, "What do you have?"
The guy reaches into his pocket and says, "Fifty cents!"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
MARYBOROUGH,
Australia - An Australian man caught with suspected crystal meth spent four
months in jail before investigators discovered the substance was Epsom salt.
Travis George, the Maryborough, Queensland, man's lawyer, said his client was
jailed when police performing a routine check of his car discovered a substance
they suspected to be crystal methamphetamine. George said his client was
remanded to custody due to his criminal history and he was held for four months
before investigators with Queensland Health's Forensic and Scientific Services
at the John Tonge Center discovered the suspected crystal meth was actually
Epsom salt. "The charges were then withdrawn by police," The Fraser
Coast Chronicle quoted George as saying. George detailed the case in support of
Maryborough Magistrate John Smith's complaints about long delays when dealing
with the John Tonge Center. Smith said one of his cases was adjourned for two
months pending the outcome of testing. "It has always been a concern for
our clients about delay due to awaiting analysis where it is forensic,"
George said. A Queensland Health spokeswoman denied any lengthy delays for
Forensic and Scientific Services. "Urgent cases are completed within the
time frame required by the police and the courts," she said. "All
forensic testing performed at FSS is prioritized daily with police and the
courts."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
average adult heart beats 72 times a minute; 100,000 times a day; 3,600,000
times a year; and 2.5 billion times during a lifetime.
During an average lifetime, the heart will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels of
blood--enough to fill 200 train tank cars.
***
In
1929, German surgeon Werner Forssmann (1904-1979) examined the inside of his
own heart by threading a catheter into his arm vein and pushing it 20 inches
and into his heart, inventing cardiac catheterization, a now common procedure.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(90) - Edward Dmytryk, director (Caine Mutiny)
d.1999
(90) - Paul Harvey, Tulsa Oklahoma, news
commentator (Rest of the story) d.2009
84 - Mitzi
Gaynor, American actress/singer/dancer (Anything Goes, South Pacific)
(83) - Sarah Childress Polk, 1st lady (1845-1849) d.1897
(83) - William Lyons, British industrialist
(Jaguar cars)-d. 1985
66 - Tom
Watson, KC Mo, golfer (British Open 1975, 77, 80, 82, 83)
(63) - Dick York, actor (Darrin-Bewitched,
Inherit the Wind) d.1992
62 - Lawrence-Hilton
Jacobs, actor (Freddie-Welcome Back Kotter)
55 - Damon
Wayans, actor/comedian (In Living Color, Major Payne, Blankman)
42 - Jason David Frank, TV Actor- Power Rangers
(36) - Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician
(Auschwitz)-d. 1945
34 - Beyoncé
Knowles, singer (Destiny's Child)
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Historical
Obits Today
Albert
Schweitzer, German/French missionary (Nobel 1954)-1965@90
Joan
Rivers, American comedienne (Late Show, Hollywood Sq)-2014@81
Dottie
West, country singer (Here Comes my Baby), car crash-1991@58
Herve
Villechaize, actor (Fantasy Island), suicide-1993@50
Steve
Irwin, Australian naturalist and TV personality, stingray-2006@44
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Brain
Teasers Answers
CARPET.
6-5-2: tea
4-5-2-3: pear
1-2-6: cat
3-2-6: rat
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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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