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Sept 11, 2015
Almanac:
Week: 37 \ Day: 254
September
Averages: 74°\42°
86004
Today: H 79° \ L 47°
Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind
ave: 4mph\Gusts: 19mph
Ave.
High: 75° Record High: 88°[1990]
Ave. Low: 43° Record Low: 30°[1986]
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Observances
Today:
Banana Day Link
Libraries Remember Day
National Day of Service and
Remembrance Link
National
Grandparent's Day
National
Hug Your Hound Day
Patriot Day Link
Remember Freedom Day Stand Up To Cancer
Day Link
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New
Year's Day (Ethiopia)
Observances
This Week:
6-12
National
Waffle Week
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week
Suicide Prevention Week
Play
Days
10-12
Popcorn
Days
11-13
Mushroom
Days
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1773 - Benjamin Franklin writes "There
never was a good war or bad peace"
1789 - Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st
Secretary of Treasury
1847 - 1st singing of Stephen Foster's
"Susanna" (in Pittsburgh)
1850 - "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind
gives 1st US concert
1852 - Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published
north of Columbia River
1857 - Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed
as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
1875 - 1st newspaper cartoon strip
1910 - 1st commercially successful electric bus
line opens (Hollywood)
1926 - The Tucson Landmarks
Association acquired the site of the Wishing Shrine, or El Tiradito, on Main
Street
1950 - "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts
1951 - Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to
swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a
report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11
possible impeachable offenses.
2001 - Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists
crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and death
of 2,752 people
2001 - Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and
crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125 people
2001 - Attempt by passengers and crew of United
Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists
causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people onboard
2012 - The US is warned by Moody's that its AAA
credit rating is at risk if lawmakers fail to produce a long-term debt
reduction plan
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1297 - Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel William
Wallace beats English
1541 - Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous
warriors, lead by Michimalonko
1792 - The Hope Diamond is stolen with other crown
jewels when six men break into house used to store the jewels.
1906 - Mahatma Gandhi coins the term
"Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South
Africa.
1960 - 17th Olympic Games close in Rome Italy
1961 - Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.
1997 - After a nationwide referendum, Scotland
votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom.
2014 - South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is
found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found
guilty of culpable homicide)
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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 at a new place in town…Some Burro. For those not familiar,
this is not taking about donkeys. Beautiful view of the peaks, nice patio area,
good food at good prices. Nice. Mary will be busy the next few weekends with AZ
Trails, a group that fixes many of our trails. She and her husband are very
active. Cheryl is on her way to CA to see her son and his family.
I’m sure everyone remembers where they were when the news came
this morning in 2001. I was at work and we watched it on the one library TV.
About 11 our time we got word to close the school and send everyone home. We
were in AZ for God’s sake and nowhere need the attack, but we were a Federal
facility, paid for by tax payers, so we too had to close. Not easy to get 900
elementary students home in the middle of the day…with many having parents
working or out of town and no way to notify them. Then there are the dorm
students who live up to 60 miles away, on dirt roads. Quite common to get to
the house and find no one home. We did accomplish the directive by 9p that
night. Thankfully my younger brother, who lives in NYC had called my mom and
told her he and his wife were fine. By the time I got home it was impossible to
get a call to NYC. Didn’t talk to him for almost a week. We were back to work
the next day and held class. Most of the dorm students didn’t return until the
next week. I also remember that I had to attend a meeting the following week
and I had to fly from Phx. It was quite a shock to drive to the airport, see
armed troops stopping every car and opening trunks, then finally parking and finding
the armed uniformed soldiers everywhere in the terminal. Got on my flight and
found the same thing at San Diego airport. We were at the conference most of
the week and when we returned, the armed guards had all but disappeared.
Our country changed greatly that day, we gave up a lot of our
rights to privacy after that day and for several years were aware that saying
anything against the changes would lead to labels no one wanted.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Find
the synonymous word for each word in the following pair. For each pair, the
words you find should rhyme with each other, the first word being an adjective
and the second a noun. Some of these are easy, others are more challenging.
Good luck!
For example: angry father= mad dad
Depressed circus entertainer
Not living center of a pencil
Cool film
Not soft protector
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle
was 167.04 mph by Fred Rompelberg in 1995.
In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able
to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light
completely.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
It rained on Tuesday and washed out 1,000 feet of track at Houck
Springs, California. There’s another washout in New Mexico. Flagstaff has been
without train service for several days.
John Loy was in from Munds Park and tells us that that the crops
are looking good in that section.
John Sorling, a native of Sweden who has lived here for several
years, was admitted to citizenship on Wednesday by Judge Perkins in Superior
Court.
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…Harper’s
Index…
382 –
percentage change since 1999 in the number of drug-overdose deaths among white
US women aged 15-54
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @irablockphoto (Ira Block)
It's the 14th Anniversary of the tragic events of September 11. I
photographed the Twin Towers of Light the first time they illuminated the New
York skyline, March 2002, six months after the towers fell. The photo was taken
while I was on assignment for the National Geographic Magazine. I post this
photo today as a memorial to those who perished, and a tribute to those who
survived.
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…Foreigners
Find These American Customs Offensive…
18. Telling people to help themselves
While you think you're being a host extraordinaire, graciously
opening up your home to someone and essentially telling them to feel right at home,
in some cultures (like in Asia) this hands-off approach is uncomfortable. To
them, hosting guests is a little more involved.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The Pittsburgh Penguins made Mister Rogers an honorary captain in
1991.
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2
jokes for the day
"Doctor,I have a son who thinks he's a
chicken," said the man.
"Why don't you bring him in for treatment?" asked the doctor.
"We need the eggs," replied the man.
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A man left home one morning.
He turned right and ran straight ahead.
Then he turned left.
After a while, he turned left again, running faster than ever.
Then he turned left once more and decided to go home.
In the distance he could see two masked men waiting for him.
Who were they?
The umpire and the catcher, it was a baseball
game!
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Yep,
It Really Happened
MILLIS,
Mass. - Police in Massachusetts said an officer is facing prosecution after
he allegedly fired his gun at his own police cruiser and burned it to stage a
crime scene. Millis Police said they launched a manhunt Tuesday after an
officer reported a white man in a dark pickup truck had fired shots at him
while he was driving, causing his patrol car to spin around, crash into a tree
and catch fire. However, Sgt. William Dwyer said investigators determined the
officer's own gun was used to shoot the holes in the police cruiser. "We
have determined that the officer's story was fabricated," Dwyer told CNN.
"Specifically that he fired shots at his own cruiser as part of a plan to
concoct a story that he was fired upon." The officer was identified Friday
as Bryan Johnson, a rookie part time officer who was scheduled to begin
training soon for a position as a full-time Millis Police officer. "It's
hard for me personally. Bryan was a friend, and when this is all over, I wish
him the best," Dwyer told the Boston Globe. "But we are not going to
allow anyone who violates the public trust or commits a crime to receive
special treatment." Dwyer said Johnson was placed on paid administrative
leave pending his official termination. He said police are seeking charges of
misleading a police investigation, providing false information to emergency services,
malicious destruction of property and unlawful discharge of a firearm.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is the James Webb Space Telescope,
which is scheduled to be launched in 2018 for an estimated $8.3 billion. It
will observe in infrared and will have a 21.3-foot mirror, which will allow for
extremely high resolution to cosmic images.
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The
word "telescope" is from the Greek tele, meaning 'far,' and skopein,
meaning 'to look or see.' It was coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician
Giovanni Demisiani.
Galileo did not invent the telescope; he was, however, the first to
methodically use it to peer into the night sky. Dutch eyeglass maker Hans
Lippershey actually invented the optical
telescope (telescopes that see visible light) in 1608.
With the help of his telescope, Galileo discovered Jupiter's satellites and the
craters on Earth's moon. He also used his telescope to look at the sun, which
may have led to his blindness later in life.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
87 - Earl Holliman, Delhi La, actor (Police
Woman, Tribes, Cry Panic)
(75) - Tom Landry, Mission Texas, NFL player (Giants)/coach
(Cowboys) d.2000
73 - Lola Falana [Loletha Elayne], singer
and actress (Golden Boy)
(69) - Paul "Bear" Bryant, US football
coach (Alabama Crimson Tide) d.1983
66 - Marty Liquori, US, runner (AAU 3
mile-1979 (13:14.7))
53 - Kristy McNichol, actress (Buddy-Family,
Barbara-Empty Nest)
48 - Harry Connick Jr, singer (We Are in
Love)
(47) - James Thomson, songwriter (Rule
Britannia) d.1748
(47) - O Henry, [William Sydney Porter],
American short story writer d. 1910
(44) - David Herbert Lawrence, poet/writer
(Lady Chatterley's Lover) d. 1930
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Historical
Obits Today
Max
Fleischer, American animator (Popeye)-1972@89
Jessica
Tandy, actress (Driving Miss Daisy)-1994@85
Chris
Schenkel, American sportscaster-2005@82
Kim
Hunter, American actress-2002@79
Nikita
Khrushchev, heart attack-1971@77
Lorne
Greene, actor (Bonanza), pneumonia-1987@72
Johnny
Unitas, American football player, heart attack-2002@69
John Ritter
,
American actor (3’s Company), heart disease-2003@54
Peter
Tosh, reggae singer, shot-1987@42
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Depressed circus entertainer =Down Clown
Not living center of a pencil = Dead Lead
Cool film= Groovy Movie
Not soft protector= Hard Guard
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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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