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Sept 14, 2015
Almanac:
Week: 38 \ Day: 257
September
Averages: 74°\42°
86004
Today: H 79° \ L 51° Average
Sky Cover: 65%
Wind
ave: 4mph\Gusts: 19mph
Ave.
High: 74° Record High: 88°[2007]
Ave. Low: 42° Record Low: 29°[1988]
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Observances
Today:
National Boss/Employee Exchange Day
World Maritime Day
/\
Battle
of San Jacinto Day (Nicaragua)
Rosh Hashannah (Jewish)
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
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1777 - Spanish
Governor Galvez issues an act, in New Orleans. He orders the military, and
Spanish subjects to "respect the rights of these Indians in the lands they
occupy and to protect them in the possession thereof."
1814 - Francis Scott Key inspired to write the poem
"Defence of Fort M'Henry" words of which later become lyrics of
"Star-Spangled Banner"
1847 - US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico
City (halls of Montezuma)
1899 - Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality
in the US (NY)
1899 - Tucson Grays were
scheduled to play a baseball game against a Los Angeles team. The Grays were
not in a regular league, but played games with teams from Arizona towns and
military bases as well as the occasional out-of-town game.
1901 - Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as
President, the youngest man to serve as US President after William
McKinley finally dies after an anarchist shoots him in Buffalo
1940 - Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription
bill (draft law)
1948 - Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco
Star Theater
1954
- Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50
million damage
1968 - 1st broadcast of "60 Minutes" on
CBS-TV
1992 - 1st subway car completed to be exported from
US (to Taiwan)
2001 - Historic National Prayer Service held at
Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A
similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever
held in the nation's capital.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1741 - George Frideric Handel finishes
"Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice Sunday with great Sunday morning talk shows; football; clouds
returning to restart the monsoon. Nice!
As I watch the Sunday morning news shows I am dumfounded by the
number of American citizens who think that they can work or be elected to a
government position and also believe they don’t have to follow the law. I get
that some government officials will refuse to block a law that discriminates
against a group of people…like back in the 1950’s when it was illegal for
Whites and Blacks to marry. Some issued the marriage certificates, which were
declared invalid by the state. In some cases they lost their jobs for issuing
the papers. This is NOT the case in KY. She is using her personal religious
belief to prevent people from getting married.
A few weeks ago I said that Trump was an entertaining person as he
tries to get the GOP nomination. He has certainly shaken things up over on that
side. Now I listen and wonder if, not when, he will crash and fall out of the picture.
I am also beginning to wonder if this is the greatest political coup
orchestrated by the Dems.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
If
O2 is O=O.
H2O is H-O-H,
and CO2 is O=C=O,
then what might this represent?
Hint
Would
MQ be M-Q or M=Q?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
India's richest person, Mukesh Ambani, built a
$1 billion home. It has 27 habitable floors, including six parking floors with
a capacity to hold up to 168 cars. 600 staff maintain the home.
A single speck of dust is half way in size
between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
Our school is burgeoning. There were 6,786 children on the first
day of school and more are expected. Superintendent Sturgeon Cromer.
There have been seven children bitten as well as several fights by
dogs who have followed their own children to school. Charles Pouquette,
Director of the Humane Society asks that parents please make a conscientious
effort to keep their dogs at home.
Early Tuesday morning there was a blaze in Southwest Forest
Industries' old storage shed. The cause is under investigation.
At the Orpheum this week, “The Cross-eyed Lion.”
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…Harper’s
Index…
7 – number of
US drug-enforcement agents who have admitted to attending sex parties hosted by
Columbian drug cartels
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @michaelchristopherbrown. The East River Ferry
headed toward the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on September 11,
2015. The Tribute in Light art installation, next to the site of the World
Trade Center, consists of 88 searchlights which form two vertical columns of
light in remembrance of the September 11 attacks.
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…Foreigners
Find These American Customs Offensive…
21. Asking certain questions
Asking "what do you do" is a common American icebreaker,
but is often considered insulting, especially in socialist countries like the
Netherlands, where people feel that it's a way of pigeonholing them, and of
being classist. You might as well just ask someone you just met what their
salary is.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Dear Ann Landers (aka Esther Lederer) and Dear Abbey (aka Pauline
Phillips) were not only sisters but twin sisters.
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2
jokes for the day
Q: What do you call a laughing motorcycle?
A: A Yamahahaha
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Married couples, both 60 years old, were
celebrating their 35th anniversary.
During their party, a fairy appeared to congratulate them and grant them each
one a wish.
The wife wanted to travel around the world.
The fairy waved her wand and poof -- the wife had tickets in her hand for a
world cruise.
Next, the fairy asked the husband what he wanted.
He said, "I wish I had a wife 30 years younger than me."
So the fairy picked up her wand and poof -- the husband was 90.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*-- Police Pull Loaded Gun from Woman's Vagina --*
If this story sounds familiar to regular Bizarre News readers, it
is because almost the exact same thing happened a couple of years ago. police
in Waco, TX pulled a loaded handgun from a woman's vagina after a traffic stop
led to a drug bust, officials said. During the stop, officers found 2.7 grams
of methamphetamine and arrested the driver. While being transported to jail,
the suspect reportedly told an officer she had a Smith and Wesson .22-caliber
semiautomatic handgun lodged inside her vagina. A female officer who retrieved
the gun reported that the weapon had a round chambered and a full magazine of
bullets. The woman was charged with unlawfully carrying a weapon. I would have
to look it up, but if Texas is a concealed carry state she probably would have
gotten away with it. You can't get much more concealed than that. Or maybe it
was a rape prevention device?
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Compounds in cannabis have been shown
to kill various types of cancer cells (including lung cancer), according to
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
1. Cyrus actually got
her acting start on her father’s Christian medical drama, Doc. Her first
feature film role came in 2003, when she made a cameo appearance in Big Fish.
She landed her breakout role on Disney’s Hannah Montana in 2006, but her father
expressed his trepidation about her entering show business.
2. When Cyrus started
cultivating a new, edgier persona in 2013, she hired Britney Spears’s previous
manager, Larry Rudolph. She then finished her album deal with Disney’s
Hollywood Records and signed with RCA Records, which would release her fourth studio
album, Bangerz.
3. Miley Cyrus’s
godmother is Dolly Parton.
4. Her infamous
2013 VMA performance was, apparently, far more symbolic than most viewers may
have realized. She recently told the New York Times that it was all about
her self-exploration period of life.
5. Cyrus
reportedly tattooed an equals sign on her ring finger in support of gay
marriage. In a recent interview, Cyrus told British Elle that she identifies as
pansexual.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(87) - Hal Wallis, movie producer (Maltese
Falcon, Barefoot in the Park) d,1986
(86) - Ivan Pavlov, Russia, pioneer in
psychology (Nobel 1904) d.1936
(86) - Margaret Sanger, feminist/nurse/birth
control proponent d.1966
(85) - Clayton Moore, American actor (Lone
Ranger) d. 1999
79 - Walter Koenig, actor (Checkov-Star Trek)
71 - Joey Heatherton, Rockville Center NY,
dancer/actress (Bluebeard)
68 - Jon "Bowser" Bauman, singer (Sha
Na Na)
(68) - Albert Shanker, American labor leader
(Amer Fed of Teachers) d.1997
68 - Sam Neill, British-born New Zealand
actor (Jurassic Park, Dead Calm, Piano), born in Omagh, Northern Ireland
53- Robert Herjavec, Croatian
Entrepreneur (Shark Tank)
51 - Faith Ford, Louisiana, actress (Corky-Murphy
Brown)
50 - Dmitry Medvedev, Leningrad politician
(President\Prime Minister of Russia)
(27) - Amy Winehouse, Southgate, London,
singer d. 2011
26 - Jesse James,
American actor
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Historical
Obits Today
Jean [Giovanni] D Cassini, Italian/French
astronomer-1712@87
Aaron
Burr, 3rd VP-1836@80
Beah
Richards, American actress (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner)-2000@80
Henry
Gibson, American actor and songwriter (Laugh In),cancer-2009@73
Jody
Powell, press secretary to Jimmy Carter, heart attack-2009@65
James
Fenimore Cooper, author (Last of Mohicans), dropsy-1851@61
Juliet
Prowse, actress/dancer (Mona McCluskey), cancer-1996@59
Patrick
Swayze, American actor, dancer, and songwriter, cancer-2009@57
Pierre
Vernier, French mathematician and inventor of the vernier caliper used
for taking accurate measurements-1637@57
Grace
Kelly, princess of Monaco, car crash-1982@52
Isadora
Duncan, scarf entangled in her car's wheel-1927@50
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Brain
Teasers Answers
"Bond, James Bond."
In chemistry, particularly organic chemistry, molecules are drawn using - and =
to represent covalent bonds between the atoms making a molecule. (There are
triple bonds too, but I can't represent those using the basic character set). A
covalent bond has both atoms sharing an electron pair, or sharing two electron
pairs in a double bond. In the initial examples, there are representations of
oxygen, water and carbon dioxide molecules. The advantage in organic chemistry,
for these representations, is that larger and larger molecules could have the
same atoms but in different configurations, (such as ketones and aldehydes, for
example).
The title is a quote from Bond in Dr No, referring to the age of the champagne
bottle he was defending himself with. The hint is simply a reference to Bond's
boss, M, and the research and development man, Q.
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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…▲
