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Nov 26, 2017 Week: 48 \ Day: 331
86004 Today: H 69° \ L 32°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave.: 2mph\Gusts: 7mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 70°[1949] Record Low: -8°[1906]
Nov Averages: 50°\23°
Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)
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Quote of the Day
Indecision may or may not be my problem.
Jimmy Buffett
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Observances Today
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Observances This Week
17-26
American Sand Sculpting Competition Link
19-26
National Bible Week
National Game & Puzzle Week
22-28
National Deal Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1700’s
1716 1st lion exhibited in America in Boston
1778 British explorer Captain James Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
1789 1st national Thanksgiving in America
1800’s
1832 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating in New York City with 12 cent fare
1842 The University of Notre Dame is founded
1859 Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published in literary periodical "All the Year Round"
1865 "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is published in America
1867 Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit
1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms
1896 A A Stagg of University of Chicago creates American football huddle
1900’s
1916 Addressing the Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati, US President Woodrow Wilson declares that 'The business of neutrality is over. The nature of modern war leaves no state untouched'
1917 NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands
1922 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt
1924 Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1942 "Casablanca" directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman premieres at Hollywood Theater, NYC (Academy Awards Best Picture 1943)
1952 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil" premieres in Hollywood
1956 "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC
1965 France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Astérix), named after the popular French comic character
1969 Cream's final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
1973 Nixon's personal secretary Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18½ minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1985 Random House buys Richard Nixon’s memoires for $3,000,000
1998 Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
2000’s
2012 The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be $32 Billion
2013 Due to a street tirade captured on video, Alec Baldwin's show "Up Late with Alec Baldwin" is cancelled after only five episodes
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My Rambling Thoughts
Enjoyable Saturday in our small town. Typical fall day.
Getting a little concerned about the Net Neutrality issue at the FCC. Changes could easily mean major changes in the internet. Email could easily begin to have a monthly charge for service. People and groups could pay big bucks to get their ideas/products on the top of searches. Corporate America would make more money. The average citizen would lose. The internet has been fun, open to most, and made information easy to get. Yes, we had to check information to be sure it wasn’t just some idiot’s idea, but everything was there to do just that. With the end of net neutrality, all that information will not be available.
When I was growing up, a tad before the internet, my parents subscribed to both daily papers in Denver. Why, because each paper did have a bias as to what they wrote about. By getting both papers, one in the morning, one in the early evening, more information was available for us to decide. Now the citizens of Denver just have one paper. When I was working on the Rez, there were no daily papers. Then, in Tuba City, we could get the Flagstaff paper daily and soon we could also get the Gallup daily paper. I subscribed to both. The Gallup paper had more Rez news, and the Flag paper kept me up on local news there. Since I went to school in Flag during the summer and spent many a weekend there, it was a good fit. Now, like most of America, I am limited to one paper. I miss having two papers.
Our democracy cannot survive unless the information about the government is easily available to all the voting population.
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Bizarre News
The moral of this story is: never open your door for anybody, ever, for any reason.
Audrey and Edward Cramer, ages 66 and 69, of Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit naming Buffalo Township police and the Nationwide Insurance Co. after the police raided their home.
The Cramers' lawsuit says the incident began when a Nationwide insurance agent, visiting their home for a property damage claim, photographed the hibiscus plants in their backyard and sent them to police.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Butler County Court, alleges Nationwide agent "intentionally photographed the flowering hibiscus plants in such a manner as not to reveal that they had flowers on them so that they would appear to resemble marijuana plants."
Audrey Cramer said three Buffalo Township police officers pulled her out of her home while she was dressed in only her underwear.
"I was not treated as though I was a human being. I was just something they were going to push aside," she reported. "I asked them again if I could put pants on and he told me no and I had to stand out on the porch."
The Cramers said they were handcuffed and forced to sit in a police car for four hours while the officers ransacked their home.
"Sometimes I think they look for a crime where it doesn't exist in order to justify their existence," Edward Cramer said.
The Cramers said they tried telling police the plants were hibiscus, but officers insisted they were marijuana.
The couple said they never received an apology.
"I cannot understand the frame of reference that was on these police officers' minds, what were they thinking," Lindsay said.
The lawsuit, which names the police department, three officers, Nationwide and the agent, is seeking "monetary and compensatory damages" as well as attorneys' fees and court costs.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@87- Ellen G. White,
American religious leader (Seventh-day Adventist Church),
born in Gorham, Maine
(d. 1915)
70’s
@79- Eric Sevareid,
newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
born in Velva ND
(d. 1992)
79- Rich Little,
impressionist/actor (Love on a Rooftop),
born in Ottawa, Canada
78- Tina Turner, [Anna Mae Bullock],
American singer (Proud Mary),
born in Nutbush, Tennessee
@77- Charles M. Schulz,
cartoonist (Peanuts), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
(d. 2000)
@75- William Wilson (Bill), co-founder (alcoholics anonymous),
born in East Dorset, Vermont
(d. 1971)
@74- Karl Ziegler,
German chemist and Nobel Laureate (polymers), born in Helsa, German Empire
(d. 1973)
@73- Willis Carrier,
American engineer (developed modern air conditioning), born in Angola, NY
(d. 1950)
@73- Robert Goulet,
American singer and actor, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts
(d. 2007)
40’s
45- James Dashner,
children’s author
30’s
@36- Bruno Hauptmann,
German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III
(d. 1936)
34- Chris Hughes,
American businessman and co-founder of Facebook, born in Hickory, North Carolina
20’s
28- Robert Raco,
TV actor
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Historical Obits Today
100’s
@115-2008 Edna Parker,
American supercentenarian
70’s
@76-1986 Scatman Crothers,
singer/actor (Shining, Chico & The Man),
lung cancer
@74-1990 David White,
actor (Bewitched),
heart attack
@73-1982 Robert Coote,
actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe),
in sleep
@72-1940 Harold Sidney Harmsworth,
1st Viscount Rothermere, English newspaper (Daily Mail and Daily Mirror)
@71-1885 Thomas Andrews,
Irish chemist and physicist (ozone)
50’s
@55-1689 Marquard Gude,
German archaeologist and classical scholar famous for his collection of Greek and Latin inscriptions
20’s
@29-1943 Edward H "Butch" O'hare,
US pilot/lt-comdr, airport named after him
in battle
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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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