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Oct.
29, 2019 Week: 44 Day: 302
86004: H 37° \ L 23° \ Average Sky
Cover: 5%
Nearest
active fire: 97mi. Nearest lightning: 1383mi
Wind: 5mph\Gusts:
15mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 72°[2008] Record Low: 9°[1971]
Oct.
Averages: 63°\32°
( 4 days with moisture)
Today’s Quote
Humanity is acquiring
all the right technology
for all the wrong
reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Random Tidbits
It's
October, which means that everything 'pumpkin' is the thing. Pumpkin lattes,
pumpkin donuts, pumpkin scented candles... you name it!
The
word pumpkin showed up for the first time in the fairy tale Cinderella. A
French explorer in 1584 first called them "gros melons," which
translates into Latin as "pepon," which means large melon. It wasn't
until the 17th century that they were first referred to as pumpkins.
Observances This Week
23-31
24-30
Disarmament Week
24-31
Prescription Errors Education
& Awareness Week
25-11/11
World Origami Days
25-31
International Magic Week
27-11/2
Observances for Today
National Cat Day Link
Islam: Rabi'-al-Awwal Link
My Rambling Thoughts
Monday is pretty chilly here. The wind gusts aren’t helping
either. When I looked outside around 6am there was frost on the windshields. I
made a quick trip to Home Depot around 10am and it was still pretty chilly. Tuba and Tonalea (about 5000') got some snow, but no snow here, yet.
The fires in California are devastating. The beauty of the
trees is being overshadowed by the hundreds of homes that are lost.
The recent attack that ended in the killing of the ISIS
leader was nicknamed Operation Kayla Mueller. She had been captured, tortured,
and later killed by ISIS a few years ago. She grew up in Prescott, AZ, and
attended college here in Flagstaff.
A couple of my Tuba friends were out elk hunting this past
week. I was hoping for some elk steaks but alas, no success on their hunt.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer
at the bottom of this page
Your parents have six sons including you and
each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?
Historical Events
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded for conspiring
against James I of England.
1675
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for
integral, helping discover integral and differential calculus
1886 - The first ticker tape parade took place in New York
City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets after
the Statue of Liberty was dedicated.
1888 - The Convention of Constantinople was signed,
guaranteeing maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
1929 - "Black Tuesday" - The New York Stock
Exchange crashed.
1955 - #1 Hit: Roger Williams - Autumn
Leaves
1958
Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
1966 - #1 Hit: Question Mark & the
Mysterians - 96 Tears
1967 - Montreal's World Fair - Expo 67 closed, with over 50
million visitors.
1971 - Rock Guitarist Duane Allman died in a motorcycle
accident.
1983 - #1 Hit: Kenny Rogers with Dolly
Parton - Islands in the Stream
1993- The very first "Got Milk?" commercial was
broadcast. It was directed by Michael Bay.
1998 - The Gothenburg discotheque fire in Sweden killed 63
students and injured 200 more.
1998 - Space Shuttle Discovery took off with 77-year old
John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
2004
Arabic news network, Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin
Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the
September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election
2012 - Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast of the United
States, killing 148 people directly and 138 in the aftermath.
2018 World Scrabble Championship won for the fourth time by
New Zealand Malaysian Nigel Richards with the word "groutier"
(bad-tempered)
2018 New research says cacao tree first used in Ecuador by
Mayo Chinchipe culture, 5000 years ago, not in central America as previously
thought
Birthdays Today
Neal Hefti, trumpeter, songwriter (Batman-TV series (86)
Richard Dreyfuss, actor (72)
[Lucy] Kate Jackson, actor, producer, director
(71)
Dan Castellaneta, voice actor [Homer Simpson] (62)
Fanny Brice, Fania Borach, comedian, singer,
actress
(d. 1951 @59; stroke)
Bob Ross, TV artist
(d. 1995 @52; lymphoma)
Winona Ryder, movie actor (48)
Puzzle answer:
Nine. Two parents, six sons, and one daughter.
All of them have one sister (not six sisters).
