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Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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Bone and Joint Health National
Awareness Week: 12-20 Link |
Spiritual Care Week: 16-22 |
Daily Observations
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Conflict Resolution Day Link |
International Credit Union Day Link |
Today’s Thoughts
So hard to believe it is late
October…so warm and nice.
Looks like Jim Jordon will
push for temporary speaker until January. He says it’s only a pause. During
that time, he hopes to garner more votes. I’m hoping for a New Year Miracle
that will bring sanity back to the House.
I had a great lunch with Andy
and Faith. La Fonda is the place. Good food. Great conversations. And I did it
all without a cane.
HaPpY BiRtHdAy to my younger
brother.
Enjoy
Beliefs of 60 years
ago… 1960’s
People Believed We'd Have A
Shorter Work Week By Now
Numerous predictions were made
about the future six decades ago, but unfortunately, they did not materialize.
Among these was the notion that by the 21st century, Americans would enjoy
shorter workweeks of 30 hours and indulge in month-long vacations. Such a
scenario would have been quite desirable.
Random Trivia…
Count Dracula was inspired by a real person.
The titular Count was based on none other than history’s own Vlad the Impaler.
As the monarch of Wallachia, a Romanian region of Transylvania, Vlad soon made
a fearsome reputation for himself by killing and impaling the still-twitching
bodies of his enemies on long sticks which he planted outside his castle.
The World War II army of the US is the biggest army in history.
Due in part to the surge of American patriotism and because of conscription,
the US Army numbered 12,000,000 soldiers by the end of the war in 1945.Check out...
Historic Events
1955 – The Return of The King,
the third book of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, was released.
1973 – Australia’s Sydney
Opera House opened.
1982 – 340 fans were killed at
a game between the Soviet and Dutch soccer teams. Details were not released
until years later
Birthdays with some quotes
@93 – Arlene
Francis, American actress and television personality (d. 2001)
@85 – Joyce
Brothers, American psychologist and author (d. 2013)
@84 – Grandpa Jones,
American singer-songwriter and banjo player (d. 1998)
“The banjo am the instrument
for me.”
@81 – Art Buchwald,
American journalist (d. 2007)
“Whether it’s the best of
times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.”
@73 – Bela Lugosi (Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó), Hungarian-American actor (d. 1956; heart attack)
“I have never met a vampire
personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.”
@66 – Tom Petty,
American singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
@69 – Jerry Orbach,
American actor, and singer (d. 2004; cancer)
65 – Viggo Mortensen,
American-Danish actor
@63 – Mickey Mantle,
Baseball star (d. 1995)
52 – Snoop Dogg, American
rapper
“U don’t know where u goin’
unless u know where u come from.”
@50 – Jelly Roll
Morton, pianist, composer, bandleader (d. 1941; respiratory failure)
“It is evidently known, beyond
contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened
to be the creator in the year 1902.”
44 – John Krasinski, American
actor
35 – Candice Swanepoel, South
African supermodel
…The End for today…
