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Active Fire: 353 miles away Risk of fire: Moderate Nearest Lightning: 666 miles away Oct. Averages: Temps: 64°\32° Moisture: 3 Days |
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Origami Days International
Magic Week |
26-11/1
Kids
Care Week Nuclear
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Beggars' Night |
National Caramel Apple Day Link |
Today’s
Quote
Today’s
Meme
Thoughts
for the day
A cool fall day.
My phlebotomy was successful. It took
over an hour with the poor nurse having to use 5 large syringes to get the
blood. The vacuum bottle was a bust. I’m glad I brought cookies for the nurses
in the infusion room. They were spectacular. My nurse told me she was going to
be sore from the pulling of the syringes. She said her pre-teen boys were
complaining about pain from gym pushups, and now she understands. She had one
hand to hold the needle in and the other to pull the plunger on the syringe at
a pressure enough to get blood, but not too much to collapse the vein. True
dedication.
While I’m cautious, I really want this
election season to end. Commercials are driving me up the wall. Then the
non-stop craziness until Jan. 20th.
Random
Thoughts…
Teller (of the magic act Penn &
Teller) has legally changed his full name to just “Teller” and has a passport
in that name.
The 2nd richest man in history was
Augustus Caesar, with an estimated net worth of about $4.6 Trillion (today’s
dollars, after inflation), about 25% of the world’s economic output then.
Blond hair in humans developed only
11,000 years ago as an evolutionary response to the lack of sunlight in
Northern Europe to enable more Vitamin D synthesis.
The blinking light atop the Capitol
Records Building spells out the word “Hollywood” in Morse code, and has done so
since the building’s opening in 1956.
Ancient
Roman Life
Emperors would show up as
celebrities in Roman baths
It may not be surprising that
all sorts of diseases were easily contracted by Roman baths. However, this
didn’t stop the emperors from going to the baths, where they were treated like celebrities.
It was also a chance to meet people and make yourself known.
The emperors could hire a team of people to take care of all the
work for them. They carried their robes and rubbed olive oil on their skin.
Then, they would use a strigil tool to scrape it off.
Historic
Events
1517 - ccording to tradition, Martin
Luther posted on a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, his Ninety-five
Theses, a manifesto that turned a protest about an indulgence scandal into
the Protestant Reformation.
1968 - U.S. President Lyndon B.
Johnson ordered an end to American bombing in North Vietnam.
1962 - The American psychological
thriller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, a late-career triumph
for both Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, was released in American
theatres.
1941 - After nearly 15 years of work,
the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South
Dakota was completed; the colossal sculpture features the heads of
Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore
Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
1864 - Nevada became the 36th state of the United States.
Birthdays
|
New Zealand director October 31, 1961
Nick
Saban, 73, Football Coach Vanessa
Marano, 32, TV Actress |
Chinese statesman October 31, 1887 - April 5, 1975 @87 - Chiang Kai-shek.
Chinese statesman d. 1975
d. 1821; TB
American actor, director, and producer d. 1991; cancer
d. 2016; heart attack
d. 2021
d. 1988
d. 1977 |
…The End
for today…
