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Today’s “Geez” .
1783 - Annapolis
Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784)
1863 - Patent
granted for a process of making color photographs
1904 - 3rd Olympic
games close in St Louis
1936 - 1st issue of
Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce
1942 - Coast Guard
Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
1964 - Vatican
abolished Latin as official language of Roman Catholic liturgy
1974 - 60 Ethiopia
gov’t officials executed
1992 - 10,000,000th
cellular telephone sold
♪♪ Happy Birthday To:♪♪ .
Free Rambling Thoughts .
It warmed back up in
Flag. Nice to have good weather and be able to run errands with the window open
and the heater off. I wore one of my Ethiopian T-shirts today and several
clerks commented on it.
My brother is almost
ready for his big opening. He now has a like page on Face Book
and soon the website will be up.
Sure is strange to see our family name on such a nice line of furniture. He is
still smiling, so guess it hasn’t taken too much of a toll on him. What a task
he has ahead.
I’m still suffering with
finding the right TV channels since the cable company upgraded. While I have a
bunch of junk in the package, I do have some favorite stations and favorite
shows. I guess I will learn the new channels someday. Thank goodness the main
TV downstairs has a search function to find what I want. I’m too cheap to have
a box on my upstairs TV’s. If a show is not available upstairs I just record it
and watch it later. Most of my TV watching is just for having the noise. Speaking of TV, a new study shows that those
who watch Faux News are less informed than people who don’t watch any news on
TV. Not a surprise to me. I seldom watch their channels and usually do quite well
on Fareed Zakaria’s news quiz each week. What I found most bothersome with the
results of the poll…that Fox News viewers were less likely to know that Egypt
had overthrown its government than those who didn’t watch the news. And they were
more likely to think that Syria had overthrown its government. Uniformed people
vote.
NPR Sunday Puzzle…(answers
at the end of post) .
Name
the well-known island
concealed in consecutive letters of each sentence. For example: "Helga is
a saucy Prussian." The answer: "Cyprus."
1. It was the
defendant I guarded.
2. Listen to Rita’s
maniacal laugh.
3. The plane made a
nice landing.
4. It’s Motrin I’d
add to the shopping list.
5. These are the
decors I could live with.
6. Did the baseball
get a hit I wondered.
7. The german hat
tanked at the fashion show.
8. Conan, tuck
Ethan in bed.
Wuzzles…What concept or
phrase do these suggest? .
Rules of Thumb .
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
- All putts break toward the water because the slope of greens is contoured for drainage.
Hmmmmm .
- Percentage decrease in tweets by US elected officials in the week following ‘Weinergate”: 28
Somewhat Useless
Information .
- The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."
- Parker Brothers once sent an armored car with one million dollars of the MONOPOLY game money to a marathon game in Pittsburgh that had run out of funds.
Yeah, It Really Happened .
MOSCOW - Officials with
the Russian Defense Ministry said all military units are being provided with
badminton equipment to help them sharpen their skills. Alexander Schepelev,
head of physical training for the ministry, said about 10,000 rackets and tens of
thousands of shuttlecocks are being purchased for the units to help soldiers
with their eye muscles, cardiovascular strength and reaction speed, RIA Novosti
reported Monday.
"Badminton is very
useful for every soldier without exception. But it will be particularly useful
for shooters and snipers," Schepelev said.
However, Alexander
Khramchikhin, deputy director of Russia's Institute of Political and Military
Analysis, said playing the sport would likely only benefit soldiers by
providing a way to relieve stress. The move comes after President Dmitry
Medvedev posted a clip to his official blog of a badminton game he played with
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Medvedev said in the clip, which was aimed at
children, the sport "develops your physical form, eye coordination,
accuracy and reactions."
Guffaw…or at least smile
.
He asked for a putter,
then drove three hundred yards onto the green. Then he asked for a driver and
drove the ball to within two feet of the cup. Then he asked for a niblick and
got the ball into the cup.
“Now I’m in trouble,” he
told the caddie.
“Why?”
“I don’t know what club to use to get it out.”
Searchin’ “You Tube” I
found .
Walter Cronkite Presents Life Magazine Photos
Daybook Information .
…Happening This Week:
18-24
National
Farm-City Week
20-26
Better
Conversation Week
Church/State
Separation Week
National
Bible Week
National
Family Week
National
Game & Puzzle Week
Today Is .
Dr. Who Day (1st broadcast-1963)
Fibonacci Day (because the first numbers of the Fibonacci Series are 1, 1, 2, 3. The Fibonacci sequence adds the previous 2 numbers to get the third.)
Fibonacci Day (because the first numbers of the Fibonacci Series are 1, 1, 2, 3. The Fibonacci sequence adds the previous 2 numbers to get the third.)
National
Cashew Day
Tie
One On Day
~*~
Japan:
Labor Thanksgiving Day (an
occasion for commemorating labor and production and giving one another thanks)
Today’s Events
.
Arts
1644 - Areopagitica,
a pamphlet decrying censorship, and written by John Milton is published
1903 - Enrico Caruso
US debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in "Rigoletto"
Athletes
1876 - Columbia,
Harvard & Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Assn
1887 - Notre Dame
loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan
1960 - Dodgers
outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year
1988 - Wayne Gretzky
scores his 600th NHL goal
Business
1889 - Debut of 1st
jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco)
1960 - Tinseltown
dedicated its Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd & Vine St
Education
--
Indigenous People
1868 - Custer and the
Seventh Cavalry leave Camp Supply looking for "hostiles" in the
Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma). There are 800 soldiers who start this
march in a heavy snow storm.
1877 - While authorities
are attempting to arrest an Indian named Naught, who is accused of shooting two
teamsters, other Indians become agitated. One of them shoots Alex Rhoden, who
is walking across the street at the time, in Nalad City, Idaho. This incident
leads to the Bannock War.
Politics [International]
1867 - The
Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England for rescuing two Irish
men from jail.
Politics [US]
1903 - Colorado
Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek
to break up a miners' strike.
1921 - Pres Harding
signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer
or liquor for medicinal purposes
1945 - Most US
wartime rationing of foods, including meat & butter, ends
Religion
1584 - English
parliament throws out Jesuits
1906 - Joseph Smith,
leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy
1971 - China
People's Republic seated in UN Security Council
Science
1334 - St Clemens
Flood: Dike breaks at Flemish/Zeeuwse/Dutch coast
1654 - French
mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences
an intense, mystical vision that marks him for life.
1835 - Henry Burden
patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy NY)
1852 - Just past
midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced (SF, CA) to drop 30' (9m)
1897 - Andrew J
Beard invents "jerry coupler," to connect railroad cars
1897 - Pencil
sharpener patented by J L Love
1948 - Dr Frank G
Back (NYC) patents lens to provide zoom effects
Today’s Birthdays .
Artists: [Authors, Composers]
1883 - Jose Clemente
Orozco, Mexican painter (Epic of Culture in New World)
Athletes
Oscar Robertson, NBA
guard (Cin, Milwaukee, Olympic-gold-1960) is 73
Entertainers [Actors, Singers…]
Miley Cyrus, singer,
actress is 19
Steve Landesberg, comedian/actor
(Barney Miller) is 66
1888 - Harpo Marx,
[Adolph], actor/comedian (Marx brothers)
1917 - George
O'Hanlon, actor (Calvin-Life of Riley, voice of George Jetson)
David Rappaport, actor
is 60
Robin Roberts, American
television reporter is 51
Entrepreneurs & Educators
--
Political Figures
1902 - Aaron Bank,
American OSS officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces
1859 - Billy the
Kid, [William H Bonney], criminal
1943 - Andrew
Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1804 - Franklin
Pierce, 14th Pres (1853-1857)
Scientists & Theologists
1924 - Colin
Turnbull, British anthropologist in Africa: 1st ethnomusicology
expert
Today’s Obits
.
1992 - Ray Acuff,
country singer (Wahbash Cannonball), dies at 89
1872 - Ten Bears
(Parra-Wa-Samen), US poet/Comanche chief, dies at 82
1982 - "Reverend"
Grady Nutt, actor (Hee Haw), dies in plane crash at 47
1902 - Walter Reed,
US bacteriologist (Yellow Fever), dies of ruptured appendix at 51
1995 - Junior
Walker, tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 64
Answers .
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1. It was the
defendant I guarded. ANTIGUA
2. Listen to Rita’s
maniacal laugh. TASMANIA
3. The plane made a
nice landing. ICELAND
4. It’s motrin I’d
add to the shopping list. TRINIDAD
5. These are the
decors I could live with. CORSICA
6. Did the baseball
get a hit I wondered. TAHITI
7. The german hat
tanked at the fashion show. MANHATTAN
8. Conan, tuck
Ethan in bed. NANTUCKET
Wuzzle
Sign on the bottom line
I am ahead of you
Tipsy (tip ‘c’)
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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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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