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Today’s Historical Highlights
1672: 1st copyright law
enacted by Massachusetts
1718: James Puckle, a London
lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun
1862: Department of
Agriculture created
1918: 1st airmail postal
service (NY, Phila & Wash DC)
1934: Dept of Justice offers
$25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
1942: Gasoline 1st rationed in
US (17 Eastern States)
1948: Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq &
Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel
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Free Rambling
Thoughts
A little windy but a
really nice day. Sometime during the night my bedroom screen blew off and
landed on my deck. Quite a little shock when I was opening the window this
morning with no screen. Easily fixed. I was out and about most of the morning,
just enjoying our great weather.
Anderson Cooper of CNN
did an amazing story on what is happening in Syria and Turkey. Thousands of
refugees have fled to Turkey. To slow them down, the Syrian Army has placed
land mines along the trails used to cross the border. Young Syrian men with no
training in explosives are searching to the mines and taking them off the
trails. Some are successful, others are not and loose feet, legs, arms. So sad.
It appears the regions other governments are waiting for ‘someone else’ to step
in and stop this.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A close up
picture of what?
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NPR Sunday Puzzle
Every answer is a word or
familiar phrase of no more than 12 letters. The word contains at least four
T's.
For example: A German
city where the philosopher Hegel lived. Answer: Stuttgart
1.
A snitch:
2.
A Coke V Pepsi competition:
3.
An Oscar prize:
4.
Stuff put in the bottom of a cat box to absorb odors:
5.
Ice cream containing many kinds of fruit:
6.
Native people of Namibia known for their fierceness:
7.
Ready for some action, as on a date:
8.
Italian painter of the Renaissance:
9.
Image once seen on TV after a station went off the air:
10.
perfect vision:
11.
See-saw:
Riddle of the day
What goes round and round the wood but never goes into the wood?
Anagram: unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s Index
Minimum number of US colleges that offer cources in unmanned-drone operations: 5
Found on You Tube
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
An elderly couple stood before the family court judge after a long divorce trial. The judge asked why they wanted a divorce after having been married for nearly 70 years.
They answered:" We wanted to wait, till after the kids had died".
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guessNo matter how simple, all DIY plumbing projects will require 3 trips to the hardware store.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
Lewiston, Idaho (AP) --A man says he reached down to pick up a stick lying in the gardening aisle of a Wal-Mart in Idaho, only to discover that it was a rattlesnake that then bit his hand.Mica Craig says he was shopping in the outdoor garden department of a Lewiston store when he was bitten Saturday. The 47-year-old man from Clarkston, Wash., says it latched onto his hand and that he screamed and managed to shake loose the snake and stomped it to death.The Lewiston Tribune (http://bit.ly/J4pfe5 ) reports a bystander drove Craig to a local emergency room. Craig says he was treated with six bags of anti-venom and was told that his hand could be permanently disfigured.
Somewhat Useless
Information
Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
Calendar Information
…Happening This Week:
10-16
Universal Family Week
12-19
National Tourism Week
National Nursing Home Week
Reading is Fun Week
Salute to Moms 35+ Week
National Return To Work Week
National Women's Health Week
American Craft Beer Week
National Bike to Work Week
National Etiquette Week
National Hospital Week
15-21
National Dog Bite Prevention Week
National Educational Bosses' Week
National New Friends, Old Friends Week
National Police Week
National Transportation Week
World Trade Week
EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Week
Today Is
Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season begins
International Day of Families
National Chocolate Chip Day
National Safety Dose Day
Nylon Stockings Day
Peace Officer Memorial Day
Straw Hat Day
UN International Day of Families
Japan: Hollyhock Festival
Mexico: San Isidoro Day
Paraguay: Independence Day (1811 from Spain)
Mexico: San Isidoro Day
Paraguay: Independence Day (1811 from Spain)
Today’s Other Events
Before 1000CE
756: Abd-al-Rahman I becomes
emir of Cordova Spain
à
1200’s
1252: Pope Innocent IV issues
the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of
heretics in the Medieval Inquisition
à
1600’s
1602: Cape Cod discovered by
English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1700’s
1716: French commander Bienville
sends three Natchez Indians to their village to bring back the head of a Chief,
Oyelape, who ordered the killings of five Frenchmen. Bienville holds several
other Natchez as hostages. From "friendly" Tonica Indians, Bienville
learns that the Natchez are planning an attack on his makeshift fort on an
island in the Mississippi River.
1791: Maximilien Robespierre
proposes the Self-denying Ordinance
1800’s
1846: A treaty is signed by
Texas Governor Pierce Butler, and Colonel M.G. Lewis (Meriwether Lewis'
brother), and sixty-three Indians of the Aionai, Anadarko, Caddo, Comanche,
Kichai (Keehy), Lepan (Apache), Longwha, Tahuacarro (Tahwacarro), Tonkawa,
Waco, and Wichita tribes. It is ratified on February 15, 1847, and signed by
President Polk on March 8, 1847
1869: National Woman Suffrage
Association forms
1900’s
1905: Las Vegas Nevada founded
1915: A T & T becomes 1st corporation
to have 1 million stockholders
1918: Washington Senator
Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game
1919: Brooklyn Dodgers score
10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0
1933: 1st voice amplification
system to be used in US Senate
1940: McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San
Bernardino, California
1944: Eisenhower, Montgomery,
Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan
1970: Beatles' last LP,
"Let It Be," is released in US
1972: George Wallace shot & left paralyzed by
Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md
1972: The island of Okinawa,
under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese
control
1988: Moscow began withdrawing
its 115,000 troops in Afghanistan
2000’s
2008: California becomes
the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage
after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional
2010: Jessica Watson becomes
the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo
Today’s Birthdays
Remembered for being born on this day
Pierre Curie, France,
physicist (Nobel 1903) in 1859
Williamina Fleming,
Scottish-born astronomer in 1857
Katherine Anne Porter,
US, novelist (Ship of Fools) in 1890
Chief Nipo T Strongheart,
Yakima, US Indian actor (Pony Soldier) in 1891
Johnny Walker (Badruddin
Jamaluddin Kazi), Indian actor in 1923
In their 70’s
In their 60’s
Miruts Yifter, Ethiopia,
5K/10K runner (Olympic-gold-1980) is 68
In their 50’s
George Brett, WV, KC
Royal 3rd baseman (1980 AL MVP) is 59
In their 40’s
David Charvet, actor (Baywatch, Melrose Place) is 40
Emmitt Smith, running back
(Dallas Cowboys, 3-time NFL rushing leader) is 43
Today’s Obits
June Carter Cash,
American musician and singer (Wildflower) of complications from
surgery in 2003 at 73
Emily Dickinson, US poet,
dies of Bright's disease in 1886 at 55
Jerry Falwell, American
evangelist dies of respiratory failure in 2007 at 73
Wayman Tisdale, American
basketball player dies of cancer in 2009 at 44
Theodore H White, US
journalist (Making of Pres, Pulitzer), dies from stroke in 1986 at 71
Answers
Brain Game: Close Up
Picture
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Riddle of the day
The bark
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
A snitch: tattletale
2.
A Coke V Pepsi competition: taste test
3.
An Oscar prize: statuette
4.
Stuff put in the bottom of a cat box to absorb odors: kitty litter
5.
Ice cream containing many kinds of fruit: tutti fruiti
6.
Native people of Namibia known for their fierceness: Hottentots
7.
Ready for some action, as on a date: hot to trot
8.
Italian painter of the Renaissance: Tintoretto
9.
Image once seen on TV after a station went off the air: test pattern
10.
perfect vision: twenty-twenty
11.
See-saw: teeter-totter
Anagrams
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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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