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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 291
/ Week: 42
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Bridge Day-over water; not the
card game
Hard Boiled Guy/Girl Day
International
Newspaper Carrier Day
National Chocolate
Cupcake Day
No Beard Day
Sweetest Day
World Menopause Day
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Alaska Day (Alaska-transfer of land from
Russia to US-1867)
Independence Day
(Azerbaijan-1991
from Soviet Union)
Persons Day (Canada-1929 court case that
allows women to serve in Senate)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1009 - The
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed
by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations
down to bedrock.
1386 - Opening
of the University of Heidelberg
1648 - 1st
labor organization forms in North American colonies (Boston Shoemakers)
1767 - Boundary
between MD & PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon
1776 - In
a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"
1867 - US
takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)
1878 - Edison
makes electricity available for household use
1889 - 1st
all NYC World Series NY Giants (NL) play Bkln (AA)
1892 - 1st
commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)
1898 - American
flag raised in Puerto Rico
1910 - E.M.
(Edward) Forster publishes "Howards End"
1922 - British Broadcasting Company (BBC) founded (later
called British Broadcasting Corporation)
1945 - Nazi
war crime trial opens in Nuremberg
1953 - Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL
quarterback in modern times
1954 - Texas Instruments Inc. announces the first
transistor radio
1967 - Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send
data back from Venus
1967 - Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is
released
1968 - Bob
Beamon of USA sets long jump record (29 ft. 2½ in.) in Mexico City
1968 - Circus
Circus opens in Las Vegas
1968 - US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith
& John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during
victory ceremony
1969 - Federal
government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners
1992 - 1st non-US team to win a World Series Game; Toronto
5, Atlanta 4
2007 - After
8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Because we sit in the middle of a National Forest, we are the
subject of controlled burns, which means that with fall conditions, there are
lots of controlled burns around. The current burn, about 15 miles from me is
providing us with smoke. To add to that, there is a front here that makes
things cloudy. Can’t tell the smoke from the clouds, except in the early
morning…and of course the smoke smell. We had worse smoke this summer, but we
certainly know there is a burn somewhere.
Two days ago I decided to watch a Netflix movie, only to discover
that my TV was not recognizing the Roku or the Roku wasn’t working. I played
around a little but couldn’t get it to work. Today I decided was the day to
make it work. There is a reset button on the Roku, but I was afraid to push it,
for fear that it would erase all my information. With little planned for today,
I decided to try the reset button, figuring I would have time to reprogram
everything. Well, all the reset button does is reset the Roku stick and after
pushing it, everything is working again. Good lesson I guess. Ready for a
weekend of movies.
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Game Center (answers at
the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
What
is this rebus?
NOSE
your money
CHIN
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Brain
Facts…
Caffeine boosts memory.
Blueberry juice boosts memory.
Children
Facts…
Children's sense of smell is better than adults'.
The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who
lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.
In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes,
usually those of young children while they are asleep.
Computer
Facts…
By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices
connected to the Internet.
MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a
country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
From 1889: The universal opinion of the stockmen of
this section is that prices of beef cattle will advance as winter approaches
and they will realize a good price for their steers.
A defect in the engine in the big mill necessitated the shutting
down of that institution this week. The boys are all taking in the town.
The barn of W. J. Murphy caught fire Tuesday night and but for the
fact that it was very damp and no wind prevailed we might have had a large
conflagration. His loss figures at about $50.
We had several good showers this week. Wednesday we were visited
by a terrific wind and hail storm. It only lasted about 5 minutes, but it blew
down a good number of trees and broke some windows.
Harper’s
Index…
Minimum number of Muslims living in Norilsk, Russia, the sight of
the world’s northernmost mosque: 30,000
Average daily number of daylight hours Norilsk has during Ramadan
this year: 23.8
Law
Facts…
Porn is illegal in the Ukraine, unless it’s prescribed for medical
use.
There’s a law in Canada called the “Apology Act” which prevents
parties from using an apology as a statement of fault in court.
Rules of
Thumb…
SPOTTING A FRACTURE
If you feel nauseous
after injuring an arm or leg, you've probably fractured it.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
In
1972, Nick Nolte was the cover model on the packaging of Clairol's Summer
Blonde hair lightener.
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Joke-of-the-day
Two classmates were chatting in their lunch
break...
"I know how to get money real quick" says one,
” How?"
"Go to your dad and say, "I know the truth" and he'll give you
money"
So the young boy went home and said "dad, I know the truth" and his
dad gave him ten dollars and told him not to tell anyone 'the truth'.
He then went to his mother, " Mom, I know the truth” he said.
"Please don't tell your dad" she said and gave him twenty dollars.
Content with thirty dollars he went outside to go to the arcade and saw the
milkman. "I know the truth,” he shouted out.
The milkman replied "Well come and hug your real father then"
Yep, It
Really Happened
It is a little early for Halloween stories, but this one certainly
qualifies; that is if you consider venomous spiders boiling out of your walls
and ceiling by the thousands terrifying.
A family was driven from their suburban St. Louis home when the spiders started
oozing from the walls.
Brian and Susan Trost bought the $450,000 home overlooking two golf holes at
Whitmoor Country Club and soon afterward started seeing brown recluse spiders
everywhere. Once when showering, Susan dodged a spider as it fell from the
ceiling and washed down the drain.
She told a St. Louis television station the spiders "started bleeding out
of the walls," and at least two pest control companies were unable to
eradicate the infestation.
The couple filed a claim in with their insurance company and a lawsuit against
the home's previous owners for not disclosing the brown recluse problem.
At a civil trial in St. Charles County University of Kansas biology professor
Jamel Sandidge estimated there were between 4,500 and 6,000 spiders in the
home.
The jury awarded the couple slightly more than $472,000, but the former owners
declared bankruptcy, the insurance company still didn't pay anything and the
couple moved out two years ago.
The home, now owned by the Federal National Mortgage Association, was covered
with nine tarps this week and workers filled it with a gas that permeated the
walls to kill the spiders and their eggs.
"There'll be nothing alive in there after this," said Tim McCarthy,
president of the company hired to fix the problem once and for all.
Somewhat
Useless Information
If
you're a comic book fan, you likely already know David Letterman and Stephen
Colbert exist in the Marvel Universe. Letterman appeared as himself in issue
No. 239 of The Avengers which features hero Wonder Man asking his fellow
Avengers to appear with him on Late Night with David Letterman. Colbert
appeared in issue No. 573 of The Amazing Spider-Man.
Former View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck was the fourth to last person voted
off the island during Survivor: The Australian Outback. Hasselbeck used
Filarski, her maiden name, during the show.
Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson wrote a book about becoming an American
citizen. Ferguson is a Scottish immigrant who became an American citizen in
2007. The book, American on Purpose, describes his journey from moving to
America, battling drug addiction and depression, become a TV and film star, and
eventually choosing to become a citizen of the United States.
Johnny Carson secretly wrote jokes for David Letterman. In a January 2005
interview, former Late Show with David Letterman producer Peter Lassally
revealed that the former Tonight Show superstar would send Letterman jokes for
his monologue, well after his retirement and Letterman's move from NBC to CBS.
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno was the first show to air in HD. The show
started broadcasting in HD on April 26, 1999.
Conan O'Brien aired a Claymation version of his Late Night program. The May 15,
2003, show was entirely filmed with animated clay and featured celebrity guests
Johnny Knoxville and Richard Lewis, with musical guest, David Bowie. The
program included a clay version of the opening credits and an animated
audience.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
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Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week
Earth Science Week
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
National Chestnut Week
National Food Bank Week
Teen Read Week
Veterinary Technicians Week
YWCA Week Without Violence
World Rainforest Week
National School Lunch Week
YWCA Week Without Violence
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Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
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Today’s
Events through History
1356 - Basel
earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the
Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland
1685 - French
King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French
Protestants
1962 - Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins
(Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
1973 - Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter,
half-dollar & dollar coin
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Birthday’s
Today
Chuck
Berry, rocker (Roll over Beethoven) is 88
Keith
Jackson, sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Football) is 86
Dawn
Wells, actress (Mary Ann-Gilligan’s Island) is 76
Mike
Ditka, NFL coach/tight-end (NFL rookie year 1961) is 75
Martina
Navratilova, tennis (Wimbledon 1989,79,82-87) is 58
Thomas
Hearns, American boxer is 56
Erin
Moran, actress (Happy Days) is 54
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Brussels Belgian, actor (Kickboxer) is 54
Wynton
Marsalis, jazz trumpeter (Grammy 1983) is 53
Ne-Yo [Shaffer
Chimere Smith, Jr], pop\R&B singer and songwriter is 32
Zac Efron, TV
actor (CSI: Miami, ER), is 27
Remembered
for being born today
Edward
Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (1595-1655)
Pierre
Elliott Trudeau, (L) 15th Canadian PM (1919-2000)
George C.
Scott, actor/director (Patton, Dr. Strangelove) (1927-1999)
Inger
Stevens, Stockholm, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter) (1934-1970)
Peter
Boyle, actor (Everybody Loves Raymond) (1935-2006)
Lee
Harvey Oswald, assassin (JFK), (1939-1963)
Laura
Nyro, Bronx, singer/songwriter (Eli's Coming) (1947-1997)
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Historical
Obits Today
Bess
Truman, 1st lady (1945-53), 1982, @97
Thomas
Alva Edison, inventor, 1931, @84
Tom Foley,
American politician, 2013, @84
Julie
London, American singer and actress, long illness, 2000, @74
Dee Dee
Warwick, American soul singer, long illness, 2008, @63
Walt
Kelly, US comic strip artist (Pogo), long illness, 1973, @60
Margaret
Tudor, Queen of Scotland, palsy, 1541, @51
Jon-Erik
Hexum, actor (Bear), gun loaded with blanks, 1984, @26
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Brain Teasers Answers
Put your money where your
mouth is.
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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 contains mistakes and sadly once 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.
§…And That Is All for Now…§
