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Almanac: Week: 44 \ Day: 305
November
Averages: 51° \ 22°
Holiday Observances
Today:
All Saint's Day Book
Dia de Los Muertos
Digital Scrapbooking
Day
Extra Mile Day
Give Up Your Shoulds
Day
International Games
Day (Libraries)
Lovers Day
National Authors' Day
National Family
Caregiver Day
National Family
Literacy Day
National Go Cook for
Your Pets Day
Prime Meridian Day
Sadie Hawkins Day
World Vegan Day
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Independence Day
(Antigua-1981-from UK)
Independence Day
(Barbuda-1981-from UK)
Liberty Day (Virgin
Islands-1915- commemorates David Hamilton Jackson and the institution of
Free Press in the Danish West Indies)
Revolution Day
(Algeria-1954-against French)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1512 - Michelangelo's
paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel first exhibited
1604 - William
Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" first presented
1611 - Shakespeare's
romantic comedy "Tempest" 1st presented
1755 - Lisbon
earthquake kills more than 50,000
1800 - John
Adams becomes the first US president to live in White House
1834 - First
published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
1848 - First
US women's medical school opens (Boston)
1867 - "Harper's
Bazaar" publishes
1870 - US
Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
1884 - The
Gaelic Athletic Association is founded to promote Irish sport and games
1896 - First
bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic
1928 - 1st
celebration of Authors' Day
1936 - Benito
Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an
"axis"
1936 - Rodeo Cowboys Association founded
1939 - First
animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1945 – 1st
issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson
1950
- Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Pres Harry Truman at Blair
House
1951 - Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson
1953
1955- KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins
broadcasting
1957 - World longest suspension bridge opens
(Mackinac Straits Mich)
1967 - "Cool
Hand Luke", starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, is released
1968 - Motion Picture Association of America
introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
1972 - 1st
gay theme TV movie - "That Certain Summer"
1982 - Honda becomes the 1st Asian automobile
company to produce cars in the US
2012 - Google's
Gmail becomes the world's most popular email service
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Ah, Halloween! I debated this year about whether or not to
participate. Not that many kids come by, compared to Tuba; it is usually a
little cold and so the door can’t stay open; I’m a tad old for Halloween dress
up. But in the end, I spent the morning decorating the outside and getting
ready for the little tykes. Should be fun. Even got the music ready.
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Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Most
people by now have me
Many people have paid much to get rid of me
And many of the same have paid to get me
I am constantly in your business and sometimes make things very easy
Other times I am a pest and ruin most things I touch
What am I?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Brief
History…
The US
Won the Cuba Missile Crisis Standoff.
The 1962 crisis that almost developed into a nuclear war is
usually portrayed as a great American victory. We looked the Soviets in
the eye and they blinked. Actually, the Soviets had sent nuclear missiles
to Cuba in response to the US basing similar nuclear missiles in Turkey.
The Soviets did not agree to remove the nukes until the US removed the nukes
from Turkey, thus, the Soviets actually achieved their goal, not the other way
around. The part about the US backing down on deployment of nukes to
Turkey is usually ignored in American sources.
Educator’s
Answers…
“Why do you make them read so much and write so many essays? Why
do you give such hard grades?”
Because it’s my job. Because my students are here to learn.
Because they’ll need these skills to survive in the world. How many reasons do
you need?
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS
AGO
The City Council has OK'd the lease for the nonprofit company
that has taken over management of Buffalo Park and Game Preserve. The city will
receive $1 per month rent, maintain the roads and provide 1,000 gallons of
water daily. There were 47,000 visitors during the first full season and it is
to remain open all winter. There are enough funds to feed the 200 animals. BPK
Pres. James Potter.
Harper’s
Index…
Factor by which a US woman is more likely than a US man to answer ‘I
don’t know’ to a poll question: 1:5
Law
Facts…
-In Georgia, US, members of the State Assembly cannot be ticketed
for speeding while the State Assembly is in session.
-In Georgia, US, donkeys may not be kept in bathtubs.
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
73—the percentage of the vote that the government of Azerbaijan
stated the president had received during the past election. Note: the results
were accidentally leaked a day before anyone voted.
Religious
Facts…
-In a century's time Islam had converted one-third of the world.
-The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
Rules of
Thumb…
ESTIMATING
THE COST OF A DOCTOR VISIT
The fee for a
routine office visit is the same price as a first-class postage stamp
multiplied by 100.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The
first fielding gloves in baseball were flesh-colored so that fans wouldn't
notice that the players were wearing them.
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Joke-of-the-day
A skeleton walks down empty Main Street.
Suddenly he sees another skeleton carrying a gravestone.
"Hey, what are you doing?”
The other skeleton answers "Just
strolling",
"Why do have the gravestone,
buddy?",
"Because I always want to have some ID”.
Yep, It
Really Happened
Does the terror group ISIS have no scruples? Is there no depth of
depravity to which they will not sink? Apparently not, because one of their
agents has committed a crime against nature right here on our soil.
The whole sordid affair began when Connecticut resident Alice Woodruff noticed
a commotion in her yard. When she went to investigate she found her neighbor
rolling around naked with her pit bull.
"I thought my dog had killed somebody because I saw a man underneath
her," Woodruff explained to local news. "I started to scream 'get off
my dog, you have to get out of here.' He said, 'No, today is the day we are
going to spend the rest of our lives together.'"
As it turned out, it was the intruder who was attacking the dog, with his
genitals.
Woodruff said the man appeared mentally ill as he was telling her that the
terror group ISIS sent him.
"He pranced through the yard naked, yelling 'this is our day and you have
to prosper in it,'" Woodruff said. "I ran in, got my gun out of the
bedroom and showed him the clip went in, but I always kept the gun at my side
while I was talking to him. He kept saying this is the plan, that we were going
to die today in a massacre. He didn't seem to care that I had the gun, and I
kept it down. Then I gave him a warning and shot the gun to the right into the
dirt."
"He put his arms out and started walking toward me, telling me to kill
him, but to know that as soon as I kill him that we were going to die,"
Woodruff said. "Honestly, the whole time I thought there was a bomb or gun
and he was going to take it out and do a massacre."
I'm not sure where Ms. Woodruff thought he was keeping a bomb if he was
completely naked.
The Waterbury Police Department is investigating the incident. Authorities plan
to charge him with cruelty to an animal, sexual assault and breach of peace.
The man is currently hospitalized.
Somewhat
Useless Information
-Halloween,
also known as All Hallows' Eve, can be traced back about 2,000 years to a
pre-Christian Celtic festival held around Nov. 1 called Samhain (pronounced
"sah-win"), which means "summer's end" in Gaelic.
-Samhain was an annual communal meeting at the end of the harvest year, a time
to gather resources for the winter months and bring animals back from the
pastures.
-The tradition of dressing in costumes and trick-or-treating may go back to the
practice of "mumming" and "guising," in which people would
disguise themselves and go door-to-door, asking for food. The practice may also
be related to the medieval custom of "souling" in Britain and
Ireland, when poor people would knock on doors on Hallowmas (Nov. 1), asking
for food in exchange for prayers for the dead.
-Trick-or-treating didn't start in the United States until World War II, but American
kids were known to go out on Thanksgiving and ask for food - a practice known
as Thanksgiving begging.
-Apples are associated with Halloween, both as a treat and in the game of
bobbing for apples, a game that since the colonial era in America was used for
fortune-telling. Legend has it that the first person to pluck an apple from the
water-filled bucket without using his or her hands would be the first to marry.
-Another Halloween ritual involved looking in a mirror at midnight by
candlelight, for a future husband's face was said to appear. (A scary variation
of this later became the "Bloody Mary" ritual familiar to many
schoolgirls.)
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Month:
A
Adopt A
Senior Pet Month
Adopt A
Turkey Month
American
& National Diabetes Month
American
Indian Heritage Month
Aviation
History Month
B
Banana
Pudding Lovers Month
D
Diabetic
Eye Disease Month
E
Epilepsy
Awareness Month
F
Family
Stories Month
G
Gluten-Free
Diet Awareness Month
H
Historic
Bridge Awareness Month
L
Lung
Cancer Awareness Month
M
Manatee
Awareness Month
Movember
Military
Family Appreciation Month
N
National
Adoption Month
National
PPSI AIDS Awareness Month
National
Alzheimer's Disease Month
National
COPD Month
National
Diabetes Month
National
Entrepreneurship Month
National
Family Caregivers Month
National
Georgia Pecan Month
National
Healthy Skin Month
National
Home Care & Hospice Month
National
Impotency Month
National Inspirational
Role Models Month
National
Memoir Writing Month
National
Long-term Care Awareness Month
National
Marrow Awareness Month
National
Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Awareness & Appreciation Month
National
Native American Heritage Month
National Family
Literacy Month
National
Novel Writing Month
National
Peanut Butter Lovers Month
National
Pet Cancer Awareness Month
National
Pomegranate Month
National
PPSI Aids Awareness Month
National
Runaway Prevention Month
National
Scholarship Month
NoSHAVEmber
(US -Beard Month or Movember; Australia - Moustache Month)
P
Pancreatic
Cancer Awareness Month
Pet
Diabetes Month
Picture
Book Month
Prematurity
Awareness Month
PTA
Healthy Lifestyles Month
S
Stomach
Cancer Awareness Month
Sweet
Potato Awareness Month
T
Teff and
Millet Month
V
Vegan
Month
W
Worldwide
Bereaved Siblings Month
World
Sponge Month
Observances
This Week:
National Fig Week: 1-7
National Patient Accessibility Week: 1-7
World Communication Week: 1-7
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Today’s
Events through History
1787 – 1st
free school in NYC (African Free School) opens
1910 – 1st
issue of "Crisis" published by editor W.E.B. Du Bois
1921 - National Birth
Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth
Control League
1948 - Mao's
Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria
1954 - General Fulgencio
Batista elected President of Cuba
1966 - Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young
Award winner
1977 - US President Jimmy Carter raises minimum
wages of $2.30 to $3.35
1998 - The European Court of Human Rights is
instituted
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Birthday’s
Today
Betsy
Palmer, actress (Mr Roberts, Friday the 13th) is 88
Gary
Player, Johannesburg, South African PGA golfer (Brit Open-1959, 68, 74) is
79
Bill
Anderson, country singer (Still, From This Pen) is 77
Barbara
Bosson, actor (Fay-Hill St Blues, Hooperman) is 75
Larry
Flynt, magazine publisher (Hustler) is 72
Lyle
Lovett, country singer (God Will) is 57
Fernando
Valenzuela, Navajua Mexico, pitcher (Dodgers, Padres) is 54
Jenny
McCarthy, playmate host (The View) is 42
Remembered
for being born today
Ivan
Ivanovich Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (1727-1797)
Stephen
Crane, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage), (1871-1900)
Barry
Sadler, American singer (1940-1989)
Marcia
Wallace, actress (Carol-Bob Newhart Show), (1942-2013)
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Historical
Obits Today
Paul
Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General (Enola Gay), 2007, @92
Ezra
Loomis Pound, US poet (Throne), 1972, @ 87
Skitch
Henderson, English-born bandleader, 2005, @87
Mamie
Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States, 1979, @82
George
Sheehan, cardiologist/marathoner, cancer, 1993, @74
Phil
Silvers, comedic actor (Sgt Bilko), in his sleep, 1985, @73
Dale
Carnegie, American writer, 1955, @66
Walter
Payton, Hall of Fame Running Back, bile duct cancer, 1999 @45
Man o'
War, American thoroughbred racehorse, 1947, @30
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Brain Teasers Answers
A mouse!
People call exterminators to get rid of them.
People buy them for their computers.
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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…§
