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Almanac: Week: 46 \ Day: 314
November
Averages: 51° \ 22°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Area Code
Day
Forget-Me-Not Day
Guinness World Records Day
Sesame
Street Day
USMC Day-1775
Windows
Day (Microsoft)
World
Orphans Day
World
Science Day for Peace and Development
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1619 - René Descartes has the dreams inspires his
Meditations on First Philosophy
1801 - Kentucky outlaws dueling
1891 - 1st Women's Christian Temperance Union
meeting held (in Boston)
1908 - 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1911 - Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp
(for scholarly & charitable works)
1917 - 41 suffragists are arrested in front of
White House
1919 - 1st observance of National Book Week
1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an
informer to Los Angeles office of the FBI
1950 - Nobel for literature awarded to William
Faulkner
1954 - Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US
flag) dedicated in Arlington
1971 - US table tennis team arrived in China
1975 - UN General Assembly approves resolution
equating Zionism with racism
1982 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened
1983 - Federal government shut down
1991 - Martina Navratilova ties Chris Evert,
157 pro tennis tournament wins
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
I realize that it would be nice to have some/any precipitation in
our mountain town, but these warm, cloudless, beautiful days are very enjoyable.
Watched movies late into the night…thanks Netflix. Got up in time
to watch my Sunday news programs. Not a lot of promising political togetherness
seems to be on the horizon. I saw a post on FB today where a Canadian guy was
reminding the USA how lucky we are to be Americans. Probably not by a Canadian,
but sure makes one think. The main point was how this administration is the
first to have such vile rhetoric about the man in our highest office. Others
have certainly had their share of bad comments over their term, but I for one
am sick and tired of so much negativity coming about our President and his
policies. But then, politics today is tiresome.
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Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
What's
so peculiar about this sentence?
I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting;
nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing
indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications'
incomprehensibleness.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Dog Facts…
—Dogs can make about 100 different facial expressions.
—A man is more likely to get a woman's phone number if he is
accompanied by a dog.
Facebook
Facts…
—The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and
can actually trigger emotions.
—It has been said that over 350 million people suffer from
Facebook Addiction Disorder.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS
AGO
—Foreman Bud Duey threw two switches at Page on Tuesday that
linked the Pacific Southwest and the Pacific Northwest by a 230,000-volt line
with Glen Canyon.
—Beginning in Sedona, 39 new post offices are coming to northern
Arizona, a strong indication of the continued growth in this area.
Gender
Facts…
—Although men ARE more likely to suffer heart attacks, women are
more likely to die within a year from having a heart attack.
—Women mature much faster than men.
—Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
Harper’s
Index…
Percentage of young Americans who sa they are comfortable
discussing race with their friends: 20
Internet
Facts…
—The longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to
be the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued
People Eating Tasty Animals to obtain the name – the case spanned from 1995 to
2001.
—Song stuck in your head but can’t think of the name? There's a
website called midomi.com that allows you to sing or hum a song into your
computer or phone and it will find the actual song.
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
A SC pizza deliveryman had an unusual way of keeping the pizzas
hot in transit. The man, who was also a volunteer firefighter, would flash his
emergency lights so traffic would pull over and let him pass. The police used their sirens to arrest him.
Rules of
Thumb…
THE
TRAFFIC RULE OF 85
Traffic engineers
have found that 85 percent of drivers will spontaneously drive at or below the
safe speed, given ideal conditions (light traffic, dry pavement.) They will
often clock traffic for a while and use this rule to establish the speed limit.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Antarctica
gets very little snow, so why is there snow on the ground? Because the snow
that does fall on the continent never melts.
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Joke-of-the-day
Judge: Haven’t I seen you before?
Man: Yes, Your Honor. I taught your daughter how to play the drums.
Judge: Twenty years!
Yep, It
Really Happened
LISSONE,
Italy (UPI)
An Italian man who bought a new Fiat to help him get to work on
time took an ax to the vehicle when it failed to start. Accountant Spartaco
Capon, 34, purchased the Fiat 500 because public transportation was making him
consistently late to work, but he turned against the vehicle when it failed to
start at his Lissone home, making him late again. Police said Capon attacked
the car with a pickax, filling the body of the vehicle with more than a hundred
holes.
"Normally in incidents like this it's not people smashing up
their own car, but he was able to prove it was his," police spokesman
Anastasio Gallo said. "We think he must have been under a lot of stress at
work lately and he was taken to hospital where doctors helped to calm down and
are keeping him in for tests."
The car was declared totaled and Capon is receiving psychiatric
care at the local hospital, where doctors said he would benefit from a few days
of relaxation.
Somewhat
Useless Information
The
first band to release a song for online download was back in 1994 when the
famous band “Aerosmith” were the first to release a song for online download,
calling the not-for-profit release an experiment.
“The
3-minute, 14-second song, Head First, will not be sold, or released to radio
stations. How long it will be available on ComuServe is still being decided”,
was posted on the website “SunSentinel” back on the 27th of June in 1994.
“It’s
unrealistic to expect fans to spend hours downloading audio material. But
technology moves fast, and Geffen wants to be ready when the process is
streamlined”, continues the article.
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Four
out of every five animals on Earth is a nematode.
Did
you know that worms are Earth’s animal overlords?
Nematodes
are the most numerically abundant animals on Earth, since four out of
every five animals on Earth is a nematode.
“In
short, if all the matter in the universe except the nematodes were swept away,
our world would still be dimly recognizable, and if, as disembodied spirits, we
could then investigate it, we should find its mountains, hills, vales, rivers,
lakes, and oceans represented by a film of nematodes. The location of towns
would be decipherable, since for every massing of human beings there would be a
corresponding massing of certain nematodes. Trees would still stand in ghostly
rows representing our streets and highways. The location of the various plants
and animals would still be decipherable, and, had we sufficient knowledge, in
many cases even their species could be determined by an examination of their
erstwhile nematode parasites”, Nathan Augustus Cobb, a nematologist
working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in 1915.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13
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Today’s
Events through History
1630 - Failed palace revolution in France against
Richelieu
1793 - France ends forced worship of God
1808 - Osage Treaty signed
1864
- Kingston, GA burned during Sherman's March
to the Sea
1951 - 1st long distance telephone call without
operator assistance
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Birthday’s
Today
Donna
Fargo, country singer (Happiest Girl in Whole USA) is 69
Dave
Loggins, singer (Please come to Boston) is 67
James
Chapman, prolific novelist is 59
Sinbad (David
Adkins), comedian/actor (Different World) is 58
MacKenzie
Phillips, actress (Julie-1 Day at a Time) is 55
Eve
Jihan
Jeffers-Cooper, American rapper is 36
Remembered
for being born today
Martin
Luther, founded Protestantism, (1483-1546)
William
Hogarth, England, satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress) (1697-1764)
Oliver
Goldsmith, Irish, novelist (She Stoops to Conquer) (1728-1774)
Claude
Rains, London, actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca) (1889-1967)
Jane
Froman, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), (1907-1980)
Richard
Burton, South Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf) (1925-1984)
Roy
Scheider, actor (Jaws) (1932-2008)
Russell
Means, Native American activist, (1939-2012)
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Historical
Obits Today
Dino De
Laurentiis, Italian film producer, 2010, @91
Jack
Palance, American actor, 2006, @87
Norman
Mailer, American novelist, 2007, @84
Leonid
Ilich Brezhnev, Soviet 1st sect, heart attack, 1982, @77
Miriam
Makeba, South African singer, activist, heart attack, 2008, @76
Chuck
Connors, NBA/baseballer/actor (Boston Celtics), lung cancer, 1992, @ 71
Ken Kesey,
American author, after surgery, 2001, @66
Cornstalk, Shawnee
chief. executed, 1777, @57ish
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Brain Teasers Answers
Each word in the sentence is one letter longer than the word
before it!
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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…§
