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Almanac: Week: 48 \ Day: 328
November
Averages: 51° \ 22°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Celebrate
Your Unique Talent Day
D.B.
Cooper Day
Observances This
Week:
21-27
National
Farm-City Week:
24-30
GERD
Awareness Week; National Bible Week; National Game & Puzzle Week; Better
Conversation Week; Church/State Separation Week; National Family Week
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1642 - Abel
Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1703 - 1st
Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner at Phila
1759 - Destructive
eruption of Vesuvius
1859 - Charles
Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"
1869 - American
Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)
1871 - National
Rifle Association organized (NYC)
1874 - Joseph
F Glidden patents barbed wire
1922 - Italian
parliament gives Benito Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year"
1932 -
FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory officially opens.
1936 - Pacifist/anti
fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace
Prize
1947 - John
Steinbeck's novel "Pearl" published
1947 - Un-American
Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of
their refusal to reveal whether they were communists
1954 - Air
Force One, 1st US Presidential airplane, christened
1964 - For 1st time
since 1800, residents of Wash DC permitted to vote
1966 - 1st
TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Zaire)
1966 - New York City
experiences the smoggiest day in the city's history
1969 - Lt
William Calley charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai
1979 - US admits
troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange
1991 - Monica Seles,
sets female tennis record winning $2,457,758 in a year
1993 - Brady
bill passes establishing 5-day waiting period for handgun sales
1995 - Ireland
votes to end 70-year-old ban on divorce (50.28% to 49.72%)
2012 - Gangnam
Style becomes the most viewed youtube video surpassing 808 million views
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Quiet Sunday with lots of wind. All my deck stuff survived last
night’s hard wind. I have a couple of very enterprising squirrels nearby. I
keep the bird seed in one of those plastic containers with a lid that clips on
the top on two sides. The d#*n squirrels figured out how to open it and have a
feast on the sunflower seeds that are mixed in. The first time, I thought I
might have forgotten to use the clips. The second time I knew I had locked it.
So I put a brick on top. They actually chewed through part of the plastic top
to try and get to the food. I think the current setup with the birdseed in the
bottom container, another container on top of that and bricks on top of that
will stop them. Time will tell.
Watched my Sunday morning news shows and as usual, Fareed filled
my mind with lots of new information I hadn’t thought about. I did some
laundry, since it was too windy to spend much time outside. I’m watching the
Cards game…they aren’t doing well in the first half. Also watching the Broncos
who aren’t doing well either. Both teams
have the second half to recover.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
does this mean?
cHIMp
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Actor
Facts…
¤ Clint Eastwood was in a plane which crashed into the sea. He and
the pilot escaped the sinking aircraft and swam 3 miles to safety.
¤ Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually beat him for the
interrogation scene in the Dark Knight.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
From 1889
¤ Mr. Hall, just returned from the Grand Canyon having made the
trip in four days, There was no passenger or mail train from the east on Friday
-- it being so much behind from a cause unknown reports heavy snow fall in that
section or that it was abandoned.
¤ The snow storm this week has caused considerable delay in the
construction of David Babbitt's new building and of Dr. Brannen's addition to
his drug store.
Harper’s
Index…
Portion of adults in Great Britain who believe their nation fought
WWI against the Nazis: 1/5
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
Make
important decisions when you (really) gotta go
People with full bladders may be better at making big decisions,
according to a Dutch study. If you show self-control in terms of a bodily
function (such as going to the bathroom), you’re more likely to show
self-control in decision making.
Pilgrim
Fact…
The
Mayflower Diet
Those poor Pilgrims were stuck on the Mayflower for over two
months, battling the rough seas and stormy weather. The trip might have felt a
little smoother had they had better nosh aboard. Their diets mainly consisted
of hardtack, a cracker-like biscuit; salt pork; dried meats, including cow
tongue; pickled foods; oatmeal and other cereal grains; and fish.
Rules of
Thumb…
USING
A MOVIE CAMERA
Count at least ten
seconds every time you press a movie camera's start button. The biggest single
error that novice film makers make is taking many shots in very short spurts.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Duncan
Hines was a real person. He was a popular restaurant critic who also wrote
hotel recommendations.
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Joke-of-the-day
"Honey," said this husband to his
wife, "I invited a friend home for supper."
"What? Are you crazy? The house is a mess, I didn't go shopping, all the
dishes are dirty, and I don't feel like cooking a fancy meal!"
"I know all that."
"Then, why did you invite a friend for supper?"
"Because the poor guy is thinking about getting married."
Yep, It
Really Happened
OMSK,
Russia (UPI)
A Russian 12-year-old may become the first real-life X-Men hero
after an electric shock apparently magnetized his body. Nikolai Kryaglyachenko,
12, said he leaned on a lamppost with faulty wiring on his way home from school
one day and the resulting electric shock turned him into a living magnet that attracts
metal objects. "When I woke up the next day and got out of bed, I found
some coins that had been lying on the mattress had stuck to my body. Then when
I was having breakfast and dropped my spoon, it stuck to my chest," the
boy told Omsk TV and Radio Company. Kryaglyachenko, who has been compared to
X-Men villain Magneto, said he doesn't have much control over the magnetism.
"I can do things I couldn't do before, but I don't have a lot of control
over it. Even when I do not want to do it, I still attract things. Once I even
attracted a glass -- it just moved towards me," he said. Stories of human
magnets stretch back to the 19th century, with one woman being recorded in 1990
supporting 15 pounds of weight with her palm held vertically. However, some scientists
have said stories of human magnetism can be attributed to nothing more than
unusually sticky skin.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Did
you know that there is a version of the Bible translated into Hawaiian Pidgin
called ‘Da Jesus Book’?
¤
Wycliffe Bible Translators, publisher of
the book, is the world’s largest organization involved in translating the Bible
into the languages of native people.
The
translation is the result of a 12-year effort and Linguistics professor Joseph
Grimes worked with 26 Pidgin speakers.
As
www.gohawaii.about.com points out, Grimes was a visiting professor at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1986 and later moved to the Waianae coast of
O’ahu to work on this project after his retirement from Cornell University.
¤Norway
had to close a tunnel as it was full of burning cheese
Back
in 2013 a road tunnel in Norway closed, as about 27 tons of caramelized brown
goat cheese caught light as it was being driven through the Brattli Tunnel.
The
fire caused toxic gases and the tunnel got badly damaged, so it had to stay
closed for several days.
“We
can’t go in until it’s safe,” geologist Viggo Aronsen had told Norwegian
broadcaster NRK back then.
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Today’s
Events through History
1434 - River
Thames freezes
1639 - 1st
observation of transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree -
helped establish size of the Solar System
1715 - River
Thames freezes
1951 - British auto
manufacturers Austin and Morris Motors merge
Birthday’s
Today
Oscar Robertson [The
Big O], NBA guard is 76
Pete Best, British
drummer (Beatles) is 73
Dwight Schultz, actor
(A-Team) is 67
Katherine Heigl, actress
(Grey's Anatomy) is 36
Remembered
for being born today
Laurence Sterne,
Ireland, novelist/satirist (Tristram Shandy) (1713-1768)
Zachary Taylor, 12th
President (1784-1850)
Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian author
(Pinocchio) (1826-1890)
Frances Hodgson Burnett, author (My
Secret Garden) (1849-1924)
Bat Masterson,
American gunfighter (1853-1921)
Dale Carnegie, author
(How to Win Friends & Influence People) (1888-1955)
Charles "Lucky" Luciano,
Sicily, Mafia gangster, (1897-1962)
Kirby Grant, Butte
Mont, actor (Sky King) (1911-1985)
Howard Duff, actor
(Flamingo Road, Knots Landing) (1913-1990)
John V Lindsay, Mayor-NY
(1921-2000)
William F. Buckley Jr, conservative
author\commentator (1925-2008)
Todd Beamer, passenger
and hero on United Airlines Flight 93 (1968-2001)
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Historical
Obits Today
George Raft, actor
(Scarface, Johnny Angel, Mr Ace), 1980, @85
Arthur Hailey,
British-born author (Hotel), 2004, @84
Diego Rivera, Mexican
painter, 1957, @70
Joseph Brant [Thayendanegea],
Mohawk leader, 1807, @ 64
Héctor Camacho, Puerto
Rican professional boxer, gunshot injuries2012, @50
Freddie Mercury, British
singer (Queen), AIDS, 1991, @45
Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK's
assassin, shot, 1963, @24
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Brain Teasers Answers
Making a monkey out of him
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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…§
