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Dec 2, 2018 Week:
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86004 Today: H 34° \ L 24° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 9mph\Gusts:
-mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 62°[1946]
Record Low: -5°[1991]
Nov Averages: 43°\17°
Today’s
Quote
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Random
Tidbits
Knock On Wood: This expression comes from Pagans, who believed
that all living materials were imbued with spiritual properties, including
trees. When they were cut down though, the spirit inside the tree would die and
become hollow. It was at this point that evil spirits, like sprites, could take
over the item and concoct ways to ruin the plans and hopes of people in the
area. Fortunately, if someone knocked on the wood, it would drive away the
malevolent spirits and prevent any potential misfortunes from occurring.
Breaking
A Mirror Causes Seven Years Bad Luck: The Romans were the first people to
create glass mirrors. They also believed that their invention had the potential
to steal part of the soul of the person using it. If a person's reflection were
distorted while using a mirror, then their soul would be corrupted and trapped
as a result. Fortunately, the Romans believed your soul could be renewed -
after seven years time. Until that point though, the person would suffer from
bad luck since they did not have a whole, healthy soul to fight off evil.
More
Observances This Month
Operation Santa Paws (1-17)
Safe Toys and Gifts Month
Spiritual Literacy Month
Take a New Year's Resolution to Stop Smoking (TANYRSS) (12/17 - 2/2)
Universal Human Rights Month Link
Worldwide Food Service Safety Month
Youngsters on The Air Month Link
Safe Toys and Gifts Month
Spiritual Literacy Month
Take a New Year's Resolution to Stop Smoking (TANYRSS) (12/17 - 2/2)
Universal Human Rights Month Link
Worldwide Food Service Safety Month
Youngsters on The Air Month Link
Observances
This Week
Nov 27-12/2
National
Deal Week
1-7
Cookie
Cutter Week Link
National Hand Washing Awareness Week Link
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Computer Science Education Week Link
National Hand Washing Awareness Week Link
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Computer Science Education Week Link
Observances
for Today
Today’s
Significant Historical Events
1800’s
1823
President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine", a US foreign
policy regarding Latin America
1845
Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the
United States should aggressively expand into the West
1859
Abolitionist John Brown hung for murder, treason and conspiring slaves to
revolt at Charles Town, Virginia
1867
In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first
public reading in the United States
1899
US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
1900’s
1901
King C. Gillette begins selling safety razor blades
1927
1st Model A Ford sold, for $385
1942
World’s 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction occurs in Chicagi Pile-1
(world's 1st nuclear reactor) at the University of Chicago, overseen by Enrico
Fermi
1950
"I Robot" collection of sci-fi short stories by Isaac Asimov
published by Genome Press in the US
1954
US Senate censures Joeseph McCarthy (Sen-R-Wisc) for "conduct that tends
to bring Senate into dishonor & disrepute"
1960
Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovers 1.4 million year old Homo erectus
(Olduvai Hominid 9) in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
1967
1st human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr Christiaan Barnard
on Louis Washkansky
1971
Soviet space probe Mars 3 is first to soft land on Mars
1971
United Arab Emirates (Trucial States) declares independence from UK
1990
First time 12 people in space at the same time
2000’s
2014
Stephen Hawking claims that Artificial Intelligence could be a "threat to
mankind" and spell the end of the human race
2016
Donald Trump takes a call with Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen, in a break from
America's long standing "One China" policy
My
Rambling Thoughts
Blue
sky and melting snow as I await the next storm, due late today…maybe.
All
the news channels are running many stories of Bush-41. He passed last night at
94. RIP
Focus
Travel Club is having a great time in NYC. Posting lots of pics and commentary.
Nice. The trip is so popular, a second trip is heading out next week…tours,
plays, museums, great food.
Birthdays
Today
@-
indicates age at death
80’s
@85-
Alexander Haig Jr,
American
General and 59th Secretary of State (1981-82), born in Bala Cynwyd,
Pennsylvania (d. 2010)
60’s
64-
Stone Phillips,
news
host (NBC Dateline)
@63-
Charles Ringling,
American
circus owner (d. 1926)
50’s
@50-
Gianni Versace,
Italian
fashion designer (Versace), born in Reggio Calabria, Italy (d. 1997) murdered
50-
Lucy Liu,
American
actress
40’s
40-
Nelly Furtado,
Canadian
singer and songwriter
30’s
37-
Britney Spears,
American
popstar ("Baby One More Time," "Oops! ...I did it again"
and "I'm A Slave 4 U"), born in McComb, Mississippi
@31-
Georges Seurat,
French
post-impressionist painter (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte),
born in Paris, France (d. 1891) diptheria?/hepatitis?
Historical
Obits Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@90-1990
Aaron Copland,
American
composer (Billy the Kid, Fanfare for Common Man)
70’s
@79-1972
Ip Man,
Chinese
martial artist, and a master teacher of Wing Chun, throat cancer
@77-2008
Odetta [Odetta
Holmes],
American
folk singer (Sanctuary), actress and civil rights activist, heart disease
@74-1814
Marquis de Sade,
French
philosopher and writer (Justine): The words sadism and sadist are derived from
his name.
60’s
@69-1986
Desi Arnaz,
Cuban-American
actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), lung cancer
@66-1995
Roxie Roker,
Bahamian-American
actress (The Jeffersons- Helen Willis), breast cancer
@61±-1547
Hernán Cortés,
Spanish
conquistador (defeated the Aztec Empire and colonized large parts of Mexico), pleurisy
50’s
@59-1859
John Brown,
American
abolitionist and revolutionary (Harpers Ferry), hanged
40’s
@48-1982
Marty Feldman,
comedian
(Young Frankenstein), heart attack
