11-12-11

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TODAY’s “Geez”                                                                                            .

• 1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anesthetic
• 1933 - 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
• 1936 - 1st TV Gardening show
• 1945 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
• 1946 - 1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago)
• 1775 - General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks

 ♪♪ Happy Birthday To:♪♪                                                                   .                     

Free Rambling Thoughts                                                                              .

A very cloudy day…trying real hard to snow or rain, but alas…nada, zilch, none. I took off early today, just in case, to run necessary errands. I left early partially because I thought it was going to snow and partially because it is Vets Day and lots of people are off work. I missed the crowds at all my stops, so that was good. Weather guy still saying we will get about an inch of snow this weekend.

I’m still not back into the right sleep cycle, but tonight should solve that. I woke up at 3a and finally I got back to sleep. Then I woke again at 5am and gave up on getting back to sleep. I didn’t take any naps today—just fought it off. Tonight should get me back on track.

I did download my Ethiopia pictures and started my blog. Still have to download the videos. I spent time from 6am to 8:30am to catch up on lots of email that was just piling up. Lots of good wishes from friends who knew I was traveling. One piece of sad news, Mary’s 99 year old mom passed while I was gone. She was only in Hospice for about 3 weeks and seems to have passed peacefully. It is always hard to lose a parent. The first one is usually a shocker while the second one is much harder when you realize that you are an orphan. I found that helping my mom after my dad’s passing helped our family grieve. My brother and I were there to help each other when our mom passed, but there was no one to care for. It is something we all have to go through and until one goes through it, they don’t really understand the loneliness when both are gone. As my friends go through this life changing experience, I am reminded of the passing of my parents…and can really understand.

Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)                                                 .

1.     Who was Nevada's capital city named after?

2.    Which lake is linked by anal to the St. Lawrence and Hudson rivers?

3.    Which mountain system stretches from Alabama to Quebec?

4.    Where are the headquarters of Coca Cola?

5.    Charleston is on which river?

6.    Which is the largest of the inlets on the Atlantic coast?

7.    Cleveland is on which of the Great Lakes?

8.    What is the third largest city of the USA?

9.    Denver is on which river?

10.  The Black Hills are composed of which rock?

Wuzzles…What concept or phrase do these suggest?                           .

NEW: Rules of Thumb                                                                          .

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

• For men: The year you start growing dark hair on your chest is the year that the loss rate of your head hair exceeds its growth rate.

Hmmmmm                                                                                                       .

• Percentage change in the number of US whites under the age of 18 in the past decade: -9.8
• Blacks: -2.8
• Hispanics: +38.8

Somewhat Useless Information                                                                     .

• Fortune cookies, egg foo young, chow mein, and chop suey were all invented in the United States.
• Fajitas are from the North American state of Texas, whereas hot dogs and hamburgers are thought to have come from Germany in some variation.

Yeah, It Really Happened                                                                               .            

SEATTLE - An anthropology graduate student in Seattle said he is studying Dumpster-diving culture to bring awareness to the amount of edible food that ends up as trash. University of Washington grad student David Giles, 31, an Australia native, said he has been vaulting into Dumpsters and scrounging for edibles as part of his thesis project, which he said he hopes will inspire people to donate leftover food to the hungry rather than throwing it out, The Seattle Times reported Friday.

"The first thing that hits you in the face is how good the stuff in the Dumpster is," Giles said. "It's thrown away because it's not profitable." Giles said his Dumpster-diving research has cut his monthly grocery bill down to $100 and he knows others who sustain themselves strictly on what they find in the trash. The graduate student said he plans to write a book about his experiences when he finishes his thesis next year.

Guffaw…or at least smile                                                                               .

An Antartian named Babbette finds herself in dire trouble. Her business has gone bust and she's in serious financial trouble. She's so desperate that she decides to ask God for help. She begins to pray... "God, please help me. I've lost my business and if I don't get some money, I'm going to lose my house as well. Please let me win the lotto."

Lotto night comes and somebody else wins it. Babbette again prays..."God, please let me win the lotto! I've lost my business, my house and I'm going to lose my car as well."

Lotto night comes and Babbette still has no luck.

Once again, she prays..."My God, why have you forsaken me?? I've lost my business, my house and my car. My children are starving. I don't often ask you for help and I have always been a good servant to you. PLEASE just let me win the lotto this one time so I can get my life back in order."

Suddenly there is a blinding flash of light as the heavens open and Babbette is confronted by the voice of God Himself: "Babbette, meet Me halfway on this. Buy a ticket."

Searchin’ “You Tube” I found                                                                        .     

Song of the South Original Clip

Daybook Information                                                                                    .

…Happening This Week:

6-12 

Health Information and Technology Week

International Fraud Awareness Week

National Nurse Practioners Week 
National Rad Tech Week
7-13

Dear Santa Letter Week 

National Young Reader's Week

Pursuit of Happiness Week

World Kindness Week 

TODAY IS                                                                                                         .

• Birth of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i)
• Domino Day National
• Donor Sabbath Days
• National Gaming Day-- Communities across the U.S. (and internationally!) are coming together in the spirit of play for the American Library Association’s 4th Annual National Gaming Day @ your library, sponsored by FamilyandPartyGames.com. This year’s event expects to draw more than 20,000 people at more than 1,200 libraries.
• National Pizza With The Works Except Anchovies Day

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• Mexico--Postman Day's

Today’s Events                                                                                                .

ARTS

1910 - 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon

1936 - Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy"

1946 - Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released

1969 - Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union

ATHLETICS

1927 - Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green

1969 - Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP

BUSINESS

1859 - Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name

1900 - World's Fair in Paris opens (50 million visitors)

1927 - 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens

EDUCATION

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

1794: A treaty (7 stat. 44) is concluded at Canandaigua (Konondaigua), New York, with the "Six Nations." The United States acknowledges the treaties signed by the Six Nations and New York. Boundaries are established. The Six Nations will not submit further land claims. A wagon trail is established from Fort Schlosser to Buffalo Creek on Lake Erie. The Indians receive $10,000 in goods now. The annuity agreed to in the treaty of April 3, 1792 is increased from $1500 to $4500 in goods. The treaty is signed by Thomas Pickering for the United States, and by fifty-nine Indians.

1865: Medicine Bottle and Little Shakopee, two of the leaders of the Santee Sioux uprising are executed at Pine Knob. They both had escaped to Canada, but officials there aided Americans in their kidnapping, and return to the United States

POLITICS [International]

1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament

1974 - South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies

POLITICS [US]

1942 - In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began

1954 - Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed

1968 - Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional

1979 - US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets

RELIGION

1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism

SCIENCE

1915 - Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry

1987 - Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine

Today’s Birthdays                                                                                          .

ARTISTS:  (AUTHORS, COMPOSERS,…)

1889 - DeWitt Wallace, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921)

ATHLETES

Derek Bell, outfielder (Houston Astros) is 43

Nadia Comaneci, [Gheorghe], Romania, gymnast (1st 10/Olymp-gold-1976 ) is 50

Tonya Harding, figure skater (Oly-8th-1994/US Champ 1994) is 41

Al Michaels, sportscaster ( ABC Monday Night Football and Baseball) is 66

ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)

Ryan Gosling, actor is 31

Anne Hathaway, actor is 29

Brian Hyland, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy ... Bikini) is 68

1928 - Grace Kelly, actress (Rear Window)/Princess (Monaco)

Megan Mullally, actor [Will and Grace] is 53

David Schwimmer, actor is 45

1918 - Jo Stafford, singer (I'll Never Smile Again)

Neil Young, singer/songwriter (Cosby, Sills & Young) is 66

ENTREPRENEURS & EDUCATORS

1917 - Joseph Coors, CEO (Adolph Coors Co Brewery)

POLITICIAL FIGURES

1528 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese general 

1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist (80 Years & More)

1866 - Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC & PRC) (traditional)

Charles Manson, [No Name Maddox], criminal (Tate-Labianco)  is 77

SCIENTISTS & THEOLOGISTS

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Today’s Obits                                                                                   

1990 - Eve Arden, actress (Our Miss Brooks), dies at 82

2003 - Jonathan Brandis, American actor commits suicide at 27

1916 - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona and pacifist dies after stroke at 61

2003 - Penny Singleton, American actress (Blondie Bumstead, voice of Jane Jetson) dies at 95

ANSWERS                                                                            

Trivia Quiz

Who was Nevada's capital city named after?

A: Kit Carson.

Which lake is linked by anal to the St. Lawrence and Hudson rivers?

A: Champlain.

Which mountain system stretches from Alabama to Quebec?

A: Appalachians.

Where are the headquarters of Coca Cola?

A: Atlanta.

Charleston is on which river?

A: Kanawaha.

Which is the largest of the inlets on the Atlantic coast?

A: Chesapeake Bay.

Cleveland is on which of the Great Lakes?

A: Erie.

What is the third largest city of the USA?

A: Chicago.

Denver is on which river?

A: South Platte.

The Black Hills are composed of which rock?

A: Granite.

Wuzzle

The following day

Envious

High rise

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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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.

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11-11-11

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TODAY’s “Geez”                                                                                            .

• 1620 - 41 pilgrims land in Mass, sign Mayflower Compact (just & equal laws)
• 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army enters England1923 - Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown soldier, Arc de Triumph
• 1981 - Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie ever to win a Cy Young Award
• 1921 - Pres Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier (Arlington Cemetery)
• 1926 - U.S. Route 66 is established.

♪♪ Happy Birthday To:♪♪                                                                   .                     

Free Rambling Thoughts                                                                              .

I had an awesome trip to Ethiopia. We saw lots of Coptic Orthodox Monasteries, beautiful scenery, amazing tribes. In the South, where we saw the tribes, we were in 4 wheel drive Land Cruisers with the African Package. The roads are just like the rez, with mostly wide dirt roads like the road from Tonalea to Kaibeto. Some of the roads were like the roads to individual hogans. It rained so there were washes to cross that were running full, and I understood the African Package…that means no electronics—crank windows, etc. Some of the vehicles had the European package which was more like the vehicles we buy over here…loaded with accessories. Our group had several flat tires—our vehicle had a slow leak that was fixed in one of the towns. More on the great trip on my other blog in a few days.

Today is the day set aside to honor our Vets. One appreciates freedom when returning from a part of the world where freedom is not part of everyday life. Many of our Vets have given so much to ensure our freedoms. Thank you for your service.

This is also 11-11-11. That must mean something. Numerologists say it is a powerful day and a good day to start a business. OK then, let’s get our economy rolling.  

Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)                                                 .

1.     El Paso is at the foot of which mountains?

2.     In which state is the USA's highest mountain?

3.     Which river divides Boston and Cambridge?

4.     The IMF was founded in Bretton Woods in which state?

5.     Which wind's name is North American Indian for snow eater?

6.     Which street crosses Times Square at 42nd Street?

7.     Which state's largest port is at the head of the Cook inlet?

8.     Which ocean around America is the saltiest?

9.     Roosevelt named it Shang ri la, what is it now called?

10.  What separates cape Cod from the rest of Massachusetts?

Wuzzles…What concept or phrase do these suggest?                           .

Hmmmmm                                                                                                       .

• Chances that a US male who has been incarcerated will make it out of the bottom economic quintile in 20 years: 1 in 50
• That a man who has never been incarcerated will: 1 in 7

Somewhat Useless Information                                                                     .

• An adult's heart pumps out 6,000 gallons of blood each and every day. Your heart beats approximately 30 million times a year.
• In one drop of blood there are five million red blood cells, 8,000 white blood cells and 250,000 platelets.
• If your blood vessels were strung together and measured, they would circle the globe 2 1/2 times.
• Among the ancient Greeks, the arteries were considered to be "air holders" that were responsible for the transport of air to the tissues and were connected to the trachea.
• William Harvey described and popularized the modern concept of the circulatory system and the roles of arteries and veins in the 17th century.
• Alexis Carrel at the beginning of 20th century first described the technique for vascular suturing and anastomosis and successfully performed many organ transplantations in animals; he thus actually opened the way to modern vascular surgery that was before limited to vessels permanent ligatation.

Yeah, It Really Happened                                                                               .            

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A man and woman charged with stealing a police car left running outside a Florida convenience store apparently wanted it for a quickie sexual encounter. Alexander Pratt, 59, and Clara Pearson, 53, both Lake Worth residents, were charged with grand theft auto, The Palm Beach Post reported. They allegedly grabbed a Honda Civic belonging to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office that was being used by plainclothes detectives from the auto theft division. The couple did not get far in their new wheels, a police report said. They were pulled over and arrested not far away. Pratt told officers he was not sorry for his actions because he was eager to "have intimate relations with Pearson," a police affidavit said.

Guffaw…or at least smile                                                                               .

Harry had a bit of a drinking problem.

 Every night, after dinner, he took off for the local watering hole, spent the entire evening there and arrived home, well inebriated, around midnight each night. He always had trouble getting his key into the keyhole and getting the door opened. His wife, waiting up for him, would go to the door and let him in. Then she would proceed to yell and scream at him for his constant nights out and his returned drunken state. But Harry continued his nightly routine.

One day, the wife, distraught by it all, talked to a friend about her husband's behavior. The friend listened to her and then asked, "Why don't you treat him a little differently when he comes home? Instead of berating him, why don't you give him some loving words and welcome him home with a kiss? He then might change his ways."

The wife thought it was worth trying. That night, Harry took off again after dinner. Around midnight, he arrived home in his usual condition. His wife heard Harry at the door and let him in. This time, instead of berating him as she had always done, she took his arm and led him into the living room. She sat him down in an easy chair, put his feet up on the ottoman and took his shoes off. Then she went behind him and started to cuddle him a little. After a while, she said to him, "It's pretty late. I think we had better go upstairs to bed now, don't you?"

At that, Harry replied in his inebriated state, "I guess we might as well. I'll get in trouble if I go home anyway!"

Searchin’ “You Tube” I found                                                                        .     

Ethiopian orthodox mezmur

Daybook Information                                                                                    .

…Happening This Week:

6-12 

Health Information and Technology Week

International Fraud Awareness Week

National Nurse Practioner's Week

National Rad Tech Week

7-13

Dear Santa Letter Week 

National Young Reader's Week

Pursuit of Happiness Week

World Kindness Week

TODAY IS                                                                                                         .

Death/Duty Day

Veterans Day

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Angola-- Independence Day (1975 from Poland)

Canada-- Remembrance Day

Japan-- Origami Day

Poland-- Independence Day (1918 from Prussia, Russia, Austria)

Sweden and others-- St. Martin Day (for feeding the poor)

US-- Washington Admission Day (42nd state in 1889)

Today’s Events                                                                                                .

ARTS

1959 - 1st episode of "Rocky & His Friends" airs

1985 - 1st AIDS theme TV movie - "An Early Frost"

ATHLETICS

1868 - 1st American amateur track & field meet (NYC)

1963 - Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 goal record

1987 - Roger Clemens wins consecutive Cy Young Awards

1997 - Roger Clemens wins his 4th AL Cy Young Award

BUSINESS

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EDUCATION

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

1778 - Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre

1794: A treaty (7 stat. 44) is concluded at Canandaigua (Konondaigua), New York, with the "Six Nations." The United States acknowledges the treaties signed by the Six Nations and New York. Boundaries are established. The Six Nations will not submit further land claims. A wagon trail is established from Fort Schlosser to Buffalo Creek on Lake Erie. The Indians receive $10,000 in goods now. The annuity agreed to in the treaty of April 3, 1792 is increased from $1500 to $4500 in goods. The treaty is signed by Thomas Pickering for the United States, and by fifty-nine Indians.

1865: Medicine Bottle and Little Shakopee, two of the leaders of the Santee Sioux uprising are executed at Pine Knob. They both had escaped to Canada, but officials there aided Americans in their kidnapping, and return to the United States.

POLITICS [International]

1918 - Germany surrenders ending WW I, Allies & Germany sign armistice

1961 - Stalingrad renamed Volgograd

1983 - Pres Reagan became 1st US pres to address Japan's legislature

POLITICS [US]

1647 - Massachusetts passes 1st US compulsory school attendance law

1909 - Construction of navy base at Pearl Harbor begins

RELIGION

1860 - 1st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina

1992 - Anglican Church & Church of England OK female priests

SCIENCE

1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function

1911 - Many cities in the U.S. Midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. ( The 11/11/11 cold wave)

1925 - Robert Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays

1933 - "Great Black Blizzard" 1st great dust storm in Great Plains

1966 - Gemini 12 (Lovell & Aldrin) launched on 4-day flight

Today’s Birthdays                                                                                          .

ARTISTS:  (AUTHORS, COMPOSERS,…)

1821 - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russia, novelist (Crime & Punishment)

1922 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr, author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan)

Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author (Death of Artemio Cruz) is 83

ATHLETES

Vinnie Testaverde, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Buckineers) is 48

Steve Young, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers) is 50

Fuzzy [Frank] Zoeller, PGA golfer (Masters 1981) is 60

ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)

Adam Beach, Native actor is 39

Leonardo DiCaprio, actor is 37

1918 - Stubby Kaye, actor (Guys & Dolls, Lil' Abner, Cat Ballou)

Demi Moore, actor is 49

1899 - Pat O'Brien, actor (Knute Rockne, Angels with Dirty Faces)

ENTREPRENEURS & EDUCATORS

1896 - Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Sicily, NYC Mafia gangster

POLITICIAL FIGURES

1885 - George S Patton, US general (Sicily/Italy/Normandy) "Old Blood & Guts"

1915 - William Proxmire, (Sen- WI, 1957-88) (Golden Fleece Awards)

SCIENTISTS & THEOLOGISTS

1771 - Ephraim McDowell, surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery)

Today’s Obits                                                                

2004 - Yasser Arafat, co-founder and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, revolutionary and Nobel prize winner dies of ‘mystery blood disorder ‘at 75

1945 - Jerome Kern, US composer (Sally, Leave it to Jane), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 60

1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher dies at 42

1984 - Martin Luther King Sr, US vicar/father of MLK Jr, dies at 84

1623 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer dies at 74

1831 - Nat Turner, former slave, led violent insurrection, hanged with 19 associates in VA at 31

1938 - Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease dies of pneumonia at 69

1973 - Stringbean, [David Akeman], banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw), murdered by burglars at 58

ANSWERS                                                                            

Trivia Quiz

El Paso is at the foot of which mountains?

A: Franklin Mountains.

In which state is the USA's highest mountain?

A: Alaska.

Which river divides Boston and Cambridge?

A: Charles.

The IMF was founded in Bretton Woods in which state?

A: New Hampshire.

 Which wind's name is North American Indian for snow eater?

A: Chinook.

Which street crosses Times Square at 42nd Street?

A: Broadway.

Which state's largest port is at the head of the Cook inlet?

A: Alaska.

Which ocean around America is the saltiest?

A: North Atlantic.

Roosevelt named it Shang ri la, what is it now called?

A: Camp David.

What separates cape Cod from the rest of Massachusetts?

A: Cape Cod canal.

Wuzzle

• Turned tears into laughter
• Know-how
• Besides

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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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.

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