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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 288
/ Week: 42
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Hagfish
Day
Information
Overload Day
International
Day of Rural Women
I Love
Lucy Day-1951 debut
National
Cake Decorating Day
National
Fossil Day
National
Take Your Parents to Lunch Day
National
Grouch Day
National
Latino AIDS Awareness Day
National
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day
Support
Your Local Chamber of Commerce
Sweetest Day
White Cane Safety Day
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1520 - King Henry
VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall
1705 - English
fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte
arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile
1860 - 11-year-old
Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard
1866 - Great
fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses
1880 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the
greatest Apache military strategists
1881 - 1st
American fishing magazine, American Angler published
1924 - Pres Calvin
Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument
1932 - Tata
Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight
1933 - 20th
Amendment goes into effect: Pres term begins in Jan not March
1939 - LaGuardia
Airport opens in NYC
1940
- "The Great Dictator", a satiric social commentary film is
released
1949 - Billy Graham begins his ministry
1966
- LBJ signs a bill creating US Dept of Transportation
1966 - Black Panther Party was created by Huey P.
Newton and Bobby Seale
1968 - The Nationalist Party of Northern Ireland
(NPNI) withdraws from its role as 'official' opposition within the Northern
Ireland parliament at Stormont
1969 - Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide
protest the war
1971 - The start of the 2,500-year celebration of Iran,
celebrating the birth of Persia
1993 - Nelson Mandela & F W de Klerk awarded Nobel
Peace Prize
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
What a really beautiful day it was today. Clear blue sky, little
wind, and fairly warm for fall. Great day for a nice walk.
I headed out early to do some shopping. Turned out to be one of
those trips where I loaded up on everyday items I was running short of. Quite a
trip, but worthwhile.
I have never been a hot drink person. If it’s cold and has ice, I’ll
drink it. I have started drinking flavored coffee for the past week. I’m even drinking
several mugs a day, while hardly having only one cold drink a day. Strange that
my taste would change, but it is good…coffee is much cheaper than Coke Zero.
I have also become semi-addicted to Netflix. Since I hooked it up
last week, hardly a day goes by that I don’t watch at least one movie…which is
much more than I used to watch. The only problem is, once I start a movie, it
is hard to multi-task and do other things, like I do when the regular TV is on.
I have found some great movies though.
Ebola frustration is rampant. It is hard to tell whom we should
believe about its spread. Around the major power countries it seems to be the
blame game is in full swing. Here’s an idea…start really studying the virus and
look for either a cure or a vaccine. I saw a horrible political cartoon that
showed a hospital ward full of black patients and one white patient, with all
the caregivers surrounding the white patient. So wrong.
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Game Center (answers at
the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
In
this teaser, I have given you a 9-letter word. Your job is to break up this
word into 9 separate letters and place them on the dashes to spell a 7-letter
word, a 5-letter word, and a 3-letter word. You can use each letter only once.
TEMPORARY
_ N _ M _ R _
_ O _ O _
_ I _
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Brain
Facts…
The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt
light bulb.
Unconsciousness will occur after 8-10 seconds after loss of blood
supply to the brain.
Children
Facts…
Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children
after an accident.
As a child, Jim Carrey wore tap shoes to bed just in case his
parents needed cheering up in the middle of the night.
Computer
Facts…
There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts
worldwide.
The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO
Two crack houses were uncovered this week. One at the American
Hotel in East Flagstaff and the other in the Brannen Homes area by the Arizona
Department of Public Safety Northern Metro Squad. Randy Weems, Flagstaff
Police.
Harper’s
Index…
Chance that a citizen of Pakistan believes that Internet access
free of government censorship is important: 1 in 5
Law
Facts…
In Japan, gambling is illegal. However, they circumvent the law by
giving out prizes instead of cash, which the winner can then sell back to the
establishment for cash.
Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into
thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of
scientists have claimed.
Rules of
Thumb…
DEAD MAN'S CORNER
In the typical
suburban shopping center, with a parking lot in front, the smart business man
will avoid the area at the inside corner of an L shaped building. It may have a
lot of floor area, but it typically has little frontage or exposure to the
public view.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Chinese
Checkers is not Chinese. It was created in America to circumvent the patent for
a popular board game called Halma, invented by a Boston surgeon named George
Howard Monks.
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Joke-of-the-day
Little Johnny watched, fascinated, as his
mother smoothed cold cream on her face. 'Why do you do that, mommy?' he asked.
'To make myself beautiful,' said his mother, who then began removing the cream
with a tissue.
'What's the matter?' asked Little Johnny. 'Giving up?'
Yep, It
Really Happened
MOORESTOWN, N.J. — The Latin motto engraved on the wall of a new
library in southern New Jersey got lost in translation.
Officials had thought the phrase "Nos Secundus Coniecto
Omnia" meant "we confirm all things twice." But it actually
means "we second-guess all."
Moorestown architect Rick Ragan tells the Burlington County Times he
learned of the problem from residents who translated it online.
Ragan says he'll pay a stone cutter to change the phrase to
"We encourage all." He'll also have the Roman numerals fixed to
reflect the proper year.
Mayor Chris Chiacchio tells the newspaper a mistake is only a
mistake if you do not have the courage to correct it.
Somewhat
Useless Information
The
purpose of building the Indianapolis catacombs is unknown
Did
you know that Indianapolis Catacombs are approximately 20,000 square feet of
underground passageways on the northeast corner of Market and Delaware streets
in downtown Indianapolis?
Several
tours were given in early 2012, where visitors could see passages and walkways
of brick archways, as well as limestone columns.
The
catacombs were built back in 1880s, however, the purpose of the building
is still unknown.
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Fresh
air available in cans.
Although
it sounds over the top, more than 10 million can have been sold already.
What
message does Chen Guangbiao try to get across? He wants to raise awareness of
the dangerous air pollution in China and gets the government to put the health
of the country’s citizens first.
And
for the history… Guangbiao won the title of China’s top do-gooder.
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Although
Mick Jagger has been married twice, he had several other relationships in his
life, as well as children and grandchildren!
A
paradox about his life is that although he has four grandchildren, he also
has a 15 year old son with Luciana Gimenez. His name is Lucas Maurice
Morad Jagger and he was born in 1999.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
--- 10-16
Take Your Medicine Americans Week
--- 12-18
Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week
Earth Science Week
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
National Chestnut Week
National Food Bank Week
Teen Read Week
Veterinary Technicians Week
YWCA Week Without Violence
World Rainforest Week
National School Lunch Week
YWCA Week Without Violence
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Today’s
Events through History
1937 - Ernest
Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published
1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes
synthesized the first oral contraceptive
1959 - "Untouchables"
premieres
1962 - Byron
R White appointed to Supreme Court
1973 - Tanks attack
Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed
1977 - Debbie
Boone's "You Light Up My Life" goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
1984 - Central Intelligence Agency Information Act
passes
1985 - Shelley
Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it
in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds
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Birthday’s
Today
Lee A
Iacocca, CEO (Chrysler Corp) is 90
Barry
McGuire, singer (Eve of Destruction) is 79
Linda
Lavin, actress (Alice) is 77
Penny
Marshall, Bronx, actress (Laverne & Shirley)\director is 71
Roscoe
Tanner, tennis player (Wimbledon Finals 1979) is 63
Tanya
Roberts, [Leigh], Bronx, actress (Charlie's Angels) is 59
Remembered
for being born today
Virgil,
(Publius Vergilius Maro) poet (Aeneid), (70BC-19 BC)
Allan
Ramsay, Scottish poet, publisher, wig maker (1686-1758)
Friedrich
Nietzsche, German philosopher (Beyond Good and Evil), (1844-1900)
John L
Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ (1858-1918)
P G
Wodehouse, British-American writer (Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves)(1881-1975)
John
Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)
Mario
Puzo, NYC, novelist (Godfather, Cotton Club, Earthquake), (1920-1999)
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Historical
Obits Today
Pat
O'Brien, actor (Some like it hot), 1983, @83
Edie
Adams, singer and Broadway actress, 2008, @81
Carlo
Gambino, Italian-American gangster, heart attack, 1976, @74
Cole
Porter, composer (Still of the Night), kidney failure, 1964, @73
Leonard
Bernstein, composer (West Side Story), heart attack, 1990, @72
Hermann
Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, suicide in prison, 1946, @53
Mata Hari (Margaretha MacLeod), Dutch
dancer/German spy, executed, 1917, @41
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. ANYMORE
2. MOTOR
3. RIP
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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…§
