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Almanac: Day: 303
/ Week: 44
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Checklist Day
Create A Great
Funeral Day
Devil's Night
Haunted Refrigerator
Night
Increase Mischief
Night
National Candy Corn
Day
National Magic Day
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1503 - Queen
Isabella of Spain bans violence against Indians
1534 - Parliament
passes Act of Supremacy, King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role
formerly held by the Pope
1739 - Great
Britain declares war on Spain: War of Jenkin's Ear
1768 – 1st
Methodist church in colonies initiated (Wesley Chapel, NYC)
1772 - Captain
Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown
1804 - Mandans like Lewis & Clark's men's
dancing
1864 - Helena,
Montana's capital, founded
1868 - John
Menard of Louisiana is 1st African American elected to US Congress
1873 - P
T Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth", debuts (New York City)
1896 - Martha
Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator
1900 - First-ever
US auto show opens in Madison Square Garden in NYC
1938 - Orson
Welles panics the USA with broadcast of "War of the Worlds"
1948 - 20
die & 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora, Pennsylvania
1952 - Clarence
Birdseye sells first frozen peas
1953 - Dr
Albert Schweitzer & Gen George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
1974
- Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman Zaire-'The Rumble in the Jungle'
1978 - Uganda troops attack Tanzania
1995 - Quebec
Referendum votes to remain part of Canada
2012 - Walt
Disney purchases Lucas film Ltd\rights for Star Wars and Indiana Jones
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
WOW! Hard to believe it is the end of October with this great
weather.
Not a busy day with only a quick trip to Sam’s and Home Depot.
Political phone calls continue. I no longer listen to the
robo-calls and just hang up. If there is a real human, I simply say “It’s no
one’s business who I’m supporting” and then hang up. Not answering any of the
poll questions either, I just hang up.
Hurry up Nov. 4 so this insanity will stop.
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Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Recorded
by three hands,
I have no bounds.
People use me constantly,
My vastness astounds.
I'm used around the world,
Organized by ancient cultures.
Through me all things happen,
Children become geezers.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Brief
History…
Seldom do you see pictures of Vikings without their stereotypical
horned helmets, including the cartoon Hagar the Horrible. In
fact, Vikings did not wear horned helmets. That is strictly a product of
German opera productions.
Educator’s
Answers…
“If you managed your time at school, I bet you wouldn’t need to
plan lessons and grade on the weekends.”
OK, I’m a little busy at school. I teach and work with students
almost every moment of the day. Spending 20 hours a week outside of school on
prep and grading is normal for me.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO
-A new nail picker-upper that reduces flat tires is the State
Highway Department’s latest gadget. It has three huge magnets on a large
truck that prowls the highways. Operator Bill Williams estimates he gets about
300 pounds of nails every day.
-Local property owners can avoid paying interest on the paving
bonds for the next 10 years by making a full cash payment at the bank. The assessments
are paid to the bank that holds the bonds, not to the city. C. T. Pulliam,
City Clerk.
Harper’s
Index…
Chance that a US woman under age 35 has a tattoo: 1 in 2
That a US man under 35 does: 1 in 4
Halloween
Facts…
-Teng Chieh or the Lantern Festival is one Halloween festival in
China. Lanterns shaped like dragons and other animals are hung around houses
and streets to help guide the spirits back to their earthly homes. To honor
their deceased loved ones, family members leave food and water by the portraits
of their ancestors.
-Halloween celebrations in Hong Kong are known as Yue Lan or the
“Festival of the Hungry Ghosts” during which fires are lit and food and gifts
are offered to placate potentially angry ghosts who might be looking for
revenge.
-Both Salem, Massachusetts, and Anoka, Minnesota, are the
self-proclaimed Halloween capitals of the world.
Law
Facts…
-In Kentucky, US, every citizen is required by law to take a bath
at least once a year.
-You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
700-the number of church-bell tolls a Rhode Island man had to
endure in one week, which put him in a bad mood and contributed to the demise
of his marriage, according to his lawsuit against said church.
Religious
Facts…
-The world's first Buddhist ruler, Emperor Ashoka, who ruled India
from 274-232 BCE, was the first ruler in human history to ban slavery, the
death penalty, animal cruelty, and deforestation. He even advocated gender
equality in education and religious institutions.
-Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can
dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
Rules of
Thumb…
PLANNING
A COOPERATIVE HOUSEHOLD
Unless you are
forming some sort of intentional or spiritual community, four people is the
best number for an adult cooperative household. It provides good levels of
intimacy and manageability.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Aardvark
is Afrikaans for earth pig
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Joke-of-the-day
The CIA had an opening for an assassin. After
all of the background checks, interviews, and testing were done there were
three finalists...
Two men and a woman.
For the final test, the CIA agents took one of the men to a large metal door
and handed him a gun.
"We must know that you will follow your instructions, no matter what the
circumstances.
In side of this room, you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Kill
Her!!!"
The man said, "You can't be serious. I could never shoot my wife."
The agent said, "Then you're not the right man for this job."
The second man was given the same instructions. He took the gun and went into
the room. All was quiet for about five minutes. Then the man came out with
tears in his eyes." I tried, but I can't kill my wife."
The agent said, "You don't have what it takes. Take your wife and go
home."
Finally, it was the woman's turn. She was given the same instructions to kill
her husband.
She took the gun and went into the room. Shots were heard, one shot after
another. They heard screaming, crashing, banging on the walls.
After a few minutes, all was quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the
woman.
She wiped the sweat from her brow, and said, "This gun is loaded with
blanks. I had to beat him to death with the chair."
Yep, It
Really Happened
EXETER,
England (UPI)
A British man accused of recording a woman showing in a swimming
pool cubicle claimed he was testing if his phone was waterproof. Exeter
Magistrates' Court heard Zak Hardy, 18, of Plymouth, England, used his
cellphone to take video of a naked woman showing in an adjacent cubicle at the
Riverside swimming pool in Exeter. The woman noticed the phone over the cubicle
wall was pointed at her with the blue recording light on and alerted staff, who
told police the man moved to a different cubicle before he was confronted.
Hardy told police he had been holding his phone under the shower to test if it
was waterproof and he had accidentally activated the camera. However, his
defense lawyer, Nick Bradley, said Hardy now admits he gave a false account to
police, and he admitted filming the woman on purpose.
"He accepts what he did," Bradley said. "It is not
the most serious offence although it was of course upsetting for the
complainant."
Hardy, whose phone was destroyed, was sentenced to 18 months’
probation and ordered to pay $242 in compensation. He will also be registered
as a sex offender for five years, the court ruled.
Somewhat
Useless Information
When
was the first Game of Thrones book published?
Did
you know that the book “Game of Thrones” was first published more than 15 years
ago?
It
was back in the 6th of August 1996 when the American novelist George Martin
published the first novel in ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’, a series of high fantasy
novels.
The
novel won the 1997 Locus Award and was nominated for both the 1997 Nebula Award
and the 1997 World Fantasy Award.
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A
Greek philosopher died of laughter
Did
you know that people can actually die from laughter? It is a rare instance of
death, usually caused by cardiac arrest or asphyxiation, caused by a fit of
laughter.
There
have been recorded several instances of death by laughter from Ancient Greece
to the modern day.
According
to Diogenes Laertius, Chrysippus, an ancient Greek Stoic philosopher, died of
laughter, after having seen a donkey eating his figs; he told a slave to give
the donkey neat wine to drink to wash them down with, and then, ‘…having laughed
too much, he died’ .
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
--- 24-30
Disarmament Week
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week
World Origami Days
International Magic Week
Asexuality Week
Give Wildlife a Brake! Week
Kids Care Week
National Infertility Awareness Week
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Today’s
Events through History
1270 - The
Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis ended by agreement between Charles I of
Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and
the sultan of Tunis.
1920 - The
Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney
1944 - Sweden announces intention to stay neutral
& refuse sanctuary in WW II
1954 - Defense
Department announces elimination of all racially segregated regiments
1961 - UN unanimously elects U Thant acting
secretary general after the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash
1967 - Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time
(48,093 km)
1968 - Jack Lynch, Irish Prime Minister
(Taoiseach), meets with Harold Wilson, then British Prime Minister, in London,
calling for the ending of partition as a means to resolve the unrest in
Northern Ireland
1970 - Northern Ireland Prime Minister James
Chichester-Clark meets with British Home Secretary Reginald Maulling to discuss
matters related to reforms and security
1975 - King Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain
1976 - Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today
Show
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Birthday’s
Today
Dick
Gautier, actor (Hymie-Get Smart) is 83
Ken Berry, actor (Vinton-Mama's
Family) is 81
Grace
Slick, Chicago, rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane) is 75
Henry
Winkler, actor (Fonz-Happy Days) is 69
Harry
Hamlin, actor (Michael Kuzak-LA Law) is 63
Diego
Maradona, Buenos Aires, soccer player (World Cup-hand of god) is 54
Gavin
Rossdale, English heavy metal vocalist and actor (Bush) is 49
Nia Long,
Brooklyn, actress (Soul Food) is 44
Remembered
for being born today
Christopher
Columbus, Genoa Italy, Explorer for Spain (1451-1506)
John
Adams, 2nd US President (1735-1826)
Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American
poet and author (1881-1941)
Ezra Loomis Pound, poet (Cantos), (1885-1972)
Charles
Atlas, [Angelo Siciliano], US, bodybuilder (1893-1972)
Ruth
Gordon, actress (Rosemary's Baby) (1896-1985)
Fred
Friendly, American journalist (1915-1998)
Ruth
Hussey, Providence RI, actress (Phila Story) (1911-2005)
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Historical
Obits Today
Claude
Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist, 2009, @100
John
Houseman, actor (Paper Chase), 1988, @ 86
Steve
Allen, comedian, author, and composer, heart attack, 2000, @78
Conrad
Richter, US writer (Light in the Forest), 1968, @78
Kirby
Grant, actor/singer (Sky King), auto accident, 1985, @74
Robert
Goulet, American entertainer, lung disease, 2007, @73
Allan
Cunningham, Scottish poet and author, 1842, @58
Blonde
Dolly, [Sybille A J Niemans], Dutch society prostitute, murdered, 1959,
@33
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Brain Teasers Answers
Time
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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…§
