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Almanac: Day: 304
/ Week: 44
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Books for Treats Day
Carve a Pumpkin
Day
Day of the Seven
Billion - 2011
Girl Scout Founder's
Day
Halloween
International
Bandanna Day
National
Breadstix (Bread Sticks) Day
National Caramel
Apple Day
National Knock-Knock
Jokes Day
National Magic Day National
UNICEF Day
Reformation Day-1517
Your Psychic Powers
Day
++
Admission Day (Nevada-1864-36th)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1517 - Martin
Luther posts 95 theses-precipitates the Protestant Reformation
1541 - Michelangelo finishes
painting The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel
1815 - Sir
Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp
1846 - Donner
party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, construct a winter camp
1863 - The
Maori Wars resumed--Invasion of the Waikato
1868 - Standard
uniform approved for US postal carriers
1763: Pontiac ends the siege of
Detroit
1888 - Scottish
vet John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tire
1892 - Arthur
Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1908 - 4th
Olympic Games ends in London
1913 - 1st
US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway is dedicated
1918 - Spanish
flu-virus kills 21,000 in US in 1 week
1922 - Benito
Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy
1941 - Mount Rushmore Monument is completed
1956 - Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service
1973 - 3 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers
escape from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin using a hijacked helicopter
1982
- Pope John Paul II becomes first pontiff to visit Spain
1984 - Indian PM Indira Gandhi is assassinated by
her bodyguards
1992
- Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359
years
2012 - The
New York stock exchange opens after being closed for two days after Hurricane
Sandy
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
It is still like summer here…NICE!
Our group had a great lunch today…I had fish and chips and they
were really good…Malt vinegar and all.
Had my teeth cleaned this morning. There was a new hygienist...new
to the office, not new to cleaning. I really hate it when a new one comes in.
She wants to show the dentist how good she is, but not knowing me and not
reading my chart, she made it sound like I had a rotting tooth and a cracked
cavity. The dentist made it all better because he had marked the two teeth previously
as ‘something we need to watch.’ Oh well, teeth are clean and she did a good
job with no pain of any kind.
This afternoon I cleaned out my front closet under the stairs
where I have my jackets, vacuum cleaner and car washing supplies. It had just become
real messy, but now it is all neat and clean. Nice.
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Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Which
noun, from group B, belongs in group A? Why?
Group A
Man,
Foot,
Child,
Tooth,
Mouse.
Group B
Girl,
Hand,
Adult,
Toe,
Goose.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Brief
History…
Zulus and
Indians Used Primitive Weapons Against Whites.
At first they did, but rather quickly Native Africans and Native
Americans armed themselves with firearms captured from white people or traded
for. Movies erroneously show these aboriginal people resisting white
invaders strictly with spears and arrows, but in reality both groups were quick
to grasp the importance of firearms for combat and took to them readily.
When George Custer got himself and his men wiped out, the Native Americans were
largely armed with repeating rifles while Custer and the 7th Cavalry were armed
with single shot rifles.
Educator’s
Answers…
“You’ll never be a truly great teacher until you have your own
kids.”
Actually, yes I will. The relationship between teacher and student
is quite different from that of parent and child.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS
AGO
New snow gauges have been placed in Fort Valley and at Mormon Lake
by G. K. Greening, meteorologist in charge of the Weather Bureau in Phoenix.
These gauges contain a chemical so the snow will melt, be retained and kept
from freezing.
Harper’s
Index…
Chances that the word ‘pushy’ when used in US media, is used to
describe a woman: 2 in 3
Halloween
Facts…
-Boston, Massachusetts, holds the record for the most Jack
O’Lanterns lit at once (30,128).
-The Village Halloween parade in New York City is the largest
Halloween parade in the United States. The parade includes 50,000 participants
and draws over 2 million spectators.
-In many countries, such as France and Australia, Halloween is
seen as an unwanted and overly commercial American influence.
-Children are more than twice as likely to be killed in a pedestrian/car
accident on Halloween than on any other night.
Law
Facts…
-In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the
murder of a child.
-In Quitman, Georgia, US, it is illegal for a chicken to cross the
road.
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
29,305--The number of texts--containing the entire works of
William Shakespeare—sent by a British man to a video game seller who had ripped
him off. The thief’s phone beeped nonstop for a week.
Religious
Facts…
-There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
-The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
Rules of
Thumb…
PLAYING
TENNIS
If you're nervous,
the first thing that goes is your footwork.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Chicago
is America's skyscraper capital. The city has more 1,000-foot tall buildings
than any other U.S. city.
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Joke-of-the-day
Three engineers and three accountants were
traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three accountants each
bought tickets and watched as the three engineers bought only one ticket.
"How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asked an
accountant.
"Watch and you'll see", answered an engineer.
They all boarded the train. The accountants took their respective seats, but
the three engineers all crammed into a rest room and closed the door behind
them. Shortly after the train departed, the conductor came around collecting
tickets. He knocked on the restroom door and said, "Ticket, please".
The door opened just a crack and a single arm emerged with a ticket in hand.
The conductor took it and moved on.
The accountants saw this and agreed it was a quite clever idea. So, after the
conference, the accountants decide to copy the engineers on the return trip and
save some money (being clever with money, and all that). When they got to the
station, they bought a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment,
the engineers didn't buy a ticket at all.
"How are you going to ride without a ticket"? said one perplexed
accountant.
"Watch and you'll see", answered an engineer.
When they boarded the train, the three accountants crammed into a restroom and
the three engineers crammed into another one nearby. The train departed.
Shortly afterward, one of the engineers left his restroom and walked over to
the restroom where the accountants were hiding. He knocked on the door and
said, "Ticket, please."
Yep, It
Really Happened
WARSOP, England (UPI) - Contractors painting the road outside a
British supermarket's parking lot mistakenly spelled "right" as
"rihgt." The mistake in spelling "right turn" next to the
Co-op store in Warsop, England, was first spotted Friday afternoon and
photographed by resident Eric Hill before being painted over by the
contractors. A spokesman for the Co-op supermarket said the contractors were
made aware of the mistake shortly after they finished painting and it was
corrected "as quickly as possible." "You would have thought
getting a right turn road sign right wouldn't be too difficult," one
resident said. "But I guess spelling isn't the road workers'
strongpoint."
Somewhat
Useless Information
-Leslie
Scott, game designer and author, developed the original JENGA Classic game from
a wood block stacking game her family had created in Ghana in the 1970s.
Introduced to the public at the famous Harrod's department store in London in
1982, JENGA was launched in North America in 1986, and has since become an
international game icon.
The record for the highest known JENGA tower is 40 complete stories with two
blocks into the 41st, claimed in 1985 by Robert Grebler (US).
The name "jenga" derives from a Swahili word meaning "to
build."
The V&A Museum of Childhood in London has exhibited one of the original
sets of Jenga since 1982.
Today, according to Leslie Scott, over 50 million Jenga games, equivalent to
more than 2.7 billion Jenga blocks, have been sold worldwide.
- The US Mint began
putting notches on the edges of coins containing gold and silver to discourage
holders from shaving off small quantities of the precious metals. Dimes,
quarters and half dollars are notched because they used to contain silver.
Pennies and nickels aren't notched because the metals they contain are not
valuable enough to shave.
-In
France, where tennis first became popular, a big, round zero on scoreboard
looked like an egg and was called 'l'oeuf,' which is French for 'egg.' When
tennis was introduced in the U.S., Americans pronounced it 'love.'
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
Nada.
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Today’s
Events through History
1953 - TV
broadcasting begins in Belgium
1954 - Betsy
Rawls wins LPGA Texas Golf Open
1969 - Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
2002 - Federal
grand jury in Houston, indicts former Enron Corp. CFO
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Birthday’s
Today
Lee Grant [Lyova
Haskell Rosenthal], actress (Shampoo) is 89
Anita
Kerr, singer\composer\producer (The Anita Kerr Singers) is 88
Dan
Rather, journalist\news anchor (CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes) is 84
Tom
Paxton, folk singer/songwriter is 78
David
Ogden Stiers, actor (Winchester-M*A*S*H) is 73
Deidre
Hall, actress (Days of our Lives) is 68
Frank
Shorter, US marathoner (Oly-gold/silver-72, 76) is 68
Jane
Pauley, newscaster (Today, NBC Weekend) is 64
Peter
Jackson, film director (Lord of the Rings) is 54
Dermot
Mulroney, actor (Young Guns) is 52
Rob
Schneider, actor (SNL) is 52
Vanilla
Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle), rapper (Ice Ice Baby) is 48
Piper
Perabo, American actress is 39
Willow
Smith, American actress is 15
Remembered
for being born today
Ferdinand
I, the wise one, king of Portugal (built navy) (1345-1383)
Jan
Vermeer, Holland, painter (Procuress, Astronomer), (1632-1675)
John
Keats, London, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn), (1795-1821)
Georg A
Erman, German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt) (1954-1937)
Chiang
Kai-shek, Pres of Nationalist China (1897-1975)
Ethel
Waters, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather) (1896-1977)
Dale
Evans, [Frances Butts], cowgirl (Roy Rogers Show) (1912-2001)
Barbara
Bel Geddes, actress (Vertigo, Miss Ellie-Dallas, Caught) (1922-2005)
Michael
Landon, actor (Bonanza, Highway to Heaven) (1936-1991)
John
Candy, Canadian actor and comedian (1950-1994)
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Historical
Obits Today
John
Houseman, actor (Paper Chase), 1988, @86
Jacob
Abbott, American author, 1879, @ 75
Federico
Fellini, director (La Dolce Vita), stroke1993, @73
Indira
Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated, 1986, @66
Rosalind
Cash, actress (Emma-Go Tell It on the Mountain), cancer, 1995, @56
Harry
Houdini, [Erich Weisz], magician, gangrene, 1926, @52
George
Washington De Long, American Arctic Explorer, expedition, 1881, @37
River
Phoenix, actor (Stand By Me), OD, 1993, @23
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Brain Teasers Answers
Goose. The others in group B, can be pluralized by adding an S.
The nouns in group A have the word changed to a different word to make a
plural.
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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…§
