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Almanac: Week: 45 \ Day: 306
November
Averages: 51° \ 22°
Holiday Observances
Today:
All Soul's Day
Cookie Monster Day
Daylight Saving Time
Ends
Deviled Egg Day
Dia(s) De Los Muertos
International Day to
End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists
Look for Circles Day
National Traffic
Directors Day
Plan Your Epitaph Day
Zero Tasking Day
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Admission Day (North
Dakota-1889-39th)
Admission Day (South
Dakota-1889-40th)
Day(s) of the Dead
(Dia(s) De Los Muertos - 11/01-02 - Mexico)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1852 - Franklin
Pierce elected as president of US
1880 - James
A Garfield elected 20th US President
1920 - Warren
G Harding elected 29th president
1976 - Jimmy
Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for US President
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1783 - General George
Washington, bids farewell to his army
1835 - 2nd
Seminole War begins in Osceola
1904 - British
newspaper "Daily Mirror" begins publishing
1917 - Balfour
Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1924 - Sunday
Express publishes first British crossword puzzle
1944 - Auschwitz
begins gassing inmates
1947 - Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose"
flies for 1st (& last) time
1948 - Pres Harry
Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey
1953 - Pakistan
becomes Islamic republic
1960 - Penguin Books publishes "Lady
Chatterley's Lover"
1966 - The Cuban Adjustment Act allows 123,000
Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the US
1972
- 500 Indians conclude the "Trail of Broken Treaties" march to
D.C.. seize part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building until the 8th.
2000 -
1st crew arrives at the International Space Station.
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Trick or treating was successful. Lots of little kids, up to about
10, very few tweens and older. Lots of Moms and Dads with toddlers. The little
ones had cute costumes but really had no idea what was going on. An enjoyable evening from about 5p-9p. I
turned off my stuff then and watched TV. There hadn’t been anyone knocking
since 8:30. The elementary kids really enjoyed my decorations, especially the
bubbling cauldron. I always had a fog machine going in Tuba and down here for a
couple of years, then it just stopped working…still looking for another cheap
one. I checked out a couple of stores early this morning, hoping for ½ price
sales, but didn’t find anything I wanted.
Local weatherman was right on with a forecast last night of strong
winds and decreased temps. A lot cooler today and wind all day. Front walk is full
of pine needles.
A quite evening planned tonight…not having to answer the door
every few minutes.
The state of AZ never changes their clocks, unless one lives in
the Navajo Nation. However, the day does not go by unnoticed, as many of our TV
feeds are from the West Coast so everything changes twice a year. Thank
goodness for DVR’s until I get used to the change.
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Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Each
statement describes two words that when fused together create an unrelated
word. The clues do not necessarily indicate the order of the two words. The
pronunciation of the new word is not necessarily the same as the individual
words. Example: This is the oldness of a tablet (pill + age = pillage).
1) This is the loud and wild talk of a mongrel dog.
2) This is hair from a gymnastics surface.
3) This is only frozen water.
4) This piece of lumber is made of stellar material.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Brief
History…
Napoleon
Bonaparte was short.
This claim is one of those propaganda lies that has become fact in
the mind of much of the population over the years. Although not tall, he was actually an average
size guy for his time, about 5’6” to 5’7” depending on the source. Another possible source of this
misunderstanding may have been the English inch was shorter than the French
inch, resulting in the common idea of Napoleon as a squirt trying to make up for
his lack of size. He also had a personal
guard of tall strapping soldiers that made him appear smaller.
Educator’s
Answers…
“I pay taxes in this district, so technically you work for me.”
Sorry, we’re not your minions. That’s not how it works. Taxes
support public goods and services — such as the fire department, police, parks,
and yes, public schools — for the community as a whole. And by the way,
teachers pay taxes too.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS
AGO
The police put in a busy weekend what with an attempt at suicide
on Santa Fe Avenue. Plus a drunk with a concealed weapon carrying on and a
series of minor thefts.
Buddy Young who was hunting east of the Clear Creek area brought
in a near-1,000-pound elk on opening day. It was 4 feet from tip to tip of
his rack.
Harper’s
Index…
Fportion of professional journalists who were college grads in
1971: 58
Who are today: 92
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
419.99-the mile marker in Colorado put on Interstate 70 after the
old one—420, which is linked to marijuana—kept being stolen.
Religious
Facts…
-The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
-'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in
Australia.
Rules of
Thumb…
FINDING
AN ADDRESS
When you think
you've gone too far, go for at least another mile or two. Ninety percent of the
time the address you're looking for will be just a little bit further.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
There
is a Librarian of Congress. James Hadley Billington is the 13th,
sworn in in 1987.
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Joke-of-the-day
Two judges from a small county happen to be
stopped for speeding on the same day. They agree that there's no point in
calling the state Supreme Court for a visiting judge; they'll just go ahead and
hear each other's case.
The next morning, one judge takes the bench, the other sits at counsel table.
The first judge admits he's guilty, and the second judge suspends the fine and
court costs for him.
They then switch places, the second judge pleads guilty as well, but the other
judge fines him $200 plus all court costs.
The second judge is exceedingly upset: "I suspended your fine and costs
and you go and give me the maximum!"
The first judge responds: "Well, look at the increase we've just had for
this crime. SOMEBODY has to do something about it!"
Yep, It
Really Happened
BETHLEHEM,
Pa. (UPI)
Police in Pennsylvania said a man who dressed as the yellow
Teletubbie and broke into a friend's home for leftover Chinese food has been
charged with burglary. Bethlehem police said Lehigh University student Terez
Owens Jr., 20, was dressed as Laa-Laa, the yellow Teletubbie, when he allegedly
broke into a friend's house about 2 a.m. Sunday and filled his "man
purse" with leftover Chinese food from the refrigerator. The door to the
residence was damaged during the break-in, police said. Officers caught up to
Owens, who police said was dressed up for a nearby Halloween party, shortly after
the incident, but he was released when the victim initially declined to press
charges. "I guess the victims thought about it and the landlord got
involved with the damage," Bethlehem police Chief Mark DiLuzio said. Owens
has now been charged with burglary, police said. The chief said the case was
unusual for the department. "Not that many Teletubbies get arrested,"
he said. "You can't make it up."
Somewhat
Useless Information
Ten
actors who passed away during the filming of a movie
Being
an actor is not only a matter of glam and success, but also of dangerous
moments, as well as… fatal. Below there is a list with ten actors and
actresses, who died during the shooting of films.
Jon
– Erik Hexum («Cover Up» )
Vic
Morrow (Twilight Zone: The Movie)
John
Ritter (8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter)
Tyrone
Power (Solomon και Sheba)
Redd
Foxx (The Royal Family)
Brandon
Lee (The Crow)
Martha
Mansfield (The Warrens of Virginia)
Steve
Irwin (Ocean’s Deadliest)
Paul
Mantz (Flight of the Phoenix)
Roy
Kinnear (The Return of the Musketeers)
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
National Fig Week: 1-7
National Patient Accessibility Week: 1-7
World Communication Week: 1-7
National Radiologic Technology Week:
2-8
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week: 2-9
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Today’s
Events through History
1675 - A
combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and
Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts
during King Philip's War
1903 - Lyceum
Theater (New Lyceum) opens at 149 W 45th St NYC
1903 - New Amsterdam Theater opens at 214 W 42nd St
NYC
1936 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is
established
1955 - David
Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1974 - 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul,
South Korea burns down
1983 - President
Reagan signs bill establishing Dr Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
1993 - Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman
governor of NJ
1993 - Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of
NYC
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Birthday’s
Today
Ken
Rosewall, Sydney Australia, tennis star (US Open 1956) is 80
Jay Black,
American singer (Jay and the Americans) is 76
Dave
Stockton, golfer and two-time PGA Champion (1970, 1976) is 73
Stefanie
Powers, Hollywood Ca, actress (Hart to Hart) is 72
K.D. Lang [Kathy
Dawn], Canadian country singer is 53
Nelly (Cornell
Iral Haynes, Jr), American rapper is 40
Remembered
for being born today
Conrad
Weiser, PA ambassador to the Native Americans (1696-1760)
Daniel
Boone, frontiersman/explorer (1734-1820)
Marie
Antoinette, Vienna, Queen of France, "let them eat cake" (1755-
1793)
James
Knox Polk, NC, 11th American President (D) (1795-1849)
Warren
Gamaliel Harding, Ohio, (R) 29th pres (1865-1923)
Burt
Lancaster, NYC, actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry) (1913-1994)
Ann
Rutherford, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, actress, (1917-2012)
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Historical
Obits Today
Hal Roach,
producer (Keystone Kops), 1992 @100
George
Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), 1950, @94
Irwin
Allen, dir (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure), heart attack,
1991, @75
Richard
Cushing, US cardinal to Boston, cancer, 1970, @75
Toni
Stone, first woman professional baseball in a men's league, 1996, @75
Jenny
Lind, [Swedish Nightingale], soprano, 1887, @67
Ngo Dinh
Diem, president of South Vietnam (1955-63), murdered, 1963, @62
David
Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, AIDS. 1994, @37
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Brain Teasers Answers
1) cur + rant = currant
2) mat + tress = mattress
3) just + ice = justice
4) star + board = starboard
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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…§
