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Almanac: Week: 45 \ Day: 311
November
Averages: 51° \ 22°
Holiday Observances
Today:
Bittersweet Chocolate
with Almonds Day
Job Action Day
National Medical
Science Liaison Awareness & Appreciation Day
Republican Elephant
Day
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Solidarity Day
(Bangladesh-1975 uprising)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1820 - James Monroe re-elected US president
1848 - General Zachary Taylor elected as
12th President of US
1876 - Pres Rutherford B. Hayes &
Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but
Electoral College selects Hayes (R)
1916 - Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected US
President
1944 - FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating
Thomas E Dewey (R)
1972 - Pres Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George
McGovern (D)
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1512 - Medici's discharge Niccolo
Machiavelli from Florence
1519 -
Spaniards have their first view of Tenochtitlán (modern Mexico City)
1637 - Anne Hutchinson tried in Massachusetts Bay
Colony as a heretic
1651 - King Louis XIV of France (13)
declared of full age
1665 - 1st edition of "London Gazette"
1786 - Stoughton Musical Society, oldest musical
organization in the US is founded
1805 - Lewis and Clark sight Pacific Ocean
1874 - 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican
Party symbol, by Thomas Nast
1893 - US State Colorado accepts female suffrage
1914
– 1st issue of The New Republic magazine is published
1916 - Jeannette Rankin (Mont) elected to
Congress as its 1st woman Rep
1929 - NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher
Building
1932 - 1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the
25th century" on CBS-radio
1933 - Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by
permitting Sunday sports
1933 - Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th
mayor of New York City
1942 - 1st US president to broadcast in a foreign
language-FDR in French
1954 - US spy plane shot down North of Japan
1967 - LBJ signs a bill establishing
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1990 - Mary Robinson elected as 1st female
president of Ireland
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to
the United States Senate, becoming the 1st former First Lady to win public
office
2012
- Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve same-sex marriage
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Good lunch downtown with our retirement group. New restaurant in
historic building. Interesting. Discussed a lot of politics. Wandered around
downtown for a little while. Due to the difficulty in finding parking, I seldom
go downtown, even if someone else is driving. I was amazed at the number of
restaurants down there. Can’t imagine how they all stay in business. At the
place we went, we were the only ones in there during the lunch rush. Good food
but don’t think they will be around that long.
Yesterday Obama was understanding of the results and said he would
continue to work for the American People. Senate and House leaders said they
too wanted to get things done. That didn’t even last 24 hours. I say that
everyone listen to the polls of the American people and do what we want. All
polls show that Americans are happy with Obamacare (with some tweeks)…that
America needs to raise the minimum wage…and more jobs are needed. All you politicians…Get
busy and do it.
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Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Created
I was, in 1841,
By someone with the name of an evil one,
He was a Belgian, living in Paris,
This man had to be very zealous.
Fourteen of me, this young man made,
Some above A, but not quite B,
With some higher than D, but lower than E,
And some that are C, and three halves above D,
That's why my popularity's so easy to see.
Golden with lacquer, I usually am,
I sometimes am used to honor Uncle Sam,
Patented I was in 1846,
I'm the one who gives some their kicks,
I'm shaped like a J - with a hook on the end,
So, can you tell what I am?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Dog Facts…
—Dogs turn in circles before lying down because in the wild this
turns long grass into a bed.
—Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the
right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided
tail language.
Facebook
Facts…
—A woman in Britain was sentenced to 20 months in jail for
creating fake Facebook profiles and trolling herself.
—You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO
—Mr. D. S. Carlos brought in samples of cabbage and potatoes from
his ranch at Turkey Tank. They’re sure to be prize winners at the State Fair
and show the splendid success of working a dry ranch.
—G. W. Hunt, Albert Wyatt, and Thomas Garrison are back from a
quail hunt in the lower country where they bagged six dozen quail, about
40 croppie and successfully battled a huge rattler who was the proud possessor
of 14 rattles and a button.
Gender
Facts…
—Women have about four times as many foot problems as men;
lifelong patterns of wearing high heels often are the culprit.
—According to a U.K. study, women are better at parking a car than
men.
Harper’s
Index…
—Number of local government jobs lost since 2010: 351,000
—Portion of those jobs that were in education: 3/4
Internet
Facts…
—20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around,
and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
—The town of Villa Las Estrellas in Antarctica is the most remote
town on Earth, and there's only three computers with internet access!
That’s
Outrageous from Reader’s Digest…
Helplessness is defined by slipping a dollar into the office
vending machine, only to watch your Twix get stuck on the coils. That’s what
happened to an Iowa man. But unlike the rest of us, he had a forklift at his
disposal, which he used to jostle the machine until it freed his booty. He was
fired the next day.
Rules of
Thumb…
ABLESON'S
RULE OF TIMING
"Companies
which do well tend to report [their quarterly] earnings earlier than those
which do poorly."
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
7-Up
was originally called "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda."
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Joke-of-the-day
Why did Dorothy get lost in Oz?
She had three men giving her directions.
Yep, It
Really Happened
HUEYTOWN,
Ala. (UPI)
A man who robbed four Subway restaurants in four days with a gun
claims he did it because he was mad the "Jared Diet" didn't work for
him. Zachary Torrance, 18, was arrested Friday by Hueytown police after someone
saw surveillance videos on the Hueytown Police Department's Facebook page and
recognized Torrance from having witnessed him purchase a gun holster at a
Walmart. Police say he was even wearing the same clothing and shoes as the
suspect was the day of the robbery.
"He stated in the course of his interview he had tried the
'Jared Diet' and it hadn't worked for him like he thought it should have,"
Police Chief Chuck Hagler told WJBF. "He was trying to get his money
back." He has confessed to the crime and will face sentencing. He is
currently being held with a $250,000 bail.
Somewhat
Useless Information
The
inventors of Hot Wheels and Barbie were married
Both
Ruth Marianna Handler (1916 – 2002) and Elliot Handler (1916 – 2011) were
American businesspeople, as well as inventors.
Ruth
handler served as the president of the toy manufacturer Mattel Inc., and is
remembered for her role in marketing the Barbie doll.
Elliot
Handler was the co-founder of Mattel, and together with his wife, he was a
developer of some of the biggest-selling toys in American history, including
Barbie dolls, Chatty Cathy, Creepy Crawlers and Hot Wheels.
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Bruce
Dickinson is not only a rock star but also a pilot
Bruce
Dickinson, born in 7 August 1958, is widely known as the lead vocalist of the
heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
However,
because of his love for aviation, Dickinson learned to fly in the 1990s and
holds an airline transport pilot’s license.
As
a captain he regularly flew Boeing 757s for the now-defunct UK charter airline
Astraeus, which, from 16 September 2010, employed him as Marketing Director.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
National
Fig Week; National Patient Accessibility Week; World Communication Week:
1-7
National Radiologic Technology Week; Drowsy
Driving Prevention Week: 2-9
Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13
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Today’s
Events through History
1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest
meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat
field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William
Henry Harrison defeats the Native Americans of the Tecumesh Confederation
1876 - Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to receive a
PhD from a US college (Yale)
1907 - Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York
University
1917 - October Revolution (Oct 25 OS)-Lenin and
the Bolsheviks seize power
1918 - Robert Goddard demonstrates
tube-launched solid propellant rockets
1918 - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to
Western Samoa, kills 7,542 (about 20% of the population)
1962 - Nixon tells press he won't be available to
kick around any more
1967 - Carl B Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a
major city-Cleveland
1982 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf
Classic
1991 - Magic Johnson announces he has HIV
virus & retires from LA Lakers
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Birthday’s
Today
Barry
Newman, actor (Petrocelli) is 76
Johnny
Rivers, [Ramistella], singer (Secret Agent Man) is 72
Joni
Mitchell, [Roberta J Anderson], singer (Clouds) is 71
Jeremy
London, actor (I'll Fly Away, Party of Five) is 42
Marcus
Luttrell, United States Navy SEAL ("Lone Survivor") is 39
Remembered
for being born today
Marie
Skłodowska-Curie, Warsaw, discovered
radium (Nobel) (1867-1934)
Leon
Trotsky[Leib Bronstein], revolutionary and Theorist (1879-1940)
Dean
Jagger, actor (Elmer Gantry) (1903-1991)
Albert
Camus, Algeria, author (The Just-Nobel 1957), (1913-1960)
Al Hirt, jazz
trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World) (1922-1999)
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Historical
Obits Today
Will
Durant, US author (story of civilization), 1981, @96
John
MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer, 1881, @90
Alfred
Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist, 1913, @90
Gene
Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champ, 1978, @80
Eleanor
Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), cardiac failure, 1962, @78
Joe
Frazier, Olympic Heavyweight Boxer, liver cancer, 2011, @67
Jack
Kelly, actor (Maverick), stroke, 1992, @65
Steve
McQueen, actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt), cancer, 1980, @50
Butch
Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], train\bank robber, shot 1908, @42
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Brain Teasers Answers
A Saxophone.
Created I was, in 1841,
By someone with the name of an evil one,
He was a Belgian, living in Paris,
This man had to be very zealous.
Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in 1841. Adolphe Sax's name has a
resemblance to Adolf Hitler, an evil one indeed...
Fourteen of me, this young man made,
Some above A, but not quite B,
With some higher than D, but lower than E,
And some that are C, and three halves above D,
That's why my popularity's so easy to see.
Sax made 14 different types of saxes. Seven pitched in C and F (F is three
half-steps above D, hence three halves above D), and seven pitched in Eb
(That's E Flat for you non-musicians, which is above D and lower than E) and Bb
(above A and not quite B).
Golden with lacquer, I usually am,
I sometimes am used to honor Uncle Sam.
Saxes are usually golden, and the covering is referred to a lacquer. Saxes are
also used in Military bands, thus "honoring Uncle Sam"
Patented I was in 1846,
I'm the one who gives some their kicks,
I'm shaped like a J-with a hook on the end,
Most saxes are J shaped with a hook with the exception of the Soprano Sax. Many
Jazz enthusiasts get their "kicks" or enjoyment from saxophone
players.
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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…§
