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Almanac: Week: 48 \ Day: 333
November
Averages: 51° \ 22°
Holiday Observances
Today:
National
Day (Albania-1944-end of Nazi control)
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Electronic
Greetings Day
International
Day of Solidarity with The Palestinian People-since
1978
National
Day of Giving
Small
Business Saturday
Square Dance Day
Observances This
Week:
24-30
GERD
Awareness Week; National Bible Week; National Game & Puzzle Week; Better
Conversation Week; Church/State Separation Week; National Family Week
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
526 - Antioch
in modern day Syria struck by Earthquake, about 250,000 die
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into
Manchester & occupies Carlisle
1775 - Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
1825 - 1st Italian opera in US, "Barber of
Seville" premieres (NYC)
1864 - Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado militia kills
about 150 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians
1870 - Compulsory education proclaimed in England
1887 - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu,
Hawaii
1901 - East 182nd Street in Bronx is paved &
opened
1910 - The 1st US patent for inventing the traffic
lights system is issued
1915 - Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa
Catalina Island, California
1932 - Cole Porter’s musical "Gay
Divorcee" premieres in NYC
1942 - US rations coffee
1944 - John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open
heart surgery
1948 - "Kukla, Fran, & Ollie" debuted
on NBC
1948 - KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC)
begins broadcasting
1953 - American Airlines begins 1st regular coml
NY-LA air service
1963 - LBJ sets up Warren Comm to investigate
assassination of JFK
1964 - Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin
with English
1967 - Robert McNamara elected president of World
Bank
1972 - Pong (the 1st commercially successful video
game) released
1975 - Pres Ford requires states to provide free
education for handicapped
1994 - Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary
of its founding
526 - Antioch
in modern day Syria struck by Earthquake, about 250,000 die
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into
Manchester & occupies Carlisle
1775 - Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
1825 - 1st Italian opera in US, "Barber of
Seville" premieres (NYC)
1864 - Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado militia kills
about 150 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians
1870 - Compulsory education proclaimed in England
1887 - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu,
Hawaii
1901 - East 182nd Street in Bronx is paved &
opened
1910 - The 1st US patent for inventing the traffic
lights system is issued
1915 - Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa
Catalina Island, California
1932 - Cole Porter’s musical "Gay
Divorcee" premieres in NYC
1942 - US rations coffee
1944 - John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open
heart surgery
1948 - "Kukla, Fran, & Ollie" debuted
on NBC
1948 - KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC)
begins broadcasting
1953 - American Airlines begins 1st regular coml
NY-LA air service
1963 - LBJ sets up Warren Comm to investigate
assassination of JFK
1964 - Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin
with English
1967 - Robert McNamara elected president of World
Bank
1972 - Pong (the 1st commercially successful video
game) released
1975 - Pres Ford requires states to provide free
education for handicapped
1994 - Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th
anniversary of its founding
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
I got up as usual but waited until about 9:30 to go out. Only stop
was Home Depot. For the past 5 years I’ve gotten a 99cent Red Poinsettia there.
This year they were very nice and larger than last year. One is enough for me,
even though they had a 15 limit. Not sure how they pull this off, but they do
every year. I walked around and ended up spending about $50, including an
Amaryllis for only $5, so I guess their loss leader really works. Found some
stuff I can use at home, and even a couple of Christmas gifts.
It was a really warm day here, for a change, and I could keep the
front door open for about 30 minutes…nice!
It was ‘flip the mattresses’ and ‘change the furnace filter’ day.
Did both before taking off for the store.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can
you complete this grid of letters? Each line is a valid 5 letter word with its
first and last letters missing. The missing letters form a word when read
downwards and the same word appears both at the start and at the end. What is
the missing word?
_OMI_
_EVE_
_ROM_
_OAK_
_ATC_
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Actor
Facts…
¤ Jackie Chan’s mother was an opium smuggler and his father was a
spy.
¤ Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest
and lost.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO
¤ Bureau of Reclamation Director Frank M. Clinton says lack of
precipitation may lead to stopping power production at the Glen Canyon or Hover
Dams.
¤ First snow fell on Wed. when we received 2" of icy granules
which made for slick streets. This is the first moisture falling in the past 2
months. It was a mixed blessing for hunters making the fire hazard lower. There
was 5-6 inches of slush at the Snow Bowl which melted quickly. The cinder
trucks were kept busy but other city equipment was required.
Flagstaff’s
Iconic 50…
The Gandy
Dancer
A statue at Old Flagstaff Depot dedicated to railroad track
laborers.
N 35° 11.817 W 111° 38.881 to see it on
Google Maps.
Harper’s
Index…
Factor by which the number of recalls GM has issued this year
exceeds the number of cars it sold in the previous two years: 5
Rules of
Thumb…
LISTENING
TO PEEPERS
When the spring
peepers (frog) start, the maple sugaring stops.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
America
got its first true pizzeria when Gennaro Lombardi opened up a small grocery
store in NYC’s Little Italy. An employee named Anthony “Totonno” Pero started
selling pizzas out of the back, and in no time, Lombardi’s was concentrating on
its burgeoning pizza business instead of plain old groceries.
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Joke-of-the-day
Q. What do you call a polar bear with ear
muffs?
A. Anything you want, he can’t hear you!
Yep, It
Really Happened
Competitive eater Joey Chestnut just won a turkey-eating contest
in Connecticut, setting a record by devouring an entire bird.
Ten contestants vied to see who could eat the most of a 20-pound turkey in a
competition at Foxwoods Resort Casino.
Chestnut ate 9.35 pounds of meat off the bone in 10 minutes. According to Major
League Eating he bested the previous record, which was held by Sonya Thomas,
who ate 5.25 pounds of turkey in November 2011.
Chestnut, a San Jose, California, resident who just turned 31, is ranked the
top competitive eater in the world.
He took home a $5,000 check after stuffing his face with turkey. The remainder
of the $10,000 purse was divided among other contestants.
Somewhat
Useless Information
When
was the first webcam invented?
Did
you know the circumstances under which the first-ever webcam was invented?
It
was back in 1990 and some officers at the University of Cambridge created the
first webcam so as to watch a coffee pot in the break room.
So,
they didn’t have any excuse to kill time, as they didn’t need to get up from
their desks to see if there’s fresh coffee. Genius!
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Today’s
Events through History
1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates his
hand-cranked phonograph for the first time
1897 - 1st motorcycle race (Surrey, England)
1926 - W Somerset Maugham’s "Constant
Wife" premieres in NYC
1933 - 1st state liquor stores authorized
(Pennsylvania)
1952 - US President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea
to assess war
2012 - UN votes approves Palestine’s status change from observer
to observer state
Birthday’s
Today
Vin Scully, Bronx, sportscaster
(Los Angeles Dodgers) is 87
Don January, pro
golfer (1976 Vardon Trophy) is 86
David Reuben, author
(Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex) is 81
Diane Ladd, actress
(Wild Angels, Wild at Heart) is 79
Chuck Mangione, jazz
hornist is 74
Garry Shandling, AZ,
comedian (Garry Shandling) is 65
Howie Mandel, Toronto,
comedian (Dr Wayne Fiscus-St Elsewhere) is 59
Cathy Moriarty, Bronx,
actress (Raging Bull) is 54
Kim Delaney, actress
(NYPD Blue) is 53
Don Cheadle, actor
(Boogie Nights) is 50
Remembered
for being born today
Christian Doppler,
Salzburg, physicist (Doppler effect), (1803-1853)
Louisa May Alcott, author
(Little Women) (1832-1888)
C. S. Lewis [Clive
Staples], Belfast, sci-fi author (Chronicals of Narnia), (1898-1963)
Adam Clayton Powell Jr,
(Rep-D-NY)/minister (1908-1972)
Merle Travis, Country
singer (1917-1983)
Madeleine L'Engle,
[Franklin], US, sci-fi author (Wrinkle in Time) (1918-2007)
Frank Reynolds, news
anchor (ABC Evening News) (1923-1983)
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Historical
Obits Today
Ralph Bellamy, actor
(Rosemary's Baby), 1991, @87
Cary Grant, actor
(Charades), 1986, @82
Gene Rayburn,
American game show host, 1999, @81
Coleman Young, 1st
black mayor of a major city, 1997, @ 79
Claudio Giovanni Monteverdi, Italian
composer (L'arianna), 1643, @76
Giacomo Puccini, Ital
composer (Mme Butterfly), cancer, 1924, @65
Horace Greeley, US
founder/publisher (NY Tribune), long illness, 1872, @61
George Harrison, English
singer, guitarist and songwriter, cancer, 2001, @58
Godfrey Cambridge, actor
(Watermelon Man), heart attack, 1976, @43
Natalie Wood, actress
(West Side Story), drowns, 1981, @43
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Brain Teasers Answers
CLASH
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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…§
