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Today is the 5th day of the 40th week, the 6th day of the 10th month, the 280th day of 2016, and: 
  • American Libraries Day
  • Come and Take It Day -- commemorates the firing of the first shot of the Texas revolution in 1835, which took place near Gonzales.
  • Ecological Debt Day
  • Garlic Lovers Day
  • Jackie Mayer Rehab Day --  Jacquelyn Jeanne Mayer, Miss America 1963, had a stroke in 1970 at the age of 28 years old, and worked hard for seven years to regain her speech and mobility becoming a motivational speaker
  • Mad Hatter Day -- despite being a silly day, the selection of the date was actually quite logical. The Mad Hatter wears a top hat and on the front of the hat is a slip of paper with "10/6" written on it. The paper is believed to be an order to make the hat, and that it costs ten shillings sixpence.
  • National Depression Screening Day
  • National German American Day
  • National Noodle Day
  • National Physician's Assistant Day
  • National Poetry Day
  • Simchat Torah --  a Jewish holiday that celebrates and marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle.
On this day in 105 BC the Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus at the Battle of Arausio.  In 1582, due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day was skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.  In 1600 Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premiered in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque period.  In 1683 German immigrant families founded Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.  In 1889 American inventor Thomas Edison showed his first motion picture and the Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Paris.  In 1927 The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie, opened.  In 1999 the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women international treaty was adopted, to be implemented in December 2000.  In 2007 Jason Lewis completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.  In 2016 NASA Voyager is 18 hrs 56 mins 12 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2016:276:120000:1L) in "Interstellar space" and Voyager2 is 15 hrs 33 mins 23 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2016:276:000000:2L) in the "Heliosheath".



Me?  just tired and worried.  Worried about the hurricane.  Worried that the bombastic rhetoric of this presidential campaign here, and some of the crazy statements abroad [eg England and the Philippines] actually reflect the way real people are thinking.  Worried about giving into my cravings for carbs.  Worried about getting these blasted reports out.  Worried about worrying too much….




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