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FACTS OF THE MONTH:
November comes from the latin for nine. (Until the implementation of the Gregorian Calendar, November was the ninth month of the year.)
The U.S.S. Indianapolis, the cruiser which carried the two A-bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to their first destination of Saipan (where they were loaded onto the planes), was sunk by the Japanese on the return trip.
When John Wayne, who starred in the 1949 movie "Sands of Iwo Jima", placed his hands in the cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, the sand used to create the cement was imported from Iwo Jima.
An anonymous plaintiff in a court case is named John Doe. An anonymous defendant is Richard Roe.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The last coin minted in San Francisco was a penny on 24 March 1955.
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OF WEATHER WEEK:
If you extend the Wind Chill formula into the hot temperatures, above 91.4 degrees F the wind makes the air feel hotter. The coldest temperature ever recorded in North America was -81 degrees F in Feb 1947 at an airport in the Yukon called Snag. Lightning during a daytime snowstorm is purple. The record hi and lo temperatures for Nov 11th in Oklahoma City are 83 and 17 degrees respectively. Both records were set on the same day, 1911, and after nearly ninety years neither record has yet to be broken. When the eye of Hurricane Gilbert struck land, many people within it passed out from the thin air: Gilbert has the lowest sea-level pressure ever recorded in North America, with air as thin as if you were nearing the top of Mount Everest. El Nino ("boy child") got its name because it tends to reappear around Christmastime. Scientific literature contains over 150 different definitions of the word "drought". |
Despite the fact the Miss America Pageant has never missed a year, there was no Miss America 1950. The pageant held in September 1949 was for M.A. 1949, while the one held twelve months later was for Miss America 1951.
The properties in Monopoly were named after streets and other locations in Atlantic City. The only one misspelled on the board is Marvin Gardens (in A.C. it's Marvan Gardens).
The score of a forfeited football game is 1-0. Baseball: 9-0. Softball: 7-0.
When the Tennessee Oilers change their nickname to the Titans next year, they will not be the first professional football team so-named. When the New York Jets started existence in the AFL they were also nicknamed the Titans.
The first time the Dow Jones average closed above 1000 was November 14, 1972.
The Wizard of Oz's full name was Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmanuel Ambroise Diggs.
Despite its use in movies and television, the two-way radio term "over and out" is a contradictory statement. "Over" means the sender is awaiting a response, "out" means he isn't.
Peppermint Patty's last name is Reichardt.
Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason, played the judge in the last episode of the Raymond Burr series.
The Lone Ranger's great grand-nephew is the Green Hornet.
In the cartoons all the Road Runner ever says is 'beep beep'. In the comic books he speaks frequently, although always in verse.
The house in the game of "Clue" does not contain a bedroom.
Pearl Bailey sang the National Anthem for the game in which Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's homerun record.
Presidents James Madison and Zachary Taylor were second cousins: they had the same great-grandfather.
During World War II John Banner, the actor who would later play Sgt. Schultz in "Hogan's Heroes", posed for U.S. Army recruiting posters.
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