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[IceWizard]

Friday 18 Nov 2016



Mickey Mouse Day



If there’s one image that everyone in the world can recognize, it’s the iconic ears of our favorite mouse, Disney’s Mickey Mouse. His face grace everything from ceramic mugs to balloons, touching on every industry and areas of our lives. It can be found in the shape of ice cream on a hot summer afternoon, or on the back of a hoodie on a frigid autumn morning, and when the day’s work is done, we can join him in Kingdom Hearts as they King. It all started with a short film called “Steamboat Willie”, and ever since, he’s been the very icon of family fun, hope over adversity, and following your dreams.

History of Mickey Mouse Day

Mickey Mouse was originally dreamed up by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney in 1928, and from that first short film has risen to be a worldwide recognized Icon.

Year after year, Mickey has won nominations for the Academy Award for the Best Animated Short film, and finally won one in 1928.

As a tribute to just how popular and ground-breaking this fantastic mouse is, he was the first animated character to ever receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Since then we saw the rise and fall of “The Mickey Mouse club”, and a growing family of characters that have all become part of the Disney IP. If it weren’t for a bit of duplicitous backstabbing and Hollywood Drama, Mickey might never have come into existence.

Mickey first came to pass as a replacement for Walt’s first popular creation, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. After the relationship with Universal Studios soured, Mickey Mouse was created and came to be the avatar of the happiest place on earth.



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GIS Day



GIS.. Geographic Information System… A simple three letter phrase that describes a system that has come to affect every aspect of our lives. From our GPS systems to Google Maps, GIS systems are integrated in everything and serve to make our lives easier every single day.

Thanks to this amazing science, we are able to have our deliveries made on time, and get straight to the house of a new friend without getting lost, even though we’ve never been there before.

GIS is a truly amazing thing!

History of GIS Day

A Geographic Information System is specifically designed to manage all of the information involved with interpreting and present geographical data. While this involves a broad number of technologies, they all come down to one thing. Storing and processing data about the world around us and making it available to be used in a format able to be interpreted and used by other systems.

GIS Day was established in 1999 by Esri President and Co-Founder Jack Dangermond after he had been inspired by Ralph Nader to do so.

Recognizing the importance and implication of this system, and that it was important that the people of the modern age be familiar with the effect it had on their lives, this holiday was established with the distinct purpose of raising awareness.

While currently primarily used terrestrially, you can bet that when we start putting permanent satellites into orbit around other planets, this technology is going to be vital in driving the study and colonization of the solar system, mining of resources within it, and observing the unique traits of distant planets.

[IceWizard]

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November 18 Birthdays


Damon Wayans, Jr. - 34



Megyn Kelly - 46



Pedro Infante - (1917-1957)



Kevin Nealon - 63










November 18th

2003: Composer Michael Kamen, who worked with such artists as Bryan Adams, Eric Clapton, Def Leppard, Metallica, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Queen, Queensryche, Rush and Sting died of a heart attack in London. He was 55 years old.

2001: R.E.M. made a guest appearance on The Simpsons performing “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” in Homer Simpson’s garage.

1994: The Rolling Stones became the first major band to have a segment of a concert broadcast live on the internet with 20 minutes of their concert at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas being broadcast.

1993: Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder was arrested in New Orleans for public drunkenness and disturbing the peace at a bar after a fight with a waiter. Chicago White Sox pitcher Jack McDowell who was with Vedder was knocked unconscious.

1993: Nirvana taped their appearance for MTV Unplugged at Sony Music Studios in New York City. It aired the following month and the following year it entered the Billboard 200 Album Chart at number one.

1978: Billy Joel reach the top of the Billboard 200 Album Chart for the first time with 52nd Street as it began the first of eight non- consecutive weeks on top.

1975: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band kicked off their first tour of Europe at London’s Hammersmith Odeon.

1974: Genesis released their sixth album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway which was their last album with Peter Gabriel. The album would later go Gold sixteen years after its initial release.

1972: Danny Whitten, guitarist for Neil Young’s backing band Crazy Horse died of a heroin overdose in Los Angeles. He was 29 years old.



Birthdays:

Hank Ballard born in 1936

Herman Rarebell - Guitarist for Scorpions born in 1949

[IceWizard]

Saturday 19 Nov 2016



Have A Bad Day Day

There’s nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There’s everything wrong with making others have to have it… with you. – Neil Cavuto

And that, ladies and germs, is precisely why you should embrace the glory that is “Have a Bad Day Day”. When you’re having a bad day, you shouldn’t have to suffer alone, so wish everyone you meet “Have a Bad Day”, but do it with the brightest, cheeriest smile you can put on your face.

Chaos, my friends, is the heart of the revolution, and all revolutions started on a Bad Day.

History of Have a Bad Day Day

There’s a job out there that ensures that you’re going to have a Bad Day, possibly dozens of times a day.

What job is that?

Anything in the customer service industry. If you’ve never worked in the customer service industry it’s important to understand that your soul is impeccably clean, and you’ve never truly known a day of suffering.

We are all customers at some point in our lives, and unfortunately, that means that we all join the ranks of the truly walking dead. Retail customers, be afraid friends, be afraid.

But Have a Bad Day Day gives our heroes in the customer service industry a chance to strike back… Every agent has to end their spiel, no matter how rotten the customer was, with the phrase “Have a Nice Day!”, but on Have a Bad Day Day, they get a reprieve from this monotonous platitude and get to instead assail their customers with that most delightful of passive- aggressive phrases.

“Have a Bad Day!” announced in the cheeriest tone they can manage, and then they revel in the confusion as their customers try to make out whether or not they’ve just been insulted.

They’ll never know.

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World Toilet Day



World Toilet Day…at first glance, this seems like an unlikely candidate for a holiday and more like some sort of joke, but the day is nowhere as trivial or humorous as it may seem.

All in all, it strives to draw attention to various sanitation issues around the world and work towards resolving them. Despite access to proper sanitation being declared a basic human right, one in three people across the globe, so some 2.5 billion people in total, do not have regular access to a toilet.

Additionally, even amongst those who do have such access, unclean and unsafe toilets pose problems of their own, including contributing towards the spread of diseases like cholera, typhoid and hepatitis—in some parts of Africa, diarrhoea is one of the main child-killers.

Open defecation is also responsible for increasing the number of sexual assaults perpetrated on women and children.

Furthermore, when young girls begin menstruating, the lack of privacy forces them to stay home from school, thus limiting their chances of getting a basic education and, what comes after that, a decent job in the future.

World Toilet Day’s ultimate goal is to allow everyone on the planet to take care of their most basic needs without having to fear for their safety.

The History of World Toilet Day World

Toilet Day was created by the World Toilet Organization in 2001. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations said: “We have a moral imperative to end open defecation and a duty to ensure women and girls are not at risk of assault and rape simply because they lack a sanitation facility.”

He went on to talk about how having to defecate openly infringes on human safety and dignity, and how women and girls risk rape and abuse as they wait until night falls to relieve themselves because they lack of access to a toilet that offers privacy.

Another issue is that toilets generally remain inadequate for populations with special needs, such as the disabled and elderly.

Since its inception, World Toilet Day has played a vital role in challenging governments, businesses and other groups to make changes. It has also worked towards breaking various taboos surrounding the topic, in order to facilitate discussion and lead to the creation of better, safer solutions.

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November 19 Birthdays


Calvin Klein - 74



Jodie Foster - 54



Meg Ryan - 55



Larry King - 83



Indira Gandhi - (1917-1984)



James A. Garfield - (1831-1881)



Ted Turner - 78








November 19th

2007: Quiet Riot singer Kevin DuBrow died of an accidental cocaine overdose at his home in Las Vegas, NV. His body was discovered six days later. He was 52 years old.

1998: Motley Crue opened their retail store S’crue in Los Angeles on Melrose Avenue. The store would close two months later.

1994: Nirvana entered the Billboard 200 Album Chart at number one with MTV Unplugged in New York which went on to sell five million copies in the U.S.

1994: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers appeared on Saturday Night Live with Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl filling in on drums. On the same day Petty entered the Billboard 200 Album Chart at its peak position of number eight with his second solo album Wildflowers which went on to sell three million copies in the U.S.

1988: Bon Jovi reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for the third time as “Bad Medicine” began a two week run at number one.

1983: Quiet Riot peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with their cover of Slade’s “Cum on Feel the Noize” which was their first and only top ten single in the U.S.

1983: Loverboy made their first and only appearance on Saturday Night Live where they performed “Working for the Weekend”.

1975: The J. Geils Band recorded their second live album Blow Your Face Out during a concert at Cobo Hall in Detroit. Portions of the live album were also recorded four nights earlier at Boston Garden.

1965: During The Who’s set in London on a bill with The Kinks, The Hollies and Wilson Pickett, Roger Daltrey stormed offstage and quit the band after they experienced trouble with their P.A. Daltrey would shortly return to the group.



Birthdays:

Matt Sorum - Drummer for The Cult, Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver born in 1960

[IceWizard]

Sunday 20 Nov 2016



Peanut Butter Fudge Day



This special holiday was established by the National Peanut Board and is the perfect time to indulge in this sweet treat. It is widely believed that fudge was first created in the 1800s when a batch of caramels didn’t turn out quite right. This mistake turned out to be a delicious revelation that people have been enjoying all around the world ever since.

As the popularity of this special occasion has spread, a number of different events have been created in order to celebrate Peanut Butter Fudge Day. These include a large number of bake offs, tastings and other fun food related events.

However, by far the best way to celebrate Peanut Butter Fudge Day is by creating your own batch of peanut butter fudge.

This year, instead of baking alone invite a group of friends to help you and use your imagination to create a unique twist to the standard recipe.



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Universal Children's Day



You’ve heard so many people say it: children are the future. And whether you yourself have children or not, that still rings true.

Today’s children are tomorrow’s scientists, politicians, doctors and teachers. Today’s children will inherit all of what humanity has managed to accomplish since the beginning of its existence, both the good and honorable deeds and the cruel wars and terrible failures. It is the children of today that will be charged with protecting the weak and vulnerable of this world, and making even the hardest of decisions in order to do so.

Who then, if not our children, deserves a holiday?

This special day is dedicated to all of the children, so that they may enjoy these carefree years while they last and be ready for the responsibilities that await them. So let’s live it up, kids!

The History of Universal Children’s Day

Universal Children’s Day was first announced by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1954. Originally, there were 2 goals this day was to help achieve: to encourage children of all races, creeds and religions to spend time together, getting to know each other and appreciating each other’s differences, and to prompt governments worldwide to pay more attention to the welfare of their youngest citizens.

Although Universal Children’s Day takes place on November 20th, each country that participates in the festivities has its own date set aside for this purpose—in South Sudan, for example, Children’s Day is celebrated on December 23rd, in Cuba on the third Sunday of July, and in Poland on June 1st.

Since its establishment as a holiday, Universal Children’s Day has been tied to many different, honorable causes, such as the commitment to stopping HIV/AIDS by 2015. Another one of the goals Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations aspires to reach is for every child to have access to an education and be able to attend school.

Promoting peace, respect and concern for the environment among the world’s children are also considered to be of utmost importance.

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November 20 Birthdays




Joe Biden - 74



Joel McHale - 45



Robert F. Kennedy - (1925-1968)



Joe Walsh - 69



Richard Dawson - (1932-2012)



Bo Derek - 60



Estelle Parsons - 89






November 20th

2010: After the end of Bob Dylan’s concert in Amherst, MA, a man with a fake crew pass walked into a pizza parlor and ordered 178 pizzas and never came back to pick the pizzas up. The staff worked until 5:30 a.m. to fill the order.

1997: Paul McCartney taped a performance for the Oprah Winfrey Show at the Manhattan Center in New York City.

1994: David Crosby received a liver transplant at UCLA’s Medical Center. Crosby was on the operating table for seven hours.

1991: The Rolling Stones signed a three album deal with Virgin Records for $45 million making it the biggest recording contract at the time.

1981: AC/DC released their eighth studio album For Those About to Rock which went on to become their first album to reach number one on the Billboard 200 album chart and sell four million copies in the U.S.

1973: During a concert at San Francisco’s Cow Palace, Who drummer Keith Moon collapsed onstage after someone spiked his drink with horse tranquilizer. Audience member, 19 year old Scot Halpin filled in for the final three songs of The Who’s set.

1971: Led Zeppelin played the first of back to back “Electric Magic” concerts at London’s Wembley Empire Pool. These concerts featured circus performers.

1970: Ray Davies of The Kinks flew to London to re-record a lyric to their current single “Apeman”. Radio stations objected to the lyric “The air pollution is foggin’ up my eyes” claiming “foggin’” sounded too much like another f-word.

1961: Bob Dylan began recording his debut album at Columbia Studio A in New York City. John Hammond was the producer.



Birthdays:

Duane Allman - Guitarist for The Allman Brothers Band and Derek and the Dominos born in 1946

Joe Walsh - Guitarist for James Gang and Eagles born in 1947

Frank Marino - Guitarist for Mahogany Rush born in 1954

[Roses]

Good Sunday Morning Ice...

Lots of interesting stuff.

Thank you....

[Spanky]

Saturday 19 Nov 2016



Have A Bad Day Day

There’s nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There’s everything wrong with making others have to have it… with you. – Neil Cavuto

And that, ladies and germs, is precisely why you should embrace the glory that is “Have a Bad Day Day”. When you’re having a bad day, you shouldn’t have to suffer alone, so wish everyone you meet “Have a Bad Day”, but do it with the brightest, cheeriest smile you can put on your face.

Chaos, my friends, is the heart of the revolution, and all revolutions started on a Bad Day.

History of Have a Bad Day Day

There’s a job out there that ensures that you’re going to have a Bad Day, possibly dozens of times a day.

What job is that?

Anything in the customer service industry. If you’ve never worked in the customer service industry it’s important to understand that your soul is impeccably clean, and you’ve never truly known a day of suffering.

We are all customers at some point in our lives, and unfortunately, that means that we all join the ranks of the truly walking dead. Retail customers, be afraid friends, be afraid.

But Have a Bad Day Day gives our heroes in the customer service industry a chance to strike back… Every agent has to end their spiel, no matter how rotten the customer was, with the phrase “Have a Nice Day!”, but on Have a Bad Day Day, they get a reprieve from this monotonous platitude and get to instead assail their customers with that most delightful of passive- aggressive phrases.

“Have a Bad Day!” announced in the cheeriest tone they can manage, and then they revel in the confusion as their customers try to make out whether or not they’ve just been insulted.

They’ll never know.

And



World Toilet Day



World Toilet Day…at first glance, this seems like an unlikely candidate for a holiday and more like some sort of joke, but the day is nowhere as trivial or humorous as it may seem.

All in all, it strives to draw attention to various sanitation issues around the world and work towards resolving them. Despite access to proper sanitation being declared a basic human right, one in three people across the globe, so some 2.5 billion people in total, do not have regular access to a toilet.

Additionally, even amongst those who do have such access, unclean and unsafe toilets pose problems of their own, including contributing towards the spread of diseases like cholera, typhoid and hepatitis—in some parts of Africa, diarrhoea is one of the main child-killers.

Open defecation is also responsible for increasing the number of sexual assaults perpetrated on women and children.

Furthermore, when young girls begin menstruating, the lack of privacy forces them to stay home from school, thus limiting their chances of getting a basic education and, what comes after that, a decent job in the future.

World Toilet Day’s ultimate goal is to allow everyone on the planet to take care of their most basic needs without having to fear for their safety.

The History of World Toilet Day World

Toilet Day was created by the World Toilet Organization in 2001. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations said: “We have a moral imperative to end open defecation and a duty to ensure women and girls are not at risk of assault and rape simply because they lack a sanitation facility.”

He went on to talk about how having to defecate openly infringes on human safety and dignity, and how women and girls risk rape and abuse as they wait until night falls to relieve themselves because they lack of access to a toilet that offers privacy.

Another issue is that toilets generally remain inadequate for populations with special needs, such as the disabled and elderly.

Since its inception, World Toilet Day has played a vital role in challenging governments, businesses and other groups to make changes. It has also worked towards breaking various taboos surrounding the topic, in order to facilitate discussion and lead to the creation of better, safer solutions.

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November 19 Birthdays


Calvin Klein - 74



Jodie Foster - 54



Meg Ryan - 55



Larry King - 83



Indira Gandhi - (1917-1984)



James A. Garfield - (1831-1881)



Ted Turner - 78








November 19th

2007: Quiet Riot singer Kevin DuBrow died of an accidental cocaine overdose at his home in Las Vegas, NV. His body was discovered six days later. He was 52 years old.

1998: Motley Crue opened their retail store S’crue in Los Angeles on Melrose Avenue. The store would close two months later.

1994: Nirvana entered the Billboard 200 Album Chart at number one with MTV Unplugged in New York which went on to sell five million copies in the U.S.

1994: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers appeared on Saturday Night Live with Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl filling in on drums. On the same day Petty entered the Billboard 200 Album Chart at its peak position of number eight with his second solo album Wildflowers which went on to sell three million copies in the U.S.

1988: Bon Jovi reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for the third time as “Bad Medicine” began a two week run at number one.

1983: Quiet Riot peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with their cover of Slade’s “Cum on Feel the Noize” which was their first and only top ten single in the U.S.

1983: Loverboy made their first and only appearance on Saturday Night Live where they performed “Working for the Weekend”.

1975: The J. Geils Band recorded their second live album Blow Your Face Out during a concert at Cobo Hall in Detroit. Portions of the live album were also recorded four nights earlier at Boston Garden.

1965: During The Who’s set in London on a bill with The Kinks, The Hollies and Wilson Pickett, Roger Daltrey stormed offstage and quit the band after they experienced trouble with their P.A. Daltrey would shortly return to the group.



Birthdays:

Matt Sorum - Drummer for The Cult, Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver born in 1960

Hard to respond to toilet day without seeming to trivialize more popular efforts.  But, it's very real.  I've heard all that before, the lack, the danger to women and children to abuse.  Even the U.S. homeless face the same problem.  I know about the women in other countries who must wait until after dark to find a place to relieve themselves.  I don't know exactly where it is that that this great country plans to point its basic rights efforts.  Doubt it will be in this direction.  I hate these stories.  Thanks for posting it Ice.



Spankster

[IceWizard]

Monday 21 Nov 2016



Human-Animal Relationship Awareness Week



The Animals and Society Institute, an organization that studies and promotes human-animal relationships, will be celebrating our first ever Human-Animal Relationship Awareness Week, in the second week of November (November 13-19, 2016).

We would be very grateful if you would list this on your calendar of animal-related holidays.

The goal for this week is to raise awareness of the importance of human-animal relationships, and to highlight both the benefits of, and potential problems associated with, these relationships.

ASI’s goal is to improve and expand knowledge about the variety of human-animal relationships in order to order to create safer and more compassionate communities for all—people and animals. We have a variety of educational messages that we will be unveiling that week, as well as some exciting opportunities for people who want to get involved.



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World Television Day



The first World Television Forum was staged by the United Nations in the mid ’90s, and it was out of this event that World Television Day was born.

The forum brought together leading figures from the media industry to analyze the growing impact that TV had on decision-making and public opinion when it comes to issues of peace and security around the planet.

The History of World Television Day

In December 1996 the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the 21st of November World Television Day, the same year the first World Television Forum was held.

Acording to the Uited Nations, this decision was taken in order to give recognition of the increasing impact television has had on decision-making by bringing various conflicts and threats to peace and security to the world’s attention, as well as its coverage of other major issues, including economic and social.

World Television Day is not meant to be so much a celebration of the electronic tool itself, but rather of the philosophy which it represents–a philosophy of openness and transparency of world issues.

Television has long been thought to represent communication and globalization in the contemporary world.

However, not all of the government representatives present saw matters quite that way. The delegation from Germany said, “Television is only one means of information and an information medium to which a considerable majority of the world population has no access… That vast majority could easily look at World Television Day as a rich man’s day.

They do not have access to television. There are more important information media and here I would mention radio in particular.”

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November 21 Birthdays




Michael Strahan - 45



Goldie Hawn - 71



Troy Aikman - 50



Stan Musial - (1920-2013)



Voltaire - (1694-1778)






November 21st

2002: Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger, the surviving members of The Doors announced that they would be performing again with Ian Astbury of The Cult singing and Stewart Copeland of The Police on drums.

1995: Peter Grant, manager of Led Zeppelin and widely credited for improving pay and conditions for musicians in dealings with concert promoters died of a heart attack while driving to his home in Eastbourne, U.K. He was 60 years old.

1991: Aerosmith were the first rock band to make a guest appearance on The Simpsons where they performed “Walk This Way” at Moe’s Tavern.

1990: Mick Jagger married his girlfriend of 13 years model Jerry Hall on the island of Bali. The couple would divorce in 1999.

1987: Billy Idol reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for the first and only time with a cover of Tommy James and the Shondells’ “Mony Mony”.

1981: Queen and David Bowie reached number one on the U.K. Singles Chart with their collaboration “Under Pressure” which spent two weeks on top of the chart. In the U.S. the song would go on to reach number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.

1980: Don Henley was arrested after a 16 year old girl was found suffering from a drug overdose at his home Los Angeles. Henley would receive a $2,000 fine and two years probation.

1975: Elton John Week was declared in Los Angeles after being awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1974: Marty Balin, after having vowed to never work with Jefferson Airplane again, reunited with Jefferson Starship onstage during a concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom.



Birthdays:

Dr. John born in 1940

[IceWizard]

Tuesday 22 Nov 2016



Go For A Ride Day



Go For A Ride Day encourages you to get out into the world – hop on your bike, into your car, or simply get your walking boots out of storage and go on a trip.

Don’t worry too much about where you’re going, just enjoy the journey. What with all of the cell phones and emails constantly intruding on our lives, we can all agree that everyone needs some time to just get away from it all and feel free every now and then.

And what better way to do that then to just go for a ride!

The History of Go for a Ride Day

November 22nd has seen various developments of the transportation industry since as early as 1904, making Go For a Ride Day a celebration of not only cars, but any mode of transportation that strikes your fancy.

In 1904, a man named Mathias Pfatischer living in Philadephia, was the first American to patent the pioneer direct electricity and and interpole motor.

In 1927, another American inventor named Carl J. Eliason from Saynor, Wisconsin, acquired the patent for the snowmobile, which definitely drastically changed the lives of many of the inhabitants of Wisconsin for the better.

In 1977, the the regular mass service had their trial run on the famed supersonic Concorde.

As you can see, November 22nd has been an important day for various areas of the transportation industry.



November 22 Birthdays


Scarlett Johansson - 32



Jamie Lee Curtis - 58



Oscar Pistorius - 30



Billie Jean King - 73








November 22nd

2006: After living in the U.S. since the mid 1970’s, Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood became a U.S. citizen in Los Angeles.

2004: Ozzy Osbourne’s home in Buckinghamshire, U.K. was burglarized and stole over $3 million in jewelry. Osbourne had one of the burglars in a headlock however the burglar would later break free and jump out of a 30 foot tall window and was apparently injured by the fall.

2003: ZZ Top performed the final concert at The Summit in Houston, TX, the group’s hometown. Their first concert at The Summit was in November 1975. Joel Olsteen now preachs from the stage.

1994: Pearl Jam’s third studio album Vitalogy was initially released only on vinyl. It would debut at number 55 on the Billboard Album Chart with 35,000 copies sold. The CD and cassette release occurred two weeks later and afterwards reached number one and went on to sell five million copies in the U.S.

1992: Paul Simon kicked off his first tour of South America in Brazil. Simon recorded his previous album The Rhythm of the Saints with many Brazilian musicians.

1991: Alice Cooper came to the rescue of fans Patrick and Dee Ann Kelly of Riverside, CA whose home was being foreclosed. Patrick painted Cooper’s face on a psychedelic painting on the house to help sell it. Cooper signed autographs to help raise money and 4,000 people turned up for the Kelly’s yard sale and they made their mortgage payment.

1990: Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman announced that his 17 month marriage to model Mandy Smith was over.

1981: At the Checkerboard Lounge in Chicago, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ron Wood joined Muddy Waters onstage during Waters’ set.

1965: Bob Dylan married his first wife, Sara Lowndes in a secret ceremony. The couple would divorce in June of 1977.



Birthdays:

Steven Van Zandt - Guitarist for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band born in 1949

Tina Weymouth - Bassist for Talking Heads born in 1950

[IceWizard]

Wednesday 23 Nov 2016



Fibonacci Day

”Von Neumann probe programmed to multiply Clickin’ and tickin’ with the equation of phi Striving and climbing and bribing and lying For science, fudge the numbers so that everything fits” – Doctor Steel Fibonacci Sequence

There are sequences that appear in nature time and time again, ones that seem to define the very basis of our reality and coordinate how everything comes together.

One of these numbers is the Fibonacci sequence, and it can be found in the most surprising of places.

Fibonacci Day commemorates this sequence and the man who brought it to our attention in 1202.

History of Fibonacci Day

Who’s the man?

That would be Leonardo of Pisa, known today as Fibonacci. He was not the first to think of it however, just the first to bring it to the European world and bring awareness to its importance in the furthering of science.

The sequence itself first appeared in Indian Mathematics, known as Virahanka numbers, and was connected with Sanskrit prosody.

The number sequence is also tied to the golden ratio and the golden triangle, both of which appear again and again in nature, as does the sequence itself.

Where might you ask?

It is in the most fundamental of things, from the petals of the yellow chamomile, the complex and seemingly random branching of a trees limbs, and these are just a few. Look deeper and you’ll find them within the pine cone and the shape of an unfurling fern, and in a truly strange one, it describes the family tree of bees and is deeply important to apiarists as a result.

The sequence has also inspired songs, such as that by the illustrious Doctor Steel, simply called “Fibonacci Sequence”.

It’s definitely worth taking the time to check out, and then listen to the rest of his stuff!



November 23 Birthdays




Miley Cyrus - 24



Snooki - 29



Robin Rene Roberts - 56



Franklin Pierce - (1804-1869)



John Schnatter - 55



Boris Karloff - (1887-1969)

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November 23rd

2008: Guns N’ Roses released Chinese Democracy which was their first album of original material since the simultaneous release of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II seventeen years earlier. It is to date the most expensive album produced at $13 million and the album undersold expectations as it only sold 614,000 copies in the U.S. as of April 2011.

2002: Rush performed the final concert of their tour in support of Vapor Trails at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. This concert would be released on DVD the following year as the acclaimed Rush in Rio.

1991: Stevie Ray Vaughan debuted at number ten on the Billboard 200 Album Chart with The Sky Is Crying which was the first posthumously compilation album of Vaughan’s work released. The album went on to sell two million copies in the U.S.

1989: Paul McCartney performed his first North American concert in 13 years, kicking off the North American leg of his tour at the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles.

1979: Marianne Faithfull was arrested at Norway’s Oslo Airport for possession of marijuana. Faithfull signed a confession and was allowed to continue with her tour.

1976: Jerry Lee Lewis was arrested after appearing in front of Graceland waving a .38 Derringer demanding to see Elvis Presley. Lewis would be arrested for public intoxication and weapon possession. Lewis was also arrested the previous day on charges of drunk driving.

1974: Gary Wright announced his departure as the keyboardist for Spooky Tooth. Two years later Wright had hits with “Dream Weaver” and “Love Is Alive”.

1974: The Rolling Stones reached number one on the Billboard 200 Album Chart for the fifth time with It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll which spent one week on top of the chart.

1968: Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant finalized a deal to sign Led Zeppelin to Atlantic Records. Dusty Springfield recommended Jimmy Page to label boss Ahmet Ertegun.

1936: Robert Johnson began his first recording sessions in San Antonio, TX at the Gunter Hotel where sixteen songs were recorded.

[IceWizard]

Thusday 24 Nov 2016

HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY







And



Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. – Henry Van Dyke

We all have remarkable talents that are unique to us, and there needs to be a time to celebrate those talents not just for the world, but for ourselves.

Can you whistle through your nose?

How about balancing an apple on your chin?

Can you say the alphabet backwards while belching?

It doesn’t matter what your special talent is, Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day is your chance to shine!

History of Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day

The history of Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day is as old as mankind, for we have all had our unique talents since the beginning of time.

Think of the person who first had the mind to understand how some minor aspect of the world worked. Perhaps it was gravity (you know Newton wasn’t the first one), or a special understanding of how clay came together with sand and heat to create a material that would be used in its various forms throughout all of human history, ceramic.

But even those who have less obviously useful talents should celebrate their unique talents. A Jester had a biting wit and a sort of wisdom that cut through the gallantry and pageantry of the royal court, and let them see straight to the truth of the matter without losing his head.

What of clowns and mimes?

Or those who have the ability to dive deep and hold their breath for extended periods?

Each of these talents have come to be used in important ways, even if just to entertain and brighten the spirits of those who watched the talent in action.

Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day lauds that special spark within us, the thing that makes us fundamentally unique from the rest of the world.

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November 24 Birthdays


Katherine Heigl - 38



Zachary Taylor - (1784-1850)



Oscar Robertson - 78



Pete Best - 75



Scott Joplin - (1868-1917)








November 24th

1998: The Simpsons released their second album of originally recorded songs The Yellow Album which featured guest appearances by Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, Linda Ronstadt and Parliament-Funkadelic.

1994: At the first MTV Europe Music Awards held at the Pariser Platz in Berlin, Aerosmith won the award for Best Rock Band.

1992: Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman’s divorce settlement with Mandy Smith was finalized. Smith received the couple’s home, its contents and legal fees.

1991: Queen singer Freddie Mercury died of complications from AIDS, one day after publicly admitting he was HIV positive. He was 45 years old.

1991: Kiss drummer Eric Carr died of complications from cancer at Bellevue Hospital in New York. He was 41 years old.

1990: Alias, a band featuring early Heart members Roger Fisher, Steve Fossen and Mike Derosier peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with the power ballad “More Than Words Can Say”.

1984: Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee married model Elaine Margaret Starchuk. They would divorce the following year.

1966: The Beatles got together for the first time since their American tour ended and recorded “Strawberry Fields Forever” at EMI Studios in London.

1964: The Who performed their first concert under their new name after changing their name from The High Numbers at London’s Marquee Club.



Birthdays:

Bev Bevan - Drummer for The Move and Electric Light Orchestra born in 1944