Daily Calendar for Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Question of the Day

If a recipe calls for one pound of eggs, how many would that be?

Approximately nine eggs equals one pound.

Advice of the Day

The time to harvest parsnips or turnips is after a hard frost.

Home Hint of the Day

When burning a kerosene lamp, make sure you have at least 18 inches of air space above the chimney. Otherwise, the heat rising from the chimney can be enough to catch something on fire.

Word of the Day

SOS

The letters signified by the signal ( … - - - … ) prescribed by the International Radiotelegraph Convention of 1908 for use by ships in distress. SOS was chosen as the universal distress signal because this combination of three dots followed by three dashes followed by three dots was easy to send and easily recognized, especially since they were usually sent as a nine-character signal, which stood out against the background of three-character Morse Code letters. The letters themselves are meaningless. SOS does not stand for Save Our Souls, Save Our Ship, Stop Other Signals, or Sure Of Sinking.

Puzzle of the Day

What is the longest word in the English language?

Smiles, because there is a mile between the first and last letters.

Born

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (poet) – 1651
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (reformer) – 1815
Auguste Rodin (sculptor) – 1840
Harry Andrew Blackmun (lawyer) – 1908
Joseph Coors (brewer) – 1917
Kim Hunter (actress) – 1922
Grace Kelly (actress and later known as Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco) – 1929
Neil Young (musician) – 1945
Megan Mullally (actress) – 1958
Nadia Comaneci (gymnast) – 1961
Ryan Gosling (actor) – 1980
Anne Hathaway (actress) – 1982

Died

Eve Arden (actress) – 1990
Bill Dickey (baseball player) – 1993
Billy Guy (singer) – 2002
Jonathan Brandis (actor) – 2003
Ira Levin (author) – 2007

Events

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened– 1936
Ellis Island federal immigration station closed in N.Y./N.J.– 1954
Largest iceberg on record (208 miles long, 60 miles wide) discovered by U.S.S. Glacier– 1956
First episode of Absolutely Fabulous aired– 1992
Voters OK‘d creation of Nunavut territory– 1992

Weather

A heavy snowstorm hit all of New England– 1820