World Food Day was first launched in 1945. The reason World Food Day was created was to celebrate the launch of the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization.
The main principle which World Food Day celebrates is the furtherance of food security all over the world, especially in times of crisis. The launch of the Food and Agriculture Organization by the UN has played a huge role in taking this worthy goal forward. Its annual celebration serves as a marker of the importance of this organization and helps to raise awareness of the crucial need for successful agriculture policies to be implemented by governments across the world to ensure there is ample food available for everyone.
In recent years, World Food Day has used its annual day of celebration to focus on different aspects of food security and agriculture, including fishing communities, climate change and biodiversity.
Belgian filmmaker and illustrator Vincent Bal works within the confines of long shadows of everyday objects resting in the sunlight to create a wide range of whimsical doodles
Word of the Day
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| Definition: | (adjective) Conveying an admonition or a warning. | ||
| Synonyms: | admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, warning | ||
| Usage: | She shot him a monitory glance and he quickly changed the subject to one less controversial. | ||
Idiom of the Day
like (one's) life depends on it— With maximum, possibly desperate, effort or energy (i.e., as if one is at risk of losing one's life if one fails). |
History
Olympic Medalists Create Furor with Black Power Salute (1968)
| The silent protest of two black American athletes at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City was an iconic and controversial statement. Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos received their medals shoeless to draw attention to black poverty in America, and they performed the Black Power salute as their national anthem played. They were booed by the crowd and were later expelled from the staunchly apolitical games. |
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888)
| One of America's greatest playwrights, O'Neill spent his youth as a heavy-drinking, itinerant seaman, then began writing plays while recovering from tuberculosis in 1912. Within a decade, he had won his first of four Pulitzer Prizes. Extremely prolific, he wrote passionate works about tortured family relationships and spiritual conflict, including Long Day's Journey into Night and The Iceman Cometh. |
Researchers invent camouflaged membrane that hides like an octopus
No other animal has mastered camouflage like the octopus. The mightiest of these morphing creatures, the mimic octopus, contorts its body into a thin ribbon and adopts the colors of a venomous sea serpent to scare predators away.
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1701 - The Collegiate School was founded in Killingworth, CT. The school moved to New Haven in 1745 and changed its name to Yale College.
1829 - In Boston, MA, the first modern hotel in America opened. The Tremont Hotel had 170 rooms that rented for $2 a day and included four meals.
1869 - A hotel in Boston became the first in the U.S. to install indoor plumbing.
1916 - Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in New York City, NY.
1928 - Marvin Pipkin received a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.
1943 - Chicago's new subway system was officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
1954 - Elvis Presley made his first radio appearance on the "Louisiana Hayride."
1955 - Mrs. Jules Lederer replaced Ruth Crowley in newspapers using the name Ann Landers.
1965 - The Beatles were decorated with the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth.
1967 - NATO headquarters opened in Brussels.
1978 - Poland's Karol Josef Wojtyla was elected Pope John Paul II.
1987 - Rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned well that she had fallen into in Midland, TX. She was trapped for 58 hours.
1992 - Sinead O'Connor was booed off stage at Madison Square Garden during a show to honor Bob Dylan.
DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, October 16
You are gifted at communicating with charm, tact, and likeability. Your understanding of the nuances and subtleties of human nature aids in your considerable writing and acting ability. Communication is important to you, and although you can be moody in this respect (sometimes very talkative, and other times silent), you value human contact more than most. You are able to read a face or a gesture quickly. In love, you might be drawn to emotional or dramatic people.Famous people born today: Angela Lansbury, Tim Robbins, Noah Webster, Suzanne Somers, Oscar Wilde.
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NY State Sheep Sheep And Wool Festival
Dutchess County Fairgrounds
6550 Spring Brook Ave
Rhinebeck, NY
October 21 - 22, 2017
Saturday: 9 am - 5 pm
Sunday: 10 am - 5 pm
ALWAYS THE THIRD FULL WEEKEND IN OCTOBER
Our festival started out as a bred ewe sale by the local shepherds back around 1980. Like all fertile ideas, it has blossomed into what you read about now in the New York Times.
further information: Home - Sheep and Wool Festival
2.
Carthage Maple Leaf Festival 2017
Sep 30 - Oct 29, 2017 | Carthage, MO
Dating back to the 1960s, the annual Carthage Maple Leaf Festival in Carthage, Missouri, is a community celebration drawing over 80,000 attendees each year. The event-filled extravaganza typically features a grand parade, 5k/10k fun runs, marching bands, beauty contests, arts and crafts, quilt shows, food vendors, a car show and hands-on children's activities.
further information: Maple Leaf Festival | Carthage Convention & Visitors Bureau
3.
Melbourne Festival 2017
Oct 4-22, 2017 | Melbourne, VIC
Melbourne Festival is the city’s flagship cultural celebration, with a whole host of events in the areas of visual arts, theatre, circus, dance, music and multimedia. The festival showcases artists and performers from all over the world to provide an unparalleled artistic experience for all who attend. In addition to the performances and installations, the festival spotlights the city of Melbourne by hosting events at various venues throughout the city.
further information: Melbourne Festival, 04—22 October 2017.
The first cabinet of Barack Obama, photographed in the White House East Room in September 2009. Consisting of sixteen members and seven cabinet-level positions, the Cabinet of the United States acts as an advisory body to the President. Of the persons shown, five (Gary Locke, Peter R. Orszag, Christina Romer, Rahm Emanuel, and Robert Gates) left the Obama administration before the end of the president's first term.
Once a Year This Japanese Town Comes Together
to Grow Masterpieces with Rice
In the village of Inakadate, Japan, elaborate expanses of “rice paddy art” grace the surrounding landscape
. Using dozens of varieties of rice as their color palette, locals gather to plant each new masterpiece, taking inspiration from local geography and Japanese folklore. With each image taking up to three months to complete, it truly takes a village.
. Using dozens of varieties of rice as their color palette, locals gather to plant each new masterpiece, taking inspiration from local geography and Japanese folklore. With each image taking up to three months to complete, it truly takes a village.
Vice Mayor Yukio Kasai explained that the village has always been famous for growing rice and in an effort to promote tourism, the local farmers decided to create these amazing, organic works of art.
knit
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knit
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knit
knit
knit
crochet
crochet
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crochet
crochet
crochet
RECIPE
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CROCKPOT RECIPE
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SWEETS
thanks, Winnie
ADULT COLORING
CRAFTS
CHILDREN'S CORNER ... Halloween coloring
PUZZLE
WORD SEARCH
| abandon across again anniversary another attain bankroll board bottle bray | crowd dank heel highway house hybrid instant | model never option pinch pose | ragged roast scores screw shook should strap | table taste train trouble truly upset worst |
SUDOKU ... easy
solution:
QUOTE
CLEVER
There are 16 Circles in this Image.
Sure you still need to avert your gaze a bit, but when you see the answer key below hopefully you’ll be able to see all 16 circles!
EYE OPENER
thanks, Patty
Things You Didn’t Know Had Names
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PETRICHOR
You know how it smells after it rains? That clean, greenish smell when rain lands on dry ground? That’s petrichor, from the Greek petra (stone) and ichor (the blood of Greek gods and goddesses). The term was coined by two Australian researchers in 1964—though it's probably a familiar word to fans of Doctor Who; it was once used as a password to open the TARDIS's control room.CHANKING
As a noun, chanking is the food that you spit out, like an olive pit. As a verb, it means to eat noisily.
ARMSAYES
If you’ve put your shirt on backwards, you have your arms in the wrong armsayes (you know them better as armholes).
ZARF
Originally, a zarf was a metal chalice meant to prevent the heat from your coffee from burning your fingers. The name for the fancy cup holder has morphed into the modern-day cardboard sleeve that comes wrapped around your morning cup of joe.
GLABELLA
People with expressive faces often end up with wrinkles in their glabella—the space between the eyebrows.
NEF
The word nef is fairly esoteric, which only seems appropriate given the ornamental, silver or gold, ship-shaped stand it describes.
ROORBACK
Libel is one thing, but a damaging lie made publicly known for political effect—usually in reference to a candidate who is running for office—is a roorback.
BADINAGE
Playful, joking banter can be called badinage. (It can also be used as a verb meaning to playfully banter with or tease someone.)
FEAT
You know the words lock and tendril, but did you know the similar feat? Aside from being an act requiring great strength, it describes a dangling curl of hair.
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