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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (19th September 1944)
In Moscow...
A preliminary peace agreement is signed between Finland and the Soviet Union.

On the Russian Front...
Soviet 3rd Baltic Front advances through Estonia and threatens to isolate the northernmost elements of the German 18th Army
German 8th Army and Hungarian 2nd Army continue attacking Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front around Cluj

In Germany...
Berlin announces that occupation forces in the Channel Islands will allow UK citizens to evacuate or for food supplies to be dropped.  

Over the Netherlands...
RAF Wing Commander Guy Gibson, acting as Pathfinder Master Bomber for Bomber Command raid on Monchengladbach and Rheydt, is killed in action over the Netherlands on a return flight

On the Western Front...
Elements of Canadian 1st Army attack south of the Scheldt estuary 

Operation Market-Garden: 
British 1st Airborne Division is under heavy attack in Arnhem while supplies and reinforcements (including Polish 1st Parachute Brigade) are unable to arrive due to poor weather conditions 
US 82nd Airborne Division and British Guards Armored Division attacking toward Nijmegen
German forces launch counterattacks in the Eindhoven-Son sector 
British 2nd Army attacks to expand the airborne corridor 

US 1st Army is engaged around Aachen, Lammersdorf, and Monschau 
US 3rd Army is heavily engaged around Metz and Luneville 
General Troy Middleton's VIII Corps of US 9th Army captures the Crozon peninsula and German General Ramcke, ending all German resistance in the Brest area.
It is decided that German forces besieged in the Channel Islands, St.Nazaire and L'Orient will be left to "wither on the vine"

In the North Sea...
U-867 is sunk by RAF aircraft 

In the Mediterranean...
U-407, the last operational U-boat in the Mediterranean, is sunk by RN destroyers Troubridge and Terpsichore and Polish destroyer Garland in the Aegean

In Yugoslavia...
British 43rd Royal Marine Commando lands on Solta Island

In Italy...
British 8th Army attacks the main positions of the Rimini Line 
US 5th Army advances toward Montrone, Pietrasanta, and Santerno 

In the Pacific...
Japanese vessel No. 2 Tosei Maru sunk by USN submarine Bang east of Formosa
IJN coast defense ship Ioshima (ex Chinese cruiser Ning Hai) is sunk by USN submarine Shad 
Japanese vessel Nanko Maru sunk by USN submarine Redfish off the East Indies

US 1st Marine Division continues attacking Japanese positions on Peleliu Island
US 81st Infantry Division attacking reduced Japanese resistance on Angaur Island 

China...
Stilwell meets with Chiang Kai-shek and delivers a strongly-worded message from Roosevelt demanding that Chinese forces must be committed to operations against the Japanese 

In Burma...
Indian 5th Infantry Division of British 14th Army attacks Tongzang on the Tiddim road south of Imphal 

Today's Air Raids...
Germany US 8th Air Force attacks multiple targets with 679 bombers, of which seven (1%) lost, supported by 240 fighters 
Monchengladbach and Rheydt, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Eindhoven, Netherlands by the Luftwaffe
Szolnok, Hungary by US 8th Air Force
Kraljevo and Mitrovica, Yugoslavia by US 15th Air Force 
Bologna, Italy by US 12th Air Force
Chichi Jima and Pagan Island by US 7th Air Force
Celebes Island and Halmahera Island by US FEAF
China towns, supply dumps, transportation lines, and other targets around Lingling, Changsha, Tungting Lake, and elsewhere by US 14th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
The Milk Run
Kitchen Housework
Shift 1 of the Weekend Job
TV Comedy night

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
I again have been reminded of the importance of study! As spiritual study revitalized my spiritual practice, so business study revitalized my Practice in terms of proactive promotional work. I have created a lot of work for myself but I was squandering that anyway. Busy people get more stuff done per unit time than those with time on their hands. Oomph and mojo has returned to full power!

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are you continuing to learn and grow?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry and cloudy throughout
A light north-easterly will blow overnight
Max Temp = 17 degC
Min Temp = 14 degC
Sunrise at 06:46
Sunset at 19:14

Weathertrack: A depression west of Spain will remain static. High Pressure in the Central Atlantic will drift east towards Britain
Air Pressure: 1013 millibars and static

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?   :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Steven Wright in 1987  Brilliant!! :D

8. TRIVIA
The word “blonde” is derived from several possible sources. Some scholars think it derived from the Medieval Latin blundus meaning “yellow,” the Old Frankish blund, meaning “grey haired” or “to mix,” or from the Old English beblonden meaning “dyed.”

9. ZEN WISDOM
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality—something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard? The exploration and enrichment of the human spirit is what determines our very humanity.