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December 10, 2015 Week:
50 \ Day: 344
December Averages:
44°\17°
86004 Today: H 62° \ L 27° Average
Sky Cover: 70%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
15mph
Ave. High: 44° Record High: 65°[1939]
Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: -2°[1956]
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Observances
Today:
Dewey Decimal System Day
Jane Addams Day
Nobel Prize Day
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Independence Day-Zanzibar-1963-from Great Britain
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Observances
This Week:
3-10
Clerc-Gallaudet
Week
6-12
National
Hand Washing Awareness Week Link
7-14
Chanukah
7-11
International
Coelenterate Biology Week Link
Older Driver Safety Awareness Week Link
Recipe Greetings For The
Holidays Week
7-13
Computer
Science Education Week Link
10-17
Human
Rights Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1672 - NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail
service between NY & Boston
1690 - Massachusetts Bay becomes 1st American
colonial government to borrow money
1817 - Mississippi admitted as 20th state of the
Union
1869 - Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in
Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
1880
- The first railway service in the AZ Territory was established between Tucson
and Los Angeles
1906 - US President Theodore
Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1919
- Nobel peace prize awarded to US President
Wilson
1931 - Jane Addams (1st US woman) named
co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1941
- Japanese troops overrun Guam
1950 - Ralph J Bunche (1st black American)
presented Nobel Peace Prize
1954 - Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in
Chemistry
1964 - Nobel Peace Prize presented to
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo
1971
- William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme
Court justice
1982
- CDC report on a transfusion recipient who
developed AIDS symptoms
1984 - 1st "planet" outside our solar
system discovered
1985
- "Out of Africa", based on the book
by Isak Dinesen, directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Meryl
Streep and Robert Redford premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1986)
1991
- IM Pei receives $5 million for design of
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
2012 - Google begins selling US$99 laptops
2013 - Mary Barra of General Motors becomes the
first female CEO of a major automotive company
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws
from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum,
is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army reaches
Manchester
1799 - Metric system adopted in France, first
country to do so
1868 - The first traffic lights are installed
outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they
use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1901 - First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded (to Jean
Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)
1901
- First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm
RΓΆntgen for his discovery of X-rays
1902 - Women are given the right to vote in
Tasmania.
1903
- Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre and Marie
Curie
1907 - Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel
prize for literature
1907
- The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in
London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the
existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
1922 - Nobel prizes awarded to Fridtjof Nansen
(Peace), Niels Bohr (Physics) and Francis William Aston (Chemistry)
1925 - George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel Prize
1929
- Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
jointly awarded to Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Gowland
Hopkins for the discovery of vitamins
1935
- Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Irene
Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie Curie) and her husband FrΓ©dΓ©ric
Joliot for the discovery of artificial radioactivity
1938
- Italian scientist Enrico Fermi receives
the Nobel Prize for Physics (work on reduced radioactivity)
1946 - German/Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse wins
the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his inspired writings which, while
growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian
ideals and high qualities of style"
1954
- Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
1966 - Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize
for literature
1968
- Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved
"300 million yen robbery", in Tokyo
1975 - Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner,
accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1978
- In Oslo, Menachem Begin &
Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1984
- South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu presented
Nobel Peace Prize
1994
- Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon
Peres & Yasser Arafat
2013
- Uruguay becomes the first country to legalize the growth, sale, and use
of marijuana
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Weatherman says to expect snow on Friday—2”-4”. Today has been
very cloudy and looks like the snow may arrive early.
Went to see a family movie today with Cheryl…Disney’s The Good Dinosaur’. Enjoyable movie…good
escape movie. Reminded me of the Disney movies I saw as a kid…good things
happen to the good, bad things to the bad. There is good in all of us. Happy
ending for all. I have to say that with all the crap going on in the world, it
is nice to see a movie like this.
Still waiting for Trump to drop out…but now he is again talking of
a 3rd party run. Guess he’ll
be running on the ‘Dumb Ass’ party ticket. Sadly people from other countries
don’t get that our election process is long and complicated and that anyone can
run for office. In the end, the one who wins is our leader. Watching the
cheering crowds of Trump must be making many countries nervous.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What a Creature
What
is a living creature that has four legs, eats cat food, and sees equally well
on both ends of its body?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Bet
You Didn’t Know…
An example of nature’s
mysterious-but-delightful surprises is Lake Hilier in Australia. The lake is
bubble-gum pink in color! Scientists speculate it is due to some bacteria or
algae. Though it is not the only pink lake in the world, it is the only one
whose water remains a distinct pink even when taken out of the lake.
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…Crazy
Law…
Nebraska
Marriage law in the Cornhusker State includes
some normal provisions, like a minimum age of 17, and some less-normal ones,
like a statute preventing any person with a venereal disease from marrying.
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…Harper’s
Index…
0.68 – percentage of all vehicle miles traveled in the US that are
traveled by motorcycles
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
shontobegay Winter Birth 2015 A great Navajo artist living
in Flagstaff
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2
jokes for the day
Work Jokes
Competitive Salary-Paying you less than our
competitions.
Join our Fast Paced Team-We expect you to know
everything so we don’t train you.
Casual Work Atmosphere-We don’t pay you enough
to dress you up
Must be Deadline Oriented-You are 6 months
behind on your first day.
Duties Will Vary-Anyone in the Office can boss
you around
Must have an eye for detail-We have no quality
control
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Religious Jokes
I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't
work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Police said a woman searching for
New Jersey didn't realize she was already in the state because of her other
state -- intoxication. Port Authority police said an officer approached Karol
Andino, 31, after she stopped her 2000 Volkswagen Beetle near the entrance to
the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City around 2:30 a.m. Saturday and got out of the
vehicle. The department said Andino repeatedly told the officer she was "looking
for New Jersey," despite being assured that she was already in the Garden
State. The officer determined Andino's eyes were red and watery and the suspect
admitted she "had a few drinks" before driving. A Breathalyzer test
indicated Andino's blood alcohol content was .25 -- more than three times the
.08 legal limit for driving. Andino was charged with driving while intoxicated
and careless driving.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
'A
Charlie Brown Christmas' almost didn't happen. Lee Mendelson, the executive
producer for the special, said in 2006 that CBS network executives did not love
it when it was first screened for them in 1965.
The soundtrack is huge, but Charles Schulz was not a fan of jazz. The studio
album of music from the special, composed by Vince Guaraldi and performed by
his trio, has also become a staple for the holiday season. It's so popular that
it was added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.
Melendez and Schulz wanted to use actual children as opposed to adults faking
young voices. Charlie Brown, Linus and Lucy were portrayed by actual child
actors, but the other voices were ordinary kids. Some of the children were so
young that they couldn't read. In "A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making
of a Tradition," Melendez recounts how he had to recite the script line by
line for Christopher Shea, the young actor who voiced Linus.
Linus quotes the second chapter of the Gospel of Luke from the Bible. After
reciting verses 8 to 14, Linus tells his friend, "That's what Christmas is
all about, Charlie Brown." Schulz, a religious man, wanted to include the
speech, but the producers were hesitant. After much back and forth, the passage
was left in, and it's become one of the special's most famous moments.
Despite its anti-commercial message, 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' wouldn't have
come together without its initial soft drink sponsor. Coca-Cola wanted to
produce a Christmas special and 'Peanuts' stood at the top of their list. The
first version of the special that aired on CBS not only included a brief
announcement of Coca-Cola's sponsorship in the closing credits, but it also
carried a product placement in the show's opening titles.
Schulz insisted that the cartoon not have a laugh track, something that was a
standard for TV comedies at the time. Producer Lee Mendelson recalled in
Schulz's biography that he was just as adamant that the special not have a
laugh track to "help keep it moving along."
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(81) - Dorothy Lamour,
[Mary Kaumeyer], actress and singer (Road to Bali), born in New Orleans,
Louisiana (d.1996)
(78) - Leonie "Nelly"
Sachs, German/Swedish poet (O the Chimneys-Nobel 1966), (d. 1970)
74 - Tommy Kirk,
actor (Old Yeller)
64 - Nia Peeples,
[Vernia], Hollywood, dancer/host (Fame, Party Machine)
(62) - Chet Huntley,
Cardwell Mont, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report) (d.1974)
(55) - Emily Dickinson,
Amherst Mass, poet (Collected Poems), (d. 1886)
51 - Bobby Flay,
American celebrity chef and restaurateur
(43) - Dan Blocker,
De Kalb Texas, American actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza) (d.1972)
30 - Raven-SymonΓ©,
American actress and singer
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Historical
Obits Today
@89-2005 - Eugene McCarthy,
U.S. Senator and presidential candidate
@88-1909 - Red Cloud
(MaΘpΓya LΓΊta), Lakota Sioux chief
@65-2005 - Richard Pryor,
American comedian and actor, heart attack
@63-1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize, stroke
@26-1967 - Otis Redding,
singer (Dock of Bay), plane crash
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Brain
Teasers Answers
A blind cat
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Disclaimer:
All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All
‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one
other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly
once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore
difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar
was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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