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December
13, 2015
Week: 51 \ Day: 247
December Averages:
44°\17°
86004 Today: H 36° \ L 27° Average
Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts:
15mph
Ave. High: 44° Record High: 66°[1921]
Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: 19°[1931]
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Observances
Today:
Pick A Pathologist Pal Day Link
Worldwide Candle Lighting Day (The
Compassionate Friends) Link
World Choral Day Link
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Observances
This Week:
7-14
Chanukah
7-13
Computer
Science Education Week Link
10-17
Human
Rights Week
13-19
Gluten-free
Baking Week Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia
regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is
recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.
1759 - First music store in America opens (Phila)
1769
- Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received
its charter
1774 - First incident of American Revolution - 400 attack Ft
William and Mary, NH
1816 - Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
1879 - First federal fish hatching steamer launched
(Wilmington, Delaware)
1903 - Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone mound
(NJ)
1903 - Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
1924 - KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1928 - Clip-on tie designed
1928 - George Gershwin's "An American In Paris"
premieres (NYC)
1936 - The highway over Hoover Dam was
opened
1938 - Los Angeles freezes at 28°F
1950 - James Dean begins his career with an appearance in
a Pepsi commercial
1956 - "Anastasia" comeback film for Ingrid
Bergman is released in the US, role wins Bergman Academy Award for Best
Actress.
1964 - In El Paso, Tx, LBJ & Mexican Pres
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape
US-Mexico border
1966 - 1st US bombing of Hanoi
1969 - Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"
1983 - 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver
184 (3 OT)
2000 - American Vice President Al Gore delivers his
concession speech effectively ending his hopes of becoming the 43rd President of
the United States.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to
go around world
1889 - Belgium rules on women/child labor law
2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is
captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Woke to a beautiful winter wonderland…a couple inches of snow.
Late afternoon the sun came out…next storm due Monday.
Caught up on DVR shows from last week. Neighbors were faster than
I was in clearing sidewalks. Thanks to them for doing my part too.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Water
in a cup
A
man in a restaurant asked a waiter for a juice glass, a dinner plate, water, a
match, and a lemon wedge. The man poured enough water onto the plate to cover
it.
"If you can get the water on the plate into this glass without touching or
moving this plate, I will give you $100," the man said. "You can use
the match and lemon to do this."
A few minutes later, the waiter walked away with $100 in his pocket. How did
the waiter get the water into the glass?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Bet
You Didn’t Know…
The first Oscar ceremony, which was held in
1929, lasted 15 minutes and had just 270 viewers.
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…Crazy
Law…
New Jersey
Wearing a bulletproof vest while committing or
attempting to commit murder is an offense, because New Jersey cares more about
making this a fair fight than the actual, you know, murder.
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…Harper’s
Index…
840 – average annual number of traffic jams at Yellowstone
National Park caused by drivers’ rubbernecking of bears
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeo Photo by @paulnicklen // Two
handsome Caribou spar in Denali National Park amidst this stunning fall scene.
Please #followme @paulnicklen to see
some intimate portraits of these majestic animals.
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2
jokes for the day
Innocent Johnny -
Little Johnny: Dad, Is it true? I heard that
in some countries where arranged marriage is a custom, a man doesn't know his
wife until he marries!
Father: Son, that happens everywhere, after
marriage you find out everything!
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I told my girlfriend…
I told my girlfriend she drew her eyebrows too
high... She seemed surprised.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Miami New Times Art Basel, the annual weeklong festival for
"One-Percenters" in Miami Beach, is scheduled for Dec. 1 to Dec. 6,
and among the many excesses is the sale of on-demand caviar, available by text
message, to be delivered in person within the hour, at $275 for a 125-gram tin.
Miami New Times calls Art Basel "ComicCon for the world's moneyed
elite," and among the extravaganzas is an "exotic dance club
sheltered inside a greenhouse." Four thousand artists, from 32 countries,
are participating.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
1.
Eggnog consists of milk or cream, beaten eggs and sugar. Most recipes call for
the addition of alcohol, such as rum or whiskey.
2.
Dec. 24 is National Eggnog Day, so make sure to sit back and enjoy a glass this
Christmas Eve.
3.
Eggnog is usually available in U.S. stores from mid-November to January only.
4.
The Eggnog Riot took place Dec. 24-25, 1826 at the United States Military
Academy in West Point, N.Y. Whiskey was smuggled into the academy two days
before Christmas,and was used to make the eggnog that induced the out of
control party that turned into a riot. The riot stopped Christmas morning, and
many cadets received court-martials. One of the participants of the riot was
future president of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis.
5.
American manufacturers offer a variety of eggnogs with substitutes for dairy
milk that can be found in stores. Popular substitutes for dairy milk include
soy, almond or rice milk.
6.
According to Indiana University, over 135 million pounds of eggnog are consumed
by Americans each year.
7.
The origins of eggnog are a bit of a mystery. One theory goes that the holiday
drink is a descendant of a medieval drink named posset, which was made of
curdled milk and spiced rum. Another theory is that the drink was originally
only consumed by English aristocracy, since the ingredients were so expensive,
and the drink was exported to the American colonies and became popular with
settlers.
8.
Founding father George Washington was a fan of the holiday drink. Kitchen
records at Mount Vernon reveal Washington served the drink frequently to guests
and even had his own recipe for eggnog. Washington’s version of eggnog included
rye whiskey, rum and sherry.
9.
One cup of eggnog consists of over 210 calories, 11 grams of fat and 150mg of
cholesterol. Drinking a few cups of eggnog will definitely lead to some belt
unbuckling at the holiday dinner table.
10.
The word eggnog is believed to be derived from the word “noggin,” a small
wooden cup that the drink was served in.
11.
People are so obsessed with the holiday classic that it has been turned into
everything from lip balms to soap to lattes to taffy to gumballs to salt.
12.
Rumor has it that the eggnog came from the medieval British ‘posset’ (milky
drink). So by the time the 13th century arrived, most monks were used to
combining eggs, posset and figs. They used this drink to toast for good health
and prosperity.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
94 - George P Schultz, US Secretary of State
(1982-89)
90 - Dick Van Dyke, West Plains Mo, actor (Rob
Petrie-Dick Van Dyke Show)
(89) - Carlos Montoya, guitarist (Suite Flamenco
1966), born in Madrid, Spain (d.1993)
86 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (Sound
of Music, Doll's House), born in Toronto, Ontario
(81) - Archie Moore,
Benoit, Mississippi, light-heavyweight boxing champ (1952-60), (d. 1998)
(77) - Richard Darryl Zanuck, film
producer/executive, (d. 2012)
67 - Ted Nugent, guitarist (Cat Scratch Fever,
Damn Yankees), born in Detroit, Michigan
(63) - Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln
and First Lady (d.1892)
(57) - Phillips Brooks, Episcopal bishop/composer
(Little Town of Bethlehem) (d.1893)
48 - Jamie Foxx, comedian (In Living Color)
26 - Taylor Swift, Reading, Pennsylvania,
American singer/songwriter (Our Song)
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Historical
Obits Today
@101-1961 - Grandma Moses [Anna M], US painter
@74-1924 - Samuel Gompers,
organizer (American Federation of Labor), long illness
@72-1999 - Allen Breed, American inventor of the 1st
automotive airbag sensor, heart attack
@51-2005 - Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the
Crips\convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection
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Brain
Teasers Answers
First, the waiter stuck the match into the lemon wedge, so that it
would stand straight. Then he lit the match, and put it in the middle of the
plate with the lemon. Then, he placed the glass upside-down over the match. As
the flame used up the oxygen in the glass, it created a small vacuum, which
sucked in the water through the space between the glass and the plate. Thus,
the waiter got the water into the glass without touching or moving the plate.
You can try this experiment at home with appropriate supervision.
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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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