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December 15, 2015
Week: 51 \ Day: 349
December Averages:
44°\17°
86004 Today: H 35° \ L 22° Average
Sky Cover: 95%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
27mph
Ave. High: 44° Record High: 63°[1929]
Ave. Low: 16° Record Low: -14°[1931]
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Cat Herders Day
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Observances
This Week:
10-17
Human
Rights Week
13-19
Gluten-free
Baking Week Link
14-1/5
Christmas
Bird Count Week Link
14-28
Halcyon
Days
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1791 - 1st US law school established at University
of Pennsylvania
1791 - US Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gives its
approval. Becomes amendments 1-10 of the US constitution
1810 - 1st Irish magazine in US, Shamrock, is published
1836 - Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
1854 - 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in
Philadelphia
1877 - Thomas Edison patents phonograph
1889 - Tucson jury acquitted all the
defendants in the Wham Payroll Robbery case.
1925 - 1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden, Mont Canadians 3,
NY Americans 1
1939 - "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta
1941 - The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike
policy in war industries.
1942 - Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
1944 - Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English
Channel
1944 - US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th
star
1950 - NYC's Port Authority opens
1961 - Equal access rule, political
parties get TV broadcasting time
1962 - Vaughn Meader's "1st Family" album goes #1
& stays #1 for 12 wks
1969 - SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
1992 - Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman
of Year
1993 - Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List", an
epic historical drama based on the life of Oskar Schindler, is released
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1952 - Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a
sex-change operation
1956 - Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA
strikes
1961 - Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in
Israel
1993 - British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs
Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination
2001 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and
$27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
A couple from our discussion group had their annual Christmas
Cookie Open House yesterday. About 30 different cookie plates for all to enjoy.
Always nice to meet new people and catch up with others. This year several members
of the Astronomy club where in the house and learned a lot. Had some really
good cookies too.
Stayed home today to watch about 6” of powder fall from the sky.
Nowhere to go, so I did laundry. When the sun came out I quickly shoveled my
sidewalk, and my neighbors. Easy job, it was all powder. Then about an hour
later, the snow started falling again. Joy of living at 7000’ in a winter
wonderland.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What Am I?
In
your future and in your past
I come and go so senseless and fast
My purpose is unknown to all
Remembrance seems to drift then fall
I travel by night and fade by day
Because that is my common way
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Bet
You Didn’t Know…
Despite what the movie “The Martian” says,
NASA is not legally allowed to enter into a scientific partnership with China.
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…Crazy
Law…
New Mexico
If you’re performing the national anthem (or
“Oh Fair New Mexico”) anywhere in this state, you’d better sing the whole
thing. Half-assing the anthem is literally against the law. It must be sung or
played as an entire composition – even if that means a two-minute-long riff on
“land of the free.”
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…Harper’s
Index…
-15 Estimated percentage change since
2010 in household food consumption in Greece
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoImage taken by @markosian in the
deeply devout city of Puebla, Mexico, where residents hold their own
celebration for the Virgin Mary, during the Feast of Guadalupe. Statues are
carried to a local church, blessed, and then exchanged among families. After
the procession, families take their newly acquired statues to their homes, for
display. The following year, the statues are paraded back to the church and
given to another family.
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2
jokes for the day
Why Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
Q. Why does Santa go down the chimney on
Christmas rather than through the door?
A. Because it soot’s him!
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Up In The Sky
A man jumps from a plane and as he descends
pulls his parachute only nothing happens so he pulls his reserve and still no luck
so as he contemplates flapping his arms like a bird when he spies a man coming
up towards him.
Calling out to the man “DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING
ABOUT PARACHUTES?”
The other man replies “NO! DO YOU KNOW
ANYTHING ABOUT GAS COOKERS?”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
MOSCOW - Moscow's government has decided to
provide free Wi-Fi services at certain funeral homes in 2016. The service is
set to launch in the first half of 2016 and come to cemeteries in
Vagankovskoye, Troyekurovskoye and Novodevichy. Artem Ekimov of Ritual funeral
home in Moscow explained that Internet access can make certain needs, such as
navigating the funeral grounds, easier. "Online every person interested in
the identity of the buried or the monument of his grave will be able to obtain
the necessary information in the network," he said. "In addition, the
internet will allow you to download a map of the cemetery." Cemeteries in
Novodevichy and Vagankovskoye had previously been equipped with terminals that
allowed visitors to search for the GPS coordinates of certain graves.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
McDonalds
in Hong Kong will host a cheap McWedding for couples around $1200.
When
da Vinci was 24 years old, he was arrested along with several male companions
on charges of sodomy. When no witnesses came forward, his case was dismissed. But
da Vinci’s journals suggest that the allegations were somewhat devastating to a
man who liked to keep his private life private. Da Vinci may also have been
scared for his life because in 15th century Florence, sodomy was a crime
punishable by death!
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(91) - Gustave
Eiffel [Alexandre], French engineer (Eiffel tower), (d. 1923)
(83) - J.
Paul Getty, Minneapolis Mn, oil magnate (Getty Oil), (d. 1976)
(75) - Betty
Smith, novelist (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) (d.1972)
73 - Dave
Clark, rock drummer (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over), born in London
(67) - Stan
Kenton, [Newcomb], Wichita Ks, jazz musician (Music 55) (d.1979)
66 - Don
Johnson, Flatt Creek, Missouri, American actor (Miami Vice, Nash Bridges)
(44) - Chico
Mendes, Xapuri, Acre, Brazilian environmental activist and rubber tapper
(d. 1988)
(42) - Jeff
Chandler, [Ira Grossel], Bkln, actor (Broken Arrow) (d.1961)
36 - Adam
Brody, American actor
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Historical
Obits Today
@91-2009 - Oral
Roberts, American television evangelist and author
@88-2010 - Blake
Edwards, American film director
@75-1978 - Chill
Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), cancer
@69-1934 - Maggie
L. Walker, African American teacher and businesswoman (1st female Bank
President)
@65-1966 - Walt [Walter]
Disney,
animator, producer and co-founder of Walt DisneyCo, cancer
@58ish - Sitting
Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US Police
@40-1944 - Glenn
Miller, US band leader/jazz composer, plane crash
@39-1943 - Thomas
W "Fats"
Waller, jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), pneumonia
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Dreams
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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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