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December 9, 2015 Week:
50 \ Day: 343
December Averages:
44°\17°
86004 Today: H 59° \ L 26° Average
Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts:
13mph
Ave. High: 44° Record High: 62°[1976]
Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: -8°[1951]
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Observances
Today:
Cremation Day
International
Anti-corruption Day
Weary Willie Day Link
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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
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1793 - Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily
newspaper, American Minerva
1878 - Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for
$2,500
1907 - First Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington,
Delaware, post office)
1909 - 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long
Island, NY)
1924
- Wupatki prehistoric ruins were made a National Monument in Northern AZ
1953 - General Electric announces all Communist
employees will be fired
1965 - "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
premieres
1968
- NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer
mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San
Francisco.
1975
- US President Gerald Ford signs
$2.3 Bn loan authorization for NYC
1985
- Phoenix, Arizona, gets 3" of snow
2005 - "Brokeback Mountain",
starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, is released
2008 - The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich,
is arrested by federal officials for a number of alleged crimes including
attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by
President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency
2014 - CIA
Torture Report released, detailing the CIA's use of torture on detainees
between 2001-2006
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1851 - 1st Young Men's Christian Association in
North America (Montreal)
1854 - Alfred Tennyson's poem "Charge of the
Light Brigade" published
1948 - UN General Assembly unanimously approves
Convention on Genocide
1961
- SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel)
Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel
1968
- The Derry Citizen's Action Committee (DCAC)
calls for a halt to all marches and protests for a period of one month
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice day here. Had lunch with a couple I worked with in Tuba. Good
to catch up. Both have retired and are now living just outside Flagstaff.
Saddened to hear that a former teacher, about my age, passed a couple of months
ago. I had worked with her in Tonalea and Tuba, but sadly alcohol took over her
life and led to an early demise. We also had some good laughs about our times
in Tuba.
I am no longer finding Donald Trump interesting as an entertainer.
I have never heard a narcissist on the TV as much as him. He has insulted
almost every group of people in the country. After listening to some of his
supporters after his most recent rant on Islam, I am actually concerned that he
may get the nomination of the Republicans. He does not represent the American
values that I believe in. Sadly not only are there Americans who believe his
rhetoric, but those in the Middle East are getting lots of ammo against the US.
Sad times for sure. Ignorance should not lead this country.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Hidden Colors
Can
you find the eleven hidden colors in the following paragraph:
Many injured animals are invited to live at the 'Toronto Range'. Stop in
kangaroo corner and marvel at the lovely creatures within. Dig over the potato
patch to find small furry caterpillars, but don't yell! Owls can be found
swooping for edible rodents, earwigs or perhaps bluebottles in the undergrowth.
The brown bear, Rob, lacks grace and may look like an ogre, enter at your own
risk! Peacocks can be found showing their colourful wares, which look fantastic
when viewed with our ultraviolet torch.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Bet
You Didn’t Know…
Nutella was invented in the 1940s, when cocoa
was in short supply due to World War II rationing. Pietro Ferrero, the founder
of the Ferrero Company, used hazelnuts to extend his chocolate supply and it
soon became the Nutella as we know it.
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…Crazy
Law…
Montana
Just two years ago, MT passed a law which
allows you to salvage roadkill for meat. Street squirrel: it’s what’s for
dinner.
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…Harper’s
Index…
12 – number of
years since 2000 in which traffic accidents have been the leading cuae of US
law-enforcement deaths
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @daviddoubilet Iceberg
in an emerald colored sea. A polar summer plankton bloom creates a rich green
veil surrounding an iceberg in Pleaneau Bay in the Antarctic Peninsula.
Icebergs are the perfect metaphor for the sea: the majority (+80%) is hidden
from our human view. #COP21 = 195
countries = 1 Mission = Legally binding reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
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2
jokes for the day
Word Play Jokes
Why couldn't the pony sing himself a lullaby?
He was a little hoarse
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Relationship Jokes
Arguing with a woman is like reading the
software license agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I
agree."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Vice.com After certain takeoffs and landings were delayed on Nov. 7 at
Paris' Orly airport (several days before the terrorist attacks), a back trace
on the problem forced the airport to disclose that its crucial
"DECOR" computer system still runs on Windows 3.1 software
(introduced in 1992). DECOR's function is to estimate the spacing between
aircraft on fog-bound, visually impossible runways, and apparently it must shut
down whenever the airport scrambles to find an available 3.1-qualified
technician. [11-13-2015]
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Somewhat
Useless Information
1. Whistling is
considered to be a male dominated activity. Women attempting to whistle were
labelled as unfeminine.
2. Whistling can denote
many moods, in particular either happiness as above, or as a way of taking your
mind off an unpleasant activity.
3. The song ‘Whistle
While you Work’ was written by Frank Churchill in 1937 for the Disney movie,
The Seven Dwarfs. The dwarfs made the notion of whistling while you work
popular as they carried out their task of sweeping the room.
4. To this day
people still whistle at work, often much to the annoyance of workers around
them. Whistlers are often unaware they are producing sounds that annoy and
disturb those around them.
5. Whistling was
considered unlucky or superstitious in many occupations or professions. Actors
believe whistling backstage can ruin a performance. If someone was caught
whistling backstage in a theatre they’re sent outside to turn around three
times and can’t come back in until invited. In other cases they were instantly sacked
for bringing bad luck. Sailors believe whistling attracts the wind.
6. In 1786, a
22-year-old French nobleman, Marquis de Pelier, was arrested by the police of
King Louis XVI, and promptly locked in solitary confinement. His crime,
whistling at the king’s wife, Queen Marie Antoinette.
7. Whistling can be
annoying to others at times, especially if the whistler is not in tune. One of
the strangest facts I came across is that whistling is illegal in Sullivan’s
Island, South Carolina. If you whistle there and it disturbs the peace,
especially between the hours of 11 pm and 7 am, you’re likely to attract a fine
of $500.
8. Whether
whistling is used as a method of signalling, an expression of sexual desire, an
escape from boredom or an indication of happiness, it seems to be a complex,
yet natural human reaction.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
99 - Kirk Douglas,
[Issur Danielovitch], Amsterdam, New York, American actor (Gunfight at OK
Corral)
(86) - Dick Van Patten,
actor (Tom Bradford in 8 is Enough), born in Queens, NY (d. 2015)
85 - Buck Henry,
screenwriter/comedian (SNL, Get Smart), born in NYC, New York
(82) - Margaret Hamilton,
actress (Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d.1985)
(81) - Thomas P "Tip"
O'Neill, (Rep-D-Mass 1977-86)/Speaker of the House (d.1994)
81 - Judi Dench,
York England, actress (Henry V, Wetherby)
(80) - Emmett Kelly,
Sedan KS, circus clown (Weary Willie) (d.1989)
(74) - Broderick Crawford,
American actor (All the King's Men, Highway Patrol), born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania (d.1986)
74 - Beau Bridges,
actor (Hotel New Hampshire, 5th Musketeer), born in Los Angeles, California
73 - Dick Butkus,
NFL hall of fame linebacker (Bears)/sportscaster, born in Chicago, Illinois
(69) - Clarence Birdseye,
frozen vegatable king (Birdseye) (d.1956)
(68) - Redd Foxx,
St Louis Mo, comedian (Sandford & Son, Redd Foxx Show) (d.1991)
(65) - John Milton,
poet/puritan (Paradise Lost), born in London, England (d. 1674)
58 - Donny Osmond,
Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
54 - Joe Lando,
actor (Byron Sully-Dr Quinn), born in Los Angeles, California
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Historical
Obits Today
@90-2009 - Gene Barry,
American actor
@84-1979 - Fulton J Sheen,
archbishop/religious broadcaster
@83-1996 - Mary
Douglas Nicol Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist
@82-1994 - Kim II Sung,
pres of North Korea (1945-94)
@81-1998 - Archie Moore,
American boxer
@77-2014 - Mary Ann Mobley, American model/actress, breast
cancer
@77-1982 - Leon Jaworski,
special prosecutor (Watergate), chopping wood
@67-1971 - Ralph Bunche,
UN delegate/Nobel Prize winner, long illness
@64-1996 - Faron Young,
country singer, suicide
@43-2012 - Jenni Rivera,
Mexican-American singer-songwriter, plane crash
@24-1165 - Malcom IV, King of Scots (1153-65), Paget's disease
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Many inju(red) animals are invited t(o live) at the 'Toront(o
Range)'. Sto(p in k)angaroo corner and marvel at the lovely creatures with(in.
Dig o)ver the potato patch to find small furry caterpillars, but don't (yell!
Ow)ls can be found swooping fo(r ed)ible rodents, earwigs or perhaps
(blue)bottles in the undergrowth. The (brown) bear, Ro(b, lack)s grace and may
look like an o(gre, en)ter at your own risk! Peacocks can be found showing
their colorful wares, which look fantastic when viewed with our ultra(violet)
torch.
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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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