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1.16.16 Week: 02 \ Day: 16
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 37° \ L 17° Average
Sky Cover: 100%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts: 14mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High: 60°[1974] Ave. Low: 16°
Record Low: -8°[1915]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Civil Service Day
Religious
Freedom Day Link
Soup Swap Day Link
*Without A Scalpel Day Link
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Observances This Week
National Vocation
Awareness Week: 10-16 Link
Cuckoo Dancing Week: 11-17
National Soccer Coaches of America Week: 13-17
Bald Eagle Appreciation Days: 16-17
International Snowmobile Safety & Awareness Week: 16-24 Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1777 - Vermont declares independence from NY
1865 - SF Dramatic Chronicle started
1868 - Refrigerator car patented by William Davis,
a fish dealer in Detroit
1870 - Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to US
after Civil War
1883 - Pendleton Act creates basis of US Civil
Service system
1908 - Pinnacles National Monument, California
established
1919 - Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of US states;
Nebraska is 36th
1920 - The 18th Amendment is ratified, prohibiting
the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages (repealed 1933)
1936 - 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah
Race track in Hialeah Fla
1938 - 1st jazz concert held at Carnegie Hall
(Benny Goodman)
1951 - World's largest gas pipeline opens
(Brownsville Tx, to 134th St, NYC)
1954 - "South Pacific" closes at Majestic
Theater NYC after 1928 performances
1964 - "Hello, Dolly!" opens at St James
Theater NYC for 2,844 performances
1970 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal
award from the American Institute of Architects
1974 - "Jaws" by Peter
Benchley is published by Doubleday
1988 - NFL St Louis Cardinals announce move to
Phoenix
2001 - US President Bill Clinton awards former
President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the
Spanish-American War.
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1492 - The first grammar of a modern language,
Spanish, is presented to Queen Isabella.
1547 - Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself 1st
tsar of Moscow
1765 – French
Astronomer Charles Messier catalogs M41 (galactic cluster in Canis Major)
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♫ Birthdays Today ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
So the weatherman says we will have ‘some snow
flurries’ today. Well, we have 2+” of new snow and it is still coming down
pretty hard.
I went out and about before the snow started
but had to drive back in heavy snow. Life at 7000’ in January.
I missed the debate last night, but certainly have
heard enough about it today. When will the craziness end? I guess not until
November, if a crazy wins or forever if the crazy is the looser.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Where is He?
Rebus brain teasers use
words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
ACT_O_
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…Business Facts…
Lenovo CEO Redistributed His $3M
Bonus to 10,000 Employees. Twice.
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…Civil War Facts You
May Not Know…
14. A cemetery was created out of
Robert E. Lee's estate, which was confiscated during the war. (Now Arlington
National Cemetery)
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…Grammar Craziness…
The English language includes an
interesting category of words and phrases called contronyms— terms that,
depending on context, can have opposite or contradictory meanings.
15. Dust: To add fine
particles, or to remove them
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…Harper’s Index…
3/4-Portion of black Americans who view the
Confederate battle flag primarily as a symbol of racism
1/4-of White Americans who do
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
natgeoPhoto by @argonautphoto (Aaron
Huey). Two climbers pause above the#SheldonAmphitheater before
descending into the great #RuthGorge in#DenaliNationalPark,
Alaska. Watch for our feature about Denali in the February issue,
due out tomorrow! More photos of the #RuthGlacier and
this epic park at@argonautphoto.
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2 jokes for the day
Grandma of a boy don’t like eating
her medicine. So the boy went to the doctor and asked what he could do. The
doctor tells him a trick.
The boy came back home with some sweets and put the medicine inside them and
gave it to Grandma to eat. After eating her sweets the Grandson told his
Grandma, “I am very happy to see that you have eaten all the sweets.”
Grandma replied, “Yes I have eaten all sweets but I didn’t like the seeds
inside them and removed all seeds from it.”
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A blonde driving a car became lost
in a snowstorm. She didn't panic however, because she remembered what her dad
had once told her. "If you ever get stuck in a snowstorm, just wait for a
snow plow to come by and follow it." Sure enough, pretty soon a snow plow
came by, and she started to follow it. She followed the plow for about forty-five
minutes. Finally the driver of the truck got out and asked her what she was
doing. And she explained that her dad had told her if she ever got stuck in a
snow storm, to follow a plow.
The driver nodded and said, "Well, I'm done with the Wal-Mart parking lot,
do you want to follow me over to Best Buy now?
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Yep, It Really Happened
Louisville, Ky.-A tractor-trailer driver with
a load of bottled water tried to make it over a historic bridge in Paoli, Indiana,
on Christmas Day, with the obvious outcome when 35 tons of water starts across
a limit-6-tons span. The driver told police she saw the 6-ton sign but did not
know how that "translated" to pounds. (2) Among the activists
denouncing a proposed solar-panel farm at a December Woodland (North Carolina)
Town Council meeting were a husband and wife certain that vegetation near the
panels would die because the panels would (the husband said) "suck up all
the energy from the sun." His wife (described as a "retired science
teacher") explained that the solar panels prevent
"photosynthesis" (and also, of course, cause cancer). The council
voted a moratorium on the panels.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(87) - Frank
Zamboni, American inventor-ice resurfacer (d. 1988)
(84) - Robert Service, England, Canadian poet (Cremation of
Sam McGee) (d.1958)
81 - A. J. Foyt, American racing driver (Indy 500 - 1961,
64, 67 & 77), born in Houston, Texas
(76) - Ethel Merman, stage & screen actress (Anything
Goes, Call Me Madam) (d.1984)
73 - Ronnie
Milsap, Robbinsville NC, country singer (Legend in My Time)
(72) - Fulgencio Batista, president/dictator of Cuba (1933-44,
1952-59) (d.1973)
(71) - Susan
Sontag, author/film director (Benefactor, 1966 Pol Award), born in NYC, New York
(d.2004)
66 - Debbie Allen, dancer/actress (3 Girls 3, Lydia-Fame),
born in Houston, Texas
(64) - Jay
Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, HOF baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals) (d.1974)
57 – Sade (Helen Folasade Adu), Nigerian-born singer
42 - Kate Moss, English model (Calvin Klein), born in
Croydon, England
(22) - Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)
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Historical Obits Today
@94-2013 - Pauline Phillips, American advice columnist (Dear Abby)
@89-2014 - Russell Johnson, American television and film actor,
best known for his role as "The Professor" on Gilligan's Island
@71-1906 - Marshall Field, founder of Marshall Field and Company, pneumonia
@56-1794 - Edward Gibbon, English
historian (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire), peritonitis
@73-1901 - Hiram R.
Revels, American politician, 1st African American Senator
@52-1994 - Harry Nilsson, singer/Songwriter, heart attack
@52-1972 - David Seville (Rostom Sipan
"Ross" Bagdasarian), singer
(Alvin & Chipmunks), heart attack
@46-1979 - Ted Cassidy, actor (Lurch-Addams Family), heart failure
@33-1942 - Carole Lombard, American actress (To Be or Not to Be), plane
crash
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Brain Teasers Answers
Missing in action
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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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