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1.19.16 Week: 03 \ Day: 19
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 52° \ L 21° Average
Sky Cover: 75%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High: 62°[1986] Ave. Low: 16°
Record Low: -13°[1943]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Tin Can Day
World Day of Migrants and Refugees Link
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Observances This Week
Internat’l
Snowmobile Safety & Awareness Week: 16-24 Link
Hunt For Happiness Week: 17-23
National Activity Professionals Week:
17-23 Link
*National Fresh Squeezed
Juice Week: 17-23
National Handwriting Analysis Week: 17-23
Healthy Weight Week: 18-22
National Bible Week: 18-24 Link
*Week of Christian Unity: 18-25
No Name Calling Week: 18-22 Link
Sugar Awareness Week:
18-22
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1770 - Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
1825 - Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett
patent food storage in tin cans
1861
- Georgia secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1871 - 1st Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New
Jersey
1883 - The first electric lighting system employing
overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New
Jersey.
1929 - Acadia National Park, Maine established
1935
- Coopers Inc. sells the world's first men's
briefs in Chicago, calls it the "Jockey"
1938 - General
Motors begins mass production of diesel engines
1955
- "Scrabble" debuts on board game
market
1977
- US President Ford pardons Iva Toguri
D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose)
1977
- Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the
only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell
in the Bahamas.
1989 - President Reagan pardons George
Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon
2013
- Lance Armstrong admits to doping in all
seven of his Tour de France victories
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling
1785 - First manned balloon flight in Ireland
1806 - Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope
1903
- New bicycle race "Tour de France"
announced
2013 - 4 climbers are killed by an avalanche in
Glen Coe, Scotland
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♫ Birthdays Today ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great game yesterday as the Broncos move on to
meet the Patriots next week.
As a retired Federal Employee I refuse to go
shopping on any Federal Holiday. There is no reason for stores to be open…it is
a Federal Holiday. This one is honoring an American who helped change the
country. The employees of all the stores deserve to be off and honor Mr. King.
I would hope that all the store owners are paying their employees Holiday Pay…anywhere
from time and a half to triple time.
Flag is flying in my window. My mom made it a
family tradition that I continue.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Behead C
Language brain teasers
are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and
manipulate words and letters.
When you behead a word, you remove
the first letter and still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the
two words, longer word first.
Example: Begin -> Sour, acidic
Answer: The words are Start and Tart.
1. Outer layer -> Oxidized metal
2. Defraud; violate rules -> Thermal energy in transit
3. Sensation of cold -> Local land elevation
4. Go upward -> Jointed appendage; branch
5. Strong metal rope -> Having necessary skill
6. Confined; restrained -> Old; grew older
7. Stop; discontinue -> Freedom from hardship
8. Lacking dirt -> Lacking fat
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Business Facts…
China's Pollution Is so Bad, a
Millionaire Made over $6m Selling Cans of Fresh Air
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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.
17. Fast: Quick, or
stuck or made stable
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…Hard to Believe…
2. Betty White is older than sliced
bread.
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…Harper’s Index…
2,394-Minimum number of people admitted to US emergency
rooms in 2012 with injuries from texting
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
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2 jokes for the day
I woke up suddenly terrified, I'm late for work!
I opened my eyes and chilled... I'm at work.
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Father: Why did you get such a low score in that exam?
Son: Absence.
Father: You were absent on the day of the exam?
Son: No but the boy who sits next to me was!
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Yep, It Really Happened
Customer pays at drive-thru with cash, heroin
*
Indiana police said a man paying for his
McDonald's food handed a bag of heroin to a drive-through worker along with his
money. The police report of the incident said an employee at the McDonald's in
LaPorte took money from a male driver who appeared intoxicated and she sorted
the bills to discover a green plastic baggie containing a "rock-like
substance." Police said the substance "appeared to be heroin"
and later testing confirmed the presence of the drug. Police said the man
likely handed over the heroin by accident. "It shows you how significant
the problem is here that we're battling," Metro Operations Coordinator
Harlan Williams said.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Martin Luther King Jr. was born Jan.
15, 1929, as Michael King. But his dad later renamed him after Martin Luther,
the monk who started the Protestant Reformation in 1517.
King got involved in protesting in 1955 when a group of leaders created the
Montgomery Improvement Association to start a bus boycott in support of Rosa
Parks. King became its spokesman.
Over the course of King's 39-year life, police arrested him 30 times. One of
his arrests was for driving 30 mph in a 25 mph zone with three friends in the
car. The officers put him in jail.
King was killed by a single bullet fired at a Memphis hotel by James Earl Ray
on April 4, 1968.
People across the country rioted after his assassination. Police reportedly
arrested about 27,000 people in the month following King�s death.
A lawmaker proposed designating a federal holiday for King four days after his
death in 1968. The bill didn't become law until 1983. Not all 50 states
recognized MLK Day until 2000.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(90) - Jean Stapleton, actress (Damn Yankees,
Klute, All in the Family) born in NYC (d. 2013),
(83) - James Watt, Scotland, inventor (steam engine)
(d.1819)
(82)
- "Minnesota Fats" (Rudolf Walter
Wanderone, Jr.), American billiards player (d. 1996)
(74)
- Guy Madison, [Robert Moseley], California,
actor (Wild Bill Hickok) (d.1996)
(74)
- Phil Everly, Brownie Ky, singer (Everly
Bros-Wake Up Little Susie) (d.2014)
72 - Shelly Fabares, actress (Donna Reed Show,
Coach), born in Santa Monica, California
72 - Dan Reeves, NFL Coach (NY Giants, Denver
Broncos, Atlanta Falcons)
70 - Dolly Parton, Sevierville Tn, country singer
(Dolly, 9 to 5)
69 - Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur
(67)
- Paul Cézanne, Aix-en-Provence Provence,
French painter (d. 1906)
(63) - Robert E. Lee, Stratford Virginia, American
Confederate General in Chief during US Civil War, (d. 1870)
62 - Katey Sagal, singer/actress (Peggy
Bundy-Married With Children, Sons of Anarchy), born in Los Angeles, California
(59) - Auguste Comte, philosopher/founder
(sociology & positivism) (d.1847)
(40) - Edgar Allan Poe, author (Pit & the
Pendulum), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d.1849)
(27) - Janis Joplin, American rocker and blues
singer-songwriter (Down on Me), born in Port Arthur, Texas (d. 1970)
24 - Shawn Johnson, American Gymnastics Champion
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Historical Obits Today
@85-2000
- Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress, inventor
@85-1975 - Thomas Hart Benton, American painter
@70-2008 - Suzanne Pleshette, American actress, cancer
@65-1998 - Carl Perkins, singer/songwriter, cancer
@64-2006
- Wilson Pickett, American singer, heart
attack
@49-1970 - Hal
March, actor (Atomic Kit, Yankee Pasha), cancer
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Crust -> Rust
2. Cheat -> Heat
3. Chill -> Hill
4. Climb -> Limb
5. Cable -> Able
6. Caged -> Aged
7. Cease -> Ease
8. Clean -> Lean
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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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