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1.21.16 Week: 03 \ Day: 21
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 49° \ L 22° Average
Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts: 28mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High: 60°[1944] Ave. Low: 18°
Record Low: -24°[1937]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Get
to Know Your Customers Day
National Hugging Day Link
Women's
Healthy Weight Day Link
Get
to Know Your Customers Day
Squirrel Appreciation Day 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 (Third Week)
National Bible Week: 18-24 Link
*Week of Christian Unity: 18-25
No Name Calling Week: 18-22 Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1674: Father
Pierre Millet "foretells" the coming of today's lunar eclipse, using an
almanac. Challenging IROQUOIS shamen to predict the time or date of
the eclipse, which they don't, Millet will make religious inroads among
the IROQUOIS by his successful prediction.
1677 - 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet
on smallpox), Boston
1789 - 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power
of Sympathy" is published
1813 - Pineapple introduced to Hawaii
1827 - Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins
publishing
1853 - Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell
Hawes, Worcester, Mass
1880 - 1st US sewage disposal system separate from
storm drains, Memphis, Tennessee
1887 - Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1908
- NYC regulation makes it illegal for a woman
to smoke in public
1915 - Kiwanis
International founded in Detroit
1927 - 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera
house (Faust, Chicago)
1935
- Wilderness Society incorporated in USA
1942 - Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines
illegal
1950
- T. S. Eliot's "Cocktail Party"
premieres in NYC
1950
- NY jury finds former State Dept official
Alger Hiss guilty of perjury
1954 - 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (NYC)
1977 - US President Jimmy Carter pardons
almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1983
- President Reagan certifies El Salvador
human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid
1999 - In one of the largest drug busts in American
history, the US Coast Guard intercepts a ship carrying 4,300 kg of cocaine.
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1525 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when
Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize
each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year
tradition of church-state union.
1818 - Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of
Milton's Hair"
1899 - Opel manufactured its first automobile.
1919 - Irish militant nationalist party Sinn Fein
creates its own parliament in Dublin and declares Ireland independent of Great
Britain, sparking the Irish War of Independence
1997 - An inquiry in North Wales names more than 80
child abusers
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♫ Birthdays Today ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Buying local is the way to go. My new recliner
was to be delivered between 1p-3p. At 1:05 they were here, 1:15 the new
recliner was in and the old one was out. Nice.
So glad to see Sarah Palin is back in
politics, and for Trump. I’m sure the ultra-right is excited. This will surely help
any Democrat who makes the finals.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Behead E
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. Wear away -> Travelled on an animal
2. Fill with joy -> Not on time; dead
3. Each; all -> To a high degree
4. Something that happens -> To let off pressure
5. Large property with a house -> Declare; say
6. Come out from -> To combine; unite
7. Feeling; passion -> Movement
8. Same in ability; fairness -> Trait; character
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…Business Facts…
CEO takes over company worth $9m,
fires management, gives power to employees, and now makes over $200m
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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.
19. Finished: Completed,
or ended or destroyed
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…Hard to Believe…
4. The lighter was invented before the match.
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…Harper’s Index…
27-Percentage by which Americans are more
likely to be killed by a cow than by a shark
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
natgeotravelPhoto by @alisonwrightphoto //
Girl Kham,Tibet
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2 jokes for the day
This past Sunday Mary Ellen and Elisabeth went to the 10:30 AM service and the
new pastor was long winded and his sermon was quite long.
After the service was finally over, Mary Ellen said to Elisabeth, "The
sermon was beautiful don't you think?".
Elisabeth replied "Oh yes it was, but a bit too long. Next week I'm
bringing my cushion to sit on, these benches are too hard."
She continued to say, "You know Mary Ellen at one point during the sermon
I thought my butt went to sleep."
Mary Ellen said, "I know, I heard it snore three times."
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New way of writing answers in exams
If you don’t know the answer, then put lines like this:
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and write below: “Scratch here for ANSWERS”.
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Yep, It Really Happened
N. Korea Claims to Invent Hangover-Free Booze
Kim Jong-un's scientists claim to have invented an alcohol that won't give you
a hangover, it's been reported. The liquor is apparently made from plant
extract ginseng and the sugar is replaced with burnt rice, which supposedly
eliminates both bitterness and a hangover, according to North Korean media.
Named Koryo Liquor, it has been produced at Taedonggang Foodstuff Factory, a
company that has spent years refining the drink in the country, the state
controlled Pyongyang Times reports. However the 'hangover-free' claims have
been disputed with experts claiming there is no such thing. Andray Abrahamian,
director of research from Choson Exchange, told NK News: "There are some
high quality liquors made in North Korea, though in my experience there is no such
thing as hangover-free booze anywhere in the world." He added that he
hadn't tried the brand but associated the drink with medicinal properties and
isn't that keen on it as a "tasty treat".
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Somewhat Useless Information
In 1817, Karl von Drais, a German
baron, invented a horseless carriage that would help him get around faster. The
two-wheeled, pedal-less device was propelled by pushing your feet against the
ground, The machine became known as the "draisine," and led to the
creation of the modern-day bicycle.
The term "bicycle" was not introduced until the 1860s, when it was
coined in France to describe a new kind of two-wheeler with a mechanical drive.
Orville and Wilbur Wright, the brothers who built the first flying airplane,
operated a small bike repair shop in Dayton, Ohio. They used their workshop to
build the 1903 Wright Flyer.
Fred A. Birchmore, 25, circled the globe by bicycle in 1935. The entire trip,
through Europe, Asia, and the United States, covered forty thousand miles. He
pedaled about 25,000 miles. The rest was traveled by boat. He wore out seven
sets of tires.
Americans use their bicycles for less than one percent of all urban trips.
Europeans bike in cities a lot more often - in Italy 5 percent of all trips are
on bicycle, 30 percent in the Netherlands, and seven out of eight Dutch people
over age 15 have a bike.
Bicycle Moto Cross (BMX), an extreme style of bicycle track racing, became a
sport in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Maris Strombergs, of
Latvia, received the gold medal for Men's BMX, and Anne-Caroline Chausson, from
France, took home the gold in the first Women's BMX Olympic event.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(97)
- Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (American Civil
Liberties Union) (d.1981)
76 - Jack Nicklaus, Columbus Ohio, golfer (Player
of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76)
75 - Placido Domingo, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Mme
Butterfly), born in Madrid, Spain
73 - Mac Davis, Lubbock, Texas, American country
music singer-songwriter, actor (Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40)
(72)
- Telly Savalas, Garden City NJ, American
actor (Kojak) (d. 1994)
(72)
- Richie Havens, Bkln, folk singer (Here Comes
the Sun), (d. 2013)
69 - Jill Eikenberry, New Haven Ct, (Ann
Kelsey-LA Law, Manhattan Project)
(68) - Benny Hill, Southampton England, comedian
(Benny Hill Show) (d.1992)
65 - Eric Holder, 82nd Attorney General of the
United States, born in NYC, New York
(62) - Barney Clark, 1st to receive a permanent
artificial heart (d.1983)
60 - Robby Benson, American actor (One on One,
Running Brave, Chosen), born in Dallas, Texas
60 - Geena [Virginia] Davis, Wareham Mass,
actress (Beetlejuice, Fly)
(52) - Christian Dior, Normandy France, fashion
designer (New Look) (d.1957)
(33) - Horace Wells, dentist (pioneered use of
medical anethesia) (d.1848)
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Historical Obits Today
@81-2002 - Peggy Lee, American singer
@81-1985
- James Beard, American chef and author
@77-1959
- Cecil B. DeMille, American filmmaker (The
Ten Commandments, Samson and Delilah), heart failure
@60-1999
- Susan Strasberg, American actress, breast
cancer
@53-1924 - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian
Revolutionary leader and Premier, stroke
@46-1950 - George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), TB
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Erode -> Rode
2. Elate -> Late
3. Every -> Very
4. Event -> Vent
5. Estate -> State
6. Emerge -> Merge
7. Emotion -> Motion
8. Equality -> Quality
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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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