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1.8.16 Week: 01 \ Day: 8
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 45° \ L 26° Average
Sky Cover: 99%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 17mph
Ave. High: 42° Record High: 62°[2002] Ave. Low: 16°
Record Low: -12°[1913]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today:
Argyle Day
Earth's Rotation Day
National English Toffee Day Link
Midwife's Day or Women's Day
National Bubble Bath Day Link
National Joy Germ Day
Show and Tell Day at Work
War on Poverty Day
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Observances This Week:
New Year's Resolutions Week: 1-8
Someday We'll Laugh About This Week: 2-8
Home Office Safety and Security Week: 3-9
National Folic Acid Awareness Week: 3-9 Link
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week: 3-10
Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week: 4-8 (Note: Usually week of his
birthday on Jan. 8.)
International Consumer Electronics
Show: 6-9
No Tillage Week: 6-9
Universal Letter Writing Week: 8-14 Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1675 - 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY
Fishing Co)
1790 - 1st US President George Washington delivers
1st state of the union address
1798 - 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed
1806 - Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in
Oregon
1815 - Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812); the war had ended
on 24th December, 1814 but none of the combatants knew
1835 - The United States national debt is 0 for the first and
only time.
1856 - Dr John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, Calif
1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last
battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).
1912 - Chiefs, representatives of people's and church
organisations, and other prominent individuals form the African National
Congress and declare its aim to bring all Africans together as one people to
defend their rights and freedoms
1918 - Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment
(prohibition) of the US Constitution
1918 - US President Wilson outlines his Fourteen Points for
peace after the Great War
1925 - 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas
1954 - Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio &
records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll Never Stand
in Your Way"
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares
"War on Poverty"
1968 - Jacques Cousteau's
1st undersea special on US network TV 1971 - 29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at San
Clemente Island, Calif
1989 - "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater
NYC after 3,486 perfs
1993 - Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his
20,000th career point
1996 - The last native speaker
of the CATAWBA language, Red Thunder cloud, dies today in Worcester,
Massachusetts. He is 76 years old.
2002 - President George W. Bush signs into law the
No Child Left Behind Act.
2011 - Attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman
Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a
Safeway grocery store kills 6 and wounds 13, including Giffords
2012 - "The 3:16 Game", the Denver Broncos' Tim
Tebow connected with Demaryius Thomas on an 80-yard touchdown pass on the first
scrimmage play of overtime, giving the underdog Broncos a 29–23 win over the
Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Wild Card Playoff Game
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1656 - Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem,
Netherlands)
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling
1902 - The United Irish League, a leading force for
unification in all Ireland and independence from Britain, holds its convention
in Dublin
1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it
Saudi Arabia
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Let it stop, Let it stop! So our little
mountain town now has almost 2 feet of snow and it is still snowing. Got a call
yesterday to remind me of a Dr. appt. this morning at 9a. So I shoveled the
sidewalk of about 18” of snow, cleared the car of snow, drove to the Dr. It
usually takes about 20 minutes. Today it took 40. Went to the office door to
find it locked. Sat in the car until 9:45. No one came. It had stopped snowing
so the drive home was good and much faster. Called and left a message to call
to set up a new appt. No call so I guess they never came in. Oh well, glad I
can stay home the rest of the day and enjoy the snow.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Multi-Word
Riddles are little poems or phrases
that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this
is not a requirement.
I am three words,
Two of them appear the same,
Two are pronounced the same.
One is the third person use of "capable" or "permit".
One means to sleep, but only for a bit.
The last word means a group of deer,
Perhaps now you can tell me, what words are here?
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*NEW*…Business
Facts…
There's a restaurant in Albuquerque
called Tim's Place that serves breakfast, lunch, and hugs - and it's owned by a
man with Down's Syndrome.
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…Civil War Facts You May Not Know…
8. The first surgeon in US military
history, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, worked during the Civil War. She was the only
woman to win the Medal of Honor, as well.
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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.
9. Consult: To offer
advice, or to obtain it
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…Harper’s Index…
1/5-portion of newly formed heterosexual
couples who met online
3/5-of newly formed homosexual couples
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeo The year 1955: Arizona cowboys play sports to
pass the time in Phoenix.
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2 jokes for the day
Dad And His Hair -
KID: Why is some of your hair white
dad?
DAD - Every time you make me unhappy
, one of my hairs turns white.
KID: Now I understand why grandpa’s
hair is all white!
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Nosey Pepper -
What does a nosey pepper do?
It gets jalapeño business!
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Yep, It Really Happened
OMAHA - An Omaha man's lawsuit against a
comedy club alleges he broke his leg while under the trance of a performing
hypnotist. The lawsuit alleges William Bendorf, 38, attended the Doug T
Hypnosis Show at the Funny Bone Comedy Club in Omaha March 21, 2014, and was an
audience participant called up on stage to be hypnotized by performer Doug
Thompson. Richard Shicker, Bendorf's attorney, said Thompson believed the
volunteers had been snapped out of their hypnotic states, but the plaintiff
"was still under" the trance when he was told to return to his seat. "When
he said 'Go back to your seats,' [Bendorf] looks out in the audience, sees an
empty chair and walks toward it. He walks right off the stage," Shicker
told the Omaha World-Herald. The fall broke Bendorf's leg, Shicker said.
"It was very painful -- and it continues to be painful for him,"
Shicker said. "He was in that zone -- that sort-of unconscious state. He
didn't snap out of it until he crashed to the ground." "It was
definitely a rude awakening," Shicker said. The Funny Bone Comedy Club has
30 days to respond to the lawsuit. A manager at the club did not respond to the
World-Herald's call for comment. Thompson's website says he takes measures to
ensure the safety of participants in his shows. "I always respect each and
every volunteer and never will let them spew out personal information or go
past a certain point on stage," the website states.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Salt has seasoned English in many
ways. Because Romans put salt or brine on their vegetables, the word
"salad" developed. Because Roman soldiers were given money to buy
salt, "salary" was coined.
In promoting the Louisiana Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson cited reports
of a "salt mountain" in the territory. "This mountain is said to
be 180 miles long and 45 in width, composed of solid rock salt, without any
trees or shrubs on it."
The adult human body contains about 250 grams of salt - about half a pound.
According to superstition, spilling salt can cause bad luck - an idea that may
have originated with Leonardo da Vinci's painting "The Last Supper,"
which shows Judas Isariot knocking over a salt container.
Chicago is America's salty center, thanks to the Morton Salt Co. The company
was owned by Joy Morton, a man who got his first name from the maiden name of
his mother, Caroline Joy.
There is an enormous salt mine under the city of Detroit, about 1,200 feet
below ground. According to Detroit Salt Co, the century-old mine spreads out
more than 1,500 acres and has more than 100 miles of underground roads.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(87) - Jack
Larson, playwright and actor (Jimmy Olsen-Superman), born in Los Angeles,
California (d. 2015)
(77) - Jules
Verne, writer "Father of Science Fiction" (Around the World in 80
days), born in Nantes, France (d.1905)
(76) - Jack
Lemmon, actor (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing), born in Boston, (d.2001)
76 - Ted
Koppel, Lancashire England, American journalist (ABC Nightline)
(74) - Lana
Turner, Wallace Idaho, actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest) (d.1995)
74 - Robert
Klein, comedian/actor (Hooper, Deadly Rivals), born in The Bronx, New York
(73) - Audrey
Meadows, American actress (The Honeymooners, The Jackie Gleason Show) (d.1996)
(71) - William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General (Union Army),
(d. 1891)
63 - Mary Steenburgen, Newport Ark, actress (Parenthood,
Time After Time)
(62) - Billy Bishop [William Bishop], Owen Sound,
Ontario, Canadian First World War flying ace (d.1956)
(42) - Gary Coleman, Zion, Illinois, American actor (Diff'rent
Strokes) (d.2010)
(24) - James Dean, Marion IN, stage/film actor (Giant, Rebel
Without a Cause) (d.1955)
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Historical Obits Today
@93-1998 - Walter Diemer, inventor (bubble gum 1928)
@83-1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scout movement)
@79-1996 - Francois Mitterrand, Pres of France (1981-95), cancer
@781994 - Pat Buttram, actor (Haney-Green Acres), kidney failure
@78-1990 - Terry Thomas, Engl comic (Heroes), Parkinson's disease
@77-1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China
@77-1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer
@69-1324 - Marco Polo, Venetian
explorer
@59-1825 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (Cotton Gin), cancer
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Brain Teasers Answers
Answer
First word: Does
Second word: Doze
Third word: Does
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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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