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1.30.16
Week: 04 \ Day: 30
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 57° \ L 25° Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts:
13mph
Ave. High: 44°
Record High: 66°[1971] Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: -19°[1979]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Croissant
Day Link
National Seed Swap Day
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Observances This Week
Nat’l CRNA (Certified
Registered Nurse Anesthetists) Wk:
24-30
Clean Out Your Inbox Week: 24-30
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week:
25-30
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1797
US
Congress refuses to accept 1st petition from African American
1815
Burned
US Library of Congress reestablished with Thomas Jefferson's 6500 vols
1835
Richard
Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. in
1st attempted assassination of a US President 1847
Yerba
Buena renamed San Francisco
1894
Pneumatic
hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
1922
World
Law Day 1st celebrated
1928
Eugene
O'Neill's "Strange Interlude" premieres in NYC
1931
Charlie
Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater
1933
"Lone
Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio
1934
1st
theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC
1946
1st
issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
1956
Elvis
Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
1956
KRMA
TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956
Martin
Luther King Jr.s home bombed
1958
1st
2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx
1960
CIA
OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
1961
JFK asks
for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps
1961
KAET
TV channel 8 in Phoenix, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1977 8th
(final) part of "Roots" is most-watched US entertainment show ever
(100 million)
1982
Richard
Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised
as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
1989
The
American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
1994
Dan
Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76)
1995
Workers
from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials
testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1487
Bell
chimes invented
1647
Scots
agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400 1661
Oliver
Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after
having been dead for two years.
1774
Captain
Cook reaches 71°10' south, 1820km from south pole (record)
1790
Lifeboat
1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor
1818
John
Keats composes his sonnet "When I Have Fears"
1826
The
Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge,
connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened.
1873
"Around
the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne is published in France by
Pierre-Jules Hetzel
1911
1st
rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
1935
Ezra
Pound meets Benito Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"
1948
5th
Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
1948
Mahatma
Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse
1965
State
funeral of Sir Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral, London -
largest state funeral ever
1994
82nd
Women's Australian Open: Steffi Graf beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
(6-0, 6-2)
2003
Belgium
legally recognizes same-sex marriage.
2005
93rd
Women's Australian Open: Serena Williams beats Lindsay Davenport
(2-6, 6-3, 6-0)
2013
South
Korea successfully launches its rocket Naro-1 which was carrying a scientific
satellite
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♫ Birthdays Today ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Preparing, sort of, for a ‘winter event’ here
in our little mountain town. The weatherman says about 10” of snow starting
Sunday. Headed out to the local grocery store and picked up necessary stuff, in
case we really get 10”. That is really not a lot, but I still have about 6” on
my front area from the last one.
I did watch some parts of the debate last
night. Just gives me more reasons to be sure the far right does not win the presidential
race, nor any more governor seats, or congressional or state seats. I just can’t
understand their doom and gloom, their lack of empathy, or of their world view.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I Do Love the Holidays
Riddles are little poems or phrases
that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this
is not a requirement.
You will know that I am coming
From the jingle of my bell,
But exactly who I am is not an easy thing to tell.
Children, they adore me
for they find me jolly,
but I do not see them when the halls are decked with holly.
My job often leaves me frozen,
I am a man that all should know,
But I do not do business in times of sleet or ice or snow.
I travel much on business,
But no reindeer haul me around,
I do all my traveling firmly on the ground.
I love the time of Christmas,
But that's not my vocational season,
And I assure that is because of a sound economic reason.
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…Business Facts…
The Shell Oil Company began as a
novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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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.
30. Lease: To offer
property for rent, or to hold such property
31. Left: Remained, or
departed
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…Hard to Believe…
12. When you get a kidney
transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put
the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.
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…Harper’s Index…
1/4 – Portion of Rwanda’s parliament that was
female beofe the country’s 2003 reserved 30% of the seats for women.
2/3-That is now
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
twishybirdOne of the many attempts the U.S. Gov't tried to
eradicate Native People, but we're still here, #proud and #strong!! #Navajo #Diné #nativestrong
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2 jokes for the day
One night, Tim was walking home
when, all of a sudden, a thief jumped on him.
Tim and the thief got tangle up and began to wrestle. They rolled about on the
ground and Tim put up a tremendous fight. However, the thief managed to get the
better of him and pinned him to the ground.
The thief then went through Tim's pockets and searched him. All the thief could
find on Tim was 25 cents.
The thief was so surprised at this that he asked Tim why he had bothered to
fight so hard for 25 cents.
"Was that all you wanted?" Tim replied, "I thought you were
after the five hundred dollars I've got in my shoe!"
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A young man was sitting in his
office on the thirteenth floor, when someone came by and shouted: “Laloo, your
daughter Sweety is badly injured in accident!"
Not knowing what to do, the young man jumped out of his office window in a
panic.
While coming down when he was at tenth floor, he remembered he had no daughter
named Sweety.
When he was near the fifth floor he remembered he was not married.
When he was about to hit the ground he remembered he was not Laloo.
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Yep, It Really Happened
St. Petersburg -- The popular Nell's Country
Kitchen in Winter Haven, Florida, was shut down again (for
"remodeling," the owner said) in December after a health inspector
found that it had been operating for two weeks without its own running water --
with only a garden hose connection, across its parking lot, to a neighbor's
spigot. It had also closed for a day earlier in 2015 because of mold, roach
activity and rodent droppings (although management insisted that business had
immediately picked up the day they reopened).
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Somewhat Useless Information
Many owl species have asymmetrical
ears. When located at different heights on the owl's head, their ears are able
to pinpoint the location of sounds in multiple dimensions.
The eyes of an owl are not true "eyeballs." Their tube-shaped eyes
are completely immobile, providing binocular vision which fully focuses on
their prey and boosts depth perception.
A group of owls is called a parliament. This originates from C.S. Lewis'
description of a meeting of owls in The Chronicles of Narnia.
Owls can rotate their necks 270 degrees. A blood-pooling system collects blood
to power their brains and eyes when neck movement cuts off circulation.
The tiniest owl in the world is the Elf Owl, which is 5-6 inches tall and
weighs about 1 1/2 ounces. The largest North American owl, in appearance, is
the Great Gray Owl, which is up to 32 inches tall.
The Northern Hawk Owl can detect - primarily by sight - a vole to eat up to a
half a mile away.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(91) John
D Profumo,
England,
politician (C)(d.2006)
91- Dorothy
Malone,
American
actress (At Gunpoint, Night & Day, Peyton Place), born in Chicago, Illinois
(86) Dick
Martin,
actor/comedian
(Laugh-In), born in Detroit, Michigan (d.2008)
86 Gene
Hackman,
actor
(Bonnie & Clyde, Under Fire, The French Connection), born in San Bernardino
California
(84) Emilio
G. Segrè,
Tivoli,
Italian physicist and Nobel laureate (discovered the elements technetium,
astatine and the sub-atomic antiparticle antiproton) (d.1989)
82- Tammy
Grimes,
Lynn
Mass, actress (Can't Stop the Music)
(81) David
Wayne,
Traverse
City Mich, actor (Andromeda Strain, Adams Rib) (d.1995)
79- Boris
Spassky,
USSR,
world chess champion (1969-72)
79- Vanessa
Redgrave,
actress
(Blow-Up, Julia, Orient Express), born in London, England
(78) John
Ireland,
actor
(Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d.1992)
(76) Johann
Joachim Quantz,
German
royal flautist/composer (d.1773)
75- Dick
Cheney,
46th
US Vice President, born in Lincoln, Nebraska
65- Phil
Collins, England,
singer/drummer
(Genesis-Against All Odds)
(63) Franklin
Roosevelt,
New
Hyde Park NY, 32nd US President (1933-1945), (d. 1945)
(42)- William Payne
Stewart,
Springfield Missouri, PGA golfer (1983 Walt
Disney) (d.1999)
42- Christian
Bale,
Wales,
actor (Empire of the Sun, Little Women)
36- Wilmer
Valderrama,
American
actor (That 70’s Shsow)
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Historical Obits Today
@91-2015 Carl
Djerassi,
Austrian-born
American chemist, father of the contraceptive pill
@89-2007 Sidney
Sheldon,
American
author, playwright, and screenwriter
@83-1991 John
McIntire,
actor
(Virginian, Psycho)
@83-1836 Betsy
Ross [Elizabeth Griscom],
seamstress
widely credited with making the first American flag
@78-2006 Coretta
Scott King,
American
activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr., cancer
@76-2009 Ingemar
Johansson,
Swedish
heavyweight professional boxing champion of the world, pneumonia
@76-1948 Orville
Wright,
US
aviation pioneer, typhoid fever
@75-1951 Ferdinand
Porsche,
German
car inventor (Porsche), stroke
@33-1838 Osceola,
chief
of Seminole indians, dies in jail
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Brain Teasers Answers
Ice Cream Man!
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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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