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12.11.16 Week: 50 \ Day: 346
December Averages: 44°\17°
86004 Today: H 55° \
L 25° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 68°[1950] Record Low: -11°[1961]
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Quote of the Day
I have found that
if you love life, life will love you back.
~Arthur Rubinstein
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Observances Today
International
Mountain Day
Kaleidoscope Day
Mawlid Al Nabi
UNICEF Birthday
Worldwide Candle
Lighting Day (The Compassionate Friends) Link
World Choral Day Link
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Observances This Week
10-17 Human Rights
Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
▼ Today’s World
Historical Highlights
1200’s
▼1282 Llywelyn
ab Gruffydd/Llywelyn the Last, last native Prince of Wales is killed at
Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales. Reigned from 1259.
1600’s
1620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
(12/21 NS)
1620 Myles Standish and a group of 18 settlers
are attacked by 30 Native Americans, which became known as the "First
Encounter"
1700’s
1719 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in
north American colonies (New England)
1800’s
1816 Indiana becomes 19th state of the Union
1844 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
1900’s
1902 The US signs a treaty with Cuba allowing for a
20 percent reduction of tariff rates on imported Cuban products
1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt attacks
abuses in the Congo
1909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at
Madison Square Garden, NYC
▼1913 "Mona
Lisa" recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum
1917 13 black soldiers hanged for participation in
Houston riot
1919 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise,
Alabama
▼1928 Buenos
Aires police thwart an attempt on President-elect Herbert Hoover
▼1931 Statute
of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland (Free State), and Newfoundland (not then
part of Canada)
1932 San Francisco's coldest day (27°F) - it snows
▼1941 Japanese
attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
▼1946 UN
Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
1951 Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
from baseball
▼1959 Emilio
G. Segrè publishes his discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic
antiparticle for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959
▼1961 Adolf
Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel
1961 JFK provides
US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
▼1964 Che
Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An
unknown terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech.
1971 The Libertarian Party of the United States is
formed.
1978 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa
cargo area at NYC Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 M in cash &
jewelry
1983 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John
Paul II in Rome)
▼1997 Delegates
from 150 industrial nations attending a UN climate conference in Kyoto, Japan,
reach agreement to control heat-trapping greenhouse gases
2000’s
▼2005 Cronulla
riots: thousands of white Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence,
resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who were
not) in Cronulla Sydney. These are followed by ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
▼2006 International
Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran,
Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
2008 Bernard
Madoff arrested and charged with securities fraud in $50 billion Ponzi scheme
2009 Tiger
Woods announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his
marriage.
▼2012 British
physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize,
the most lucrative academic prize in the world
▼2013 Pope Francis is
named Time magazine's person of the year
▼2014 World's
1st penis transplant procedure by a team from Stellenbosch University and
Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
2015 "Playboy" magazine publishes its
last nude issue, featuring Pamela Anderson on the cover
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My Rambling Thoughts
Last
night was binge time on Netflix. Didn’t crash until almost 1a. Enjoyable.
Warmish
weather continues and a nice day for a short walk. Then the wind started up and
time to head home.
So
confused by our bipolar politics. It is sure time for some political meds to
fix this. Sounds like the congress committee knew about the Russian hacks
before the election, but didn’t want it made public. A former candidate decides
to have a recount in several states. Republicans file suit to block her. In
this 140 character Twitter world the old phrase ‘he won fair and square’ has
now been shortened to ‘he won’. Losing faith in our electoral process is the
scary beginning to losing faith in our form of government. THIS IS NOT NORMAL!
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
10
Letter Word
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
Solve
the 10 clues. Take each initial letter, to form a new 10 letter word.
1. Polite greeting
2. Opposite of begin
3. It comes from a bulb
4. Eskimo's home
5. Another name for an axe (or ax)
6. Black Sabbath front man
7. Where a child may play
8. Large vessel for liquids
9. To change something
10. Neither left, nor wrong
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“Contronym”—word that is its own antonym
Out can mean
"visible" or "invisible." For example, “It’s a good thing
the full moon was out when the lights went out.”
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Candy Cane Facts
Candy
canes most likely evolved from a Swedish
candy called polkagris. Invented in 1859, these straight candy sticks
were originally peppermint flavored with red and white stripes. Today there are
dozens of colors and shapes, and the candy isn’t associated with Christmas.
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…Harper’s Index…
37 – Average number of abortions per 1000 women in countries
where abortion is illegal or heavily restricted
34 – Where abortion is legal
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Yep, It Really Happened
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Library Book Returned 120 Years Late -----*
A
long overdue library book was returned to a British school nearly 12 decades
after it was originally checked out. Professor Arthur Boycott, a former student
who attended Hereford Cathedral School from 1886 to 1894, checked out "The
Microscope and its Revelations" by Dr William B. Carpenter and kept it
until it was discovered by his granddaughter Alice Gillett 120 years later.
"I can't imagine how the school has managed without it!" Gillett
said. She told the school she found the book among 6,000 others, as she sorted
through them following the death of her husband. A school spokesperson told The
Guardiann Gillet was lucky her grandfather borrowed the book from the school,
as they do not charge late fees to students. "We don't want to put them
off borrowing books," the spokesperson said. "Our pupils are really,
really good at bringing them back." The school estimated if the book had
been borrowed from Hereford Library, the fine would have been $9,351.
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Birthdays Today
▼ indicates age at death
90’s
▼94- Carlo Ponti, Magenta,
Lombardy, Italian producer (Marriage Italian Style, Doctor Zhivago)[d2007]
80’s
▼89 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
Kislovodsk, Russia, writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970), (d. 2008)
▼88- Charles Wesley, composer
"Hark!
The Herald Angels Sing" [d1788]
▼87- Max Born, Germany,
physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954)
▼86- David Brewster,
Scotland, physicist/inventor (kaleidoscope) [d1868]
85- Rita
Moreno, [Rosita Dolores Alverío], Humacao, Puerto Rico,
singer, dancer and actress (West Side Story)
70’s
▼78- Jim Harrison, American
poet and novelist (Legends of the Fall), born in Grayling, Michigan (d. 2016)
▼77- Annie Jump Cannon,
Dover Delware, US stellar spectroscopist (Harvard-classification) [d1941]
▼76 Tom Hayden, American
civil rights and antiwar activist and politician (Rep-D-Ca), born in Royal Oak,
Michigan (d. 2016)
73- John
Kerry, Aurora, Colorado, American politician and 2004
presidential nominee of the Democratic Party
72- Lynda
Day George, American actress (Casey-Mission Impossible), born in San Marcos,
Texas
60’s
▼66- Robert Koch, German
pioneering bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel Prize 1905), born in Clausthal,
Hanover (d. 1910)
▼64- Fiorello La Guardia,
(Mayor-R- 1933-45), born in NYC, [d1947]
62- Jermaine
Jackson, singer (Jackson 5-ABC), born in Gary, Indiana
50’s
58- Nikki
Sixx, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
40’s
▼44- Carlos Gardel,
Buenos Aires, Argentine singer and the most prominent figure in the history of
tango (d. 1935)
30’s
37- Rider
Strong, American actor, writer and director (Boy Meets World), born in San
Francisco, California
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@92-2012 Ravi
Shankar, Indian musician
80’s
@85-2008 Bettie
Page, American pin-up model
70’s
@71-1991 Robert
Q Lewis, US comic/TV panel member (RQL Show), emphysema
@70-1880 Oliver
Fisher Winchester, American businessman [Winchester repeating rifle] and
politician, TB
50’s
@53-2015 John
"Hot Rod" Williams, American NBA center/forward (Phoenix Suns), cancer
40’s
@42-1872 Kamehameha
V, last Hawaiian king
30’s
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Brain Teasers Answers
HELICOPTER
1. Hello
2. End
3. Light
4. Igloo
5. Chopper
6. Ozzy (Osborne)
7. Park
8. Tank
9. Edit
10. Right
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And
That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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