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12.16.16 Week: 50
\ Day: 351
December Averages:
44°\17°
86004 Today: H 61° \ L 27°
Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 18mph\Gusts:
22mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 63°[1958]
Record Low: -18°[1971]
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Quote of the Day
Do right. Do your
best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
~Lou Holtz
[football coach]
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Observances
Today
Barbie
and Barney Backlash Day
Underdog Day
Zionism
Day
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Observances This
Week
10-17 Human Rights Week
14-1/5 Christmas Bird Count Week Link
14-28 Halcyon Days (Always 7 days before and 7 days after the Winter
Solstice)
16-24 Las Posadas (Mexico)
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Today’s Significant
US Historical Events
▼ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1400’s
▼1431 King
Henry VI of England crowned king of France
▼1497 Portuguese
navigator Vasco da Gama is 1st European to sail along Africa's East
Coast, names it Natal
1600’s
▼1617 Spanish
viceroy Hernando Arias de Saavedra founds provinces Rio de la Plata
(Argentina)/Guaira (Paraguay)
▼1631 Mount
Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages & kills 4,000
1700’s
▼1707 Last
recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
1773 Boston tea party incident - Sons of Liberty
protesters throw tea shipments into Boston harbor in protest against British
imposed Tea Act
1800’s
▼1826 Benjamin
W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares
himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
1835 Fire consumes over 600 buildings in NYC
1890 Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in
Jackson, TN
1897 1st submarine with an internal combustion
engine demonstrated
1900’s
1903 Majestic Theater, NYC, becomes 1st in US to
employ women ushers
1905 "Variety" covering all phases of
show business, 1st published
1907 As a gesture of the US's new presence as a
world power, President Theodore Roosevelt sends the US Battle Fleet on a
round-the-world cruise, visiting ports internationally
1913 Charlie Chaplin began his film career at Keystone
for $150 a week
1924 Hiram Bingham is elected as a Republican
to serve in the U.S. Senate forcing him to resign as Governor of Connecticut
after serving only one day in office, the shortest term of any Connecticut
Governor
▼1938 Adolf
Hitler institutes the state decoration and civil order of merit, Cross of
Honor of the German Mother
▼1944 Ardennes
campaign ('Battle of the Bulge') begins in Belgium
▼1946 French
fashion designer Christian Dior and his backer Marcel Boussac found
fashion house Christian Dior
1950 US President Harry Truman proclaims
state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"
1951 NBC premiere of "Dragnet" in black
and white
1962 David Lean's film "Lawrence of Arabia",
based on life of T. E. Lawrence premieres, starring Peter O'Toole
(Best Picture 1963)
▼1970 1st
successful landing on Venus (USSR)
1972 Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team
(14-0-0)
1978 Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy
Carter's recognition of China PR
▼1995 The
official adoption of the name "Euro"
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Nice Christmas lunch with our little retirement group. Went to Little
America, which has completely remodeled its public areas. New look is OK. Food
is very good. View is great! We exchanged small gifts. Lots of fun. Mary heads
to Phoenix next Thursday and Cheryl heads for CA next Thursday. I leave Friday.
We all get back about a week later.
Amazing to learn that some US states do not require a unanimous jury to
convict someone and that other states are thinking about doing the same thing. Wow,
I had no idea…thanks NPR for another lesson worth learning.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Multiple Choice Questions
Logic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in
your reasoning.
What are your answers to the respective questions so that your answers to all
the questions are correct?
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Question 1
The answer to Question 2 is:
A. B
B. C
C. A
Question 2
The first question with correct answer B is:
A. Question 3
B. Question 1
C. Question 2
Question 3
The only answer you have not chosen yet is:
A. A
B. B
C. C
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…Harper’s Index…
$3,000,000,000
→Minimum amount earned in 2015 by traffickers smuggling refugees into
Europe
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2 jokes for the
day
December is the month when the kids begin to discuss what to get Dad for
Christmas.
Some insist on a shirt.
Others insist on a pair of socks.
The argument always ends in a tie.
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A first-grader came to the ophthalmology office where I work to have his
vision checked. He sat down and I turned off the lights.
Then I switched on a projector that flashed the letters F, Z and B on a screen.
I asked the boy what he saw.
Without hesitation he replied, "Consonants."
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Yep, It Really
Happened
* Australian Police Hold Standoff in Empty House *
Australian police were left baffled and embarrassed after participating
in a seven hour standoff outside of an empty home. Police responded to the home
in a city west of Melbourne after receiving "information regarding a person
of interest" in an ongoing investigation. Critical Incident Response Team
members said they were negotiating with a man who refused to leave the house
and eventually decided to enter the residence.
"After no response from the property the house was entered and
cleared and no occupants were located inside," the spokeswoman said. The
surrounding streets were blocked off and a nearby school was placed under
lockdown during the standoff.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
The highest denomination bill ever printed was a $100,000 note that was
printed from December 18, 1934 to January 9, 1935. It was used for transactions
between Federal Reserve Banks. President Woodrow Wilson was pictured on the
front.
The following bills have not been in print since 1946: $500 (William McKinley);
$1,000 (Grover Cleveland); $5,000 (James Madison); and $10,000 (Salmon P.
Chase, former Treasury Secretary).
The highest current denomination is the $100 bill.
It is suspected that the largest counterfeiter of U.S. currency is the
nation of North Korea.
Martha Washington is the only woman whose portrait has appeared on a U.S.
currency note. It appeared on the face of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1886 and
1891, and the back of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1896.
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Birthdays Today
▼ indicates
age at death
90’s
▼90- Sir Arthur C.
Clarke, Minehead England, science fiction author (2001,
2010, Childhood's End) [d2008]
80’s
▼88- George
Santayana, Spain, philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan) [d1952]
70’s
▼76 Margaret Mead,
American anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa), born in Philadelphia
[d1978]
75- Lesley
Stahl, newscaster/correspondent (CBS)
▼73- Noel
Coward, England, playwright (In Which We Serve-1942 Acad Award) [d1973]
73- Steven
Bochco, prod (Hill St Blues, LA Law, St Elsewhere, NYPD Blue)
60’s
69- Ben
Cross, English actor (Chariots of Fire, Star Trek), born in London, England
50’s
▼56- Ludwig van
Beethoven, Bonn, Germany, composer (5th Symphony, Ode to
Joy), (d. 1827)
54- William
"The Refrigerator" Perry, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
53- Benjamin
Bratt, California, actor (Det Reynaldo Curtis-Law & Order)
▼50- Catherine of
Aragon, Spanish princess/1st wife of Henry VIII, born in
Madrid, Spain (d. 1536)
40’s
▼41- Jane Austen,
Winchester, Hampshire, novelist (Pride and Prejudice), (d. 1817)
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Historical Obits
Today
90’s
@91-1965 William
Somerset Maugham, English author (Razor's Edge)
@90-1980 Colonel Harland Sanders,
American founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
80’s
@87-2013 Ray
Price, American singer
@86-1921 Charles
Camille Saint-Saens, French composer
70’s
@73-1859 Wilhelm
Grimm, writer, infection
60’s
@69-1858 Richard Bright, British Dr (Bright's
disease/nephritis), heart disease
@64-1989 Lee
Van Cleef, US actor (Good, Bad & Ugly), heart attack
50’s
@56-2007 Dan
Fogelberg, American singer/songwriter, cancer
@56-2003 Gary
Stewart, American musician and songwriter.suicide
40’s
@43-1928 Elinor
Wylie, American poet and writer, stroke
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Brain Teasers
Answers
Question 1: C
Question 2: A
Question 3: B
Just go through the answers to Question 1:
The answer can't be "A" because then the answer to question 2 would
say that the answer to Question 1 was really "B".
The answer to Question 1 can't be "B" either, because then question 2
would state that its own answer is "B", when it would have to be
"C".
This leaves "C" for Question 1 and "A" for Question 2.
Question 3 must then have an answer of "B".
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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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