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12.19.16 Week: 51
\ Day: 354
December Averages:
44°\17°
86004 Today: H 32° \ L 9°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts:
9mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 62°[1958]
Record Low: -14°[1924]
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Quote of the Day
The roots of
education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
~Aristotle
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Observances
Today
UN Day For South-South Cooperation
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Observances This
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 12/16-24)
17-23 Saturnalia: ancient Roman
festival honoring Saturn, God of Agriculture
18-24 Gluten-free Baking Week Link
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Today’s Significant
US Historical Events
▼ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1700’s
1732 Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard
Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
1776 Thomas Paine published his 1st
"American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times
that try men's souls"
1795 1st state appropriation of money for road
building, Kentucky
1800’s
1823 Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration
law in US
1828 South Carolina declares right of states to
nullify federal laws
▼1843 "A
Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is published, 6,000 copies
sold
1891 1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US,
Charles Uncles, Baltimore
1903 Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between
Brooklyn & Manhattan
1919 American Meteorological Society found
1920 1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline,
Mass)
1941 US Office of Censorship created to control
info pertaining to WW II
1942 Robert Stroud "Birdman of Alcatraz"
is transferred to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
▼1946 War
breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
▼1950 Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion
1958 1st radio broadcast from space (President Eisenhower voice
"To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men
Everywhere")
1971 Stanley Kubrick's X-rated film "A
Clockwork Orange" starring Malcolm McDowell premieres
1974 Nelson
A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP
1975 John Paul Stevens becomes a US Supreme Court
Justice
1979 "Kramer vs Kramer" directed by
Robert Benton and starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep is
released (Best Picture 1980)
1986 "Platoon" directed by Oliver Stone
and starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe is released
(Best Picture 1987)
▼1987 Gari
Kasparov becomes world chess champ
▼1991 Boris
Yeltsin takes control of the Kremlin
1998 Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of
Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill
Clinton to the Senate.
2000’s
2007 The Lakotah people, a Native American tribe,
proclaim independence and withdraw all their treaties with the United States.
Establish the Republic of Lakotah, as a separate country.
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Chilly Sunday…Staying home…guess I’ll watch the Cards play this
afternoon. No Broncos on my TV. Slowly getting ready for my Christmas in
Chicago. Nice to see my brother and his wife and her family. The getting ready
part is preparing to deal with very cold temps. Trying to figure out what to
wear from Flag (chilly) to Phoenix (warm) to Chicago (could be bitter or not).
Right now it is much like here and the 10 day says the same. Hope it stays that way. Just a little
shopping left to do before I leave. So things are good.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Curtail L
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English
language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
When you curtail a word, you remove the last letter and still have a
valid word. You will be given clues for the two words, longer word first.
Example: Begin -> Heavenly body
Answer: The words are Start and Star.
1. Pebbles, rock fragments -> Tomb; serious
2. Prearranged fight with weapons -> Payable on demand; owed
3. Experience emotion; touch -> Fixed charge
4. Implement used for a job -> Also; excessively
5. Standard of perfection -> Mental concept; thought
6. Speech pattern with long vowels -> To sketch
7. Artist's tripod -> Freedom from hardship
8. Pale tint of colour -> Glue; a soft malleable mixture
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Today’s Trivia
Hive
(answers at the end of post)
Most planets in the solar system have moons named after Greek and Roman
mythological figures. What planet has moons named after Shakespeare characters?
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…Harper’s Index…
30→Number of members
of the Prohibition Party, the third-oldest US political party
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2 jokes for the
day
Why did the EMT's travel in sets of two?
They wanted to be a pair-of-medics.
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"Daddy," said my 10-year-old daughter, "I think I want to
join the Army."
"Baby," I answered, "I think the Air Force would be a better
option for you."
"But I don’t want to be a pilot."
"You don’t have to be a pilot," I told her. "There are other
jobs in the Air Force."
Her answer: "I don’t want to be a flight attendant either."
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Yep, It Really
Happened
*--- Family Expecting Toy Gets Rifle Instead ---*
A couple in Long Island were horrified to find an assault rifle inside a
package they thought contained a child's toy. Joel Berman, 60, opened the UPS
package in front of his wife and 6-year-old granddaughter expecting a
Fisher-Price toy airplane but instead found an assault rifle and other related
items. The package contained a Barrett 50-caliber sniper rifle with a
"rather sophisticated" scope, stand, ammo clip and copies of an
Arizona man's driver's license and concealed-weapons permit. "It was not
the little Fisher-Price toy we had expected," Berman said. Berman and his
wife had unknowingly driven around with the weapon in the trunk of their car,
believing it was a toy they had purchased for a friend's child, and he was
concerned about the potential negative outcomes of such a mistake. "What
if it went to someone who was having ill intentions, and thought this was the
greatest opportunity to get a weapon like this?" Berman said.
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Birthdays Today
§ indicates age at death
90's
§94→ [Little] Jimmy Dickens,
American country singer (Grand Ole Opry), born in Bolt, West Virginia [d2015]
93→ Cicely Tyson, Harlem
actress (Roots, Miss Jane Pittman), born in NYC, New York
80's
§86→ Robert Sherman,
songwriter (Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book), born in NYC (d. 2012)
§84→ Mary Ashton Livermore,
American reformer/women's suffrage leader
§80→ Ralph Richardson,
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, actor (Anna Karenina, Doctor Zhivago), (d. 1983)
§80→ Jeanne Kirkpatrick, US
ambassador to UN [d2006]
70's
§75→ Leonid Brezhnev, Kamenskoye
Ukraine, General Secretary of USSR (1964-82) [d1982]
73→ William De Vries, Bkln,
surgeon-inventor (Symbion artifical heart)
72→ Tim Reid, Norfolk VA,
American actor and comedian (Venus Flytrap-WKRP, Frank's Place)
60's
§66→ David Susskind, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), born in NYC, [d1987]
50's
§55→ Robert Urich, Toronto
Ohio, actor (SWAT, Spenser for Hire, Vega$)
53→ Jennifer
Beals, actress (Flashdance, Bride), born in Chicago, Illinois
40's
49→ Criss Angel [Christopher
Nicholas Sarantakos], Hempstead, New York, American magician and illusionist
(Criss Angel Mindfreak)
§47→ Edith Piaf, [E Giovanna Gassion],
chanteuse (Little Sparrow), born in Paris, France (d. 1963)
42→ Jake Plummer,
quarterback (Arizona Cardinals)
30's
§35- Phil Ochs, anti-war folk
singer (Joe Hill, War is Over), born in El Paso, [d1976]
35→ Jake Gyllenhaal, actor (Donnie
Darko, Jarhead), born in Los Angeles
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Historical Obits
Today
100's
@101→1977 Nellie Tayloe
Ross, 1st woman governor (wyo)
80's
@85→2012 Robert Bork,
American legal scholar/jurist
@85→1999 Desmond Llewelyn,
Welsh actor (Q in james bond films)
@85→1953 Robert
A. Millikan, American physicist (Nobel 1923)
70's
@70-2003 Hope Lange,
American actress (Ghost & mrs. muir), colitis infection
60's
@69-→1813 James
McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist
30's
@30→1848 Emily
Brontë,
English novelist (Wuthering Heights), tb
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Brain Teasers
Answers
1. Gravel -> Grave
2. Duel -> Due
3. Feel -> Fee
4. Tool -> Too
5. Ideal -> Idea
6. Drawl -> Draw
7. Easel -> Ease
8. Pastel -> Paste
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Trivia Hive Answers
Uranus
Earth might have just one moon, but Uranus has 27. Students of
Shakespeare will recognize Ophelia, Juliet and Rosalind, among others. With the
high number of moons orbiting Uranus, Shakespeare isn't the only one to get
naming rights. Alexander Pope also has moons named after his literary works.
Source: NASA
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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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