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12.2.16 Week: 48 \ Day: 337
December Averages: 44°\17°
86004 Today: H 45° \
L 10° Average Sky Cover: 45%
Wind ave: -mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 62°[1946] Record Low: -5°[1991]
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Quote of the Day
Since we cannot
change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
~Nikos Kazantzakis
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Observances Today
Faux Fur Friday
Earmuff Day or Chester Greenwood Day Link
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery Day
National Mutt Day Link
National Rhubarb Vodka Day Link
Safety Razor Day
Skywarn Recognition Day Link
Special Education Day
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Observances This Week
1-7
Cookie Cutter Week Link
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
▼ Today’s World
Historical Highlights
▼1409 The University of Leipzig
opens
▼1697 St Paul's Cathedral,
designed by Sir Christopher Wren is consecrated for use (previous
building destroyed in the Great Fire of London)
1763 Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest
existing US synagogue)
1812 James Madison re-elected president of US,
E Gerry vice-pres
1823 President James Monroe declares his
"Monroe Doctrine", a US foreign policy regarding Latin America
1840 William Henry Harrison elected the 9th
President of the United States of America
1845 Manifest
Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the
United States should aggressively expand into the West
1867 In a New York City theater, British author Charles
Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
1927 First Model A Fords sold, for $385
▼1927 Paleoanthropologist Davidson
Black announces to the
Geological Society of China that the ancient human
fossils from
Zhoukoudian, China are a new species which he has named
'Sinanthropus pekinensis' (now known as 'Homo erectus')
▼1939 British Imperial Airways
& British Airways merge to form BOAC
1941 Largest roller skating rink (outside of NYC)
opens in Peekskill NY
1942 World’s 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain
reaction occurs in Chicagi Pile-1 (world's 1st nuclear reactor) at the
University of Chicago, overseen by Enrico Fermi
1952 First human birth televised to public (KOA-TV
Denver, Colo)
1957 1st US large scale nuclear power plant opens
(Shippingport Penn)
▼1961 Fidel Castro declares
he's a Marxist & will lead Cuba to Communism
1970 Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir:
William Ruckelshaus)
▼1971 Soviet Mars 3 is first to
soft land on Mars
▼1971 Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai,
Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates
1981 Fernando Valenzuela (Dodgers) wins NL Rookie
of the Year
▼1990 First parliamentary
election in newly reunified Germany
2014 Stephen Hawking claims that Artificial
Intelligence could be a "threat to mankind" and spell the end of the
human race
2014 Comedian Bill Cosby resigns from the
board of trustees of an American university following renewed sexual assault
allegations
2015 Attack on a social services center in San
Bernardino, California kills 14 and wounds 17
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great
lunch with Cheryl. Caught up on Thanksgiving stuff and her trip to her son’s in
CA for Thanksgiving. Mary is down in the Valley celebrating her twin grandkids
birthday.
OK…the
cold mornings must be here to stay for a while. Guess I’ll live with it and
stay inside until it warms up later in the day.
I
did not just fall off the turnip truck. So Trump has saved a thousand jobs from
Carrier. And that is very good. But he talks about charging huge tariffs for
goods to come into the US. Hello? Where are many of your clothes made (the ones
he sells)? Where are your hats made? Let me give you a hint…It starts with a ‘C’
and ends with an ‘A’. How long will people deal with him talking the talk but
not walking the walk?
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Every Dawn
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a
question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a
requirement.
Every
dawn begins with me,
At dusk I'll be the first you see,
And daybreak couldn't come without
What midday centers all about.
Daises grow from me, I'm told
And when I come, I end all cold,
But in the sun I won't be found,
Yet still, each day I'll be around.
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“Contronym”—word that is its own antonym
Weather can mean
‘to withstand or come safely through,’ as in “The company weathered the
recession,” or it can mean ‘to be worn away’: “The rock was weathered.”
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
Which
country consumed the largest amount of cheese in 2013?
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…Harper’s Index…
16 – Percentage of US college grades that were ‘A’s in
1960
45 – in 2015
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2 jokes for the day
Al:
When was your son born?
Sam: In March, he came the first of the month.
Al: Is that why you named him "Bill"?
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Mom:
What did you do at school today?
Mark: We played a guessing game.
Mom: But I thought you were having a math exam?
Mark: That’s right.
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Yep, It Really Happened
*--
Fish-Carcass-Filled Skate Rink Unpopular --*
Designers
at a theme park in Japan thought visitors would revel at ice skating
"across the sea" by freezing real fish under the ice but the
attraction was widely regarded as having an "appalling lack of
morality" and being "disrespectful of life." The Space World
theme park in Kitakyushu closed its "Aquarium of Ice" skating rink
after visitors and people online called the fish-carcass-filled attraction
cruel and disgusting. Designers added about 5,000 fish they bought, already
dead, from local fish markets, embedding them in the rink's ice: In one area,
dozens of red fish are half-buried and open-mouthed in ice and, in another, a
huge school of hundreds of black fish are swimming in a circle, with pictures
of larger fish such as rays and whale sharks placed beneath the ice elsewhere.
Park visitors were not thrilled being surrounded by dead, frozen fish, and
commenters online had a field day ripping Space World designers for their lack
of respect for life.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The
word "telescope" is from the Greek tele, meaning 'far,' and skopein,
meaning 'to look or see.' It was coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni
Demisiani.
<>
Galileo did not invent the telescope; he was, however, the first to
methodically use it to peer into the night sky. Dutch eyeglass maker Hans
Lippershey (1570-1619) actually invented the optical telescope (telescopes that
see visible light) in 1608.
<>
With the help of his telescope, Galileo discovered Jupiter's satellites and the
craters on Earth's moon. He also used his telescope to look at the sun, which
may have led to his blindness later in life.
<>
The
successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is the James Webb Space Telescope,
which is scheduled to be launched in 2018 for an estimated $8.3 billion. It
will observe in infrared and will have a 21.3-foot mirror, which will allow for
extremely high resolution to cosmic images.
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Birthdays Today
▼ indicates age at death
▼85 Alexander
Haig Jr, Bala-Cynwyd Pa, US Secretary of State (1981-82)/General [d2010]
85- Edwin
Meese III, US attorney General (1985-88), born in Oakland, California
▼80- Russell
Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of
Harper's Magazine (d. 1991)
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72- Cathy
Lee Crosby, LA, actress (Coach, That's Incredible)
▼71 Peter
Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records [d1977]
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▼64 George
Minot, US, physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934) [d1950]
▼63- Charles
Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)
62- Stone
Phillips, news host (NBC Dateline)
60- Steven
Bauer, Steven Bauer actor (Scarface, Thief of Hearts), born in Havana Cuba
<>
▼50- Gianni Versace,
Italian fashion designer (Versace), born in Reggio Calabria, Italy (d. 1997)
<>
48- Lucy
Liu, American actress
43- Monica
Seles, Novi Sad Yugoslavia, tennis star (US Open 1992)
<>
38- Nelly
Furtado, Canadi<>an singer and songwriter
35- Britney
Spears, Kentwood, Louisiana, singer and popstar
("Baby One More Time," "Oops! ...I did it again" and
"I'm A Slave 4 U")
▼31 Georges Seurat,
post-impressionist painter (Grande Jatte), born in Paris, France (d. 1891)
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Historical Obits Today
@82-1990 Robert
Cummings, actor (Love that Bob), kidney failure
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@78-1967 Francis
J "Cardinal" Spellman, archbishop of NY
@77-2008 Odetta
[Odetta Holmes], American folk singer (Sanctuary), actress and civil rights
activist, heart disease
@74-1814 Marquis
de Sade, French philosopher and writer (Justine), dies at
74. The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name
@70-1936 John Ringling, American circus owner
<>
@69-1986 Desi
Arnaz, actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), lung cancer
@66-1995 Roxie
Roker, actress (Helen Willis-Jeffersons), breast cancer
@61ish-1547 Hernán
Cortés, Spanish Conquistador who defeated the Aztec
Empire, pleurisy
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@59-1859 John Brown, US abolitionist (Harpers Ferry), hanged
<>
@48-1982 Marty
Feldman, comedian (Young Frankenstein), heart attack
@44-1993 Pablo
Escobar, Colombian drug lord, shot by Colombian Police
<>
@39-1963 Sabu
Sabu, actor (Jungle Book, Drums), heart attack
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Brain Teasers Answers
The
letter D
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Trivia Hive
Answers
France
The
International Dairy Federation said that France consumed 25.9 kilograms of
cheese per person in 2013, equaling just over 57 pounds. Other high rankers
included Iceland, Finland and Germany. Although China increased the amount of
cheese it imported, it actually registered the lowest, with less than 1 pound
of cheese eaten per person. Source: The Wall Street Journal
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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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