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January 18, 2017 Week: 03 \ Day: 18
86004 Today: H 44° \ L 25°
Average Sky Cover: %
Wind ave: 0mph\Gusts:
7mph Visibility: 10 mi
January Averages:
43°\17°
January Records:
H: 66° (1971) L: -30
(1937)
Record High: 64°[1971]
Record Low: -8°[1995]
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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆
Xenophon
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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❆❆Observances Today❆❆
Hot Heads Chili Days
Winnie
the Pooh Day -The Birthday of Winnie's author A.A. Milne
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❆❆Observances This Week❆❆
11-18
Cuckoo Dancing Week
National Soccer Coaches of America Week
15-21
Hunt For Happiness Week
16-20
No Name Calling Week Link
Sugar Awareness Week
Healthy Weight Week
17-23
National Activity Professionals
Week
National Fresh Squeezed
Juice Week
18-25
Week of Christian Unity
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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
◈ 532 Nika uprising at
Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die
◈ 1535 Francisco Pizarro founds
the city of Lima, Peru
◈ 1591 King Naresuan of Siam
kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, date is now observed
as Royal Thai Armed Forces day
1644 Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported
America's 1st UFO sighting
◈ 1671 British pirate Henry
Morgan captures Panama City from its Spanish defenders
1733 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)
1777 San Jose, California, founded
◈ 1778 Captain James Cook stumbles
over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
◈ 1788 The first elements of the
First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany
Bay to set up a penal colony
◈ 1817 José de San Martín leads
a revolutionary army over the Andes to attack Spanish royalists in Chile
1840 Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US
electrical journal, appears
1862 Confederate
Territory of Arizona forms
◈ 1884 Dr. William Price
attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Iesu Grist (Welsh for Jesus
Christ) Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
1896 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US
(NYC)
◈ 1896 British troops occupy
Kumasi, West Africa
1902 Despite reports that favor the US building a
route through Nicaragua for a canal, a 'supplementary report' recommends the
route through Panama
1911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan
Park to USS Pennsylvania)
◈ 1919 Bentley Motors Limited is
founded
◈ 1919 The Paris peace
conference (aka the Versailles peace conference) opened to draw up the treaties
formally ending the Great War (WW1)
◈ 1922 Irish author Liam
O'Flaherty & others occupy Rotunda in Dublin
1929 "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter
Winchell debuts on radio
1933 White
Sands National Monument, NM established
1943 US rations bread & metal - banning
presliced bread reduce bakery demand for metal parts
1944 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since
repeal of exclusion acts
◈ 1948 1st courses begin at
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
1948 Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour"
begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)
◈ 1951 1st use of lie detector
in Netherlands
◈ 1956 German Democratic
Republic (East Germany) forms own army (National People's Army)
1962 US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to
reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
1964 Plans for World Trade Center announced (NYC)
1967 Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to
life in prison
◈ 1973 John Cleese's final
episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on BBC TV
1974 "$6
Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
1975 "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All
in the Family" premieres on CBS
1977 Scientists identify a previously unknown
bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
1981 Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield become the first
two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories (buildings, cliffs,
bridges, antennae) after parachuting off a Houston skyscraper
1983 IOC
restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from
him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball
1990 Washington DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in
drug enforcement sting
1991 US acknowledges CIA and US Army paid Manuel
Noriega $320,000 over his career
◈ 1991 Longest tennis match at
the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in
5 hours & 11 mins
◈ 2003 A bushfire kills 4 people
and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
◈ 2005 The world's largest
commercial jet, the Airbus A380, is unveiled in France
2008 The United Nations
announce George Clooney as a UN messenger of peace ◈ 2012 Stop Online Piracy Act
(SOPA) blackout becomes the largest protest in the history of the internet
◈ 2016 World's 62 richest people
are now as wealthy as half the world's population according to a report
published by Oxfam
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Another very cloudy day. Not too cold, looks like more rain in January
for us. Weatherman says a 3 storm system is headed our way and will hit us
tomorrow through Saturday. Claiming a lot of snow…not too excited, I’ve heard
that before.
No word from H&R Block yesterday or today. I will wait until late
this afternoon to call and find out why my return from 2014 has been put on the
bottom of the pile.
Sure wish the ‘Russian Interference’ thing would get settled before the inauguration.
I have to say that the controversy of our latest election is doing exactly what
many of our enemies want us to do…divide and then fall. Sure hope things change
real fast. In a local note, AZ passed a minimum wage law to raise the minimum
wage to $15/hr by 2020. And Flagstaff passed a city wage increase that keeps
Flagstaff above the state minimum. That was because we are known as the city of
‘poverty with a view’. We have the highest cost of living of any place in AZ. Now
a group of businesses in Flagstaff are trying to get us to rescind the Flagstaff
part in our May elections, before it takes effect on July 1. Several local
businesses have closed on or about Jan 1 and are claiming they closed because
of the minimum wage increase. Many business also are claiming that they will
have to raise their prices to meet the minimum wage and will also be cutting
hours and/or cutting employees due to the minimum wage. And that because of
this, the new minimum wage is actually hurting those employees it was meant to
help. When I came to this town back in the early 1970’s it was almost exclusively
local businesses. There was one McDonald’s, and a brand new Kmart opened soon
after my arrival. Downtown there was a Penny’s that was in competition with a
local Babbitts that was selling the same stuff. TG&Y, Longs, and Firestone
were the only other chains. Now the town is almost exclusively chains, with
very few ‘local’ businesses. And while many gripe and complain about ‘big box’
and chains, that is about all there is. Restaurants are a different story.
There are many locally owned and run restaurants and when I go out for a meal,
it is almost always locally owned. So I’ll
wait and see what happens before I get too involved in this mess about wages.
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❆❆Brain Teasers❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
RE-Words 2
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You
need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
In English, "re" is a prefix usually meaning
"again", such as in "rebuild" (build again). However, there
are many words starting with "re" which have a totally different
meaning without the "re".
You will be given two definitions, one for a word starting with "re",
and one for the remaining word without the "re" (either definition
could be given first).
Example: exhausting / ceasing employment
Answer: tiring / retiring
1. leisure time / beginning of time
2. say again / marshy organic material
3. immoral act / sticky yellow organic substance
4. was not truthful / depended on
5. feel bitterness toward / delivered
6. indulgences or luxuries / withdraws army
7. electric potential / violent uprising
8. circuit breaker / deny
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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
What is the highest grossing animated film of all time, adjusted for
inflation?
Toy Story 3
Ice Age: The Meltdown
The Lion King
Snow White and
The Seven Dwarfs
Ratatouille
55.9% of internet users got it right
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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆
600→Number of passports
lost by revelers at Munich’s Oktoberfest celebration in 2015
2→ Of wedding rings
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❆❆New Trivia❆❆
Nutella was invented in the 1940s, when cocoa was in short supply due to
World War II rationing. Pietro Ferrero, the founder of the Ferrero Company,
used hazelnuts to extend his chocolate supply and it soon became the Nutella as
we know it.
An example of nature’s mysterious-but-delightful surprises is Lake
Hilier in Australia. The lake is bubble-gum pink in color! Scientists believe
that it is due to some bacteria or algae. Though it is not the only pink lake
in the world, it is the only one whose water remains a distinct pink even when
taken out of the lake.
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❆❆Somewhat Useless Information❆❆
In 1983, Congress passed a federal holiday honoring King. The day is
celebrated on the third Monday in January.
***
His birth name is Michael Luther King Jr. but he was later renamed Martin and
his father called him M.L.
***
Martin was so intelligent he skipped the 9th and 12th grades and entered Morehouse
College when he was 15.
***
The "Big Six" organizers were James Farmer, of the Congress of Racial
Equality (CORE); Martin Luther King, Jr., of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC); John Lewis, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC); A. Philip Randolph, of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Roy
Wilkins, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP); and Whitney Young, Jr., of the National Urban League.
***
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered this speech on August 28, 1963,
on the steps of the Washington, D.C., Lincoln Memorial during the march on
Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
***
On Apr. 4, 1968, he was shot and killed as he stood on the balcony of the
Lorraine Motel. James Earl Ray, a career criminal, pleaded guilty to the murder
and was convicted, but he soon recanted, claiming he was duped into his plea.
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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆
@→ indicates age at death
@90→ Peter
Roget, thesaurus fame/inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard) [D1869]
@82→ Cary
Grant [Archibald Alexander Leach], Bristol England, actor (Arsenic & Old
Lace, North by Northwest) [D1986}
@80→ Ray
Dolby, sound expert/inventor (Dolby noise limiting system), born in Portland,
Oregon (d. 2013)
@76→ Danny
Kaye, American UNICEF/comedian/actor (Danny Kaye Show), born in Brooklyn, [D1987]
@75→ Daniel
Williams, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, surgeon (1st open
heart operation), (d. 1931)
@74→ A.
A. Milne (Alan Alexander), English author of the
Winnie-the-Pooh books, born in Hampstead Middlesex (d. 1956)
@70→ Daniel
Webster, Salisbury NH, orator/politician/lawyer, (d. 1852)
@65→ Oliver
Hardy, Harlem Ga, comedy team member (Laurel & Hardy)
[D1957]
62- Kevin Costner,
American actor (Fandango, Silverado, Bull Durham), born in Los Angeles,
California
@59→ John
Hughes, director (Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science) [D2009]
37- Jason
Segel, American actor (How I Met Your Mother)
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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆
@95-2011 Sargent Shriver,
American politician, Peace Corps
@82-1996 Minnesota Fats,
[Rudolf Wanderone Jr], billiard hustler
@74-1954 Sydney
Greenstreet, actor (Conflict, Maltese Falcon), kidney failure
@71-1862 John
Tyler,
10th US President (1841-45), stroke
@70-1936 Rudyard
Kipling, English author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), perforated ulcer
@67-2016 Glenn Frey,
American singer-songwriter (The Eagles), long illness
@56-1978 Carl Betz, actor
(Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show), lung cancer
@51-1859 Alfred Vail, American Inventor and early telegraph pioneer
@48-1952 Curly Howard
(Jerome Lester Horwitz), American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges),
strokes
@31-1923 Wallace Reid,
actor (Birth of a Nation), addiction after injury
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❆❆Brain Teasers Answers❆❆
1. recreation / creation
2. repeat / peat
3. sin / resin
4. lied / relied
5. resent / sent
6. treats / retreats
7. volt / revolt
8. fuse / refuse
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❆❆Trivia Hive
Answers❆❆
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
While it made nearly $185 million, adjusting for inflation and
rereleases brings the amount closer to $935 million. Other heavy contenders on
the same list include Finding Nemo, Toy Story 3 and Bambi. Source: Business
Insider, BoxOfficeMojo
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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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