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January 20,
2017 Week: 03 \ Day: 20
86004 Today: H 40° \
L 29° Average Sky Cover: 100%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts: 17mph Visibility: 0.8 mi
Snowing; wind chill 19°
January Averages: 43°\17°
January Records: H: 66°
(1971) L: -30 (1937)
Record High: 61°[1950] Record Low: -14°[1922]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
William Blake
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Camcorder Day
Data Innovation Day? Link
International Fetish Day
Inauguration Day-US
Women's Healthy Weight Day Link
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❆❆Observances
This 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
19-29
Sundance Film Festival
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
◈ 1356 Edward
Balliol abdicates as King of Scots.
◈ 1502 The
present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored.
◈ 1576 The
Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de
Almansa.
1778 1st American military court martial trial
begins, Cambridge, Mass
1785 Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island
(Ellis Is), no takers
1801 John Marshall appointed US chief justice
1809 1st US geology book published by William
Maclure
1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify
before US Congress
1870 Hiram R. Revels elected to fill unexpired
term of Jefferson Davis as US Senator for Mississippi
1887 US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
1905 US begins supervising the Dominican Republic's
national and international debts, testing President Theodore Roosevelt's
"Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine
1920 The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
◈ 1921 Republic
of Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman Empire
1929 1st feature talking motion picture taken
outdoors, "In Old Arizona"
◈ 1936 Edward
VIII succeeds British king George V
1937 1st US Presidential Inauguration day held on
Jan 20th, (previously March 4th)
◈ 1942 Nazi
officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin to organize the
"final solution", the extermination of Europe's Jews
1943 Lead, South Dakota, temp is 52°F, while 1.5 miles away
Deadwood, SD, records -16°F
1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an
unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President
1949 J. Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a
tear gas fountain pen
1953 1st live US coast-to-coast inauguration
address (Eisenhower)
1961 Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at
JFK's inauguration
1961 The Democrat J.F. Kennedy is inaugurated as
President of the United States, the youngest ever sworn in
◈ 1965 The
Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man"
1965 The US Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposes
modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars & return
1969 Richard
M Nixon inaugurated as US president
1969 U of Az reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in
Crab Nebula)
◈ 1972 Six
oil exporting countries conclude meetings with Western oil companies; an
agreement is reached to raise the price of crude
◈ 1979 1 million
Iranians march in Tehran in a show of support for the exiled Ayatollah
Khomeini, fundamentalist Muslim leader
1980 President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of
Olympics in Moscow
1981 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days
freed
1981 Ronald Reagan inaugurated as 40th US
President
1986 1st federal holiday honoring Martin
Luther King Jr
1988 Arizona
committee opens hearing on impeachment of Gov Evan Mecham
1989 George
H. W. Bush inaugurated as 41st US President & Dan Quayle becomes 44th
Vice President
1989 Reagan becomes
1st pres elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
◈ 1991 Sudan's
government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the
country's Muslim north and Christian south.
1993 Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd US
President
◈ 1999 The China
News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed
especially at Internet cafés.
2009 Barack
Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America,
becomes the United States' first African-American president
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Snow
stopped Cheryl from coming into town, but Mary and I had our weekly retirement
lunch. We each had a great bowl of soup and a cappuccino. Great winter lunch.
So
the inauguration stuff is going off. It is amazing that we have such a peaceful
transfer of power. Obama has remained Presidential throughout this transition.
That is a good thing.
As
the nominated Sec. of Education stated that a school in Wyoming probably needs
a gun to protect from grizzly bears, I was reminded of the bear in Tuba years
ago. A circus had come to town, done its show and then left town. At some point,
a year old bear got loose or was forgotten. It was spotted around the public
school property. Cops came, lassoed the bear, and got it back to the circus.
Caused quite an uproar, we kept all the kids inside for a couple of hours…this
was long before the new America with ‘lockdowns’. All ended well and lots of
stories to tell. Scarier to educators around the country is her comment that
showed she didn’t understand the difference between ‘growth’ and ‘proficiency’.
Bumpy road ahead if she is confirmed.
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❆❆Brain
Teasers❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
Deductions #3
Language brain teasers are those that involve
the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
In
this teaser, I have given you a 9-letter word. Your job is to break up this
word into 9 separate letters and place them on the dashes to spell a 7-letter
word, a 5-letter word, and a 3-letter word. You can use each letter only once.
CULTIVATE
1. _ A _ I _ N _
2. _ O _ N _
3. _ C _
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
Which
country is the first to ring in the New Year?
Australia
New
Zealand
Samoa
China
34.1%
of internet quiz takers got it right
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
7/20/2016→Date on which the US Justice Department
approved a $100 billion merger btween Anhauser-Busch InBev and SAB Miller. (see
yesterday)
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❆❆New
Trivia❆❆
The
percentage of tusk-less elephants has grown substantially in the last few
decades, suggesting that the species may be evolving in response to poachers’
desire for elephant ivory.
Despite
what the movie “The Martian” says, NASA is not legally allowed to enter into a
scientific partnership with China.
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❆❆2 Jokes
For The Day❆❆
Two
guys walking down the street talking. One says to the other, "I wish I had
a million dollars."
The second guy says, "Oh, I'm working on my second million."
"Really?" asked the first guy, surprised.
"Yea, I gave up on the first million, didn't quite work out."
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Two
older women who were rivals in a social circle met at a party.
"My dear," said the first woman "Are those real pearls?"
"They are," replied the second woman.
"Of course the only way I could tell would be for me to bite them,"
smiled the first woman.
The second responded, "Yes, but for that you would need real teeth."
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*--------------
A New World Record --------------*
If you didn't think there was a world record for smashing open coconuts with
your head, think again. 30-year-old Rashid Naseem of Karachi, Pakistan just set
it when he managed to crack open 43 fresh green coconuts with his head in just
60 seconds. The feat was recorded on video, and was uploaded on Facebook, where
it went viral. Representatives of the Guinness World Record were at the scene
to officially record the world record. Naseem revealed that he trained for six
months to be able to achieve the world record. When he began smashing coconuts
with his head, he suffered splitting headaches, but they later went away as his
body got used to the banging. Naseem holds the world record for smashing the
highest number of drink cans. Last year, he smashed 210 walnuts with his head
in 60 seconds, which is also a world record.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
Real
elements you may not have heard of
Europium
(Eu)
Euro paper banknotes contain tiny amounts of this hard, silvery metal as an
anti-counterfeiting measure. It is also used to produce a strong, rich red
color in television and computer screens.
Scandium (Sc)
In the 1970s, metallurgists found that aluminum-scandium alloys are strong and
lightweight, making it useful in aerospace components. It wasn't long before
sporting-equipment manufacturers started using the alloys in everything from
baseball bats to lacrosse sticks.
Beryllium (Be)
Beryllium is recognized as a carcinogen by the International Agency for
Research on Cancer. In another form, however, beryllium is highly desirable,
even priceless. When combined with trace amounts of chromium, beryllium takes
on a beautiful green hue as the gemstone commonly known as the emerald.
Gallium
(Ga)
Few elements are weirder than gallium: A relatively soft, glittering metal,
it's widely used today in semiconductors and other electronics, as well as in
the pharmaceutical industry. But in years past, gallium (atomic number 31) was
a key part of a favorite parlor trick for magicians because it melts when it's
just slightly warmer than room temperature. Thus, spoons that are made of
gallium look normal, but when dipped into a cup of hot tea will instantly
dissolve.
Tellurium (Te)
Tellurium, a silvery-white metal first discovered in Transylvania, is often
used in solar panels, computer memory chips and rewritable optical discs. Its
name comes from the Latin word for earth (tellus).
Dysprosium (Dy)
Dysprosium (atomic number 66), is named after the ancient Greek dysprositos,
meaning "hard to get," appropriately enough. The soft, metallic
substance is in big demand for electric motors, especially those in electric
vehicles and wind turbines, which has earned dysprosium a place on the U.S.
Department of Energy's list of critical materials for the green economy.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@→ indicates
age at death
100→ George Burns,
[Nathan Birnbaum], American actor/comedian (Oh God), born in NYC, [D1996]
87- Arte Johnson,
comedian (Laugh-in, Don't Call Me Charlie), born in Chicago, Illinois
87- Edwin Aldrin Jr, USAF/astro
(Gem 12, Ap 11), born in Montclair, New Jersey
84→ Patricia Neal, American
actress (Hud, Subject Was Roses), born in Packard, Kentucky (d. 2010)
79→ DeForest Kelley,
actor (Dr McCoy-Star Trek), born in Atlanta, Georgia [D1999]
73→ Federico
Fellini, Italian film director and scriptwriter (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita), born in
Rimini, Italy (d. 1993)
69→ Joy
Adamson [Friederike Viktoria Gessner], Austrian naturalist and author (Born
Free), born in Troppau, Austria-Hungary (d. 1980)
64- Paul Stanley,
[Eisen], rock guitarist (KISS-Beth)
61- Bill Maher, American
comedian and political commentator (Real Time with Bill Maher, Politically
Incorrect), born in NYC, New York
60→ Lead
Belly,
American blues 12 string guitarist (Rock Island Line), born in Mooringsport,
Louisiana (d. 1949)
59→ Anson Jones, 5th
and last President of Texas (d. 1858)
59- Lorenzo Lamas,
actor (Lance-Falcon Crest, California Fever), born in Los Angeles, California
51- Rainn Wilson,
American actor (The Office, Juno), born in Seattle, Washington
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@88-1957 James Connolly,
1st Oly winner (1896) since Barasdates (369 CE), dies
@82-1990 Barbara Stanwyck,
[Ruby Stevens], actress (Big Valley)
@80-1569 Miles Coverdale,
English bible translator Great bible
@79-1984 Johnny
Weissmuller, US swimmer (Olympics-5 gold-1924, 28), pulmonary edema
@70-1936 George V, King of Britain
(1910-36), frailty helped by Dr.’s morphine injections
@63-1993 Audrey Hepburn, actress (Roman
Holiday), colon cancer
@42-1965 Alan Freed, DJ
(Big Beat), alcoholism related
@31-288 St. Sebastian,
early Christian martyr (commemorated as his feast day)
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❆❆Brain
Teasers Answers❆❆
Answer
1.
VALIANT
2. COUNT
3. ICE
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
Samoa
By
the time everyone's gathered in New York City's Time Square, Rio de Janeiro's
Copacabana Beach and England's London Eye, the small islands of Samoa and Apia
are already ringing in the New Year. Samoa is a beautiful island created by
volcanic explosions. It's known for its natural beauty, waterfalls and jungle
terrain. If you are visiting for New Year's Eve, you may find yourself taking
part in a traditional dance or witness people juggling flames. These are just
two of the celebrations that took place as Samoa and Apia residents welcomed
2016. Source: Travel Channel, World Time Zone, Lonely Planet, Mirror
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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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