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January 21, 2017 Week: 03 \ Day: 21
86004 Today: H 44° \ L 27°
Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts:
20mph Visibility: 0.8 mi
Intermittent
snow…about 1’ on the ground so far
January Averages:
43°\17°
January Records:
H: 66° (1971) L: -30
(1937)
Record High: 60°[1944]
Record Low: -24°[1937]
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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆
Samuel Goldwyn
I had a monumental
idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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❆❆Observances Today❆❆
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❆❆Observances This Week❆❆
15-21
Hunt For Happiness Week
17-23
National Activity Professionals
Week
National Fresh Squeezed
Juice Week
18-25
Week of Christian Unity
19-29
Sundance Film Festival
21-22
Bald Eagle Appreciation Days
21-29
International Snowmobile Safety and
Awareness Week Link
National CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists) Week
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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
◈ 1525 The Swiss Anabaptist
Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a
dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich,
breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1677 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet
on smallpox), Boston
◈ 1793 Louis XVI of France is
executed by the guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for high treason.
1813 Pineapple introduced to Hawaii
◈ 1818 Keats writes his poem
"On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
◈ 1846 1st edition of Charles
Dickens' "Daily News"
1853 Envelope-folding
machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Mass
1861 Jefferson
Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign (U.S Civil War)
◈ 1863 City of Dublin leases
part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
◈ 1899 Opel manufactured its
first automobile.
◈ 1903 Harry Houdini escapes
from Halvemaansteeg police station in Amsterdam
1908 NYC regulation makes it illegal for a woman to
smoke in public
1915 Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
◈ 1919 Irish militant
nationalist party Sinn Fein creates its own parliament in Dublin and declares
Ireland independent of Great Britain, sparking the Irish War of Independence
◈ 1922 1st slalom ski race run,
Murren, Switzerland
1927 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera
house (Faust, Chicago)
1935 Wilderness Society incorporated in USA
1942 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines
illegal
◈ 1944 447 German bombers attack
London
1953 John Foster Dulles appointed as US
Secretary of State
1968 US B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb on board
crashes in Greenland
◈ 1976 Supersonic Concorde, 1st
commercial flights, by Britain & France
1977 US
President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever"
album goes #1 for 24 weeks
1983 President Reagan certifies El Salvador
human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid
1987 B.B. King donates his 7,000 record
collection to the University of Mississippi
1988 US accepts immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese
children
1991 CBS News correspondent Bob Simon captured by
Iraqis in Persian Gulf
◈ 1997 An inquiry in North Wales
names more than 80 child abusers
1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba
1999 In one of the largest drug busts in American
history, the US Coast Guard intercepts a ship carrying 4,300 kg of cocaine.
2004 NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases
communication with mission control. The problem lies with Flash Memory
management and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
2008 Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE
100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their
worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%.
2008 The Eyak language in Alaska becomes extinct as
its last native speaker dies.
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
So, now have a new President. Hoping things work out.
After my escalated complaint to H&R, I got a call and was told by
the local manager at the first place I had gone, that the paperwork was ready
for my signature. Turns out the stingy State of CA, who had billed me now owes
me a refund of $1500. Won’t see it for about 6 mos. to a year, but it is
coming. While visiting the office, I told that Senior Tax Consultant that I had
escalated my complaint. He said, not a problem, the District Manager, Office
Manager and I are very aware of your escalation. Done and Done.
While the Focus Travel Club will be having their annual blowout tomorrow
in sunny Denver, I am sitting in Flagstaff watching the snow continue to fall.
So far about a foot with more expected. Homemade stew is in the slow cooker so
I am set for nice weekend at home.
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❆❆Brain Teasers❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
Three and One
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs
answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
Some say I changed the course of ALL history.
My medicine is powerful and is almost free.
It is fabled I inspired a very heavy truth.
And Bill Gates was a little uncouth.
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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
Who was the youngest person to win an acting Oscar in the history of the
Academy Awards?
Shirley Temple
Tatum O’Neal
Justin Henry
Quvenzhan̩Wallis
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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆
33→ Number of banks
subjected to stress tests mandated by Dodd-Frank Act in 2016
31→ Number that passed
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❆❆New Trivia❆❆
The first Oscar ceremony, which was held in 1929, lasted 15 minutes and
had just 270 viewers.
The 13th President of the U.S., Millard Fillmore, was neither a Democrat
nor a Republican. He was a member of the Whig party and the last Whig president
of the country.
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❆❆2 Jokes For The Day❆❆
My husband and I both work, so our family eats out a lot.
Recently, when we were having a rare home-cooked meal, I handed a glass to my
three-year-old and told her to drink her milk.
She looked at me bewildered and replied, "But I didn’t order milk."
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Two friends were going on a road trip to Florida. A neighbor told them
that they'd be fine as long as they paid close attention to the road signs
along the way.
They'd driven 30 miles when they saw one that read, "Clean Restrooms
Ahead".
Two months later they arrived in Florida exhausted, having used up 86 bottles
of Windex, 267 rolls of paper towels, and three cases of toilet-bowl cleaner.
Total restrooms cleaned: 450.
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❆❆Yep, It Really Happened❆❆
2 girls freaked out after trespassing into an abandoned prison and
getting trapped inside, according to police in Illinois.
Joliet police said that they have arrested the two 15-year-old girls, who were
not identified. They were charged with one count of trespassing after being
accused of breaking into the old Joliet Correctional Center.
According to the police investigation, the girl who identified herself as
Brittany, climbed over a fence with her friend to gain access to the abandoned
jail. They entered unlocked prison cells, and at some point, one of the girl
got trapped.
Brittany called the Joliet Fire Department, to report that she and her friend
were stuck in the prison facility that has been abandoned 15 years ago.
After about an hour, firefighters used a sledgehammer to break through the wall
and freed the trapped girl. They were not injured.
The girls recorded their ordeal with their cellphones and uploaded the footage
on Snapchat and Twitter.
"I accidentally locked myself in a cell at the abandoned Joliet prison and
had to call Joliet fire dept. to get me out so enjoy this video," one of
the girl wrote in Twitter. Because if you're going to be an idiot, you might as
well get some views out if it.
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❆❆Somewhat Useless Information❆❆
Every president has taken the oath of office in Washington, D.C. except
for six. George Washington and John Adams were sworn in in Philadelphia. However,
it should be noted that the United States capital had not yet been transferred
to Washington, D.C. when they became president.
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Chester A. Arthur became president in New York City, and three other presidents
took the oath in seemingly odd locations; Theodore Roosevelt (Buffalo), Calvin
Coolidge (Plymouth, Vermont) and Lyndon Baines Johnson (Dallas).
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In the last three instances, the oath was administered because each man assumed
office upon the death of his predecessor and took the Presidential oath where
he happened to be at the time.
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The shortest inaugural address belonged to George Washington. That 1793 oration
weighed in at just 135 words. On the flip side, William Henry Harrison gets the
'Hot Air Award' with the longest inaugural address - 8,445 words - in 1841. The
already elderly new president delivered this oration without a hat and in
frigid weather, contracting a fatal case of pneumonia shortly thereafter and
expiring after only a month in office.
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When Calvin Coolidge assumed office initially in 1923 upon the sudden death of
President Warren G. Harding, his own father administered the oath, making
'Silent Cal' the first president to be sworn in by his father.
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Just as interesting, Coolidge - re-elected as President in his own right in
1924 - was sworn in by ex-president William Taft in March of 1925. By then,
Taft had become the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and is,
to date, the only President to also have served on the nation's highest court.
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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆
@→ indicates age at death
77- Jack Nicklaus,
golfer (Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76), born in Columbus, Ohio
76- Placido
Domingo, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Mme Butterfly), born in Madrid, Spain
75- Mac
Davis, American country music singer-songwriter, actor (Mac Davis Show, North
Dallas 40), born in Lubbock, Texas
@74→ Steve
Reeves, Glasgow Montana, actor (Hercules, Hercules Unchained) [D 2000]
@73→ Karl
Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)
@72→ Telly
Savalas, American actor (Kojak), born in Garden City New Jersey, (d. 1994)
@71→ Sophia
Louisa Jex-Blake, Hastings, English Physician and feminist who was one of the
first female medical students at a British university [D 1912]
70- Jill
Eikenberry, (Ann Kelsey-LA Law, Manhattan Project), born in New Haven,
Connecticut
67- Billy
Ocean, [Leslie S Charles], Trinidad, singer (Caribbean Queen)
66- Eric Holder,
82nd Attorney General of the United States, born in NYC, New York
64- Paul Allen,
American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft, born in Seattle, Washington
@61→ Barney
Clark, 1st to receive a permanent artificial heart [D 1983]
61- Robby
Benson, American actor (One on One, Running Brave, Chosen), born in Dallas,
Texas
61- Geena
[Virginia] Davis, Wareham Mass, actress (Beetlejuice, Fly)
@57→ Wolfman
Jack, [Bob Smith], American DJ (Midnight Special), born in Brooklyn, [D1995]
@55→ John
Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton) [D 1798]
54- John
Cabell Breckinridge, (D) 14th US VP (1857-61)/mjr-gen (Confed) [D 1865]
54- Hakeem Olajuwon, NBA Basketball player, born in Lagos Nigeria
@52→ Christian
Dior, French fashion designer (New Look), born in Granville, France (d. 1957)
41- Emma Lee Bunton,
"Baby Spice", Finchley vocalist (Spice Girls), born in London, England
40-Jerry Trainor,
TV actor
@39→ Stonewall
Jackson, Confederate general during the American Civil
War, born in Clarksburg, Virginia (d. 1863)
@35→ Horace
Wells, dentist (pioneered use of medical anethesia) [D 1848]
23- Booboo Stewart, actor
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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆
@90-2008 Marie Smith
Jones, last native speaker of the Eyak language
@87-1997 Colonel Tom
Parker, manager (Elvis Presley)
@81-2002 Peggy Lee,
American singer (b. 1920)
@81-1926 Camillo
Golgi,
Italian physician and medical researcher (Nobel Prize in Medicine-1906)
@77-1998 Jack Lord,
American actor (Stoney Burke,Hawaii FIVE-O), Alzheimer’s/heart failure
@77-1959 Cecil
B. DeMille, American filmmaker (The Ten Commandments, Samson and Delilah), heart
failure
@65-1901 Elisha Gray, American inventor (telephone), heart attack
@46-1950 George
Orwell,
author (Animal Farm, 1984), TB
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❆❆Brain Teasers Answers❆❆
Apple
Adam & Eve's apple,
An apple a day, etc.
Newton was never really hit on the head by an apple.
Windows was inspired by the Apple GUI, which Gates got to copy through a legal
trick.
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❆❆Trivia Hive
Answers❆❆
Tatum O'Neal
Tatum O'Neal was 10 years old when she snagged the Oscar for Best
Supporting Actress in 1974. She played "Addie" in the Peter
Bogdonavich film "Paper Moon" a year earlier. Shirley Temple never
won an official Oscar but did receive a special "juvenile award" in
1935. Justin Henry received an Oscar nomination in 1980 for "Kramer vs.
Kramer" when he was 8 years old and Quvenzhan̩ Wallis in 2013 for
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" when she was 9. Neither won, but if
either had, they would have set the new record. Source: Mic.com, IMDB
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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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