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January 22,
2017 Week: 04 \ Day: 22
86004 Today: H 41° \
L 23° Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts: 13mph Visibility: 4 mi
January Averages: 43°\17°
January Records: H: 66°
(1971) L: -30 (1937)
Record High: 62°[1970] Record Low: -30°[1937]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Edith Wharton
There are two ways
of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Answer Your Cat's Questions Day
Celebration of Life Day
National Bible Sunday Link
Roe vs. Wade Day
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❆❆Observances
This 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
22-28
National Handwriting Analysis Week
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
National School Choice Week Link
National Medical Group Practice Week
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
◈ 1371 King
Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned
1814 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US
held, NYC
1879 James Shields (D) elected US senator from
Missouri after previously serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota
1881 Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's
Needle" erected in Central Park, New York
1938 "Our Town", Thornton Wilder's
Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, NH, premieres (NJ)
1946 US president Harry Truman sets up the Central
Intelligence Agency
1947 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi
opens, Hollywood CA
KTLA TV channel 5
1953 Arthur Miller's "Crucible" premieres
in NYC
◈ 1962 The
Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership.
1968 "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"
premieres on NBC
1970 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, Pan American
World Airways flies from New York City to London in 6½ hours
1973 Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes most
abortions
◈ 1980 Russian
dissidents Andrei Sakharov & Jelena Bonner arrested in Moscow and
banished to Gorky
◈ 1982 75%
of North America is covered by snow
2002 Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in
United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
◈ 2006 Evo
Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first
indigenous president.
2014 Water vapor is detected on the dwarf planet
Ceres
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
What
an amazing day…my sister-in-law is marching in DC, my brother is marching in
NYC. I’m sitting in our little mountain town with about 20” of snow on the
ground and more coming down.
We
are scheduled to have a discussion group tonight, but figure it will be
postponed. As I watch the news reports, this is a real movement around the
world. Keep it going. More interesting to watch CSpan for DC march news, as
they just have a live feed to the stage. So you hear what the speakers are saying.
The Media is in the crowds, lots of crowd shots from ground level and from
above. Denver has a big crowd too.
I should be in Denver at the annual Focus Blowout, but I'll be there the 31st.
I
am not a ‘tweet-er’. I do have an account and check it once a day to see what
is going on out there. I was shocked this morning when I saw that the ‘Administration’
had shut down the Dept. of Interior twitter account. First, most don’t know
what the DOI is in charge of. It is responsible for the management and
conservation of most federal land and natural resources, and the
administration of programs relating to Native American, Alaska
Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and insular areas of
the United States. About 75% of federal public land is managed by the
department. This includes the land in DC. Yesterday someone at Interior
retweeted a photo that showed the difference in the crowd size in DC in 2009
and 2017. There was a perceived fear that the site had been hacked. The life of
fear has overstepped. The DOI twitter account has, over the years shown amazing
pictures of our country. And taught me, and millions of others, the beauty in
our nation. DOI is responsible for the grounds of the inauguration. It is a
known fact that more people showed up to see Obama sworn in than showed up to
see Trump take office. Facts are facts. This photo is not a political statement…it
is showing history. Very sad about this move.
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❆❆Brain
Teasers❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
Very Crafty Words
Language brain teasers are those that involve
the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Take
the list of words below and arrange them into 3 sentences that all have
something in common. Each word is only used once for each time it appears in
the list. Punctuation is not an issue in this teaser in the initial placement
of words. Only names are capitalized to start with.
DAD, LET, LETS, LEW, MARGE, MISSES, NO, NORAH, ORDERED, ROSES, SEE, SHARON'S,
SIMON, TELEGRAM, TELL, WE'LL,
What are the sentences and what do they have in common?
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
When
did The National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington,
D.C. open?
1972
1995
2000
2016
50.1%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
99→Percentage of US jobs created since the
recession that have gone to workers with postsecondary education.
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❆❆New
Trivia❆❆
The
tongue of a blue whale can weigh as much as an elephant, and its heart is about
the size of a Volkswagen Beetle car and can weigh up to 992 lbs (450 kg).
Their aorta, the major blood vessel of the heart, is big enough for a human
child to crawl through.
“Red
mercury” is a hoax substance, rumors of which have been circulating since the
1970s. It has been claimed to be the basis for a weapon of mass destruction,
among other uses. It is thought to be the invention of an intelligence agency
to trap terrorists trying to acquire nuclear weapons.
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❆❆2 Jokes
For The Day❆❆
Doctor:
We need to get these people to a hospital!
Nurse: What is it?
Doctor: It's a big building with a lot of doctors, but that's not important
now!
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Text
message from husband to his wife:
A very nice Highway Patrol officer asked me if I was drinking.
I jokingly replied, "That depends, are you buying?"
Tough crowd. Please send bail money.
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*--
Probably a Smart Call on the Relationship --*
A woman flew into a rage after her boyfriend told her that he was not ready to
commit to a serious relationship with her, according to police in Michigan.
Roseville police said that they have arrested 29-year-old Batina Christine
Jackson, after being accused of stabbing her 39-year-old boyfriend 9 times.
According to the criminal complaint, Jackson recently met her boyfriend on the
Internet, and they went out on two dates. After the second date, Jackson asked
her boyfriend, who was not identified, whether he was ready to commit to a
serious relationship. When he said it was too early to decide, Jackson pulled a
knife and stabbed him in the back and neck 9 times. The man was rushed to the
hospital where he is expected to survive.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@→ indicates
age at death
85- Piper Laurie,
[Rosetta Jacobs], actress (Twin Peaks), born in Detroit, Michigan
83- Graham Kerr,
English-born chef (Galloping Gourmet)
@79→ George
Balanchine, Russian-American ballet composer and choreographer who founded the New
York City Ballet, born in St. Petersburgh, Russian Empire (d. 1983)
79- Joseph Wambaugh,
American police writer ("The Onion Fields"), born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
@73→ D.W.
Griffith, American film director/producer (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), born
in LaGrange, Kentucky (d. 1948)
68-
Steve Perry, Hanford California, vocalist (Journey-Open Arms, Oh Sherry)
@65→ Francis Bacon, Strand,
statesman/essayist (Novum Organum), born in London, England (d. 1626)
65- U Thant, Burma,
Burmese politician and 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1961-72),
born in Pantanaw, Myanmar [D 1964]
@59→ Bill
Bixby,
actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian), born in San Francisco, [D 1993]
57- Linda Blair,
actress (Exorcist, Chained Heat, Savage St), born in St Louis, Missouri
49-
Guy Fieri, Chef, TV Personality
@37→ Michael
Hutchence, Australian rock vocalist/actor (INXS, Dogs in Space), born in Sydney,
New South Wales (d. 1997)
@36→ Lord [George
Gordon Noel] Byron, English romantic poet (Don Juan), born in London (d. 1824)
@33→ Sam Cooke, soul
singer (You Send Me), born in Clarksdale Mississippi (d. 1964)
30-
Ray Price, NFL football player, Ravens, SB2013
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@104-1995 Rose Fitzgerald
Kennedy, mother of pres JFK, RFK, & Ted
@87-2005 Rose Mary Woods,
American Watergate scandal figure
@85-2012 Joe Paterno,
American college hall of football coach (Penn State) and Sports Illustrated
Sportsperson of 1986
@81-1901 Victoria,
[Alexandrine], Britain's Queen (1837-1901)
@77-1968 Duke Kahanamoku,
100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-12, 20, 24), heart attack
@72-1994 Telly Savalas,
American actor (Kojak), prostate cancer
@64-1973 Lyndon B.
Johnson, 36th US President (Democrat: 1963-69), heart attack
@28-2008 Heath Ledger, Australian
actor, accidental OD
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❆❆Brain
Teasers Answers❆❆
1:
MARGE LETS NORAH SEE SHARON'S TELEGRAM.
2: WE'LL LET DAD TELL LEW.
3: NO MISSES ORDERED ROSES, SIMON.
All three sentences, when correctly placed, are palindromes. They read the same
backward and forward.
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
2016
Washington
D.C. is the place to be to learn about history, and now there's one more place
for visitors to check out. It took 13 years of planning and preparation for the
NMAAHC to become the latest addition to D.C.'s museums, opening on Sept. 24,
2016. The 400,000-square-foot building contains 36,000 artifacts spanning the
entire history of African-American culture. Source: Smithsonian Magazine
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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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