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January 23, 2017 Week: 04 \ Day: 23
86004 Today: H 45° \ L 20°
Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
17mph Visibility: 1.8 mi
January Averages:
43°\17°
January Records:
H: 66° (1971) L: -30
(1937)
Record High: 61°[1970]
Record Low: -15°[1937]
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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆
Harry S Truman
Intense feeling too
often obscures the truth.
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❆❆Observances Today❆❆
Snowplow Mailbox Hockey 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
23-28
International Hoof-Care Week:
24-27 Link
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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
◈ 971 War
elephant corps of the Southern Han defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song
Dynasty troops; Southern Han state forced to submit to the Song Dynasty. 1st
regular war elephant corps in Chinese army
◈ 1552 2nd
version of Book of Common Prayer becomes mandatory in England
◈ 1556 Shaanxi
Earthquake - deadliest ever recorded kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China
◈ 1570 Earl
of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out
◈ 1656 Blaise
Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
1789 Georgetown, 1st US Catholic college, founded
1793 Humane Society of Philadelphia (1st aid
society) organized
1870 173 Blackfoot (140 women & children)
killed in Montana by US Army
1879 US National Archery Association forms
(Crawfordsville, Ind)
1897 Elva
Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting
murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history
where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
◈ 1904 Ålesund
Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000
people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the
rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
1907 Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native
American US senator
◈ 1912 The
International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
1916 Temp falls from 44°F (7°C) to -56°F (49°C)
night of 23-24, Browning MT
1930 Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
1930 George Washington Birthplace National
Monument, Va established
1933 20th amendment ratified changed date of US
presidential inaugurations to 20th January
1941 Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis
Research Center
1943 Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in
New York City for the first time.
1948 Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre"
starring Humphrey Bogart opens
1961 Supreme Court rules cities & states have
right to censor films
1964 24th Amendment to the United States
Constitution ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections
1965 "King
Family Show" (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV
1973 US President Nixon announces an accord has
been reached to end Vietnam War
1975 "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
1976 The results to U.S. advice columnist Ann
Landers' question (if they could do it all over, would parents still become
parents) state that 70% of 10,000 responding parents were negative about being
parents
◈ 1978 Sweden
becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be
damaging to earth's ozone layer.
1983 "A-Team"
with Mr T premieres on NBC
◈ 1983 Bjorn
Borg announces his retirement from tennis
◈ 1991 World's
largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
2016 Blizzard delivers record snow to 80 US states,
New York 30 inches of snow. Washington 28 inches at least 15 killed
◈ 2016 8
museum workers from Egyptian Museum, Cairo referred for prosecution for
reattaching Tutankhamun's beard with inappropriate glue
◈ 2016 Zika
virus outbreak in Brazil prompts Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Jamaica to
recommend women delay pregnancies for up to 2 years
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Turns out our discussion group met last night. The discussion surrounded
the changes taking place in the South China Sea. China building islands so they
can get oil/natural gas reserves under the sea. Interesting and informative
discussion. We had a break in the snow fall so most of our group was able to
attend. We did wander off a little and discuss political events here in the US.
That was interesting too. Glad I called ahead, as I was convinced it would be
postponed. Took about 30 minutes to dig out my vehicle, but all roads were in
good shape. Parking was a tad challenging in the presenter’s neighborhood as
the snow plows left 3’ high berms on both sides of the street, but all the
sidewalks and driveways were cleared.
Snow continues to fall, on and off, day and night. We are up to about 2’
and at least one more storm before it ends. Life at 7000’. For the first time
in several years I have lots of icicles hanging near my office window. Longest
ones are about 3’ with most about 2’.
Thankfully it is not too cold so there is a constant dripping off the
icicles as they grow toward the ground. I’m getting a little worried about the
Blue Spruce tree in my front area. Most branches are so bent they are almost
touching the ground from the weight of the snow. The wide and magnificent tree
is now very skinny. Wind blows the snow off the higher branches, but not the
lower ones. It has survived much worse.
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❆❆Brain Teasers❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
Counting Its
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to
represent common phrases.
What statement is described by the following rebus?
It1
It 2
It3
It 4
It5
It 6
It7
It 8
It9
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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
What break out song is American rapper Silentó famous for?
49.4% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆
56→Percentage of US retirees
who are funding their retirement with cash savings
17→Of French retirees
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❆❆New Trivia❆❆
Alabama was the last American state to overturn a ban on interracial
marriage. It finally lifted the law in 2000.
The largest living organism on Earth may well be a honey fungus in the
Malheur National Forest, Oregon, U.S. It’s estimated to be roughly 2.4 miles
(3.7 kilometers) across and may be more than 8,000 years old.
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❆❆2 Jokes For The Day❆❆
Doctor: You're in good health. You'll live to be 80.
Patient: But, doctor, I am 80 right now.
Doctor: See, what did I tell you.
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Mr. Frobisher always scheduled the weekly staff meeting for four-thirty
on Friday afternoons.
When one of the employees finally got up the nerve to ask why, he explained.
"I will tell you why. I've learned that's the only time of the week when
none of you wants to argue with me."
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❆❆Yep, It Really Happened❆❆
*--------------- Talk About Luck ---------------*
A California man whose two vehicles were both crushed by trees in different
cities on the same day says he feels like "the luckiest guy." Georgiy
Karpekin said he was at Sacramento City College when strong winds swept over
the area leading to an unfortunate discovery in the parking lot. "I walked
up to my truck and I saw it was 'taco'd' around a tree," he said. Karpekin
got a ride to his West Sacramento home where he made another shocking discovery
-- another tree had fallen on two vehicles parked in front of his house,
including his own car. Karpekin said. "I feel like I'm the luckiest guy.
Why? I came out alive. Everything is fine. My insurance is covering it. There's
no other way to look at it, right?"
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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆
@→ indicates age at death
@97→ Paul
Peter Ewald, German Crystallographer and Physicist who devised the theory of
X-ray interference by crystals and pioneered X-ray diffraction methods, born in
Berlin, Germany (d. 1985)
74- Gil
Gerard, Little Rock Ark, actor (Buck Rogers in 25th Century)
@71→ John
Moses Browning, American firearms inventor (d. 1926)
71- Arnoldo Aleman,
81st President of Nicaragua (1997-2002), born in Managua
@70→ Potter
Stewart, Mich, 94th Supreme Court justice (D 1985)
64- Antonio
Villaraigosa, Hispanic-American 52nd Mayor of Los Angeles
@56→ John
Hancock, American merchant and statesman who was 1st to
sign the Declaration of Independence, born in Braintree, Massachusetts (d. 1793)
54- Gail
O'Grady, actress (Hitman, Nobody's Perfect, NYPD Blue), born in Detroit,
Michigan
53- Mariska Hargitay,
American actress (Law and Order: Special Victims Unit), born in Santa Monica,
California
@51→ Edouard
Manet, French impressionist painter (Olympia, The
Luncheon on the Grass), born in Paris, France (d. 1883)
43- Tiffani-Amber
Theissen, actress (Saved by Bell, 90210), born in Long Beach, California
@42→ Ernie
Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs' Show), born in Trenton, New Jersey [D 1962]
42- Tito
Ortiz, American UFC fighter
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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆
@96-2011 Jack LaLanne,
American fitness and nutritional expert
@84-1989 Salvador Dalí,
Catalan artist
@80-1944 Edvard
Munch,
Norwegian painter (The Scream), bequeathing all of his work to the city of Oslo
@79-2005 Johnny Carson,
American television host, emphysema
@77ish-1803 Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer
@77-1976 Paul Robeson,
athlete/lawyer/singer, stroke
@76-2004 Bob Keeshan,
American actor (Captain Kangaroo)
@55-1875 Charles Kingsley,
English vicar and writer (Westward Ho!)
@54-2003 Nell Carter,
American singer and actress, heart disease
@49-1931 Anna Pavlova,
Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), pneumonia
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❆❆Brain Teasers Answers❆❆
The odds are against it (the odd numbers are touching, or against, it).
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❆❆Trivia Hive
Answers❆❆
Watch Me (Whip Nae/Nae)
You can probably spend a good year of your life watching YouTube videos
of people dancing to Watch Me and still not get through most of them. Though
the song is most famous for cute kids dancing to it with Ellen, it actually
didn't do so bad as far as awards go. Watch Me won a Billboard Music Award for
Top Streaming Song this year. Now watch me Nae Nae! Source: Access Hollywood
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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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