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January 27, 2017 Week: 04 \ Day: 26
86004 Today: H 34° \ L -3°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 0mph\Gusts:
7mph Visibility: 10 mi
January Averages:
43°\17°
January Records:
H: 66° (1971) L: -30
(1937)
Record High: 61°[2003]
Record Low: -13°[1979]
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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆
Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
The soul that sees
beauty may sometimes walk alone.
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❆❆Observances Today❆❆
Auschwitz Liberation Day
Fun at Work Day
Holocaust Memorial Day
International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the
Holocaust Link
National Geographic Day
National Pre-school Fitness Day Link
Thomas Crapper Day
Viet Nam Peace Day
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❆❆Observances This Week❆❆
19-29
Sundance Film Festival
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 Link
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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
◈ 661 Rashidun
Caliphate, then the largest empire in history, ends with death of Ali.
Succeeded by the Umayyad Caliphate
◈ 1556 Willem of Orange
becomes a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
1662 1st
American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI)
◈ 1710 Tsar Peter
the Great sets first Russian state budget
1785 1st
US state university chartered, Athens, Georgia
1823 President
Monroe appoints first US ambassadors to South America
1825 U.S. Congress
approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way
for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
1870 1st
sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw U in Greencastle, Indiana)
1870 After
accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union
◈ 1870 Manitoba &
Northwest Territories incorporated
1880 Thomas
Edison patents electric incandescent lamp
1888 National
Geographic Society formed in Washington, D.C.
◈ 1914 A petition is
written and submitted by the black and coloured women of the Orange Free State,
an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa, against the carrying
of passes by women
1915 US
Marines occupy Haiti
1918 "Tarzan
of the Apes", 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater
◈ 1926 Physicist Erwin
Schrödinger publishes his theory of wave mechanics and presents what
becomes known as the Schrödinger equation in quantum mechanics
◈ 1943 1st US air
attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)
◈ 1944 Leningrad
liberated from Germany in 880 days at the loss of 600,000 killed
◈ 1945 Soviet troops
liberate Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camps in Poland
1948 1st
tape recorder sold
1956 Elvis
Presley's releases the single "Heartbreak Hotel"
1961 "Sing
Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV
1964 Margaret
Chase Smith (Sen-R-Maine) tries for Republican Pres bid
1967 A
fire in the Apollo I Command Module kills astronauts Grissom, White &
Chaffee during a launch rehearsal
◈ 1967 Treaty signed
banning military use of nuclear weapons in space
1969 Chuck
Noll is named head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers (the youngest coach in
NFL history at the time)
◈ 1972 The British Army
and the Irish Republican Army engage in gun battles near County Armagh; British
troops fire over 1,000 rounds of ammunition
1976 "Laverne
& Shirley" spinoff from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV
◈ 1980 Robert Mugabe returns
to Rhodesia after 5 years in exile
1984 Michael Jackson is
burned during filming for Pepsi commercial
1992 Presidential
candidate Bill Clinton (D) & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of
lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
◈ 2013 In Port Said,
Egypt, protests result in 7 people being killed and 630 are injured
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Busy day…had lunch with our retirement group. Good food, good
conversation.
Getting things done before I leave for trip. Got a pedicure, so my feet
will enjoy the trip. Made appointment for haircut tomorrow. Tomorrow will be really busy with last minute
stuff before I leave on the 31st.
I wonder what historians will be answering about our current political leadership.
Things like ‘How did he come to power?’ ‘How could he have stayed in office for
so much time?’ ‘What was the final straw that ended his term?’ ‘How long did it
take for America to recover?’
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❆❆Brain Teasers❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
Horobod
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting
orientations to represent common phrases.
A man working for a secret organization goes into town but does not want
to be discovered. So he makes up another name. That name was Horobod. Can you
decipher his real name?
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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
Who is the Greek goddess of animals and hunters?
Demeter
Hera
Aphrodite
Artemis
42.3% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆
7→Number of states that
automatically reomove voters from the rolls if they do not vote for a period of
time
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❆❆New Trivia❆❆
Vincent van Gogh sold only one painting during his lifetime: “Red
Vineyard at Arles.” He painted more than 850 oil paintings and more than 1,000
watercolors, many of which are now among the most valuable in the world.
There is a village in Norway known as Hell.
Some species of snails may have more than 20, 000 teeth.
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❆❆2 Jokes For The Day❆❆
May: "I've never been skiing before."
Dad: "You don't want to, trust me."
May: "Why?"
Dad: "You meet many bad things, like pine trees for instance."
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A Policeman stops a speeding car and tells the woman driver, "When
I saw you driving down the road, I thought to myself, 'sixty-five at least.'”
"SIXTY-FIVE!" shrieked the woman.
"Yes, sixty-five."
"I don’t think that is quite fair. I think this hat makes me look
older."
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❆❆Yep, It Really Happened❆❆
*------- Cleanliness is Next to Sexiness -------*
A mother was arrested after having sex with students at her daughter's party. The
Florida mother is facing seven different charges after providing alcohol to
minors and having sex with five boys at her daughter's party. Police said that
40-year-old Jaimie Ayer returned to her home to find that her daughter was
throwing a party for her friends. Ayer began socializing with the teens and
provided them with alcohol, police said. She then told one teenager that she
needed to shower and she invited him to "come to help her," police
said. Classic. She then had sex with five boys. Three of the boys are 16 and
two are 17. Police began an investigation after receiving a tip after the wild
party. Although the sex acts were consensual, the boys are underage and
therefore, Ayer was arrested on charges of unlawful sexual activity. The mother
is being held on $22,000 bail.
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❆❆Somewhat Useless Information❆❆
The Cranberries: The band was originally known as "The Cranberry
Saw Us," a pun on "cranberry sauce." Members soon shortened the
name for simplicity.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd: The group is named after Leonard Skinner, an annoying gym coach
some of the band members had in high school, who supposedly had them expelled
for having long hair.
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Five for Fighting: The stage name for John Ondrasik came from his love of
hockey. Players who fight in the National Hockey League get five minutes in the
penalty box, or "five for fighting."
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Three Dog Night: The name is derived from an Australian Aboriginal custom of
sleeping with a dog for warmth during cold nights. The colder the night, the
more dogs.
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No Doubt: This California-based "third wave" ska band was named after
a favorite expression of its founder, John Spence, who ultimately committed
suicide.
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Toad the Wet Sprocket: Members of this alt-rock band drew their name from a monologue
delivered by Eric Idle on a Monty Python album from 1980.
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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆
@→ indicates age at death
@104→ E.
R. Braithwaite, diplomat and writer (To Sir with Love), born in Georgetown,
British Guiana (d. 2016)
@86→ Hyman
G Rickover, US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy) [D1986]
@85→ William
Randolph Hearst, Jr., American newspaper magnate (Hearst Newspapers) and 1955
Pulitzer Prize winner, (d. 1993)
83- Federico
Mayor Zaragoza, Barcelona Spain, UNESCO director (1987- )
@79→ Friedrich
von Schelling, German philosopher (Views on Christianity), born
in Leonberg, Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1854)
@74→ Samuel
Gompers, American labor union leader (American Federation
of Labor), born in London, [D 1924]
@70→ Nancy
Dickerson, pioneering American radio and TV journalist (NBC, CBS), born in
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin (d. 1997)
@69→ Howard
McNear, actor (Floyd- "The Andy Griffith Show", "Jetsons"),
born in Los Angeles, [D 1969]
69- Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Riga Latvia, ballet dancer (That's Dancing)
@65→ Lewis
Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], English author (Alice
in Wonderland), born in Daresbury, England (d. 1898)
@65→ Troy
Donahue, American actor (Surfside Six, Cockfighter, Hawaiian Eye), born in NYC,
[D
2001]
@64→ Donna
Reed, Denison Iowa, (From Here to Eternity, Wonderful Life) [D 1986]
@52→ David
Seville, [Ross Bagdasarian], (Alvin & Chipmunks), born in Fresno,
California [D 1972]
@35→ Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart,
Austrian musical prodigy and composer (Figaro), born in Salzburg, Austria (d.
1791)
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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆
@94-2014 Pete Seeger,
American folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene) and activist, helped create the
modern American folk music movement
@91-2010 J. D.
Salinger, American novelist (The Catcher in the Rye)
@87-1901 Giuseppe
Verdi,
Italian composer
@86-2007 Tige Andrews,
American actor (Mod Squad)
@85-2004 Jack Paar,
American television show host
@75-1731 Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker -
considered the inventor of the piano
@73-1910 Thomas Crapper,
English plumber and inventor (ballcock)
@65-1851 John
James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dementia
@60-1972 Mahalia
Jackson, gospel singer (He Got the Whole World), heart failure
@49-1993 André
the Giant, WWF wrestler, congestive heart failure
@40-1967 Virgil I (Gus)
Grissom, astronaut, Apollo I fire
@36-1967 Edward Higgins
White II, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4), in Apollo I fire
@31-1967 Roger B Chaffee,
astronaut, in Apollo I fire
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❆❆Brain Teasers Answers❆❆
Robin Hood
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❆❆Trivia Hive
Answers❆❆
Artemis
Artemis is the Greek goddess of archery, the hunt, wilderness, animals,
young girls, childbirth and plague. In the ancient Greek tradition, she is
described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo.
Source: greekmythology.com
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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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