Jan 4

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January  4, 2017 Week: 01 \ Day: 04

86004 Today: H 47° \ L 25° Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  16mph Visibility: 10 mi

January Averages: 43°\17°

January Records: H: 66° (1971) L: -30 (1937)

Record High: 64°[1927]   Record Low: -22°[1918]

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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

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❆❆Observances Today❆❆

Dimpled Chad Day

Earth at Perihelion

National Spaghetti Day

Pop Music Chart Day

Tom Thumb Day

Trivia Day

World Braille Day  Link

World Hypnotism Day  Link

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❆❆Observances This Week❆❆

1-7

Diet Resolution Week

Silent Record Week

1-8 

National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week

New Year's Resolutions Week

2-8

Someday We'll Laugh About This Week

4-8

Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week (Note: Usually week of his birthday on Jan. 8.)

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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆

◈  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

◈1570 Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew"

◈1642 King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament

1725 Benjamin Franklin arrives in London

1754 Columbia University founded, as Kings College (NYC)

1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY

1865 The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City.

◈1884 Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario)

1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF)

1893 US President Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy

1896 Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state

◈1902 The French Panama Canal Company offers to sell its right to build a canal to the US for 40 million; this will tip the balance away from those favoring a canal through Nicaragua

1904 In 'Gonzales v Williams', the US Supreme Court rules that Puerto Ricans are not aliens and may not be refused admission into continental United States; not until 1917 will citizenship rights be granted

◈1907 George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell" premieres in London

1915 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho

◈1925 French psychologist Emil Coué brings his self-esteem therapy to US "Every day in every way I am getting better & better"

◈1932 British Viceroy of India Lord Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru

1936 Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade

1943 Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph & His Brothers"

1944 Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department

◈1948 Burma declares independence from UK

1954 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville 1958 Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up

1962 1st automated (unmanned) subway train in New York City

1965 LBJ's "Great Society" State of the Union Address

1968 Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas

1968 Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million to CBS

◈1970 More than 15,000 people are killed in Tonghai County, China after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake

1971 Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims

◈1975 Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica

1984 "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV

1995 Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the US House of Representatives 

1999 Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.

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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆

Many months ago I scheduled an appointment for a blood draw for Jan 2. I asked at the time if they were open, since it was a Federal Holiday. They assured me it was. Then in mid-December I got a call that in fact they were closed Jan 2. The only available appointment was today at 10:30. I had an 8a teeth cleaning scheduled but agreed. Dentist went fine. Hygienist said my teeth were in best shape she had seen in a long time. So I arrive at the blood doc’s office at 10:20 and sign in. The office was full of Oncology patients awaiting chemo or a Dr. visit. At 11:00 I went back to the desk to see what the problem was. She checked, left her chair and went in the back. About 5 minutes later she said I was next and apologized that the computer, which she controls, never checked me in. Really? The computer didn’t do its job. Hmmm. Anyway, finally got in at 11:15 and was out in 5 minutes. Guess I could still be sitting there if I hadn’t checked. Thankfully, I was the healthiest person in the waiting room, so it was no big deal. Just hoped the computer didn’t forget to check in some of those really unhealthy people in.

I watched the swearing in stuff for the new House. Heard speeches about working together and making lives better for every American and about the great responsibility ahead. Sounded real good, but we hear the same speeches every two years. I’ll wait and see before I congratulate or condemn our 115^th.

❆❆Brain Teasers❆❆

(answers at the end of post)

What Words #4

Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.

Below are 3 pairs of words. Find the words that fit in the middle of each pair of words to create two new words, one front-ended and one back-ended. 

Example: EVER - ______ - HORN

Answer: EVER - GREEN - HORN

SLIP ___________ LINED

BREAD __________ CASE

OTHER __________ CRACK

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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆

(answers at the end of post)

When was YouTube founded?

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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆

49→Percentage of black Chicagoans who day it’s very likely that a young person in their area will fall victim to violent crime.

3→Who say it’s not at all likely

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❆❆2 Jokes For The Day❆❆

Q: What did the janitor yell when he jumped out of the closet? 

A: "Supplies!"

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Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources Officer asks a young engineer fresh out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "And what starting salary are you looking for?"

The engineer replies, "In the region of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package."

The interviewer inquires, "Well, what would you say to a package of five weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every two years, say, a red Corvette?"

The engineer sits up straight and says, "Wow! Are you kidding?"

The interviewer replies, "Yeah, but you started it."

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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆

◈→  indicates age at death

87- Don Shula, American NFL coach (Miami Dolphins), born in Grand River Ohio

◈84→ Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor (stenographic shorthand) [d1897]

80- Dyan Cannon, Mrs Cary Grant/actress (Heaven Can Wait), born in Tacoma, Washington

◈78→ Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Germany, philologist and folklorist and editor of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" (d. 1863)

◈73→ Everett Dirksen, American politician (Sen-R-Ill) (d. 1969)

◈71→ Floyd Patterson, Waco North Carolina, heavyweight champ (1956-59, 1960-62) (Oly-gold-1952) [d2006]

43→ Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer (reading system for blind) [d1852]

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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆

@94-1999 Iron Eyes Cody, American actor; Not Native American…he was Italian (keep American beautiful…tear down cheek)

@87-1997 Harry B Helmsley, owner (Empire State Building)

@82-1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt, US robber baron

@76-1965 T. S. Eliot, American-born British poet (The Waste Land) and Nobel laureate (1948), emphysema

@72-1961 Barry Fitzgerald, actor (Going My Way), heart attack

@63-2011 Gerry Rafferty, British musician and songwriter (Baker Street), liver failure

@49-1903 Geo[rge J H] Poggenbeek, Dutch surrealist painter

@46-1960 Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), auto accident

@46-1821 Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st native-born American saint, TB

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❆❆Brain Teasers Answers❆❆

SLIP - STREAM - LINED

BREAD - BASKET - CASE

OTHER - WISE - CRACK

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❆❆Trivia Hive  Answers❆❆

2005  52.1% got it right on the internet site.

Although co-founder Chad Hurley spitballed the idea for YouTube in 2004, the domain name was officially registered December of the following year. The very first video posted was an 18-second clip of another co-founder, Jawed Karim, at the zoo. It was called, quite fittingly, "Me at the Zoo" and now has more than 34 million views. Source: Business Insider

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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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