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January 8, 2017 Week: 02 \ Day: 08
86004 Today: H 47° \
L 12° Average Sky Cover: %
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts: 11mph Visibility: 10 mi
January Averages: 43°\17°
January Records: H: 66°
(1971) L: -30 (1937)
Record High: 62°[2002] Record Low: -12°[1989]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
A lie can travel
half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Charles
Spurgeon
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Argyle Day
Asarah B'Tevet
Earth's Rotation Day
National English Toffee Day Link
Midwife's Day or Women's Day
National Joy Germ Day
National Sunday Supper Day Link (2nd
Sunday)
No Pants Subway Ride Day Link
Show and Tell Day at Work
War on Poverty Day
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❆❆Observances
This 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
5-8
International Consumer Electronics Show
8-14
Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week
Home Office Safety and Security Week
National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
◈1598 Jews
are expelled from Genoa, Italy
◈1656 Oldest
surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)
1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered
(NY Fishing Co)
◈1708 Spanish
armada headed by the San Jose and loaded with gold sunk after British squadron
attacks off coast of Colombia (rediscovered 2015)
◈1746 Bonnie
Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling
1790 1st US President George Washington delivers
1st state of the union address
1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers
construed
1815 Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812); the war
had ended on 24th December 1814 but none of the combatants knew
1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school,
established
1853 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew
Jackson) unveiled, Washington
1856 Dr John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan
Springs, Calif
1867 African American men granted the right to vote
in Washington, D.C. despite President Andrew Johnson's veto
1889 Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for
a mechanical tabulating machine
1894 Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by
fire
1902 1st National Bowling Championship held
(Chicago, Ill)
1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th
amendment (prohibition of alcohol) of the US Constitution
1925 1st all-female US state Supreme Court
appointed, Texas
◈1951 Thought
extinct since 1615, a Cahow (the Bermuda petrel) is rediscovered in Bermuda
1954 Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio
& records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll Never
Stand in Your Way"
◈1958 Cuban
revolutionary forces capture Havana
1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson delcares 'War of Poverty'
1966 Beatles' "Rubber Soul" album goes #1
& stays #1 for 6 weeks
1971 29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at
San Clemente Island, Calif
1978 Harvey Milk becomes the 1st openly gay
person elected to public office in California
1989 "42nd Street" closes at Winter
Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 performances
1993 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores
his 20,000th career point
1995 "Guys & Dolls" closes at Martin
Beck Theater NYC after 1143 performances
1996 Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50
deaths
1998 Unabomber suspect Ted Kaczynski asks
to act as his own lawyer
2002 President George W. Bush signs into
law the No Child Left Behind Act.
2008 New
Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to
do so.
2011 Attempted
assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent
shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 and wounds
13, including Giffords
2012 "The 3:16 Game" AFC Wild Card
Playof, underdogs Denver Broncos defeat Pittsburgh Steelers 29–23 with Tim
Tebow connecting with Demaryius Thomas on an 80-yard touchdown pass on first
scrimmage play of overtime
2013 Steve Nash records his 10,000th career
assist against Houston
◈2016 Mexican
President Enrique Peña Nieto announces the recapture of drug lord Joaquín “El
Chapo” Guzmán, six months after he escaped prison
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Sunny
Saturday…Nice…And almost 50°…Really nice.
Got
a call from my former Financial Advisor/former Discussion Group leader/friend
from NC. They are having snow. We are not. The embezzlement trial hearing of
her former Assistant is happening here on Monday. Probably will be either a
financial agreement or a trial. Long and crazy situation. Her husband of a few
years has developed early dementia. She was catching me up with the symptoms
and it seems that special awareness, not memory loss, has a low to do with it. Very
complicated and technical, but very interesting phone call.
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❆❆Brain
Teasers❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
Divided Countries Too
Language brain teasers are those that involve
the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
The
following clues each form a unique word by themselves, add them together to get
the name of a country. Example: blue and yellow mixed + solid ground = ?
Answer: green + land = Greenland
1. frozen water + solid ground of the earth = ?
2. used to refer to oneself + competed in a race = ?
3. anger or wrath + to lower an airplane from sky to ground = ?
4. a relaxing resort + not out = ?
bonus: never used + enthusiastic devotion + in addition to = ? ?
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
In
what episode of the television classic "Seinfeld" was the fictional
holiday Festivus introduced?
33.5%
got it right on the internet
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
$62,000,000→Cost of a new high school football
stadium approved last year by a Texas school board
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❆❆New
Trivia❆❆
A dog's nose print is like the fingerprint of a person: no
two are alike.
Charlie Chaplin once participated in a Charlie Chaplin
lookalike contest at a San Francisco theater. He didn't win.
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❆❆2 Jokes
For The Day❆❆
I'm
really ticked that my handmade replica of the Norse god of thunder didn't win
top prize at the Medieval Art and Statue Convention.
I guess that makes me a Thor loser.
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Little
Johnny's teacher asks, "George Washington not only chopped down his
father's Cherry tree, but also admitted doing it. Do you know why his father
didn't punish him?"
Little Johnny replies, "Because George was the one holding the axe?"
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*--
Naked Woman Crashes Stolen Sheriff's Car --*
The naked news continues. Last week we had the naked hooter shooter in San Diego,
and this week we have an unusual high-speed pursuit in Arizona involving a Maricopa
County Sheriff's vehicle stolen by a naked woman. The woman allegedly took
officers and deputies on a 75-mile chase, with speeds reaching 100 miles an
hour at times. It all began in Gila Bend, when the woman walked up to a gas
station there. The station's manager said the woman appeared to be in her
late-20s or early-30s, and appeared calm. Some people outside the station
called Sheriff's deputies, and one arrived within two minutes. Officials with
the MCSO said the deputy tried to help the woman. "It was at that time
that she entered the deputy's vehicle, and actually started driving off,"
said a department spokesperson. Spike strips helped bring the bizarre pursuit to
a dramatic end, near the town of Eloy.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
◈→ indicates
age at death
94- Larry Storch,
American comedian (F Troop, Larry Storch Show), born in NYC, New York
◈ 90→ Alfred
Russel Wallace, British zoologist/co-discoverer (evolution) [D1913]
◈ 86→ Carl R[ansom]
Rogers, US, psychologist (Client-Centered Therapy) [D1987}
◈ 86→ Evelyn Wood,
American educator, speed reading (d. 1995)
84- Charles Osgood,
American news anchor (CBS Weekend News), born in NYC, New York
◈ 83→ Soupy Sales,
[Milton Hines], NC, comedian (Soupy Sales Show) [D2009]
◈ 80→ José Ferrer, San
Juan Puerto Rico, actor/director (Blood Tide, Dune) [D1992]
79- Bob Eubanks, TV
host (Newlywed Game), born in Flint, Michigan
76- Little Anthony
[Gourdine], rocker (& Imperials)
◈ 75→ Fannie M Jackson,
pioneer & educator, 1st US African American woman college grad [D1913]
75- Stephen Hawking, English
physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes)
75- Yvette Mimieux,
American actress (Time Machine, Where the Boys Are), born in Los Angeles
◈ 72→ Frank Nelson
Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co) [D1934]
◈ 71→ Frank Dyson,
proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity [D1939]
◈ 69→ David Bowie [Jones], English
singer-songwriter (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust), born in London, England (d. 2016)
50- R. Kelly [Robert Sylvester
Kelly], American R&B singer (I Wish I Could Fly), born in Chicago, Illinois
◈ 48→ Graham Chapman,
England, comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus) [D-1989]
◈ 42→ Elvis
Presley, American singer and King of Rock and Roll (Blue Suede Shoes,
Hounddog), born in Tupelo Mississippi (d. 1977)
◈ 37→ George
Childress, Lawyer, statesman (author of Texas Declaration of Independence), born
in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1841)
33- Kim Jong-un, Supreme Leader
of North Korea (2011-), born in Pyongyang
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@93-1998 Walter Diemer,
inventor (bubble gum 1928)
@92-2013 Jeanne Manford,
American gay rights activist
@84-2007 Yvonne De Carlo,
Canadian-born actress (10 Commandments, Lily-Munsters)
@83-1941 Robert
Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scout movement)
@79-1996 Francois
Mitterrand, President of France, cancer
@78-1994 Pat Buttram,
actor (Haney-Green Acres), kidney failure
@78-1992 Menachim Begin,
Israeli PM, heart attack
@77-1976 Zhou Enlai, Premier of the
People's Republic of China, cancer
@77-1642 Galileo Galilei, Italian
physicist/astronomer, fever
@69-2002 Dave Thomas,
American fast food entrepreneur, liver cancer
@69-1324 Marco
Polo, Venetian explorer
@60-1972 Kenneth Patchen, US writer (See
You in the Morning), botched operation
@60-1880 Joshua Abraham
Norton, [Emperor Norton] Self-proclaimed
US Emperor/Protector of Mexico
@59-1825 Eli Whitney, American
inventor (Cotton Gin), prostate cancer
@57-1938
Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy, heart
attack
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❆❆Brain
Teasers Answers❆❆
1.
ice + land = Iceland
2. I + ran = Iran
3. ire + land = Ireland
4. spa + in = Spain
bonus: new + zeal + and = New Zealand
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
The
Strike
Festivus
was first mentioned in "The Strike," which aired December 18, 1997.
In the season 9 episode, George Costanza, played by Jason Alexander, receives a
greeting card from his father, Frank, portrayed by Jerry Stiller, that reads
"Happy Festivus." The audience later learns that the elder Costanza
created this holiday, which celebrates "accusing others of being a
disappointment" and various "feats of strength," including
wrestling. Source: The New York Times.
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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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