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Week 2 Day 8
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1416 miles away Air Quality: Fair Overcast Snowy Jan. Daily Averages: Temps: 44°\16° Moisture: 5 Days |
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Today’s Quote
Today’s Meme
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Monthly Observations
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Thyroid Awareness Month Link |
World Introvert Month Link |
Weekly Observations
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2-8 Someday We'll Laugh About This Week Carnival National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link |
6-13 National Personal Trainer Awareness
Week Dating & Life Coaches
Recognition Week |
Daily Observations
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Argyle Day |
National Joy Germ Day |
Today’s Thoughts
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I woke up to about 3” of snow and still snowing. By noon
it was only flurries. I’m hoping we get little more with this storm. It is amazing to me that the huge plug that blew out the
plane in Oregon has not been found yet. Turns out the plane was flying over a
densely populated area when it blew. There is a lake also so it may be there. Facebook is interesting to say the least. Last night I
got a pop-up on my phone that someone wanted to text me. I opened it and
recognized the last name: Muchmore and was pretty sure the first name Daniel
was the son of a former teacher at Shonto and Tuba. I checked Daniel Muchmore’s
profile page and found out it was him. I knew him as a pre-teen at Shonto in
the early 1970’s. His mom had left Shonto in the late 70’s, and started
working at Tuba soon after I returned as a supervisor. Sadly, she passed away
during a long weekend at her Tuba house. My principal notified Daniel after
she was found Tuesday morning. I decided
to answer the message. He was asking about many teachers from his days at
Tuba. He recently retired after 43 years of truck driving. It sure brought back
good memories of my time in Shonto. It was weird, but I’m glad I answered his
message and that I could update him and help him find some people I still know
from Shonto. |
Important inventions…
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1971: Waffle-Sole Running Shoes Bill Bowerman, the track coach at the University of
Oregon, sacrifices breakfast for peak performance when he pours rubber into
his waffle iron, forming lightweight soles for his athletes’ running shoes.
Three years later, Bowerman’s company, Nike, introduces the Waffle
Trainer, which is an instant hit. |
States that never
made the map
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West Texas Texas has been the subject of
several secession attempts since Congress requested a division of the state
into four territories back in 1845. A number of plans to split Texas into
east and west territories have been floated. The first proposal came in
1847, but won little support, and further attempts in the latter half of the
19th century also came to nothing. Other potential secession states suggested
include Jacinto, Matagorda, and Texlahoma. |
Untrue myths about
Colonial America…States that never
made the map
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The Founding Fathers All Signed The Declaration Of
Independence Together Although the scene in John Trumbull's painting The
Declaration of Independence may look like all the Founding Fathers signing
the Declaration of Independence together, it's actually depicting the draft
being presented to John Hancock for approval. The Founding Fathers each signed the document over a
period of several months, with some of the earlier signers beginning on
August 2, 1776. Trumbull painted his work around ten years after 1776 with
Sam Adams' grandson noting that " [The painting], will, I fear, have a
tendency to obscure the history of the event which it is designed to
commemorate." |
Historic Events
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1851 – Jean Foucault proved that Earth rotated on its
axis. 1982 – AT&T was broken up into 22 smaller companies,
nicknamed ‘Baby Bells’. 1918 – President Woodrow Wilson proposed the ‘Fourteen
Points for a Just Peace’. 1964 – President Lyndon Johnson
announced the ‘War on Poverty’ during his State of the Union Address. Wilson’s Fourteen Points For A Just Peace I. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after
which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but
diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view. II. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside
territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be
closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of
international covenants. III. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic
barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all
the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its
maintenance. IV. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national
armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic
safety. V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial
adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the
principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests
of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable
government whose title is to be determined. VI. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a
settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and
freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an
unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of
her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere
welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own
choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may
need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister
nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their goodwill, of
their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests,
and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy. VII. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be
evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which
she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will
serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws
which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their
relations with one another. Without this healing act, the whole structure and
validity of international law is forever impaired. VIII. All French territory should be freed and the
invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in
the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for
nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be
made secure in the interest of all. IX. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be
effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality. X. The people of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the
nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest
opportunity to autonomous development. XI. Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated;
occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the
sea, and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined
by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and
nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic
independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be
entered into. XII. The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire
should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are
now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an
absolutely unmolested‘ opportunity of autonomous development, and the
Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and
commerce of all nations under international guarantees. XIII. An independent Polish state should be erected which
should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations,
which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose
political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be
guaranteed by international covenant. XIV. A general association of nations must be formed
under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of
political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states
alike. |
Birthdays with some
quotes
@99 – Larry Storch,
American comedic actor (d. 2022)
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…The End for today…
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