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December
3, 2015 Week:
48 \ Day: 337
December Averages:
44°\17°
86004 Today: H 48° \ L 11° Average
Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts:
14mph
Ave. High: 46° Record High: 67°[1977]
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low: -2°[1968]
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Observances
Today:
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Observances
This Week:
1-7
Cookie
Cutter Week Link
3-10
Clerc-Gallaudet
Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1775 - First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard
naval vessel USS Alfred
1818 - Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day)
1828 - Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President
1833 - Oberlin College in Ohio, the first truly coeducational
college, opens
1834
- First US dental society organized (NY)
1835 - First US mutual fire insurance company issues first
policy (Rhode Island)
1847 - Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his
newspaper "North Star"
1866 - Paid fire dept replaces volunteer companies
1911 - Willis Carrier presents his influencial "Rational
Psychrometric Formulae" on air conditioning to the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers
1922 - First successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea),
shown in NYC
1931 - Alka Seltzer goes on sale
1933
- about 15,000 people attended an enormous barbecue in Paradise Valley,
AZ to celebrate the receipt of a federal grant for the Verde River Project.
1947 - Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire"
premieres in NYC
1950 - Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
1952 - 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
1989 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US
President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over
2014 - Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot dead unarmed
black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, resigns
2014 - Protests erupt in cities across
the US after a grand jury decides not to charge the NY police officer who
killed Eric Garner with a choke-hold
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1557 - 1st Covenant of Scottish Protestants form
1586 - Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from
Colombia
1736 - Astronomer Anders Celsius takes measurements
that confirm Newton's theory that the earth was an ellipsoid rather than the
previously accepted sphere
1926 - Detective novelist Agatha Christie mysteriously
disappears for 11 days
1944 - The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated
Greece, between communists and royalists.
1967 - Assassination attempt made on Bob Marley and
others during concert rehearsals in Jamaica
1984 - A leak of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds
from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, caused the death of
2,259 people (official figure for immediate deaths - other estimates go as high
as 16,000 including later deaths) and over half a million injured
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Another cool day.
Did some shopping and only had to wear a light jacket. Picked up
some artificial tears and must say, my eyes felt good. They hadn’t really
bothered me, but these drops were very refreshing.
The HOA had guys busy cleaning out our gutters of pine needles…nice!
The trees are beautiful but the dropping needles are a fire hazard, stop
drainage from the gutters, and are a real pain in the ass.
Returned home and turned on the TV so see that the latest mass
shooting is in San Bernardino, CA. Now they are saying that there may have been
3 shooters who drove off after the shooting. Our elected Congress needs to do
something about mental health and guns, and they need to do it now. They are in
DC after a nice break….get busy and do something about the gun violence that is
destroying our democracy.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax,
malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high
blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a
ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, a fractured skull, and more.
Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in
the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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…Crazy
Law…
Massachusetts
Although they would make the Golf Channel 100
times more exciting, exploding golf balls are not allowed in MA. First-time
violators get a fine of up to $500, but don’t make this a career, because
repeat offenders can earn jail time.
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…Harper’s
Index…
1990 last year in which Pope Francis watched TV
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @michaelchristopherbrown.
The Mbuti are pygmy hunter-gatherers who live in the Ituri Forest, a tropical
rainforest covering much of the north/northeast portion of the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. Traditionally, everything in the Mbuti life is centered
on the forest. They consider the forest to be their great protector and
provider, sometimes calling the forest "mother" or “father,” and
believe that it is a sacred place. However, their way of life is threatened for
various reasons. Their territory in the DRC has no legal protections and the
boundaries that each band claims are not formally established. Bambuti are no
longer allowed to hunt large game. Due to deforestation, gold mining, and
modern influences from plantations, agriculturalists, and efforts to conserve
the forests, their food supply is threatened. There is also significant civil
unrest in the country.
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2
jokes for the day
Dumb
Principal
Boy: The principal is so dumb!
Girl: Do you know who I am?
Boy: No...
Girl: I am the principal's daughter!
Boy: Do you know who I am?
Girl: No...
Boy: Good! *walks away*
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What
is love?
Love is like peeing yourself – everyone can
see but only you feel the warmth.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
ORLANDO, FL. - Florida police said they arrested a motorist accused of
enjoying an ice cold beer in full view of an officer driving in a marked patrol
car. The Orlando Police Department said Officer Jose Sanchez was driving in a
marked patrol car just before noon Saturday when he spotted a motorist, later
identified as Edgar Cortes, sipping from what appeared to be a bottle of beer.
"As I passed the vehicle...I observed the driver drink from a bottle that
appeared to resemble that of an alcoholic beverage," the Orlando Sentinel
quoted Sanchez as writing in his report. "The bottle's content appeared to
be dark yellow in color, reasonably appearing to me to be the color of
beer." Sanchez found Cortes to be in possession of an unfinished bottle of
Corona Extra beer, a loaded 9 mm pistol and a small bag of marijuana. Cortes
was charged with driving with an open container, carrying a concealed firearm
and armed possession of marijuana with intent to sell. He was taken to jail and
later released after posting bail.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Melanin,
the pigment that gives color to skin (and eyes) is produced in cells called
melanocytes. Every person has about the same number of these cells, regardless
of race, but those with darker skin have larger cells that produce more
pigment. Melanin not only colors the skin but also protects it from the sun's
harmful ultraviolet rays.
Crayola once had a color called "flesh," which was the color of
Caucasian flesh. After complaints from civil rights activists,
"flesh" became "peach" in 1962.
The Incredible Hulk was born gray. It wasn't until issue No. 2 that Bruce
Banner's alter ego turned green, and that was because the printer couldn't hold
a consistent gray. The Hulk's skin shifted from light gray to almost black
through the comic book.
Birthmarks come in two types: pigment (light-brown cafe au lait spots,
dark-brown moles and gray or blue Mongolian spots) or vascular (port-wine
stains, stork bites and hemangioma). Scientists don't know what causes
birthmarks.
The first European reference to Asians as "yellow" have been traced
to the late 1600s and probably had nothing to do with skin color. They appear
linked to the fact that the Chinese embraced yellow as a symbol of grandeur.
The Simpsons have jarringly yellow skin because, as animator Gabor Csupo told
writer John Ortved, the characters were "primitively designed, so we
thought we could counterbalance that design with shocking colors. That's why we
came up with the yellow skin and the blue hair for Marge."
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(84) - Andy Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, singer (Moon
River, Andy Williams Show) (d. 2012)
(82) - John Backus, inventor (FORTRAN computer
language) (d.2007)
67 - Ozzy Osbourne, English heavy metal vocalist
and songwriter (Black Sabbath-Bark at the Moon), born in Birmingham, England
(66) - Joseph Conrad, Berdychiv, Poland, novelist
(Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness), (d. 1924)
(58) - Charles Alfred Pillsbury,
American industrialist (d. 1899)
55 - Daryl Hannah, American actress (Splash, Blade
Runner), born in Chicago, Illinois
55 - Julianne Moore, Fayetteville North Carolina,
American actress (Magnolia, The Kids are Alright)
50 - Katarina Witt, Staaken GDR, figure skater
(Olympic-Gold-1984, 88)
47 - Brendan Fraser, actor (School Ties, 20 Bucks),
born in Indianapolis, Indiana
21 - Jake T. Austin, American Nickelodeon actor
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Historical
Obits Today
@90-2009 - Richard Todd, Irish-born British actor
@89-1910 - Mary Baker Eddy, founder (Christian Science
(Monitor))
@78-1919 - Pierre
A Renoir, French painter/sculptor
@45-1894 - Robert Louis
Stevenson, Scottish novelist, stroke
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Brain
Teasers Answers
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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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