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December
1, 2015 Week:
48 \ Day: 335
December Averages:
44°\17°
86004 Today: H 37° \ L 18° Average
Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts:
11mph
Ave. High: 46° Record High: 68°[1950]
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low: -7°[1905]
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Observances
Today:
Antarctica Day
Basketball Day
Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day
Civil Air Patrol Day
Day With(out) Art Day
Giving Tuesday (Always after Cyber Monday) Link
Rosa Parks Day
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Independence Day-Dominican Republic (Santa
Domingo)-1821 from Spain
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Observances
This Week:
1-7
Cookie
Cutter Week Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1641 - Massachusetts becomes the first colony to
give statutory recognition to slavery
1750 - First school in America to offer manual
training courses opens in Maryland
1824 - US House of Representatives begins to decide
outcome of election deadlock between John Quincy Adams and Andrew
Jackson (Adams wins)
1868 - John D. Rockefeller begins anti oil war
1878 - 1st White House telephone installed
1903
- "The Great Train Robbery", the 1st Western
film, released
1909 - 1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle
Trust Co, Pa
1913 - 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)
1917 - Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan
west of Omaha Neb
1921
- US Post Office establishes philatelic agency
1924
- The city of Benson, AZ incorporated
1929 - Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
1941
- US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes
1943 - FDR, Churchill & Stalin agree to
Operation Overlord (D-Day)
1951
- Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
1955 - Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to
move to the back of bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery,
Alabama
1964
- Martin Lurther King speaks to J. Edgar
Hoover about his slander campaign
1965 - Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began
1969 - US government holds its 1st draft lottery
since WW II
1973
- Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to
earn $2M in a year
1978 - Pres Carter more than doubles national park
system size
1982
- Michael Jackson releases his album
"Thriller"
1991
- AIDS awareness day
2008 - The US economy has been in recession since
December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research announces today
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1640 - Portugal regains independence after 60 years
of Spanish rule
1835 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes his
1st book of fairy tales
1887 - Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print:
"Study in Scarlet"
1906 - Cinema Omnia Pathe, world's 1st cinema,
opens (Paris)
1919
- Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female
member of British Parliament
1972
- 2 people killed and 127 injured when 2 car
bombs explode in the center of Dublin, Republic of Ireland
1987 - Digging begins to link England & France
under English Channel
1988
- Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime
Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Left early for a regular eye exam…it was 17°…a tad cool for me,
but still good. All is good with my eyes. Learned about natural tears. The Dr.
had said my eyes looked a little dry the last time I was there. Didn’t worry about
it as a couple of days later they were over producing tears, then calmed down
and things were normal. Well, it turns out that when one has dry eyes the brain
overcompensates for a certain type of tear by making too much of another type.
A little hand held machine can measure the amount and kind of tear in your eye.
Hmmm. Seems the normal ‘keep your eye wet’ tear isn’t making enough so I get to
start using artificial tears daily. That way my brain won’t overcompensate. OK…this
getting old-er thing is always interesting.
A few weeks ago I mentioned how happy I was that the HOA had
trimmed my big tree of most of its dead branches. This gave me a better view
and tons more light into my guest room and my master bedroom. Well, it also
freaked out the birds that I have been feeding. Ever since I was a little lad,
my parents always fed the birds in our back yard. I have kept up that tradition
everywhere I had lived. Today is the first day that the birds have returned to
my feeders. I guess the cold weather was too much so they took a chance and
came back. They must have told all their feathered friends as the feeders that
have remained full since the tree trimming were empty by 3p and had to be
filled again. Glad to have them back.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
When
you behead a word, you remove the first letter and still have a valid word. You
will be given clues for the two words, longer word first.
Example: Begin -> Sour, acidic
Answer: The words are Start and Tart.
1. Outer layer -> Oxidized metal
2. Defraud; violate rules -> Thermal energy in transit
3. Sensation of cold -> Local land elevation
4. Go upward -> Jointed appendage; branch
5. Strong metal rope -> Having necessary skill
6. Confined; restrained -> Old; grew older
7. Stop; discontinue -> Freedom from hardship
8. Lacking dirt -> Lacking fat🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄
Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
There's a swing on the edge of a cliff in
Ecuador. It has no safety measures and is called the 'Swing at the End of the
World'.
Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's
cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The
cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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…Crazy
Law…
Maine
Provided you obtain a license, you’re free to
host a raffle for your non-profit in Maine. But the prize cannot be alcohol or
a live animal, so you’ll have to look elsewhere to finally win that family of
Midori llamas you’re always talking about.
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…Harper’s
Index…
+455 –percentage change in the past three decades in the number of US
gyms and health clubs
+65 – in the US obesity rate
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
Photo by @stevemccurryofficial //
The woodcarver's cat and her kitten keeps him company as he carves a prayer
book, a craft for which there is no room for error. From this block alone,
hundreds of copies will be made that will be used for teaching and individual
worship. As the influx of new technologies makes it cheaper and easier to
reproduce these works mechanically, such crafts are quickly becoming extinct.
Image taken in Dharamsala, Himchal Pradesh, India
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2
jokes for the day
Duck Hunting
A lawyer went duck hunting for the first time
in Texas. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer's field on the
other side of the fence. As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly
farmer drove up on his tractor and asked him what he was doing.
The litigator responded, "I shot a duck,
it fell into this field, and now I'm going to retrieve it."
The old farmer replied, "This is my
property and you are not coming over here."
The indignant lawyer said, "I am one of
the best trial attorneys in the U.S. and if you don't let me get that duck,
I'll sue you and take everything you own."
The old farmer smiled and said,
"Apparently, you don't know how we do things in Texas. We settle small
disagreements like this with the Texas Three-Kick Rule."
The lawyer asked, "What is the Texas
Three-Kick Rule?"
The Farmer replied, "Well, first I kick
you three times and then you kick me three times, and so on, back and forth,
until someone gives up." The attorney quickly thought about the proposed
contest and decided that he could easily take the old codger. He agreed to
abide by the local custom.
The old farmer slowly climbed down from the
tractor and walked up to the city feller. His first kick planted the toe of his
heavy work boot into the lawyer's groin and dropped him to his knees. His
second kick nearly wiped the man's nose off his face. The barrister was flat on
his belly when the farmer's third kick to a kidney nearly caused him to give up.
The lawyer summoned every bit of his will and
managed to get to his feet and said, "Okay, you old coot! Now, it's my
turn!"
The old farmer smiled and said, "No, I
give up. You can have the duck."
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Pencil Vacation
Q: Where do pencils go for vacation?
A: Pencil-vania.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
It's Snot Hygienic: InsiderLouisville.com
The manager of the agency in Louisville, Kentucky, responsible
for, among other things, development planning, zoning changes and historic
landmarks revealed in November that his headquarters has a "boogers"
problem and ordered users of the third-floor men's room to stop hocking them
onto the walls adjacent to the urinals. According to an internal memo cited by
InsiderLouisville.com, Metro Planning and Design Services manager Joe Reverman
called the mucus buildup "a very serious situation" and had his
executive administrator post signs instructing restroom users on the basics of
proper disposal of "anything that comes out of or off a person's
body." [11-18-2015]
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Somewhat
Useless Information
In
1951, employers coined the term "Black Friday" because so many
employees called in sick the day after Thanksgiving. The term had absolutely
nothing to do with the shopping festivities.
In 1961, newspapers in Philadelphia used the term to illustrate the resemblance
of the great number of people and the city's hysteria.
In 1981, the media first used the phrase to indicate a store was making a
profit rather than losing.
In 1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the date for Thanksgiving one week earlier,
so there was a longer shopping period. Some people referred to it as
Franksgiving.
In 1952, the first true Christmas craze was caused by a Hasbro commercial,
which led to a huge sale in toys. It was Mr. Potato Head.
In 1975, the pet rock was released. Five years later, the Rubik's Cube came
out. In 1983, Cabbage Patch became a national craze, followed by the release of
the Transformers in 1984.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(88) - Rex Stout,
Noblesville Indiana, American mystery writer (Nero Wolf novels) (d.1975)
80 - Woody Allen,
[Allen Konigsberg], director and actor (Zelig, Annie Hall), born in Brooklyn,
New York
(76) - Mary Martin,
Weatherford Tx, actress (Peter Pan) Larry Hagman's mom (d.1990)
(72) - Lou Rawls,
vocalist (Dean Martin's Golddigers, Natural Man), born in Chicago, Illinois (d.
2006)
70 - Bette Midler,
actress and singer (Beaches, Wind Beneath my Wings), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
(67) - David Doyle,
American actor (Charlie's Angels, Rugrats), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d.1997)
(64) - Richard Pryor,
comedian/actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy), born Peoria Illinois (d.2005)
64 - Treat Williams,
Rowayton CT, actor (Flashpoint, Hair)
(63) - Dick Shawn,
actor (Producers, Maid to Order, Angel), born in Buffalo (d.1987)
61 - Bob Goen,
TV host (Wheel of Fortune, Entertainment Tonight)
57 - Charlene Tilton,
actress (Lucy Ewing-Dallas), born in San Diego, California
45 - Sarah Silverman,
American actress and comedian
(44) - Pablo Escobar Gaviria,
Colombian drug baron (d.1993)
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Historical
Obits Today
@87 - David Ben-Gurion,
founding father of Israel, -1973
@78 - George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt.
Everest (d. 1866)
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Crust -> Rust
2. Cheat -> Heat
3. Chill -> Hill
4. Climb -> Limb
5. Cable -> Able
6. Caged -> Aged
7. Cease -> Ease
8. Clean -> Lean🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄
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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