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December 11, 2015 Week:
50 \ Day: 345
December Averages:
44°\17°
86004 Today: H 60° \ L 28° Average
Sky Cover: 85%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts:
25mph
Ave. High: 44° Record High: 68°[1950]
Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: -11°[1961]
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Observances
Today:
International Mountain Day
Official Lost & Found Day
UNICEF Birthday-1946
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Statehood Day-Indiana-1816-19th
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Observances
This Week:
6-12
National
Hand Washing Awareness Week Link
7-14
Chanukah
7-11
International
Coelenterate Biology Week Link
Older Driver Safety Awareness Week Link
Recipe Greetings For The
Holidays Week
7-13
Computer
Science Education Week Link
10-17
Human
Rights Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
(12/21 NS)
1620
- Myles Standish and a group of 18
settlers are attacked by 30 Native Americans, which became known as the
"First Encounter"
1719 - 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in
North American colonies (New England)
1872 - 1st black US govenor took office, Pinckney
Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)
1882 - Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American
playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert &
Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
1902 - The US signs a treaty with Cuba allowing for
a 20 percent reduction of tariff rates on imported Cuban products
1906 - US president Teddy Roosevelt attacks abuses
in the Congo
1917 - 13 black soldiers hanged for participation
in Houston riot
1919 - Boll weevil monument dedicated in
Enterprise, Alabama
1941- Following the United States declaration of war on Japan after the attack on
Pearl Harbor on December 7, Tucson businessmen and Davis Monthan
officials met
to plan wartime blackout arrangements for Tucson. Many buildings on
the University of Arizona campus were put to use by branches of
the military for training during the war.
1946 - Hank Williams begins to record on
Sterling label
1964 - Che
Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An
unknown terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech.
1971 - The Libertarian Party of the United States
is formed.
2014 - CIA Director John Brennan defends
interrogation methods used after 9/11 but admits some methods were
"abhorrent"
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1901 - Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian electrical
inventor, sends the first transatlantic radio signal
1913 - "Mona Lisa", stolen from the
Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
1931
- Statute of Westminster gives complete
legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,
Ireland (Free State), and Newfoundland (which was not at that time part of
Canada)
1936 - Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast
that he is abdicating the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson
1941
- Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW
II-landing)
1946
- Spain suspended from UN
1958
- Upper Volta (now Bourkina Faso) gains
autonomy from France
1961
- Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes
in Israel
1971
- A
bomb explodes outside a furniture showroom on the mainly-Protestant and
loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast; four civilians (including two babies) were
killed and nineteen wounded
1983 - 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John
Paul II in Rome)
2005
- Cronulla riots: thousands of white
Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence, resulting in a riot against
anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who were not) in Cronulla Sydney. These
are followed by ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
2012
- British physicist, Stephen Hawking,
wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative academic
prize in the world
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
The storm is a brewin’. Still warm, but strong wind, high clouds,
and the look of a storm all around.
Last week my dentist’s office called to change my cleaning
appointment to today. I didn’t think much about it at the time, figuring the hygienist
or the dentist was taking a day off. Much to my surprise, when I got there this
morning the former hygienist, whom I really liked and had cleaned my teeth for
about 5 years, was back. She had vanished about a year ago…nothing mentioned at
the office except that she had left. Since then I have had one horrible hygienist,
and one tolerable one. I am a mouth breather when I sleep and have been for my
whole life. The only issue I have with this is that I have to have more
frequent cleanings. Don’t understand how sleeping with an open mouth makes
teeth need more frequent cleanings but every dentist has told me that. So I get
them cleaned every 3 months instead of the more common every 6 months. I’m OK
with that, but I guess I have a problem with a stranger cleaning my teeth. I
don’t like a stranger cutting my hair either. Anyway, my good hygienist ‘took
off’ to take care of an aunt who had chemo for breast cancer. Her aunt is doing
well, so she returned to Flagstaff, a place she loves. And I am now a happy
camper again.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Rubber Ducky and Me
I
may run rings around you
Or escape your clutching grip
Or leave a treacherous trail
That gives a sudden slip.
(If you're not careful!)
You always end up winning,
While I shrink with each new meet:
Our bouts will be my ruin,
But you'll come out smelling sweet.
What am I?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Bet
You Didn’t Know…
Polar bear liver is so rich in Vitamin A that
eating even one to three ounces can kill a person.
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…Crazy
Law…
Nevada
Throwing things from a chairlift is illegal in
Nevada, much to the chagrin of your stupid 13-year-old cousin Dax.
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…Harper’s
Index…
10 – percentage of people who die in US road accidents who are
motorcyclists
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
earthpix The Merced River and El Capitan, Yosemite |
Photo by @scott_kranz
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2
jokes for the day
Farm Boy Dad -
In Farmer Jokes
A farm boy accidentally overturned his wagon
of corn. The farmer who lived nearby heard the noise and yelled over to the
boy,
"Hey Willis forget your troubles. Come in
and visit with us. I'll help you get the wagon up later."
"That's mighty nice of you," Willis
answered, "but I don't think Pa would like me to."
"Aw come on boy," the farmer
insisted.
"Well okay," the boy finally agreed,
and added, "but Pa won't like it."
After a hearty dinner, Willis thanked his
host. "I feel a lot better now, but I know Pa is going to be real
upset."
"Don't be foolish!" the neighbor
said with a smile. "By the way, where is he?"
"Under the wagon."
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An Old Man And His Cookies - In Elderly
Jokes
An old man was LYING IN HIS DEATH bed
upstairs. His favorite food in the world was chocolate chip cookies. As he lay
there, gasping for each breath he was sure he could smell freshly-backed
chocolate chip cookies. He crawled out of bed and slowly limped down the
stairs. Sure enough, across the kitchen, there was a huge platter of chocolate
chip cookies on the table. He finally made it to the table and he reached a
shacking hand towards the cookies.
Suddenly, his wife slapped his hand sharply
and yelled, "DONT TOUCH THOSE - THEY' RE FOR THE FUNERAL!!!"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
SEATTLE - Seattle police said a 73-year-old arrested
for snorting cocaine during a traffic stop was nearly released due to his clean
driving record. The Seattle Police Department said in a blog post Officer Nic
Abts-Olsen pulled a vehicle over for driving without headlights after dark
about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Coleman neighborhood. The traffic stop was
recorded by the officer's dashboard camera and the department posted the
footage to YouTube. Abts-Olsen checked the license and registration given to
him by the 73-year-old motorist and was planning to release the man due to his
spotless driving record, but when he returned to the Toyota he saw the man
scooping cocaine out of a small glass vial. The officer knocked on the
motorist's window, apparently startling the elderly man and causing him to
spill the white powder onto his hands and the floor of the vehicle. "Are
you kidding?" the police blog post quotes Abts-Olsen as saying to the
driver. The driver initially claimed he had only "vitamins" in the
car, but eventually admitted the substance was cocaine. The suspect
"complimented Officer Abts-Olsen on his keen detection skills and admitted
that snorting cocaine in the middle of a traffic stop was, perhaps, a poor
decision," the blog post reads. "Please abstain from using cocaine,
especially during a traffic stop," police said in the YouTube video.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Arms
akimbo (a standing person whose extended arms are out in a V pattern with the
hands placed on the hips, thumbs backward) is a powerful territorial display
that is used to establish dominance or indicate that there are
"issues." Women tend to use arms akimbo less often than men.
The "hooding affect" is a powerful territorial display among humans.
Interlaced hands behind the head are indicative of comfort and dominance.
Usually the senior person at a meeting will pose or "hood" this way.
***
Fingertips
planted and spread apart on a surface are a significant territorial display of
confidence and authority.
Hand-steepling may be the most powerful high-confidence hand gesture. It
involves touching the spread fingertips of both hands in a gesture similar to
praying hands, but the fingers are not interlocked and the palms may not be
touching. In the U.S., women tend to steeple low (at the waist), while men tend
to steeple at chest level.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(94) - Carlo Ponti,
Magenta, Lombardy, Italian producer (Marriage Italian Style, Doctor Zhivago)
(d.2007)
(89) - Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, Kislovodsk, Russia, writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel
1970), (d. 2008)
(87) - Max Born,
Germany, physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954) (d.1970)
(86) - David Brewster,
Scotland, physicist/inventor (kaleidoscope) (d.1868)
84 - Rita Moreno,
[Rosita Dolores Alverío], Humacao, Puerto Rico, singer, dancer and actress
(West Side Story)
(77) - Annie Jump Cannon,
Dover Delaware, US stellar spectroscopist (Harvard-classification) (d.1941)
(76) - Ferdinand A. Porsche,
Stuttgart, Germany, car designer (Porsche 911), (d. 2012)
75 - David Gates,
rock vocalist (Bread-Baby I'm A Want You), born in Tulsa, OK
72 - John Kerry,
Aurora, Colorado, politician\2004 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party\Sec
of State
71 - Brenda Lee,
[Brenda Mae Tarpley], Lithonia Ga, singer (I'm Sorry)
71 - Lynda Day George,
San Marcos Tx, actress (Casey-Mission Impossible)
68 - Teri Garr,
Lakewood, Ohio, American actress (Mr. Mom, Young Frankenstein)
(66) - Robert Koch,
German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905) (d.1910)
(57) - Big Mama Thornton,
blues singer (Ball & Chain, Stronger than Dirt) (d.1984)
57 - Nikki Sixx,
American musician (Mötley Crüe)
48 - Mo'Nique, actress
(44) - Carlos Gardel,
Buenos Aires, Argentine singer and the most prominent figure in the history of
tango (d. 1935)
35 - Rider Strong,
American actor, writer and director (Boy Meets World), born in San Francisco,
California
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Historical
Obits Today
@92-2012 - Ravi Shankar,
Indian musician
@85-2008 - Bettie Page,
American Playboy pin-up model
@70-1991 - Robert Q Lewis,
US comic/TV panel member (RQL Show), emphysema
@69-1971 - Maurice
"Mac" McDonald, American fast-food pioneer
@42-1872 - Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king
@331964 - Sam Cooke,
US soul musician ('A Change is Gonna Come'), shot
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Brain
Teasers Answers
A bar of soap.
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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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