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December 12, 2015 Week:
50 \ Day: 346
December Averages:
44°\17°
86004 Today: H 47° \ L 35° Average
Sky Cover: 90%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts:
26mph Winter Weather Advisory-NWS
Ave. High: 44° Record High: 64°[1921]
Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: -16°[1961]
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Observances
Today:
Day Of The Horse
Gingerbread Decorating Day
Gingerbread House Day
International Shareware Day
National 12-hour Fresh Breath Day
National Cocoa Day Link
National Wreaths Across America Day
Our Lady of Guadelupe Link
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Independence Day-Denya-1963 from UK
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Observances
This Week:
6-12
National
Hand Washing Awareness Week Link
7-14
Chanukah
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
1787 - Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US
constitution
1800 - Washington, D.C. established as capital of US
1822 - Mexico officially recognized as an
independent nation by US
1878 - Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St
Louis Dispatch"
1900 - National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every
Voice & Sing", composed
1925
- Arthur Heinman coins term "motel"; opens
Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo
1946
- Tide detergent introduced
1953 - Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A
rocket plane
1966
- "A Man for All Seasons" based on
the play by Robert Bolt, directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Paul Scofield
premieres in New York (Best Picture 1967)
1968 - Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be
ranked #1 in tennis
1969 - "Hello Dolly" with Barbra
Streisand premieres
1982
- $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money
transport car in NYC
1988
- NYC Subway system adds new stations (Z line)
1988
- "Rainman" directed by Barry
Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise premieres in New
York (Best Picture 1989)
2013 - The United States announces sanctions on the
two dozen companies who assisted Iran with their nuclear program
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1098 - 1st Crusaders capture & plunder Mara
Syria
1408 - Order of the Dragon: The Order of the Dragon
was first created on December 12, 1408 by Emperor Sigismund, then King of
Hungary, and his wife Queen Barbara of Celje following the battle for possession
of Bosnia.
1792 - In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22)
receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
1858 - 1st Canadian coins circulated (1 cent, 5
cent, 10 cent & 20 cent)
1913 - Hebrew language officially used to teach in
Palestinian schools
1920 - Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse"
premieres in Paris
1959 - UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space
is established
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Light rain falling as temps drop…soon it will be snow. And then there was snow. and then there was thunder. Really!
Did some running around this morning so I could beat the storm. A
couple inches of the white stuff will be nice to get me in the mood.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Not Enough Light
Fill
in the sentence below so that the first two words combine to make the third
word. For example, given "The Prime Minister ____ the meeting, even though
the ____ was technically the ____ official," you would fill in RAN, KING,
and RANKING.
If there is not enough light to ____, ____ ____ the lamp.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Bet
You Didn’t Know…
The closest relative to the whale species is
believed to be the hippo.
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…Crazy
Law…
New Hampshire
You’ve got to be strategic about your seaweed
harvesting in NH. Carrying the stuff “from seashore below high-water mark”
after the sun has set is a violation of the state’s fish and game provisions.
And as we all know, most people with seaweed collections shun daylight.
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…Harper’s
Index…
13 – number
of crashes involving Google’s self-driving cars that have occurred since
testing began in 2009
100 –
percentage of those crashes attributable to human-driver error
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @stevemccurryofficial // A few months ago in Trinidad, Cuba, near the south coast. Declared a World Heritage
Site in 1988, Trinidad is a picturesque Spanish settlement with colorful old
homes and cobblestone streets. This outdoor "museum" between the
ocean and the mountains, is an almost perfectly preserved example of colonial
architecture from the 1800's.
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2
jokes for the day
Jack playing Golf
Toward the end of a particularly trying round
of golf, Jack was the picture of frustration. He’d hit too many far shots. Finally
he blurted out to his caddie, “I’d move heaven and earth to break a hundred on
this course.” “Try heaven,” replied the caddie. “You’ve already moved most of
the earth.”
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George Washington
Teacher: " George Washington not only
chopped down his father's Cherry tree, but also admitted doing it.
Now do you know why his father didn't punish
him?"
One Student: " Because George still had
the axe in is hand."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Weird Japan: Sony manufactured a robot dog
("Aibo") from 1996 to 2006 for a legion of pet-fanciers, but now that
supplies of spare parts and specialized repairers are dwindling, many of the
beloved family "canines" are "dying" off. Not to worry,
though, for many "surviving" owners are conducting elaborate,
expensive -- and even religious -- burials with widely attended funerals for
their Aibos. (A March 2015 Newsweek report offered a dazzling photographic
array of Aibo funerals.) Aibo support groups proliferate online because, said
one repair service director, "(W)e think that somehow, (Aibos) really have
souls." [Newsweek, 3-15-2015]
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
National Weather Service only classifies a snowstorm as a blizzard if it meets
certain requirements. The blowing snow must reduce visibility to one quarter
mile or less for at least three hours.
At any given time, snow covers approximately one quarter of the surface of the
earth.
Snow actually helps the weather stay chilly. When the white stuff covers the
ground, warming rays from the sun are reflected out into space, and heat has
difficulty penetrating the ground, keeping temperatures lower.
In centuries past, tales of snow during warm weather have most commonly been
attributed to nearby volcanic eruptions, after which white pieces of ash may
float from the sky looking like snow.
Snowflakes take various shapes, but all are based on a hexagonal (six-sided)
pattern inherent to the crystals in ice. The "arms" of a snowflake
are technically known as dendrites.
Despite the regular heat, it does snow near the equator, but only in the very
highest elevations, like 19,340-foot-tall Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
92 - Bob Barker,
American TV game show host (The Price is Right, Truth or Consequences), born in
Darrington, Washington
(88) - Ed Koch,
lawyer and politician (NY Mayor (D) 1977-89), Judge (People's Court), born in
NYC, New York (d. 2013)
(83) - John Jay,
New York, NY, American statesman, 1st US Chief Justice (d.1829)
(82) - Frank Sinatra,
Hoboken New Jersey, American singer/actor (old blue eyes), (d. 1998)
(80) - Edvard Munch,
Løten, Norway, painter/print maker (The Scream), (d. 1944)
(79) - Edward G Robinson,
[Goldenberg], Romania, actor (10 Commandments) (d.1973)
77 - Connie Francis,
Newark NJ, singer/actress (Where the Boys Are)
75 - Dionne Warwick,
East Orange NJ, singer (Solid Gold, Way to San Jose)
63 - Cathy Rigby
McCoy, Los Alamitos California, gymnist (Olympic-4th-1968)
(58) - Gustave Flaubert,
France, novelist (Madame Bovary) (d.1880)
40 - Mayim Bialik,
actress (The Big Bang Theory), born in San Diego, California
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Historical
Obits Today
@94-2002 - Dee Brown, American author
@92-2008 - Van Johnson,
American actor
@88-1600 - John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's
court vicar
@77-1889 - Robert Browning,
English poet (Ring & Book)
@76-2007 - Ike Turner,
American singer, former husband of Tina Turner, OD
@76-1998 - Mo Udall,
American politician (b. 1922)
@71-2006 - Peter Boyle,
American actor, multiple myeloma
@62-1985 - Anne Baxter,
actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel), stroke
@49-1976 - Jack Cassidy,
actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She), house fire
@47-1985 - Ian Stewart,
Scottish keyboardist/road mgr (Rolling Stones), heart attack
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Brain
Teasers Answers
If there is not enough light to READ, JUST READJUST the lamp.
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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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