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December 17, 2015
Week: 51 \ Day: 351
December Averages:
44°\17°
86004 Today: H 37° \ L 1° Average
Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 1mph\Gusts:
9mph
Ave. High: 42° Record High: 63°[1980]
Ave. Low: 16° Record Low: -14°[1928]
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Observances
Today:
Clean Air Day
Free Shipping Day Link
National Re-gifting Day Link
Wright Brothers Day
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Observances
This Week:
10-17
Human
Rights Week
13-19
Gluten-free
Baking Week Link
14-1/5
Christmas
Bird Count Week Link
14-28
Halcyon
Days
16-24
Posadas
17-23
Saturnalia
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1777 - France recognizes independence of British
colonies in America
1791 - NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way
street
1852 - 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
1862 - General Ulysses S. Grant issues
order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
1920 - State leaders held
a banquet in Phoenix and formed an Arizona unit of the Boy Scouts of America.
1936 - Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen & dummy
Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV
1938 - Discovery of nuclear fission using uranium
by Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann
1947 - NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with
27" of snow
1975 - Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt
on US President Ford's life
1989 - The Simpsons, America's longest-running
sitcom debuts
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1398 - Timur (Tamerlane) captures and sacks
Delhi, defeating Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies which include elephants
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army retreats to
Scotland
1790 - Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico
City
1845 - German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt arrives
in Port Essington after a nearly 4,800 km (3,000 mi) overland journey to
explore Australia's Northern Territory
1875 - Violent bread riots in Montreal
1922 - Last British troops leave Irish Free State
1999 - The United Nations General Assembly passes
resolution 54/134 designating November 25 as the annual International Day to
Eliminate Violence Against Women
2013 - Angela Merkel is elected Chancellor of
Germany for a third term
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Interesting day. My computer would not synch to load my emails.
Then when I answered an email that came in yesterday, as I start to type the
reply, the program shuts down. I restart the computer, same thing. I call my
tech guys. They will call me back in an hour as their computers aren’t up yet.
Huh? They call back, get on m computer, magically fix it, I think. I haven’t
had time to retry the email.
Did my weekly shopping at Sam’s Club. Inserted my chip Debit card
and got ready to enter my pin. Nope, transaction went through without a pin.
Scary. Called my local bank to see what is going on. Bank phone had a message
that said ‘we can’t help you right now, call back later or call our 800 number’.
Look up the 800 number and talk to a lady about how a debit card is like CASH
and should always require a pin. She transfers me to the fraud detection unit.
After punching in my card number, Pin number and security code, I get to talk
to a human who must be living in Mumbai, India and have just completed her ‘Basic
English’ course. She says it is the merchant’s choice to ask for pin numbers.
Huh? This is a bank card with rules and regs. She says ‘dats da way it is.’ So
I call the local bank. A human answers. I explain my concern. She agrees and
transfers to a banker. She agrees and says she will call through ‘the back door’
to get an answer and will call me back. Still waiting that call.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Common
Words
These brain teasers rely
on your ability to recognize groups of common attributes.
What does each word in each group have in common?
Group A
A baby
A cow
A shoe
Group B
A duck
A restaurant goer
Congress
Group C
A river
A cave
A face
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…Bet
You Didn’t Know…
Children’s author Roald Dahl wrote the
screenplay for the James Bond movie “You Only Live Twice."
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…Crazy
Law…
North Carolina
In what is just another example of the Man
keeping you down, stealing used kitchen grease is a crime in NC, so you’ll need
to look elsewhere for product to put in your hair.
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…Harper’s
Index…
1 Rank of Syria among the world’s largest source of refugees last
year
32 Number of consecutive years before 2014 that Afghanistan held
that rank
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto @ladzinski / A pair of #Greathornowls perched
in a cottonwood tree huddled against the cold winds and winter snow in #bouldercolorado.
These birds are prodigious hunters, generally hunting under the cover of
night and can take down animals as large as rabbits. Great Horns are
monogamous, adaptable and are the most wide spread owl in the Americas.
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2
jokes for the day
How
Were People Born
A child asked his father, "How were people born?"
So his father said, "Adam and Eve made babies, then their babies became
adults and made babies, and so on."
The child then went to his mother, asked her the same question and she told
him, "We were monkeys then we evolved to become like we are now."
The child ran back to his father and said, "You lied to me!"
His father replied, "No, your mom was talking about her side of the
family."
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Dive
Right In -
What did one boat say to the other?
“Are you up for a little row-mance?”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
ZHANGJIAGANG,
China - Officials in a Chinese city ordered a restaurant to stop
charging customers to breathe clean air amid intense smog in the country. The
restaurant in Zhangjiagang was found to be adding an "air cleaning
fee" of about $0.15 to each customer's bill to offset the cost of the
eatery's new air filtration system, which was installed amid smog warnings in
the region. Customers complained to the city's Consumer Pricing Bureau, which
ordered the restaurant to cease the practice. An official told the state-run
Xinhua news agency the filtered air could not be sold as a commodity because
diners were not given the option of whether or not to breathe inside the
facility. Smog in the capital, Beijing, was so thick last week that the city
issued its first-ever red alert for air quality. The alert involved a three-day
closing of factories, construction sites and schools.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(84) - John
Greenleaf Whittier, US, poet (Snow-bound) (d.1892)
(84) - Arthur
Fiedler, conductor (Boston Pops), born in Boston, (d.1979)
(79) - William
Safire, political columnist (NY Times)/speech writer (Nixon), (d. 2009)
(79) - Bob
Guccione, [Robert C J Edwa], US publisher (Penthouse, Omni), (d. 2010)
79 - Pope Francis [Jorge
Mario Bergoglio], Catholic Pope (2013-) 1st Jesuit pope, 1st from the Americas
and 1st non-European pope since Syrian Gregory III in 741, born in Buenos
Aires, Argentina
(71) - Willard
Frank Libby, Grand Valley Colorado, American chemist (carbon-14 "atomic
clock" - Nobel 1960) (d.1980)
62 - Bill
Pullman, Hornell NY, actor (Sommersby, League of their Own, Independence
Day)
(47) - Richard
Long, actor (Prof-Nanny & the Professor), born in Chicago, (d.1974)
46 - Chuck
Liddell, American mixed martial artist
(44) - Paul
Butterfield, blues musician (Better Days), born in Chicago, (d.1987)
40 - Milla
Jovovich, Kiev Ukraine, actress (Return to Blue Lagoon, Chaplin)
37 - Manny
Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and the 1st eight-division world champion, born
in Kibawe, Bukidnon, Philippines
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Historical
Obits Today
@88-2012 - Daniel
K. Inouye, American politician
@83-2005 - Jack
Anderson, American journalist (b. 1922)
@83-1992 - Dana
Andrews, American actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura)
@78-1999 - Rex
Allen, American actor, singer and songwriter, run over by caretaker
@70-2011 - Kim
Jong-il, supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK) suspected heart attack
@69-2010 - Captain
Beefheart (Don Glen Vliet), musician (b. 1941)
@65ish-1273 – Rumi, poet,
jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian
@47-1830 - Simón
Bolívar, South American revolutionary and president (Colombia), TB
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Group A- a tongue
Group B- a bill
Group C- a mouth
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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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