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December
2, 2015 Week:
48 \ Day: 336
December Averages:
44°\17°
86004 Today: H 44° \ L 10° Average
Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
16mph
Ave. High: 46° Record High: 63°[1926]
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low: -7°[1905]
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Observances
Today:
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Day
National Mutt Day Link
Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting
Safety Razor Day
Special Education Day
Special Kids Day Link
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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
1761- No land grants
for Indian lands in British territories now be made without the Crown's
approval.
1812 - James Madison re-elected president of
US, E Gerry vice-pres
1816 - First savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia
Savings Fund Society)
1823 - President James Monroe declares
his "Monroe Doctrine", a US foreign policy regarding Latin America
1840 - William Henry Harrison elected the 9th
President of the United States
1845 - Manifest Destiny: US President James K.
Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively
expand into the West.
1852 - The first steamer
on the Colorado River reached Yuma. She was the "Uncle Sam" brought
to the mouth of the river in sections on the schooner "Capacity" and
assembled at Yuma.
1867 - In a New York City theater, British
author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United
States.
1927 - First Model A Fords sold, for $385
1932 - "Adventures of Charlie Chan" 1st
heard on NBC-Blue radio network
1941 - Largest roller skating rink (outside of NYC)
opens in Peekskill NY
1942 - World’s 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain
reaction occurs in Chicagi Pile-1 (world's 1st nuclear reactor) at the
University of Chicago, overseen by Enrico Fermi
1952 - First human birth televised to public
(KOA-TV Denver, Colo)
1954 - US Senate censures Joeseph McCarthy
(Sen-R-Wisc) for "conduct that tends to bring Senate into dishonor &
disrepute"
1957 - Sam Cooke's single "You Send Me"
reaches #1
1970 - Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir:
William Ruckelshaus)
1980 - 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death
squads in El Salvador
1982 - 1st permanent artificial heart successfully
implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with
Jarvic-7 heart
2014 - Stephen Hawking claims that Artificial
Intelligence could be a "threat to mankind" and spell the end of the
human race
2014 - Comedian Bill Cosby resigns from
the board of trustees of an American university following renewed sexual
assault allegations
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1620 - English language newspaper
"Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam
1927 - Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black announces
to the Geological Society of China that the ancient human fossils from
Zhoukoudian, China are a new species which he has named 'Sinanthropus
pekinensis' (now known as 'Homo erectus')
1939 - British Imperial Airways & British
Airways merge to form BOAC
1961 - Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist
& will lead Cuba to Communism
1971 - United Arab Emirates (Trucial States) [Abu
Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain] declares
independence from UK
1978 - Chanting "Allah is great",
anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran
1990 - First parliamentary election in newly
reunified Germany
1999 - The United Kingdom devolves political power
in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
2014 - The World Food Program suspends critical
food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey,
Iraq and Egypt because of a lack of funds
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice quiet Tuesday. Got pretty chilly last night but nice in the
afternoon. Only a few birds fed from my feeders today.
The UPS/USPS sage has ended. My brother got his birthday present yesterday.
He sounded like he enjoyed it. The package took an exciting adventure…leaving
the facility in NYC and traveling around NYC for 2 days before being delivered.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
In
this teaser, you have to find the odd ones out in the groups of words. BUT
WAIT! There's a catch. Each group of words has TWO words which do not belong.
Can you find them both?
EXAMPLE:
Lily - Jane - Tulip - Rose
Jane does not belong as it's the only one which is not a flower.
Tulip also does not belong because it's the only one which is not a girl's
name.
You're on your own for the rest!
1. Dodge - Ford - Lincoln - Hoover
2. King - Earl - Knight - Bishop
3. Yellow - Green - Dead - Black
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
If every muscle in your body could pull in one
direction, you could lift nearly 25 tons.
Only about 2% of the world population has
green eyes.
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…Crazy
Law…
Maryland
Though the Old Line State is presumably a fan
of safe sex, it has a provision barring anyone from selling non-latex condoms
in vending machines. Which makes us wonder what kind of weird stuff they do
sell in public men’s bathrooms.
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…Harper’s
Index…
3.3 – hours of
TV watched each day by the average US kindergartner
73 –
percentage by which a kindergartner who watches more than an hour a day is more
likely to be obese
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhotograph by
Michael Yamashita. @yamashitaphoto. #Tajik children
wait for their lessons to start at an elementary school in #Taxkorgan, #Xinjiang, #China.
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2
jokes for the day
Pirate
Going To The Movie
Q: Why would they not let the Pirate into the
theater?
A: Because it was rated
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Signs Of A
No Frills Airline
You can't board the plane unless you have the
exact change.
Before you take off, the stewardess tells you
to fasten your Velcro.
The Captain asks all the passengers to chip in
a little for gas.
When they pull the steps away, the plane
starts rocking.
The Captain yells at the ground crew to get
the cows off the runway.
You ask the Captain how often their planes
crash and he says, "Just once."
No movie. Don't need one. Your life keeps
flashing before your eyes.
You see a man with a gun, but he's demanding
to be let off the plane.
All the planes have both a bathroom and a
chapel.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Great Art! Artnet News
-- The 1968 Cy Twombly "blackboard" painting sold for
$70.5 million at New York City's Sotheby's auction in November (higher than
experts' estimate of $60 million). The painting consists of six horizontal
lines of continuous circular swirls (white chalk on a "blackboard")
-- perhaps the same swirls that might be made by an extremely bored, aggressive
first-grader given a supply of chalk and the absence of the teacher. [11-11-2015]
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Picasso
was a child prodigy who could draw before he could talk. He was accepted to the
School of Fine Arts when he was 13 years old. While most students completed
their entrance exams in a month, he completed his in just one week.
Picasso was not just a painter--he was also a sculptor, ceramicist, stage
designer, poet, playwright, and print writer.
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Picasso
would often carry around a pistol loaded with blanks. He would fire it at
people he found boring or any one who insulted Cezanne.
Picasso is one of the world's most prolific painters. During his 78-year
career, he created over 13,500 paintings or designs, 100,000 prints or
engravings, 34,000 book illustrations, and 300 sculptures or ceramics--totaling
over 147,800 works of art.
By the time he died, Picasso was the richest artist in history.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(90) - Russell Lynes,
American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's
Magazine (d. 1991)
71 - Cathy Lee Crosby,
LA, actress (Coach, That's Incredible)
61 - Stone Phillips,
news host (NBC Dateline)
(50) - Gianni Versace,
Reggio Calabria, Italy, fashion designer (Versace), (d. 1997)
47 - Lucy Liu,
American actress
42 - Monica Seles,
Novi Sad Yugoslavia, tennis star (US Open 1992)
37 - Nelly Furtado,
Canadian singer and songwriter
34 - Britney Spears,
Kentwood, Louisiana, singer and popstar ("Baby One More Time,"
"Oops! ...I did it again" and "I'm A Slave 4 U")
(31) - Georges Seurat,
Paris France, post-impressionist painter (Grande Jatte), (d. 1891)
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Historical
Obits Today
@90 in 1990 - Aaron Copland,
American composer (Billy the Kid, Fanfare for Common Man)
@86 in 1981 - Wallace K[irkman]
Harrison,
US architect (UN)
@77 in 2008 - Odetta
[Odetta Holmes], American folk singer (Sanctuary), actress and civil rights
activist, heart disease
@74 in 1814 - Marquis de Sade,
French philosopher and writer (Justine)- The words sadism and sadist are
derived from his name.
@70 in 1936 - John Ringling,
American circus owner
@69 in 1986 - Desi Arnaz,
actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), lung cancer
@61 in 1547 - Hernán Cortés, Spanish Conquistador who defeated
the Aztec Empire, pleurisy
@59 in 1859 - John Brown,
US abolitionist (Harpers Ferry), hanged
@49 in1982 - Marty Feldman,
comedian (Young Frankenstein), heart attack
@46 in 1552 - Francis Xavier,
Spanish Catholic missionary, fever
@44 in 1993 - Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombian drug baron, shot
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Hoover does not belong as it's the only one which is not a car
manufacturer. Dodge does not belong as it's the only one which is not the last
name of a President of USA.
2. Bishop does not belong as it's the only one which is not a class of
nobility. Earl does not belong as it's the only one which is not a Chess piece.
3. Dead does not belong as it's the only one which is not a color. Green does
not belong as it's the only one which is not the name of a sea.
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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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for Now… 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄
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