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December 21, 2015
Week: 52 \ Day: 355
December Averages:
44°\17°
86004 Today: H 41° \ L 27° Average
Sky Cover: 15%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts:
22mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High: 61°[1969]
Ave. Low: 16° Record Low: -6°[1967]
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Observances
Today:
Ann & Samantha Day (Summer & Winter Solstices) Link
Celebrate Short Fiction Day
Crossword Puzzle Day
National
Flashlight Day (Shortest Day of The Year)
Global Orgasm Day Link (Always on Winter Solstice and Summer Solstice)
International Dalek Remembrance Day Link
National Homeless Persons' Remembrance
Day Link
Phileas Fogg Win A Wager Day
Short Girl Appreciation Day (Shortest day of the year)
World Peace Day/Winter Solstice1
Winter Solstice (11:48 pm)
Yalda
Yule
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Independence Day-State of Erie (formerly Irish
Free State)-1948
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Observances
This Week:
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
1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
[OS=Dec 11]
1784 - John Jay becomes 1st US Secretary of
State (foreign affairs)
1804 -Two treaties the
CHEROKEEs signed with Return Meigs are sent to the Senate today for
consideration. The CHEROKEEs will give up over four million acres for almost
$20,000.
1829 - 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US
dedicated, Baltimore
1849 - 1st US skating club formed (Phila)
1864
- General Sherman conquers Savannah,
Georgia
1866 - Cheyenne, Arapaho', Sioux, Fetterman
Massacre
1891 - 1st game of basketball, based on rules
created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield,
Massachusetts
1909 - 1st junior high school established (Berkeley
California)
1913 - 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed
in NY World
1914 - 1st feature-length silent film comedy
"Tillie's Punctured Romance" released starring Marie Dressler, Mabel
Normand and Charles Chaplin
1919 - J. Edgar Hoover deports
anarchist/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia
1921 - Supreme Court rules labor injunctions &
picketing unconstitutional
1929
- 1st group hospital insurance plan
offered (Dallas Tx)
1932 - Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers,
1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)
1933
- Fox Films signs Shirley
Temple, 5, to a studio contract
1937
- The first full-length animated feature
film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series,
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", premieres at the Carthay Circle
Theatre
1959
- 10th largest snowfall in NYC history
(13.7")
1959
- Tom Landry accepts coaching job
with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)
1962
- US & Cuba accord, releases Bay of
Pigs captive
1970-
Department store
owner Harold Steinfeld and his wife, along with 27 other people, die in a fire
at the Pioneer Hotel in Tucson.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1582 - Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow
is Jan 1 1583
1898 - Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover
radium
1906 - British Parliament pass two important pieces
of social legislation: The Trades Disputes Bill, legalizing peaceful picketing,
and The Workingmen's Compensation Act, broadening employers' liability for
accidents
1976 - UN General Assembly passes a resolution
declaring 1979-Year of Child
1991 - 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion
lottery (#47996)
1991 - Soviet Union formally dissolves as 11 of 12
republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
This is the last posting until after my Christmas trip.
Stayed up way too late watching Netflix. Awoke to unexpected high
winds and about an inch of the white stuff. Prior to this storm, the weatherman
said all would be calm until after Christmas…now they are saying that Flag will
have a white Christmas, with at least some snow falling on the Christmas Day. This
storm is gone. NWS still says Chicago will be in 40’s with some rain while I’m
there. Nice.
Having a little trouble with my right wrist. It has been a couple
of years since that pain has been there. Actually forgot why it happens. Woke
up with very sore wrist. Took a pain pill and put on my old wrist guard. Pain
still there, but is very tolerable. Just a pain to do anything. My cool
neighbor and his young son (3) cleared my sidewalk. They had a lot of fun. And
I was very appreciative.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Troubling
Doubling at School
Math
brain teasers require computations to solve.
Read
the little poem and answer its question if you can.
The number of girls who do wear a watch
is double the number who don't.
But the number of boys who do not wear a watch
is double the number who do.
If I tell you the number of girls in my class
is double the number of boys,
Can you tell me the number I teach? Here's a clue:
More than 20; below 32!
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Bet
You Didn’t Know…
The adorable language that has made the
Minions globally-loved little creatures is called Minionese, which the director
of “Despicable Me” wrote himself.
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…Crazy
Law…
Oklahoma
Bear wrestling and “horse tripping” events are
strictly verboten in OK, although if you think wrestling a bear is a good idea,
you have bigger problems than state penal codes.
Oregon
Carrying a person under the age of 18 on any
external part of the car is unlawful. But if they’re 19, feel free to throw
them on the fender.
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…Harper’s
Index…
4/5 Portion of
anti-Muslim discrimination and harassment
in France that is directed against women
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @BrianSkerry
A harp seal pup, about 7 days old, opens one eye during a snowstorm on the
pack ice in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence. Thinning ice due to climate change
over the last decade however, has caused problems for this species for without
stable ice, they cannot nurse from their moms and may fall into the icy sea
before they are physically prepared. Survival long term will require adapting
to the loss of sea ice if these trends continue. Photographed #onassignment for @natgeo.
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2
jokes for the day
The
Man and the Parrot In Animal Jokes
One day a man goes to a pet shop to buy a
parrot. The assistant takes the man to the parrot section and asks the man to
choose one.
The man asks, ''How much is the yellow one?''
The assistant says, ''$2000.''
The man is shocked and asks the assistant why
it's so expensive.
The assistant explains, ''This parrot is a
very special one. He knows typewriting and can type really fast.''
''What about the green one?'' the man asks.
The assistant says, ''He costs $5000 because
he knows typewriting and can answer incoming telephone calls and takes notes.''
''What about the red one?'' the man asks.
The assistant says, ''That one's $10,000.''
The man says, ''What does he do?''
The assistant says, ''I don't know, but the
other two call him boss.''
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Blind
Skydivers - In Animal Jokes
Why don't blind people skydive?
Because it scares the crap out of their dogs.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
ORLANDO,
FL - A Florida wildlife center said two gopher tortoises were
"vandalized" by culprits devoid of both artistic skills and common
sense. The Back to Nature Wildlife Refuge & Education Center said a gopher
tortoise with its shell crudely colored and doused in glitter was found
wandering in Pine Hills and a second tortoise with a similar paint job was
found suffering from a fungal infection in Orlando's Blanchard Park. Orange
County Animal Services brought the tortoises to the refuge. "It will take multiple
cleanings to remove the paint from each tortoise as well as healing time to get
them back in good health. This is so disrespectful and we plead to you to share
this with others to make it known that this is NOT OK and illegal!!" the
center said. Shelter worker Debbie Helsel told WFTV the tortoise suffering from
the infection is about 20 years old and was found "extremely
dehydrated." "It is completely disrespectful to the animal to do
something like this," she said. Helsel said gopher tortoises use their
shells to help them breath, making the paint jobs extra dangerous. "Right
underneath this [the shell] is just a very thin, thin shell where all their
organs are," Helsel said. "It's not fun. It's not funny. It's not
healthy for the animal because it causes a lot of problems and this animal
could end up losing its life over something like this," she said.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
December
is the twelfth and last month of the year according to the Gregorian calendar.
This is used in almost all the world today. It was the tenth month in the early
Roman calendar. It became the twelfth month in a later Roman calendar. Until 46
B.C., December only had 29 days. But the Roman statesman Julius Caesar added
two days to December, which made it 31 days.
In the northern half of the world, Winter begins in December. Winter does not
begin until December 21 or 22, and most of December is usually warmer than
other winter months. The latter part of December has long been a holiday
season. Christians celebrate Christmas Day, as the birthday of Jesus Christ.
The turquoise and zircon are the birthstones for December. Holly, narcissus,
and poinsettia are the flowers for the month of December.
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights,
ratified, December 15, 1791.
Scientists achieved the first controlled atomic chain reaction, in Chicago,
December 2, 1942.
Amendment 21 to the United States Constitution, repealing prohibition,
proclaimed, December 5, 1933
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(88) - Kurt
Waldheim, Nazi/4th UN Sec-Gen (1972-81)/Austrian pres (d.2007)
(85) - Joe
Paterno, disgraced football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986)
(85) - Ed
Nelson, American actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider), born in New
Orleans, Louisiana, (d. 2014)
(82) - Paul
Winchell, ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith), born in NYC, (d.2005)
(80) - Roger
Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)
80 - Phil
Donahue, TV talk show host (The Phil Donahue Show), born in Cleveland
78 - Jane
Fonda, actress (Barbarella, Klute), physically fit, born in NYC
(77) - Hermann
A J Kees, German Egyptologist (Problems of Egyptology) (d.1964)
(76) - Benjamin
Disraeli, (Tory) British PM (1868, 1874-80) (d.1881)
67 - Samuel
L. Jackson, actor (Amos & Andrew, White Sand, Pulp Fiction), born in
Washington, D.C.
61 - [Christine] Chris
Evert, Fort Lauderdale Florida, tennis champion (18 singles Gram Slams,
3 doubles titles)
60 - Jane
Kaczmarek, American actress (Malcom in the Middle)
58 - Ray
Romano, American actor (Everybody Loves Raymond, Ice Age), born in
Queens, New York
(52) - Frank
Zappa, rocker (Mothers of Invention), born in Baltimore (d.1993)
(51) - Thomas
Becket, Cheapside, archbishop of Canterbury (1162-1170), born in London,
England (d. 1170)
50 - Andy
Dick, Charleston SC, actor (Matthew-Newsradio)
49 - Kiefer
Sutherland, TV actor
(38) - Florence
Griffith Joyner, runner (Olympic-3 gold-1988), born in LA, (d.1998)
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Historical
Obits Today
@85-1994 - Dean
Rusk, US Sect of State
@73-1983 - Rod
Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede)
@67-2001 - Dick
Schaap, American sports journalist, hip replacement complication
@60-1945 - George
S Patton, US General (Normandy), congestive heart failure
@44-1940 - F
Scott Fitzgerald, author (Zelda), heart attack
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Brain
Teasers Answers
27
Solution:
The number of boys must be a multiple of 3 (3, 6, 9...) so that it can be split
in the ratio of 2:1 (no watch:watch).
The number of girls is double the no. of boys (6, 12, 18...)
So the totals can only be 9, 18, 27...
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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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