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December 8, 2015 Week:
50 \ Day: 342
December Averages:
44°\17°
86004 Today: H 68° \ L 19° Average
Sky Cover: 55%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
12mph
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Low: ° Record Low:
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Observances
Today:
Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day
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Observances
This Week:
3-10
Clerc-Gallaudet
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
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1829 - In his first
"State of the Union Address," President Andrew Jackson will state his
goal to remove all Indians in the southeastern part of the United States to
lands west of the Mississippi.
1886 - American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by
26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
1902
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became
Associate Justice on US Supreme Court
1930 - Tucson trade
unions petitioned Gov. John C. Phillips to open the Armory buildings throughout
the state and equip them with cots so that many unemployed will have a warm
place to sleep.
1941 - President Roosevelt delivers "Day of
Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbour
1952 - 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love
Lucy)
1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his
"Atoms for Peace" speech at the UN in New York.
1962 - 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
1978 - "The Deer Hunter", premieres in
Los Angeles (Best Picture 1979)
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading
room, the second public library of Europe.
1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate
Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin
1915 - John McCrae's poem "In Flanders
Fields" appears anonymously in "Punch" magazine
1946
- French fashion designer Christian Dior and
his backer Marcel Boussac found fashion house Christian Dior
1956 - 16th Olympic games close at Melbourne,
Australia
1967 - The Beatles' "Magical Mystery
Tour" album is released in UK
1982 - Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez receives
the Nobel Prize for Literature
2002 - The Caribbean Community Heads of Government
meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba
Day" - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community
(CARICOM) and Cuba.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Had a busy Sunday, thus no posting yesterday. Friends dropped by
and watched lots of football and basketball. Today was a lazy recovery day.
Retired life in our little mountain town is great.
Our discussion group on Saturday reviewed the history of voting
rights in this country. Conclusion: déjà vu all over again. When our country
formed, it was only white male property owners who could vote. To keep it that
way poll taxes, education tests, and other things were added to make sure not
everyone could vote. Jump up to today and many states are making it very hard
for certain groups to vote by requiring picture ID and proof of citizenship.
They claim this will stop voter fraud, which has not been a proven problem. The
leaders of this country have to start fighting for the beliefs of this great
country.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
The Beast
It
roars like thunder,
And rises higher,
While breathing fire,
This wingless wonder.
If it leaves its cave,
Drags us in its tail,
Over hill and dale,
Then you must be brave.
Early morning flight,
Silently it flies,
Slowly in the skies.
Hides before the night.
My kingdom at least,
To the brave young knight,
If you name it right.
What is this huge beast?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Bet
You Didn’t Know…
Sean Connery was offered the role of Gandalf
in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and in addition to his fee, he was offered 15
percent of the box office earnings. He cost himself millions of dollars by
rejecting the offer because he was concerned about the script.
Prairie dog family members greet each other
with a kiss.
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…Crazy
Law…
Missouri
Sheriffs can be imprisoned in their own county
jail (presumably when they go rogue) and if that happens, MO law stipulates
that the coroner is in charge of the jail. Doesn’t seem like there’s a lot of
skill overlap there, unless Missouri sheriffs also remove prisoners’ small
intestines upon booking.
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…Harper’s
Index…
1/5 estimated portion of fatalities following police use of Tasers
in which ‘excited delirium’ is cited among the causes of death
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
earthpixChicago water tower | Photo by John O'Sullivan. I’ll
be seeing this is a few weeks. Hopefully not as cold as this picture.
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2
jokes for the day
Three spies captured
in London
One is German, one is French and the other is
Italian.
First they interrogate the German spy and
after 3 hours of torture he talks and is thrown back into the cell with the
others.
Then the French spy is interrogated, and after
about 8 hours of torture they get him to talk and throw him back with the
others.
Last they interrogate the Italian spy and
after 20 hours of torture and failing to make him say a word they give up for
the day and throw him back with the others. When he is back in the cell with
the other spies asked him, "how did you last that long without saying a
word"? Then the Italian man says, "I was trying to speak but they had
my hands strapped down and I wasn't able to move them".
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Speeding Ticket
A middle aged man buys himself an open top
sports car and having just picked it up from the showroom decides to take it
for a drive.
Enjoying the wind in his hair as he takes
another bend just kissing the apex he spies in the rear view mirror a policeman
on a motorbike.
Immediately he puts his foot on the gas and is
soon approaching 100 miles an hour, then he comes to his senses and pulls over.
As the policeman approaches the man starts to
apologies when the officer says...
“Look its 5:15PM on a sunny Friday afternoon
and my shift ends in a few minuets if you can give me an excuse I have not
heard before I will let you go.”
He replies “Officer my wife left me for a
policeman 6 years ago and when I saw you in my mirror I though you were trying
to bring her back to me.”
With this the officer closed his ticket book
and waved the man on.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
KSAR, Mauritania - A
championship soccer match in Mauritania ended early, some say because the
country's president deemed the game too boring. Regulation of the Mauritanian
Super Cup championship game prematurely ended in the 63rd minute after
President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz reportedly sent the game to penalty
shootouts. The match between FC Tevragh-Zeina and ACS Ksar was tied 1-1 when
Aziz was said to have grown frustrated with the pace of the game and ordered
that it be sent to a tie-breaker early. Tevragh-Zenia was awarded the
championship after the highly controversial decision to go to penalty kicks
early. As speculation began to swirl around the bizarre ending, Mauritanian
soccer federation president Ahmed Ould Abderhamane denied Aziz's involvement in
the decision in a written statement. "I deny in the strongest terms the
intervention of the president of the republic," he wrote. "The
decision was made due to organizational issues in accordance with the
presidents and the coaches of the two teams."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Much
of the Pacific fleet was rendered useless: Five of eight battleships, three
destroyers, and seven other ships were sunk or severely damaged, and more than
200 aircraft were destroyed. A total of 2,400 Americans were killed and 1,200
were wounded. Fortunately for the United States, all three Pacific fleet
carriers were out at sea on training maneuvers. These giant aircraft carriers
would have their revenge against Japan six months later at the Battle of
Midway, reversing the tide against the previously invincible Japanese navy in a
spectacular victory.
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The
day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, President Roosevelt appeared before a joint
session of Congress and declared, "Yesterday, December 7, 1941--a date
which will live in infamy--the United States of America was suddenly and
deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
After a brief and forceful speech, he asked Congress to approve a resolution
recognizing the state of war between the United States and Japan. The Senate
voted for war against Japan by 82 to 0, and the House of Representatives
approved the resolution by a vote of 388 to 1. Three days later, Germany and
Italy declared war against the United States, and the U.S. government responded
in kind.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(89) - Richard Fleischer,
American film director (d. 2006)
(83) - Maximilian Schell,
Austria, actor/director (Odessa File, Julia) (d.2014)
(72) - James MacArthur,
actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0), born in LA, CA (d.2010)
(70) - Diego Rivera,
[Lenin of Mexico], Guanajuato Mexico, painter ("En el Arsenal") and
wife: Frida Kahlo, (d. 1957)
68 - Gregg Allman,
Nashville, guitarist/vocalist (Allman Brothers Band)
(66) - James
(Grover) Thurber, Columbus Ohio, humorist (d.1961)
(64) - Sammy Davis Jr,
singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man), (d.1990)
(59) - Eli Whitney,
Westborough Massachusetts, inventor (Cotton Gin)
(56) - Horace,
Venusia, Lucania, Roman Republian poet (Odes), (d. 8 BC)
54 - Ann Coulter,
American author, political commentator, and attorney
51 - Teri Hatcher,
Sunnyvale CA, actress (Lois & Clark, Desperate Housewives)
49 - Sinéad O'Connor,
Irish musician
(44) - Mary Stuart,
Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow, Queen of Scotland, (d. 1587)
(43) – E[lzie] C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (d. 1938)
33 - Nicki Minaj,
Saint James, Port of Spain, Trinidadian-born American rapper and singer (Super
Bass, Starships)
(27) - Jim Morrison,
American poet, singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
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Historical
Obits Today
@73-1942 - Albert Kahn,
architect of Detroit, dies at 73
@57-1982 - Marty Robbins,
American country singer (Devil Woman, I Walk Alone), complications following
cardiac surgery
@491864 - George Boole, British inventor of Boolean algebra, pleural
effusion
@40-1980 - John Lennon,
British musician, pop star and member of The Beatles (Imagine), shot and killed
in NY by Mark David Chapman
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Brain
Teasers Answers
A Hot Air balloon.
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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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