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1.10.16 Week: 02 \ Day: 10
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 43° \ L 7° Average
Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 16mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High: 65°[1990] Ave. Low: 16°
Record Low: -15°[1937]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today:
League of Nations Day
National Cut Your Energy Costs Day
No Pants Subway Ride Day Link
Stephen Foster Day
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Observances This Week:
National Lose Weight/Feel Great
Week: 3-10
Universal Letter Writing Week: 8-14 Link
National Vocation Awareness Week:
10-16 Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1776 - "Common Sense" Pamphlet by Thomas Paine,
published advocating American independence
1861 - Florida secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
1878 - US Senate proposes female suffrage
1901 - Oil discovered in Texas
1910 - 1st international air meet in US held, in LA
1911 - 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
1932 - "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly
Symphony" comics syndicated
1943 - 1st US president to visit a foreign country in wartime
- FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
1945 - LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
1951 - UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY
1952 - The Greatest Show on Earth", directed and produced
by Cecil B. DeMille, starring James Stewart and Carlton Heston, premieres
in New York (Best Picture 1953)
1966 - Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia’s legislature for
opposing Vietnam War
1967 - PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70
station network
1999 - "The Sopranos", starring James
Gandolfini as mobster Tony Soprano, debuts on HBO
2001 - The Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge will not be designated as a national monument, the
White House announces; a move environmentalist groups had been pressing for to
prevent oil drilling
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1429 - Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary
& Spain
1845 - Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning
begin corresponding
1863 - 1st underground railway opens in London
1920 - Inauguration of the League of Nations held in Paris
1923 - Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
1946 - UN General Assembly meets for 1st time (London)
1962 - Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages
& kill 3,500
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
A small storm came through in the late
afternoon. Our snowfall total is listed as 30” in the storms that came through
this last week. Roads are good, snow still on ground.
Called my PCP yesterday to reschedule the
appointment. To my surprise he answered the phone. All blood tests were good.
Cutting back a little on one of the thyroid meds. Then he dropped the bombshell…he
is closing his practice in early March to run a new VA facility here in Flag.
Great…now to find another PCP that will take Medicare and provide his quality
of care. The hunt is on. What I liked most about him is that each appointment
is at least an hour with lots of explanation about what is happening to my body
as it gets old-er.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Straight From the Heart
Riddles are little poems or phrases
that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this
is not a
Put this on,
And warm you'll be.
Take one off,
And an emotion, you'll see.
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…Business Facts…
Ecosia is a search engine that helps
to save the environment by donating 80% of its income to planting trees in
Brazil.
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…Civil War Facts You May Not Know…
10. It took Delaware until 1901 to
ratify the 13th amendment (outlawed slavery). It wasn't ratified in Kentucky
until 1976...WOW.
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…Grammar Craziness…
The English language includes an
interesting category of words and phrases called contronyms— terms that,
depending on context, can have opposite or contradictory meanings.
11. Custom: A common
practice, or a special treatment
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…Harper’s Index…
4/5-Portion of Americans who support legally
mandated paid family leave
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeo Photo @ladzinski / A quick
break in the weather and moment of morning light hitting the snowy #Flatirons before
swallowing it up in a bank of clouds. The estimated age of these beautiful
formations is roughly 290 million years. The flatiron are famous for rock
climbing, hiking and trail running and as the backdrop of Boulder Colorado.
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2 jokes for the day
A Wife checks husbands mobile and find all girls numbers saved in the following
order:
New Bird
Neighbor Bird
Old Bird
Upstairs Bird
Insurance Bird
College Bird
Super market Bird
Finally she checks her name and it was saved as...
Angry Bird
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103 passengers and only 40 meals got loaded on a INDIA to US flight.
The Airline had messed up, and the crew was in a fix. However, one smart flight
attendant has an idea. About 30 minutes into the flight she nervously
announces, "I don't know how this happened but we have 103 passengers and
only 40 dinners."
When the passengers muttering had died down she continued, "Anyone who is
kind enough to give up his/ her meal so that someone else can eat, will receive
free unlimited liquor during the entire duration of the flight.".
Her next announcement came an hour and a half later, "if anyone wants to
change his/her mind we still have 40 dinners available!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
AAMKHOH, India - A woman in India suffered a
shoulder injury when she was struck by a falling ball of frozen matter believed
to be human waste from an airplane toilet. Witnesses said Rajrani Gaud, 60, was
struck in the shoulder Dec. 17 by a block of ice believed to contain human
urine and feces dropped from an airplane flying over Aamkhoh village in Madhya
Pradesh. "I was only 25 feet away from the spot where the monster came
crashing down. Children and villagers witnessed the fall and then heard
screams. We ran towards Rajrani's house and referred her to hospital,"
Deepak Jain, a government school teacher in Aamkhoh village, told the Times of
India. Jain said the woman narrowly avoided incurring more serious injuries.
"The ice ball hit the roof first. Otherwise, it would have smashed her
skull," he said. Aviation experts suggested the falling object may have
been "blue ice," a term referring to waste dropped from an airplane
lavatory. They said liquid waste may have leaked from a plane and froze on its
way down to earth. District officials said they did not open an investigation
into the incident as it hadn't been officially reported, but aviation
consultant Bimal Kumar Srivastava said he reported the object to the director
general of civil aviation and the director general of the India Meteorological
Department.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Like most other birds, parrots have four
toes per foot. But instead of the usual three-in-front-one-behind arrangement,
parrot toes are configured for maximum grip: two in front and two behind, like
two pairs of opposable thumbs.
Many parrots are omnivores and will eat pretty much anything-fruit, seeds,
nuts, insects and even meat. Some species, like the rainbow-colored lories and
lorikeets of the South Pacific, feed almost exclusively on nectar with
brush-tipped tongues, though recently even these birds were seen eating meat at
feeding stations in Australia.
With a couple of notable exceptions, males and females of most parrot species
look virtually identical. It takes a keen eye-and usually a lab test-to tell a
boy bird from a girl bird.
Though parrots do have some taste glands at the backs of their throats, most of
their 300 or so taste buds are located on the roofs of their mouths. Compared
with the 10,000 taste buds in a human mouth, the birds' palate may not seem
like much, but parrots do show definite preferences for certain foods.
Many parrots have near-human lifespans, a consideration many people don't truly
grasp when seeking a parrot as a companion. Larger species like macaws and
cockatoos are known to live for between 35 and 50 years. Tarbu, an African grey
in England, lived to the ripe old age of 55.
A parrot's brilliant plumage has a special defense against damage:
Psittacofulvins, a bacteria-resistant pigment that only parrots are known to
produce, give the birds' feathers their red, yellow and green coloration. In a
2011 study in Biology Letters, researchers exposed different colors of feathers
to a feather-damaging bacteria strain and found that the pigments helped
protect the glorious plumage from degradation.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(83) - George Washington Carver, agricultural scientist (d.1943)
(83) - Ray
Bolger, Dorchester Mass, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz) (d.1987)
77 - Bill Toomey, Phila Pa, decathelete (Olympic-gold-68)
71 - Rod Stewart, British singer (Maggie Mae, Do You Think
I'm Sexy), born in London, England
67 - George Foreman, Marshall Texas, American World
Heavyweight boxing champ (1973-74, 95)
63 - Pat
Benatar, [Andrezejewski], American singer (Hell Is for Children), born in
Brooklyn, New York
(51) - Ethan Allen, Litchfield Connecticut, American
Revolutionary War patriot (lead the Green Mtn Boys) (d.1789)
(37) - Sal
Mineo, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), born in NYC,
(30) - Jim
Croce, rock vocalist (Time in a Bottle) (d. 1973)
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Historical Obits Today
@94-2007 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer
@87-1971 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion
designer
@86-1980 - George Meany, labor leader
@70-1917 - Buffalo Bill Cody, scout, bison hunter, and
showman
@65-1951 - Harry Sinclair Lewis, US writer (Nobel 1930), alcoholism
@63-1981 - Richard Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel), throat
cancer
@49-1883 - Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor, pneumonia
@47-1862 - Samuel Colt, American
inventor (6 shot revolver), gout
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Brain Teasers Answers
When you put on a GLOVE, you'll be warm. Take
off the letter G, and LOVE is left.
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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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