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1.12.16 Week: 02 \ Day: 12
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 40° \ L 2° Average
Sky Cover: 1%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts: 23mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High: 59°[2002] Ave. Low: 16°
Record Low: -20°[1963]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today:
Bean Day Link
Kiss A Ginger Day Link
National Poetry at Work Day
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Observances This Week:
Universal Letter Writing Week:
8-14 Link
National Vocation Awareness Week:
10-16 Link
Cuckoo Dancing Week: 11-17
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1773 - 1st US public museum established (Charlestown SC)
1839 - Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk,
Penn
1863 - President Davis delivers his "State of
Confederacy" address
1896 - 1st X-ray photo in US (Dr Henry Smith, Davidson NC)
1915 - US House of Representatives rejects proposal to give
women right to vote
1943 - Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat
& soy meal)
1952 - University
of Tennessee admits it's 1st black student
1965 - "Hullabaloo" premieres on NBC-TV
1966 - LBJ says
US should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends
1966 - "Batman",
starring Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin, and Cesar Romero as
The Joker, debuts on ABC
1971 - US
Federal grand jury indicts Rev Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun
& 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger
1995 - Murder
trial against OJ Simpson, begins in LA
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1493 - Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily
1616 - Brazilian city Belem (the entrance gate to the Amazon)
founded by Captain Major Francisco Branco
1755 - Tsarina Elisabeth establishes 1st Russian University
1808 - The organizational meeting that led to the creation of
the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is
held in Edinburgh.
1820 - Royal Astronomical Society founded in England
1911 - The University of the Philippines College of Law is
formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first
enrollees.
1913 - After using other pseudonyms over the years, Josef
Dzhugashvili signs himself as Stalin ('man of steel) in a letter to
the the paper, Social Democrat
1918 - Finland's
"Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full
citizens.
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great, but very chilly Monday. Snow ain’t
meltin’. Roads are clear but parking lots are still a mess.
Shocked to hear of the passing of David Bowie.
I liked a lot of his music, but for some reason, never bought an album or have
anything on my iPod. Odd. Guess that will change now.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Deadly Horizon
Riddles are little poems or phrases
that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this
is not a requirement.
I hover out there in darkness
unseen.
I will shred things to pieces 'till they're just smithereens.
I might serve as a gateway to places unspoken,
Yet I'm sealed off to man, forever unbroken.
I twist and distort, only darkness escapes,
I destroy all I find
Whatever I take.
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Business Facts…
All employees of Ben & Jerry’s get to take
home 3 free pints of ice cream every single day!
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…Civil War Facts You May Not Know…
11. By the time the war ended, over
60,000 amputations had been performed.
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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.
12. Dike: A wall to
prevent flooding, or a ditch
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…Harper’s Index…
75-Percentage of workers worldwide who do not
have permanent jobs
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeo Photo by @james_balog. Curious and
brave spectators are silhouetted against fiery lava bursting from the
Fimmvörðuháls eruption in #Iceland. Much
like the powerful volcanoes that can bring about tectonic change in an instant,
humans, too, have a kind of tectonic impact. We have overpowered the forces of
nature, and are now the dominant agents of change in the natural system. This
is the #Anthropocene.
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2 jokes for the day
Where do animals go when their tails fall off?
The Retail Store!
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A man walks into a bar. He gets very drunk and asks the bartender where the
restroom is.
The bartender explains it's the third door to the right, but the man goes into
the third door to the left. He finds a large golden toilet. The man takes a big
poop in it and leaves.
He continues to return to drink there every week, and every time he goes to
poop in that golden toilet.
One day he finds the golden toilet is gone, so he asks the bartender about it.
The bartender exclaims, "So you're the one who's been pooping in my
tuba!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
ORLANDO, Fla. - A man was arrested in Orlando
after he and his wife held luggage hostage assaulted police and hotel staff
during a trip to Disney World. The altercation began after a luggage mix-up at
Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas accidentally sent 14 pieces of luggage to the
room of Setia Kurniawan, 49, and his wife, Vonni Gustimego, 44, who were
vacationing with their children. When hotel staff attempted to retrieve the
luggage the Australian couple refused to open the door for hours, demanding compensation
for a broken Hello Kitty toothbrush. The manager then called police describing
the couple as "aggressive" and "confrontational" in a
police report. When police arrived Gustimego "abruptly" opened the
door and began yelling and sticking her finger in an officer's face. The
officer then batted her finger away, causing Kurniawan to lung forward in her
defense. The report states that as the officer restrained Kurniawan, Gustimego
dragged the hotel manager into the room by her jacket and hit an officer in the
ear. Police were able to detain the couple after the altercation, arresting
Kurniawan on charges of battery, grand theft and resist arrest. He was later
released on bail while Gustimego was released to tend to the couple's children.
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Somewhat Useless Information
1. Born on July 19, 1980, in Huntington
Woods, Michigan, Kristen Bell was raised in the Detroit suburbs and became
interested in acting at an early age.
2. She left the Tisch School of the
Arts at New York University in 2001, just a few credits away from graduating,
to take her first Broadway role in a musical production of The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer.
3. In 2004, Bell landed her breakout
role, the title character on the TV series Veronica Mars. This led to more
roles in films.
4. She has a lazy eye. Kristen nicknamed her right eye
“Wonky.” She says she inherited it from her mother, who had hers corrected as a
child. The starlet said that if she does not get enough sleep, that’s when
things get, well, wonky. She has shown the world just how lazy Wonky is a few
times on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
5. She would kill for a role in a Batman movie. Back in
2007 Kristen made it known that she would do anything – literally anything – to
get the chance to play the Batman villain Harley Quinn. “I would kill to play
Harley Quinn,” she told Geek Monthly. “Like I would literally kill. If you were
to be like ‘Kill this person,’ I would be like, ‘Who? Where do they live?’ I am
serious.” Apparently she’s not the only one who thinks she’d make a killing as
the Joker’s girlfriend. Do a quick Google Image search for “Kristen Bell” and
“Harley Quinn” and you’ll find a plethora of fan-made movie posters like this
one depicting her as the crazed villain.
6. She and her husband got married in a courthouse for
$142. They filled out paperwork online, went to a courthouse, and then
realized they needed an officiant to make it legal. In an interview with
Jay Leno, Bell explained, “Finally, someone piped up — who was actually in the
courthouse — and said ‘I can actually marry you, if you want right now.,’” she
continued. “And we said, ‘Boom, let’s do it.’ And we got it over
with.” The actress’ reasoning behind the low-key nuptials is the fact that
as a celebrity, she is already in the limelight every day. Bell told
People, “I don’t fault anyone who wants a big day – especially girls. [But] we
get more than enough attention in our everyday lives. I also wear more than
enough party dresses.”
7. Born on July 19, 1980, in Huntington
Woods, Michigan, Kristen Bell was raised in the Detroit suburbs and became
interested in acting at an early age.
8. She has also played memorable roles
in the films Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Pulse, When in Rome and The Lifeguard.
In 2012, she began playing Jeannie van der Hooven in Showtime’s House of Lies
and in 2013, she voiced Princess Anna in the animated film Frozen.
9. In 2005 she was featured in her
birthday suit in Jane magazine and said, “I rarely wear clothes when I’m home
by myself. I love making breakfast naked. But you’ve got to make sure the
gardener’s not coming that day.”
10. Her first credited film role was in
the seminal classic Pootie Tang. Kristen told ugo.com that she loved Pootie
Tang director Louis CK. “I only had one line, which got cut,” she said. “But
Louis was so nice that he put it into the credits. I still get a lot of people
recognizing me.”
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(91) - Henny Youngman, England, comedian (Take my wife
please...) (d.1998)
(87) - Ray
Price, country singer (Good Times), (d. 2013)
86 - Glenn
Yarborough, singer (Limeliters-Honey & Wine, Jubilee)
(75) - Charles Perrault, Paris France, author (Mother Goose)
(d.1703)
(67) - Joe Frazier, Beaufort South Carolina, HW boxer
(Olympic-gold-1964)/champ (d.2011)
65 - Kirstie
Alley, Wichita Ks, actress (Star Trek II, Cheers-Rebecca)
65 - Rush
Limbaugh, Girardeau Missouri, American right wing radio personality
64 - Ricky Van Shelton, country musician
(62) - John Winthrop, 1st governor (Mass Bay Colony) (d.1649)
62 - Howard Stern, Roosevelt NY, "Radio's Bad Boy"
(WKRK, WYSP, WJFK)
(53) - Hermann Goering, Rosenheim Bavaria, leading Nazi
politician and party member (d.1946)
(40) - Jack
London, American writer/socialist (Call of the Wild), born in San Francisco (d.
1916)
(32) - Ira Hayes, American soldier-Pima- (d. 1955)
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Historical Obits Today
@85-1976 - Agatha Christie, British crime writer ("10 Little
Indians")
@84-1992 - Walt Morey, US children's book writer (Gentle Ben)
@79-1700 - Marguerite Bourgeoys,
founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame in Quebec
@53-2003 - Maurice Gibb, guitarist of the Bee Gees, cardiac arrest
@42-1962 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), auto crash
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Brain Teasers Answers
A black hole.
Scientists theorize that black holes and wormholes might lead to other
dimensions or different parts of the universe and so on. Thus a "gateway
to places unspoken."
Man cannot (as yet) enter a black hole. The end is self-explanatory.
As for the hint, black holes have an event horizon, and if something is to pass
it, there is no way of escaping. (At least none that we know of.)
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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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