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1.14.16 Week: 02 \ Day: 14
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 44° \ L 3° Average
Sky Cover: 1%
Wind ave: 0mph\Gusts: 10mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High: 65°[1943] Ave. Low: 18°
Record Low: -6°[1963]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today:
Caesarean Section Day
International Kite Day
Organize Your Home Day Link
Ratification 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
National Soccer Coaches of America Week: 13-17
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1699 - Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly
persecuting "witches"
1799 - Eli Whitney receives government contract for
10,000 muskets
1833 - Reverend Samuel Worcester
is a missionary to the CHEROKEE Nation in Georgia. The state of Georgia
ordered all whites living with Indians to swear allegiance to the state of
Georgia. Reverend Worcester refuses to do so. On September 16, 1831, Reverend
Worcester was sentenced to 4 years at hard labor in a Georgia prison. Even
though the Supreme Court rules that it is unconstitutional for Georgia to jail
Reverend Worcester, he will not be released until this date.
1873 - "Celluloid" registered as a trademark
1878 - US Supreme court rules race separation on trains
unconstitutional
1914 - Henry Ford introduces an assembly line for Model T
1952 - "Today Show" premieres with Dave
Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV
1956 - Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti"
1960 - US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant
1963 - George C Wallace sworn in as governor of Alabama, his
address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation
forever!"
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1129 - Formal approval of the Order of Templars at the Council
of Troyes.
1514 - Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against
slavery.
1690 - Clarinet invented, in Nurnberg, Germany
1900 - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" premieres in
Rome
2015 - 63 people are
killed & 70,000 are left homeless after floods devastate Mozambique and
Malawi
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Yesterday reminded me that nothing lasts
forever. I bought a top of the line recliner in 1974. I have enjoyed it for all
these years. Then, yesterday, while enjoying a TV show, I suddenly found myself
fully reclined. Something had snapped and now it is moved back to the wall so I
can sit in it until I can get another one. The Lazy Boy store in Flag closed a
couple of months ago and at the bottom of all the ads, it said we will be
moving to a new showroom very soon. We are not leaving Flagstaff. So this morning
I called their local number and found that I was transferred to Phoenix
Customer Service. The guy said they are still planning on opening a store in
Flag, but don’t know when. Bummer. Checked the only two furniture places and
found nothing I really liked. It is also time for a new mattress. The pillow-top
one I have is at least 20 years old and has just now started ‘sagging’ a
little. (Note: Flipping and Rotating every 2 months really works.) I’ve been
thinking of a sleep number bed, but that store also left our little mountain
town, so I have my work cut out.
Ellie called about Focus Travel Club, and I
may be assisting her with her website. Her daughter-in-law doesn’t have the
time anymore. Could be exciting.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Weight, How is That Possible?
Science brain teasers require
understanding of the physical or biological world and the laws that govern it.
We all know that if you weigh
yourself on the moon, it is less than your weight on the Earth. Can you tell me
something that actually weighs more on the moon than on Earth?
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…Business Facts…
Steve Jobs' secretary told him that
she was late for work because her car wouldn't start. That very afternoon, Jobs
came back and threw her a set of keys to a brand new Jaguar, saying:
"Here, don’t be late anymore."
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…Civil War Facts You May Not Know…
12. The first person to ever
successfully use a "temporary insanity plea" in court was actually a
Union General, by the name of Daniel Sickles.
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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.
13. Discursive: Moving
in an orderly fashion among topics, or proceeding aimlessly in a discussion
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…Harper’s Index…
1 in 10-Chances that a white American aged
16-24 is neither working nor in school
1 in 5-chances a black American in that age
group.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @stevemccurryofficial //
The Sri Lankan elephant, a subspecies of Asian Elephants, are native to Sri
Lanka. These elephants are part of the 10% which have tusks. Elephants have
been an integral part of the culture for over two millennia.
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2 jokes for the day
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One day at the end of class, little Johnny's teacher asks the class to go home
and think of a story to be concluded with the moral of that story. The
following day the teacher asks for the first volunteer to tell their story.
Little Suzy raises her hand. "My dad owns a farm and every Sunday we load
the chicken eggs on the truck and drive into town to sell them at the market.
Well, one Sunday we hit a big bump and all the eggs flew out of the basket and
onto the road." When the teacher asked for the moral of the story, Suzy
replied, "Don't keep all your eggs in one basket."
Little Lucy went next. "My dad owns a farm too. Every weekend we take the
chicken eggs and put them in the incubator. Last weekend only eight of the 12
eggs hatched."; Again, the teacher asked for the moral of the story. Lucy
replied, "Don't count your chickens before they hatch."
Next up was little Johnny. "My uncle Ted fought in the Vietnam war, and
his plane was shot down over enemy territory. He jumped out before it crashed
but could only take a case of beer, a machine gun and a machete. On the way
down, he drank the case of beer. Then he landed right in the middle of 100
Vietnamese soldiers. He shot 70 with his machine gun, but then he ran out of
bullets! So he pulled out his machete and killed 20 more. Then the blade on his
machete broke, so he killed the last ten with his bare hands." The teacher
looked a little shocked. After clearing her throat, she asked what possible
moral there could be to this story. "Well," Johnny replied,
"Don't mess with Uncle Ted when he's been drinking."
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Yep, It Really Happened
NASHVILLE -- Authorities are seeking to
identify a man who robbed a Nashville bank while armed only with a Bible. The Metropolitan
Nashville Police Department said it is working with the FBI to attempt to
identify the man who walked into a Bank of America branch about 2:30 p.m.
Friday while carrying the holy book. The man, whom police said did not display
a weapon, handed a note demanding cash to a teller. The suspect fled in an
older-model red car. Police said he dropped his Bible on his way out of the
bank. Police are asking members of the public to help identify the suspect.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The Arabs are often credited with
inventing caramel. But an early use of the hot, sticky substance was not so
sweet: Women in harems applied it as a hair remover.
Most Americans knew nothing about chocolate in 1893, when the World's Columbian
Exposition in Chicago featured a display of chocolate-making equipment from
Germany. Among the fairgoers was Milton Hershey, who bought every piece of
equipment on display and went into the chocolate business.
Early American chocolate-makers often touted their products' nutritional value.
During the Depression, candy bars had such names as Chicken Dinner, Idaho Spud
and Big Eats. The Hershey's chocolate wrapper once carried the slogan
"More sustaining than meat."
When the Mars Company marketed Snickers in Britain, it changed the name to
Marathon to avoid any jokes about Snickers rhyming with knickers. (Many years
later, Mars renamed Marathon as Snickers.)
Producers of the film E.T. wanted to use M&Ms as the candy that lured the
extraterrestrial from hiding. But when Mars said no, Hershey jumped at the
chance to showcase Reese's Pieces instead. Sales soared.
Cotton candy is known as "candy floss" in Britain and "fairy
floss" in Australia.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(90) - Albert Schweitzer,
doctor/humanitarian/organist (Nobel 1954) (d.1965)
78 - Jack
Jones, singer (Love Boat Theme), born in Los Angeles, California
75 - [Dorothy] Faye
Dunaway, Bascom Fl,
actress (Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde)
73 - Holland Taylor, Phila, actress (Bossom
Buddies, Camilla-Naked Truth)
68 - Carl
Weathers, New Orlean La, actor (Apollo Creed-Rocky)
(64) - Guy Williams, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space),
born in NYC, New York (d. 1989)
(60) - Benedict
Arnold, Norwich
Connecticut, US general turned traitor (American Revolutionary War) (d.1801)
(53) - Mark
Antony [Marcus
Antonius], Rome, Roman Politician and General (Battle of Actium) (d. 30 BC)
53 - Steven Soderbergh, American producer,
director, writer (Ocean's Eleven, Traffic), born in Atlanta, Georgia
48 - LL
Cool J, [James Todd
Smith], St Albans NY, rapper (Bigger & Deffer)
47 - Jason
Kent Bateman, Rye NY, actor (David-Valerie, Hogan Family)
47 - Dave Grohl, drummer (Nirvana, Foo Fighters)
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Historical Obits Today
@89-2013 - Conrad Bain, Canadian-born American actor, (Diff'rent Strokes)
@88-2009 - Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor (How the West Was Won)
@85-2006 - Shelley Winters, American actress
@85-1742 - Edmond Halley, English
scientist
@81-1984 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (McDonald's)
and owner of baseball's San Diego Padres
@65-1898 - Lewis Carroll, English writer (Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland), pneumonia
@64-1986 - Donna Reed, actress (Donna Reed Show, Dallas), cancer
@57-1957 - Humphrey Bogart, actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny), cancer
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Brain Teasers Answers
A helium filled balloon; or a balloon filled
with any gas lighter than air.
Earth's atmosphere causes a helium balloon to float, thus making it impossible
to weigh. On the moon, the lack of atmosphere causes the balloon to sink,
allowing it to be weighed. It will only weigh a little bit, but will still be
heavier than on earth.
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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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