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1.15.16 Week: 02 \ Day: 15
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 49° \ L 12° Average
Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 25mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High: 65°[1943] Ave. Low: 16°
Record Low: -12°[1932]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today:
Humanitarian Day
International Fetish Day
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Observances This Week:
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
1777 - People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare
independence from England
1831 - 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes
1st run 1844 - University
of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana 1863 - 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper,
Boston Morning Journal
1864 - Sixty
starving NAVAJOs surrender to Kit Carson after the Canyon de Chelly fight.
1870 - Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in
Harper's Weekly
1889 - The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton
Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia
1907 - Gold dental inlays first described by William Taggart,
who invented them
1919 - 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning
21
1927 - The Tennessee Supreme Court overturns (on a
technicality) John T Scopes' guilty verdict for teaching evolution — but the
law itself remains in force
1936 - 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed,
Toledo, Ohio
1943 - World's largest office building, the Pentagon is
completed
1947 - The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth
Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los
Angeles, California.
1961 - Supremes signed with Motown Records
1967 - Super Bowl I: Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs, 35-10
in LA Super Bowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB
2001 - Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes
online.
2009 - US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing into
the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City.
All passengers and crew members survive.
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1535 - Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church in
England
1559 - Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in
Westminster Abbey
1797 - 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London)
1886 - Weekly Herald, 1st newspaper in Vancouver, BC,
publishes 1st issue
1895 - Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres,
St Petersburg
1922 - Arthur Griffith is elected president of the Irish Free
State after Eamon de Valera resigns in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty (De
Valera will lead a military opposition seeking a unified and independent
Ireland)
1971 - George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"
1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, calls for an international
ban on landmines, angering ministers in the UK
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great lunch with our retirement group. It’s
been since just before Christmas since we last met. Lots of catching up on
family events. All is pretty good for all concerned.
Our HOA did not clean any sidewalks during our
last storm—all 30+” of it. We all helped each other out and did it, but it is
wrong. Called the HOA this morning. She returned my call to say that she had
notified them and that they would be out to get rid of the snow. Since there
are areas with lots of ice this is good news. I called her back to thank her
and she told me ‘the crew’ is out there right now. I laughed and said no they
are not and they didn’t come during the storm at all. She is checking into it
and will be doing a walk through tomorrow to see what is going on. Sometimes
the squeaky wheel does get the grease.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Watchman
Once there was a night watchman who
had been caught several times sleeping on the job. The boss issued the final
warning. On the next night he was caught with his head on his hand and his
elbows on the desk.
"Aha, I've caught you again," exclaimed the boss. The watchman's eyes
popped open immediately and he knew what had happened. Being a quick thinking
man, he said one word before looking up at the boss. The boss apologized
profusely and went home. What was the one word?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Business Facts…
If an employee of Google dies, their
spouse will receive half their pay for 10 years as well as stock benefits, and
any children will receive $1000 a month until they turn 19.
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…Civil War Facts You May Not Know…
13. The biggest killer of the Civil
War wasn't the confederates, or the Union soldiers. It was disease. Malaria
claimed over a million lives.
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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.
14. Dollop: A large
amount (British English), or a small amount
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…Harper’s Index…
66-Percentage of Americans who say that the
ability to speak English is an import part of being a ‘true American
52- who say belief in God is
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @mattiasklumofficial
An extreme skier preparing his gear in the Italian alps. Please go to@mattiasklumofficial to
see the extreme skier take on one of the slopes in Oasi Zegna nature sanctuary,
a park that covers around 100 km2 between Trivero and Valle Cervo in the Biella
Alps, Piemonte.
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2 jokes for the day
An angry customer and an apologetic Domino’s Pizza:
Customer: Yo, I ordered a Pizza and it came with no toppings on it or anything,
Its just plain bread!
Domino’s: We’re extremely sorry to hear about this.
Customer (minutes later): Never mind, I opened the pizza upside down!
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Two guys are walking through a game park & they come across a lion that has
not eaten for days.
The lion starts chasing the two men. They run as fast as they can and the one
guy starts getting tired and decides to say a prayer, "Please turn this
lion into a Christian, Lord."
He looks to see if the lion is still chasing and he sees the lion on its knees.
Happy to see his prayer answered, he turns around and heads towards the lion.
As he comes closer to the lion, he hears it saying a prayer: "Thank you
Lord for the food I am about to receive."
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Yep, It Really Happened
This story might sound familiar, but a woman
in Florida has been arrested on a charge of child neglect after allegedly
abandoning her son because she didn't want him anymore. Daytona Beach police
said that they have arrested 34-year-old Jennifer Cael for child neglect and
resisting arrest. Officers who arrived at the scene, were greeted by a security
guard, who said that Cael abandoned her son. The officers found the boy in good
health and eating a cookie. Cael was found naked and under the influence of
alcohol. She refused to tell the officers her name and punched one of them in
the chest. She then urinated on them. I'd love to know exactly how that
happened. A Department of Children and Families worker took custody of the boy.
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Somewhat Useless Information
David Bowie had anisocoria, or two
eyes with unequally sized pupils. He developed the condition in his left eye
after he and a friend got into a fight over a girl when they were 14. The
altercation left him with a dilated pupil. He underwent two eye surgeries after
the conflict, but his left pupil remained permanently open.
He was born Robert David Jones. Bowie changed his stage name to David Bowie in
1965 after failed attempts at success with the professional name Davy Jones.
The switch was also fueled by an attempt to distinguish himself from Davy Jones
of the American rock band The Monkees. It's said he chose the last name Bowie
after the popularized knife.
He had many alter egos. The most popular of Bowie's alter egos was Ziggy
Stardust, a glittery and flamboyant character that emerged in 1972. He was also
known as Aladdin Sane and the Thin White Duke.
"Blackstar" was released on his 69th birthday, just two days before
his death. The album includes seven songs and has been well received by
critics. Producer Tony Visconti described the album as Bowie's "parting
gift."
In 1998, Bowie told Vanity Fair his most prized possessions were, "a
photograph held together by cellophane tape of Little Richard that (he) bought
in 1958 and a pressed and dried chrysanthemum picked on (his) honeymoon in
Kyoto."
He had a tattoo on his left calf. The tattoo depicts a man riding a dolphin. A
frog rests on the man's left hand. The tattoo also includes a Japanese
translation of the serenity prayer. "(It's) a confirmation of the love I
feel for my wife and my knowledge of the power of life itself," Bowie said
of the tattoo.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(95) - Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb
(Manhattan Project), (d. 2003)
(73) - Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman pres (National Educational
Association) (d.1918)
75 - Charo [María del Rosario Mercedes Pilar Martínez
Molina Baeza], Spanish-American actress, comedienne and flamenco guitarist
(Chico and the Man, Love Boat)
(69) - Captain Beefheart, [Don Van Vliet], rocker (Bongo Fury)
(d.2010)
59 - Mario Van Peebles, Mexico, actor (Posse, South Bronx
Heroes)
(52) - Gamal
Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (d.1970)
(51) – Molière (Jean-Baptiste
Poquelin), French playwright (d. 1673)
(39) - Martin
Luther King Jr., American clergyman and leader of the Civil Rights
Movement (Nobel 1964), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d.1968)
37 - Drew Brees, American football player-QB, Saints
35 - Pitbull [Armando Christian Perez], American rapper,
born in Miami, Florida
(8) - Marjory Fleming, Scottish writer and poet (d. 1811)
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Historical Obits Today
@79-2006 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait
@72-1896 - Matthew B Brady, US photographer (Civil War), streetcar
accident
@57-1915 - Fannie Farmer, American culinary figure and author
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Brain Teasers Answers
The one word was "AMEN", thus making
the Boss believe he was praying rather than sleeping.
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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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