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1.20.16 Week: 03 \ Day: 20
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 51° \ L 21° Average
Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 0mph\Gusts: 19mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High: 63°[1950] Ave. Low: 17°
Record Low: -14°[1922]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Camcorder Day
Inauguration Day
Rid The World of Fad Diets
and Gimmicks Days
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Observances This Week
Internat’l
Snowmobile Safety & Awareness Week: 16-24 Link
Hunt For Happiness Week: 17-23
National Activity Professionals Week:
17-23 Link
*National Fresh Squeezed
Juice Week: 17-23
National Handwriting Analysis Week: 17-23
Healthy Weight Week: 18-22 (Third Week)
National Bible Week: 18-24 Link
*Week of Christian Unity: 18-25
No Name Calling Week: 18-22 Link
Sugar Awareness Week:
18-22
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1778 - 1st American military court martial trial
begins, Cambridge, Mass
1801 - John Marshall appointed US chief justice
1869 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st
woman to testify before US Congress
1887 - US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl
Harbor
1892 - 1st basketball game played (Mass)
1905 - The US begins supervision of the Dominican
Republic's national and international debts, testing Roosevelt's 'Corollary' to
the Monroe Doctrine
1920
- The American Civil Liberties Union is
founded.
1937
- 1st US Presidential Inauguration day held on
Jan 20th, (previously March 4th)
1949 - J. Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a
tear gas fountain pen
1961
- The Democrat J.F. Kennedy is inaugurated as
President of the United States, the youngest ever sworn in
1986 - 1st federal holiday honoring Martin
Luther King Jr
1988
- Arizona committee opens hearing on
impeachment of Gov Evan Mecham
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1502 - The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro
is first explored.
1576 - The Mexican city of León is founded by order
of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almansa.
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♫ Birthdays Today ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
My new recliner will be delivered tomorrow.
Couldn’t wait for others to show up at the store. YOLO
Also checked out mattresses…that will happen
soon.
Remembering my trip to Phx to see the Eagles
in concert a couple of decades ago. Amazing performance. Thanks for the great
music.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
HEA wooden stick VEN
Rebus brain teasers use
words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
What phrase is represented below?
HEA wooden stick VEN
HEA wooden stick + sulphur head VEN
HEA wooden stick + sulphur head + phosphorus tip VEN
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…Business Facts…
In response to China's air
pollution, a Chinese millionaire started selling cans of fresh air for $0.80
and made over $6 million dollars in 10 months.
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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.
18. Fine: Excellent, or
acceptable or good enough
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…Hard to Believe…
3. From the time it was discovered to the time it was
stripped of its status as a planet, Pluto hadn't made a full trip around the
Sun.
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…Harper’s Index…
168-Weight, in ponds, of the average American
man in 1960
166-of the average American woman today
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
natgeotravel Photo
by @alisonwrightphoto //
To earn good merit Samten, an eighty-two-year old Buddhist nun,
circumambulates around Kamsun Yuly Namgyal Monastery in Punakha Valley, Bhutan
every day. Published in my book “Face to Face: Portraits of the Human Spirit.”
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2 jokes for the day
An amnesiac walks into a bar. He
goes up to a beautiful blonde and says, “So, do I come here often?”
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A guy sends a text to his next-door neighbor:
"Bob, I'm sorry. I've been riddled with guilt and I have to confess: I
have been helping myself to your wife when you're not around, probably more
than you. I know it's no excuse but I don't get it at home. I can't live with
the guilt any longer. I hope you'll accept my sincerest apology. It won't
happen again."
Feeling outrage and betrayed, Bob grabs his gun, goes into the bedroom, and
without a word, shoots his wife.
Moments later the guy gets a second text: "Really should use spell check!
That should be 'wifi'."
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Yep, It Really Happened
Washington Post New Grade Inflation
They are simply "'spas' designed to
attract teenagers," according to one university official -- plush,
state-of-the-art "training" complexes built by universities in the
richest athletic conferences to entice elite 17-year-old athletes to come play
for (and, perhaps, study at?) their schools. The athletes-only mini-campuses
include private housing and entertainment (theaters, laser tag, miniature golf)
-- but, actually, the schools are in a $772-million-plus "arms' race"
(according to a December Washington Post investigation) because soon after one
school's sumptuous, groundbreaking facility opens, some other school's
more-innovative facility renders it basically second-rate. And of course, as
one university official put it, the "shiny objects" have
"nothing whatsoever to do with the mission of a university." (Donors
and alumni provide much of the funding, but most schools by now also tap
students' "athletic fees.")]
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Somewhat Useless Information
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on Jan.
15 (he would have been 87 this year). He is the only non-president to have a
national U.S. holiday dedicated to him. He is also the only non-president with
a memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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King skipped ninth and 11th grade.
As a result, he went to Morehouse College at age 15.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(100)
- George Burns, [Nathan Birnbaum],
actor/comedian (Oh God), born in NYC, New York (d.1996)
87 - Arte Johnson, comedian (Laugh-in, Don't Call
Me Charlie), born in Chicago, Illinois
86 - Edwin Aldrin Jr, Montclair NJ,
USAF/astro (Gem 12, Ap 11)
(79) - DeForest Kelley, actor (Dr McCoy-Star Trek),
born in Atlanta, Georgia (d.1999)
(73)
- Federico Fellini, Rimini, Kingdom of Italy,
film director and scriptwriter (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita) (d.1993)
(69)
- Joy Adamson, (born Friederike Viktoria
Gessner) Troppau Austria-Hungary, naturalist/author (Born Free) (d.1980)
64 - Paul Stanley, [Eisen], rock guitarist
(KISS-Beth)
(61) - Lead Belly, Louisiana, blues 12 string
guitarist (Rock Island Line), (d. 1949)
60 - Bill Maher, New York New York, American
comedian and political commentator (Real Time with Bill Maher, Politically
Incorrect)
(57) - Edward Tyson, British Physician and father
of comparative anatomy (The Anatomy of a Pygmy, 1698) (d.1708)
50 - Rainn Wilson, American actor (The Office,
Juno), born in Seattle, Washington
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Historical Obits Today
@82-1990 - Barbara Stanwyck, [Ruby Stevens], actress
(Big Valley)
@73-2012
- Etta James, American singer, leukemia
@70-1936 - George V, King of Britain (1910-36)
@63-1993 - Audrey Hepburn, actress (Roman Holiday), colon
cancer
@54-1891 - David
Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, long illness
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Brain Teasers Answers
A Match made in Heaven!
A match (wooden stick + sulphur head + phosphorus tip, which are the components
of matches) is being made in HEAVEN
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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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