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1.24.16
Week: 04 \ Day: 24
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 55° \ L 27° Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
17mph
Ave. High: 43°
Record High: 61°[1982] Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: -15°[1964]
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Quote of the Day
Observances Today
Belly
Laugh Day Link
National
Bible Sunday Link
National Compliment Day
National Peanut Butter Day Link
Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day Link
Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day
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Observances This Week
Internat’l
Snowmobile Safety & Awareness Week: 16-24 Link
National Bible Week: 18-24 Link
*Week of Christian Unity: 18-25
Kid Film Festival: 22-27
National CRNA (Cerfified Registered Nurse Anesthetists) Week: 24-30
Clean Out Your Inbox Week: 24-30
Natinal School Choice Week: 24-29 Link
Tax Identity Theft Week: 24-29 Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1639 - Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental
Orders
1648 - Lord Baltimore's representative Margaret
Brent ejected from the Maryland Council after requesting right to vote
1656 - 1st Jewish doctor in North American
colonies, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland1847 - 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans
defeated by US Col Price
1901
- Denmark and the US sign a treaty under which
Denmark will sell the Danish West Indies to the USA for $5 million, but the
sale will be postponed until 1917
1922
- Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of
Iowa (not an Eskimo)
1925 - Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from
dirigible over Long Island
1927 - Alfred Hitchcock releases his first
film as director - The Pleasure Garden, in England.
1958 - After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2
light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st
man-made nuclear fusion
1961 - Edward Albee's "American Dream"
premieres in NYC
1964
- 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into
effect & states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay
taxes
1972
- Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding
in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
1984 - Apple
Computer Inc unveils its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer
1989 - 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by
heterosexual oral sex
2003 - The United States Department of Homeland
Security officially begins operation.
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1722 - Tsar Peter the Great begins civil
system
1857 - The University of Calcutta is formally
founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia.
1875 - Camille
Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre" premieres
1908 - Gen Baden-Powell starts Boy Scouts
1913 - Franz
Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished
1939 - 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion
Chile
1945 - Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies
Heinsberg
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♫ Birthdays Today ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice Saturday here in our little mountain
town.
Got a call yesterday that the head of our
discussion group could not be found. One couple had stopped by and there were a
couple of newspapers and a package on the doorstep. Another member of my group
called and wondered how to get ahold of him. The couple called back to day none
of the neighbors had seen him in several days. We decided to call the police
for a welfare check. About 30 minutes later they called back and said another
neighbor had seen an ambulance take him to the hospital ‘a few days ago’. I
called the hospital, they said he had been admitted, and connected me to his
room. No answer, so I called back and talked to the nurse’s station. Seems he
was being moved to ICU for a couple of days. I called him this morning, and while
he is really drugged up, I got that he had fallen on the ice, broken something
in his leg. I called both people and they are visiting him today. I’ll visit
tomorrow and try to get the nurse to expand on the injury. I know…HIPPA and all…but
I can usually deal with bureaucrats pretty well.
Enjoying a lazy day here at home. A little
windy but not that bad. It is amazing to me that when the East Coast gets a big
storm, it all there is on the news channels. A couple of weeks ago we had 2’+
with 30mph winds and a 20sec mention was all there was on National News. While
I get that larger population area have problems, so did we. Many of our stores
closed, the mall closed, roads were a mess, some lost power for a little while.
Oh well, I’ll take this town over any large population area anywhere.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Death
In Cryptography teasers,
a phrase or expressions has been encoded in some way (frequently by replacing
letters with other letters). You need to figure out the encoding method and
then decode the message to find the answer.
There was a death on Treebark Ln.
The victim was identified as Mark Oswalt, who recently was married. The police
went to the crime scene and they reported the death as a suicide.
Later that day, after the police left, a private detective, hired by the
victim's friend who thought it was a murder, searched the crime scene and found
a note the police missed.
It read,
"4,3: 8,1:_: 9,1: 2,1: 7,4:_: 6,1:9,3:_: 9,1: 4,3: 3,3: 3,2: !"
The detective took out his cell phone and started dialing the police to tell
them about his findings. Once the detective opened the phone to dial, he
immediately screamed out, "I SOLVED IT!"
Who was the murderer and how did the detective find out?
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…Business Facts…
The CEO of Japan Airlines makes
$90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in
Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first
fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business
ethics."
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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.
22. Flog: To promote
persistently, or to criticize or beat
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…Hard to Believe…
7. Harvard University was founded before Calculus
existed.
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…Harper’s Index…
$10,000-Amount an AZ group donated to a police
charity for the chance to Taser Glendale’s mayor
35-Minimum number of people killed with Tasers
by US police 2015.
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
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2 jokes for the day
I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger... Then it hit me.
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A couple are sitting in their living
room, sipping wine. Out of the blue, the wife says, “I love you!”
“Is that you or the wine talking?” asks the husband.
“It’s me,” says the wife. “Talking to the wine.”
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Yep, It Really Happened
FREDERICTON, New Brunswick - A group of
Canadian daredevils using bungee cords to aid their ski jumps caught video of a
high-speed crash caused by doubling up on bungees. The video, posted by James
Fitzpatrick, shows a skier in Fredericton, New Brunswick, attempt to use two
20-foot banshee bungee cords to propel him over a ski jump. The skier's high
speed quickly sends him out of control, and he can be seen falling
backside-first toward the earth. The uploader jokingly titled the video,
"Death by Banshee Bungee," but the skier was not injured. "We
decided one 20 foot long banshee bungee wasn't enough speed to clear the gap,
we doubled up and used two 20 footers.... this crash was the result!"
Fitzpatrick wrote.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Dry Cleaning Bags: Use to pack suits, dresses and fine
clothing when traveling, this will help protect it from
wrinkles when packing. When storing the bags make sure to keep them safely out of
reach of children, they really are that dangerous.
Butter Wrappers: Once you've removed a block of butter from its
wrapping, place the wrapping in a plastic container or bag and refrigerate. Use
it to grease baking pans.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(95) - Ernest Borgnine, Hamden Ct, actor (Ice
Station Zebra, McHale, Marty), (d. 2012)
(91)
- Oral Roberts, Pontotoc County Oklahoma, American
Televangelist, founder Oral Roberts College (d.2009)
(88) - Maria Tallchief, Fairfax Ok, ballerina, (d.
2013)
80 - Doug Kershaw, La, plays electric fiddle
(77) - Mark Goodson, TV game-show proudcer
(Goodson-Toddman) (d.1992)
77 - Ray Stevens, Clarksdale Ga, singer (Ahab the
Arab, Streak)
(75) - Edith Wharton [-Jones], New York NY,
Pulitzer prize-winning novelist (Ethan Frome, House of Mirth), (d. 1937)
75 - Neil Diamond, singer/actor (Jazz Singer),
born in Brooklyn
65 - Yakov Smirnoff, Russia, comedian (It's a
wonderful country)
(62) - Hadrian, Italica, Roman Emperor, builder of
Hadrian's Wall) (D.138)
48 - Mary Lou Retton, Fairmont WV, gymnist
(Oly-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-84)
(33)
- John Belushi, comedian/actor (SNL, Blues
Brothers), born in Chicago, Illinois (d.1982)
(26)
- Sharon Tate, American actress (Valley of the
Dolls), born in Dallas, Texas (d.1969)
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Historical Obits Today
@90-1965 - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain
(C) (1940-45, 51-55) British leader during WWII
@84-1993 - Thurgood Marshall, 1st African American
supreme court justice (1967-91)
@8-2010 - Pernell Roberts, American actor &
singer, last surviving star of Bonanza
@73-2012 - James Farentino, American actor, heart
failure
@731973
- J Carrol Naish, actor (Charlie Chan-Adv of
Charlie Chan), emphysema
@72-1975 - Larry Fine, actor (3 Stooges), strokes
@71-1991 - George Gobel, comedian, heart attack
@43-1911
- David Graham Phillips, American journalist
and novelist, shot
@28-41 - Caligula,
[G C Germanicus], Roman emperor (37-41), assassinated by Praetorian Guards.
Known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism.
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Brain Teasers Answers
The note said, "It was my wife!"
The detective looked at the keypad on his phone and saw the letters next to the
numbers.
2,1 would be A
2,2 would be B
9,4 would be Z
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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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