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1.26.16
Week: 04 \ Day: 26
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 41° \ L 16° Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts:
16mph
Ave. High: 43°
Record High: 60°[1987] Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: -15°[1937]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Lotus 1-2-3 Day
National Peanut Brittle Day Link
Toad Hollow Day
of Encouragement
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Observances This Week
Week of Christian
Unity: 18-25
Kid Film Festival: 22-27
National CRNA (CerTified 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
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week: 25-30
National Medical Group Practice Week: 25-29
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Statehood
Day-Michigan-1837-26th
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1784 - Benjamin Franklin expresses unhappiness
over eagle as America's symbol
1802 - Congress passes an act calling for a US
Capitol library
1850 - 1st German language daily newspaper in US
published, NYC
1861 - Louisiana secedes from the Union (US Civil
War)
1870 - Virginia rejoins US
1871
- US income tax repealed
1875 - Electric dental drill is patented by George
F Green
1891 - Oscar Wilde's "Duchess of Padua"
premieres in NYC
1913 - Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912
Olympic medals for playing as a professional
1915 - Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, is
established
1920
- Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland
launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
1926 - 1st
public demonstration of television by John Logie Baird in his laboratory in
London
1934
- The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New
York City.
1948 - Executive Order 9981 ending racial segregation
in US Armed Forces signed
1954 - Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
1960 - High-school basketball sensation Danny
Heater scores 135 points
1992
- Americans with Disabilities Act went into
effect
2005 - Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary
of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post.
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1500 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first
European to set foot in Brazil.
1564 - The Council of Trent issued its conclusions
in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and
Protestantism.
1697 - Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's
6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
1841 - Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory
of Britain
1905 - World's
largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa
1907
- In Austria, universal and direct suffrage
(limited to males over 24) is introduced, a reform long demanded by the
socialists and others
1945 - Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration
camp
1950 - India becomes a republic, ceasing to be a
British dominion
2015 - Libby Lane is ordained as the first female
bishop of the Church of England
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♫ Birthdays Today ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Had a busy day yesterday…visited friend in
hospital…he broke his hip in a fall on the ice. Doing well but needs additional
surgery and has a long recoup ahead.
Then watched the Broncos game…a nail biter for
sure, but they are off to the Super Bowl. Then watched AZ wondering why they
even showed up in SC. They were embarrassing.
Did some short running around today, now ready
to relax.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Odd Word Out
These brain teasers rely
on your ability to recognize groups of common attributes. For each of these
puzzles you'll need to figure out why the words or letters are grouped as they
are. Sometimes you will be asked to pick the odd-one-out or to place a new word
into the correct group.
Which of the following words does
not belong in the list, and why?
Reappear
Caucasus
Inefficiencies
Signings
Arraigning
Horseshoer
Intestines
Appeases
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…Business Facts…
Snoop Dogg makes $30,000 per week
selling digital stickers of his face, joints, and more.
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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.
23. Garnish: To furnish,
as with food preparation, or to take away, as with wages
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…Hard to Believe…
8. If you have 23 people in a room,
there is a 50% chance that 2 of them have the same birthday.
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…Harper’s Index…
26-Percentage of people killed by US police in
2015 that were mentally ill.
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
natgeotravelPhoto
by @hellokrisdavidson //
Why did the rhino
cross the train tracks? The guide smiled, calling the majestic beast “a
prehistoric lawnmower” and joked that the grass is clearly greener on the other
side. This rhino makes its home in Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park in Livingstone,
Zambia. He moves with an entourage of armed guards around the clock, a group of
silent, serious men tasked with keeping him safe from poachers.
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2 jokes for the day
A person went to an interview of a
healthcare organization. After the first question he was disqualified.
Interview Board: Why do people have different kind of blood groups?
Applicant: Because mosquitoes love to enjoy different kind of flavors.
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An uneducated father with his
educated son went on a camping trip. They set up their tent and fell asleep.
Some hours later, the father woke up his son.
Father: Look up to the sky and tell me what you see.
Son: I see millions of stars...
Father: And what does that tell you?
Son: Astronomically, it tells me that, there are millions of galaxies and
planets out there!
Father slaps the son hard on his hand and says, "Idiot, someone has stolen
our tent!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
BELLEVUE, NE. - A Nebraska veteran is continuing to serve
his country and turning heads locally by converting his wheelchair into a
snowplow for sidewalks. Justin Anderson, an Iraq War veteran living in Bellevue,
was given an off-road wheelchair by the Independence Fund charity to help him
get around after his leg was amputated, and he decided to use the gift to help
others in his community. "I don't want kids or parents having to go
through the snow and possibly trip or hurt themselves," Anderson said.
"I had a half-dozen people stop to take a picture because they hadn't seen
a chair like this before." Anderson said he first fitted the snow blade to
his chair last year. "The chair has on-the-fly tilt so I can adjust the
height of the blade as I push snow," he said. Anderson said he enjoys the
opportunity to give back to the community.
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Somewhat Useless Information
A "leapling" or
"leaper" is a person born on Feb. 29, with a birthday every four
years. Among those born on Leap Day: actor Dennis Farina and serial killer
Aileen Wuornos. It's also the fictional birthday of a mighty leaper known as
Superman.
Christo, the artist who has decorated such sites as Germany's Reichstag and New
York's Central Park, was born on the same day in the same year as his wife and
project partner, Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon.
On March 30, 1852, the son of Anna and Theodorus van Gogh was stillborn. His
parents named him Vincent and buried him near the Dutch church where Theodorus
preached. Exactly a year later - on March 30, 1853, Anna gave birth to another
son, whom they also named Vincent and who became one of the world's most famous
artists.
When Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday to President John Kennedy in Madison
Square Garden, Kennedy's brother-in-law, actor Peter Lawford, made a joke about
Marilyn's belated entrance. He called her "the late Marilyn Monroe,"
a quip that took on an eerie tinge when she died less than three months later.
In 1984, the Hentzel family of Palo Alto, Calif., received a draft registration
notice for a fake person named Johnny Klomberg. Years earlier, the family's two
boys, Eric and Greg, had made up the names of Johnny and others to get extra
helpings of the free birthday ice cream offered by the Farrell's restaurant
chain. The draft sign-up notice exposed the fact that the government was using
the ice cream list to track down 18-year-old men.
President Lyndon Johnson's birthday cake in 1965 featured a plastic hypodermic
needle on top of it, symbolizing the passage of the Medicare Act.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(102) - Charles Lane, actor (Homer-Petticoat
Junction, Lucy Show), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2007)
(84) - Douglas MacArthur, Little Rock Ark, US
General (WW II), (d. 1964)
(83)
- Paul Newman, Cleve, racer/popcorn
mogul/actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler) (d.2008)
(77) - Jimmy Van Heusen, songwriter (Love &
Marriage) (d.1990)
(74) - Mary Mapes Dodge, writer (Hans Brinker &
the Silver Skates), born in NYC, New York (d.1905)
(73) - Abner Doubleday, Union
general-major/inventor (baseball) (d.1893)
60 - Eddie Van Halen, Nijmegan Neth, rock
guitarist (Van Halen-Jump)
58 - Ellen DeGeneres, comediene (Ellen
Morgan-Ellen), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
55 - Wayne Gretzky, Brantford Ont, NHL great
scorer (Oiler, King, Rangers)
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Historical Obits Today
@93-1997
- Jeane Dixon, American astrologer
@80-1992 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor/director
(Cyrano de Bergerac)
@79-1973 - Edward G Robinson, [Goldenberg], actor
(Little Caesar), bladder cancer
@74-1893 - Abner
Doubleday, credited with inventing baseball, on birthday
@70-1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, former VP & (4X
Gov-R-NY), heart attack
@69-1983 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, college
football coach (Alabama), heart attack
@65-1962 - Charles "Lucky" Luciano, NYC
Mafia gangster, heart attack
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Brain Teasers Answers
The odd word out is INEFFICIENCIES
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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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