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1.27.16
Week: 04 \ Day: 27
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 38° \ L 24° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts:
26mph Wind Chill: subtract 10°
Ave. High: 44°
Record High: 61°[2003] Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: -13°[1979]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Auschwitz
Liberation Day Link
Holocaust
Memorial Day Link
International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the
Holocaust Link
International Mobile Phone Recycling
Day Link
National Geographic Day
Thomas Crapper
Day
Viet Nam Peace Day
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Observances This Week
Kid Film
Festival: 22-27
National CRNA (Cerfified Registered Nurse
Anesthetists) Week: 24-30
Clean Out Your Inbox Week: 24-30
National 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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US Historical Highlights for Today
1662 - 1st American lime kiln begins operation
(Providence RI)
1785 - 1st US state university chartered, Athens,
Georgia
1825 - U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in
what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the
Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
1870
- After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is
readmitted to Union
1880 - Thomas Edison patents electric
incandescent lamp
1888 - National Geographic Society formed in
Washington, D.C.
1915 - US Marines occupy Haiti
1918 - "Tarzan of the Apes", 1st Tarzan
film, premieres at Broadway Theater
1926 - US Senate agrees to join World Court
1926
- Physicist Erwin
Schrödinger publishes his theory of wave mechanics and presents what
becomes known as the Schrödinger equation in quantum mechanics
1948
- 1st tape recorder sold
1967 - A fire in the Apollo I Command Module kills
astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee during a launch rehearsal
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1302 - Dante becomes a Florentine political exile
1870
- Manitoba & Northwest Territories
incorporated
1972
- The British Army and the Irish Republican
Army engage in gun battles near County Armagh; British troops fire over 1,000
rounds of amunition
1983 - World's longest underwater tunnel (53.90 km)
opens, Honshu-Hokkaid, Japan
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♫ Birthdays Today ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
For some reason, today became a really lazy
day. Got up at 6am, a little earlier than usual. Did some computer stuff and
ate breakfast, then went back to the bed until 9a. When I got up still didn’t
feel like doing anything…so I didn’t. Just enjoying the day.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Azkaban
Riddles are little poems
or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme,
but this is not a requirement.
I'm in a zoo
But not in a jungle
I rarely come in pairs
But I'm in every puzzle
Some think I'm in a xylophone
But, I most certainly am not
You don't see me with a loan
But very strangely in a zealot
I'm in the magical prison of Azkaban
Well, can't you see?
I'm in the buzz of a fan
But, my oh my what could I be?
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…Business Facts…
In March, 2014, Colorado sold $19
million dollars worth of Cannabis. $1.9 million went to schools and crime fell
by 10%.
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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.
24. Give out: To
provide, or to stop because of a lack of supply
25. Go: To proceed or succeed, or to weaken or fail
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…Hard to Believe…
9. It’s never said that Humpty Dumpty was an egg in the
nursery rhyme.
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…Harper’s Index…
2-Factor by which a black American who is
arrested is more likely that a white on to be killed in the procss
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
natgeoPhoto by @GerdLudwig. Thousands of
indigenous people hailing from Russia's Khanty and Mansi tribes see their
traditional way of life quickly disappearing as a result of expansive oil and
gas exploration.
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2 jokes for the day
A good looking girl waved at me
today…
But there was no way I was swimming out that far to save her.
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Father to his son:
Do you know why I call your mother my Death Star?
Because she makes my world explode!
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Yep, It Really Happened
Bears, seals, and dogs are closely related
carnivores but are on a different branch of the evolutionary tree than cats and
hyenas.
Some snakes have hipbones, which shows they once had four legs like lizards,
their close cousins.
Inside some whales and dolphins are small bones that show they once had back
legs and that their ancestors walked on land. These occasionally reappear as
tiny rear flippers.
Darwin did not argue that humans came from monkeys. Rather he wrote only that
monkeys, apes, and humans have a common ancestor.
A hobbit-like species of human lived about 18,000 years ago. About the size of
a 3-year-old, they lived with pygmy elephants and 10-foot-long lizards.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Fort Myers, FL- The "public
art" statues unveiled in January by Fort Myers, Florida, Mayor Randy
Henderson included a metal structure by sculptor Edugardo Carmona of a man
walking a dog, with the dog "lifting his leg" beside a pole. Only
after inspecting the piece more closely did many observers realize that the
man, too, was relieving himself against the pole. Carmona described the work as
commentary on man and dog "marking their territory." (2) A recent
anonymously authored "confidential" book by a National Football League
player reported that "linemen, especially," have taken to relieving
themselves inside their uniforms during games, "a sign that you're so into
the game" that you "won't pause (even) to use the toilet."
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(87)
- Lyle Russel ‘Skitch’ Henderson,
orchestra leader (Tonight
Show), born in Birmingham, England (d.2005)
(86) - Hyman G Rickover,
US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy) (d.1986)
(85) - William Randolph Hearst, Jr.,
American newspaper magnate
(Hearst Newspapers) and 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner, (d. 1993)
(74) - Samuel Gompers,
American labor union leader
(American Federation of Labor), born in London, England (d.1824)
(65) - Lewis Carroll, [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson],
Halton, Cheshire, author (Alice in Wonderland), (d. 1898)
(65)
- Troy Donahue,
actor (Surfside Six,
Cockfighter, Hawaiian Eye), born in NYC, New York (d.2001)
(64) - Donna Reed,
Denison Iowa, (From Here to Eternity, Wonderful Life)
(d.1986)
60 - Mimi Rogers,
Coral Gables Fla, actress (Paper Dolls, The Rousters)
57 - Keith Olbermann,
American news presenter
(35) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Austria, musical prodigy/composer (Figaro), (d. 1791)
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Historical Obits Today
@94-2014 - Pete Seeger,
American folk singer
(Weaver, Goodnight Irene) and activist, helped create the modern American folk
music movement
@91-2010 - J. D. Salinger,
American novelist (The Catcher in the Rye)
@87-1901 - Giuseppe Verdi,
Italian composer
@75-1731 - Bartolomeo Cristofori,
Italian instrument maker - considered the inventor of
the piano,
@74-1986 - L Ron Hubbard,
novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), stroke
@73-1910 - Thomas Crapper,
English plumber and inventor (ballcock)
@65-1851 - John James Audubon,
conservationist (Audubon Society), dementia
@60-1972 - Mahalia Jackson,
gospel singer (He Got the Whole World), diabetes
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Brain Teasers Answers
The letter "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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