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1.29.16
Week: 04 \ Day: 29
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 59° \ L 18° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 12mph\Gusts:
7mph
Ave. High: 44°
Record High: 63°[1986] Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: -12°[1932]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Curmudgeons Day
Fun at Work Day
Freethinkers Day
National
Pre-school Fitness Day Link
Seeing Eye Dog Day
Thomas Paine Day
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Observances This Week
Nat’l CRNA (Certified
Registered Nurse Anesthetists) Wk:
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
1785
In
a surprising announcement, John Hancock resigns as Governor of
Massachusetts, allegedly due to his failing health
1832
Folsom's CHOCTAWs
finally reach the Kiamichi River area, their new home. Several people, and lots
of animals, die while en route. Cholera will strike all of the groups.
1834
President
Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
1845
Edgar
Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (NYC)
1850
Henry
Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate
1861
US
state of Kansas admitted to the Union as the 34th state
1879
Custer
Battlefield National Monument, Mont established
1920
Walt
Disney starts work as an artist with KC Slide Co for $40 a week
1924
Ice
cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
1936
1st
players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb, Babe
Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson
1953
1st
movie in Cinemascope "The Robe" based on the book by Lloyd C.
Douglas, directed by Henry Koster and starring Richard Burton and Jean Simmons
premieres
1959
Walt
Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
1963
Jim
Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football
Hall of Fame1964
Stanley
Kubrick's film "Dr Strangelove" starring Peter Sellers and
George C. Scott premieres
1966
US
female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1990
Exxon
Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
1996
6,138th
performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of
Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"
2002
In
his State of the Union Address, United States President George W.
Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil,
in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1595
William
Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed. First
published early 1597
1728
John
Gays' "Beggar's Opera" premieres in London [NS=Feb 9]
1856
Victoria
Cross established to acknowledge valour in the face of the enemy (United
Kingdom and Commonwealth countries)
1886
1st
successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe
1896
Emile
Grubbe is the first doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
1944
285
German bombers attack London
1964
9th
Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria
1964
Beatles
record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand" & "Sie Liebt
Dich"
1968
56th
Women's Australian Championships: Billie Jean King beats Margaret
Court (6-1, 6-2)
1969
Jimi
Hendrix & Pete Townshend wage a battle of guitars
1978
Sweden
outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming
the first nation to enact such a ban.
1989
77th
Men's Australian Open: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecii
(6-2,
6-2, 6-2)
1989
77th
Women's Australian Open: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (6-4, 6-4)
2005
The
first direct commercial flights from the mainland China (from Guangzhou) to
Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines
carrier landed in Beijing.
2012
100th
Men's Australian Open: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal (5-7, 6-4,
6-2, 6-7, 7-5)
2014
Archaeologists
discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant’Omobono
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♫ Birthdays Today ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful day here…warm, sunny, no wind…
Had lunch with our retirement group. Great
food and great conversation.
Had my last appointment with my former PCP.
Good talk. He has been very good to me the past 8 years but everyone has to do
what is best for them. Looking forward to my new Dr. next month.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
The Beethoven Game
Help Beethoven use these clues below
to decipher these popular Christmas/Holiday tunes.
Example: A Triad of Monarchs
Answer: We Three Kings
1. Sir Lancelot with laryngitis.
2. Frozen precipitation commences.
3. Oh, member of the round table with missing areas.
4. I envisioned a trio of marine vessels.
5. Do you perceive the same longitudinal pressure that stimulates my auditory
sense organs?
6. Leave and do a broadcast on an elevated peak.
Bonus: The apartment of 2 psychiatrists.
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…Business Facts…
As of 2014, Apple has enough money
to buy Facebook, or Netflix, Tesla, Twitter, Dropbox, Pandora, and Spotify
combined - with $59 billion to spare!
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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.
28. Help: To assist, or
to prevent or (in negative constructions) restrain
29. Hold up: To support,
or to impede
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…Hard to Believe…
11. North Korea and Finland both
border the same country; Russia.
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…Harper’s Index…
79-Percentage of elected US prosecutors who
are white men
1-Who are women of color
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
nakedplanet Stress
Therapy - White sands National Monument, New Mexico, USA. Oldie shot on a Canon
5D with the Canon 17-40L
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2 jokes for the day
Back in the 1970s, 8 WAS enough.
Fast forward almost 40 years later, 19 and Counting, STILL AIN'T ENOUGH!
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On the morning of her birthday, a
woman told her husband, “I just dreamed that you gave me a diamond necklace.
What do you think it means?”
“Maybe you’ll find out tonight,” he said.
That evening, the man came home with a small package and gave it to his wife.
She ripped off the wrapping paper and found a book titled "The Meaning of
Dreams."
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Yep, It Really Happened
Because This Kind of Thing Happens in Puerto
Rico
BARCELONETA - A 31-year-old Puerto Rican poker
fan who died recently was treated to his hobby one last time when his body was
seated at a card table during his wake. The family of Henry Rosario Martinez,
31, contacted the Eternal Light Funeral Home in Barceloneta after his death and
asked that the man's remains be embalmed, dressed and seated at a poker table
during his wake. Martinez's wake included poker games with the corpse seated at
the table and friends and family posing for pictures with the deceased. "I
want him to be remembered as a happy person because he was always like
that," mother Sonia Martinez said. Wakes featuring the remains of deceased
arranged in lifelike poses are becoming increasingly common in Puerto Rico,
with recent examples including a paramedic posed in the back of an ambulance
and a man posed at a table playing dominoes. [I would hate to be posed doing
what I enjoyed doing most at my own wake.]
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Somewhat Useless Information
Sponge-like material promises to
store natural gas more efficiently --*
PITTSBURGH - Natural gas is more
clean and efficient than diesel, but it's also more volatile and requires a
bigger, heavier, reinforced storage tank, complicating the vehicle design
process.
Researchers at University of Pittsburgh are attempting to solve this problem
with a new and improved natural gas storage system.
The storage system doesn't actually exist yet. Currently, researchers are trying
to find an ideal material to incorporate into their system. Scientists at
Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering are exploring the qualities of
various metal-organic frameworks capable of absorbing natural gas.
Metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, are compounds combining metal ions with
organic molecules to form 3-D porous structures.
Storing natural gas inside an empty container requires intense pressure, but a
porous crystal, sponge-like material promises to absorb and store natural gas
more efficiently -- without the extra weight.
The main problem facing the researchers is that these porous crystal/gas
systems produce lots of heat as they absorb the gas, limiting the speed at
which they can be filled.
A new paper by Pittsburgh researchers, published recently in the journal
Physical Review Letters, explores the mechanics of heat transfer in these
systems and highlight ways the systems might be able to dispel heat more
quickly.
"Not a lot is known about how to make adsorbents dissipate heat quickly,"
lead study author Christopher E. Wilmer, assistant professor of chemical and
petroleum engineering, explained in a press release. "This study
illuminates some of the fundamental mechanisms involved."
Wilmer thinks MOFs will be of increasing importance as natural gas continues to
play a larger role in the economy. Currently, the natural gas industry injects
some $500 billion into the global economy, but U.S. storage infrastructure is
lacking.
"By gaining a better understanding of heat transfer mechanisms at the
atomic scale in porous materials, we could develop a more efficient material
that would be thermally conductive rather than thermally insulating,"
Wilmer explained. "Beyond natural gas, these insights could help us design
better hydrogen gas storage systems as well. Any industrial process where a gas
interacts with a porous material, where heat is an important factor, could
potentially benefit from this research."
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(92) John
Forsythe,
actor
(Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty), born in Penns Grove, New Jersey
(d. 2010)
(86) John
D. Rockefeller Jr,
American
financier \ philanthropist, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d.1960)
(86) Victor
Mature,
Louisville
KY, actor (1 Million BC, Samson & Delilah) (d. 1999)
76 Katharine
Ross,
Hollywood
Cal, actress (Graduate, Francesca-Colbys)
74 Claudine
Longet,
France,
former Mrs Andy Williams/singer
(72) Thomas
Paine,
Thetford
Great Britain, English/American political essayist (Common Sense, Age of
Reason)(d.1809)
71 Tom
Selleck,
actor
(Lance-Rockford Files, Magnum PI), born in Detroit, Michigan
68 Marc Singer,
actor
(V, Dallas), born in Vancouver, Canada
(66) W
C Fields, [William Claude Dukenfield],
Phila,
actor (Bank Dick) (d.1946)
(63) Adam
Clayton Powell,
(Rep-D-NY,
1945-70) (d.1972)
(62) Edward
Abbey,
US
author (Desert Solitaire) (d.1989)
62 Oprah
Winfrey,
Kosciusko
Mississippi, Talk show host and actress ('The Oprah Winfrey Show' 'Colour
Purple')
(58) William
McKinley,
Niles
Ohio, 25th US President (1897-1901), (d. 1901)
(58) Paddy
Chayevsky, [Sydney],
US,
dramatist (Marty, Hospital) (d. 1981)
(52) Moses
Cleaveland,
founder
of Cleveland (d. 1806)
(44) Anton
Pavlovich Chekhov,
Tagarov
Russia, playwright (Cherry Orchard) (d.1904)
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Historical Obits Today
@88-1963 Robert
Frost,
American
poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers)
@86-1980 Jimmy
Durante,
comedian
(Palooka, Jimmy Durante Show)
@81-2015 Rod
McKuen,
American
singer-songwriter (Jean) and poet
@75-1888 Edward
Lear,
poet/author,
heart disease
@74-1986 Leif
Erickson,
actor
(John-High Chaparral), cancer
@73-1859 Seth
Thomas,
American
Manufacturer and pioneer in the mass production of clocks
@50-1964 Alan
Ladd,
actor
(Shane), accidental OD
@48-1933 Sara
Teasdale,
American
poet, suicide
@22-1977 Freddie
Prinze,
comedian/actor
(Chico & the Man), shoots himself
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Silent Night
2. Let it Snow
3. O Holy Night
4. I saw Three Ships
5. Do you hear what I hear?
6. Go tell it on the Mountain
Bonus: The Nutcracker Suite
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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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