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1.5.16 Week: 01 \ Day: 5
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 42° \ L 27° Average
Sky Cover: 90%
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts: 14mph
Ave. High: 42° Record High: 61°[1948] Ave. Low: 16°
Record Low: -22°[1910]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today:
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Observances This Week:
Celebration of Life Week: 1-7 Link
Diet Resolution Week: 1-7
Silent Record Week: 1-7
New Year's Resolutions Week: 1-8
Someday We'll Laugh About This Week: 2-8
Home Office Safety and Security Week: 3-9
National Folic Acid Awareness Week: 3-9 Link
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week: 3-10
Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week: 4-8
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1800 - 1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service,
Baltimore
1834 - Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell
1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to
stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
1887 - 1st
US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University
1905 - National Association of Audubon Society, a non-profit,
environmental organization dedicated to conservation, incorporates
1925 - Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st
woman governor in USA
1945 - Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon
"Odor-able Kitty"
1959 - "Bozo the Clown" live children's show
premieres on TV
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1527 - Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in
Zürich, is executed by drowning.
1709 - Sudden extreme cold kills thousands of Europeans
1892 - 1st successful auroral photograph made
1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt
against British rule.
1930 - Mao Zedong writes "A Single Spark Can Start a
Prairie Fire"
1969 - USSR Venera 5 launched
for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
A snowy day in our little mountain town.
Snowing on and off all day. Not a lot sticking. Roads are wet.
Shaking my head…again. How can a bunch of
people take over a government building not be called terrorists or some other derogatory
term? Oh, I forgot…they are white. Hours after demonstrations begin in inner
cities the protesters are usually labeled thugs or some other bad name. Oh, I
forgot…they are NOT white. It is time to recognize this and call those heavily
armed people in Oregon who took over a government building terrorists.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Easy DROpalMS - For The Youngsters
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
A palindrome is a word or phrase
that reads the same, if it's turned back-to-front. The names Bob, Eve, and Otto
are all palindromes. So is the name of the pop group Abba. Try to identify
palindromic words from the following clues. Good luck!
Example: Part of the body Answer: Eye
1. Midday
2. A young dog
3. Flat
4. Word for addressing a lady
5. An Eskimo canoe
6. A system for detecting aircraft, ships, etc.
7. An action
8. Pieces of music for one person
9. Grass that grows on the seashore
10. In music, half a semibreve
11. Doctrine
12. Restorer
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…Bet You Didn’t Know…
Carrie Fisher, who played Princess
Leia in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, was also one of Hollywood’s best
script doctors. She did much of the rewriting work on “Hook” (1991), “Lethal
Weapon 3” (1992), “Sister Act” (1992) and “The River Wild” (1994).
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…Civil War Facts You May Not Know…
5. On any given day during the war a
soldier would be marching anywhere between 15-20 miles, on average.
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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.
6. Buckle: To connect,
or to break or collapse
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…Harper’s Index…
2/5-Portion of children in rural China who
have been left befind by one or both parents seeking work in cities
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
A leopard marking its territory by spraying on a tree and then rubbing it
on its neck so it can go rub on another location.
I’m just finished shooting my worldwide #leopard story
December 2015 @natgeo showcasing
the world’s most adaptable, but persecuted, big cat. And for Nat Geo Wild a one
hour TV program which premiers Jan 31st! From the wilds of #SouthAfrica to
the heart of #Mumbai and
Sir Lanka.
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2 jokes for the day
Glazed Over
A cop pulls over a guy and says,
"Your eyes are awfully red. Have you been drinking?"
"Gee, officer," the man
replies. "Your eyes are awfully glazed -- have you been eating doughnuts?"
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Baby Camel
A mother and baby camel are talking
one day when the baby camel asks, "Mom why have I got these huge three
toed feet?"
The mother replies, "Well son,
when we trek across the desert your toes will help you to stay on top of the
soft sand".
"OK" said the son. A few
minutes later the son asks, "Mom, why have I got these great long
eyelashes?"
"They are there to keep the
sand out of your eyes on the trips through the desert", the camel mother
answers.
"Thanks Mom" replies the
son. After a short while, the son returns and asks, "Mom, why have I got
these great big humps on my back??"
The mother, now a little impatient
with the boy replies, "They are there to help us store water for our long
treks across the desert, so we can go without drinking for long periods."
"That's great mom, so we have
huge feet to stop us sinking, and long eyelashes to keep the sand from our eyes
and these humps to store water, but... Mom?"
"Yes son?"
"Why the heck are we in the San
Diego zoo?"
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Yep, It Really Happened
BGR.com-Following the release of Apple's
yearly financials in October (and based on sales of its iPhone 6), the company
announced that, apart from other assets, it was sitting on $206 billion in cash
-- about like owning the entire gross domestic product of Venezuela, but all in
cash. Another way of expressing it: Using only its cash, Apple could buy every
single NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL team, plus the 20 most valuable international
soccer teams -- and still have plenty left. Or, as the BGR.com blog also
pointed out, it could instead simply give every man, woman and child in America
$646 (coincidentally, about what a new iPhone 6 sells for).
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Somewhat Useless Information
Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named
Sue" was penned by beloved children's author Shel Silverstein.
M&M's actually stands for "Mars & Murrie's," the last names
of the candy's founders.
Carly Simon's dad is the Simon of Simon and Schuster. He co-founded the
company.
In the 1970s, Mattel sold a doll called "Growing Up Skipper." Her
breasts grew when her arm was turned.
In 1999, Furbies were banned from the National Security Agency's Maryland
headquarters because it was feared the toys might repeat national security
secrets.
Kool-Aid was originally marketed as "Fruit Smack."
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(91) - Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist (shock
therapy-Nobel 1944), born in San Francisco, CA (d.1965)
(91) - Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany
(d.1967)
(90) - Jane
Wyman, St. Joseph, Missouri, American actress (Magnificent Obsession) and 1st
wife of Ronald Reagan (d. 2007)
85 - Robert
Duvall, actor (Great Santini, Taxi Driver), born in San Diego, California
70 - Diane Keaton [Hall], LA, actress (Annie Hall,
Little Drummer Girl)
68 - Ted
Lange, actor (Isaac-Love Boat, Mr T & Tina), born in Oakland, CA
(54) - Michael
O'Donoghue, Sauquoit, New York, American writer and performer (Saturday Night
Live, Scrooged) (d.1994)
48 - Carrie
Ann Inaba, American dancer and choreographer, DWTS
47 - Marilyn Manson, Rock singer
(46) - DeWitt B Brace, inventor (spectrophotometer) (d.1905)
(45) - George Reeves, [George Lescher Bessolo], Ashland Ky,
actor (Superman, Gone With the Wind) (d.1949)
(34) - Zebulon
Montgomery Pike, explorer (Pike's Peak) (d.1813)
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Historical Obits Today
@87-1970 - Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954)
@81-1994 - Thomas P "Tip" O'Neill, (D-Ma)/Speaker of House
(1977-86)
@81-1943 - George Washington Carver, famous African American
scientist
@72-1906 - Kathleen Kenyon, English Archaeologist who excavated
Jericho (the oldest known continuously occupied human settlement that has been
inhabited for the last 11,000 years)
@62-1998 - Sonny Bono, (Rep-R-Ca)/singer (Sonny & Cher), skiing
accident
@60-1933 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29), heart attack
@40-1988 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player, heart
failure
@39-1939 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator declared dead after
disappearance in 1937.
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Midday - Noon
2. A young dog - Pup
3. Flat - Level
4. Word for addressing a lady - Madam
5. An Eskimo canoe - Kayak
6. A system for detecting aircraft, ships, etc. - Radar
7. An action - Deed
8. Pieces of music for one person - Solos
9. Grass that grows on the seashore - Marram
10. In music, half a semibreve - Minim
11. Doctrine - Tenet
12. Restorer - Reviver
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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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