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1.7.16 Week: 01 \ Day: 7
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 40° \ L 29° Average
Sky Cover: 50%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts: 25mph
Ave. High: 42° Record High: 65°[1914] Ave. Low: 17°
Record Low: -17°[1913]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today:
Harlem Globetrotter's Day
I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore Day
International Programmers' Day Link
Orthodox Christmas
National Bobblehead Day Link
National Tempura Day Link
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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 (Note: Usually week of his
birthday on Jan. 8.)
*International Consumer Electronics
Show: 6-9
No Tillage Week: 6-9
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1608 - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1782 - 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in
Philadelphia
1784 - 1st US seed business established by David Landreth,
Philadelphia
1802 - President Thomas Jefferson
believes that the Indians have more land than they need. He feels that if they
become indebted at the government trade houses, they will sell their lands to
pay the debts. He has also voiced the opinion that if they become farmers, they
will need less land. He address the WEA, POTAWATOMI,
and MIAMI Indians on that latter issues. He extols the virtues of
renewable food and clothing supplies. "We will with pleasure furnish you
with implements for the most necessary arts, and with persons who may instruct
you how to make and use them."
1822 - Liberia colonized by Americans
1830 - 1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1892 - Mine explosion kills 100 in Krebs, Oklahoma; blacks
trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
1896 - Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook "The
Boston Cooking-School Cook Book"
1929 - "Buck Rogers", 1st sci-fi comic strip,
premieres
1948 - US president Harry Truman raises taxes for
the Marshall Plan
1953 - US President Harry Truman announces American
development of the hydrogen bomb
1959 - US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government
1970 - Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by
"Woodstock"
1986 - US President Reagan announces economic
sanctions against Libya
1990 - Lynn
Jennings runs world record indoor 5km indoor at 15:22.64
1998 - Former White House intern Monica
Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an affair with President Bill
Clinton
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1610 - Galileo discovers first three satellites of
Jupiter, Io, Europa & Ganymede
1714 - Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built
years later)
1785 - 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Jean Pierre
Blanchard & John Jeffries)
1914 - 1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal
2015 - Terrorist attack on the offices of satirical newspaper
"Charlie Hebdo" in Paris kills 12 (including Jean Cabut and Stéphane
Charbonnier), injures 11
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Winter is here in this little mountain town.
So far about 8” of the white stuff with more on the way as 2nd of
three storms passes through. Maybe another foot by Friday afternoon. Ran some
errands early this afternoon and roads were wet but not icy. Even drove 1-40
and it was clear. I-17N closed early today for our famous ‘hill’ was too slick
and big rigs were blocking all the lanes.
The gun violence issue should not be
political. We have the fairly new mass shootings at schools and theaters. We
have kids killed every day in big cities by guns…often when a child ‘plays’
with an ‘unloaded’ gun. We have bad guys who kill people through road rage or
through a robbery. Sadly so many conservatives don’t listen to the news and
assume, wrongly, that preventing gun violence means that someone in the
government is going to take away their gun. A mind is like a parachute, it only
works when it is open.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Find the Hidden Animals
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
In each sentence, an animal is
concealed. The first sentence has dog concealed. Can you find the others?
1. What shall I do, Gertrude?
2. Asking nutty questions can be most annoying.
3. A gold key is not a common key.
4. Horace tries in school to be a very good boy.
5. People who drive too fast are likely to be arrested.
6. Did I ever tell you, Bill, I once found a dollar?
7. John came late to his arithmetic class.
8. I enjoy listening to music at night. In each sentence, an animal is
concealed. The first sentence has dog concealed. Can you find the others?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Bet You Didn’t Know…
Bacteria cells in a human body
outnumber human cells 10 to 1.
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…Civil War Facts You May Not Know…
7. The divorce rate skyrocket in
America in the years after the war. We're talking went up 150% style
skyrocketing.
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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.
8. Clip: To fasten, or
detach
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…Harper’s Index…
-16-Percentage change since 2000 in the rate
of severe depression among US children and teenages
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeo photo by @chien_chi_chang/@magnumphotos Darkness
settles over the Mekong between Thailand and Laos as fishermen prepare to call
it a day near south of Vientiane.
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2 jokes for the day
New Hearing Aid
An elderly gentleman had serious
hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor and the doctor
was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the
gentleman to hear 100%.
The elderly gentleman went back in a
month to the doctor and the doctor said, "Your hearing is perfect. Your
family must be really pleased that you can hear again."
The gentleman replied, "Oh, I
haven't told my family yet. I just sit around and listen to the conversations.
I've changed my will three times!".
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Extra Weight
A recent study has found that women
who carry a little extra weight live longer than the men who mention it.
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Yep, It Really Happened
DES MOINES, Iowa - A 7-year-old girl seeking
to extend winter break tried to fool her parents with a handwritten note
explaining "the school company" needed an extra week off. The forged
note, shared by Reddit user locke-in-a-box, is written in marker and was
delivered to the parents by their 7-year-old daughter, Cara, who told them she
found it in the mailbox. "The school company is taking a brake so the kids
will get one more week of school off and we will need your child to sign their
name here," read the note, which the girl signed "Cara G."
"We almost bought it until she said 'brake' not 'break,'" the Reddit
user joked. "She's seven. With proper stationary and computer skills,
years from now I'm in trouble."
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Somewhat Useless Information
The traditional New Year's song,
'Auld Lang Syne,' means, 'times gone by.'
The top 10 resolutions are usually to lose weight, eat more healthily, exercise
more, stop smoking, stick to a budget, save money, get more organized, be more
patient, find a better job and to just be a better person over all.
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In Colombia, Cuba and Puerto Rico,
some families stuff a large doll, which is called Mr. Old Year, with memories
from the past year. They also dress him in clothes from the outgoing year. At
midnight, he is set ablaze, thus burning away the bad memories.
It's good luck to eat foods like black eyed peas, ham and cabbage because it is
thought they bring prosperity. But if you want to have a happy new year, don't
eat lobster or chicken. Lobsters can move backward and chickens can scratch in
reverse, so it is thought these foods could bring a reversal of fortune.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
88 - William
Peter Blatty, author/director (The Exorcist), born in NYC, New York
(85) - Alan Napier, actor (Alfred-Batman), born in Birmingham,
England (d.1988)
(76) - Paul
Revere, American pianist (Paul Revere & Raiders), born in Harvard Nebraska,
(d. 2014)
(74) - Millard Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president (d.1874)
68 - Kenny
Loggins, Everett WA, American singer (Loggins and Messina-This is it, Footloose)
60 - David
Caruso, American actor (NYPD Blue, Michael Hayes), born in Forest Hills, New
York
59 - Katie Couric, [Katherine], Arlington VA, TV news host
(Today)
58 - Donna Rice, model/Gary Hart's lover, born in New
Orleans, Louisiana
53 - Rand
Paul, US politician (Senate-R-Kentucky 2011-), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
52-Nicholas Cage, actor, producer
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Historical Obits Today
@86-1943 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist (tesla motor)
@76-2015 - Jean Cabut [Cabu], French caricaturist (Charlie Hebdo),
terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo's office
@71-1758 - Allan Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd)
@50-1536 - Catherine of Aragon, 1st
wife of England's King Henry VIII
@47-2015 - Stéphane Charbonnier [Charb], French cartoonist
and editor of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, terrorist attack
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Dog
2. Gnu
3. Monkey
4. Beaver
5. Bear
6. Lion
7. Camel
8. Cat
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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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