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1. 9.16 Week: 01 \ Day: 9
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 44° \ L 18° Average
Sky Cover: 45%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 18mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High: 63°[1996] Ave. Low: 16°
Record Low: -9°[1937]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today:
Balloon Ascension Day: 9 Link
National Cassoulet Day: 9
National Static Electricity Day: 9 Link
Panama's Martyr Day: 9 Link
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Observances This Week:
Home Office Safety and Security
Week: 3-9
National Folic Acid Awareness Week: 3-9 Link
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week: 3-10
International Consumer Electronics Show: 6-9
No Tillage Week: 6-9
Universal Letter Writing Week: 8-14 Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1793 - 1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Philadelphia,
piloted by Jean Pierre Blanchard
1847 - 1st SF newspaper published (California Star)
1848 - 1st commercial bank in SF established
1861 - Mississippi secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1894 - "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released
in movie theaters
1903 - Wind Cave National Park, SD established
1908 - Muir Woods National Monument, California, established
1942 - US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
1945 - US soldiers led by Gen Douglas
MacArthur invades Philippines
1956 - Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st
appears in newspapers
1959 - "Rawhide" with Clint
Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
1964 - Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone
1976 - C. W. McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the
country music charts
1979 - Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring
doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable
fetuses
2007 - Apple Inc CEO, Steve Jobs announces the
iPhone.
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1493 - 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)
1811 - 1st Women's Golf Tournament held Musselburgh
Golf Club in Scotland
1839 - Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy
of Science
1969 - First trial flight of Concorde supersonic jetliner,
Bristol, England
2005 - The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement,
commonly known as the Naivasha Agreement between the Government of Sudan and
the Sudan People's Liberation Movement rebel group in Naivasha, Kenya.
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Sunshine…yeah! Still a lot of snow on the
ground, but the sun has returned to our little mountain town.
You can run, but you can’t hide…El Chapo is
recaptured, by the Mexican Marines. He was captured in Los Mochis, a town I
visited in the early 1970’s. Good for them.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Clock
Trick brain teasers
appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
At noon, you look at the clock in
your bedroom. The big hand is on the five and the little hand is in between the
3 and the 4. What time is it?
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…Business Facts…
Facebook pays at least $500 if you
can find a way to hack the site.
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…Civil War Facts You May Not Know…
9. In a moment of epic irony,
Confederate General Martin Green said: "A bullet has not yet been molded
that will kill me." He was promptly shot in the back of the head and
killed.
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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.
10. Continue: To keep
doing an action, or to suspend an action
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…Harper’s Index…
2-Factor by which white heterosexual US women
are more likely that other US women to receive fertility assistance
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeo Photo by @petekmuller. Two hunters
quietly stalk prey in the forest of northeastern Democratic Republic of #Congo. They wear
traditional hunting masks & vests fashioned from the bark of trees and
painted with natural pigment to resemble animal fur. They employ these masks in
order to confuse their prey and encourage it to investigate rather than flee.
When they approach groups of monkeys and other coveted animals, the hunters
move their bodies in usual ways to further the impression that they not humans.
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2 jokes for the day
Men and Bikini's -
When wearing a bikini, women reveal
90% of their body.
Men are so polite they only look at
the covered parts!
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Innocent Question -
Son: Daddy, I got punished in school
today.
Dad: Why?
Son: My teacher pointed the scale
towards me saying, "At the end of this scale there is an idiot.".
I just asked "Which end?".
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Yep, It Really Happened
Exceptional Floridians
(1) Police in St. Petersburg reported the
December arrest of a 12-year-old boy whose rap sheet listed "more than
20" arrests since age 9. He, on a bicycle, had told an 89-year-old driver
at a gas station that the man's tire was low, and when the man got out to
check, the boy hopped in the car and took off. (2) A driver accidentally plowed
through two small businesses in Pensacola in December, creating such
destruction that the manager of one said it looked like a bomb had hit (forcing
both -- a tax service and a casket company -- to relocate). The driver told police
he was attempting to "travel through time." [WTSP-TV (St.
Petersburg), 12-15-2015] [WEAR-TV (Pensacola), 12-23-2015]
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Somewhat Useless Information
Earthquakes, volcanoes, and
mountains are all formed by Earth's moving plates. Hidden from human sight
under the oceans, there are the earth's largest mountain ranges that circle the
planet like the stitching on a baseball.
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A hot spot is a column of basalt
that punctures the earth's crust and allows magma to escape from the interior.
The movement of a tectonic plate over a hot spot forms a chain of volcanic
islands, called a seamount. One well known example of a seamount is a chain of
ancient volcanoes that were once over the hot spot that is now under Hawaii.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(88) - Carrie Chapman Catt, Ripon, Wisconsin, American women's
suffrage leader and founder (League of Women Voters) (d.1947)
82- Bart Starr, NFL quarterback/coach (Green
Bay)
(81) - Richard
Nixon, Yorba Linda, California, 37th President (d.1994)
75 - Joan Baez, folk singer/human rights advocate, born in
Staten Island, New York
72 - Jimmy Page, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to
Heaven), born in London, England
(70) - Bob Denver, New Rochelle, New York, American actor (The
Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island) (d.2005)
(68) - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate
Bridge)(d.1938)
65 - Crystal Gayle, Ky, country singer (Don't It Make My
Brown Eyes Blue)
(64) - Lee Van Cleef, NJ, actor (For a Few Dollars
More, Escape from NY) (d.1989)
(59) - Gypsy Rose Lee, [Rose Hovick], burlesque
actress (Gypsy), born in Seattle, Washington (d.1970)
49 - Dave Matthews, singer/musician (Dave Matthews Band)
34 - Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge [Kate Middleton],
English wife of Crown Prince William, born in Reading, Berksire
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Historical Obits Today
@55-1982 - Paul Lynde, actor (Bye Bye Birdie,
Bewitched), heart attack
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Brain Teasers Answers
Noon. (However, if you answered that it's time
to get a new clock, you're right, too.)
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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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