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12.10.16 Week: 49
\ Day: 345
December Averages:
44°\17°
86004 Today: H 54° \ L 23°
Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts:
-mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 65°[1939]
Record Low: -2°[1956]
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Quote of the Day
It's not what you
look at that matters, it's what you see.
~Henr y David Thoreau
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Observances
Today
Dewey Decimal System Day
International Shareware Day
Jane Addams Day
National Day of the Horse
Nobel Prize Day
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Observances This
Week
3-10 Clerc-Gallaudet Week
4-10 National Hand Washing Awareness
Week Link
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Computer Science Education
Week Link
10-17 Human Rights Week
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Today’s US
Historical Highlights
▼ Today’s World Historical Highlights
Nobel
Prize winners--dates
▼1510 Muslim
ruler of Goa, Yusuf Adil Shah and his Ottoman allies surrender to Portuguese
forces led by Afonso de Albuquerque who puts the Muslim population to
the sword
▼1520 Martin
Luther publicly burns papal edict demanding he recant
1672 New
York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York &
Boston
1690 Massachusetts
Bay becomes first American colonial government to borrow money
▼1745 Bonnie
Prince Charlie's army reaches Manchester
▼1799 Metric
system adopted in France, first country to do so
1817 Mississippi admitted as
20th state of the Union
1836 Emory College (now Emory
University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.
1869 Women
suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
▼1884 "Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is first published in the UK
and Canada (US Feb 1885, due to printing error)
▼1898 Spanish-American
War formally ended by the Treaty of Paris; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico
& Guam
1901 First
Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace
activist Frederic Passy
1901 First Nobel Prize in Physics
awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays
1903 Nobel Prize for physics awarded to
Pierre and Marie Curie
1906 US President Theodore
Roosevelt is the 1st American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1907 Rudyard Kipling receives the
Nobel prize for literature, the first English-language writer to do so
▼1907 The
worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash
with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have
been vivisected.
1910 Dutch Physicist Johannes van
der Waals wins the Nobel Prize for physics
1911 Dutch
lawyer Tobias Asser receives the Nobel Peace Prize
1913 Dutch scientist Heike
Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
1919 Nobel
peace prize awarded to US President Woodrow Wilson
1920 August Krogh is awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the regulation
mechanisms of capillaries in skeletal muscle
1922 Nobel
prizes awarded to Fridtjof Nansen (Peace), Niels Bohr (Physics) and Francis
William Aston (Chemistry)
1925 George
Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel prize
▼1926 2nd
part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
1927 Grand Ole Opry makes its
1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN
1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or
Medicine jointly awarded to Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick
Gowland Hopkins for the discovery of vitamins
1931 Jane
Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1935 Nobel
Prize for Chemistry awarded to Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie
Curie) and her husband Frédéric Joliot for the discovery of artificial
radioactivity
▼1936 Edward
VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry
American divoree Wallis Simpson
1938 Italian
scientist Enrico Fermi receives the Nobel Prize for Physics (work on
reduced radioactivity)
1946 German/Swiss
novelist Hermann Hesse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for
his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration,
exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style"
1948 UN General Assembly
adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1950 Ralph
J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
1954 Linus Pauling wins Nobel
Prize in Chemistry
1954 Albert Schweitzer receives
Nobel Peace Prize
1960 Willard Libby wins the
Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work developing carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon
dating).
1961 Robert
Hofstadter and Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer win the Nobel Prize in Physics for
their pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and
discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleon
▼1963 Zanzibar
gains independenence from Great Britain
1963 Karl
Ziegler and Giulio Natta receive the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for
their work on the technology of high polymers
1964 Nobel Peace Prize presented
to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo
1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon
wins Nobel Prize for literature
1966 Nobel for chemistry awarded
to Robert S. Mulliken
1971 West
German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace
1975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena
Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin &
Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
▼1981 The
United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing
nuclear free-zone in South Asia.
1983 Danuta
Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1984 South African Archbishop
Desmond Tutu is presented with his Nobel Peace Prize
1985 "Out of
Africa", based on the book by Isak Dinesen, directed by Sydney
Pollack and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford premieres
in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1986)
1986 Holocaust survivor Elie
Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
1991 IM Pei receives $5
million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1994 60th Heisman Trophy
Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
1994 Nobel Peace Prize presented
to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat
1998 Indian
Professor Amartya Sen is awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics
for his contributions to welfare economics
2009 US
President Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Nice day…hard to believe it is December. Ain’t complaining.
Did a little shopping this morning…with no crowds. Didn’t find what I
was looking for, but there were no crowds. Gotta keep that Christmas spirit.
Stopped at Wal-Mart to pick up some bird seed for the feathered creatures. What
the ___? They have filled all the birdseed section with Christmas stuff. I
asked where the birdseed was? The answer was, ‘check the pet food section in
the back of the store’. Lots of birdseed for caged birds, but none for the wild
birds. A travesty I say. A true travesty. Monday I’ll head for the locally
owned store that sells birdseed. A bit more expensive, but they carry it year round.
And I will become a regular customer from now on.
Looking forward to a quiet weekend at home.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Needed in a Hand
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that
needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
They use me to build castles, but I'm not a brick.
They use me to make hands, but I'm not a finger.
I'm international, and cosmopolitan. I'm very often in Monte Carlo, Las Vegas,
Atlantic City and even in Punta del Este.
I'm not alive but I have 81 hearts.
What am I?
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“Contronym”—word
that is its own antonym
Hold up can mean "to support" or "to hinder": “What a
friend! When I’m struggling to get on my feet, he’s always there to hold me
up.”
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Candy Cane Facts
There is one connection to Christianity that we can confirm: Bob
McCormack’s brother-in-law, a Catholic priest named Gregory Harding Keller,
invented the machine that automated candy
cane production in 1957
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Today’s Trivia
Hive
(answers at the end of post)
How many dragons does Daenerys Stormborn, a character on the HBO show
Game of Thrones, have?
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…Harper’s Index…
3/5 – Portion of
Americans who favor replacing the Affordable Care Act with a single-payer
system
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2 jokes for the
day
One of my friends hates exercise. To her, getting up in the morning is a
moving violation.
The only exercise she get is pushing her luck, stretching the truth, and
jumping to conclusions.
Although, she has been known to carry a grudge.
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Looking in the mall for a cotton nightgown, I tried my luck in a store
known for its hot lingerie. To my delight, however, I found just what I was
looking for.
Waiting in the line to pay, I noticed a young woman behind me holding the same
nightgown. This confirmed what I suspected all along, that despite being over
50, I still have a very "with it" attitude.
"I see we have the same taste," I said proudly to the 20 something
behind me.
"Yes," she replied. "I'm getting this for my grandmother for
Christmas."
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Yep, It Really
Happened
*---------- The Drone Wars Have Begun ----------*
A man managed to chase a drone and capture it after it recorded him
using the shower of his home, according to police in Utah. According to police,
the drone was captured after a man got up early in the morning to prepare for
work. He was in his bathroom taking a shower when he heard a buzz. He
immediately recognized the noise as a flying drone. The man got into his truck
and followed the drone in an attempt to find the owner. The drone landed in a
church parking lot, but no one was there. The man took possession of the drone
and called the police. When detectives examined what the drone had recorded,
they found several videos of people in toilets and bedrooms. The videos also
showed images of the suspected drone owner flying the device. The suspect had
been convicted of voyeurism in the past for looking over walls in tanning
salons.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
France was the first country to cultivate mushrooms, in the mid-17th
century. From there, the practice spread to England and made its way to the
United States in the 19th century.
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Ancient Egyptians believed mushrooms were the plant of immortality.
Pharaohs decreed them a royal food and forbade commoners to even touch them.
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Most edible mushrooms have poisonous look-alikes in the wild. For
example, the dangerous "yellow stainer" closely resembles the popular
white agaricus mushroom.
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In the wild, mushroom spores are spread by wind. On mushroom farms,
spores are collected in a laboratory and then used to inoculate grains to
create "spawn," a mushroom farmer's equivalent of seeds.
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Mushroom spores are so tiny that 2,500 arranged end-to-end would measure
only an inch in length.
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The process of cultivating mushrooms - from preparing the compost in
which they grow to shipping the crop to markets - takes about four months.
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Birthdays Today
▼ indicates age
at death
80’s
▼86- Harold
Gould, Schenectady NY, actor (He & She, Martin-Rhoda, Big Bus) [d2010]
▼81 Dorothy
Lamour, [Mary Kaumeyer], actress and singer (Road to Bali), born in New
Orleans, [d1996]
▼80- Melvil[le
Louis K] Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries [d1931]
70’s
76- Tim
Considine, actor (Mike-My 3 Sons), born in Louisville, Kentucky
75- Tommy
Kirk, actor (Old Yeller)
▼70- Ross
Taylor [Robert Murray Taylor], Calcutta, India, Scottish transplant surgeon who
pioneered kidney transplantations in the U.K [d2003]
60’s
▼62- Chet
Huntley, Cardwell Mont, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report) [d1974]
50’s
▼55- Emily Dickinson,
Amherst Mass, poet (Collected Poems), (d. 1886)
▼55- Abu
Abbas [Muhammad Zaidan], founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
55- Nia
Peeples, [Vernia], dancer/host (Fame, Party Machine), born in Hollywood,
California
52- Bobby
Flay, American celebrity chef and restaurateur
40’s
▼43 Dan
Blocker, De Kalb Texas, American actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)
[d1972]
▼42- King James I of
Scotland, Dunfermline Palace, Fife, (1406-1437), (d. 1437)
30’s
▼36- Ada Lovelace,
English mathematician (d. 1852), born in London, England [d1852]
31- Raven-Symoné,
American actress and singer
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Historical Obits
Today
90’s
@92-1990 Armand
Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum)
@91-2006 Augusto
Pinochet, Former Chilean dictator (b. 1915)
80’s
@89-2005 Eugene
McCarthy, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate
@88-1909 Red
Cloud [Maȟpíya Lúta],
Lakota chief
@83-1982 Freeman
"Amos" Gosden, US radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy)
@80-1770 Theophil "Gottlieb" Muffat,
German court organist/composer
60’s
@65-2005 Richard
Pryor, American comedian and actor (Lady Sings the
Blues, Stir Crazy), heart attack
@63-1896 Alfred
Nobel, Swedish Chemist and founder of the Nobel Prize
ceremony on this date, stroke
50’s
@52-1920 Horace
Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturing pioneer, pneumonia
20’s
@26-1967 Otis
Redding, singer (Dock of Bay), plane crash
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Brain Teasers
Answers
I'm a deck of cards.
Because there are 52 cards plus two jokers in a deck, the total is 54.
If you count all the hearts drawn in the 13 cards of hearts, you'll find 81.
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Trivia Hive Answers
3
Daenerys Targaryen has three dragons which she originally received as a
wedding gift right as the War of the Five Kings was breaking out in Westeros.
Game of Thrones is based on a popular series of books called "A Song of
Ice and Fire" by author George R.R. Martin. Source: Game of Thrones Wiki
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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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