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12.15.16 Week: 50 \ Day: 350
December Averages: 44°\17°
86004 Today: H 57° \
L 26° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 12mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 63°[1929] Record Low: -14°[1931]
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Quote of the Day
The universe seems
neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
~Carl Sagan
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Observances Today
Cat Herders Day
National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day Link
Underdog Day
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Observances This Week
10-17 Human Rights
Week
14-1/5Christmas
Bird Count Week Link
14-28 Halcyon
Days (Always 7 days before and 7 days after the Winter Solstice)
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
▼ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
1400’s
▼1488 Bartolomeu Dias returns
to Portugal after becoming 1st known European to sail round the Cape of Good
Hope
1600’s
▼1612 German Astronomer Simon
Marius is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
1700’s
1791 US Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gives
its approval, becomes amendments 1-10 of the US constitution
1792 1st life insurance policy issued in US
(Philadelphia)
1800’s
1810 1st Irish magazine in US, Shamrock, is
published
1836 Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
1854 1st street cleaning machine in US-1st used in Philadelphia
1877 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph
1893 Dvoráks "From the New World"
premieres at Carnegie Hall NYC
1900’s
1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial
in Washington, D.C.
1939 "Gone With the Wind" premieres in
Atlanta
1939 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn,
Seaford, Delaware
1941 The American Federation of Labor adopts a
no-strike policy in war industries.
1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over
English Channel
▼1944 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces
for Allah) forms
1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
1950 NYC's Port Authority opens
1952 Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a
sex-change operation
▼1956 Emergency crisis in North
Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes
▼1964 1st time 4 people in
space
▼1965 3rd cyclone of year kills
15,000 at the mouths of the Ganges River in Bangladesh
1973 American Psychiatric Association declares
homosexuality is not a mental illness
1976 Oil tanker Argo Merchant runs aground on the
Nantucket Shoals, spilling 7.6 m million gallons of fuel oil - one of the largest
oil spills at sea
▼1979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US
for Panama
1992 Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated
Sportsman of Year
1993 "Schindler's List", directed by Steven
Spielberg and starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes, is
released (Best Picture 1994)
▼ 1995 Playboy
goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland
▼2001 The
Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it,
without fixing its famous lean.
2004 "Million Dollar Baby", directed by Clint
Eastwood and starring Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman is
released (Best Picture 2005)
2006 B.B. King is awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush ▼2013 China
successfully lands its moon rover on the moon
2015 Mayor of Flint, Michigan declares state of
emergency over contaminated water supplies amid calls for a criminal
investigation
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My Rambling Thoughts
Weekly
trip to Sam’s and grocery store were successful. Gas is down to $2/gallon…Nice!
Announced
cabinet appointments just leave me with my mouth hanging open. I never got on
the Trump train, or thought he had a chance to win. This Electoral College proposed
revolt is interesting but I don’t see it going anywhere.
Everyone
needs to hold their breath until next week to see what the Maricopa Sheriff
(Joe Arpaio) has to say. He claims to be announcing his latest discovery on the
Obama birth certificate. He was just re-elected by the good people of Maricopa
County…that is Phoenix and surrounding areas. And it sounds like he ain’t gonna
let the end of Obama’s term deter him from proving Obama was never even
eligible to be in office. So much for reconciliation in AZ.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Alternate
Definitions III
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
The
following are alternate definitions for words, based on how the words sound.
For example, "To drive by the docks: P _ _ _ _ _ _ _." would result
in "PASSPORT (Pass Port)". Can you guess the words described below?
1. What white bears see with: P _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
2. A car's memoirs: A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
3. How judges get to a small island: C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
4. To live long: D _ _ _ _ _.
5. How good a fibber one is: L _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
6. In favor of young men and women: P _ _ _ _ _ _.
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“Contronym”—word that is its own antonym
Toss
out could be either "to suggest" or "to discard":
“I decided to toss out the idea.”
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Candy Cane Facts
Candy
canes contain no fat, and though they’re certainly high in sugar, an average
five-inch candy cane contains only 50
calories.
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…Harper’s Index…
-75→Percentage change over the past year in the number
of foreign fighters joining the Islamic State each month
22→Factor by which the number of American troops in
Iraq has increased since the Islamic State’s offensive of June 2014
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2 jokes for the day
How
come the lifeguard couldn't save the hippie?
He was just too far out man.
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Being
a teenager and getting a tattoo seem to go hand and hand these days. I wasn’t
surprised when one of my daughter’s friends showed me a delicate little
Japanese symbol on her hip. "Please don’t tell my parents," she
begged.
"I won’t," I promised. "You're 18 now, so I guess it's your
choice. By the way, what does that stand for?"
"Honesty," she said.
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Yep, It Really Happened
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Fake Dentist Pulls Teeth Without Anesthetic -*
People
who wanted to save money on their medical bills, suffered immense pain after a
fake dentist pulled their teeth without anesthetics, according to police in
Florida. The Manatee County Sheriff's Office said that they have arrested
53-year-old Robert Rheinlander, after being accused of offering cheap dental
care without being licensed. According to the police investigation, Rheinlander
offered cheap dental services out of his customers' homes. He claimed to have
practiced dentistry in South Carolina before moving to the state. When police
investigated Rheinlander, they found that he was not a dentist. One victim told
police that Rheinlander had removed about 10 teeth without anesthesia and had
dentures done. As a result, she suffered a lot of pain. Rheinlander was
arrested after an undercover agent arranged to meet with him to perform dental
work.
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Birthdays Today
▼ indicates age at death
100’s
▼104- Oscar Niemeyer,
Brazilian architect (Brasilia), (d. 2012)
90’s
▼91- Gustave Eiffel [Alexandre],
French engineer (Eiffel tower), (d. 1923)
80’s
▼83- J.
Paul Getty, oil magnate (Getty Oil), born in Minneapolis,
Minnesota (d. 1976)
83- Tim
Conway, Willoughby Oh, comic (McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show)
70’s
▼76- Charles Edgar Duryea,
inventor (1st auto built & operated in US)[d1938]
▼75- Betty Smith, novelist (A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn) [d1972]
50’s
▼55- Henri Becquerel [Antoine
], discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903), (d. 1908)
40’s
▼42- Jeff Chandler, [Ira
Grossel], American actor (Broken Arrow), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1961)
30’s
37- Adam
Brody, American actor
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Historical Obits Today
@91-2009 Oral
Roberts, American television evangelist and author (b. 1918)
@88-2010 Blake
Edwards, American film director (b. 1922)
@76-1978 Chill
Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), cancer
@65-1966 Walt
[Walter] Disney, animator, producer and co-founder of Walt Disney Co,
lung cancer
@59ish-1890 Sitting
Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US Police
@40-1944 Glenn
Miller, US band leader/jazz composer, plane crash
@39-1943 Thomas
W "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), pneumonia
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
Polarize (polar eyes)
2. Autobiography (auto biography)
3. Courtship (court ship)
4. Dilate (die late)
5. Liability (lie ability)
6. Protein (pro-teen)
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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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