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12.17.16 Week: 50
\ Day: 352
December Averages:
44°\17° Rain
86004 Today: H 49° \ L 36°
Average Sky Cover: 95%
Wind ave: 15mph\Gusts:
23mph Visibility: 2 mi
Record High: 65°[1980]
Record Low: -14°[1928]
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Quote of the Day
Faith is taking the
first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
~Martin Luther
King, Jr.
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Observances
Today
A
Christmas Carol Day (Story)
Clean Air Day
Wright
Brothers Day
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Observances This
Week
10-17 Human Rights Week
14-1/5 Christmas Bird Count
Week Link
14-28 Halcyon Days (Always 7 days before and 7 days after the Winter
Solstice)
16-24 Las Posadas (Mexico 12/16-24)
17-23 Saturnalia-ancient Roman festival honoring Saturn, God of
Agriculture
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Today’s Significant
US Historical Events
▼ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
500's
▼1526 Pope
Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition
▼1538 Pope Paul
II excommunicates King Henry VIII of England 1
728 Congregation Shearith Israel of New York
purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan to build the city's first
synagogue
1700's
1777 George Washington's army returns to Valley
Forge, Pa
▼1790 Aztec
calendar stone discovered in Mexico City
1791 NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way
street
1800's
1821 Kentucky abolishes debtors' prisons
1852 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
1862 General Ulysses S. Grant issues
order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
▼1865 Franz
Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" premieres
1900's
▼1900 1st prize
of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians
excluded-considered too easy
1924 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters
service, Bronx, NY
1936 Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen & dummy Charlie
McCarthy, appear on TV
1957 The last episode of The Nat King Cole Show
airs on NBC due to lack of national sponsorship
1965 Astrodome opens, 1st event: Judy Garland & Supremes concert
1965 Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages
(50 cents)
▼1978 OPEC
raises oil prices by 18% and agrees on a 14.5% petrolium price increase for
1979, to be implemented quarterly
1979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record
for wheeled vehicle)
▼1983 The
Provisional IRA bombs Harrods department store in London, killing six people
and injuring 90
1989 The Simpsons, America's longest-running sitcom
debuts
▼1999 The
United Nations General Assembly passes resolution 54/134 designating November
25 as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
2000's
▼2013 Angela
Merkel is elected Chancellor of Germany for a third term
2013 Cat Stevens, Hall & Oates, Kiss, Linda
Ronstadt, and Nirvana are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
2015 Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals
is arrested on fraud charges in New York by the FBI
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Woke up this morning to overcast sky and heavy rain…yeah…rain, not snow…and
it is December. Strange.
Headed out for a quick haircut, returned home and did some laundry. Not
a day to be outside for very long. The
weatherman says snow by tonight, but I’ll wait and see. Way to warm for any
snow now.
Listened to Obama’s last 2016 press conference. Sadly, the first
question was not about Syria and the mess over there. Certainly a scar on the
Obama administration. Media more interested in Russian hacking. While agree
that is very important…at this minute…Allepo is a greater threat. Good answers
on all questions, including the Syrian thing. Not looking forward to any press
conferences after Jan. 20th. Probably won’t be many as long as
Twitter is up and running.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Who is This? #3
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You
need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
In this teaser, I have given you 4 words. Beside each word is a series
of letter groupings. Your task is to find the answer to the word on the left by
choosing one letter from each of the letter groups to the right of each clue.
Example:
Statuette: fro evi gse rpu lor nai ngd rep
Answer:
Fgo evI Gse rpU loR naI Ngd rEp = FIGURINE
1. Building: ant uhp yte alk ttr ase wrq
2. Kettledrum: qwt gig hjm klp all rnq tti
3. Image: ppo ghi kcl axt dug nrm eue
4. Music: sds fof uhk jnl dlk
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…Harper’s Index…
$292,000→Amount the Swiss municipality of Oberwildr-Lieli was
fined for refusing to admit Syrian refugees
10→Number of
refugees the Swiss federal government had asked it to admit
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2 jokes for the
day
A guy goes to the doctor.
Guy: "Doc, I think I broke my arm in three places."
Doctor: "Well, don't go to those places!"
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Eighty-year-old Bessie bursts into the recreation room of the retirement
home.
She holds her clenched fist in the air and announces, "Anyone who can
guess what's in my hand, can take me out to dinner tonight!"
A witty, elderly gentleman in the rear shouts out, "An elephant?"
Bessie thinks a minute and replies, "Close enough!"
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Gustave Eiffel designed his monument to the French Revolution in 1887 as
a grand entranceway to the 1889 International Exposition in Paris. Today, the
tower attracts more than six million visitors per year.
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Eiffel and his crew of 300 workers assembled the tower's 18,000 pieces
of iron in two years, two months and five days. They came in under budget and
on time for the start of the fair.
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Every seven years, at least 25 workers use approximately 60 tons of
paint to rustproof the tower.
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On a clear day, a person at the top of the Eiffel Tower can see about 42
miles in every direction.
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On the four sides of the tower, the names of 72 famous French scientists
and engineers are engraved to honor their national contributions.
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Heat from the sun can cause the tower to expand up to 3/4 of an inch.
During the cold winter months, the tower shrinks approximately six inches.
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Birthdays Today
▼ indicates
age at death
80's
▼84- Arthur
Fiedler, conductor (Boston Pops), born in Boston, Massachusetts [d1979]
▼81- John
Kerr, System physicist (electro-visually Kerr-effect)[d2013]
80- Pope Francis [Jorge
Mario Bergoglio], Catholic Pope (2013-) 1st Jesuit pope, 1st from the Americas
and 1st non-European pope since Syrian Gregory III in 741, born in Buenos
Aires, Argentina
70's
▼79- William Safire,
political columnist (NY Times)/speech writer (Nixon), (d. 2009)
▼79- Bob Guccione,
[Robert C J Edwa], US publisher (Penthouse, Omni), (d. 2010)
▼71 Willard Frank Libby,
parachute, Colorado, American chemist (carbon-14 "atomic clock" -
Nobel 1960) [d1980]
71- Jacqueline
Wilson, English children’s author
60's
69- Wes
Studi, Cherokee actor (Last of the Mohicans)
63- Barry
Livingston, actor (Ernie-My 3 Sons), born in Los Angeles, California
40's
▼47- Richard
Long, actor (Prof-Nanny & the Professor), born in Chicago, [d1974]
47- Chuck
Liddell, American mixed martial artist
41- Milla
Jovovich, Kiev Ukraine, actress (Return to Blue Lagoon,
Chaplin)
30's
38- Manny
Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and the 1st eight-division world
champion, born in Kibawe, Bukidnon, Philippines
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Historical Obits
Today
80's
@88-2012 Daniel
K. Inouye, American politician
@83-1992 Dana
Andrews, American actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura)
70's
@78-1999 Rex
Allen, American actor, singer and songwriter. Caretaker accidently ran over him
@70-2011 Kim
Jong-il, supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK), suspected
heart attack
60's
@69-2010 Captain
Beefheart [Don
Van Vliet], American musician, MS
@65ish-1273 Rumi, Persian poet, scholar and
mystic
40's
@47-1830 Simón
Bolívar, South American revolutionary and president (Colombia)
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Brain Teasers
Answers
1. Building: THEATER
2. Kettledrum: TIMPANI
3. Image: PICTURE
4. Music: SOUND
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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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