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12.4.16 Week: 49 \ Day: 339
December Averages: 44°\17°
86004 Today: H 41° \
L 25° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 20mph\Gusts: +mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 67°[1965] Record Low: -4°[1955]
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Quote of the Day
Strength and growth
come only through continuous effort and struggle.
~Napoleon Hill
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Observances Today
National Cookie Day Link
National Dice Day
World Wildlife Conservation Day Link
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Observances This Week
1-7
Cookie Cutter Week Link
3-10
Clerc-Gallaudet Week
4-10
National Hand Washing Awareness Week Link
Recipe Greetings For The
Holidays Week
Computer Science Education Week Link
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
▼Today’s World Historical Highlights
▼1154 Adrian IV
elected Pope. The only Englishman to become pontiff, Nicholas Breakspear was a
member of the family which until recent years brewed beer in Henley-on-Thames,
Oxfordshire.
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▼1534 Ottoman
Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent occupies Baghdad
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▼1791 Britain's
Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, first published
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1816 James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres,
defeating Federalist Rufus King
▼1829 Britain
outlaws "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her
husband's funeral pyre)
1843 Manila paper (made from sails, canvas &
rope) patented, Mass
1844 James Knox Polk elected 11th US President
1867 Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley
founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the
Grange).
1881 The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is
published.
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1915 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton
County, Ga
1915 Henry Ford's peace ship, Oscar II, sails for
Europe 'to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas'
1918 US President Woodrow Wilson sails
for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st President to travel outside US
while in office
1923 Cecil B. DeMille's first version of "The
Ten Commandments" premieres
1927 Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in
Harlem
1942 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress
Administration
1954 The first Burger King is opened in Miami,
Florida, USA
1961 Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le
Bateau upside down for 47 days
▼1961 The female
contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on the National Health Service in
Britain
1981 Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence
(No 12333) that allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
1990 Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per
gallon price in NYC
▼1992 Somali
Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to
Somalia in Northeast Africa.
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▼2014 The United
Nations warns that the world is on course for the warmest year since records
began
2014 US authorities promise a "fair"
investigation into the death of African American Eric Garner, after a white New
York City police officer held him in a choke-hold faces no charges
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My Rambling Thoughts
Quiet,
lazy, chilly Saturday. Woke up about 4a and couldn’t get back to sleep. Finally
got up about 6a. Tired, but can’t seem
to get any sleep, so day is spent watching Netflix.
I’ve
said that I won’t comment of our President-elect until he actually takes
office. It is getting harder and harder
to bit my tongue with some of his outrageous antics. A few years ago I visited
Taiwan for a couple of days. It is a beautiful place. We were the first
American tourist group that our local provider had ever had. They packed our
days full of things to see and do, in hopes, I’m sure, of getting more American
business. It was obvious that there was a very delicate balance between the
governments of Taiwan and Mainland China. I only hope that the President-elect
has not unbalanced anything that will harm the people of Taiwan. President
Obama’s opening of Cuba is totally different than this situation. Neither made
sense to many Americans. Cuba had no internationally powerful friends assisting
it. China sees Taiwan as one of their provinces. Bumpy ride ahead for sure.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Usually 50
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a
question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a
requirement.
I
have many numbers, usually 50. But, of those numbers, showing are only 13 minus
3.
I am usually heavy, though I am small in size. I can be used for storing a
prize!
I come with a special code of sorts, usually numbers 3. Sometimes memorization
can be hard, or easy!
What Am I?
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“Contronym”—word that is its own antonym
Help means
‘assist,’ unless you can’t help doing something, when it means ‘prevent.’
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
What
is Bart Simpson's middle name?
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…Harper’s Index…
$175,000 – Amount spent by UD Davis to remove
online mentions of a campus police officer who pepper-sprayed students
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2 jokes for the day
Question:
Who takes care of the farm when the farmer is sick?
Answer: The pharmacist.
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Called
to the scene of a magnificent celestial display, the professor watched as a
bright object dashed through the skies over New Mexico.
When he returned to his observatory, reporters asked him if what he had seen
was really a UFO.
Looking them straight in the eye, the impassive scientist replied, “No comet.”
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Yep, It Really Happened
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"Ay, Yo! Get Me Outta Dis Vent!" ------*
Police
found and arrested a New York man stuck in an air vent after he allegedly
attempted to break into a local pizzeria. The man was found lodged in a vent in
the roof of a Pontillo's pizzeria in Penfield when Monroe County Sheriff's
deputies responded to reports of a man yelling. The alleged attempted burglar
was identified as 44-year-old Richard Graham of Rochester and was transported
to a local hospital where he was treated for minor injuries. "He was as
far down as he could go without coming out on top of an oven," Penfield
assistant fire chief Earl Lubanski told the Democrat and Chronicle. "The
ductwork got narrower as you get down closer to the kitchen." Cpl. John
Helfer of Monroe County Sheriff's Office said Graham caused $2,000 in damages
and was arraigned on charges of third-degree burglary, second-degree criminal
mischief and possession of burglary tools.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Wishing
on eyelashes was common folklore in the mid-19th century. A fallen eyelash is
placed on the back of the hand before the wisher throws it over their shoulder.
If the eyelash gets stuck, the wish does not come true. A Cornish schoolgirl
version dictates that the eyelash should be placed on the tip of the nose; if
she blows it off, she'll get her wish.
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Ptolemy, Greco-Egyptian writer and astronomer, believed that shooting stars
were a sign that the gods were looking down and listening to wishes.
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The origin of society's fascination with the number sequence 11:11 is murky at
best, but it's safe to say it has to do with its satisfying symmetry.
Numerologists like Uri Geller believe that the number follows people and occurs
too frequently to be coincidence.
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In the mid-19th century, many British children believed that if you crossed
paths with a white horse, you could make a wish. Others would count the white
horses they saw and would make a wish after reaching a hundred.
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Young girls commonly used dandelions in the 1800s for romantic and oracular
purposes. It was believed that if you blew on a dandelion and all the seeds
flew away, your loved one returned the feelings; if any seeds remained, they
might have reservations or no feelings at all.
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According to European folklore, wishing wells were homes for deities, or gifts
from gods. Water is a valuable commodity; many early European tribes treated
wells as shrines and often placed small statues of gods nearby. People would come
to the wells to pray and ask for assistance from the gods.
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Birthdays Today
▼ indicates age at death
▼85- Thomas Carlyle,
Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution)
83- Wink
Martindale, Jackson Tn, TV host (Tic-Tac-Dough, Can You Top This)
▼82- Francisco Franco [
y Bahamonde], Ferrol Galicia, Spanish General and Dictator (1936-75), (d. 1975)
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79- Max
Baer Jr, actor (Jethro-Beverly Hillbillies), born in Oakland, California
▼ 75- Pappy
Boyington, American pilot (d. 1988)
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▼67- John
Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony [d1652]
67- Jeff
Bridges, actor (Stay Hungry, Against All Odds), born in Los Angeles, California
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▼54- Victor
French, actor (Highway to Heaven), born in Santa Barbara, Ca [d1989]
52- Marisa
Tomei, American actress (My Cousin Vinny), born in Brooklyn, New York
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47- Jay
Z [Shawn Carter], American rapper and record producer (Reasonable Doubt, The
Blueprint), born in Brooklyn, New York City
43- Tyra
Banks, Inglewood, California, model/actress (Higher
Learning, Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
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▼36/37 Crazy Horse [Tashunka
Witko], Fort Robinson Nebraska, Oglala Sioux chief (Battle of the Little
Bighorn)
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Historical Obits Today
@91-1679 Thomas
Hobbes, English philosopher
@90-1993 Margaret
Landon, US author (Anna & the King of Siam)
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@85-2015 Robert
Loggia, American actor (Officer & a Gentleman, Scarface)
@83-1123 Omar
Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher
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@72-1967 Bert
Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic (Wizard of Oz), cancer
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@51-1902 Charles
Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company - Wall Street Journal)
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Brain Teasers Answers
A
combination lock.
Combination locks come with around 50 numbers on them. 13-3 is 10, which is the
number of the numbers on the actual dial, the others are represented by
notches.
Locks are heavy, being made from steel, and small. Locks could be put on a
cabinet to store your prize.
With a lock comes your code, which you need to know to open it.
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Trivia Hive
Answers
JoJo
The
answer is: JoJo! Both father (Homer) and son (Bart) share the same middle
initial: "J." Middle names are an important subject in Simpson's
lore, as the quest to find Homer's middle name was the subject of a popular
episode. The mystery was solved when Homer found out his middle name was
"Jay." Source: Simpsons 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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