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12.7.16 Week: 49 \ Day: 342
December Averages: 44°\17°
86004 Today: H 47° \
L 26° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 12mph\Gusts: 27mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 66°[1958] Record Low: -19°[1978]
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Quote of the Day
The weak can never
forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~Mahatma Gandhi
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Observances Today
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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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
5-9 Cookie Exchange Week
International
Coelenterate Biology Week Link
Older Driver Safety Awareness Week Link
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
▼ Today’s World
Historical Highlights
1700’s
▼1732 The
Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
1787 Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify the US
constitution
1800’s
▼1804 Naturalist Alexander
von Humboldt reports his discovery of the decrease in intensity of Earth's
magnetic field from the poles to the equator in a memoir to the Paris Institute
1808 James Madison elected 4th US President
and George Clinton Vice-President 1836 Martin Van Buren elected
8th president
1900’s
1907 Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing
ring
1917 US becomes 13th country to declare war on
Austria during World War I
1926 Gas
refrigerator patented
1934 Wiley
Post discovers jet stream
▼1949 Chiang
Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
1952 KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO
(CBS) 1st broadcast
▼1960 Ivory
Coast claims independence from France
▼1965 Pope
Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual
excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
▼1976 UN
Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General for second 5 year
term
▼1986 Pres Jean-Claude
Duvalier flees Haiti
2000’s
2015 Time Magazine readers name Bernie Sanders their
'person of the year'
▼2015 Beijing
issues its 1st ever red alert for pollution
2015 US
Presidential candidate Donald Trump proposes banning all Muslims from
entering the US
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My Rambling Thoughts
Windy
day but a promise of warmer weather soon. I took off for some Christmas
shopping. Found what I was looking for and at a reasonable price. Parking lot
to store was very windy. Back to the car was the same.
Since
the election I’ve seen lots of ‘the last time President Obama will…’. A good review of the last 8 years. He is
certainly a great speaker that emboldens us all to do better.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Eye Rhymes 3
Language brain teasers are those that involve
the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
In
each sentence below, two words are incomplete. The two words end in the same
three letters, so they look like they should rhyme, but they don't. See if you
can figure out the missing letters in each sentence.
Example: One symptom of bronchitis is a ro___ co___. (The two words are: rough
& cough.)
1. A pig farmer's job could be called p___ w___.
2. A dog injury could be called a ho___ wo___.
3. For racing, a mixed ho___ is wo___ than a thoroughbred.
4. I he___ your be___ has been shaved into a goatee.
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“Contronym”—word that is its own antonym
Fight
with can be interpreted three ways. “He fought with his mother-in-law”
could mean "They argued," "They served together in the
war," or "He used the old battle-ax as a weapon." (Thanks to
linguistics professor Robert Hertz for this idea.)
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Candy Cane Facts
The
very first candy canes were simply white sticks of candy. The first published candy cane recipe came in 1844; the
red stripes were there but there was no curve.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
Who
was just chosen as the new Senate Minority Leader?
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…Harper’s Index…
30 – Number of times Donald Trump said a variant of the word
‘win’ in an Albany campaign speech
35 – Percentage of US voters who think that presidential
primaries effectively determine the best-qualified nominees
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Somewhat Useless Information
Nearly
2,000 years before Homer, during the time of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, blonde
hair was connected to the worship of the sun and fire and to the adoration of a
yellow dawn goddess.
During the Roman era German blondes were taken captive and had their hair cut
off to be made into wigs for fashionable ladies.
But by the Middle Ages, blonde women were held with suspicion, and by the
mid-14th century, depictions of Eve were consistently giving her free-flowing
locks of golden blonde hair that marked her as an evil temptress.
In
Ancient Rome, women tried to dye their hair blonde with pigeon dung. In
Renaissance Venice, they used horse urine.
Hydrogen peroxide was discovered in 1818, but there was little application for
it until 1867 when it was found that it could bleach hair. It quickly became
popular throughout Europe and America, superseding everything else that had
been used as bleach before then.
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Birthdays Today
▼ indicates age at death
90’s
▼98- Eli
Wallach, American actor (Magnificent 7, Misfits, People Next Door), born in
Brooklyn New York, (d. 2014)
80’s
88- Noam
Chomsky, linguist (founded transformational grammar)
84- Ellen
Burstyn, actress (Exorcist, Alice Doesn't Live Here), born in Detroit, Michigan
▼81- Giovanni Bernini,
Naples, Kingdom of Naples, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy), (d. 1680)
70’s
▼75- Saint
Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)
60’s
69- Johnny
Bench, MLB catcher (Reds), born in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma
▼67- Louis
Prima, New Orleans Luisiana, American musician (That Old Black Magic) [d1978]
67- Tom
Waits, California, rocker/song writer (Blue Valentine)
▼62- Ted
Knight, Terryville, Connecticut, American actor (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close
for Comfort) [d1986]
60- Larry
Bird, West Baden, Indiana, NBA star (Boston Celtics, 12-time NBA All Star)
50’s
50- C
Thomas Howell, actor (Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man), born in Los Angeles,
California
30’s
▼38 Harry Chapin, American rock vocalist (Taxi, Cat's
in the Cradle), born in NYC, [d1981]
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@96-2011 Harry
Morgan, American actor (Colonel Potter-M*A*S*H)
80’s
@87-1970 Rube
Goldberg, US cartoonist (Mike & Ike, Pulitzer 1948)
@80-2006 Jeane
Kirkpatrick, American ambassador
70’s
@70-1985 Potter
Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice (1958-81), stroke
60’s
@63-100 Cicero, Roman politician and orator, killed as part of the
proscriptions
@62-1902 Thomas
Nast, US political cartoonist [popularized Uncle Sam and Dem. Donkey],
yellow fever
50’s
@59-2014 Ken
Weatherwax, American actor, heart attack
@52-1990 Delecta
"Dee" Clark, US singer (Raindrops), heart attack
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
pork work
2. hound wound
3. horse worse
4. heard beard
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Chuck
Schumer
Sen.
Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has represented New York since 1999. He'll replace
outgoing Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), who will retire from the
Senate at the end of this year. During his announcement speech Schumer spoke
about uniting the Democratic Party to serve work for all Americans. Source: USA
Today
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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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