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January 30,
2017 Week: 05 \ Day: 30
86004 Today: H 35° \
L 29° Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 0mph\Gusts: 13mph Visibility: 10 mi
January Averages: 43°\17°
January Records: H: 66°
(1971) L: -30 (1937)
Record High: 66°[1971] Record Low: -19°[1979]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
My religion is very
simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Croissant Day Link
Inane Answering Message Day
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❆❆Observances
This Week❆❆
29-2/4
Childrens Authors and Illustrators Week
Catholic Schools Week
Meat Week
Tax Identity Theft Week
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
◈ 1487 Bell
chimes invented
◈ 1607 Massive
flooding in England destroys around 200 square miles of coastline and results
in approximately 2,000 casualties
◈ 1647 Scots
agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400
1781 Articles
of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland
1806 The
original Lower Trenton Toll Bridge, which spans the Delaware River between
Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
1815 Burned
US Library of Congress re-established with Thomas Jefferson's 6,500 volumes
◈ 1818 John
Keats composes his sonnet "When I Have Fears"
◈ 1820 British
explorer Edward Bransfield aboard Williams sights Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica
claims for Britain
◈ 1826 The
Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge,
connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened.
1835 Richard
Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. in
1st attempted assassination of a US President
1847 Yerba
Buena renamed San Francisco
◈ 1873 "Around
the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne is published in France by
Pierre-Jules Hetzel
1894 Pneumatic
hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
◈ 1911 1st
rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
1922 World
Law Day 1st celebrated
◈ 1928 1st
radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US
1928 Eugene
O'Neill's "Strange Interlude" premieres in NYC
1931 Charlie
Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater
1933 "Lone
Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio
◈ 1935 Ezra
Pound meets Benito Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"
1946 1st
issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
◈ 1948 5th
Winter Olympic Games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
◈ 1948 Mahatma
Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse
◈ 1952 Korean
War truce talks deadlock
1956 Elvis
Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
1956 KRMA TV channel 6 in
Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Martin
Luther King Jr.s home bombed
1957 US
Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"
1958 1st
2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx
1961 JFK asks
for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps
1961 KAET TV channel 8 in
Phoenix, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 2
members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid
collapsed during a performance in Detroit
◈ 1965 State
funeral of Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
Largest ever state funeral.
◈ 1972 'Bloody
Sunday': 27 unarmed civilians are shot (of whom 14 were killed) by the British
Army during a civil rights march in Derry; this is the highest death toll from
a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles'
1982 Richard
Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised
as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
1989 Five
Pharaoh sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
1989 Olympian,
Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a
drunk driving accident
1989 The
American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
1994 Dan
Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76)
1995 Kevin
Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"
1995 Workers
from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials
testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
◈ 2016 Boko
Haram militants on motorcycles attack Dalori village near Maiduguri, Nigeria,
killing at least 65 and injuring 136
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Taking
a break from this posting until late February. I will be cruising SE Asia. See you later.
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❆❆Brain
Teasers❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
Blank Change 4
Language brain teasers are those that involve
the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
In
the four sentences below, are two blanks. You must fill them in with words that
are either anagrams, synonyms, antonyms, or homonyms. You can only use each of
these one-time each sentence. Can you figure out each word?
1. The golfer has yelled out "____," ____ times today.
2. They began to ____ scones, and drink ____.
3. She used one ____ to look down at her wrist and see her ____.
4. He ran ____ the dog in order ____ not get bitten by it.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
What
philosopher pioneered a method of teaching based on cooperative argument and
question and answer sessions?
Aristotle
Socrates
Sophocles
Herodotus
60.9%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
2→Number of children that British Foreign Secretary Boris
Johnson has knocked to the ground during athletic matches
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❆❆2 Jokes
For The Day❆❆
My
boyfriend and I broke up.
He wanted to get married... I didn't want him to.
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A
lawyer named Strange passed away. His friend asked the tombstone maker to
inscribe on his tombstone, "Here lies Strange, an honest man, and a
lawyer."
The inscriber insisted that such an inscription would be confusing, for a
passerby would tend to think that three men were buried under the stone.
However, he suggested an alternative. He would inscribe, "Here lies a man
who was both honest and a lawyer."
That way, whenever anyone walked by the tombstone and read it, they would be
certain to remark, "That's Strange."
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*----
Woman Flew Through Tornado in Bathtub ----*
An incredibly lucky woman rode out a killer Texas tornado in a bathtub. The National
Weather Service forecast office described an 800-yard-wide tornado packing
winds of 130 mph that tore off the roof of a storage building and tossed a
party barge 200 yards into a grove of trees. But one woman who took shelter in
a bathtub got the ride of her life when the tornado lifted the tub out of the
home and deposited it in the woods with the woman still in the tub. Except for
some cuts and bruises the woman was not injured. In the absence of an
underground storm shelter, meteorologists frequently tell people to shelter in
a bathtub during a tornado because it is heavy and typically well-secured. And
in this case they weren't wrong. Unfortunately, her house was totaled.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@→ indicates
age at death
92- Dorothy Malone,
American actress (At Gunpoint, Night & Day, Peyton Place), born in Chicago,
Illinois
87- Gene Hackman, actor (Bonnie
& Clyde, Under Fire, The French Connection), born in San Bernardino
California
@86→ Dick Martin,
actor/comedian (Laugh-In, Carbon Copy), born in Detroit, [D 2008]
@85→ Gelett Burgess,
author (Purple Cow) [D 1951]
@84→ Emilio
G. Segrè, Italian physicist and Nobel laureate (discovered the elements
technetium, astatine and the sub-atomic antiparticle antiproton), born in
Tivoli, Italy (d. 1989)
@81→ David Wayne,
Traverse City Mich, actor (Andromeda Strain, Adams Rib) [D 1995]
80- Boris Spassky,
USSR, world chess champion (1969-72)
80- Vanessa Redgrave,
actress (Blow-Up, Julia, Orient Express), born in London, England
@78→ John Ireland,
actor (Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral), born in Vancouver, British Columbia [D
1992]
75- Dick Cheney, 46th US Vice
President, born in Lincoln, Nebraska
@73→ Max Theiler,
South African and American virologist who developed vaccine for Yellow Fever
(Nobel Prize 1951), born in Pretoria (d. 1972)
68- Peter Agre, American microbiologist
and Nobel laureate, born in Northfield, Minnesota
65- Phil Collins,
England, singer/drummer (Genesis-Against All Odds)
@63→ Franklin
Roosevelt, 32nd US President (Democrat: 1933-1945), born in Hyde Park, New York
(d. 1945)
59- Brett Butler,
comedienne (Grace-Grace Under Fire), born in Montgomery, Alabama
43- Christian Bale,
Wales, actor (Empire of the Sun, Little Women)
@42→ Payne Stewart, American PGA
golfer (1983 Walt Disney), born in Springfield, Missouri (d. 1999)
37- Wilmer
Valderrama, American actor (FEZ-that 70’s Show)
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@95-2016 Ken Sailors,
professional basketball player (popularized and may have invented the jump
shot)
@91-2015 Carl Djerassi, Austrian-born
American chemist, father of the contraceptive pill
@89-2007 Sidney Sheldon, American
author, playwright, and screenwriter
@89-1999 Ed Herlihy,
American broadcaster
@84-1836 Betsy Ross [Elizabeth
Griscom], American seamstress widely credited with making the first American
flag
@83-1991 John McIntire,
actor (Virginian, Psycho)
@78-1948 Mahatma
Gandhi,
India's political and spiritual leader, assassinated by Hindu extremists
@76-2009 Ingemar
Johansson, Swedish heavyweight professional boxing champion of the world, pneumonia/dementia
@76-1948 Orville Wright, US aviation
pioneer, heart attack
@75-1951 Ferdinand
Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), stroke
@72-1934 Frank Nelson
Doubleday, American publisher
@48-1649 Charles
I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason
@33ish-1838 Osceola, chief of
Seminole, infection
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❆❆Brain
Teasers Answers❆❆
1.
The golfer has yelled out "FORE," FOUR times today. (homonyms)
2. They began to EAT scones, and drink TEA. (Anagrams)
3. She used one EYE to look down at her wrist and see her WATCH. (Synonyms)
4. He ran FROM the dog in order TO not get bitten by it. (Antonyms)
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
Socrates
The
Socratic Method, named after Greek philosopher Socrates (470-399 BC) is a
school of learning where students are encouraged to engage in friendly debate,
conversation and questioning to challenge existing preconceptions and foster
critical thinking skills. Source: criticalthinking.org
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And
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