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January 10, 2017 Week: 02 \ Day: 10
86004 Today: H 52° \ L 36°
Average Sky Cover: 95%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts:
17mph Visibility: 10 mi
January Averages:
43°\17°
January Records:
H: 66° (1971) L: -30
(1937)
Record High: 65°[1990]
Record Low: -15°[1937]
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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆
Education is what
survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
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❆❆Observances Today❆❆
League of Nations Day
National Cut Your Energy Costs Day
National Poetry at Work Day
Stephen Foster Day
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❆❆Observances This Week❆❆
8-14
Dating & Life Coaches
Recognition Week
Home Office Safety and Security Week
National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link
10-13
No Tillage Week
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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
◈ 1429 Order
of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain
◈ 1514 Complutensian
New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished
1776 "Common Sense" Pamphlet by Thomas
Paine, published advocating American independence
◈ 1806 Dutch
in Capetown surrender to British
◈ 1845 Poets Elizabeth
Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding
◈ 1863 1st
underground railway opens in London
1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard
Oil
◈ 1893 Richard
Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St Petersburg
1901 Oil discovered in Texas
1910 Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W
46th St NYC
1911 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San
Diego
1916 In retaliation for President Wilson's
recognition of the Carranza government, members of Pacho Villa's revolutionary
army take 17 American mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold
blood
◈ 1928 Soviet
Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
1943 1st US president to visit a foreign country in
wartime - FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
◈ 1946 UN
General Assembly meets for 1st time (London)
1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record
1951 UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth", directed and
produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring James Stewart and Carlton Heston,
premieres in New York (Best Picture 1953)
1964 US version of "That Was The Week That
Was," premieres
1966 Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature
for opposing Vietnam War
1967 PBS
(the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
◈ 1969 Sweden
(1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam
◈ 1971 Irish
Republican Army (IRA) carry out a 'punishment attack', tarring and feathering 4
men accused of criminal activities in Belfast
1973 For
the first time graduates studying from home with 'the Open University' receive
their degrees
1984 Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the
Beef?"
◈ 1990 China
lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
1999 "The Sopranos", starring James
Gandolfini as mobster Tony Soprano, debuts on HBO
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
More and more insane weather…today is rain and overcast…in January…in
the middle of the winter…at 7000’.
Did some early morning running around, more to get out and about than
any necessary shopping. I didn’t go out during the weekend, so needed to just
get out.
SMH wondering what this country would be like if every time someone had
made a negative comment about Obama, he had taken to twitter or called news
agencies to comment about the person making the comment. I guess I’ll just keep
reading the sign over my computer ‘THIS IS NOT NORMAL’.
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❆❆Brain Teasers❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
Missing in the Middle 3
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You
need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Fill in the middle word. This word should correspond with the first and
last word.
1) Red ________________ Bulb
2) Green ______________ Leaf
3) Blue _______________ Ball
4) Silver ______________ Saver
5) Gold _______________ Shaft
6) White ______________ Smart
7) Black ______________ Brain
8) Orange _____________ Pouch
9) Peach ______________ Top
10) Brown _____________ Cookie
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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
Which country backs "Bitcoin" as currency?
USA
Russia
China
European Union
None
70.0% go this right on the internet
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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆
1/5→Portion of US cities
that failed to meet World Health Organization guidelines for air-pollution
levels last year
3/5→Of European cities
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❆❆New Trivia❆❆
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends with the letters
"MT."
An average human body has 60,000 miles of blood vessels; they’d stretch
the entire earth if you laid them out end to end.
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❆❆2 Jokes For The Day❆❆
I'm not saying that the customer service in my bank is bad...
But when I went in the other day and asked the clerk to check my balance . . .
.
She leaned over and pushed me!
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A: Just look at that young person with the short hair and blue jeans. Is
it a boy or a girl?
B: It’s a girl. She’s my daughter.
A: Oh, I’m sorry, sir. I didn’t know that you were her father.
B: I’m not. I’m her MOTHER.
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❆❆Yep, It Really Happened❆❆
There is a little bit of poetic justice to this story. Apparently it is
illegal to use harpoons for fishing in certain areas of Brazil from November
through January. Which is why it was a bit suspicious for a local fisherman to
seek emergency medical treatment for a harpoon in the face.
27-year-old Hugo Pereira da Silva was out fishing with a friend at the Rio
Paranaiba dam in Araguari when the 3 foot spear pierced his face. The spear was
just inches away from causing more serious injuries, even death.
Araguari fire department Deputy Lt. Lucenildo Batista Alves said:
"Unfortunately, they were not careful with the positioning, the distance.
And the waters of the river in our region are murky, especially in the very
dirty rainy season."
The harpoon-headed fisherman was treated, and he has been released from the
hospital.
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❆❆Somewhat Useless Information❆❆
Pacific Island robber crabs love coconuts so much that they have
developed the ability to climb trees to satisfy their cravings.
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The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360
degrees.
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The electric eel can produce 350 to 550 volts of electricity up to 150
times per hour without any apparent fatigue.
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Spider silk is five times stronger than steel, but it is also highly
elastic - a rare combination in materials.
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A large parrot's beak can exert 500 pounds of pressure per square inch,
enabling the bird to feast on such delicacies as Brazil nuts with a simple
crunch.
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Wasps can make paper by mixing wood pulp with saliva to form a paste,
which dries stiff.
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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆
◈→ indicates age at death
◈80ish→ George
Washington Carver, agricultural scientist [D1943]
78- David
Horowitz, American author and political commentator
◈76→ Abraham
L Breguet, French clock maker [D1823]
◈72→ Frank
James, American outlaw (member of the James-Younger
gang), born in Clay County, Missouri (d. 1915)
◈72→ Frank
Sinatra Jr, American singer/bandleader (Golddigers), born in Jersey City, New
Jersey (d. 2016)
72- Rod Stewart,
British singer (Maggie Mae, Do You Think I'm Sexy), born in London, England
68- George Foreman,
Marshall Texas, American World Heavyweight boxing champ; Grill salesman
◈66→ Charles
Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
64 Pat
Benatar, [Andrezejewski], American singer (Hell Is for Children), born in
Brooklyn
◈63→ Mary
Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
49- Lyle
Menendez, NY, accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers)
◈37→ Sal
Mineo, American actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), born in NYC, [D1976]
◈30→ Jim
Croce, rock vocalist (Time in a Bottle) (d. 1973), born in Philadelphia [D1973]
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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆
@94-2007 Carlo
Ponti, Italian film producer (D2007)
@87-1971 Gabrielle
"Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer
@86-1980 George
Meany, American labor leader ((AFL-CIO)
@70-1917 William
"Buffalo Bill" Cody, American Wild West hunter and showman (Buffalo
Bill's Wild West)
@70-1778 Carolus linaeus "Carl
von Linne", Swedish botanist/explorer, stroke
@65-1951 Harry
Sinclair Lewis, US writer (Nobel 1930), alcoholism
@63-1981 Richard
Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel), throat cancer
@49-1883 Dr
Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor, pneumonia
@47-1862 Samuel
Colt, American inventor (6 shot revolver), gout
@37-1654 Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist,
herbalist, physician, and astrologer. TB
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❆❆Brain Teasers Answers❆❆
1) Light
2) Tea
3) Cheese
4) Screen
5) Mine
6) Out
7) Bird
8) Juice
9) Tree
10) Sugar
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❆❆Trivia Hive
Answers❆❆
None
Even though it sounds like the coolest idea ever, you may want to
rethink using the Bitcoin. Bitcoins are peer-to-peer recognized not by a
country or corporation like how we back the U.S. Dollar and the Brits back the
Pound. This can cause some problems. For example, a web designer was just let
off the hook in Miami for Bitcoin laundering on a count of it not actually
being a form of currency. That means all those people that thought that getting
paid in Bitcoin counts may as well have been getting paid in compliments
instead. Source: The Skimm
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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
That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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