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January 11, 2017 Week: 02 \ Day: 11
86004 Today: H 53° \ L 32°
Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind ave: 15mph\Gusts:
22mph Visibility: 10 mi
January Averages:
43°\17°
January Records:
H: 66° (1971) L: -30
(1937)
Record High: 63°[1990]
Record Low: -23°[1923]
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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆
It is not enough to
have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
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❆❆Observances Today❆❆
Cigarettes Are Hazardous To Your
Health Day
Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day Link
National Human Trafficking Awareness Day Link
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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
11-18
Cuckoo Dancing Week
National Soccer Coaches of America Week
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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
◈ 1569 1st
recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Paul's Cathedral
1759 1st American life insurance company
incorporated, Philadelphia
◈ 1765 Frisia
bans Voltaire's "Traité sur la tolérance"
1785 Continental Congress convenes in NYC
1787 Titania
& Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
1805 Michigan Territory organizes
1813 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii
1838 1st public demonstration of telegraph message
sent using dots & dashes at Speedwell Ironworks, Morristown, New Jersey by Samuel
Morse and Alfred Vail
1849 Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman in
US to earn medical degree
◈ 1861 Mexico
City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform
1861 Alabama secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1873 1st livestock market newspaper published,
Drover's Journal, Chicago
◈ 1879 Zulu
war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
1913 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at
13th Auto Show (NYC)
◈ 1922 Insulin
first used on humans to treat diabetes - Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada
1935 Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to
Oakland Ca (non-stop, of course)
1949 Snowfall 1st recorded in Los
Angeles
1963 1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA
1963 Beatles release "Please Please Me"
& "Ask Me Why"
1966 "Daktari" African adventure series
premieres on CBS TV
◈ 1970 Irish
republican political party Sinn Féin party splits between those in favor of
abstentionism (of not taking any seats won in the parliaments) and those where
against
◈ 1972 East-Pakistan
becomes independent state of Bangladesh
1973 Trial
of Watergate burglars begins in Washington, D.C.
1990 Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10
winningest coach (229)
◈ 2007 Author J.
K. Rowling finishes the 7th and last Harry Potter novel in room 552 of the
Bamoral Hotel, Edinburgh
◈ 2015 Kolinda
Grabar-Kitarović is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Croatia
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Small freak out yesterday. H&R Block called, as expected, to tell me
that I may owe $5700 to CA, even though they only want about $3500. Incompetent
crazy lady says that my tax guy electronically filed a CA return in 2014
showing that I owed $5700. Of course there is no copy of that anywhere and I
would have remembered that amount. I know that when you owe money to a state,
you can’t file electronically as you also need to include a check. So whatever she
is looking at is not correct. She has agreed to have the District Manager
review her work and will call me on Wed. with news. This is crazy. Since Donald
doesn’t seem to pay income tax, maybe he will simply abolish the IRS. I can
only hope.
Cheryl came into town today so we had lunch with our retirement group.
Nice. Cheryl fell last week and really bruised up her arm, but is doing OK now.
Mary is preparing for her Ireland trip in April. After a good lunch, I stopped
and got my necessary 2 passport photos for my upcoming trip. It seems that 2 of
the countries we are visiting place a passport photo on the visa. Interesting.
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❆❆Brain Teasers❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
In Thyme But Not in Time...
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that
needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
My first is in riddle, but not in little.
My second is in think, but not in brink.
My third is in thyme, but not in time.
My fourth is in mother, but not in brother.
My last is in time, but not in climb.
What am I?
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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
In 1977, NASA launched the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Each
vessel contained what unique item in its cargo hold?
39.5% of those taking this quiz on the internet got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆
4/5→Estimated portion of US
public swimming pools that are in violation of health and safety regulations.
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❆❆New Trivia❆❆
In 1962, an epidemic of laughing broke out and lasted for almost a year
in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
A single mega-colony of ants spreads across Europe,
the west coast of the U.S., and the west coast of Japan. Argentine
ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same
inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another. The colony may
be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival
humans in the scale of its world domination.
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❆❆2 Jokes For The Day❆❆
Tony was a pianist and was practicing late one night. There was a tap on
the door, when he opened it his landlord was standing outside the door.
The landlord asked, “Do you know there is a sick lady upstairs?"
Tony answered, “No, I haven’t heard that song. Can you please hum it a
little?"
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A woman who ran to the mall for a quick errand lost her purse, but an
honest teenage boy returned it to her.
The woman looked inside her purse and remarked, "That's strange. Earlier I
had a $20 bill inside, but now it's gone, and instead I see two fives and a
ten."
"That's right," the boy explained. "The last time I found a
lady's purse, she did not have change for a reward."
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❆❆Somewhat Useless Information❆❆
The term "opera" comes from the Latin opus, or
"work."
Opera was the fruit of the Italian Renaissance. In the final decade of the
sixteenth century, a group of artists, musicians, and poets who called
themselves the Florentine Camerata met there to revive Greek drama and
developed an opera in musica: a work in music. Galileo's father, Vincenzo
Galilei was reportedly a member.
The earliest surviving opera (written by Jacopo Peri and Ottavio Rinuccini) is
Euridice which was performed in Florence in 1600. Opera quickly spread from
Florence to Rome, Venice, and all other major cities in Italy.
Richard Wagner revolutionized opera by disposing of existing operatic
rules and structures. He also created the "Leitmotif" (or leading
theme), which is a musical theme that is associated with a main character. For
example, in Star Wars, there is a different musical theme associated with
Princess Leia, with Luke Skywalker, with Obi-Wan Kenobi, and with Yoda.
The famous proverb "the opera ain't over 'til the fat lady
sings" in reference to buxom Brunhilde's 10-minute aria at the end of
Wagner's Ring cycle operas is usually attributed to pro basketball coach Dick
Motta, who in turn attributes it to San Antonio sportswriter/broadcaster Dan
Cook, who says he overheard a friend say it.
Amalie Materna, who played Brunnhilde during Wagner's lifetime (1876), may be
the first proverbial "fat lady".
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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆
◈→ indicates age at death
◈ 92→ Alice
Paul, American suffragist (National Woman's Party), born in Mount Laurel
Township, New Jersey [D1977]
◈ 90→ Grant
Tinker, American TV executive (NBC), born in Stamford, Connecticut (d. 2016)
◈ 89→ Harry
Gordon Selfridge, American retailer (d. 1947)
◈ 84→ Rod
Taylor, Australian actor (The Birds, Time Machine), born
in Sydney, New South Wales [D2015]
◈ 83→ Joseph
Jackson Lister, British optician who perfected the optical microscope by
designing the achromatic objective lens, born in London, England [D1869]
71- Naomi
Judd, [Diana Ellen], Ashland Ky, singer (Judds-Why Not Me)
◈ 68→ William
James, American psychologist/philosopher (Pragmatism),
born in NYC, [D1910]
◈ 61→ Aldo
Leopold, founder (Wilderness Society) [D1948]
◈ 58→ Darryl
Dawkins, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, NJ Nets),
born in Orlando, Florida (d. 2015)
◈ 47→ Alexander
Hamilton, US Founding Father and 1st United States
Secretary of the Treasury (1789-95), born in Charlestown, Nevis, West Indies
(d. 1804)
46- Mary Jane Blige,
New York, American R&B singer-songwriter
◈ 45→ William
Curtis, English botanist/publisher (Botanical Magazine) [D1799]
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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆
@90-2008 Carl Karcher,
founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain
@89-1997 Sheldon Leonard,
producer/director (Dick Van Dyke)
@88-2008 Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand
mountaineer/1st to climb Mt Everest in 1953
@88-1981 Beulah Bondi,
actress (It's a Wonderful Life)
@83-2015 Anita
Ekberg,
Swedish actress (La Dolce Vita) and Miss Sweden 1950
@72-1874 Gail Borden,
American Manufacturer and Inventor of condensed milk
@71-1914 Ambrose
Bierce,
American writer and satirist
@63-1979 Jack Soo, actor
(Nick Yemana-Barney Miller, Green Berets), esophageal cancer
@63-1843 Francis Scott
Key, American lawyer, poet and composer of the lyrics to "Star Spangled
Banner", Pleurisy
@57-1978 Michael Bates,
actor (Clockwork Orange, Salt & Pepper), cancer
@52-1775 Prithvi Narayan Shah, began the unification of modern
Nepal
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❆❆Brain Teasers Answers❆❆
The word rhyme.
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❆❆Trivia Hive
Answers❆❆
A golden phonograph record
Each probe contained one gold phonograph record consisting of 115
images, 90 minutes of music, spoken greetings in 55 different languages and a
12-minute mix of common sounds of Earth. Astronomers Carl Sagan and Frank Drake
crafted the records with the hope that extraterrestrials might find the probes.
What out-of-this-world single will the aliens who discover the devices hear?
The 1958 hit "Johnny B. Goode" by rock and roll legend Chuck Berry.
Source: The Smithsonian Institute.
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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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