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January 13, 2017 Week: 02 \ Day: 13
86004 Today: H 47° \ L 32°
Average Sky Cover: 85%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
13mph Visibility: 10 mi
January Averages:
43°\17°
January Records:
H: 66° (1971) L: -30
(1937)
Record High: 59°[2002]
Record Low: -6°[1963]
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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆
Once you replace
negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson
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❆❆Observances Today❆❆
Blame Someone Else Day (First one of the year)
National Sticker Day Link
Public Radio Broadcasting Day
Rubber Duckie 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
◈ 1404 The
Act of Multipliers is passed by the English Parliament forbidding alchemists to
use their knowledge to create precious metals (it was feared that if any alchemist
should succeed it would bring ruin upon the state)
◈ 1605 The
controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John
Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
◈ 1610 Galileo
Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
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1785 John Walter publishes first issue of London
Times
1794 Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15
stripes
1830 Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by
rebel slaves
1854 Anthony Foss patents accordion
1888 National Geographic Society founded
(Washington, D.C.)
◈ 1895 Oscar
Wilde's "Ideal Husband" premieres in London
1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st
appears
◈ 1938 The
Church of England accepts the theory of evolution.
◈ 1939 The
Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia,
claiming the lives of 71 people.
1942 Henry Ford patents a method of
constructing plastic auto bodies
1957 Wham-O
Company produces the 1st Frisbee
1966 1st
black selected for presidential cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C
Weaver-HUD)
1975 Henry
Kissinger hints at military action against oil countries in case of
"actual strangulation of the industrialized world" in the wake of oil
shock
1976 Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at NYC
Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La
Traviata"
1978 NASA select its first American women
astronauts
1983 AMA urges ban on boxing, cites Muhammad
Ali's deteriorating condition
1988 Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school
officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays & other
expressive activities
1989 Subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year
jail sentence
◈ 2004 Harold
Shipman, a British GP who is believed to have killed more than 200 of his
patients in Manchester, is found hanged in his prison cell
◈ 2007 Two
thirds of the Venus's southern hemisphere suddenly brightened as something
triggered aerosols to form at a furious rate.
◈ 2012 Italian
cruise liner Costa Concordia runs aground at Isola de Giglio, Italy, causing 32
deaths
2016 Record Powerball lottery held in America -
$1.6 billion, (3 winning tickets)
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Taxes are the biggest pain in the %*&^. Yesterday I got a call about
3p from the lady at H&R Block. She believed she had my tax stuff ready. I
arrived to find that it was a joke. So I called the State of CA lady and let
her talk to the tax lady. Then I called the Fund where the money came from and
let her talk to the tax lady. Then I sent an email to the Fund asking for
written documentation as to what was earned and what was withheld. I also go
the phone number of a lady to call if the email doesn’t get an answer by noon
California time today. Turns out that the lady helping with my taxes wasn’t
even ‘on duty’ when another guy dumped me on her because he couldn’t be
bothered. I said that I appreciated her work on this mess. And she says ‘Well,
I’m learning a lot, too.’ Not exactly confidence building. And the ‘story’
about the infamous District Manager…well he never showed, so she called the guy
who has been doing my taxes for decades and he tried to help her. I asked about
the document she ‘found’ that said I owed $5700 and she said that “it was a
glitch in the system as H&R moved from one software program to another way
back in 2014.” She claimed that she had the system delete it. Really?!? She can
just delete previous year information that was part of my file. Hmmm.
Interesting that no manager or higher up was necessary to do approve that
delete. My belief is that it was either another ‘story’ and never existed, or
something is amiss at H&R. Now it is just more waiting.
Another cloudy day, awaiting more rain and/or snow or something. Not a
bad day, just gloomy.
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❆❆Brain Teasers❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
What Am I?
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick
that makes them really easy.
I am more microscopic than microscopic; I am more minuscule than
minuscule.
I am smaller than small and I am tinier than tiny.
Yet surprisingly, I am still big. What am I?
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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
How much did the average American roughly spend on Christmas gifts in
2015?
$521
$830
$950
$1129
42.0% who took the quiz on the internet got it right
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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆
46,000→Number of people on
the waiting list of a London restaurant where patrons are allowed to dine in
the nude
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❆❆New Trivia❆❆
A goldfish has memory span of 3 seconds.
In the English language, screeched is the longest one syllable word.
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❆❆2 Jokes For The Day❆❆
I do not trip over things...
I just perform random gravity checks!
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A man went to New York on a business trip. When the trip was over, he
took a cab to get to the airport. The cab driver decided to have a little fun
at the man's expense, so he asked, "My mother had three kids, one was my
brother, one was my sister, who was the third?"
The passenger had no idea. The driver replied, "The third one was
ME!"
The man went home to his wife and said to her, "Hey honey, here's a riddle
for you. My mother had three kids, one was my brother, one was my sister, who
was the third one?"
His wife was stumped and said, "I don't know, who?"
The man responded, "Believe it or not, some cab driver in New York."
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❆❆Yep, It Really Happened❆❆
*------------ Alcohol Was Involved ------------*
A drunk learned the hard way not to bring a plastic toy to a gun fight. After
being escorted out of an Atlanta area restaurant for being intoxicated, the
patron returned saying he "had something" for the manager and
security guard who kicked him out. The man came back to the restaurant with
what was later found to be a toy gun. But before the patron could act, an
employee grabbed his own gun, confronted the man as he opened the front door
and told him not to continue, police spokesman Brandon Gurley said. The man was
later found at his apartment after he called 911 about being shot in his
shoulder and wrist. The toy gun was also found at the apartment. The patron
remains in a local hospital. No charges have been filed.
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❆❆Somewhat Useless Information❆❆
If you have ever been in college, chances are you have pulled an
"all-nighter" at some point in your academic career, but you may not
know that cramming all night reduces your ability to retain information by up to
40 percent. Enter the power of the nap.
Studies have found napping raises your stamina 11 percent, increases
ability to stay asleep all night by 12 percent, and lowers the time required to
fall asleep by 14 percent.
A little group called NASA discovered that just a 26-minute nap
increases performance by 34 percent and alertness by 54 percent. Pilots take
advantage of NASA naps while planes are on autopilot.
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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆
◈→ indicates age at death
◈ 84→ Robert
Stack, actor (Eliot Ness-Untouchables, Airplane), born in Los Angeles, [D2003]
83- Rip
Taylor, American actor and comedian (Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show), born in
Washington, D.C.
◈ 79→ Sophie
Tucker, [Kalish] "last of red hot mammas", Russian-born American
singer, born in Tulchyn, Russian Empire (d. 1966)
◈ 79→ Billy
Gray, actor (Bud-Father Knows Best), born in Los Angeles, California
◈ 76→ Charles
Nelson Reilly, American actor (Match Game, Ghost & Mrs Muir), born in NYC, [D2007]
◈ 76→ Jean
Cabut [Cabu], French caricaturist (Charlie Hebdo), born in
Châlons-en-Champagne, France (d. 2015)
74- Richard
Moll, American actor (Night Court, House, Dungeonmaster, Survivor), born in
Pasadena, California
◈ 67→ Horatio
Alger, Jr., American minister and author (Lost at Sea, Work & Win), born in
Chelsea, Massachusetts [D1899]
56- Julia Louis-Dreyfus,
American comedienne (SNL, Seinfeld, VEEP), born in NYC, New York 1966 Patrick Dempsey,
American actor (Grey's Anatomy),born in Lewiston Maine 41- Michael Peña, American
actor
[Crash]
◈ 48→ Brandon
Tartikoff, TV exec (NBC) [D1997]
40- Orlando Bloom,
Kent England, English actor (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings)
1983 William
Hung, American Idol contestant
27- Liam
Hemsworth, Australian actor (Hunger Games films), born in Melbourne
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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆
@80-1929 Wyatt
Earp,
US marshal (OK Corral)
@66-1978 Hubert Humphrey,
(Sen-D-Minn, VP), bladder cancer
@66-1691 George Fox, founder of Quakers
@61-1885 Schuyler Colfax, 17th
VP, heart attack
@58-1941 James
Joyce,
novelist (Ulysses), dies in Zurich Switzerland, perforated ulcer
@42-1985 Carol Wayne,
Johnny Carson's teatime movie hostess, accidental drowning
@37-1864 Stephen
Foster,
American composer (My Old Kentucky Home), fever & then fall
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❆❆Brain Teasers Answers❆❆
The word "big". It only has 3 letters and is therefore shorter
in length than the words "tiny", "small",
"minuscule", and "microscopic".
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❆❆Trivia Hive
Answers❆❆
$830
Buyers are at it again! According to figures, the average amount spent
on Christmas presents in 2015 was $830. That's a huge jump when you consider
the same number was only $720 the previous year and $704 in 2013. The average
number of Christmas presents each person is expected to buy has also grown. In
2013, this figure was around 13 gifts per person, but it's grown to almost 14
in 2016. Maybe people are making more friends? Source: Statista
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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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