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January 19, 2017 Week: 03 \ Day: 19
86004 Today: H 48° \ L 19°
Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave: 1mph\Gusts:
10mph Visibility: 10 mi
January Averages:
43°\17°
January Records:
H: 66° (1971) L: -30
(1937)
Record High: 62°[1986]
Record Low: -13°[1943]
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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆
Dwight D.
Eisenhower
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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❆❆Observances Today❆❆
Get to Know Your Customers Day
Robert E. Lee Day Link
Thank Your Mentor Day Link
Tin Can Day
World Day of Migrants and Refugees Link
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❆❆Observances This Week❆❆
15-21
Hunt For Happiness Week
16-20
No Name Calling Week Link
Sugar Awareness Week
Healthy Weight Week
17-23
National Activity Professionals
Week
National Fresh Squeezed
Juice Week
18-25
Week of Christian Unity
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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
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1607 San Agustin Church in Manila is officially
completed; it is currently the oldest church
in the Philippines
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1668 King Louis XIV & Emperor Leopold
I sign treaty dividing Spain
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1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie’s troops occupy Stirling
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1785 First manned balloon flight in Ireland
1861 Georgia secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1883 The first electric lighting system employing
overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New
Jersey.
1903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast
between US & England
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1903 New bicycle race
"Tour de France" announced
1922 Geological
survey says US oil supply would be depleted in 20 years
1923 Chancellor of the Exchequer Stanley
Baldwin and Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellonagree to reschedule
repayment of Britain's $4.5 billion
war debt over 62 years
1929 Acadia National Park, Maine established
1938 General Motors begins mass production of
diesel engines
1953 Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic
Commission secretary
1955 "Millionaire" TV program premieres
on CBS
1961 1st episode of "Dick Van Dyke Show"
is filmed
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1966 Indira Gandhi elected India's 4th Prime
Minister
1966 Neil Simons, Coleman & Fields' musical
"Sweet Charity" premieres
1970 Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme
Court (fails)
1977 US President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino
(Tokyo Rose)
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1977 World's largest crowd gathering - the Hindu
Kumbh Mela in India attracts a then record 15 million people
1977 Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is
the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also
fell in the Bahamas.
1981 Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old
out of committing suicide
1981 US & Iran sign agreement to release 52
American hostages
1989 President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for
illegal funds for Nixon
1991 Eastern Airlines shuts down operations
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1997 Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after
more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last
Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
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2001 Mexican
drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes
from Puente Grande maximum-security prison near Guadalajara by bribing prison
guards and hiding in a laundry cart
2012 FBI shuts down Megaupload.com for alleged
copyright infringement, hacker group Anonymous responds by attacking government
and entertainment industry websites
2013 Calcium
deposits are discovered on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover
2013 Lance Armstrong admits to doping in
all seven of his Tour de France victories
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Weatherman continues to say we will be hit hard
by 3 storms headed our way. Saying that there will be 18”+ from the first two
and no idea how much from number 3. We haven’t really had a winter yet, so I’m
OK with this. Did some shopping, just in case. I can hold up for a little over
a week if that is necessary. So…bring it on!
I called H&R yesterday about 3pm. ‘She’s off’. Talked to
the manager who said she would call the lady and get back to me. Still haven’t
heard a word. Not surprised, just pissed. I have been a loyal customer for over
45 years, actually before any of the people I’m working with were born. They
made the mistake…not me. I have had to locate all the information in the folder
they gave me that is about this issue. I have had to make numerous trips to the
office, only to find that they still don’t get it. When I have called the
office, I have been told the agent will call me back and she never does. The
manager says she will call back, and she doesn’t. This is driving me crazy….END
OF RANT.
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❆❆Brain Teasers❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
An Ancient King
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs
answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
Note: The structure of this riddle is modeled after those written in old
English, where alliteration takes center stage just as much as rhyme.
I am a giant, an ancient king
With many a jewel by my neck are hanging
Then a monster comes, a heartless thief.
The bite so bitter brings me grief.
It takes my treasure, my riches untold,
My rubies, my emeralds, my silver, my gold.
What am I?
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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
What was the top New Year’s resolution in 2015?
Be Happy
Stay fit and healthy
Increase traveling
Move into new house
26.0% on the internet quiz got it right
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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆
70→Percentage of the American
beer market controlled by Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller
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❆❆New Trivia❆❆
Until the 1800s, lobsters were found in abundance and were cooked dead.
They were dirt cheap, and were the common diet for the homeless, slaves and
prisoners. By the 1950s, they established themselves as a luxury food item.
Australia's 31,000-mile-long (50,000 kms) coastline is connected by over
10,000 beaches. That means you can go to a new beach every day for over 27
years!
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❆❆2 Jokes For The Day❆❆
I became a professional fisherman...
But discovered I couldn't live on my net income.
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The first time my son was on a bike with training wheels, I shouted,
"Step back on the pedals and the bike will brake!"
He nodded but still rode straight into a bush.
"Why didn’t you push back on the pedals?" I asked, helping him up.
"You said if I did, the bike would break."
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❆❆Yep, It Really Happened❆❆
*---------- Missing Hunter Was In Jail ----------*
Police in Alabama discovered that a hunter who was reported missing was
actually in a local jail the entire time. Local fire departments and the
Alabama Law Enforcement Agency were searching for 51-year-old Randy Keith Holt
before Limestone County Sheriff's Office discovered he was being held at a
county jail on public intoxication charges. Holt was last heard from on Monday
afternoon when law enforcement discovered him exposing himself. Holt's family
was unaware he had been arrested and reported him missing after he was three
hours late returning from his hunting trip. Officers called off the search
after learning Holt's last name and locating him at the Limestone County Jail.
Holt was held in the jail with a bond of $500.
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❆❆Somewhat Useless Information❆❆
Popcorn is a type of maize (or corn), a member of the grass family, and
is scientifically known as Zea mays everta.
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Popcorn started becoming popular in the United States in the middle 1800s. It
wasn't until Charles Cretors, a candy-store owner, developed a machine for
popping corn with steam that the tasty treat became more abundantly poppable.
By 1900 he had horse-drawn popcorn wagons going through the streets of Chicago.
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About the same time, Louise Ruckheim added peanuts and molasses to popcorn to
bring Cracker Jack to the world. The national anthem of baseball was born in
1908 when Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer wrote Take Me out to the
Ballgame. From that point onward, popcorn, specifically Cracker Jack, became
forever married to the game.
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Most popcorn comes in two basic shapes when it's popped: snowflake and
mushroom. Snowflake is used in movie theaters and ballparks because it looks
and pops bigger. Mushroom is used for candy confections because it doesn't
crumble.
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Americans consume some 16 billion quarts of this whole grain, good-for-you
treat. That's 51 quarts per man, woman, and child.
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The peak period for popcorn sales for home consumption is in the fall.
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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆
@→ indicates age at death
@90→ Jean
Stapleton, American actress (Damn Yankees, Klute, All in the Family), born in
NYC, (d. 2013)
@85→ Henry
Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine) [D1898]
@83→ James
Watt, Scotland, inventor (steam engine) [D1819]
@82→ "Minnesota
Fats" (Rudolf Walter Wanderone Jr.), American billiards
player (d. 1996)
@74→ Guy
Madison, [Robert Moseley], California, actor (Wild Bill Hickok) [D1996]
@74→ Phil
Everly, Brownie Ky, singer (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie) (D2014)
73- Shelly
Fabares, actress (Donna Reed Show, Coach), born in Santa Monica, California
73- Dan
Reeves, NFL Coach (NY Giants, Denver Broncos, Atlanta Falcons)
71- Dolly Parton,
Sevierville Tn, country singer (Dolly, 9 to 5)
70- Paula
Deen, American chef and restaurateur
@67→ Paul
Cézanne, Aix-en-Provence Provence, French painter (d. 1906)
@63→ Robert
E. Lee, Stratford Virginia, American Confederate General
in Chief during US Civil War, (d. 1870)
62- Katey
Sagal, singer/actress (Peggy Bundy-Married With Children), born in Los Angeles,
California
54- Martin
Bashir, Pakistani-born reporter
@40→ Edgar
Allan Poe, author (Pit & the Pendulum), born in Boston, [D1849]
35- Jodie
Sweetin, actress (Stephanie Tanner-Full House)
@27→ Janis Joplin,
American rocker and blues singer-songwriter (Down on Me), born in Port Arthur,
Texas (d. 1970)
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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆
@92-2013 Stan
Musial,
American MLB hall of famer
@85-2000 Hedy
Lamarr,
Austrian-born actress)
@79-1747 Johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law (astronomer)
@70-2008 Suzanne
Pleshette, American actress (Bob Newhart Show), lung cancer
@68-2008 John Stewart,
American musician (The Kingston Trio), stroke
@65-1998 Carl Perkins,
singer/songwriter, strokes
@49-1970 Hal March, actor/
comedian ($64,000 Question)
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❆❆Brain Teasers Answers❆❆
Answer
A tree
monster = winter
jewels = leaves
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❆❆Trivia Hive
Answers❆❆
Stay fit and healthy
Each year, millions of people make New Year's resolutions. After all,
it's the perfect time to press the restart button, set new goals and try new
activities. A Nielsen survey showed a combined 69 percent of people looked to
live healthier lives in 2015, with 37 percent of them wanting to stay fit and
healthy and 32 percent hoping to lose weight. Third on the list with 28 percent
of the vote was to enjoy life to the fullest, and fourth was spend less and
save more. The top five was rounded out by 19 percent of folks who wanted to
spend more time with their friends and family during the new year. Source:
Nielsen
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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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