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January 2, 2017 Week: 01 \ Day: 02
86004 Today: H 45° \ L 32°
Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
11mph Visibility: 10 mi
January Averages:
43°\17°
January Records:
H: 66° (1971) L: -30
(1937)
Record High: 60°[1902]
Record Low: -21°[1919]
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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆
Write it on your
heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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❆❆Observances Today❆❆
55-MPH Speed Limit Day
Divorce Monday Link
Happy Mew Year for Cats Day
National Buffet Day Link
National Motivation and Inspiration Day Link
National Personal Trainer Awareness Day Link
National Science Fiction
Day Link
National Weigh-In Day
Pet Travel and Safety
Day Link
Rose Bowl Game
"Thank God It's Monday" Day
Tournament of Roses Parade Day
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❆❆Observances This Week❆❆
1-7
Diet Resolution Week
Silent Record Week
1-8
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
New Year's Resolutions Week
2-8
Someday We'll Laugh About This Week
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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
◈1602 Spanish
force in Ireland surrender to the English army at Kinsdale
◈1776 Austria
ends interrogation torture
1788 Georgia
is 4th state to ratify US constitution
1791 Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country,
marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
1811 US Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator
censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the
US)
◈1814 Lord
Byron completes "The Corsair"
1831 Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins
publishing in Boston
1832 1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling
Club) opens
◈1839 1st
photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)
1842 1st
US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn
1890 Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House
staffer
1890 Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana
by E A McIlhenny
1893 1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to
picture a woman issued (Queen Isabella, patron of Columbus)
1893 World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
1903 US President Theodore Roosevelt shuts
down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed
postmistress because she was black
1910 1st junior high schools in US opens (Berkeley
California)
1911 Bkln Dodgers pres Charles Ebbets announces
purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000
1913 National Woman's Party forms
◈1919 Anti-British
uprising in Ireland
1923 Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black
residential area Rosewood Fla, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)
1929 US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara
Falls
1934 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania
1935 Bruno Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder
of Charles Lindbergh's baby
1936 1st electron tube to enable night vision
described, St Louis, Mo
1938 Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded
◈1941 World
War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff,
Wales.
◈1942 Japanese
troops occupy Manila Philippines
1942 The United States Navy opens a blimp base at
Lakehurst, New Jersey.
◈1944 1st
use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
1954 Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny,"
premieres in NYC
◈1960 1st
redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax)
◈1960 John
Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years
1965 Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to
register black voters
◈1966 1st
Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion
◈1968 Christian
Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant
◈1968 Cecil
Day-Lewis is appointed British Poet Laureate by Queen Elizabeth II
◈1969 Australian Rupert
Murdoch gains control of the 'News of the World'
1972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
1974 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard
Nixon
1983 Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from
writing "Doonesbury"
◈1985 Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III
1988 Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US
free trade agreement
1991 Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll
1995 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by
scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)
2004 Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2,
collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later.
◈2014 Raul
Castro gives a speech commemorating the 55th anniversary of the Cuban
revolution and warns of "neo-liberal and neo-colonial thinking"
entering the country
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Lazy day. Woke up to about an 1” of white on the ground. Then it rained…again…and
now it is snowing. Never seen this before…in January. I do get to watch the
Broncos play this afternoon. Nice.
Thanks to technology, I could watch the famous Flagstaff Pinecone Drop
from my living room. It was live on the web camera machine for all the world to
see. It was about 5 seconds behind other drops on TV, but it is Flagstaff after
all. Still cool to watch, without freezing various body parts. This year the
busses ran for free all day and the last run was at 1:30am, so if I had wanted to
go, I wouldn’t have to deal with the traffic.
SMH [shaking my head] as I watch the 2016 review shows. So glad all that
politics is behind us. And for those few are holding out that on Jan 20,
suddenly we will see President-Elect become the new President and change his
behavior…he won’t. Last night he was talking about the presidential hacking and
said he knew things no one else knew, and he would tell us on Tuesday or
Wednesday. Yeah, I got a bridge in NY you can buy real cheap. This is our next four years…a President who
wants to remain in the spotlight for as long as possible on every story.
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❆❆Brain Teasers❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
Delete a Letter 17
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You
need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Each pair of definitions is for two words, where the second word is the
first word with a letter deleted (example: brand & band). The length of the
first word in each pair is provided, along with the position of the deleted
letter to obtain the second word.
1) covered with soft thick hair (5 letters) & (delete 3rd letter) violent
anger, wild rage
2) a fabric made of fibrous material (5 letters) & (delete 5th letter) to
coagulate
3) the relative resistance of a material to scratching or denting (8 letters)
& (delete 4th letter) the straps by which a parachute is fastened to a
person
4) a hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state (6 letters) & (delete 4th
letter) a barely perceptible amount
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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
Last month, a Canadian diver discovered what in the waters off the coast
of Pitt Island, British Columbia?
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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆
5/26/2016→Date on which
Louisiana expanded its hate-crime laws to include offences against police
officers
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❆❆2 Jokes For The Day❆❆
A beginner rider at the stables was trying to saddle a horse. “Excuse
me,” said the old hand, “but you are putting that saddle on backwards.”
“How do you know?” snapped the student. “You do not know which way I’m going.”
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A bank robber pulls out a gun, points it at the teller, and says,
"Give me all the money or you're geography!"
The puzzled teller replies, "Did you mean to say 'or you're
history?'"
The robber says, "Don't change the subject!"
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❆❆Yep, It Really Happened❆❆
*-------------------- Irony --------------------*
A conservative columnist who often wrote criticisms of gun control for the
Portland Press Herald has been accidentally shot and killed by a teenage boy.
Maine State Police and Sanford police are investigating the shooting death of
Portland Press Herald columnist M.D. Harmon at his home in Sanford. Harmon
worked for Portland, Maine newspapers for over forty years. In a 2013 column,
he railed against proposed gun control legislation writing, "But the
absolute worst part of the bill is that it would require all gun buyers to take
a firearm safety course." The unidentified teenaged boy and his father had
been visiting Harmon in his home when Harmon allowed the teenager to handle one
of his guns. The gun went off and killed him.
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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆
◈→ indicates age at death
◈89→ Barry
Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
85- Dabney
Coleman, (That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill), born in Austin, Texas
◈83→ Larry
Harmon, American entertainer [Bozo the clown] and TV producer (d. 2008)
◈72→ Isaac Asimov,
Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy) [d1992]
70- Jack
Hanna, American zoologist
65- Ricky
Van Shelton, Grit Va, country singer (Wild-Eyed Dream)
◈56→ Roger Miller, country singer (King
of the Road, Dang Me), born in Fort Worth, Texas [d1992]
50- Tia
Carrere [Althea Janairo], American actress (Wayne's World, True Lies), born in
Honolulu, Hawaii
49- Cuba
Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)
41- Dax
Shepard, American actor
39-Karina Smirnoff, Dancer (DWTS)
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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆
@94-2015 [Little]
Jimmy Dickens, American country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
@81-2012 William
Carey, American businessman and philanthropist
@80-2011 Anne
Francis, American actress (honey west)
@76-1983 Harriet
Parsons, producer (Susan Slept Here), cancer
@71-1990 Alan
Hale Jr, Skipper on Gilligan's Island, cancer
@68-1974 Tex
Ritter, country singer (5 Star Jubilee), heart attack
@67-1983 Dick
Emery, actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love), respiratory failure
@58-1963 Dick Powell, actor/director (Dick
Powell Theater), cancer
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❆❆Brain Teasers Answers❆❆
1) furry & fury
2) cloth & clot
3) hardness & harness
4) trance & trace
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❆❆Trivia Hive
Answers❆❆
An unexploded nuclear weapon (39.5%
of internet users got it correct)
Diver Sean Smyrichinsky stumbled upon an unexploded nuclear bomb. An
American B-36 bomber dropped the device in 1950 when it began experiencing
engine trouble during a top-secret flight to simulate a full-scale nuclear
attack on the city of San Francisco. Source: Vancouver Sun
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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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