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January 24, 2017 Week: 04 \ Day: 24
86004 Today: H 43° \ L 28°
Average Sky Cover: 95%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts:
28mph Visibility: 1.8 mi
January Averages:
43°\17°
January Records:
H: 66° (1971) L: -30
(1937)
Record High: 61°[1982]
Record Low: -15°[1964]
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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆
P. J. O'Rourke
Never wear anything
that panics the cat.
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❆❆Observances Today❆❆
Belly Laugh Day Link
International Mobile Phone Recycling
Day Link
National Compliment Day
National Peanut Butter Day Link
Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day Link
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❆❆Observances This Week❆❆
18-25
Week of Christian Unity
19-29
Sundance Film Festival
21-22
Bald Eagle Appreciation Days
21-29
International Snowmobile Safety and
Awareness Week Link
National CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists) Week
22-28
National Handwriting Analysis Week
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
National School Choice Week Link
National Medical Group Practice Week
23-28
International Hoof-Care Week:
24-27 Link
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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
◈ 41 Claudius succeeds
his nephew Caligula as Roman Emperor after his assassination by
Praetorian Guards.
1639 Connecticut
colony organizes under Fundamental Orders
1656 1st
Jewish doctor in North American colonies, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
1847 1,500
New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Col Price
◈ 1857 The
University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university
in south Asia.
1901 1st
games played in baseball's American League
◈ 1908 Gen
Baden-Powell starts Boy Scouts
1922 Eskimo
Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo)
1923 Aztec
Ruins National Monument, NM established
1927 Alfred
Hitchcock releases his first film as director - The Pleasure Garden, in
England.
1935 1st
canned beer, "Kruger Cream Ale," is sold by American company Kruger
Brewing Co.
◈ 1939 30,000
killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile
1958 After
warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a
heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion
◈ 1960 Algeria
uprises against French president De Gaulle
1961 Edward
Albee's "American Dream" premieres in NYC
◈ 1962 28
refugees escape from East to West Germany
1962 Jackie
Robinson is 1st African American elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame.
1964 24th
Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could
not be denied due to failure to pay taxes
◈ 1969 Queen
Juliana of the Netherlands appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa, Eithiopia
◈ 1972 Japanese
Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since
the end of World War II.
1984 Apple
Computer Inc unveils its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer
1989 1st
reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
2003 The
United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
◈ 2009 Pope Benedict
XVI rescinds the excommunications of four bishops consecrated without
papal consent in 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
2016 TV
drama "The X-Files" returns after 13 years, reuniting lead actors
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson and produced again by Chris Carter
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
WTF is going on here? We already had two feet of snow and it has been
snowing since last night. Working people are busy digging out their vehicles.
While the high winds do blow some of the snow, most is just piling up….and it
is a wet snow. So glad I am retired, prepared, and have no reason to go out
until this stops. For those keeping track, icicles are now about 4 feet long on
the roof of my place. I should add that if I were still in CO and many years
younger, I would be out and about. Not as bad as it sounds.
Good to have a ‘snow day’. Spent a few hours updating the Focus Travel
Club website with the new trips that are planned for 2017, 2018, and 2019. I
guess the blowout was a huge success, looking at where the group is traveling. Check
out the Focus site. Maybe
something will strike your traveling fancy.
Then I spent another hour or so re-learning the new way to move photos
from my iPhone to my PC, so I can make discs. Finally got 900 photos off my
phone, so I will have room for the upcoming trip. I had my last Cuba trip and
my Spain/France trip on the phone. Seems like every time I get ready to move
photos, the process is completely new. I usually just give up and leave them on
the phone and in the cloud. Today I knew I needed to make them disappear from
the phone and still be saved.
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❆❆Brain Teasers❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
One Letter of Separation 3
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English
language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Each group of three definitions describes three words that are spelled
the same, except for one letter (each group describes a different set of
words). Example: king, ring, wing.
1a) inexperienced
1b) to address with expressions of kind wishes
1c) unreasonable selfish desire
2a) highly skilled
2b) to conform
2c) to accept formally and put into effect
3a) a committee for judging and awarding prizes
3b) conceal or hide
3c) violent anger
4a) a rounded shape
4b) spoken
4c) a gemstone
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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
In what year were the Salem witch trials held?
1692
1778
1492
1657
52.3% taking the internet quiz
got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆
3→Factor by which the US
budget for military bands exceed the budget for the National Endowment for the
Arts
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❆❆New Trivia❆❆
Gravity is not consistent at every spot on Earth. The Gravity Field and
Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) has helped create a gravity map
of the planet, which shows how the gravity field varies. Because of the map’s
lumpy 3D shape, it’s referred to as the “Gravity Potato.”
Intern’s Syndrome (also known as Second Year Syndrome and Medical
Student’s Syndrome) is a common diagnosis among medical students, who begin to
fear that they have the disease they are studying.
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❆❆2 Jokes For The Day❆❆
A mime was arrested and put into an invisible cell at the police
station.
They figured if he can't get out of an invisible box on a stage, an invisible
prison cell would be twice as difficult.
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A 5 year old kid opened his birthday present to find a new toy car. He
went up to his father who had just finished dying his hair. The kid was upset.
“Dad, I wanted a red toy car and not a blue one.”
The father replied, “A car is a car. Red or blue, color doesn’t matter.”
The kid said, “Then dad, hair is hair. White or black, color doesn’t matter.”
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❆❆Yep, It Really Happened❆❆
A motorcyclist who crashed into the back of a car on a Washington state
highway had a lucky escape from injury when he ended up sitting on the car's
trunk.
Brian Becton posted a dashboard camera video to YouTube showing the scene that
unfolded. The video shows a car traveling at a high rate of speed quickly brake
when it approaches the rear of a slower-moving vehicle.
A motorcycle traveling behind the car has trouble braking fast enough to avoid
impact and the two vehicles collide, leaving the motorcyclist sitting on the
trunk of the car.
The car's driver doesn't appear to initially notice the crash, causing the man
sitting on the trunk to knock forcefully on the rear window.
The car pulls over a distance down the road and the motorcyclist is eventually
seen pacing at the side of the road -- visibly upset, but free from serious
injuries.
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❆❆Somewhat Useless Information❆❆
In 1953, the Rocket Chemical Company began developing a rust-prevention
solvent called WD-40 for the aerospace industry. The name WD-40 indicates what
the product does (water displacement) and how many attempts it took to perfect
it.
***
Moby Dick was the favorite book of one of the three founders of the coffee empire
Starbucks. He wanted to name the company after the story's fabled ship Pequod,
but he and his partners reconsidered and settled instead on the name of the
first mate, Starbuck.
***
Don and Doris Fisher opened their first GAP store in 1969 to meet the unique
clothing demands of customers between childhood and adulthood, identified and
popularized then as "the generation gap."
***
In 1971, the founders of Nike in Beaverton, Oregon, were searching for a catchy
company name. Designer Jeff Johnson suggested Nike, the name of the Greek
goddess of victory.
***
Eugene the Jeep, a character in a 1936 Popeye comic strip, was actually a dog
that could walk through walls, climb trees, and fly. When U.S. soldiers were
given a new all-terrain vehicle in the early 1940s, they were so impressed that
they may have named it after the superdog.
***
The name Shell Oil was appropriated by Marcus Samuel, one of the company's
founders. His father ran a London retail outlet called the Shell Shop, where he
sold bags decorated with seashells. This grew into an import-export business,
which diversified into a business that imported oil and kerosene.
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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆
@→ indicates age at death
@91→ Oral
Roberts, Pontotoc County Oklahoma, American Televangelist, founder Oral Roberts
College [D 2009]
@88→ Maria
Tallchief, American ballerina, born in Fairfax, Oklahoma (d.
2013)
78- Ray
Stevens, Clarksdale Ga, singer (Ahab the Arab, Streak)
@77→ Mark
Goodson, TV game-show proudcer (Goodson-Toddman) [D1992]
76- Neil Diamond,
American singer-songwriter, born in Brooklyn, New York
@75→ Edith
Wharton [-Jones], Pulitzer prize-winning novelist (Ethan
Frome, House of Mirth), born in New York City (d. 1937)
66- Yakov
Smirnoff [Yakov Naumovich Pokhis], Russia, comedian (It's
a wonderful country)
@62→ Hadrian,
Roman Emperor (117-138, builder of Hadrian's Wall), born in Italica (d. 138)
49- Mary
Lou Retton, Fairmont WV, gymnist (Oly-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-84)
39- Kristen
Schaal, TV actress [Flight of the Conchords, Last Man on Earth]
@33→ John
Belushi, comedian/actor (SNL, Blues Brothers), born in Chicago,[D 1982]
30- Luis Suarez, Uruguayan soccer player
@26→ Sharon Tate,
American actress (Valley of the Dolls), born in Dallas, [D 1969]
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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆
@90-1965 Winston
Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain (C) (1940-45, 51-55) British leader during
WWII
@86-2016 Yvonne Chouteau,
Native American dancer (one of the "five Moons" of Oklahoma)
@84-1993 Thurgood
Marshall, 1st African American supreme court justice (1967-91)
@81-2010 Pernell Roberts,
American actor & singer, last surviving star of Bonanza
@77-1973 J Carrol Naish,
actor (Charlie Chan-Adv of Charlie Chan), Emphysema
@75-1971 Bill W., American
co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, emphysema and
pneumonia
@74-1986 L[aFayette]
Ron[ald] Hubbard, author (Death Quest), Scientology, stroke
@73-2012 James Farentino,
American actor, heart failure
@72-1975 Larry Fine, actor
(3 Stooges), stroke
@71-1991 George Gobel,
comedian, heart attack
@64-1986 Gordon MacRae,
singer (Oklahoma, Carousel), cancer
@42-1989 Ted
Bundy,
serial killer of up to 100 women, executed
@32-1955 Ira Hayes, Pima tribe World War II hero, exposure and alcohol poisoning
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❆❆Brain Teasers Answers❆❆
1) green, greet, greed
2) adept, adapt, adopt
3) jury, bury, fury
4) oval, oral, opal
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❆❆Trivia Hive
Answers❆❆
1692
The infamous Salem witch trials took place largely in 1692 and 1693.
Dozens of people were accused during the hysteria and twenty people were
executed after being convicted of witchcraft. Source: history.com
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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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That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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