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January 9, 2017 Week: 02 \ Day: 09
86004 Today: H 57° \ L 30°
Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
13mph Visibility: 10 mi
January Averages:
43°\17°
January Records:
H: 66° (1971) L: -30
(1937)
Record High: 61°[1996]
Record Low: -9°[1937]
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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆
Common sense is not
so common.
Voltaire
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❆❆Observances Today❆❆
Balloon Ascension Day Link
National Cassoulet Day
National Clean Off Your Desk Day (2nd Monday)
National Static Electricity Day Link
Panama's Martyr 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
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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
◈ 1431 Judges'
investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France,
the seat of the English occupation government.
◈ 1493 1st
sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus) 1768 Philip Astley
stages the first modern circus in London.
1793 1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off
in Philadelphia, piloted by Jean Pierre Blanchard
◈ 1799 British
Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces income tax to
raise funds for the war against Napoleon.
◈ 1806 Admiral
Viscount Horatio Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in
St Paul's Cathedral.
◈ 1811 1st
Women's Golf Tournament held
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1839 Daguerrotype
photo process announced at French Academy of Science
1847 1st SF newspaper published (California Star)
1854 Astor Library opens in NYC
1858 Anson Jones, the last President of the
Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
1861 Mississippi secedes from the Union (US Civil
War)
1866 Fisk University opens in Nashville, Tennessee
1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at
Ft Robinson
1880 6' (1.83 metres) of snow falls in Seattle in 5
days
1903 Wind Cave National Park, SD established
1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California,
established
1936 Semi-automatic
rifles adopted by US army
1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
1945 US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades
Philippines
1947 Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the black
dahlia, is last seen alive.
1952 Marines give notice that they will recall Ted
Williams to active duty
1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby"
column 1st appears in newspapers
1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres
on CBS TV
◈ 1960 Building
of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
1976 C. W. McCall CB song "Convoy" hits
#1 on the country music charts
1984 "TV's Bloopers & Practical
Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)
1986 After losing a patent battle with Polaroid,
Kodak must give up its instant camera business.
1990 US Supreme Court strikes down Dallas'
ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
1996 First episode of "Third Rock from the
Sun" screened on NBC
2001 Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in
San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos. Now widely
used by Windows and Mac users.
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
We are certainly not experiencing the winter weather we used to have.
Glad I am not in CO or some of the other parts of the country that have been in
a deep freeze. Looking at the pics of thermometers and snow and icicles from CO
makes me enjoy our cool temps.
Fixed a few pair of pants this morning that needed help with their
cuffs. My mom would buy us new pants and automatically measure them on us and
put on ‘correct’ cuffs. Too bad I didn’t pay that much attention to her phenomenon
skills.
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❆❆Brain Teasers❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
Snow And Palm Trees
Trivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they
are not just pure trivia questions.
The groom said, "Pack your bikini, Darling. I'm taking you to the
tallest mountain in the world, and you'll need it for the nearby beaches."
Where was he taking Darling?
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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
Dachshunds were bred specifically to hunt what wily mammal?
Rabbits
Chipmunks
Squirrels
Badgers
54.7% of those taking the quiz got it right
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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆
-65→Percentage change since
August 2014 in North Dakota’s tax revenue from oil and gas
44→Percentage by which weekly
US coal production has dropped since January 2015
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❆❆New Trivia❆❆
For one very brief moment of time, you were the youngest person on
Earth. Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon,
wrote his daughter's initials on the surface of the moon, where it's likely to
last for tens of thousands of years.
The only fish that can blink with both eyes are sharks.
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❆❆2 Jokes For The Day❆❆
I tried being a tailor, but wasn't suited for it...
Mainly because it was a sew-sew job.
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The lawyer was cross-examining a witness. “Isn’t it true,“ he began,
“that you were given $5000.00 to throw this case?”
The witness did not answer. Instead, he just stared out the window as though he
hadn’t heard the question. The attorney repeated himself, again getting the
same reaction, the same no response. Finally, the judge spoke to the witness,
“Please answer the question.”
“Oh,” said the startled witness, “I'm sorry your honor. I thought he was
talking to you.”
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❆❆Yep, It Really Happened❆❆
*-- Naked Man Accused of Robbing Pizza Store --*
What do you know? Another story about a crazy naked person. Authorities have
arrested a man who they say burglarized a pizza shop in the nude earlier this month.
Baltimore County police said in a statement that 23-year-old Jonathan K. Newman
has been charged with second-degree burglary following the break-in into Slice
Pizza. Police say Newman's pants ripped off as he entered the store from a roof
vent. Video footage shows the suspect then took off his shirt to cover his
face. The store owner told local news that there was no money in the cash
register, but the suspect still caused thousands of dollars in damage to the
store.
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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆
◈→ indicates age at death
◈88→ Carrie
Chapman Catt, Ripon, Wisconsin, American women's suffrage leader and founder
(League of Women Voters)[D1947]
◈86→ Brian
Friel, Irish dramatist "Irish Chekhov" (Dancing at Lughnasa), born in
Omagh, County Tyrone, (d. 2015)
83- Bart
Starr, NFL quarterback/coach (Green Bay)
82- Dick
Enberg, sportscaster (Where's Huddles), born in Mt Clemens, Michigan
◈81→ Richard
Nixon, Yorba Linda, California, 37th President (R) of
the United States (D1994)
76- Joan
Baez, folk singer/human rights advocate, born in Staten Island, New York
73- Jimmy Page,
rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven), born in London, England
◈68→ Joseph
B Strauss, civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge) [D1938]
67- Fernando
Lamas, Buenos Aires Argentina, actor ("You look marvelous") [D1982]
64→ Lee Van Cleef, NJ, actor
(For a Few Dollars More, Escape from NY) [D1989]
59→ Gypsy Rose Lee, [Rose
Hovick], burlesque actress (Gypsy), born in Seattle, [D1970]
◈58→ Bill
Cowsill, rock guitarist/vocals (The Cowsills - We Can Fly), Newport, Rhode
Island
[D2006]
50- Dave Matthews,
singer/musician (Dave Matthews Band)
35- Catherine, Duchess of
Cambridge [Kate Middleton], English wife of Crown Prince
William, born in Reading, Berksire
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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆
@98-1843 Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy"
@97-1848 Caroline
Herschel, German-born pioneering female astronomer (comet 35P/Herschel-Rigolle)
@93-2013 James M.
Buchanan, American economist and nobel laureate
@89-1958 Willis Rodney Whitney,
American Chemist, founder of the General Electric research laboratory, and
pioneer of industrial scientific research
@79-1998 Kenichi Fukui,
Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981)
@66-1930 Edward W Buck,
Dutch/US editor (Ladies Home Journal)
@55-1982 Paul Lynde, actor
(Bye Bye Birdie, Bewitched), heart attack
@42-1946 Countee Cullen,
African American poet of the Harlem Renaissance (Black Christ, One Way to
Heaven), uremic poisoning
@34-1923 Katherine
Mansfield, New Zealand short story writer (The Garden Party), tuberculosis
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❆❆Brain Teasers Answers❆❆
He was taking Darling to Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Mauna Kea (or "White
Mountain") has the remnants of glacial terrane from the last global ice age
on its summit, and snow in the winter. From base to summit, at over nine
kilometers, the volcano Mauna Kea is the world's tallest mountain. Most of
Mauna Kea happens to be below water, and its summit is only a couple of hours
from a beach. Mt. Everest is the highest but not the tallest because it stands
on the high Tibetan plateau, and also there are no ocean beaches near by the
mountain.
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❆❆Trivia Hive
Answers❆❆
The name "dachshund" is German, translating as "badger
dog" or "badger hound." The shape and size of the breed makes
sense for this purpose, as the dogs could often follow badgers into their holes
and continue the pursuit underground. This made their short, long stature ideal
for the role. Source: Merriam Webster
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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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