7 Jan

 

Week 2  Day 7   Flag Today  44°/0° Sky cover:  80% Wind 1mph Gusts 5mph Active Fire:  278miles away Risk of fire: Low  Nearest Lightning:  1795 miles away Air Quality: Fair Mostly cloudy Jan. Daily Averages: Temps: 44°\16° Moisture:  5 Days

Today’s Quote                                                                                                Today’s Meme

Monthly Observations

National Volunteer Blood Donor Month Link Oatmeal Month Link Self-help Group Awareness Month Self-Love Month

Shape Up US Month Snow care for Troops Awareness Month Teen Driving Awareness Month Train Your Dog Month Link   Link

Weekly Observations

1-7 Diet Resolution Week Silent Record Week 2-8 Someday We'll Laugh About This Week 6-2/13 Carnival 6-12 National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link

6-13 National Personal Trainer Awareness Week 7-13 Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week Home Office Safety and Security Week National Mocktail Week

Daily Observations

Harlem Globetrotter's Day I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore Day International Programmers Day Invisible Pain Day Old Rock Day Link

Orthodox Christmas National Bobblehead Day Link National Old Rock Day National Pass Gas Day National Tempura Day Link

Today’s Thoughts

A cold night and at noon a balmy 44°. Still another snowstorm is due tonight and tomorrow. I’m sure glad I wasn’t flying on the Oregon flight that blew a plug at 14,000 feet. No one was injured. I can’t count the number of flights I’ve been sitting in a row 20+ in order to get an aisle seat. Glad everyone was safe. I have a teeth cleaning on Monday at 9a. Hoping the snow won’t be too deep. I’m drinking Hot Chocolate this morning…Nice to have the only warm beverage I enjoy.

Important inventions…

1970: Fiber Optics The term “fiber optic” is coined in 1956, but it isn’t until 1970 that scientists at Corning produce a fiber of ultrapure glass that transmits light well enough to be used for telecommunications. Honorable Invention: Digital Music

States that never made the map

Deseret The vast State of Deseret was proposed in 1849 by members of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints in what is now Utah and Nevada, as well as large parts of California and Arizona, and smaller areas of modern-day Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon. Named after the Mormon Bible word for a honeybee, the colossal provisional state existed until 1850, when the more compact Utah Territory was formally created by Congress. It went on to become the State of Utah.

Untrue myths about Colonial America…States that never made the map

Paul Revere Never Shouted, "The British Are Coming!" Many Americans are familiar with the poem about Paul Revere riding through Lexington and Concord warning the inhabitants that "The British are coming!" Yet, most of this story is untrue. Revere would never shout "The British are coming!" because the people of Massachusetts still considered themselves to be citizens of Britain. Instead, he shouted "The Regulars are coming!" which made a lot more sense. In addition, Revere never made it to Concord and was captured and interrogated at Lexington. The poem was written in 1860 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with the intention to make America feel unified although at the brink of the Civil War.

Historic Events

1927 -The first transatlantic telephone service was established between New York City and London. 1929 – Tarzan the Ape-man, Comic Strip debuted 1934 – Flash Gordon, Comic Strip debuted 1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton began.

Birthdays with some quotes

@103 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (d. 1976) @94 – Terry Moore, American child actress @85 – Alan Napier, English actor TV Alfred on Batman (d. 1988) @84 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress and dancer (d. 1995) @76 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist, created The Addams Family (d. 1988; heart attack) “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.” 76 – Kenny Loggins, American singer-songwriter “Courage is always rewarded.” “I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.” @74 – Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President (d. 1874; stroke) “The whole country is full of enterprise. Our common schools are diffusing intelligence among the people and our industry is fast accumulating the comforts and luxuries of life. … It is not strange, however much it may be regretted, that such an exuberance of enterprise should cause some individuals to mistake change for progress and the invasion of the rights of others for national prowess and glory.” 68 – David Caruso, American actor 67 – Katie Couric, American television journalist “A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that’s not what boats are built for.” 61 – Rand Paul, American ophthalmologist and politician 60 – Nicolas Cage, American actor 54 – Doug E. Doug (Douglas Bourne), American actor and comedian 53 – Jeremy Renner, American actor 43 – Aloe Blacc (Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III), American musician @40 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and academic, invented the Reis telephone (d. 1874; long illness) 37 – Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress

…The End for today…