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Week 4 Day 19 Flag
Today 53°/34° Wind 2 mph
Gusts 4 mph Active Fire: 365 miles away Risk of
fire: Moderate Nearest Lightning: 1325 miles
away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine
Jan Averages: Temps: 44°\18° Moisture:
10 Days |
Monthly Observations
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National
Sunday Supper Month Link |
Teen
Driving Awareness Month |
Weekly Observations
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National
Fresh Squeezed Juice Week: 17-23 |
National
Handwriting Analysis Week: 18-24 (Always
has John Hancock's birthday 1/23) |
Daily Observations
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Blue
Monday Link |
Rid The
World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day |
Today’s Quote
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Today’s Meme
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Today’s Thoughts
A nice winter day
with a nice blue sky.
The Broncos won and
move on towards the Super Bowl. It sounds like the QB broke his ankle and will
be out of the playoffs. I’m hoping for the best. I have to admit there were
some strange calls during the OT.
Here is an
interesting fact: in 2025, 49% of all internet traffic was generated by humans;
51% was generated by ‘bots’. I hope everyone is having a good MLK Day. King’s
words still remind us there is lots of work to do to make this country
recognize the challenges of having equality for all.
Trivia
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No animal on Earth travels quite
like the eastern monarch butterfly. Its journey begins in the early days of
spring on a few mountains in central Mexico. Millions of the
monarchs (Danaus plexippus plexippus) fill the branches of oyamel firs, and
as the temperature warms up, they soak in the sun and begin their epic
journey northward — a 3,000-mile trip that looks more like a bird’s migration
than an insect’s. But it’s not only the miles that
make the butterfly’s journey so remarkable — it’s also the means. A typical
monarch butterfly lives for only about four weeks, not nearly long enough to
complete the journey to the northern U.S. and Canada. So the migration
becomes a multigenerational one. In a typical year,
it will take four generations for monarch butterflies to finish the seasonal
quest their great-grandparents started. To return south in the fall, a “super generation” — also known as
the Methuselah generation (after the
long-lived biblical patriarch) because it can live eight times
longer than its ancestors — will travel 50 miles a day by riding thermal
currents southward before finally resting in the same oyamel firs in central
Mexico. All hail the monarch! |
Historic Events
Birthdays
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Scottish inventor,
mechanical engineer and chemist (steam
engine), born in Greenock, Scotland ******************************** Auguste Comte (1798-1857; @59; stomach cancer) French philosopher and
father of sociology (A
General View of Positivism), born in Montpellier, France ******************************** Robert E. Lee (1807-1870; @63,
strokes) American General who
commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil
War, born in Stratford Virginia ******************************** Edgar Allan
Poe(1809-1849 @40, alcoholism) American writer, poet and critic
(The Pit and the Pendulum) considered the inventor of the detective fiction
genre (Murders in the Rue Morgue), born in Boston, Massachusetts ******************************** Paul Cézanne (1839-1906; @67, pneumonia) French artist and
Post-Impressionist painter (The
Basket of Apples), born in Aix-en-Provence, France ******************************** Matthew Webb (1848-1883’ @35 drowned attempting Whirlpool Rapids @ Niagara
Falls) English long
distance swimmer who
was first to swim unassisted across the English Channel, born in Dawley,
England ******************************** Javier Pérez
de Cuéllar (1920-2020; @100) Peruvian diplomat,
5th Secretary-General
of the United Nations (1982-91) and Prime Minister of Peru
(2000-01), born in Lima, Peru ******************************** Guy Madison [Robert Moseley],
American actor (Wild Bill Hickok), born in Pumpkin Center, California (d.
1996; @74, emphasyma) ******************************** Jean Stapleton, American actress
(Damn Yankees, Klute, All in the Family), born in New York City (d. 2013; @90) ******************************** Phil Everly (1939-2014; @74, COPD) American rock and
roll singer-guitarist
(The Everly Brothers - "Bye, Bye Love"; "Wake Up Little
Susie"; "When WIll I Be Loved"), born in Chicago, Illinois ******************************** Janis Joplin (1943-1970; @27, OD) American rock and
blues singer-songwriter ("Piece
of My Heart"; "Me and Bobby McGee"; "Mercedes
Benz"), born in Port Arthur, Texas ******************************** Dan Reeves, American football coach
(AP NFL Coach of the Year 1993 NY Giants, 1998 Atlanta Falcons; Denver
Broncos), born in Rome, Georgia (d. 2021; @77, dementia) ******************************** Robert Palmer, English rock
singer-songwriter ("Addicted to Love"; Power Station), born in
Batley, England (d. 2003; @54, heart attack) |
(Nathalie) "Tippi" Hedren (96
years old), American model, actress (The Birds: Marnie; I Heart Huckabees),
and animal rights activist (Roar Foundation), born in New Ulm, Minnesota ******************************** 1940 American golfer (US Open
1963, PGA 1964, 73), born in Laurel, Mississippi ******************************** 1946 American country singer-songwriter
("Jolene"; "I Will Always Love You", "9 to 5"),
actress, and literacy advocate, born in Sevierville, Tennessee ******************************** 1954 American actress (Married
With Children - "Peg"), and singer-songwriter, born in Los Angeles,
California ******************************** Paul Rodriguez, (71 years old)Mexican-American
comedian and actor (The Here & Wow, Blood Work), born in Culiacán, Mexico ******************************** 1966 Swedish tennis player (6
Grand Slam singles titles), born in Västervik, Sweden ******************************** 1982 American actress (Stephanie
Tanner-Full House), born in Los Angeles, California ******************************** Pete Buttigieg (44 years old),
American politician, Mayor of South Bend, Secretary of Transportation; 1st
openly gay Democratic presidential candidate, born in South Bend, Indiana |
…The End for today…
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