Jan 16, 2012


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Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1847 - John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory
1854 - Citizens from Yreka, California, confront Shasta Indians over stolen cattle. Four whites are killed. This helps to rekindle the Rogue River War.
1868 - Refrigerator car patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit
1936 - 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah FL
1956 - Egyptian pres Nasser pledges to re-conquer Palestine

♫Happy Birthday To: ♫                     
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
A chilly Sunday. And a winter storm advisory…it’ll be getting colder, but hopefully the snow will miss Flg.
Our discussion group picked up a new member…from International Studies. He’s from Flg but has lived all over the world. A young guy working on his Masters. He had some really good observations on our discussion. Sure hope us old-er people didn’t scare him away. We certainly had a good discussion about Afghanistan with the recognition that promoting democracy in a tribal nation is probably not a good idea. Duh…President Bush never called any of us to ask our opinion before we entered either war. Sure wish he had.

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)
Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle
You are given two categories and must name two things in both of them. For example, given "male singers who have No. 1 hits" and "state capitals," the answers would be John Denver (Denver is the capital of Colorado) and Michael Jackson (Jackson is the capital of Mississippi).
1.     Kings of Great Britain, Beatles:
2.     Animals in the zodiac, NFL team mascots:
3.     Holidays, islands:
4.     Countries: things on thanksgiving table:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     
AZ Centennial is in 29 days: Did you know?…
  • The age of a saguaro cactus is determined by its height.
  • Arizona, among all the states, has the largest percentage of its land set aside and designated as Indian lands.
  • Oraibi is the oldest Indian settlement in the United States. The Hopis Indians founded it.
  • Grand Canyon's Flaming Gorge got its name for its blazing red and orange colored, twelve-hundred-foot-high walls.
  • There are 11.2 million acres of National Forest in Arizona and one fourth of the state is forested. The largest forest is comprised of Ponderosa Pine.
  • It is illegal to manufacture imitation cocaine.
Found on You Tube         
Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know
Harper’s Index         
  • Number of minors sent back to Mexico by US Immigration authorities in 2010: 20,438
  • Percentage who were sent unaccompanied by an adult: 57

Joke-of-the-day
There are more important things than money, but they won’t date you if you don’t have any
  • BONUS

"Just to establish some parameters," said the professor, "Mr. Nichols, what is the opposite of joy?"
 "Sadness," said the student.
 "And the opposite of depression, Ms. Biggs?"
 "Elation."
 "And you, sir, how about the opposite of woe?"
 "I believe that would be giddy up..."

Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
For standard residential construction with wall studs on 16-inch centers, plan on using one stud per linear foot of wall plus two per opening, and you'll be pretty close.
Somewhat Useless Information   
All dogs can be traced back 40 million years ago to a weasel-like animal called the Miacis which dwelled in trees and dens. The Miacis later evolved into the Tomarctus, a direct forbear of the genus Canis, which includes the wolf and jackal as well as the dog.A dog's shoulder blades are unattached to the rest of the skeleton to allow greater flexibility for running.During the Middle Ages, Great Danes and Mastiffs were sometimes suited with armor and spiked collars to enter a battle or to defend supply caravans.The earliest European images of dogs are found in cave paintings dating back 12,000 years ago in Spain.A dog can locate the source of a sound in 1/600 of a second and can hear sounds four times farther away than a human can.Touch is the first sense the dog develops. The entire body, including the paws, is covered with touch-sensitive nerve endings.
Yeah, It Really Happened                 
SANTA CLARITA, CA - Three suspects were arrested after allegedly stealing beer from a California convenience store -- then returning to sloppily erase their tracks, police say.
Oscar Jimenez, 19, Eduardo Salgado, 18, and a juvenile whose name was not reported allegedly stole beer from Dooley's Liquor Store & Market in Santa Clarita about 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Detectives allege they returned a half-hour later, drunk, and asked the clerk to hand over the surveillance video.
Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. Tom Bryski said "a scuffle ensued," KNBC-TV, Los Angeles, reported. One suspect allegedly brandished a knife and cut the store clerk on the arm. The clerk needed stitches. What would have been a misdemeanor theft charge suddenly became felony for assault with a deadly weapon. The three escaped, but were apprehended in short order, the TV station said.

NEW!!! Planet Earth

Calendar Information        
…Happening This Week:
11-17
  • Cuckoo Dancing Week
  • National No-Tillage Week Conference
  • National Soccer Coaches of America Week
  • International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week

15-21
  • Healthy Weight Week
  • International Printing Week
  • National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
  • Week of Christian Unity


Today Is                                                                      
  • Hot and Spicy Food International Day
  • National Nothing Day
  • Appreciate A Dragon Day
  • Martin Luther King Day Nothing Day
  • Robert E. Lee Day
  • World Religion Day
  • El Salvador: National Day of Peace
  • Japan: Haru-No-Yabuiri (Employees and servants who have been working over the holidays are given a day off)



Today’s Other Events                                                             
1200’s
1219 - Floods in Northern Netherlands after storm, 1,000s killed

1300’s
1362 - A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt

1400’s
1492 - The first grammar of a modern language, in the Spanish language, is presented to Queen Isabella

1500’s
1547 - Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself 1st tsar of Moscow

1700’s
1777 - Vermont declares independence from NY

1800’s
1831 - Mushulatubbe ("Determined to Kill") says he will step down as Chief when the removal of the Choctaw to Indian Territory begins. He recommends that Peter Pitchlynn replace him as Chief of the Northeastern District.
1870 - Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to US after Civil War

1900’s
1913 - British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland
1919 - Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of states; Nebraska is 36th
1920 - 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933
1938 - 1st jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall (Benny Goodman)
1965 -  "Outer Limits"  last airs on ABC-TV
1968 - Jay Allen's "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," premieres in NYC
1970 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects
1973 - NBC presents 440th & final showing of "Bonanza"
1985 - "Playboy" announces end of stapling centerfolds
1986 - First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force

2000’s
2002 - The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban
2003 - The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one
2006 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 30’s
Trent Ford, actor, model is 33
Kate Moss, model is 38

In their 40’s
Roy Jones, Light-MW boxer (Olympic-silver-1988) is 43
Richard T. Jones, actor is 40

In their 60’s
Debbie Allen, actor. dancer is 62
Ronnie Milsap, country singer (Legend in My Time) is 68
Jim Stafford, singer (Spiders & Snakes, My Girl Bill) is 68

In their 70’s
A J Foyt, auto race driver (Indy 500 1961, 64, 67, 77) is 77
Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano (Somewhere - West Side Story) is 78

In their 80’s
Jim Berry, cartoonist (Berry's World) is 80
William Kennedy, US Pulitzer Prize writer is 84

Remembered for being born on this day


1911 - Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, HOF baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1908 - Ethel Merman, stage & screen actress (Anything Goes, Call Me Madam)
1870 - Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (hardening of oils)
1933 - Susan Sonntag, writer

Today’s Obits                                                           
Ma Barker, American criminal shot by FBI at 61 in 1935
Stanley Biber, American physician, pioneer of transgender surgery, dies at 83 in 2006
Ted Cassidy, actor (Lurch-Addams Family), dies from surgery complications at 46 in 1979
Marshall Field, founder of Marshall Field and Company dies of pneumonia at 71in 1906
Robert R "Bob" Jones, founder (Bob Jones University), dies at 84
David Seville [Rostom Sipan "Ross" Bagdasarian], singer (Alvin & Chipmunks, Witch Doctor), dies of heart attack at 52 in 1972

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game
1 and 4 are identical
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.     Kings of Great Britain, Beatles: John (Lennon) George (Harrison)
2.     Animals in the zodiac, NFL team mascots: Lions, Rams
3.     Holidays, islands: Christmas, Easter
4.     Countries: things on thanksgiving table: turkey, China

Wuzzle
GrazingDrove up from the SouthTopics

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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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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