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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1790 - 1st
US census authorized
1831 -
According to a Georgia law, today is the deadline for all whites to be out of
CHEROKEE lands deadline.
1854 - SS
City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again
1869 - Postage
stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time
1872 - Yellowstone
becomes world's 1st national park
1873 - E.
Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical
typewriter.
1936 - The
Hoover Dam is completed
1937 - 1st
permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct)
1942 - Baseball
decides that players in military can't play when on furlough
1949 - Joe
Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ
1978 - Charlie
Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery
1981 - Bobby Sands,
IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike (he dies)
1982 - Russian
spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
2006 - English-language
Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station
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Rambling Thoughts
Had
a great lunch today…and with presents too. Very nice. Got a ticket to the big
bagpipe concert, a crazy sucker with a scorpion inside—for our great Governor’s
Book, and a bottle of single malt scotch from Islay—Laphroaig—Leapfrog, for
those us who can’t say it. It is my favorite scotch and is very Peat-y. Whee.
Running
errands was easy this afternoon. Nice weather, not a lot of shoppers, and I was
able to pick up everything I was looking for. That doesn’t happen very often in
our small town. Some non-essentials usually take several trips to several stores.
I
am so confused by the current banking system…the left hand doesn’t know what
the right is doing with my money. The check that got stuck in the machine
posted on my account today. That is great. The branch manager and the help line
told me two different stories yesterday. Manager said I’d get a Legal Photostat
of the check in 8-10 days that I could then deposit at the inside bank. The
help line said the check would come in 5-6 days. Both said that since it didn’t
post on the day it happened, there was NO WAY it would be posted. I actually
got on line today, to see if my CSRP posted on the 29th. It didn’t,
but the missing AT&T check did post…and I could see a picture of it…a
little torn up but posted none the less. What a mess. Machines win over Humans….again.
Scary that the people in the bank don’t know what the machines can do.
Remember
a few months ago when the grandfather forced his grandkids to hike out of the
Grand Canyon. It was Nationwide news. Today he was found guilty of 3 of the 6
Child Abuse charges and faces up to a year in prison. AZ can do some things
right.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game
NPR Sunday Puzzle
Every
answer is a familiar phrase in the form of ____ and ____. Each clue is a
sentence with two blanks. Fill in the blanks with two words that complete the
phrase. But here's the twist: The words that complete the sentence are
homophones of the words in the answer phrase.
For
example: When the vegetable store received a fresh supply of ____, excited
customers lined up in ____. The answer would be "peas" and
"queues," as in "a fresh supply of peas; the customers lined up
in queues," with "P's and Q's" being a familiar phrase.
1.
It has been difficult to involve the ___ in
Northern Iraq but we must find the ___:
2.
The warship had a ___ of 20,000 tons as it was
put out to ___:
3.
In London’s ___Park we saw a religious
discussion between a Muslim and a ___:
4.
The sharp jolt in the jousting contest left
one of the ___ in a ___:
5.
In ancient Mongolia tales in poetry and ___
entertained the royal ___:
6.
At the seafood restaurant composer Lawrence
___ ordered filet of ___:
7.
If your land line telephone isn’t working, you
can still contact me ___ ___.
Wuzzles
What concept or phrase do these suggest?
Lifestyle Substance
Planet Earth—Mayan
Found on You Tube
Water-Drawing Festival
Harper’s Index
Number of the 100 highest paid American CEO’s who earned more that their employers paid in taxes last year: 28
Joke-of-the-dayThe photographer for a national magazine was assigned to get photos of an enormous forest fire. Smoke at the scene was too thick to get any good shots, so he frantically called his home office to hire a plane.
"It will be waiting for you at the airport!" he was assured by his editor.
As soon as he got to the small, rural airport, sure enough, a plane was warming up near the runway. He jumped in with his equipment and yelled, "Let's go! Let's go!" The pilot swung the plane into the wind and soon they were in the air.
"Fly over the north side of the fire," said the photographer, "and make three or four low level passes."
"Why?" asked the pilot.
"Because I'm going to take pictures! I'm a photographer, and photographers take pictures!" said the photographer with great exasperation and impatience.
After a long pause the pilot said, "You mean you're not the instructor?"
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
If a headhunter mentions the names of other people he's placing, drop him immediately. The next time it could be your name he drops in a conversation - perhaps to your boss.
Somewhat Useless Information
Bacteria are remarkably adaptable to diverse environmental conditions: they are found in the bodies of all living organisms and on all parts of the earth; in land terrains and ocean depths, in arctic ice and glaciers, in hot springs, and even in the stratosphere.In one linear centimeter of your lower colon lives and works more bacteria than the number of people who have been born in the history of the world.
Yeah, It Really Happened
OSHKOSH, Wis. - Authorities in Wisconsin said participants in an annual ice fishing contest were left searching for rides home when 36 parked vehicles fell through the ice. Organizers of the Battle on the Bago, an annual ice fishing competition on Lake Winnebago, said participants were warned against parking on the ice, but some did it anyway because they could not find anywhere else to leave their vehicles Saturday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday.
"We had some cars that got wet," a Winnebago County sheriff's department dispatcher said. "We had cars parked on the ice like it was a parking lot. Usually they do park out on the ice; that's not unusual. It's just that they parked too close together. It was too much for the ice conditions this year."
The dispatcher said the water was shallow where the cars fell through and they were removed with two trucks. The sheriff's department said four vehicles were submerged more than half way while 18 went partially under the water and 14 others only sank to the tops of their wheels.
Calendar
Information
…Happening This Week:
1-7
National Cheerleading Week
National Ghostwriters Week
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
Universal Human Beings Week
Today Is
National Pig Day
Peanut Butter Lover's Day
Asiatic Fleet Memorial Day
National Horse Protection Day
Peace Corps Day--1961
Plan a Solo Vacation Day
Refired, Not Retired Day
Witch Hysteria Day
World Book Day World
Compliment Day
Bosnia/Herzegovina: Independence Day (1992 from SFR Yugoslavia)
Iceland: Beer Day (since full end to prohibition—1908-1965)
Iceland: Beer Day (since full end to prohibition—1908-1965)
Japan: Omizutori ( Water-Drawing Festival)
US
Nebraska: Admission Day (37th
state in 1837)
Ohio: Admission Day (17th
state in 1083)
Vermont: Town Meeting Day ()
Wales: St. David's Day (Dydd Gŵyl Dewi): Patron
Saint of Wales
Today’s Other Events
Before 1000CE
743 - Slave
export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited
1600’s
1628 - Writs
are issued in February by Charles I of England mandating that every county in
England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date
1700’s
1780 - Pennsylvania
is 1st American state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only)
1781 - Continental
Congress adopts Articles of Confederation
1800’s
1815 - Sunday
observance in Netherlands regulated by law
1845 - President
Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas
1851 - Governor
McDougal, of California, will write to the President stating there are over
100,000 hostile Indians in California. He will inform the President that an
uprising is going on. This information is false, and the Governor never
specifies who's revolting or where the uprising are located. He requests
permission to call out the militia as U.S. troops.
1864 - Rebecca Lee
(US) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree
1890 - 1st
US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published
1900’s
1913 - 1st
state law requiring bonding of officers & state employees, ND
1913 - Federal
income tax takes effect (16th amendment)
1917 - 1st
federal land bank chartered
1921 - Rwanda ceded
to England
1932 - Charles
Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in NJ; found dead May 12
1933 - Bank
holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks
1940 - Richard
Wright's novel "Native Son" is published
1941 - "Captain
America" appears in a comic book
1941 - 1st
US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, TN
1943 - Jewish
old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
1945 - FDR announces
success of Yalta Conference
1946 - British
government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years
1953 - Joseph Stalin
suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later
1962 - K-Mart opens
1969 - After 88
weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts
1970 - White
government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain
1972 - Wilt
Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points
1980 - Snow falls in
Florida
2000’s
2004 - Terry
Nichols is convicted of state murder charges and being an accomplice to
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
2007 - Tornadoes
swarm across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the
deaths were at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
Richard
Wilbur, 2nd US Poet Laureate (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep) is 91
In their 80’s
Harry
Belafonte, Harlem NYC, calypso singer (Buck & the Preacher) is 85
In their 70’s
Robert
Conrad, [Conrad R Falk], Chicago, actor (Wild Wild West) is 77
In their 60’s
Dirk
Benedict, Helena Mont, actor (A-Team, Battlestar Galactica) is 68
Alan
Thicke, Ontario, actor/host (Thicke of the Night, Growing Pains) is 65
In their 50’s
Catherine
Bach, actor is 58
Timothy
Daly, actor is 56
Ron
Howard, actor, director is 58
In their 40’s
George
Eads, actor is 45
Under 30 years old
Justin
Bieber, singer is 18
Remembered for being born on this day
Harry
Caray, baseball announcer (Chicago Cubs) in 1920
Frederic
Chopin, Poland, composer/pianist (Concert in F Minor) in 1810
William
Cushing, 2nd Chief Justice of the United States in 1732
Paul
Hartman, SF California, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction) in 1904
David
Niven, London UK, actor (Casino Royale, The Pink Panther) in 1910
John Pell,
English mathematician in 1610
Today’s Obits
Jackie
Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies of cardiac arrest at 69 in
1984
Answers
Brain Game
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
It has been difficult to involve the ___ in
Northern Iraq but we must find the ___:
a.
curds and whey
2.
The warship had a ___ of 20,000 tons as it was
put out to ___:
a.
wait and see
3.
In London’s ___Park we saw a religious discussion
between a Muslim and a ___:
a.
Hide and Seek
4.
The sharp jolt in the jousting contest left
one of the ___ in a ___:
a.
nights and days
5.
In ancient Mongolia tales in poetry and ___ entertained
the royal ___:
a.
pros and cons
6.
At the seafood restaurant composer Lawrence ___
ordered filet of ___:
a.
Heart and Soul
7.
If your land line telephone isn’t working, you
can still contact me ___ ___.
a.
Buy and sell
Wuzzle
- Season ticket
- Five degrees below zero
- Head over heels in love
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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