12-8-14

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Almanac: Week: 50 \ Day: 342 
December Averages: 44°\17°
86004 Today: H 49°\L 25°
Ave. humidity: 72%     Average Sky Cover: 35%
Wind ave:   5mph\Gusts:  15mph
Ave. High: 45° Record High:  62° (1976)
Ave. Low: 17° Record Low:  -23° (1978)

Holiday Observances Today:
Constitution Day (Uzbekistan-1992)
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Green Monday
National Brownie Day
Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day
Take it in the Ear Day
Observances This Week:
3-9
Clerc-Gallaudet Week
7-13
National Hand Washing Awareness Week
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Computer Science Education Week
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Quote of the Day



Historical Highlights for Today
1659 - Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez is founded by Fray García de San Francisco
1829 - In his first "State of the Union Address," President Andrew Jackson will state his goal to remove all Indians in the southeastern part of the United States to lands west of the Mississippi.
1876 - Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years
1880 - 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal, South Africa
1902 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
1909 - Bird banding society found
1915 - John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" appears anonymously in "Punch" magazine
1936 - NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
1940 - 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
1941 - President Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
1949 - Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa 1952 - 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "Atoms for Peace" speech at the UN in NYC
1956 - 16th Olympic Games close at Melbourne, Australia
1962 - 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC 
2004 - The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations
2008 - Kirsty Williams elected as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. The first female leader of a political party in Wales
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 Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today



My Rambling Thoughts
Nice Sunday after another late night with Netflix. Figured out a new way to search movies, so now I can find anything. Very Cool.
Watching the Cards play and not playing that well, but are finally winning. Checking the internet machine for the Broncos score…who seem to be doing just fine without me watching.
Fareed did an interesting story about Congress declaring war. His question, ‘how many times has the US been in a congressionally approved war since the end of WWII?’ Geez, I can’t remember very many times where we haven’t had our military involved in combat. Ah, but the question was about Congress. The answer was ZERO. All the military actions that have killed so many American soldiers have not been in a ‘war’. That to me in bonkers.
Computer is acting weird. Can’t access any email, can’t get colors right, centering has disappeared…maybe I hit the wrong shortcut button, or maybe my computer is possessed, or maybe…
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What is represented below?

Der Der
Der Der
Der Der
Der Der
Der Der

CALOVERE   
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today




           
OK Then…


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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
December Holiday Facts
*Christmas-Christian
¤ Each year there are approximately 20,000 “rent-a-Santas” across the United States. “Rent-a-Santas” usually undergo seasonal training on how to maintain a jolly attitude under pressure from the public. They also receive practical advice, such as not accepting money from parents while children are looking and avoiding garlic, onions, or beans for lunch.
¤ Bolivians celebrate Misa del Gallo or “Mass of the Rooster” on Christmas Eve. Some people bring roosters to the midnight mass, a gesture that symbolizes the belief that a rooster was the first animal to announce the birth of Jesus.

*Hanukkah-Jewish
Hanukkah is a relatively minor holiday in the Jewish year. In the United States, however, its closeness to Christmas has brought greater attention to Hanukkah and its gift-giving tradition. Amid the ever-growing flood of Christmas advertising, it may seem especially fitting that the Hanukkah story tells of Jewish culture surviving in a non-Jewish world.

*Kwanza-African-American
The Principles
Ujimah (oo-MO-jah) or unity. It is to remind people to come together as a family, community, nation and race.

*12 Days of Christmas
Six Geese A-laying
The six days of creation that confesses God as Creator and Sustainer of the world (Genesis 1).

England Facts…
¤ The Queen and her husband are both great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
¤ When Prince William becomes king, he will be the forty-fourth monarch since William the Conqueror who was crowned in 1066.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
¤ Work is going forth on the ski course with a crew of 33 CCC men from a side camp at Leroux Springs Nursery and machine operators have nearly finished 5 miles of new road up to the Divide. Continued good weather will permit completion.
¤ The new bridge over the Little Colorado River 1 miles east of Winslow is complete and an Armistice Day Parade celebrated this event.

Flagstaff’s Iconic 50…
Returns tomorrow
Harper’s Index…
Number of johns a suspected pimp must attempt to solicit with ‘chica cards’ to be arrested under NY state law: 10      
Rules of Thumb…
BUYING A HAT
Your wedding ring size is the same as your hat size.  
Unusual Fact of the Day…
The Pentagon has twice the number of toilets needed due to being built before desegregation.
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Joke-of-the-day
Returns tomorrow 
Yep, It Really Happened
Returns tomorrow 
           
Somewhat Useless Information
Ten shocking things happening every minute
So, every minute…
5 books are published
722, 504 photos are taken
257 children are born
48,000,000 telephone calls are made
150, 184 presents are given
45,632 liters of wine are drunk
14 meteors enter the Earth’s atmosphere
1,875,000 people ‘like’ something on Facebook
7 new articles on Wikipedia are edited
a person can have 33 separate thoughts
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Today’s Events through History
1792 - 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
1863 - 2,500 reported killed as result of fire at Jesuit Church of La Compana, Santiago, Chile
1974 - Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1980 - Annie Leibovitz has a photo-shoot with John Lennon, the last person to professionally photograph him before his death
1994 - Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges
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Birthday’s Today
Gregg Allman, guitarist/vocalist (Allman Brothers Band) is 68
Kim Basinger, actress is 61
Teri Hatcher, actress (Lois & Clark, Desperate Housewives) is 50
Sinéad O'Connor, Irish musician is 49
Nicki Minaj, Trinidadian-born American rapper and singer is 33

Remembered for being born today
Horace, Roman Republian poet (Odes), [65BC-8 BC]
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland [  1542-1587]
Eli Whitney, inventor (Cotton Gin) [1765-1825]
Diego Rivera, [Lenin of Mexico], painter ("En el Arsenal") [1886-1957]
James (Grover) Thurber, humorist (Men, Women & Dogs) [1894-1961]
Elzie C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) [1894-1938]
Richard Llewellyn, Wales, novelist (How Green Was My Valley) [1906-1983]
Lee J Cobb,  actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront) [1911-1976]
Sammy Davis Jr, singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man) [1925-1990]
Flip Wilson, [Clerow], comedian (Flip Wilson Show) [1933-1998]
James MacArthur, actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0) [1937-2010]
Jim Morrison, American poet, singer (The Doors) [1943-1971]  
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Historical Obits Today
Bob Bell, clown (WGN's 1st Bozo), 1997, @75
Albert Kahn, architect of Detroit, 1942, @73
Slim Pickins (Louis Burton Lindley, Jr.), actor, brain tumor, 1983, @64
Marty Robbins, country singer, heart attack, 1982, @57
John Lennon, shot 1980, @40
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Brain Teasers Answers
 Tender Loving Care.

"Der" was written TEN times
TEN "Der"
"Love" is in "Care"
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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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