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Almanac: Week: 03 \ Day: 011 
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 42°\L 29°
Ave. humidity: 88%     Average Sky Cover: 95%
Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  9mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High:  63° (1990)
Ave. Low: 16° Record Low:  -23° (1913)

Observances Today:
Cigarettes Are Hazardous To Your Health Day
Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day
National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day
No Pants Subway Ride Day
Stephen Foster Day
Observances This Week:
8-14
Universal Letter Writing Week 
11-17

Cuckoo Dancing Week
National Vocation Awareness Week 

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Quote of the Day 


Historical Highlights for Today
1569 - 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Paul's Cathedral
1805 - Michigan Territory organizes
1861 - Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform
1861 - Alabama secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1867 - Benito Juárez becomes the Mexican president again
1879 - Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
1886:  1st infantry has engaged APACHEs in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. For his actions today against "hostiles" under Geronimo and Natchez, First Lt. Marion Maus will be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
1913 - 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (NYC)
1922 - Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)
1963 - 1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA
1973 - Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Wash DC
1989 - 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
1994 - Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA

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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


My Rambling Thoughts
Cloudy, overcast, light rain…yep rain in January at 7000’. Interesting.
Watched an interesting movie on Netflix last night. Reel Injun is a documentary about how Hollywood’s stereotype of Indigenous people in N. America have been shown in film. Certainly gives one pause and lots to think about. The most interesting sideline is that it was produced by Indigenous people. After watching it I guess even Native American is adding to the stereotype. As one of the producers said, ‘We were here first and called ourselves ‘human beings’ or by our tribe. Then the invaders came and gave us many other names. We are still just human beings.’ Well worth a watch.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
There are two groups of three-letter words used in the sentences below. The first missing words of each sentence are anagrams of each other, and the second missing words are also anagrams of each other. Can you find them?

1. It is only ____ that we use a trap to catch a ____, instead of having a cat in the house!

2. To staunch the bleeding from a wound suffered by an animal, people used to ____ some hot ____ onto the wound at one time.

3. To ____ into the mysteries held within the human psyche and enjoy these mysteries to the fullest, is the objective of any ____.          


Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
50’s Inventions…
1959
--The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
--Barbie Doll invented.
--Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce both invent the microchip.

Education Facts…
--Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
--In China, teachers allow children to sleep in class for around 20 minutes to help improve their learning.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO
--Floyd Jones came up from the south on Tuesday over the Tonto Road and says the snow in places is 3 feet deep, the best snow cover seen in a good many years.
--The new library received 48 books, issued 28 cards and loaned out 30.

Flagstaff’s Iconic 50…
Colton House
Less than a mile from the Museum of Northern Arizona stands the Colton House, once the home of museum founders Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton and her husband Dr. Harold Colton. 
Much like the museum, the house became a testament to the couple’s passions and attraction to the Colorado Plateau. Colton House has become a gathering place of minds and ideas — and a place for celebrations.
Relocating from eastern Pennsylvania, the Coltons came to northern Arizona with their own passions. Mary-Russell was a trained artist. Harold was a zoologist. Together they fell in love with the Colorado Plateau’s abundance of natural science, archeology and indigenous cultures. 
To Flagstaff’s benefit, they moved here permanently in 1926. They brought with them their desire to establish a regional center for science and art that finally materialized in 1928 as the Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, later renamed the Museum of Northern Arizona. 

Harper’s Index…
163
Minimum number of churches in China demolished or given demolition notices by gov’t order since Feb, 2014
Rules of Thumb…
RIDING A TRAIN
To hop a moving freight train, use the ladder at the front of the car. The speed of the train will throw you against the car. If you use the ladder at the end of the car, you could be thrown between cars.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
Romance novelist Barbara Cartland was Princess Diana's step-grandmother.
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Joke-of-the-day
A man and his wife were sitting in the living room discussing a “Living Will”
"Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug."
His wife got up, unplugged the TV and threw out all the beer.          


Yep, It Really Happened
NEW DELHI (UPI)
A senior official with India's Central Public Works Department was fired after he failed to show up for work for 25 years. Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu issued an order Thursday to terminate the employment of A.K. Verma, a former executive electrical engineer with the department. The firing came at the end of an inquiry that heard Verma went on leave in December 1990 and had not reported for duty since then. The inquiry heard Verma sought repeated extensions for his unsanctioned leave and refused orders to return to work. A previous inquiry accusing him of willful absence from duty in 1992 was delayed when the engineer failed to cooperate with the investigation. "Owing to non-cooperation of Mr. Verma with the inquiry and for other reasons, it got delayed and a fresh charge sheet was issued in 2005. The inquiry report, establishing the charges was submitted in July 2007 and the same was accepted by the then-Minister of Urban Development in August 2007. But no further action was taken in the matter," the Ministry of Urban Development said in a statement. The case was brought back to light when Naidu took office last year and ordered a review of pending disciplinary cases. It was unclear whether Verma collected paychecks from the Central Public Works Department during his absence. 

Somewhat Useless Information
--Archaeological surveys show that cheese was being made from the milk of cows and goats in Mesopotamia before 6000 B.C.
--Travelers from Asia are thought to have brought the art of cheese making to Europe, where the process was adapted and improved in European monasteries.
--Processed American cheese was developed in 1915 by J.L. Kraft as an alternative to the traditional cheeses that had a short shelf life.
--In 1886, the University of Wisconsin introduced one of the country's first cheese-making education programs. 
--The Pilgrims included cheese in their supplies on board the Mayflower in 1620. 
--The Sargento Cheese Company in Plymouth, Wisconsin, introduced packaged shredded cheese in 1958. In 1986, the company went even further to ensure the "spread of the shred" by introducing the resealable bag.

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Today’s Events through History
1957 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar
1970 - Irish republican political party Sinn Féin party splits between those in favor of abstentionism (of not taking any seats won in the parliaments) and those where against
1976 - Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consec natl figure skating champions
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Birthday’s Today
Grant Tinker, broadcasting executive (NBC-TV) is 90
Naomi Judd, singer, songwriter is 69
Darryl Dawkins, NBA center (Philadelphia 76ers, NJ Nets) is 58
Stanley Tucci, actor, writer, director is 55
Mary Jane Blige, New York, American R&B singer-songwriter is 44
Amanda Peet, actress/playwright is 43
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Remembered for being born today
Alexander Hamilton, 1st Secretary of the Treasury, 1755-1804@49
Joseph Jackson Lister, perfected the optical microscope 1786-1869@73
William James, psychologist/philosopher (Pragmatism) 1842-1910@68
Harry Gordon Selfridge, American retailer (d. 1947)
Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder (National Woman's Party) 1885-1977@92
Rod Taylor, Australian actor (The Birds) 1930-2015@84
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Historical Obits Today
Beulah Bondi, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), 1981, @88
Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand /1st to climb Mt Everest, 2008, @88
Thomas Hardy, English novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd) 1928, @87
I. (Irene) Rice Pereira, American abstract artist, emphysema, 1971, @68
Francis Scott Key, lawyer, poet and composer "Star Spangled Banner" 1843@63
Jack Soo, actor (Nick Yemana-Barney Miller), cancer, 1979, @61
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. It is only APT that we use a trap to catch a RAT, instead of having a cat in the house!

2. To staunch the bleeding from a wound suffered by an animal, people used to PAT some hot TAR onto the wound at one time.

3. To TAP into the mysteries held within the human psyche and enjoy these mysteries to the fullest, is the objective of any ART.

Anagram Groups
Group I: APT, PAT, TAP
Group II: RAT, TAR, ART

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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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