1-20-15

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Almanac: Week: 04 \ Day: 020 
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 56°\L 27°
Ave. humidity: 65%     Average Sky Cover: 45%
Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  20mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High:  61° (1950)
Ave. Low: 17° Record Low:  -14° (1922)

Observances Today:
Camcorder Day
Inauguration Day
National Buttercrunch Day
National Disc Jockey Day
Penguin Awareness Day
Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day

Observances This Week:
17-23
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
18-25
Week of Christian Unity
Healthy Weight Week 
Hunt For Happiness Week4 
National Activity Professionals Week  
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week
National Handwriting Analysis Week

19-25 
No Name Calling Week 
Sugar Awareness Week

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Quote of the Day 


Historical Highlights for Today
1356 - Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scots
1502 - The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored
1576 - Mexican city of León is founded by Viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almansa
1648 - Cornerstone of Amsterdam townhall laid
1778 - 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass
1785 - Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Is), no takers
1801 - John Marshall appointed US chief justice
1809 - 1st US geology book published by William Maclure
1869 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before US Congress
1920 - The American Civil Liberties Union is founded
1929 - 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona"
1937 - 1st US Presidential Inauguration day held on Jan 20th, (was March 4th)
1961 - Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration
1968 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow
1986 - 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr
1988 - Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Gov Evan Mecham
1989 - Reagan becomes 1st pres elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
2014 - Credit cards of at least 20 million South Koreans are hacked

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


My Rambling Thoughts
A nice MLK day. I didn’t go anywhere…part of my one man protest that places should not be open on National Holidays. The employees of all those stores and offices should be able to have the day off to recognize the reason for the holiday.
I was surprised to see the number of posts on Facebook regarding the holiday. Sadly many of those who posted some of his quotes don’t realize that his dream has not yet been reached. For 364 days many are unaware of the struggles that minorities have here in the US…then on this one day, everyone honors the man who gave his life to rid this country of racial tension. I wish more people would carry his message in their everyday lives throughout the year. Maybe 2015 will be better at that.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
On a clock, the big and small hand are exactly between 1 and 2. Both hands lie on top of each other. 
What time is it?       

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
60’s Inventions…
1968
The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
The first computer with integrated circuits made.
Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).

Easter Eggs…check it out…
Searching for “define anagram” in Google Search shows “Did you mean: nerd fame again“.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO
There was a house fire out on Lake Mary Road Tuesday night caused by a wood-burning stove's pipe being too close to the walls. Capt. Paul Hellenbury of the Flagstaff Fire Department says this in the third similar fire this winter.

Flagstaff’s Iconic 50…
Abert Squirrel
Even the squirrels in Flagstaff are different. Flagstaff is known for its subspecies of Abert’s squirrel, also known as the tassel-eared squirrel. The squirrel is named after Col. James Abert, a U.S. military officer who helped map the West.
The squirrels are found in many areas in the Southwest including Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah and in the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Durango. Each area has a different subspecies.
Flagstaff is home to the Kaibab subspecies. The squirrel has a whiter tail and darker body than the Abert squirrel that inhabits much of the rest of the Colorado Plateau. The squirrels prefer cool, dry ponderosa pine forests. They’re diurnal, which means they’re usually active during the day and sleep at night.
They make bowl-shaped nests out of pine twigs and usually have litters of three or four babies.
Their favorite food is pine nuts, but they’ll also eat the inner bark of a tree, buds, fungus, carrion, bones and antlers.
Squirrel pencils are twigs the squirrels have dropped after stripping of them of needles and eating the bark off.

Harper’s Index…
$41,000
Average cost for a Canadian family to adopt a white US child through the Shepherd Care Agency in Florida
$32,000
To adopt a black child

Rules of Thumb…
FIRING A SALUTE
Repeating, "If I wasn't a gunner, I wouldn't be here," will give you the two-second interval between rifle salutes.    

Unusual Fact of the Day…
In August of 1883, the initial explosion of Indonesian volcano Krakatoa caused a pressure wave that circled the globe seven times, as recorded by the Royal Society in London, England.
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Joke-of-the-day
A woman visited a modern-art gallery. One painting was bright blue with vivid orange swirls and the one hanging next to it was black with lime-green splotches.
The artist stood nearby, so as politely as she could, the woman said to him, "I'm sorry, but I just don't understand you paintings."
"I paint what I feel inside me," the artist replied.
"I see," the woman replied innocently. "Have you tried Alka-Seltzer?"     


Yep, It Really Happened
A woman out of Shangqiu, China took revenge into her own hands, literally, when she discover her husband was unfaithful. 
Chinese officials have arrested a married woman who allegedly chopped off her husband's penis after she found his messages to a 21-year-old mistress. 
Fan Lung, a 32-year-old father of five, was sleeping when his wife, Feng, cut off his penis with scissors, according to local media reports. She reportedly saw emails he wrote to his lover using her cell phone. 
Fan had his penis reattached, but was still in the hospital when Feng returned to cut off his penis once again. 
"Staff rushed out to see what was happening and found the patient with blood streaming down his legs hitting the woman," a hospital rep said in a statement. He was stopped and the woman was taken in for treatment, and then we discovered she had chopped his penis off again." 
Unfortunately for Fan, authorities were unable to find his severed member, which is thought to have been eaten by a stray dog or cat. 
And remember that Valentine's Day is less than a month away!


Somewhat Useless Information
--Celebrities didn't start handing out awards until 1958, when the Rat Pack -- led by Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. -- rushed to the stage with whiskeys and cigars to give them out. Before that, HFPA members used to hand out the awards.
--The Golden Globes wasn't televised nationally until it appeared on a segment of "The Andy Williams Show" in 1964 and 1965. Before that, it was on the air only in Los Angeles. Now, the show can be seen via live stream for people who can't be near a television.
--In 1962, Judy Garland became the first woman to take home the Cecil B. DeMille Award, which is given for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment." 
--Marlon Brando refused to accept his award in 1973 for "The Godfather." He protested "imperialism and racism." He did likewise at the Oscars that year, sending a Native American representative to give a political statement instead.
--"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is the only film to win all five major Golden Globes. In 1976 it won for Best Motion Picture, Actor, Actress, Director and Screenplay.
--The first actor to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama was Paul Lukas for "Watch on the Rhine" in 1944.  
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Today’s Events through History
1930 - 1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit)
1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term
1957 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
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Birthday’s Today
Arte Johnson, comedian (Laugh-in) is 86
David Lynch, actor/director (Dune, Eraserhead) is 69
Paul Stanley, [Eisen], rock guitarist (KISS-Beth) is 63
Bill Maher, comedian\political commentator (Politically Incorrect) is 59
Lorenzo Lamas, actor (Lance-Falcon Crest) is 57
Rainn Wilson, actor (The Office) is 49
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Remembered for being born today
Edward Tyson, British Physician\father of comparative anatomy 1651-1708@57
Finlay Currie, Scotland, actor (Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe, Avengers) 1878-1968@90
Lead Belly (Huddie William Ledbetter), blues 12 string guitarist 1888-1949@61
George Burns, [Nathan Birnbaum], actor/comedian (Oh God) 1896-1996@100
Joy Adamson, (Friederike Gessner) naturalist/author (Born Free) 1910-1980@69
DeForest Kelley, actor (Dr McCoy-Star Trek) 1920-1999@79
Federico Fellini, film director\scriptwriter (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita) 1920-1993@73
Patricia Neal, actress (Hud, Subject Was Roses), 1926-2010@84
Dorothy Provine, actress (Darn Cat) 1937-2010@75
Slim Whitman, yoddler/country singer (Home on the Range) 1923-2013@90
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Historical Obits Today
Philippe de Rothschild, Bordeaux Vineyard manager, 1988, @86
Barbara Stanwyck, [Ruby Stevens], actress (Big Valley), 1990, @82
Johnny Weissmuller, US swimmer (Olympics-5 gold-1924, 28), stroke, 1984, @79
Etta James, American singer, leukemia, 2012, @73
George V, King of Britain (1910-36), painkillers, 1936, @70
Audrey Hepburn, actress (Roman Holiday), colon cancer, 1993, @63
David Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, poor health, 1891, @54
James Connolly, 1st Oly winner (1896) since Barasdates (369 CE), executed, 1957, @47
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Brain Teasers Answers
The hands lie exactly between the 1 and 2 in the number "12".
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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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