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Almanac: Week: 04 \ Day: 021 
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 52°\L 22°
Ave. humidity: 48%     Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  12mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High:  60° (1944)
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low:  -24° (1937)

Observances Today:
National Hugging Day
Squirrel Appreciation 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
 1677 - 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
1789 - 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy" is published
1827 - Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing
1846 - 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"
1861 - Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign
1863 - City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
1880 - 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis
1887 - Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1903 - International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle NYC

1915 - Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
1919 - Irish militant nationalist party Sinn Fein creates its own parliament in Dublin and declares Ireland independent of Great Britain, sparking the Irish War of Independence
1927 - 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1949 - 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman)
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
1954 - USS Nautilus, the 1st nuclear-powered sub, launched on the Thames, CN
1976 - Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France
1977 - US President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1987 - B.B. King & Muddy Waters  inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"
1990 - John McEnroe becomes 1st ever player to be expelled from Australian Open
2008 - The Eyak language in Alaska becomes extinct as its last native speaker dies.
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


My Rambling Thoughts
Decent Tuesday. Clouded over this afternoon, but the morning was very nice. Even though I have been retired for 7 years, when there is a holiday Monday, the Tuesday still feels like Monday. Today was no different.
While doing some shopping, I ran into 2 teachers from Tuba that I haven’t seen since I retired. The husband has retired and the wife is retiring in May. Both seem to be doing well. We talked about 30 minutes. They have a place in Phoenix and are looking forward to moving down there. Both are very traditional Navajo but I feel they will do very well in Phoenix. Both are good teachers and did a lot for their people. Nice to see them again.
I will be listening to the State of Union this evening. I sure hope he proposes some definitive solutions to the worldwide issue of terrorism, the gun violence in our country and the craziness of the income gap that has infected our country.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
P-------P
--L---L
----A
--N---N
E-------E

The hyphens have no purpose
           
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
60’s Inventions…
1969
The arpanet (first internet) invented.
The artificial heart invented.
The ATM invented.
The bar-code scanner is invented.

Easter Eggs…check it out…
Searching for “do a barrel roll” or “Z or R twice” in Google Search will rotate the page a full 360 degrees.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO
The Snowbowl needs 28 inches of packed snow before they can open. Currently there is only 8 inches. On the other hand, there is snow enough for cross-country skiing and some sledding.

Flagstaff’s Iconic 50…
Weatherford Hotel
The Weatherford Hotel is a historic hotel in the downtown district of Flagstaff, Arizona. The hotel was established in 1897 by John W. Weatherford, and is located one block north of U.S. Route 66.
Disastrous fires plagued early Flagstaff, like most frontier towns. After a particularly bad series of blazes in 1897, the City passed an ordinance requiring all buildings in the business area to be built of brick, stone or iron. Among the new buildings appearing in the year 1898 was the Weatherford Hotel, built by John W. Weatherford (1859–1934), a native of Weatherford, Texas. The original structure housed a general store on the first floor, and the Weatherford family upstairs.
In March 1899, Weatheford began construction of a brick three-story hotel addition, with a grand opening on New Year's Day, 1900. For years, the Weatherford Hotel was the most prominent hotel in Flagstaff, entertaining guests such as artist Thomas Moran, publisher William Randolf Hearst, and writer Zane Grey. Grey's famous novel "The Call of the Canyon" was written in the recently renovated Zane Grey Ballroom on the third floor of the hotel.
A beautiful sunroom occupied part of the top floor and was used for dances and parties, while numerous civic groups engaged the downstairs. A three-sided balcony, visible in the 1905 photograph hanging in the Ballroom was damaged by fire and removed in 1929, along with the original cupola. At various times, the hotel housed a restaurant, theater, and billiard hall and radio station.
Henry Taylor, the present owner, purchased the hotel in 1975 in an attempt to keep it from being demolished, at a time when the downtown area was in an acute state of disrepair and decline. Since then, Henry and his wife Pamela (Sam) have been continually renovating the structure, with the goal of restoring the hotel to its original grandeur. Today's Weatherford Hotel is still changing. The third floor Ballroom was renovated and reopened in 1997 and the first stage of reconstructing the wrap-around porches were finished in February 1999.

Harper’s Index…
2750
Year by which South Koreans will be ‘extinct’ given current fertility rates, accord to government demographers

Rules of Thumb…
BRUSHING YOUR TEETH
Get a new toothbrush as soon as your old one gets frayed. If you're not going through four toothbrushes a year, you're not brushing your teeth enough.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
When removing the American flag after an event, the proper term is to "Retrieve the Colors," which is commonly mistaken for "Retire the Colors." To "Retire the Colors" is to destroy/bury an American flag due to excessive wear or damage.
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Joke-of-the-day
Q. What game encourages drinking and driving? 

A. Golf

           
Yep, It Really Happened
Daily Mail (London)
Among the breakthroughs demonstrated by the computer chip company Intel's RealSense system is a cocktail dress from Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht that not only senses the wearer's "mood," but also acts to repel (or encourage) strangers who might approach the wearer. Sensors (including small LED monitors) measure respiration and 11 other profiles, and if the wearer is "stressed," artistic spider-leg epaulets extend menacingly from the shoulder to suggest that "intruders" keep their distance (in which case the dress resembles something from the movie "Aliens") -- or, if the wearer feels relaxed, the legs wave invitingly. The experimental "spider dress" was showcased at January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.     

Somewhat Useless Information
--In 1983, Congress passed a federal holiday honoring King. The day is celebrated on the third Monday in January.
--His birth name is Michael Luther King Jr. but he was later renamed Martin and his father called him M.L. 
--Martin was so intelligent he skipped the 9th and 12th grades and entered Morehouse College when he was 15. 
--The "Big Six" organizers were James Farmer, of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); Martin Luther King, Jr., of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); John Lewis, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); A. Philip Randolph, of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Roy Wilkins, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); and Whitney Young, Jr., of the National Urban League. 
--The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered this speech on August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Washington, D.C., Lincoln Memorial during the march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 
--On Apr. 4, 1968, he was shot and killed as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. James Earl Ray, a career criminal, pleaded guilty to the murder and was convicted, but he soon recanted, claiming he was duped into his plea.

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Today’s Events through History
1525 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union
1813 - Pineapple introduced to Hawaii
1997 - An inquiry in North Wales names more than 80 child abusers
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Birthday’s Today
Jack Nicklaus, golfer (Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76) is 75
Placido Domingo, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Mme Butterfly) is 74
Mac Davis, country music singer-songwriter, actor is 73
Jill Eikenberry, actor (Ann Kelsey-LA Law) is 68
Eric Holder, 82nd Attorney General is 64
Robby Benson, actor (Running Brave) is 59
Geena [Virginia] Davis, actress (Beetlejuice) is 59
Emma Lee Bunton, "Baby Spice" is 39
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Remembered for being born today
John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton) 1743-1798@55
Horace Wells, dentist (pioneered use of medical anethesia) 1815-1848@33
John Cabell Breckinridge, 14th US VP 1821-1875@54
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Lt Gen 2nd Corps, 1824-1863@39
Christian Dior, fashion designer (New Look) 1905-1957@52
Karl Wallenda, German acrobat 1905-1978@73
Alan Hewitt, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian) 1915-1986@71
Paul Scofield, actor (Man for All Seasons) 1922-2008@86
Telly Savalas, actor (Kojak) 1922-1994@72
Benny Hill, comedian (Benny Hill Show) 1924-1992@68
Steve Reeves, actor (Hercules) 1926-2000@74
Wolfman Jack, [Bob Smith], Brooklyn DJ (Midnight Special) 1938-1995@57
Richie Havens, Bkln, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun),  1941-2013@72
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Historical Obits Today
Peggy Lee, American singer, 2002@81
George A. Moore, Irish novelist, 1933, @80
Jack Lord, actor (Stoney Burke, Hawaii 50) Alzheimer's , 1998, @77
Cecil B[lount] de Mille, producer (10 Commandments), heart failure, 1959, @77
Elisha Gray, American inventor (telephone), 1901, @65
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian Premier, stroke, 1924, @53
Jackie Wilson, US singer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), stroke, 1984, @49
George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), TB, 1950, @46
Louis XVI, French King (1774-93), beheaded, 1793, @38
Saint Agnes (martyred) burned at stake, 304, @13
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Brain Teasers Answers
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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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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.