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Almanac: Week: 05 \ Day: 025 
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 45°\L 27°
Ave. humidity: 35%     Average Sky Cover: 8%
Wind ave:   11mph\Gusts:  26mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High:  61° (1975)
Ave. Low:17 ° Record Low:  -17° (1937)

Observances January 25:
A Room of One's Own Day
Macintosh Computer Day 1st day of sales to public
National Irish Coffee Day
Opposite Day
Robert Burns Day
Soup Swap Day
World Leprosy Day
Observances This 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

24-25 
Kid Film Festival

25-31
National Nurse Anesthetists Week
World Leprosy Week 
Catholic Schools Week
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
Meat Week 
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week

National Medical Group Practice Week
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Quote of the Day 


Historical Highlights for Today
1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil
1755 - Moscow University established
1775 - Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
1840 - American naval expedition 1st to identify Antarctica as a new continent
1858 - Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
1870 - Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows
1877 - Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden
1890 - Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days)
1907 - Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to US National Institute of Arts & Letters
1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France
1934 - Notorious bank-robber John Dillinger was captured with three of his gang by the Tucson Police. They were stripped of numerous handguns, five sub-machine guns and a half dozen bullet-proof vests.
1955 - Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
1961 - 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (JFK)
1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmatians" released
1971 - Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders
1981 - 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US
1989 - Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
1993 - Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language
1998 - Super Bowl XXXII: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24
2011 - Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins in Egypt
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


My Rambling Thoughts
Early post today…friends invited me to dinner tonight.
Lazy, chilly, windy day here.
I caught up on some Netflix this morning. So nice to watch some good series without commercials. Too easy to get stuck at the TV.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Fill in the answers to the clues by using all the syllables. The number to be used is in parentheses.

A BU ER GLE IM IN ISH JO NAV POV SET STEP SUN

1. Military horn (2)
2. Make poor (4)
3. American Indian (3)
4. Foot part (2)
5. Evening event (2)

           
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
70’s Inventions…
1973
Gene splicing invented
The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox
Bic invents the disposable lighter

**NEW**Bank Facts…
-- In 2013, a homeless man from Oregon robbed a bank for $1, then casually sat down and waited for police to arrest him so he could receive healthcare in prison.
--A man named Dmitry Argakov was sent a letter offering him a credit card but he didn’t like the terms. So he altered the contract to include unlimited credit at 0% interest which the bank accepted but then tried to void his card. He sued the bank for not sticking to terms of the credit contract and won.

Easter Eggs…check it out…
Searching for “festivus” in Google Search places a large pole to the left of your search results

Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO
Jack Starrett, ace skier of Nevada University, has arrived to take over his duties at the Snowbowl as Ski Pro for the Arizona Snowbowl. He says it will be second to none when developed and publicized. He is currently operating the skiing equipment section in the basement at Penney’s.

Flagstaff’s Iconic 50…
Clark Telescope
A collection of brass, wood and aluminum dials hang off the observing end of the 24-inch Clark Telescope at Lowell Observatory. Lowell installed the 24-inch Alvan Clark & Sons refracting telescope at a cost of $20,000 on four acres of land given to him by the community. The dome surrounding the telescope was built from local pineby Flagstaff contractor Edgar Whipple. The telescope was dismantled in Boston, shipped by train to Flagstaff and hauled up Mars Hill by a team of six horses before being reassembled.
A few months after the telescope arrived, Lowell moved it and its dome to Mexico City by train because he thought the viewing conditions might better there. They weren’t and he ended up moving the entire operation back to Flagstaff.
The telescope was in near continuous use from 1896 until January 2014, when Lowell Observatory dismantled it in order to give it a deep cleaning and make some much-needed repairs. It is due to be reinstalled next year.

Harper’s Index…
34
Factor by which a member of the general US population is more likely than a US prisoner to self-identify as an atheist

Rules of Thumb…
PLANTING TOMATOES
When set in the field, a young tomato plant should be as wide as it is high. Taller plants are leggy and more prone to wind damage.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
When you pick up a common pine cone, you'd be correct to refer to it as "she," since these brown, seeded cones are all female.
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Joke-of-the-day
Two cowboy ranchers in Texas, they each had their own horse, but they could never tell them apart. So the first cowboy said, "I've got it!"
The second cowboy said "What?"
"I'll shave the mane on my horse." Let's do it!”
So the cowboy shaves the mane on his horse. But after a while the mane grew back.
The cowboys are having a really hard time telling them apart. Then the one cowboy said, "I've got it!”
 "What? What? What’s your idea now? says the other"
"I'll cut the tail on my horse really small."
"Alright! Let's do it!" So he cut the tail really short. But after a while it grew back. Then the second cowboy said, "OK, this time I've got it! You take the black one and I'll take white one!!!!"
           
Yep, It Really Happened
PLYMOUTH, MN (UPI)
Authorities in Minnesota said they are looking into whether an elderly woman was already dead when her son brought her to the bank for an $850 withdrawal. Police said David Vanzo of Plymouth reported his mother, Caryl Vanzo, dead just days shy of her 91st birthday about two weeks ago and officers were greeted at the home by a stench of urine and feces. The woman's body was clothed in a robe, fur coat and boots that were covered in excrement, police said.
Vanzo, who was arrested on a charge of elderly neglect, was found to have visited the bank with his mother just seven hours before reporting her death. He withdrew $850 from his mother's account, police said. Investigators said they are looking into whether Caryl Vanzo was dead when her son took her to the bank. Witnesses at the bank said the woman's feet were dragging under her wheelchair and Vanzo's neighbors said they wondered whether the mother was dead or unconscious when she was being taken from her house to a taxi cab. David Vanzo had previously been investigated by social workers on allegations of financially exploiting his mother. Police visited the home in 2012 and found Caryl Vanzo was lucid and wanted to stay in the home with her son. David Vanzo denied the allegations against him and said the money he withdrew was from a joint account. "I love my mother very much," he told KMSP-TV. "I gave my life to keep my mother alive. Look at my eyes."
           
Somewhat Useless Information
--Florence Nightingale was born in Florance (Tuscany, Italy) in 1820 to William and Fanny Nightingale.
--She had to go to Germany to study nursing. Her main encouragement came from Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first officially qualified female doctor in the United States.
--She was an outstanding mathematician and statistician. She didn't invent the pie chart, but she used it and other innovative methods of data presentation.
--Florence, who had rejected a traditional gender role, ended up helping soldiers by organizing other women to bake biscuits and do laundry. One of her key complaints about military medical care was the horrid food and filthy clothing.
--Florence really did walk around with a lamp. She was the only woman allowed in the wards at night, when male orderlies were in charge of the hospital floor.
--Even as an invalid - which she was for a quarter century, because of her brucellosis - she advised, watched and assisted the growth of her profession.

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Today’s Events through History
1721 - Tsar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
1915 - Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (NY to SF)
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Birthday’s Today
Ana Ortiz, actress\singer is 43
Christine Lakin, actress (Step by Step) is 36
Alicia Keys [Cook], singer-songwriter (Fallin) is 34
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Remembered for being born today
Robert Boyle, Ireland, physicist/chemist/author 1627-1691@64
Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne), 1796@37
[William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, novelist/poet 1874-1965@91
Virginia Woolf [Adeline], author 1882-1941@59
Edwin Newman, newscaster/journalist/author 1919-2010@91
Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines 1933-2009@76
Etta James [Jamesette Hawkins], singer 1934-2012@73
Steve Prefontaine, 5K (Olympics-4th-1972) 1951-1975@24
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Historical Obits Today
 Jean Dixon, psychic (Gift of Prophecy), heart attack, 1997, @79
Ava Gardner, actress (Barefoot Contessa), pneumonia, 1990, @67
Al Capone, Chicago gangster, neurosyphilis, 1947, @48
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Bugle (Bu gle)
2. Impoverish (Im pov er ish)
3. Navajo (Nav a jo)
4. Instep (In step)
5. Sunset (Sun set)
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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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