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Almanac: Week: 05 \ Day: 0 
January Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 52°\L 38°
Ave. humidity: 51%     Average Sky Cover: 8%
Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  20mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High:  63° (1986)
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low:  -13° (1918)

Observances Today:
Clash Day
National Kazoo Day
Privacy Day
Rattlesnake Round-Up Day Data
Thank A Plugin Developer Day

Observances This Week:
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
28-31 
US National Snow Sculpting Week


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Quote of the Day 


Historical Highlights for Today
 1547 - 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England
1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity
1813 - Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is published
1851 - Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered
1878 - 1st telephone exchange (New Haven, CT)
1878 - Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
1887 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
1899 - American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress
1902 - Carnegie Institute founded in Washington, DC
1932 - 1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted (Wisconsin)
1934 - 1st US ski tow (rope) begins operation (Woodstock, Vermont)
1953 - J Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins NBC's "Today Show"
1958 - Lego company patented their design of Lego bricks
1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America
1973 - In the run up to the 1st anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' there is serious rioting in Derry, North Ireland
1985 - Charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by super group USA for Africa 
1986 - 25th Space Shuttle (51L)-Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


My Rambling Thoughts
So I did teeth cleaning today.  Good report, but then again, that tooth he’s been ‘watching’ for about a year has moved from ‘watching’ to ‘sooner rather than later’ for a crown. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the new house he just built. So the appointment is set.
Beautiful weather day. A little rain this morning, always nice. Beautiful rainbow as I drove to the dentist, soon after sunrise.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I am four words
Though there appear to be three
Two ways of pronouncing
Three spellings there be.
The first is a manner of indicating, a case being such, or therefore, or a measure of degree.
The second is a pig, female you see.
The third is also on a farm, a manner of planting of seed.
The fourth is to stitch, to hold fabric together, indeed.
Can you tell me now, what word could this be?           

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Artur Rubinstein plays Liebestraum nº3 Liszt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkXOrkeZyqQ
Jackson Pollock - Documentary – Ovation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGVuJ3q8fuQ
Mr. Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jZeXvpyZQ
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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
70’s Inventions…
1976
The ink-jet printer invented

Bank Facts…
--A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
--When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.

Easter Eggs…check it out…
Zerg Rush Easter Egg Searching for “zerg rush” in Google Search returns a search page with ‘O’s eating the search results. Clicking each ‘O’ three times kills it.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO
Beginning on Monday, daily road information on US Highway Route 66 will be broadcast on some 20 radio stations between California and Illinois. Myron Wells, President of the Arizona Route 66 Association, says the information will be sent by teletype to each station at least twice daily and broadcast at 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Harper’s Index…
62
Percentage of Americans who support military intervention against the Islamic State
68
Who think it’s unlikely to succeed

Rules of Thumb…
IDENTIFYING ICEBERGS
Arctic icebergs are tall and narrow. Antarctic icebergs are shaped like sheets

Unusual Fact of the Day…
Only female mosquitoes will bite you.
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Joke-of-the-day
Q: What do you call a man who just lost his brain?

A: Divorced.

           
Yep, It Really Happened
Boston
Fourteen employees of a Framingham, Massachusetts, pharmacy were indicted in December for defrauding the federal government by filling bogus prescriptions (despite an owner's explicit instructions to staff that the fake customers' names "must resemble real names," with "no obviously false names" that might tip off law enforcement). Among the names later found on the customer list of the New England Compounding Center were: Baby Jesus, Hugh Jass, L.L. Bean, Filet O'Fish, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Harry Potter, Coco Puff, Mary Lamb, all of the Baldwin brother actors, and a grouping of Bud Weiser, Richard Coors, Raymond Rollingrock and, of course, Samuel Adams. The indictments were part of an investigation of a 2012 meningitis outbreak in which 64 people died.
           
Somewhat Useless Information
Bill Murray is an American actor and comedian and he first gained exposure on Saturday Night Live for which he earned an Emmy Award.
Despite his success and fame, there was a sad moment for Bill Murray, as he once decided to commit suicide and drown in Lake Michigan.
However, he ultimately changed his mind on the way to the lake after seeing a painting from French painter Jules Breton!
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It is said that astronauts have the best view while working and this saying can be confirmed if you think that they see plenty of sunrises and sunsets on a daily basis!
The astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station witness around 16 sunrises and 15 sunsets every day, according to vizworld.com .
It is also mentioned that a space sunset is a spectacular sight that shows in vivid detail the many layers of the Earth’s thin atmosphere.
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Today’s Events through History
1099 - 1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria
1581 - James VI signs 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland
1854 - In Oregon, 30 miners attack a peaceful Indian village on the Coquille River. Sixteen Indians are killed
1903 - Head-on crash at Vail Station, AZ of the Southern Pacific east and west bound passenger trains killed 22 people and injured 45
1916 - 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson
1973 - "Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV
1978 - "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV
2013 - John Kerry is voted to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as the United States Secretary of State
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Birthday’s Today
Alan Alda, [Alphonso D'Abruzzo], actor (Hawkeye Pierce-M*A*S*H) is 79
Nicolas Sarkozy, Paris, President of France is 60
Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian is 46
Elijah Wood, actor (Radio Flyer, Good Son) is 34
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Remembered for being born today
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Roccasecca Italy, Italian thelogian 1225-1274@49
John Baskerville, English printer (typeface inventor) 1706-1775@69
Artur Rubinstein, Lodz Poland, pianist 1887-1982@95
Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz 1890-1963@73
Jackson Pollock, expressionist painter (Lavender Mist) 1912-1956@44
Acker Bilk, singer (Stranger on the Shore) 1929-2014@85
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Historical Obits Today
Jerry Siegel, comic book writer (Superman), 1996, 1986, @81
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Nobel), 1939, @73
Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), 841, @71
Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47), 1547, @55
Francis Drake, Admiral\Governor of Newfoundland dysentery, 1596, @50
Francis R Scobee, USAF/astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster, 1986, @46
Greg Jarvis,  payload specialist Space Shuttle Challenger, 1986, @41
Michael J Smith, Cmdr USN, astronaut, dies in Challenger, 1986, @40
Ellison S Onizuka, Mjr USAF/ astronaut, Challenger disaster, 1986, @39
Christa McAuliffe, astronaut, Challenger disaster, 1986, @37
Judith Arlene Resnik, astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster, 1986, @36
Ronald E McNair, astronaut dies in Challenger disaster, 1986, @35
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Brain Teasers Answers
In order of appearance:
So
Sow
Sow
Sew.

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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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