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Almanac: Week: 02 \ Day: 010
January
Averages: 43°\116°
86004 Today: H 52°\L 24°
Ave. humidity: 46% Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 15mph
Ave. High: 43° Record
High: 65° (1990)
Ave. Low: 16° Record Low: -15° (1937)
Observances
Today:
League
of Nations Day
National
Cut Your Energy Costs Day
Peculiar People Day
Observances This
Week:
4-11
Home
Office Safety and Security Week
National Folic Acid Awareness Week
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
7-10
Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week
8-14
Universal
Letter Writing Week
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1776 - "Common
Sense" by Thomas Paine, published advocating American independence
1806 - Dutch in
Capetown surrender to British
1839 - Tea from
India 1st arrives in UK
1845 - Poets
Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding
1861 - Florida secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1870 - John D.
Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
1879 - President
Hayes, by Executive Order, adds to Gila River Reserve-Pima Agency
1901 - Oil
discovered in Texas
1925 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as TX gov, nation's
2nd woman governor
1949 - RCA introduces 45 RPM record
1951 - UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY
1962 - 4,000
die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Peru
1971 - Irish Republican Army (IRA) carry out a
'punishment attack', tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal
activities in Belfast
1984 - US re-establishes full diplomatic relations
with Vatican after almost 117 yrs
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Yet another unseasonably warm day. No complaints.
I did my Medicare yearly health review today. All good. As the doc
said…enjoy your life. Some pretty weird questions to answer like Do you have
the help you need to perform daily tasks? Are you able to go where you want,
when you want to? Do you still drive? I am barely 65, not 85. Oh well, all is
good. But a little scary to look ahead a couple of decades.
So sorry to hear about all the mess in Paris and surrounding
areas. What a scary story over a cartoon. Too bad Mohammad or Allah can’t send
them a message that they are crazy and not living up to the belief of the
Muslims..
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
H
&
M
E
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
50’s
Inventions…
1958
The computer modem invented.
Gordon Gould invents the laser.
The Hula Hoop invented by Richard
Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin.
The integrated circuit invented by
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
Education
Facts…
--An Australian study found that homework is of little to no
academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
--Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida
neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the
high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare
and all high school graduates scholarships.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
Downtown Flagstaff rang out the old and in the dry when all
taverns promptly stopped serving and refused to sell another drop at the stroke
of midnight as 1914 turned over into 1915. It was all out with the saloon
industry and this is really the end. There were no grandstand plays. The
jollifiers tooted horns and turned loose the usual fusillade of shots as the
hour struck.
Flagstaff’s
Iconic 50…
The
Atomic Clock at the Naval Observatory
It is the first generation of atomic clocks at the U.S. Naval
Observatory in Flagstaff. And according to Paul Shankland, director of the
observatory, the National Clock, created 50 years ago, is a suite of
Cesium-based time standards that provide — and still provide (with the
later addition of hydrogen masers and rubidium fountain clocks) — the most
accurate time in the world.
Originally, the Navy’s quest was for extremely precise time to
ensure very accurate navigation for everything from ships at sea to spacecraft
in orbit.
Today, at the top of its use for a variety of key-to-everyday
defense applications, the U.S. Naval Observatory hosts the National Clock to
make almost every aspect of our “way of life” easier.
The clock provides time to the constellation of GPS satellites
orbiting Earth. The clock also provides time to the backbone of the World Wide
Web so that it can operate. The clock ensures key timing for Automatic Teller
Machines, cellphones, finance, banking, electric power grids, and all media and
communications.
The era of atomic clocks ushered in a half-century ago is at the
very foundation of everything “modern” today.
Harper’s
Index…
1/3
Portion of Mormon missionaries expected to travel with specially
configured iPads by 2015
Rules of
Thumb…
TIMING
YOUR ARRIVAL
It's better to sit at the airport than
to run at the airport.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
When table tennis was originally created in 1889, it was called
gossima.
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Joke-of-the-day
An engineer dies and reports to the pearly
gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer —
you're in the wrong place." So the engineer reports to the gates of hell
and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of
comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After a while,
they've got air conditioning, flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is
becoming a pretty popular guy. One day God calls Satan up on the telephone and
asks with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?" Satan
replies, "Hey, things are going great. We've got air conditioning, flush
toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to
come up with next." God replies, "What??? You've got an engineer?
That's a mistake — he should never have gotten down there; send him up
here." Satan says, "No way! I like having an engineer on the staff,
and I'm keeping him." God says, "Send him back up here or I'll
sue." Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah right. And just
where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"
Yep, It
Really Happened
Police in Arizona say they subdued a samurai-sword wielding man
with a stun gun after he challenged officers to shoot him, authorities said.
Police were investigating a complaint of loud music when they encountered
Robert Burns, 48, on Sunday evening.
Sgt. Tod Moore, a spokesman for the Cottonwood Police Department, said officers
announced their presence and knocked on the door of Burns' home several times
before he answered while brandishing a samurai sword.
Burns was ordered to put down the sword, but he responded by asking the
officers if they were legitimate police, Moore said. Officers continued to
identify themselves and Burns challenged them to shoot him, taking an
aggressive posture and raising his sword.
After multiple commands to stand down Burns drove the sword into the ground,
Moore said. The officers say Burns remained aggressive with them, despite their
attempts to reason with him.
At one point, Burns reached for the sword again, prompting officers to use a stun
gun to help bring him into custody. Burns was being held on suspicion of
aggravated assault on an officer, disorderly conduct with a weapon, making
unreasonable noise and being a prohibited possessor.
Somewhat
Useless Information
--At
MIT in 1962, Steve Russell programmed the world's first video game on a bulky
computer known as the DEC PDP-1. Spacewar featured spaceships fighting amid an
astronomically correct screen full of stars. By the end of the decade, nearly
every research computer in the United States had a copy of Spacewar on it.
--Nolan Bushnell founded Atari in 1972, taking the company's name from the
Japanese word for the chess term "check." Atari released the
coin-operated Pong later that year, and it became an instant arcade hit.
--In 1985, Tetris found success in the Soviet Union (even in spite of the Cold
War), and the following year it took over the U.S. market. The game was
invented by Soviet mathematician Alexi Pajitnov.
--Released in 1978, Midway's Space Invaders was the arcade equivalent of Star
Wars. A year later, Atari released Asteroids and outdid Space Invaders by
enabling the high scorer to enter his or her initials for posterity.
--The 1980 Midway classic Pac-Man is the world's most successful arcade game,
selling some 99,000 units. The game inspired rap songs, Saturday morning
cartoons, and a slew of sequels.
--In 1980, Nintendo's first game, Donkey Kong, marked the debut of Mario.
Originally dubbed Jumpman, Mario was named for Mario Segali, the onetime owner
of Nintendo's warehouse in Seattle.
Gizmos
Returns tomorrow
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Today’s
Events through History
1941 - Joseph
Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace," premieres in NYC
1949 - 1st
Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
1999 - "The
Sopranos" debuts on HBO
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Birthday’s
Today
David
Horowitz, author and political commentator is 76
Bill
Toomey, decathelete (Olympic-gold-68) is 76
Rod
Stewart, British singer (Maggie Mae) is 70
George
Foreman, World Heavyweight boxing champ (1973-74, 95) is 66
Pat
Benatar, [Andrezejewski], Brooklyn , singer (Hell Is for Children)
is 62
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Remembered
for being born today
Ethan
Allen, American Revolutionary War patriot (Green Mtn Boys) 1738-1789@51
Charles
Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder 1836-1902@66
Frank
James, American outlaw 1843-1915@72
Mary
Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder 1865-1928@63
Ray
Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz) 1904-1987@83
Paul
Henreid, actor (Casablanca) 1908-1992@84
Gisele
MacKenzie, Winnipeg, singer/actress (Your Hit Parade) 1927-2003@76
Roy
Edward Disney, CEO of Disney 1930-2009@79
Scott
McKenzie, American singer ('San Francisco;), 1939-2012@73
Sal Mineo, actor
(Exodus,), 1939-1976@37
Jim Croce, rock
vocalist (Time in a Bottle) 1943-1973@30
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Historical
Obits Today
Carlo
Ponti, Italian film producer, 2007@94
Gabrielle "Coco"
Chanel, French fashion designer, 1971, @87
George
Meany, labor leader, 1980, @86
Buffalo
Bill Cody, frontierman, kidney failure, 1917, @70
Carolus Linaeus "Carl
von Linne", Swedish botanist/explorer, stroke, 1778,@ 70
Harry
Sinclair Lewis, US writer (Nobel 1930), alcoholism, 1951, @65
Richard
Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel), cancer, 1981, @ 63
Dr Samuel
A. Mudd, American medical doctor, phenomena, 1893, @49
Samuel
Colt, American inventor (6 shot revolver), gout, 1862, @47
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Brain Teasers Answers
Hand Me Down
H + and, ME, all going down
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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.
§…And That Is All for Now…§
