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Almanac: Week: 04 \ Day: 018
January
Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 49°\L 26°
Ave. humidity: 58% Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave:
9mph\Gusts:
21mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High: 64° (1971)
Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: -8° (1995)
Observances
Today:
National
Sanctity of Human Life Day (or Pro-Life Day)
Thesaurus
Day
Winnie the Pooh Day
World
Religion Day
Observances This
Week:
14-18
National
Soccer Coaches of America Week
No Tillage Week
17-23
National Fresh Squeezed
Juice Week
17-18
Bald
Eagle Appreciation Days
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
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1535 - Francisco Pizarro founds the city of
Lima, Peru
1644 - Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported
America's 1st UFO sighting
1733 - 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)
1777 - San Jose California, founded
1778 - Capt James Cook stumbles over
Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
1862 - Confederate Territory of Arizona forms
1896 - 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US
(NYC)
1922 - Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others
occupy Rotunda in Dublin
1929 - "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter
Winchell debuts on radio
1933 - White Sands National Monument, NM established
1943 - US rations bread & metal - banning
pre-sliced bread reduce bakery demand for metal parts
1948 - Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour"
begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)
1958
- The LUMBEE break up a KKK meeting and make national headlines
1962 - US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to
reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
1967 - Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced
to life in prison
1967 - Yellowknife
replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada
1973 - John Cleese's final episode on "Monty
Python's Flying Circus," on BBC
1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown
bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease
1983 - IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals
70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball
1990 - Wash DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug
enforcement sting
1991 - Longest tennis match at the Australian
Open, Boris Beckerbeats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours & 11 mins
1993 - Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observed
in all 50 states for 1st time
2012 - Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) blackout
becomes the largest protest in the history of the internet
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
The night of strange dreams. Nothing made much sense, but woke me
up several times, so I slept in until 7am.
A nice winter day, sun shining and beautiful. I had to do a lot of
reading for our Syria refugee discussion tonight. Some great articles caught me
up on the history of Syria since WWII. All of their neighbors have been more
than generous in allowing refugees fleeing Syria to set up camps. Sadly the
world community has not offered much help to bring stabilization to the
country. This conflict seems to be more about those for and against the
leadership than about anything else. Should be an stimulating discussion
tonight.
Sadly, Duke University has stepped back from its decision to do
the Muslim Call to Prayer on Fridays from their chapel. They did it once, but
then claimed that they were concerned about security. Sounds to quit a few that
the Call to Prayer upset many of their alum who donate big bucks.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Some
people believe that January 1, 2000 is the first day of the 21st century. Other
people believe that the honor belongs to January 1, 2001. But everyone should
agree that January 1, 2002 is the first "sum-day" of the new century-
when you write out that date in standard notation, it becomes 01/01/02, and
1+1=2. More generally, a sum-day is a date in which the day and month add up to
the year. With that in mind:
A) What is the last sum-day of the 21st century?
B) How many sum-days are there in the 21st century?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
60’s
Inventions…
1966
Electronic Fuel injection for cars
invented.
Emotion
Facts…
--As a rule, 66 percent of people keep their eyes closed while
kissing. The rest take pleasure in watching the emotions run the gamut on the
faces of their partners.
--Only humans shed emotional tears.
**NEW**Easter
Eggs…check it out…
Since Google’s launch in the mid to late 90’s, it has grown to
become the most popular search engine and website in the world. With a stable
position at the top of the leaderboard, why not have some fun? So Google have
implemented some cool hidden tricks (or ‘Easter Eggs‘) that you can call up
with a simple command in the search box – here’s a list of known Google Search
Easter Eggs.
Atari Breakout Google Easter EggSearching for “atari breakout” in
Google Images will make the images shrink and a playable Google version of
Atari’s ‘Breakout’ will appear on screen.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS
AGO
--Rainy snow began to fall in a steady downpour on Monday night
coming to 1.29 inches before turning to all snow on Tuesday when 3 inches was
measured at the airport.
--The skiing is just fine with both the Snowbowl and Bill Williams
reporting a 20-inch packed base.
Flagstaff’s
Iconic 50…
Doris
Harper White Community Playhouse
Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse, erected in 1923, was
originally the Elks Lodge and later became the Flagstaff Library. The hall is
now known as an intimate black box venue for the Theatrikos Theatre Company.
The performance space seats 99 individuals. Theatrikos patrons are never more
than five rows away from the stage area.
Harper’s
Index…
43
Percentage of midterm campaign advertisements that have mentioned health
care
4
That have mentioned women’s rights
Rules of
Thumb…
BUYING
FROZEN VEGETABLES
Avoid buying bags of frozen vegetables
that are a solid lump; they've probably been thawed and refrozen.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Legendary pool shark Minnesota Fats was actually from New York. He
lifted his moniker from a fictional character in the film The Hustler.
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Joke-of-the-day
A corny talk on the farm...
Do you know what the lettuce asked the radish? Let us be best friends?
And what did the radish answer? You naughty thing, you make me blush! yYou make
me reddish!
Yep, It
Really Happened
WHEAT
RIDGE, Colo. (UPI)
My home town
Authorities in Colorado said an alleged robber abandoned his plans
when he recognized the clerk and decided to instead give a "thumbs
up" and rob another store. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said the
man was disguising his face with a bandana and the hood of his blue jacket when
he walked into the Quick Save store in Wheat Ridge just before 12 p.m. Tuesday.
"[Expletive], I was going to rob this place but I know you." the
sheriff's office quoted the suspect as saying to the clerk, "Do you know
me?" The clerk responded that he did not recognize the suspect, who said
"Good" and exited the store with a "thumbs up" aimed at the
worker. The incident was recorded by a CCTV camera, the sheriff's office said.
"File this in the You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up File," the
sheriff's office said on its Facebook page. A suspect matching the same
description robbed a 7-Eleven store in nearby Arvada shortly after the aborted
crime, investigators said. The sheriff's office has released the CCTV video and
still images of the suspect in the hope he can be identified by members of the
public.
Somewhat
Useless Information
The
government of Japan has apologized several times regarding the war crimes committed
by the Empire of Japan during World War II.
Those
apologies were issued on and after the end of World War II in Asia, from the
1950s to the 2010s.
The
government of Japan has apologized for WWII over 50 times since the end of the
war and you can find all these statements on the internet.
However,
it is still unclear whether they are formal apologies or general statements of
remorse.
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Today’s
Events through History
1817 - José de San MartÃn leads a
revolutionary army over the Andes to attack Spanish royalists in Chile
1919 - Bentley Motors Limited is founded
1971 - Northern Ireland Prime Minister James
Chichester-Clark meets British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling
1972 - Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Brian
Faulkner bans all parades and marches in Northern Ireland until the end of the
year
1974 - "$6 Million Man" starring Lee
Majors premieres on ABC TV
1975 - "Jeffersons" spinoff from
"All in the Family" premieres on CBS
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Birthday’s
Today
Bobby
Goldsboro, singer (Honey) is 74
Kevin
Costner, actor (Fandango, Silverado, Bull Durham) is 60
Jason
Segel, actor (How I Met Your Mother) is 35
Samantha
Mumba, Irish singer and actress is 32
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Remembered
for being born today
Peter
Roget, thesaurus/inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard) 1779-1869@90
Daniel
Webster, Salisbury NH, orator/politician/lawyer, 1782-1852@70
Joseph
Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire) 1813-1906@93
A.A.
Milne, Hampstead, English author (Winnie-the-Pooh) 1882-1956@74
Oliver
Hardy, comedy team member (Laurel & Hardy) 1892-1957@65
Cary
Grant [Archibald Alexander Leach], Bristol England, actor 1904-1986@82
Danny
Kaye, Brooklyn, comedian/actor 1911-1987@76
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Historical
Obits Today
Sargent
Shriver, American politician, 2011, @95
Minnesota
Fats, [Rudolf Wanderone Jr], billiard hustler, 1996, @82
Sydney
Greenstreet, actor (Maltese Falcon), Bright’s Disease, 1954, @74
John
Tyler, 10th US pres (1841-45), stroke, 1962, @71
Rudyard
Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), perforated ulcer, 1936, @70
Carl Betz, actor
(Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show), lung cancer, 1978, @56
Curly
Howard (Jerome Horwitz), actor (The Three Stooges), strokes, 1952,@48
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Brain Teasers Answers
A) The last sum-day of the 21st century is December 31, 2043,
because 12+31=43, and both the month and day are as big as possible.
B) This one is much easier than you might think. The correct answer is 365,
because every day in a standard (non-leap) year is part of a sum-day for some
year. For example, November 26 is a sum-day for the year 2037, because
11+26=37. The only date for which this principle doesn't work is the leap day,
February 29. That's because 2+29=31, but 2031 is not a leap year.
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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…§
