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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
Alan Alda discusses
MASH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIn5J6YJAmQ
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!
+++
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.
§…And That Is All for Now…§
