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January
Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 53°\L 20°
Ave. humidity: 65% Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 13mph
Ave. High: 42° Record
High: 61° (1948)
Ave. Low: 16° Record Low: -22° (1910)
Observances
Today:
Statehood Day-New
Mexico-1912-47th state
Bean Day
Christian:
Epiphany or Twelfth Night
Christian:
Three Kings Day
Observances This
Week:
1-7
New
Year's Resolutions Week
Celebration of Life Week
Diet Resolution Week
Silent Record Week
2-8
Someday
We'll Laugh About This Week
4-10
Home
Office Safety and Security Week
National Folic Acid Awareness Week
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
6-9
International
Consumer Electronics Show
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1605 - The
first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don
Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid
1639 - Virginia
is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
1745 - Bonnie
Prince Charlie’s army draws to Glasgow
1864 - To force the NAVAJOs
to move to the Bosque Redondo Encampment, the Army gets Kit Carson to mount an
expedition against the NAVAJOs in the Canyon de Chelly
1893 - The Washington National Cathedral is
chartered by Congress
1896 - 1st US
women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
1907 - Maria
Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
1929
- Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta begins work amongst India's
poorest and diseased people
1939 - Daily
newspaper comic strip "Superman" debuts
1942
- Pan American Airlines becomes the 1st commercial airline to schedule a
flight around the world ("Pacific Clipper")
1963 - "Mutual
of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
1975
- Last full-blooded MANDAN dies today in Twin Buttes, ND @108 years
old
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Busy Monday…headed out about 9a and returned about 1p. Found
things I didn’t know I needed and couldn’t live well without. Didn’t spend a
lot but had fun. I also planted my Amaryllis that I bought before Christmas. I’ve
planted in January for two years now so that I don’t miss any of the growth
over Christmas. Enjoyable to watch during January.
I keep asking myself why I waited so long to get Netflix. Finding
some great movies and some good Showtime and HBO stuff I hadn’t watched. Only
problem, I stay up too late watching some of these movies.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I
am one simple word, but I mean different things
One of my meanings brings great forceful swings,
The other of me, may have curve, like the first...
But only one meaning can help quench a thirst.
One of my meanings will often bring cheers,
Either of them could hold a few beers.
What word am I?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
50’s
Inventions…
1954
Oral contraceptives invented - the
pill.
The first nonstick Teflon pan
produced.
The solar cell invented by Chaplin,
Fuller and Pearson.
Ray Kroc started McDonalds.
Education
Facts…
>< In Finland, you are given a top hat and a sword when you
get a PhD diploma.
<> Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS
AGO
The first leg of the FUTS is now ready. It is 6,500 feet in
length along the floodplain of Rio De Flag, from O'Leary to just south of the
I-40. It is graded, level and closed to motorized vehicles.
Flagstaff’s
Iconic 50…
Orpheum
Theater
The Orpheum Theater, a local landmark in historic downtown
Flagstaff, Arizona, was built by John Weatherford. Following months of
extensive renovations, the theater reopened in late 2002 poised to entertain a
new generation of Flagstaff residents and visitors.
Harper’s
Index…
34
Age at which a female worker in Britain reaches peak earning power
50
At which a male worker does
Rules of
Thumb…
POLITICAL
PLANNING
People moving into a new tract
development are politically inert for five years.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
It is bad luck to whistle in a theatre. The superstition dates
back to the time when off-duty sailors would run the fly system in theatres,
and the sailors would whistle the cues to each other. Therefore, if you were to
walk through a theatre carelessly whistling a tune, you might cause a scenic
piece to fall on your head.
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Joke-of-the-day
A helicopter carrying passengers suddenly loses
engine power and the aircraft begins to decent. The pilot safely performs an
emergency landing in water, and tells the passengers to remain seated and to
keep the doors closed, stating that in emergency situations, the aircraft is
designed to stay afloat for 30 minutes, giving rescuers time to get to them.
Just then a man gets out if his seat and runs over to open the door.
The pilots screams at him, "Didn't you
hear what I said, the aircraft is designed to stay afloat as long as the doors
remain closed?!"
"Of course I heard you", the man replied, "but it's also
designed to fly, and look how good that one worked out!!"
Yep, It
Really Happened
UNIONTOWN,
Pa. (UPI)
Police in Pennsylvania said a suspect's story about being forced
into a robbery unraveled when a toilet paper note was matched to a roll of
tissue in his home. Uniontown Police said Eric W. Frey, 29, walked into Michael
Maria's Pizza at 7:39 p.m. Dec. 27 and handed an employee a sheet of toilet
paper with a handwritten message, "I have a gun. Give me $300."
The police report said Frey told another worker there was a man
with "a gun on me right now, and if I don't come out of here with the
money, I'm going to get shot."
One of the workers hit a panic button and Frey, who was still
inside the eatery when police arrived, told police he was forced to commit the
robbery by a large, bearded man who cornered him in a nearby alley and held a
gun to his back.
Lt. Tom Kolencik wrote in the arrest report Frey consented to a
search of his apartment and officers discovered a package of toilet paper on
his table. One of the rolls had "writing engraved in it that matched the
exact wording on the piece of toilet paper that Frey handed" to the
worker, the police report said. Police said Frey attempted to change his story
and said the man confronted him in his apartment. He "then noticed three
males walking on Jefferson Street, and stated, 'That's them.'" However,
officers said they spoke to the men and determined they were not involved in
the crime. Police said they obtained a search warrant and found 91 grams of
marijuana in the apartment along with syringes and spoons bearing drug residue.
Frey was arrested and jailed in lieu of $25,000 bond.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Did
you know that the largest object in the known universe theoretically should not
exist, as it is over 10,000,000,000 light years across?
Initially,
astronomers thought it was a “filament” of galaxies known as the Sloan Great
Wall. However, recent research suggests a different structure is even … bigger!
Gizmos
SOUTHAMPTON,
England (UPI)
A
group of students at Southampton University in England are looking to grow
lettuce on Mars. The researchers -- a combination of undergraduate, graduate
and postdoctoral students -- are currently lobbying for their lettuce-growing
experiment to be included on the Mars One lander payload.
Mars One is a Netherlands-based non-profit organization with plans to establish
a permanent human colony on Mars by 2025, beating NASA's current aim to send
astronauts to Mars by more than a decade. The mission includes plans to launch
of a series of unmanned exploratory and supply missions ahead of time. Any
lettuce growing apparatuses would be included on the 2018 launch of the Mars
One lander.
The lettuce experiment would see seeds frozen for a multi-week trip to the Red
Planet. Once on the Martian surface, the lettuce seeds would be grown inside an
inflatable greenhouse that would maintain a constant temperature of 70 degrees
Fahrenheit.
Researchers working on the #LettuceOnMars project recently fielded questions as
part of a Reddit AMA. Reddit users grilled researchers on the risks entailed by
introducing foreign organisms to the planet.
The students did their best to explain the precautions they will take to ensure
the Red Planet remains uncontaminated.
"First, we will use a lab strain of lettuce that is as clean as it
gets," project leaders wrote. "Then we will sterilize all equipment
including the surface of the seeds, so the greenhouse will be as virus free as
it gets."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have previously cultivated
lettuce. The greens have been grown in Mars-like conditions on Earth as part of
experiments at space agency labs.
Mars One has been fiercely criticized by a range of space experts and former
astronauts.
"Even ignoring the potential mismatch between the project income and its
costs and questions about its longer-term viability, the Mars One proposal does
not demonstrate a sufficiently deep understanding of the problems to give real
confidence that the project would be able to meet its very ambitious
schedule," Chris Welch, director of Masters Programs at the International
Space University, said in an interview in 2012.
Mars One estimates the cost of sending and sustaining a group of astronauts on
Mars, from arrival through death, will cost some $6 billion. So far they've
raised -- through donations and an IndieGoGo campaign -- roughly $600,000.
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Today’s
Events through History
1494 - The
first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola
1681 - 1st
recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)
2005 - Edgar Ray
Killen is arrested as a suspect in 1964 murders of 3 Civil Rights workers
2013 - The NHL reaches an agreement to end a 113
day lockout
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Birthday’s
Today
Grant
Goodeve, actor (David-8 is Enough) is 63
Malcolm
Young, Glasgow Scotland, guitarist (AC/DC-Highway to Hell) is 62
Rowan
Atkinson, England, comedian/actor (Mr Bean, Blackadder) is 60
Nancy
Lopez Knight, pro golfer (1981 Dinah Shore) is 58
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Remembered
for being born today
Joan of
Arc, Saint\national heroine of France (legendary date) 1412-1431@19
John
Smith, English explorer (Jamestown) (baptised) 1580-1631@51
Charles
Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, 1811-1874@63
Carl
Sandburg, US, poet/biographer of Lincoln 1878-1937@89
Tom Mix, silent
screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin), 1880-1940@60
Samuel Rayburn, speaker of the House 1882-1961@79
Khalil
Gibran, Lebanon, mystic poet (The Prophet) 1883-1931@48
Loretta
Young, actress (Farmer's Daughter, Stranger) 1912-2000@87
Danny
Thomas, comedian (Danny Thomas Show) 1912-1991@79
Sun Myung Moon,
evangelist (Unification Church-Moonies), 1920-2012@92
Vic
Tayback, Brooklyn, actor (Mel-Alice, Khan) 1930-1990@60
Bonnie
Franklin, TV actress (Ann-1 Day at a Time), 1944-2013@69
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Historical
Obits Today
Robert H
W Welch Jr, US founder/leader John Birch Society, 1985, @85
A. J.
Cronin, Scottish writer, 1981, @84
John B "Dizzy"
Gillespe, blues trumpeter, cancer, 1993, @75
Lou Rawls, singer, cancer, 2006,@72
Theodore
Roosevelt, 26th Pres (1901-09), blood clot, 1919, @60
Rudolph
Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), AIDS, 1993, @54
Louis
Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille, TB, 1852,
@43
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Brain Teasers Answers
A pitcher
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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…§
