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Jan
23, 2019 Week: 03 \ Day: 23
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Today: H 40° \ L 12° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 6mph\Gusts:
18mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 61°[1970] Record
Low: -15°[1937]
Jan
Averages:
43°\11°
Today’s Quote
It's not what
happens to you,
but how you react
to it that matters.
Epictetus
Random Tidbits
A common urban myth is that daddy longlegs
have the most toxic venom of all spiders, but their fangs are too small to
bite. We now know that these critters aren't even spiders, and to thoroughly
debunk the myth, daddy longlegs don't have venom glands or even fangs. So, no,
if you come across a daddy longlegs in the garden, you aren't looking at a
deadly creature.
More features that set daddy longlegs apart
from spiders are that they don't form webs, or even make silk. They also have a
pill-shaped body, without the "waist" that spiders have between body
segments. They have just two eyes - not eight - and they can each chunks of
food, not just liquids.
Sure, they have long legs, but they aren't
really into running away when faced with danger. Daddy longlegs will just curl
their legs in and play dead if they're disturbed. The hope is that along with
their excellent camouflage color, a predator won't be able to see them if they
aren't moving. They'll play dead for several minutes, just to be sure they're
out of danger
Observances This Week
17-23
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
18-25
Week of Christian Unity
19-27
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness
Week
20-26
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
Healthy Weight Week
Hunt For Happiness Week
National Activity Professionals Week
National CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse
Anesthetists) Week
National Handwriting Analysis Week
National School Choice Week
Sugar Awareness Week
No Name Calling Week
22-25
International Hoof-Care Week
Observances for Today
Paul Pitcher Day
Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Sun shining but a
tad windy & chilly. Snow and ice are gone.
And the shutdown goes
on and on. I don’t think any American voted for this. [side note: A long, long time ago when I was teaching our entire
department’s manual timesheets disappeared…twice. The first time Payroll in Albuquerque
covered for my boss. The second time there was no fixing it. We were all called
together and told that we would not be getting a paycheck until the next pay
period and it would cover both paychecks. When our checks arrived two weeks later
we were shocked…the payroll machine had taken out taxes and retirement as if
the double check was our normal 2-week salary and that meant MORE than double
the taxes and retirement pay-in. And weeks later we all got a bill for health
and life insurance that wasn’t paid in the normal check. I’m sure the system is
still in use.] Something this shutdown has not addressed. And I heard this
morning that many banks are allowing loan payments to be paid after the shutdown
ends. Except, the non-payment[s] are still reported to the Credit Bureaus.
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1600’s
1647 Scottish
Presbyterians sell captured Charles I
to English parliament
1700’s
1789 Georgetown,
1st US Catholic college, founded
1793 Humane
Society of Philadelphia (1st aid
society) organized
1800’s
1849 Elizabeth
Blackwell becomes 1st woman in the
US to earn a medical degree
1900’s
1930 Clyde
Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto in
Flagstaff, AZ
1933 20th amendment,
which changed the date of
US presidential inaugurations to 20th
January,
is ratified
1964 24th
Amendment to the United States
Constitution ratified, barring poll
tax in federal
elections
1973 Helgafell,
island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for
1st time in 7,000 yrs
1978 Sweden
becomes the first nation in the world
to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be
damaging to earth's ozone layer.
2000’s
2001 The Chinese
Communist Party stages a self-
immolation in Tiananmen Square to
frame
Falun Gong and escalate the persecution.
2002 Reporter
Daniel Pearl kidnapped in Karachi,
Pakistan, and subsequently murdered.
2016 Category 5
blizzard delivers record 3ft of snow
to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast US,
killing 55
and incurring estimated $500m - $3bn
economic losses
2016 8 museum
workers from Egyptian Museum,
Cairo referred for prosecution for
reattaching
Tutankhamun's beard with inappropriate
glue
2018 Twelve
camels disqualified from the King
Abdulaziz Camel beauty contest, Saudi
Arabia
after their owners used Botox on their
lips
Birthdays Today
1737 John
Hancock,
American merchant
& statesman who was 1st
to sign the
Declaration of Independence, born
in Braintree,
Massachusetts
(d. 1793)@56
1832 Edouard
Manet,
French
impressionist painter (Olympia, The
Luncheon on the
Grass), born in Paris, France
(d. 1883)-@51-
syphilis &
rheumatism
1888 Paul Peter
Ewald,
German
Crystallographer and physicist who
devised the
theory of X-ray interference by
crystals and
pioneered X-ray diffraction
methods, born in
Berlin, Germany
(d. 1985)-@97
1918 Gertrude B.
Elion,
American
biochemist and drug researcher who
developed
groundbreaking leukemia and
herpes drug
treatments (Nobel 1988), born in
NYC, New York
(d. 1999)-@81
1919 Ernie
Kovacs,
American comedian
(Ernie Kovacs' Show), born
in Trenton, New
Jersey
(d. 1962)-@42-dies
in auto accident
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76- Gil Gerard,
American actor
(Buck Rogers in 25th Century),
born in Little
Rock, Arkansas
69- Richard Dean
Anderson,
American actor
(MacGyver, Emerald Pt NAS),
born in
Minneapolis, Minnesota
68- Chesley
Sullenberger III,
American pilot
(successfully executed
emergency landing
US Airways Flight 1549 in
the Hudson
River), born in Denison, Texas
66- Antonio
Villaraigosa,
Hispanic-American
52nd Mayor of Los Angeles,
born in East Los
Angeles
55- Mariska
Hargitay,
American actress
(Law and Order: Special
Victims Unit),
born in Santa Monica, California
45- Tiffani
Theissen,
American actress
(Saved by Bell, 90210), born
in Long Beach,
California
Historical Obits Today
@96-2011 Jack
LaLanne,
American fitness
and nutritional expert
@89-1989 Salvador
Dali,
Spanish
surrealist artist (Crucifixion)
@83-2015 Ernie
Banks,
American baseball
shortstop, 1st baseman and
hall of famer
known as "Mr Cub" as he played
all 19 of his seasons
with the Chicago Cubs,
dies of a heart
attack
@80-1944 Edvard
Munch,
Norwegian painter
(The Scream), bequeathed
all of his work
to the city of Oslo
@79-2005 Johnny
Carson,
American comedian
and TV host (The Tonight
Show, Who Do You
Trust), dies of respiratory
failure arising
from emphysema
@77-1976 Paul
Robeson,
American singer
(Old Man River), actor and
civil rights
activist,
dies of stroke
@77-1803 Arthur
Guinness,
Irish brewer
(founder of Guinness brewery)
@76-2004 Bob
Keeshan,
American actor
(Captain Kangaroo)
@54-2003 Nell
Carter,
American actress
(Nell-Gimme a Break, Lobo),
dies of heart
disease
@49-1931 Anna
Pavlova,
Russian prima
ballerina and choreographer
(Diaghilew, Dying
Swan),
dies from
pneumonia
