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Today’s “geez“

• 1799 - Metric system established in France
• 1869 - Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
• 1896 - 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
• 1902 - Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania
• 1911 - Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
• 1948 - UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

♪♪ Happy Birthday To:♪♪                       

 

Free Rambling Thoughts   

*I don’t know the author of the quote on yesterday’s blog…it popped up on FB, I liked and tried to find out who wrote it to no avail.  Also, in yesterday’s NPR puzzle, #8 should have said ‘pool’ to follow the TOP concept…sorry for the typo.

We had another nice day here in Flag…a little nippy this morning, but nice the rest of the day. I was able to do some shopping for Christmas…and now am almost finished. Good thing as there aren’t many days left.

Arizona will be celebrating its centennial on February 14, 2012. I’ve started a countdown on this blog.  Watch for a change in the almanac at the beginning of the blog tomorrow. I haven’t finished the look, but am getting there. I probably should put a countdown to Christmas, but figure everyone knows it’s just around the corner.

NPR Sunday Puzzle (answers at the end of post)

Every answer is a compound word or familiar two-word phrase, in which the first word has a long O for its vowel sound and the second word one of the U sounds. For example, given the clue "a traditional Christmas entrée," the answer would be "roast goose."

1.     A mushroom:

2.     Area in a building to hang hats:

3.     To teach as kids not in a public school:

4.     A basic jump in figure skating:

5.     A pithy sign some carries who is against nuclear weapons:

6.     Songs from Broadway:

7.     Footwear for walking in the Arctic:

8.     Snoopy in Peanuts when he is wearing dark glasses:

9.     Place to pay to cross a bridge:

10.  If it takes a long time for you to explode in anger:

11.  A session for taking pictures:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

   

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

• A hospital should have four to four and a half beds for every thousand people in the community it serves.

Hmmmmm           

• Chance that a US high school biology teacher is an advocate of evolution: 1 in 4

Somewhat Useless Information   

• In 1978, Xavier Roberts, an artist and businessman from Georgia, created a doll that he first named "Little People." In 1982 the name changed to the Cabbage Patch Kids.
• Babyland General Hospital is known as the "birthplace" of Cabbage Patch Kids Dolls. Located in Cleveland, Georgia, co-creator Xavier Roberts converted an old health care clinic into a retail unit and miniature theme park dedicated to the dolls.
• In 1984, during the height of the Cabbage Patch Kid popularity, over 20 million dolls were adopted. By the end of the 20th century, 95 million dolls had been sold.
• The size of the standard Cabbage Patch Kid is 15 to 16 inches in length. There have been many variations of dolls through the years, including a "newborn" that measured 11 inches long.
• In 1984, the Cabbage Patch Kid doll retailed for $30, the same price new versions sold for in 2010. An original 1980s doll still in its box can be worth $100 or more.
• No two Cabbage Patch Kids are identical, but all of them have round, chubby faces made of plastic. Roberts' signature is located on the left buttock of the cloth body.

Yeah, It Really Happened                 

BEIJING -- Five Chinese officials have been suspended from their jobs after they were observed sleeping or reading newspapers during a video conference on stamping out laziness at work, state media reported Friday.

The officials, all high-level workers at tax bureau in the northern province of Shanxi, were supposed to be participating in a meeting to push better work discipline, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

It did not say for how long they would be suspended.

The campaign is to remind officials they cannot leave their posts, play games or "attend recreational activities" during office hours, Xinhua added.

Chinese officials frequently have to sit through long, tedious meetings and listen to turgid reports on the latest missives from Beijing on Communist theory or other dry subjects.

But sensitive to public opinion, especially stories of lazy or corrupt bureaucrats carried by massively popular microblogging sites, the government has also tried to instill a greater sense of duty into its officials.

A Laff or at least smile     

A woman walked up to a little old man rocking in a chair on his porch. "I couldn't help noticing how happy you look," she said. "What's your secret for a long happy life?"

 "I smoke three packs of cigarettes a day," he said. "I also drink a case of whiskey a week, eat fatty foods, and never exercise."

 "That's amazing," said the woman, "how old are you?"

 "Twenty-six," he said.

~*~Bonus~*~

While attending a Marriage seminar dealing with communication, Jack and his wife, Barb, listened to the instructor. “It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other.” He addressed the man, “can you describe your wife’s favorite flower?”

Jack leaned over, touched his wife’s arm gently and whispered, “Its Pillsbury isn’t it?”

Searchin YouTube I found        

Tribute to Dan Blocker

Daybook Information        

…Happening This Week:

4-10

Clerc-Gallaudet Week: 

6-12 

National Handwashing Awareness Week 

10-17

Human Rights Week

Today Is                                                                      

• Festival For The Souls Of Dead Whales
• Day Of The Horse
• Dewey Decimal System Day
• Human Rights Day
• International Shareware Day
• Nobel Prize Day
• Lunar Eclipse

~*~

• US: Mississippi Admission Day (20^th state in 1817)
• Thailand: Constitution Day (1932 for Kingdom of Siam)

Today’s Events                                                             

Arts

1927 - Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN

Nobel Peace Prizes Awarded on this day

2011 -Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkol Karman

2010 -Liu Xiaobo still in Chinese Prison

2009- Barack H. Obama

2008 -Martti Ahtisaari

2007- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.

2006- Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank

2005- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) , Mohamed ElBaradei

2004- Wangari Muta Maathai

2003 -Shirin Ebadi

2002 -Jimmy Carter

2001- United Nations (U.N.) , Kofi Annan

2000 -Kim Dae-jung

1999- Médecins Sans Frontières

1998- John Hume, David Trimble

1997- International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) , Jody Williams

1996- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta

1995 -Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

1994 -Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin

1993 -Nelson Mandela, Frederik Willem de Klerk

1992 -Rigoberta Menchú Tum

1991 -Aung San Suu Kyi

1990 -Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

1989- The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)

1988- United Nations Peacekeeping Forces

1987- Oscar Arias Sánchez

1986- Elie Wiesel

1985- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

1984- Desmond Mpilo Tutu

1983- Lech Walesa

1982- Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles

1981- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

1980- Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

1979- Mother Teresa

1978- Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin

1977- Amnesty International

1976- Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan

1975- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov

1974- Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato

1973- Henry A. Kissinger, Le Duc Tho

1972- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1971- Willy Brandt

1970- Norman E. Borlaug

1969- International Labour Organization (I.L.O.)

1968- René Cassin

1967- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1966- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1965- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

1964- Martin Luther King Jr.

1963- Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) , Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross Societies)

1962- Linus Carl Pauling

1961- Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld

1960- Albert John Lutuli

1959- Philip J. Noel-Baker

1958- Georges Pire

1957- Lester Bowles Pearson

1956- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1955- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1954- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

1953- George Catlett Marshall

1952- Albert Schweitzer

1951- Léon Jouhaux

1950- Ralph Bunche [1^st Black Amreican]

1949- Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin

1948- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1947- Friends Service Council (The Quakers) , American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers)

1946- Emily Greene Balch, John Raleigh Mott

1945- Cordell Hull

1944- Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)

1943- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1942- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1941- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1940- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1939- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1938- Office international Nansen pour les Réfugiés (Nansen International Office for Refugees)

1937- Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil)

1936- Carlos Saavedra Lamas

1935- Carl von Ossietzky

1934- Arthur Henderson

1933- Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)

1932- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1931- Jane Addams (first woman to share prize), Nicholas Murray Butler

1930- Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom

1929- Frank Billings Kellogg

1928- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 

1927- Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde

1926- Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann

1925- Sir Austen Chamberlain, Charles Gates Dawes

1924- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1923- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1922- Fridtjof Nansen

1921- Karl Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lous Lange

1920- Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois

1919- Thomas Woodrow Wilson

1918- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1917- Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)

1916- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1915- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1914- No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.

1913- Henri La Fontaine

1912- Elihu Root

1911- Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Alfred Hermann Fried

1910- Bureau international permanent de la Paix (Permanent International Peace Bureau)

1909- Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque

1908- Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer

1907- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault

1906- Theodore Roosevelt [1^st American]

1905- Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau

1904- Institut de droit international (Institute of International Law)

1903- William Randal Cremer

1902- Élie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat

1901- Jean Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy

Athletes

1810 - Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)

1961 - Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans

1992 - NHL awards franchises to Mimai & Anaheim (for 1994-95)

Business

1672 - NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston

1915 - 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled

Education

1836 - Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia

Indigenous People

1834 - William Marshall, representing the United States, and Potawatomi will sign a treaty today at Tippecanoe. Six sections of land will be traded annual payments of $1000 [USD2010:$21,553.76], and a small amount of supplies.

1836 - The second part of the fifth group of "friendly" Creek, approximately 1600 in number, arrive at Fort Gibson, in eastern Indian Territory. The total of both groups will be 2237. The gains will come from stragglers of earlier groups.

Politics [International]

1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army draws into Manchester

1936 - King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson

Politics [US]

1690 - Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial government to borrow money  

1864 - General Shermans armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins

1898 - Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam

1971 - William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice

Religion

1520 - Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands

Science

1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Artists: [Authors, Composers]

1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator)

Athletes

Mark Aguirre, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons) is 52

Entertainers [Actors, Singers…]

1929 - Dan Blocker, actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)

1923 - Harold Gould, actor (He & She, Martin-Rhoda, Big Bus)

Tommy Kirk, actor (Old Yeller,Joe Hardy, Disney movies & Mousketeer) is 70

1914 - Dorothy Lamour, [Mary Kaumeyer], actress (Road to Bali)

Nia Peeples, dancer, TV host is 50

Chad Stuart, rock vocalist/guitarist (Chad & Jeremy—Yesterday’s Gone) is 68

Raven-Symon, actor is 26

Entrepreneurs & Educators

1851 - Melvil[le Louis K] Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries

1787 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, pioneer of educating the deaf

1911 - Chet Huntley, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report)

Bobby Flay, TV chef, restaurateur is 47

Political Figures

1394 - King James I of Scotland

Scientists & Theologians

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Today’s Obits                                                           

1909 - Red Cloud [Maȟpíya Lúta ], Lakota chief, dies at 87

"I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love."

"They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it."

"The Great Spirit raised both the white man and the Indian. I think he raised the Indian first. He raised me in this land, it belongs to me. The white man was raised over the great waters, and his land is over there. Since they crossed the sea, I have given them room. There are now white people all about me. I have but a small spot of land left. The Great Spirit told me to keep it."

1964 - Sam Cooke, singer (You Send Me), slain at a motel at 33

2005 - Eugene McCarthy, U.S. Senator, presidential candidate dies at 89

1967 - Otis Redding, singer (Dock of Bay), dies in plane crash at 26

1979 - Fulton J Sheen, bishop (Life is Worth Living), dies at 84

Answers                                                                                                                                            

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.     A mushroom: toadstool

2.     Area in a building to hang hats: coat room; cloak room

3.     To teach as kids not in a public school: home school

4.     A basic jump in figure skating: toe loop

5.     A pithy sign some carries who is against nuclear weapons: no nukes

6.     Songs from Broadway: show tunes

7.     Footwear for walking in the Arctic: snow shoes, snow boots

8.     Snoopy in Peanuts when he is wearing dark glasses: Joe Cool

9.     Place to pay to cross a bridge: toll booth

10.  If it takes a long time for you to explode in anger: slow fuse

11.  A session for taking pictures: photo shoot

Wuzzle

• Sits tight
• Many different ways
• Water (H to O)

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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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.

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