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Week: 50 \ Day: 342
December
Averages: 44°\17°
86004
Today: H 49°\L 25°
Ave.
humidity: 72% Average Sky Cover: 35%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 15mph
Ave.
High: 45° Record High: 62° (1976)
Ave.
Low: 17° Record Low: -23° (1978)
Holiday
Observances Today:
Constitution
Day (Uzbekistan-1992)
¤
ָ ¤
Green Monday
National
Brownie Day
Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day
Take
it in the Ear Day
Observances
This Week:
3-9
Clerc-Gallaudet Week
7-13
National Hand Washing Awareness Week
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Computer Science Education Week
National Hand Washing Awareness Week
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Computer Science Education Week
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Quote
of the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1659 - Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez is founded
by Fray García de San Francisco
1829 - In his first
"State of the Union Address," President Andrew Jackson will state his
goal to remove all Indians in the southeastern part of the United States to
lands west of the Mississippi.
1876 - Suriname begins compulsory education for
7-12 years
1880 - 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal,
South Africa
1902 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became
Associate Justice on Supreme Court
1909 - Bird banding society found
1915 - John McCrae's poem "In Flanders
Fields" appears anonymously in "Punch" magazine
1936 - NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of
black & white teachers
1940 - 1st NFL championship on national radio;
Bears beat Redskins 73-0
1941 - President Roosevelt delivers "Day of
Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
1949 - Chinese Nationalist government moves from
Chinese mainland to Formosa 1952 - 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love
Lucy)
1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "Atoms
for Peace" speech at the UN in NYC
1956 - 16th Olympic Games close at Melbourne,
Australia
1962 - 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
2004 - The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco,
Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations
2008 - Kirsty Williams elected as Leader of the
Welsh Liberal Democrats. The first female leader of a political party in Wales
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How
many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s
Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice Sunday after another late night with
Netflix. Figured out a new way to search movies, so now I can find anything.
Very Cool.
Watching the Cards play and not playing that
well, but are finally winning. Checking the internet machine for the Broncos
score…who seem to be doing just fine without me watching.
Fareed did an interesting story about Congress
declaring war. His question, ‘how many times has the US been in a congressionally
approved war since the end of WWII?’ Geez, I can’t remember very many times
where we haven’t had our military involved in combat. Ah, but the question was
about Congress. The answer was ZERO. All the military actions that have killed
so many American soldiers have not been in a ‘war’. That to me in bonkers.
Computer is acting weird. Can’t access any
email, can’t get colors right, centering has disappeared…maybe I hit the wrong
shortcut button, or maybe my computer is possessed, or maybe…
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Brain
Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
What is represented below?
Der Der
Der Der
Der Der
Der Der
Der Der
CALOVERE
Der Der
Der Der
Der Der
Der Der
Der Der
CALOVERE
Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
OK
Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
December
Holiday Facts
*Christmas-Christian
¤ Each year there are approximately 20,000
“rent-a-Santas” across the United States. “Rent-a-Santas” usually undergo
seasonal training on how to maintain a jolly attitude under pressure from the
public. They also receive practical advice, such as not accepting money from
parents while children are looking and avoiding garlic, onions, or beans for
lunch.
¤ Bolivians celebrate Misa del Gallo or
“Mass of the Rooster” on Christmas Eve. Some people bring roosters to the
midnight mass, a gesture that symbolizes the belief that a rooster was the
first animal to announce the birth of Jesus.
*Hanukkah-Jewish
Hanukkah is a relatively minor holiday in the
Jewish year. In the United States, however, its closeness to Christmas has
brought greater attention to Hanukkah and its gift-giving tradition. Amid the
ever-growing flood of Christmas advertising, it may seem especially fitting
that the Hanukkah story tells of Jewish culture surviving in a non-Jewish
world.
*Kwanza-African-American
The Principles
Ujimah (oo-MO-jah)
or unity. It is to remind people to come together as a family, community,
nation and race.
*12 Days of Christmas
Six
Geese A-laying
The six days of creation that confesses God as
Creator and Sustainer of the world (Genesis 1).
England
Facts…
¤ The Queen and her husband are both
great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
¤ When Prince William becomes king, he will be
the forty-fourth monarch since William the Conqueror who was crowned in 1066.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
¤ Work is going forth on the ski course with a
crew of 33 CCC men from a side camp at Leroux Springs Nursery and machine
operators have nearly finished 5 miles of new road up to the Divide. Continued
good weather will permit completion.
¤ The new bridge over the Little Colorado
River 1 miles east of Winslow is complete and an Armistice Day Parade
celebrated this event.
Flagstaff’s
Iconic 50…
Returns tomorrow
Harper’s
Index…
Number of johns a suspected pimp must attempt to solicit with ‘chica
cards’ to be arrested under NY state law: 10
Rules of
Thumb…
BUYING A HAT
Your wedding ring
size is the same as your hat size.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The
Pentagon has twice the number of toilets needed due to being built before
desegregation.
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Joke-of-the-day
Returns tomorrow
Yep, It
Really Happened
Returns tomorrow
Somewhat
Useless Information
Ten
shocking things happening every minute
So,
every minute…
5
books are published
722,
504 photos are taken
257
children are born
48,000,000
telephone calls are made
150,
184 presents are given
45,632
liters of wine are drunk
14
meteors enter the Earth’s atmosphere
1,875,000
people ‘like’ something on Facebook
7
new articles on Wikipedia are edited
a
person can have 33 separate thoughts
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Today’s
Events through History
1792 - 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
1863 - 2,500 reported killed as result of fire at
Jesuit Church of La Compana, Santiago, Chile
1974 - Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf
Open
1980 - Annie Leibovitz has a photo-shoot with John
Lennon, the last person to professionally photograph him before his death
1994 - Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax
evasion charges
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Birthday’s
Today
Gregg
Allman, guitarist/vocalist (Allman Brothers Band) is 68
Kim
Basinger, actress is 61
Teri
Hatcher, actress (Lois & Clark, Desperate Housewives) is 50
Sinéad
O'Connor, Irish musician is 49
Nicki
Minaj, Trinidadian-born American rapper and singer is 33
Remembered
for being born today
Horace, Roman
Republian poet (Odes), [65BC-8 BC]
Mary
Stuart, Queen of Scotland [
1542-1587]
Eli
Whitney, inventor (Cotton Gin) [1765-1825]
Diego
Rivera, [Lenin of Mexico], painter ("En el Arsenal") [1886-1957]
James (Grover)
Thurber, humorist (Men, Women
& Dogs) [1894-1961]
Elzie C.
Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) [1894-1938]
Richard
Llewellyn, Wales, novelist (How Green Was My Valley) [1906-1983]
Lee J
Cobb, actor (Virginian, 12
Angry Men, On the Waterfront) [1911-1976]
Sammy
Davis Jr, singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man) [1925-1990]
Flip
Wilson, [Clerow], comedian (Flip Wilson Show) [1933-1998]
James
MacArthur, actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0) [1937-2010]
Jim
Morrison, American poet, singer (The Doors) [1943-1971]
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Historical
Obits Today
Bob Bell, clown
(WGN's 1st Bozo), 1997, @75
Albert
Kahn, architect of Detroit, 1942, @73
Slim
Pickins (Louis Burton Lindley, Jr.), actor, brain tumor, 1983, @64
Marty
Robbins, country singer, heart attack, 1982, @57
John
Lennon, shot 1980, @40
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Brain Teasers Answers
Tender Loving Care.
"Der" was written TEN times
TEN "Der"
"Love" is in "Care"
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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…§
