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Almanac: Week: 52 \ Day: 356
December
Averages: 44°\17°
86004 Today: H 55°\L 28°
Ave. humidity: 65% Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 24
Ave. High: 43° Record
High: 64° (1901)
Ave. Low: 16° Record
Low: -16° (1968)
Holiday Observances
Today:
National Haiku Poetry Day
National Date Nut Bread
Day
Observances This
Week:
14-28
Halcyon
Days
15-31
Christmas Bird Count Week
16-24
Posadas
17-24
Chanukah
Saturnalia
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1769 - The SHAWNEE
capture Daniel Boone
1849 - The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called
off at the last second
1882 - 1st string of Christmas tree lights created
by Thomas Edison
1962 - 1,000,000th NBA point scored
1974 - The Irish Republican Army announces a
Christmas ceasefire
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
Returns tomorrow
My
Rambling Thoughts
Football and Netflix today. Quiet, easy, enjoyable!
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
3 words can the following 3 words start with? Once you work it out, you must
find a relation between the 3 ADDED words.
1. _ _ _ scotch
2. _ _ _ _ child
3. _ _ _ _ suit
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
Returns tomorrow
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
December
Holiday Facts
* Christmas Carol videos in Native Languages
*Christmas-Christian
¤ Christmas is a contraction of “Christ’s Mass,” which is derived
from the Old English Cristes mæsse (first recorded in 1038). The
letter “X” in Greek is the first letter of Christ, and “Xmas” has In
Germany, Heiligabend, or Christmas Eve, is said to be a
magical time when the pure in heart can hear animals talking.
¤ been used as an
abbreviation for Christmas since the mid 1500s
¤ In 1962, the first Christmas postage stamp was issued in the
United States.
¤ The Viking god Odin is one precursor to the modern Santa Claus.
According to myth, Odin rode his flying horse, Sleipnir (a precursor to Santa’s
reindeer), who had eight legs. In the winter, Odin gave out both gifts and
punishments, and children would fill their boots or stockings with treats for
Sleipnir.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
During the last few days, my house has been broken into, my shop
window has been broken and the lock on my water closet broken. I give notice
that if I see anyone prowling about my house, I will be unable to recognize man
or boy. I am 79 years old and cannot run after them. However, I can and will
shoot. -- J. W. Power.
Flagstaff’s
Iconic 50…
Agassiz
Peak
Agassiz Peak is the second-highest mountain in the U.S. state of
Arizona at 12,360 feet (3,767 m). It is located in the San Francisco Peaks in
the Coconino National Forest north of Flagstaff, Arizona. The peak was named
for Louis Agassiz, the celebrated naturalist.
Harper’s
Index…
Percentage of US counties in which the proportion of rational
minorities has grown in 2010: 94
Rules of
Thumb…
Returns tomorrow
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Used
during the Vietnam War, Agent Orange wasn't orange. Only the strip on the
canister containing the herbicide was orange. Used during the
Vietnam War, Agent Orange wasn't orange. Only the strip on the canister
containing the herbicide was orange.
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Joke-of-the-day
You Know you are Addicted to the Internet
When...
· You step out of your room and realize that your parents have moved, and you
don't have a clue when it happened.
· Your wife drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you of what she
looks like.
· All of your friends have an @ in their names.
· Your dog has its own home page.
· You can't call your mother... she doesn't have a modem.
· You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on
the way back to bed.
· You buy a Captain Kirk chair with a built-in keyboard and mouse.
· You get a new suit that says, "This best viewed with Netscape 4.01 or
higher."
· The last girl you asked out was only a jpeg.
· Your wife says communication is important in a marriage... so you buy another
computer and install a second phone line so the two of you can chat.
Yep, It
Really Happened
MARSEILLE,
France (UPI)
Authorities said an aggressive monkey Tased after weeks on the
loose had been subsisting on a diet of Kinder chocolates. Marseille police said
the monkey had been the subject of more than a dozen calls to authorities from
the Castellanne area in recent weeks, including one occasion when it
"caused bedlam" at an elementary school and "scratched some
children," but the primate always managed to flee before officers arrived.
Police said they finally caught up to the monkey Monday and captured it using a
Taser. Investigators said the monkey was apparently abandoned after being kept
illegally. They said the animal had been subsisting on a diet of Kinder
chocolates given to it by children. Malnutrition and suspected abuse from some
children may have contributed to the monkey's aggressive behavior, police said.
An investigation has been opened to identify the animal's owner and charges of
illegal possession of a wild animal are possible, police said. The monkey,
which was not seriously injured, was turned over to animal protection
authorities and will join a zoo's exhibit following a quarantine period.
Somewhat
Useless Information
¤
The original name of the telephone was the harmonic telegraph.
¤ It took a year to connect the first telephone line from New York to San
Francisco. Approximately 14,000 miles of copper wire and 130,000 telephone
poles were needed to link the country.
¤ The busiest organization in the world is the Pentagon, which has 34,500 phone
lines and receives one million calls a day.
¤ One million threads of fiber-optic cable can fit in a tube one-half inch in
diameter.
¤ Sweden has the greatest penetration of telephones. It has 229 phones for
every 1,000 people.
¤ The longest phone cable is a submarine cable called Fiber-Optic Link Around
the Globe (FLAG). It spans 16,800 miles
from Japan to the United Kingdom and can carry 600,000 calls at a time. The original name of
the telephone was the harmonic telegraph.
¤ It took a year to connect the first telephone line from New York to San
Francisco. Approximately 14,000 miles of copper wire and 130,000 telephone
poles were needed to link the country.
¤ The busiest organization in the world is the Pentagon, which has 34,500 phone
lines and receives one million calls a day.
¤ One million threads of fiber-optic cable can fit in a tube one-half inch in
diameter.
¤ Sweden has the greatest penetration of telephones. It has 229 phones for
every 1,000 people.
¤ The longest phone cable is a submarine cable called Fiber-Optic Link Around
the Globe (FLAG). It spans 16,800 miles from Japan to the United Kingdom and
can carry 600,000 calls at a time.
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Today’s
Events through History
1775 - Continental navy organized with 7 ships
1830 - State of
Georgia prohibits whites from being on CHEROKEE land without a permit.
1975 - US President Gerald Ford signs the
Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA)
1980 - President-elect Ronald Reagan appoints
J Kirkpatrick (UN)\James Watt (Interior)
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Birthday’s
Today
Hector
Elizondo, actor is 78
Diane
Sawyer, newscaster (60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time) is 69
Jordin
Sparks, American singer and American Idol winner is 25
Remembered
for being born today
Thomas
Cook, England, tour director (Thomas Cook & Son) [1808-1892]
Giacomo
Puccini, opera composer (La bohème) [1858-1924]
Connie
Mack, HOF baseball executive/manager [1862-1956]
Claudia A "Lady
Bird" Taylor Johnson,
1st lady [1912-2007]
Barbara
Billingsley, American actress [1915-1999]
Gene
Rayburn, Christopher Ill, TV game show host (Match Game) [1917-1999]
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Historical
Obits Today
John
Newberry, English publisher, 1767, @54
Beatrix
Potter, English children's writer and illustrator ("The Tale of
Peter Rabbit") pneumonia, 1943, @ 77
Irna
Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas, 1973, @72
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. HOPscotch: A children's game where they throw a stone on the
ground the jump in the squares marked in the ground.
2. STEPchild: A stepson or stepdaughter.
3. JUMPsuit: One-piece garment of combined trousers and top.
Relation: The 3 steps in triple jump. And by total coincidence, this is the 3rd
relativity puzzle.
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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…§
