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Almanac: Week: 03 \ Day: 011
January
Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 42°\L 29°
Ave. humidity: 88% Average Sky Cover: 95%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts: 9mph
Ave. High: 43° Record
High: 63° (1990)
Ave. Low: 16° Record Low: -23° (1913)
Observances
Today:
Cigarettes
Are Hazardous To Your Health Day
Learn
Your Name in Morse Code Day
National Step in a Puddle
and Splash Your Friend Day
No
Pants Subway Ride Day
Stephen
Foster Day
Observances This
Week:
8-14
Universal
Letter Writing Week
11-17
Cuckoo
Dancing Week
National Vocation Awareness Week
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1569 - 1st
recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Paul's Cathedral
1805 - Michigan
Territory organizes
1861 - Mexico
City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform
1861 - Alabama secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1867 - Benito
Juárez becomes the Mexican president again
1879 - Zulu war
against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
1886: 1st infantry
has engaged APACHEs in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. For his
actions today against "hostiles" under Geronimo and Natchez, First
Lt. Marion Maus will be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
1913 - 1st
sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (NYC)
1922 - Insulin
1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)
1963 - 1st
discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA
1973 - Trial of
Watergate burglars begins in Wash DC
1989 - 140
nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
1994 - Irish government announces end of a 20-year
broadcasting ban on IRA
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Cloudy, overcast, light rain…yep rain in January at 7000’.
Interesting.
Watched an interesting movie on Netflix last night. Reel Injun is a documentary about how
Hollywood’s stereotype of Indigenous people in N. America have been shown in
film. Certainly gives one pause and lots to think about. The most interesting
sideline is that it was produced by Indigenous people. After watching it I
guess even Native American is adding to the stereotype. As one of the producers
said, ‘We were here first and called ourselves ‘human beings’ or by our tribe.
Then the invaders came and gave us many other names. We are still just human
beings.’ Well worth a watch.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
There
are two groups of three-letter words used in the sentences below. The first
missing words of each sentence are anagrams of each other, and the second
missing words are also anagrams of each other. Can you find them?
1. It is only ____ that we use a trap to catch a ____, instead of having a cat
in the house!
2. To staunch the bleeding from a wound suffered by an animal, people used to
____ some hot ____ onto the wound at one time.
3. To ____ into the mysteries held within the human psyche and enjoy these
mysteries to the fullest, is the objective of any ____.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
50’s
Inventions…
1959
--The internal pacemaker invented by
Wilson Greatbatch.
--Barbie Doll invented.
--Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce both
invent the microchip.
Education
Facts…
--Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the
group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of
people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
--In China, teachers allow children to sleep in class for around
20 minutes to help improve their learning.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
--Floyd Jones came up from the south on Tuesday over the Tonto
Road and says the snow in places is 3 feet deep, the best snow cover seen in a
good many years.
--The new library received 48 books, issued 28 cards and loaned
out 30.
Flagstaff’s
Iconic 50…
Colton
House
Less than a mile from the Museum of Northern Arizona stands the
Colton House, once the home of museum founders Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton and
her husband Dr. Harold Colton.
Much like the museum, the house became a testament to the couple’s
passions and attraction to the Colorado Plateau. Colton House has become a
gathering place of minds and ideas — and a place for celebrations.
Relocating from eastern Pennsylvania, the Coltons came to northern
Arizona with their own passions. Mary-Russell was a trained artist. Harold was
a zoologist. Together they fell in love with the Colorado Plateau’s abundance
of natural science, archeology and indigenous cultures.
To Flagstaff’s benefit, they moved here permanently in 1926. They
brought with them their desire to establish a regional center for science and
art that finally materialized in 1928 as the Northern Arizona Society of
Science and Art, later renamed the Museum of Northern Arizona.
Harper’s
Index…
163
Minimum number of churches in China demolished or given demolition
notices by gov’t order since Feb, 2014
Rules of
Thumb…
RIDING A
TRAIN
To hop a moving freight train, use the
ladder at the front of the car. The speed of the train will throw you against
the car. If you use the ladder at the end of the car, you could be thrown
between cars.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Romance novelist Barbara Cartland was Princess Diana's
step-grandmother.
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Joke-of-the-day
A man and his wife were sitting in the living
room discussing a “Living Will”
"Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent
on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the
plug."
His wife got up, unplugged the TV and threw out all the beer.
Yep, It
Really Happened
NEW DELHI
(UPI)
A senior official with India's Central Public Works Department was
fired after he failed to show up for work for 25 years. Urban Development
Minister Venkaiah Naidu issued an order Thursday to terminate the employment of
A.K. Verma, a former executive electrical engineer with the department. The
firing came at the end of an inquiry that heard Verma went on leave in December
1990 and had not reported for duty since then. The inquiry heard Verma sought repeated
extensions for his unsanctioned leave and refused orders to return to work. A
previous inquiry accusing him of willful absence from duty in 1992 was delayed
when the engineer failed to cooperate with the investigation. "Owing to
non-cooperation of Mr. Verma with the inquiry and for other reasons, it got
delayed and a fresh charge sheet was issued in 2005. The inquiry report,
establishing the charges was submitted in July 2007 and the same was accepted
by the then-Minister of Urban Development in August 2007. But no further action
was taken in the matter," the Ministry of Urban Development said in a
statement. The case was brought back to light when Naidu took office last year
and ordered a review of pending disciplinary cases. It was unclear whether Verma
collected paychecks from the Central Public Works Department during his
absence.
Somewhat
Useless Information
--Archaeological
surveys show that cheese was being made from the milk of cows and goats in
Mesopotamia before 6000 B.C.
--Travelers from Asia are thought to have brought the art of cheese making to
Europe, where the process was adapted and improved in European monasteries.
--Processed American cheese was developed in 1915 by J.L. Kraft as an
alternative to the traditional cheeses that had a short shelf life.
--In 1886, the University of Wisconsin introduced one of the country's first
cheese-making education programs.
--The Pilgrims included cheese in their supplies on board the Mayflower in
1620.
--The Sargento Cheese Company in Plymouth, Wisconsin, introduced packaged
shredded cheese in 1958. In 1986, the company went even further to ensure the
"spread of the shred" by introducing the resealable bag.
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Today’s
Events through History
1957 - The
African Convention is founded in Dakar
1970 - Irish republican political party Sinn Féin
party splits between those in favor of abstentionism (of not taking any seats
won in the parliaments) and those where against
1976 - Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consec natl
figure skating champions
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Birthday’s
Today
Grant
Tinker, broadcasting executive (NBC-TV) is 90
Naomi
Judd, singer, songwriter is 69
Darryl
Dawkins, NBA center (Philadelphia 76ers, NJ Nets) is 58
Stanley
Tucci, actor, writer, director is 55
Mary Jane
Blige, New York, American R&B singer-songwriter is 44
Amanda
Peet, actress/playwright is 43
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Remembered
for being born today
Alexander Hamilton, 1st Secretary of the Treasury,
1755-1804@49
Joseph Jackson
Lister, perfected the optical microscope 1786-1869@73
William
James, psychologist/philosopher (Pragmatism) 1842-1910@68
Harry
Gordon Selfridge, American
retailer (d. 1947)
Alice
Paul, ERA advocate/founder (National Woman's Party) 1885-1977@92
Rod
Taylor, Australian actor (The Birds) 1930-2015@84
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Historical
Obits Today
Beulah
Bondi, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), 1981, @88
Sir Edmund
Hillary, New Zealand /1st to climb Mt Everest, 2008, @88
Thomas
Hardy, English novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd) 1928, @87
I. (Irene) Rice Pereira, American abstract artist,
emphysema, 1971, @68
Francis
Scott Key, lawyer, poet and composer "Star Spangled Banner"
1843@63
Jack Soo, actor
(Nick Yemana-Barney Miller), cancer, 1979, @61
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. It is only APT that we use a trap to catch a RAT, instead of
having a cat in the house!
2. To staunch the bleeding from a wound suffered by an animal, people used to
PAT some hot TAR onto the wound at one time.
3. To TAP into the mysteries held within the human psyche and enjoy these
mysteries to the fullest, is the objective of any ART.
Anagram Groups
Group I: APT, PAT, TAP
Group II: RAT, TAR, ART
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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…§
