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Almanac: Week: 04 \ Day: 020
January
Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 56°\L 27°
Ave. humidity: 65% Average Sky Cover: 45%
Wind ave:
6mph\Gusts:
20mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High: 61° (1950)
Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: -14° (1922)
Observances
Today:
Camcorder
Day
Inauguration
Day
National Buttercrunch Day
National
Disc Jockey Day
Penguin
Awareness Day
Rid
The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day
Observances This
Week:
17-23
National Fresh Squeezed
Juice Week
18-25
Week of Christian Unity
Healthy Weight Week
Hunt For Happiness Week4
National Activity Professionals Week
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week
National Handwriting Analysis Week
19-25
No Name Calling Week
Sugar Awareness Week
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1356 - Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scots
1502 - The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro
is first explored
1576 - Mexican city of León is founded by Viceroy
Don Martín Enríquez de Almansa
1648 - Cornerstone of Amsterdam townhall laid
1778 - 1st American military court martial trial
begins, Cambridge, Mass
1785 - Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island
(Ellis Is), no takers
1801 - John Marshall appointed US chief justice
1809 - 1st US geology book published by William
Maclure
1869 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st
woman to testify before US Congress
1920 - The American Civil Liberties Union is
founded
1929 - 1st feature talking motion picture taken
outdoors, "In Old Arizona"
1937 - 1st US Presidential Inauguration day held on
Jan 20th, (was March 4th)
1961 - Robert Frost recites "Gift
Outright" at JFK's inauguration
1968 - US female Figure Skating championship won by
Peggy Fleming
1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces
US boycott of Olympics in Moscow
1986 - 1st federal holiday honoring Martin
Luther King Jr
1988 - Arizona committee opens hearing on
impeachment of Gov Evan Mecham
1989 - Reagan becomes 1st pres elected in a
"0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
2014 - Credit cards of at
least 20 million South Koreans are hacked
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
A nice MLK day. I didn’t go anywhere…part of my one man protest
that places should not be open on National Holidays. The employees of all those
stores and offices should be able to have the day off to recognize the reason
for the holiday.
I was surprised to see the number of posts on Facebook regarding
the holiday. Sadly many of those who posted some of his quotes don’t realize
that his dream has not yet been reached. For 364 days many are unaware of the
struggles that minorities have here in the US…then on this one day, everyone
honors the man who gave his life to rid this country of racial tension. I wish
more people would carry his message in their everyday lives throughout the
year. Maybe 2015 will be better at that.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
On
a clock, the big and small hand are exactly between 1 and 2. Both hands lie on
top of each other.
What time is it?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
60’s
Inventions…
1968
The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
The first computer with integrated circuits made.
Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
Searching for “define anagram” in Google Search shows “Did you
mean: nerd fame again“.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS
AGO
There was a house fire out on Lake Mary Road Tuesday night caused
by a wood-burning stove's pipe being too close to the walls. Capt. Paul
Hellenbury of the Flagstaff Fire Department says this in the third similar fire
this winter.
Flagstaff’s
Iconic 50…
Abert
Squirrel
Even the squirrels in Flagstaff are different. Flagstaff is known
for its subspecies of Abert’s squirrel, also known as the tassel-eared
squirrel. The squirrel is named after Col. James Abert, a U.S. military officer
who helped map the West.
The squirrels are found in many areas in the Southwest including
Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah and in the Mexican states of Chihuahua
and Durango. Each area has a different subspecies.
Flagstaff is home to the Kaibab subspecies. The squirrel has a
whiter tail and darker body than the Abert squirrel that inhabits much of the
rest of the Colorado Plateau. The squirrels prefer cool, dry ponderosa pine
forests. They’re diurnal, which means they’re usually active during the day and
sleep at night.
They make bowl-shaped nests out of pine twigs and usually have
litters of three or four babies.
Their favorite food is pine nuts, but they’ll also eat the inner
bark of a tree, buds, fungus, carrion, bones and antlers.
Squirrel pencils are twigs the squirrels have dropped after
stripping of them of needles and eating the bark off.
Harper’s
Index…
$41,000
Average cost for a Canadian family to adopt a white US child
through the Shepherd Care Agency in Florida
$32,000
To adopt a black child
Rules of
Thumb…
FIRING A
SALUTE
Repeating, "If I wasn't a gunner, I
wouldn't be here," will give you the two-second interval between rifle
salutes.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
In August of 1883, the initial explosion of Indonesian volcano
Krakatoa caused a pressure wave that circled the globe seven times, as recorded
by the Royal Society in London, England.
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Joke-of-the-day
A woman visited a modern-art gallery. One
painting was bright blue with vivid orange swirls and the one hanging next to
it was black with lime-green splotches.
The artist stood nearby, so as politely as she could, the woman said to him,
"I'm sorry, but I just don't understand you paintings."
"I paint what I feel inside me," the artist replied.
"I see," the woman replied innocently. "Have you tried
Alka-Seltzer?"
Yep, It
Really Happened
A
woman out of Shangqiu, China took revenge into her own hands, literally, when
she discover her husband was unfaithful.
Chinese officials have arrested a married woman who allegedly chopped off her
husband's penis after she found his messages to a 21-year-old mistress.
Fan Lung, a 32-year-old father of five, was sleeping when his wife, Feng, cut
off his penis with scissors, according to local media reports. She reportedly
saw emails he wrote to his lover using her cell phone.
Fan had his penis reattached, but was still in the hospital when Feng returned
to cut off his penis once again.
"Staff rushed out to see what was happening and found the patient with
blood streaming down his legs hitting the woman," a hospital rep said in a
statement. He was stopped and the woman was taken in for treatment, and then we
discovered she had chopped his penis off again."
Unfortunately for Fan, authorities were unable to find his severed member,
which is thought to have been eaten by a stray dog or cat.
And remember that Valentine's Day is less than a month away!
Somewhat
Useless Information
--Celebrities didn't start handing out awards until 1958, when the
Rat Pack -- led by Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. -- rushed to
the stage with whiskeys and cigars to give them out. Before that, HFPA members
used to hand out the awards.
--The Golden Globes wasn't televised nationally until it appeared on a segment
of "The Andy Williams Show" in 1964 and 1965. Before that, it was on
the air only in Los Angeles. Now, the show can be seen via live stream for
people who can't be near a television.
--In 1962, Judy Garland became the first woman to take home the Cecil B.
DeMille Award, which is given for "outstanding contributions to the world
of entertainment."
--Marlon Brando refused to accept his award in 1973 for "The
Godfather." He protested "imperialism and racism." He did
likewise at the Oscars that year, sending a Native American representative to
give a political statement instead.
--"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is the only film to win all five
major Golden Globes. In 1976 it won for Best Motion Picture, Actor, Actress,
Director and Screenplay.
--The first actor to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion
Picture Drama was Paul Lukas for "Watch on the Rhine" in 1944.
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Today’s
Events through History
1930 - 1st radio broadcast of "Lone
Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit)
1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an
unprecedented 4th term
1957 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
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Birthday’s
Today
Arte
Johnson, comedian (Laugh-in) is 86
David
Lynch, actor/director (Dune, Eraserhead) is 69
Paul
Stanley, [Eisen], rock guitarist (KISS-Beth) is 63
Bill
Maher, comedian\political commentator (Politically Incorrect) is
59
Lorenzo
Lamas, actor (Lance-Falcon Crest) is 57
Rainn
Wilson, actor (The Office) is 49
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Remembered
for being born today
Edward
Tyson, British Physician\father of comparative anatomy 1651-1708@57
Finlay
Currie, Scotland, actor (Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe, Avengers) 1878-1968@90
Lead
Belly (Huddie William Ledbetter), blues 12 string guitarist 1888-1949@61
George Burns, [Nathan Birnbaum], actor/comedian
(Oh God) 1896-1996@100
Joy
Adamson, (Friederike Gessner) naturalist/author (Born Free) 1910-1980@69
DeForest
Kelley, actor (Dr McCoy-Star Trek) 1920-1999@79
Federico
Fellini, film director\scriptwriter (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita) 1920-1993@73
Patricia
Neal, actress (Hud, Subject Was Roses), 1926-2010@84
Dorothy
Provine, actress (Darn Cat) 1937-2010@75
Slim
Whitman, yoddler/country singer (Home on the Range) 1923-2013@90
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Historical
Obits Today
Philippe
de Rothschild, Bordeaux Vineyard manager, 1988, @86
Barbara
Stanwyck, [Ruby Stevens], actress (Big Valley), 1990, @82
Johnny Weissmuller, US swimmer (Olympics-5
gold-1924, 28), stroke, 1984, @79
Etta
James, American singer, leukemia, 2012, @73
George V, King of
Britain (1910-36), painkillers, 1936, @70
Audrey
Hepburn, actress (Roman Holiday), colon cancer, 1993, @63
David
Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, poor health, 1891, @54
James
Connolly, 1st Oly winner (1896) since Barasdates (369 CE), executed, 1957,
@47
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Brain Teasers Answers
The hands lie exactly between the 1 and 2 in the number
"12".
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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…§
