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Almanac: Week: 04 \ Day: 021
January
Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 52°\L 22°
Ave. humidity: 48% Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave:
6mph\Gusts:
12mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High: 60° (1944)
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low: -24° (1937)
Observances
Today:
National Hugging Day
Squirrel
Appreciation 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
1677 - 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet
on smallpox), Boston
1789 - 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power
of Sympathy" is published
1827 - Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins
publishing
1846 - 1st edition of Charles Dickens'
"Daily News"
1861 - Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4
other southern senators resign
1863 - City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market
for 100,000 years
1880 - 1st US sewage disposal system separate from
storm drains, Memphis
1887 - Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1903 - International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens
at 5 Columbus Circle NYC
1915 - Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
1919 - Irish militant nationalist party Sinn Fein
creates its own parliament in Dublin and declares Ireland independent of Great
Britain, sparking the Irish War of Independence
1927 - 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera
house (Faust, Chicago)
1949 - 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman)
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa
Women's Golf Open
1954 - USS Nautilus, the 1st nuclear-powered sub,
launched on the Thames, CN
1976 - Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights,
by Britain & France
1977 - US President Jimmy Carter pardons
almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1987 - B.B. King & Muddy Waters
inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"
1990 - John McEnroe becomes 1st ever player to
be expelled from Australian Open
2008 - The Eyak language in Alaska becomes extinct
as its last native speaker dies.
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Decent Tuesday. Clouded over this afternoon, but the morning was
very nice. Even though I have been retired for 7 years, when there is a holiday
Monday, the Tuesday still feels like Monday. Today was no different.
While doing some shopping, I ran into 2 teachers from Tuba that I
haven’t seen since I retired. The husband has retired and the wife is retiring
in May. Both seem to be doing well. We talked about 30 minutes. They have a
place in Phoenix and are looking forward to moving down there. Both are very
traditional Navajo but I feel they will do very well in Phoenix. Both are good
teachers and did a lot for their people. Nice to see them again.
I will be listening to the State of Union this evening. I sure
hope he proposes some definitive solutions to the worldwide issue of terrorism,
the gun violence in our country and the craziness of the income gap that has
infected our country.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
P-------P
--L---L
----A
--N---N
E-------E
The
hyphens have no purpose
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
60’s
Inventions…
1969
The arpanet (first internet) invented.
The artificial heart invented.
The ATM invented.
The bar-code scanner is invented.
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
Searching for “do a barrel roll” or “Z or R twice” in Google
Search will rotate the page a full 360 degrees.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS
AGO
The Snowbowl needs 28 inches of packed snow before they can open.
Currently there is only 8 inches. On the other hand, there is snow enough for
cross-country skiing and some sledding.
Flagstaff’s
Iconic 50…
Weatherford
Hotel
The Weatherford Hotel is a historic hotel in the downtown district
of Flagstaff, Arizona. The hotel was established in 1897 by John W.
Weatherford, and is located one block north of U.S. Route 66.
Disastrous fires plagued early Flagstaff, like most frontier
towns. After a particularly bad series of blazes in 1897, the City passed an ordinance
requiring all buildings in the business area to be built of brick, stone or
iron. Among the new buildings appearing in the year 1898 was the Weatherford
Hotel, built by John W. Weatherford (1859–1934), a native of Weatherford,
Texas. The original structure housed a general store on the first floor, and
the Weatherford family upstairs.
In March 1899, Weatheford began construction of a brick
three-story hotel addition, with a grand opening on New Year's Day, 1900. For
years, the Weatherford Hotel was the most prominent hotel in Flagstaff,
entertaining guests such as artist Thomas Moran, publisher William Randolf
Hearst, and writer Zane Grey. Grey's famous novel "The Call of the
Canyon" was written in the recently renovated Zane Grey Ballroom on the third
floor of the hotel.
A beautiful sunroom occupied part of the top floor and was used
for dances and parties, while numerous civic groups engaged the downstairs. A
three-sided balcony, visible in the 1905 photograph hanging in the Ballroom was
damaged by fire and removed in 1929, along with the original cupola. At various
times, the hotel housed a restaurant, theater, and billiard hall and radio
station.
Henry Taylor, the present owner, purchased the hotel in 1975 in an
attempt to keep it from being demolished, at a time when the downtown area was
in an acute state of disrepair and decline. Since then, Henry and his wife
Pamela (Sam) have been continually renovating the structure, with the goal of
restoring the hotel to its original grandeur. Today's Weatherford Hotel is
still changing. The third floor Ballroom was renovated and reopened in 1997 and
the first stage of reconstructing the wrap-around porches were finished in
February 1999.
Harper’s
Index…
2750
Year by which South Koreans will be ‘extinct’ given current
fertility rates, accord to government demographers
Rules of
Thumb…
BRUSHING
YOUR TEETH
Get a new toothbrush as soon as your old
one gets frayed. If you're not going through four toothbrushes a year, you're
not brushing your teeth enough.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
When removing the American flag after an event, the proper term is
to "Retrieve the Colors," which is commonly mistaken for "Retire
the Colors." To "Retire the Colors" is to destroy/bury an
American flag due to excessive wear or damage.
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Joke-of-the-day
Q. What game encourages drinking and driving?
A. Golf
Yep, It
Really Happened
Daily
Mail (London)
Among the breakthroughs demonstrated by the computer chip company
Intel's RealSense system is a cocktail dress from Dutch designer Anouk
Wipprecht that not only senses the wearer's "mood," but also acts to
repel (or encourage) strangers who might approach the wearer. Sensors
(including small LED monitors) measure respiration and 11 other profiles, and
if the wearer is "stressed," artistic spider-leg epaulets extend menacingly
from the shoulder to suggest that "intruders" keep their distance (in
which case the dress resembles something from the movie "Aliens") --
or, if the wearer feels relaxed, the legs wave invitingly. The experimental
"spider dress" was showcased at January's Consumer Electronics Show
in Las Vegas.
Somewhat
Useless Information
--In
1983, Congress passed a federal holiday honoring King. The day is celebrated on
the third Monday in January.
--His birth name is Michael Luther King Jr. but he was later renamed Martin and
his father called him M.L.
--Martin was so intelligent he skipped the 9th and 12th grades and entered
Morehouse College when he was 15.
--The "Big Six" organizers were James Farmer, of the Congress of
Racial Equality (CORE); Martin Luther King, Jr., of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC); John Lewis, of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC); A. Philip Randolph, of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters; Roy Wilkins, of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); and Whitney Young, Jr., of the National
Urban League.
--The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered this speech on August 28,
1963, on the steps of the Washington, D.C., Lincoln Memorial during the march
on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
--On Apr. 4, 1968, he was shot and killed as he stood on the balcony of the
Lorraine Motel. James Earl Ray, a career criminal, pleaded guilty to the murder
and was convicted, but he soon recanted, claiming he was duped into his plea.
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Today’s
Events through History
1525 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when
Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize
each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year
tradition of church-state union
1813 - Pineapple introduced to Hawaii
1997 - An inquiry in North Wales names more than 80
child abusers
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Birthday’s
Today
Jack
Nicklaus, golfer (Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76) is 75
Placido
Domingo, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Mme Butterfly) is 74
Mac
Davis, country music singer-songwriter, actor is 73
Jill
Eikenberry, actor (Ann Kelsey-LA Law) is 68
Eric
Holder, 82nd Attorney General is 64
Robby
Benson, actor (Running Brave) is 59
Geena
[Virginia] Davis, actress
(Beetlejuice) is 59
Emma Lee Bunton, "Baby
Spice" is 39
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Remembered
for being born today
John
Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton) 1743-1798@55
Horace
Wells, dentist (pioneered use of medical anethesia) 1815-1848@33
John Cabell Breckinridge, 14th US VP 1821-1875@54
Thomas "Stonewall"
Jackson, Lt Gen 2nd Corps, 1824-1863@39
Christian
Dior, fashion designer (New Look) 1905-1957@52
Karl
Wallenda, German acrobat 1905-1978@73
Alan
Hewitt, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian) 1915-1986@71
Paul
Scofield, actor (Man for All Seasons) 1922-2008@86
Telly
Savalas, actor (Kojak) 1922-1994@72
Benny
Hill, comedian (Benny Hill Show) 1924-1992@68
Steve
Reeves, actor (Hercules) 1926-2000@74
Wolfman
Jack, [Bob Smith], Brooklyn DJ (Midnight Special) 1938-1995@57
Richie
Havens, Bkln, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun), 1941-2013@72
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Historical
Obits Today
Peggy Lee,
American singer, 2002@81
George A.
Moore, Irish novelist, 1933, @80
Jack Lord, actor
(Stoney Burke, Hawaii 50) Alzheimer's , 1998, @77
Cecil B[lount] de Mille, producer (10 Commandments), heart failure, 1959, @77
Elisha
Gray, American inventor (telephone), 1901, @65
Vladimir Ilyich
Ulyanov Lenin, Russian Premier,
stroke, 1924, @53
Jackie
Wilson, US singer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), stroke, 1984, @49
George
Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), TB, 1950, @46
Louis XVI, French
King (1774-93), beheaded, 1793, @38
Saint
Agnes (martyred) burned at stake, 304, @13
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Brain Teasers Answers
Explain
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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…§
