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Almanac: Week: 05 \ Day: 026
January
Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 52°\L 26°
Ave. humidity: 48% Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave:
13mph\Gusts:
31mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High: 60° (1987)
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low: -15° (1937)
Observances
January 26:
Australia Day—1784—British plant flag
in New South Wales
US:
Michigan: Statehood Day 1837—26th state
^^
Bubble
Wrap Appreciation Day
Lotus
1-2-3 Day
National
Peanut Brittle Day
Toad
Hollow Day of Encouragement
Observances This
Week:
25-31
National Nurse Anesthetists Week
World Leprosy Week
Catholic Schools Week
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
Meat Week
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week
National
Medical Group Practice Week
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1500 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first
European to set foot in Brazil
1784 - Benjamin Franklin expresses unhappiness over
eagle as America's symbol
1802 - Congress passes an act calling for a US
Capitol library
1841 - Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory
of Britain
1850 - 1st German language daily newspaper in US
published, NYC
1871 - US income tax repealed
1875 - Electric dental drill is patented by George
F Green
1905 - World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat
Cullinan, is found in South Africa
1913 - Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912
Olympic medals for playing as a pro
1915 - Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo
established
1918 - Herbert Hoover, US Food Administrator, calls
for "wheatless" & "meatless" days for war effort
1948 - Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US
Armed Forces signed
1954 - Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
1956 - 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina
d'Ampezzo, Italy
1962
- "Twist" is impure & bans it
from all Catholic schools
1980 - Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile
in under 4½ minutes
1991 - NY Lotto pays $90 million to nine
winners
2006 - Western Union discontinues its telegram
service
2013 - 30 people are killed during a violent
protest in Port Said, Egypt
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Finally a really beautiful day here in our little mountain town.
Nice day for a walk.
I have been laughing for months whenever I hear “I’m not a scientist,
but…”. It went to new heights a couple of days ago when the Patriot’s football
coach said he wasn’t a scientist, but he has now concluded after several ‘tests’
that the reason that 11 of the 12 balls in the playoff game were underinflated was
due to weather, barometric pressure and climate changes during the game. He didn’t
mention that none of the Colt’s footballs were underinflated during the same
game, on the same field, at the same time. Climate change…really…he is not a
scientist for sure. Barometric pressure changes were different on the two sides
of the field….he is not a scientist. Weather changes varied between sides of
the field. How dumb does he think we are? Pretty dumb I guess. It would have
been better to say we learned that one of our ball boys did this and he has
been fired. The Patriot team apologizes and is working with everyone in our
corporation to be ensure that this doesn’t happen again.
Then there are the terrorists who demanded $200 million in 72
hours or they would behead two Japanese captives in Syria. No money came so
they claim to have beheaded one of the two and now demand the release of a
female terrorist who admitted bombing, along with her late husband, a hotel in
Jordan. No deadline this time. This sure sounds like some very disturbed and
immature jr. high bullies. Crazy world we live in.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A
cork, say from a wine bottle, is held by a robotic clamp at the bottom of a
bucket of water and released the moment the bucket is dropped off the side of a
tall building. What will happen to the cork during the fall? Will it float to
the top of the bucket normally, slower than normal, faster than normal, or not
at all?
Assume that there is no air resistance to slow the bucket down.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
70’s
Inventions…
1974
The post-it notes invented by Arthur Fry
Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invents
liposuction
Bank
Facts…
--A man sued Bank of America for erroneously foreclosing on his
home and won. When they didn’t pay the fees, he foreclosed their bank.
--Jeremy Clarkson once published his bank account number and sort
code to prove that the information couldn't be used to steal money. Someone
used it to set up a monthly direct debit from his bank account to a charity.
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
Searching for “kerning” or “keming” in Google Search changes the
letter-spacing of the word “kerning” or “keming”, respectively
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS
AGO
--For Flagstaff car owners, the new in lieu of tax is a flat $4
per $100 in value.
--W. C. McCuddin, local contractor has won Babbitt’s First Prize
for the Model home he constructed at 801 N. Leroux St. He wins a beautiful $185
living room suite.
--Huckleby Neusland’s stockroom was burned to the ground on
Tuesday night. A large quantity of his Christmas merchandise was destroyed. The
Flagstaff firemen saved all the adjacent structures. The cause of fire is
unknown.
Harper’s
Index…
¾
Portion of American police officers who are white
10
Percentage of white Americans who say police do a poor job
protecting people from crime
33
Of Black Americans who say so
Rules of
Thumb…
PLANNING
PARTIES
Only half of those you invite to a large
social gathering, such as a wedding or retirement party, will come. But expect
a 90 percent turnout if you're inviting a small, select group of friends or
family. If it's a child's party, plan on at least one uninvited brother or
sister tagging along.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The United States Merchant Marine Academy is the only U.S.
military academy to lose students in a time of war. 142 students died during
WWII.
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Joke-of-the-day
A little boy came home with his parents from
church one Sunday. He seemed a little depressed, so his mother asked him if
something happened in Sunday school class that he would like to talk about. He
told his mother "Well, we were singing songs and the teacher made us sing
about a poor bear named Gladly that needed glasses and I can't stop thinking
about him. She said he was cross-eyed and I feel bad for him.
The mother couldn't understand why the teacher would teach such a song in
Sunday school, so she decided to call her. To the woman’s amazement, the
teacher said she only taught hymns that morning. Then the teacher began
laughing out loud and said to the mother, “I know what Jeffrey’s' talking
about! We learned the hymn 'Gladly The Cross I'd Bear'".
Yep, It
Really Happened
WEST PALM
BEACH, Fla. (UPI)
Police in Florida said a teenager caught posing as a doctor at a
hospital had been carrying out his ruse at the facility for about a month.
Police were called to St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach on Jan. 13
on a report of a juvenile falsely identifying himself as a doctor while wearing
a white lab coat and carrying a stethoscope. "The individual never had
contact with any hospital patients and did not gain access to any patient care
areas of the hospital at any time. The hospital immediately notified local
authorities, who took the individual into custody, and we are cooperating with
their ongoing investigation," the hospital said in a statement. However,
Dr. Sebastian Kent, an OB/GYN with St. Mary's, said the teen was with him in an
examination room while he was with a patient. "The first thing I thought
was, 'I am really getting old because these young doctors look younger every
year," Kent told CNN. Kent alerted police, who said security guards
reported seeing the teenager walking around the hospital while dressed as a
doctor on multiple occasions in previous weeks. "I saw him outside our
office building with policemen surrounding him. I believe they had him in
handcuffs. There was quite a commotion," Kent said. The teen told police
he had been a doctor for "years," but his mother said he suffers from
an illness and has been refusing to take his medication. The hospital and
police said they have decided not to pursue charges against the boy.
Somewhat
Useless Information
--Did
you know that today people who speak Chinese use three written numeral systems
and that there is a lucky as well as an unlucky number?
These
systems include the system of Arabic numerals used world-wide, and two
indigenous systems. The more familiar indigenous system is based on Chinese characters
that correspond to numerals in the spoken language.
--There’s
a country in the world with the least freedom of media even less than North
Korea!
Eritrea,
which is bordered by Sudan to the west, Ethiopia in the south,
and Djibouti in the southeast, is at the bottom of a list of 178
countries.
According
to BBC: “Eritrea is the only African country to have no privately owned news
media”, and Reporters Without Borders said of the public media, “[they] do
nothing but relay the regime’s belligerent and ultra-nationalist discourse. …
Not a single [foreign correspondent] now lives in Asmara”.
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Today’s
Events through History
1926 - 1st public demonstration of television in laboratory
in London
1963 – 4 Tucsonans
purchased the Pioneer Hotel from the Steinfeld family interests.
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Birthday’s
Today
Bob
Uecker, catcher/actor (Mr Belvedere) is 80
Eddie Van
Halen, Nijmegan Neth, rock guitarist is 60
Ellen
DeGeneres, comediene (Ellen Morgan-Ellen) is 57
Wayne
Gretzky, NHL great scorer (Oiler, King, Rangers) is 54
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Remembered
for being born today
Juan
Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father 1813-1876@63
Abner
Doubleday, Union general-major/inventor (baseball) 1819-1893@73
Mary
Mapes Dodge, writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates) 1831-1905@74
Douglas
MacArthur, US General (WW II), 1880-1964@84
Sean
MacBride, Dublin, Amnesty Intl co-founder (Nobel '74) 1904-1988@83
William
Hopper, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason) 1915-1970@55
Paul
Newman, racer/popcorn mogul/actor (Hud) 1925-2008@83
Gene
Siskel, movie critic (Siskel & Ebert) 1946-1999@53
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Historical
Obits Today
José
Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor/director (Cyrano de Bergerac), 1992, @80
Edward G
Robinson, [Goldenberg], actor (Little Caesar), cancer, 1973, @79
Abner
Doubleday, invented baseball, on 74th birthday, heart disease, 1893
Nelson
Rockefeller, former VP & (4X Gov-R-NY), heart attack, 1979, @70
William K
Wrigley Jr, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), 1932, @70
Charles "Lucky" Luciano,
NYC Mafia gangster, heart attack, 1962, @65
Christian
Brando, actor and son of Marlon Brando, pneumonia, 2008, @49
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Brain Teasers Answers
The cork will stay at the bottom of the bucket and not float up at
all during the fall, since the cork, the bucket and the water all fall at the
same acceleration g (neglecting air resistance as all good physics questions
do). The buoyant force of the water does not push the cork upward in this case
since in free fall the buoyant force is zero. In other words, a cork only
floats up when the water around it is heavier and pushes it up. In free fall
the water is weightless, as is the cork and bucket, so there is no force to
push the cork to the top of the bucket.
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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…§
