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Almanac: Week: 05 \ Day: 029
January
Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 55°\L 24°
Ave. humidity: 55% Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind ave:
6mph\Gusts:
13mph
Ave. High: 44° Record High: 60° (1986)
Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: -12° (1972)
Observances
Today:
US-Thomas
Paine Day
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Curmudgeons
Day
Freethinkers
Day
National Corn chip Day
National
Puzzle Day
Seeing
Eye Dog Day
Observances This
Week:
25-31
Catholic Schools Week
Clean
Out Your Inbox Week
Meat
Week
National
Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week
National
Medical Group Practice Week
National
Nurse Anesthetists Week
World
Leprosy Week
28-31
US National Snow Sculpting Week
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1856 - Victoria
Cross established to acknowledge valor in the face of the enemy (United Kingdom
and Commonwealth countries)
1863 - Battle
at Bear River, Washington: US army vs Indians
1879 - Custer
Battlefield National Monument, Mont established
1886 - 1st
successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz
1896 - Emile
Grubbe is the first doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
1904 - 1st
athletic letters given (Univ of Chicago football team)
1916 - 1st
bombing of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place
1921 - Hurricane
hits Washington & Oregon
1924 - Ice
cream cone rolling machine patented
1929 - Seeing
Eye Guide Dog organization forms in USA
1944 - USS Missouri, the last battleship
commissioned by the US Navy, is launched
1949 - Operation Haylift
as a result of a severe blizzard which hit the Western United States and left
35 inches of snow covering the northwest portion of the Navajo Reservation
1953 - 1st
movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres
1959 - Walt
Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
1963 - Jim
Thorpe, Red Grange elected to football Hall of Fame
1964 - 9th
Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria
1964 - Stanley
Kubrick's "Dr Strangelove" premieres
1978 - Joanne
Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship
1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their
harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a
ban
1979 - Jimmy Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year
sentence to 2 years
1989 - Episcopal Church of the United States appoints
its first female bishop
1990 - Exxon
Valdez Capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
1995 - Andre
Agassi defeats Pete Sampras to win Australian Open
2002 - President
George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an
Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
2014 - Archaeologists
discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant’Omobono
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Fairly nice weather day. As I reviewed our average local high temps
for January and this month’s actual temps, it has been a warmer than usual
month. Nice. They I looked at the average low temps for January…and thankfully
it we have been warmer than usual. Never even came close to breaking any low
temp records.
I changed my sheets today and realized I now had three sets of
sheets that were dirty. Not anymore. All are clean, folded, and put away.
Made my weekly trek to Sam’s Club. Found some new snacks for munching
on during this Super Bowl week.
Speaking of Super Bowl…it’s in Phoenix this year and I usually don’t
watch the hype of the Super Bowl, but since my network stations are from
Phoenix…not watching is hardly an option. They think the hype will increase
viewership and help out the city coffers…what is does for me is remind me how
glad I am I don’t live there. I’ll watch
the game on Sunday, but won’t be driving down there for any of the other
events. From above, it’s curmudgeon day and I am one on this.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A
clothes shop was running a promotion giving away free jeans. In order to get
the free jeans you had to try a pair on, then, while still wearing the jeans
you had to put your right hand in the left pocket and your left hand in the
right pocket and reach right to the bottom of the pockets at the same time.
Many people tried but were unable to achieve the feat until one chap walked in
and walked out a few minutes later with his free jeans. How did he do it?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
70’s
Inventions…
1977
Magnetic resonance imaging invented by Raymond V. Damadian
Bank
Facts…
-- Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion
dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank
robbery in history.
--Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit
slip correctly.
--Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
Searching for “conway’s game of life” in Google Search returns a
search page with Conway’s Game of Life running behind the results along with a
set of controls to play.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS
AGO
A handbill listing each station will be distributed beginning next
week.
Held over this week at the Orpheum: “Carpet Baggers." Starting
Sunday: “Fail Safe” starring Walter Matthau will be showing.
Harper’s
Index…
1,890
Estimated number of African and Middle Easter refugees who have drowned
in the Mediterranean this year.
Rules of
Thumb…
SPOTTING
A FRACTURE
If you feel nauseous after injuring an
arm or leg, you've probably fractured it.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Jaleel White ("Steve Urkel") was the voice of Sonic the
Hedgehog in the video game character's mid-1990s cartoon.
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Joke-of-the-day
A candidate at a job interview was asked a
tough question to which he mumbled an inaudible answer.
The interviewer said "Come again?"
The candidate got up, collected his file, went
out of the room and came back again.
Yep, It
Really Happened
DUSSELDORF,
Germany (UPI)
A German judge ruled a tenant can't be held responsible for floor
damage resulting from urinating while in the standing position. Dusseldorf
Judge Stefan Hank sided with the tenant, whose lawsuit said the landlord
refused to return $2,100 of his $3,300 deposit, alleging the resident's urine
had damaged the marble floor around the toilet. Hank said the arguments from
the landlord and a "technical expert" who confirmed urine was
responsible for the marble tile damage were "credible and
understandable," but not enough to sway his opinion. "Despite the
increasing domestication of men in this regard, urinating while standing up is
still widespread," the judge wrote in his ruling. Hank said the landlord
should have warned the tenant of the floor's "sensitivity" to urine
droplets. "Anyone who still practices this formerly dominant custom has to
expect occasional clashes with -- especially female -- flatmates. But they
don't have to worry about corrosion to the marble floor," Hank wrote.
There has been a growing movement in Germany to convert
"Stehpinkler," men who stand while urinating, into tidier
"Sitzpinkler," men who sit to pee. Opponents of the movement
sometimes use "Sitzpinkler" as a derogatory term to insult a man's
masculinity.
Somewhat
Useless Information
--The
number of times the coin toss has turned up both heads and tails at a Super
Bowl is 24.
--The Super Bowl has been held in 22 different stadiums.
--For 20 years, the series finale of M.A.S.H was the most watched program in
television history until Super Bowl XLIV.
--The opening kickoff in a Super Bowl was returned for a touchdown once, by
Devin Hester in SB XLI
--The lowest combined score in Super Bowl history is 21, when the Miami
Dolphins beat the Washington Redskins 14-7 in Super Bowl VII
--A quarterback has been named Super Bowl MVP 26 times.
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Today’s
Events through History
1891 - Liliuokalani
is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch
1947 - Arthur
Miller's "All My Sons" premieres in NYC
1969 - Jimi
Hendrix & Pete Townshend wage a battle of guitars
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Birthday’s
Today
Katharine
Ross, actress (Graduate) is 75
Claudine
Longet, France, former Mrs Andy Williams/singer is 73
Tom
Selleck, actor (Magnum PI), is 70
Marc
Singer, Vancouver, actor (V, Dallas) is 67
Ann
Jillian, actress (Mr Mom) is 65
Oprah
Winfrey, Talk show host\actress is 61
Edward
Burns, Queens, actor, director, writer is 47
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Remembered
for being born today
Moses
Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland 1754-1806@52
William
McKinley, 25th US President (1897-1901), 1843-1901@58
Anton
Pavlovich Chekhov, Russian playwright
(Cherry Orchard) 1860-1904@44
W C
Fields, [William Claude Dukenfield], actor 1880-1946@66
Victor
Mature, actor (1 Million BC,) 1913-1999@86
John
Forsythe, actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty) 1918-2010@92
Paddy
Chayevsky, [Sydney], US, dramatist (Marty, Hospital) 1923-1981@58
Edward
Abbey, author (Desert Solitaire) 1927-1989@62
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Historical
Obits Today
Robert
Frost, American poet (4 Pulitzers), 1963, @88
Jimmy
Durante, comedian (Palooka, Jimmy Durante Show), 1980, @86
Edward
Lear, poet/author, heart disease, 1888, @75
Seth
Thomas, pioneer in the mass production of clocks, 1859, @73
Eric
Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen), 2005, @64
Alan Ladd, actor
(Shane), accidental OD, 1964, @50
Sara
Teasdale, American poet, suicide, 1933, @48
Freddie
Prinze, comedian/actor (Chico & the Man), suicide, 1977, @22
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Brain Teasers Answers
He tried the jeans on inside-out. The left pocket was then on his
right side and the right pocket was then on his left side.
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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…§
