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Almanac: Week: 05 \ Day: 031
January
Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 41°\L 36°
Ave. humidity: 99% Average Sky Cover: 99%
Wind ave:
3mph\Gusts:
18mph
Ave. High: 44° Record High: 63° (1971)
Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: -25° (1916)
Observances
Today:
Independence
Day- Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) 1958 from Australia
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Appreciate
Your Social Security Check Day
Child Labor Day
Inspire
Your Heart with Art Day
National Popcorn Day
National
Seed Swap Day
Street
Children 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
1696 - Revolt
by undertakers after funeral reforms (Amsterdam)
1747 - The
first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital
1846 - After
the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1851 - Gail
Borden announces invention of condensed milk
1855 - Western
railroads blocked by snow
1865 - Congress
passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)
1870 – 1st
acts are taken to establish the White Mountain\San Carlos
Camp Apache Reserve in western Arizona territory
1876 – US
orders all Native Americans to move into reservations
1890 - Empire Ranch,
Arizona started driving 1,000 head of cattle to California to escape excessive
freight rates
1905 - 1st
automobile to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach
1915 - 1st
(German) poison gas attack, against Russians
1919 - The
Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland: troops deployed
against protesters for fear of a Bolshevik uprising
1920 - 1st
Ukrainian daily newspaper in US (NYC) begins publication
1928 - Scotch
tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company
1950 -
President Truman publicly announces support for development of H-bomb
1958 - James
van Allen discovers radiation belt
1961 - Ham the chimpanzee is 1st primate in space
(158 miles)
1968 - Viet Cong Tet offensive begins
1972 - British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling
makes statement to the House of Commons on the events of 'Bloody Sunday'
"The Army returned the fire directed at them with aimed shots and
inflicted a number of casualties on those who were attacking them with firearms
and with bombs"
1982 - 10
Arabian oryx (extinct except in zoos) released in Oman
1990 - 1st
McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
It rained most of the night and most of the day. Did a few errands
and had to use the low setting on the windshield wipers, rather than the usual
intermittent slower speed. Lots of much needed moisture fell on our town today.
Even had to get out my rain jacket that I bought in Maine a few years ago. I
saw a lot of umbrellas as I went into several stores. For much of the US this
is not unusual, but for Flagstaff, especially in January, at 7000’, this is
very unusual for January. We are much more prepared for snow at this time of
year.
I have to admit, I used to think it would be fun to have one of
those small drones with a camera to fly around here in our little mountain town
and maybe even on a grip or two. Now that I see the problems, I will hold off on
that dream for a while. This week some drunk Federal worker ‘lost’ his private
drone about 3am when it just ‘flew off’. It landed on the White House lawn. As
Lucy would say ‘you got some splainin’ to do.’ The local and now national news
crews are talking about the concern about drones at the Super Bowl in Phoenix,
actually Glendale, this weekend. The talking heads are talking about
precautions to keep drones away from the game and suggesting that bombs or
air-borne poisons could be dropped on the spectators. Harder than one would
think. They are controlled, like so many things, by radio signals. Jamming is
impossible, unless they know the frequency the drone is using, since all
on-field communications is via radio signals as are the many HLS/FBI radios
throughout the stadium. Scary world we live in.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Based
on the clue in parentheses, find a four-letter word that can be inserted
backwards into the blank to complete a longer word.
Example: di____ve (a defeat)
Answer: dissolve ("A defeat" gives you LOSS, which is placed
backwards in the blank: di_SSOL_ve.)
1. mu____ds (rodents)
2. fro____g (young lice)
3. con____s (flightless birds)
4. ta____le (flying mammals)
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
70’s
Inventions…
1979
Cell phones invented
Cray supercomputer invented by Seymour Cray
Walkman invented
Scott Olson invents roller blades
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
Searching for horror or halloween related terms in Google Search
returns the result along with three bats on the upper right corner of the page
which fly away as soon as the mouse cursor hovers over them.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO
Remember the new Ordinance. Christmas lights are to be off by Jan.
15 to protect our sterling night sky viewing.
Harper’s
Index…
74
Percentage of US smartphone owners aged 18-24who check their
phones immediately after waking up each morning
Rules of
Thumb…
COMPARING
MEN AND WOMEN
For every hour married women spend in
paid employment each week, their husbands spend five more minutes working
around the home.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Only 17 existing paintings are attributed to famed artist Leonardo
da Vinci.
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Joke-of-the-day
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Isabelle
Isabelle who?
Isabelle necessary on a bicycle?
Yep, It
Really Happened
Stockton,
CA
You have heard of the Italian Necktie (sometimes called the
Columbian Necktie) and the Chicago Smile. Now some innovators in California
have come up with a new, diabolical punishment for the victims. It is being
called the Stockton Duck Face.
It all began when robbers in Stockton, California assaulted their victim in a
painful and unusual way.
According to a statement from the Stockton Police, a 26-year-old man was
walking on Pacific Avenue when he noticed he was being followed by three
suspects. One suspect called out to the man, and as the man was trying to get
away, was hit on the back of the head and knocked to the ground.
Two of the suspects held the man down while the third suspect went through his
pockets and took his money.
The suspects then reportedly pushed the man's face into the side of an
abandoned shopping cart, forcing his lips through the mesh. They then ran away.
The man lost consciousness and was later found by paramedics who had to cut the
cart from his face.
The man's condition is unknown, but it is feared that the opportunity for an
epic selfie was tragically missed.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Quotes
about rain
The
way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
--Dolly
Parton
My
sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are
beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the
sodden pasture lane.
--Robert
Frost
A
wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
--e.
e. cummings
You
pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.
--Denzel
Washington
It
will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more
trees.
--George
Eliot
The
drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
--Lucretius
I
don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is
waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
--Leonard
Cohen
It
always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against
prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
--Dave
Barry
It
is no use to grumble and complain;
It’s
just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When
God sorts out the weather and sends rain – Why, rain’s my choice.
--James
Whitcomb Riley
One
can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John
Steinbeck
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Today’s
Events through History
1627 - Spanish
government goes bankrupt
1865 - Gen Robert
E. Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
1871 - Millions
of birds fly over western SF, darkening the sky
1930 - 1st US
glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst, NJ
1971 - "My
Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on UK pop chart
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Birthday’s
Today
Carol
Channing, actress (Hello Dolly) is 94
James G
Watt, Colo, US Secretary of Interior (1981-83) is 77
Nolan
Ryan, MLB pitcher (Mets, Angels, Astros) is 68
Anthony
LaPaglia, actor (Murder One) is 57
Minnie
Driver, British actress and singer-songwriter (Good Will Hunting) is 45
Portia de
Rossi, Australian actress, married to Ellen DeGeneres is 42
Justin
Timberlake, singer-songwriter (Sexyback, My Love) is 34
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Remembered
for being born today
Franz
Peter Schubert, composer (Unfinished Symphony) 1797-1828@31
Zane Grey,
American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage) 1872-1939@67
Anna
Pavlova, St Petersburg, ballerina/choreographer 1881-1931@49
Eddie
Cantor, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater) 1892-1964@72
Tallulah
Bankhead, actress (Lifeboat) 1902-1968@66
Don
Hutson, 1st NFL wide receiver (Green Bay Packers) 1913-1997@84
Garry
Moore, [Thomas Garrison Morfit], host (I've Got a Secret)
1915-1993@78
Jackie
Robinson, 1st African American major league baseball player 1919-1972@53
Stewart L
Udall, St Johns Ariz, US Secretary of Interior (1961-69) 1920-2010@90
Mario
Lanza, actor/singer (Great Caruso) 1921-1959@38
Norman
Mailer, novelist (Naked & the Dead) 1923-2007@84
Jean
Simmons, actress (Thorn Birds, Guys & Dolls), 1929-2010@80
Ernie
Banks, "Mr Cub" Chicago Cubs, Hall-of-Famer 1931-2015@83
Suzanne
Pleshette, actress (Emily-Bob Newhart Show) 1937-2008@70
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Historical
Obits Today
Samuel
Goldwyn, Polish/English/US film magnate (MGM), 1974@91
A.A.
Milne, English author of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, 1956, @74
Bonnie
Prince Charlie, English pretender to the throne, 1788, @67
Guy
Fawkes, convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot", executed, 1606, @35
Eddie
Slovik, 1st US executed for desertion since Civil War, 1945, @25
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. mustards + (RATS - mu_STAR_ds)
2. frosting + (NITS - fro_STIN_g)
3. consumes + (EMUS - con_SUME_s)
4. tastable + (BATS - ta_STAB_le)
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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…§
