Dec 10

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Dec 10, 2018 Week: 50 \ Day: 344

86004 Today: H 41° \ L 15° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 65°[1939]   Record Low: -10°[2013]

Nov Averages: 43°\17°

Today’s Quote

There is nothing new in the world except

the history you do not know.

Harry S Truman

Random Tidbits

Piranhas are known for their razor-sharp teeth and relentless bite. True piranhas have tricuspid teeth, with a more pronounced middle cuspid or crown. Piranhas replace teeth in quarters multiple times throughout their lifespan, which reaches up to eight years in captivity.

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A typical piranha diet consists of insects, fish, crustaceans, worms, carrion, seeds and other plant material. However, some piranhas are omnivorous, eating more seeds than meat, and some even subsist on plants alone.

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Piranhas run in packs for safety, not strength. Traveling in shoals has the effect of protecting the inner fish from attack. Further, shoals tend to have a hierarchy of larger, older fish towards the center and younger fish on the outer edges, suggesting that safety might be the true motivation.

Observances This Week

           

3-24
Andisop (Meterological Fiddling)   Link

3-10
Clerc-Gallaudet Week

10-17
Human Rights Week

Observances for Today

           

Dewey Decimal System Day

Human Rights Day Link
International Animal Rights Day  Link
Jane Addams Day
National Lager Day

Nobel Prize Day

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1684 Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley

1700’s

1799 Metric system adopted in France, first country to do so

1800’s

1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state of the Union

1884 "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is first published in the UK and Canada (US Feb 1885, due to printing error)

1900’s

1901 First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy

1901 First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays

1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt is the 1st American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

1907 Rudyard Kipling receives the Nobel prize for literature, the first English-language writer to do so

1920 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US President Woodrow Wilson

1925 Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel Prize for Literature

1931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize

1936 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Carlos Saavedra Lamas for mediating end to Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, 1st Latin American to win

1948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1950 Ralph Bunche (1st black American) presented the Nobel Peace Prize for mediation in Israel

1976 Samuel C. C. Ting is the first person to deliver a Nobel Prize lecture in Mandarin, during the ceremony to award him and Burton Richter the Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering the J/ψ particle

1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

1994 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat

2000’s

2009 US President Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo

My Rambling Thoughts

I had a great Saturday, went downtown see the Light Parade. Nothing quite like a small-town parade.

Making it a lazy Sunday. Cough is almost gone. Life is good.  Broncos ain’t playing well. Cards ain’t playing at all.

Busy week ahead to get ready for my Christmas adventure in Chicago.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@86- Harold Gould,

American character actor (The Sting, The Golden Girls, Rhoda, Big Bus), born in Schenectady, New York (d. 2010)

70’s

77- Tommy Kirk,

actor (Old Yeller)

50’s

@55- Emily Dickinson,

American poet (Collected Poems), born in Amherst, Massachusetts (d. 1886) typhoid fever

54-Bobby Flay,

chef

40’s

@43- Dan Blocker,

American actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza), born in DeKalb, Bowie County, Texas (d. 1972) pulmonary embolism

30’s

@36- Ada Lovelace,

English mathematician considered the first computer programmer, born in London (d. 1852) blood letting

33- Raven-Symoné,

American actress and singer

Historical Obits Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@89-2005 Eugene McCarthy,

American politician (Sen-D-Minn) and presidential candidate

@84-1979 Fulton J Sheen,

bishop (Life is Worth Living)

60’s

@66-1946 Damon Runyon,

American journalist and writer (Guys & Dolls-based on his work)

@65-2005 Richard Pryor,

American comedian and actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy), heart attack

@63-1896 Alfred Nobel,

Swedish chemist and founder of the Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, stroke

20’s

@261967 Otis Redding,

American singer-songwriter (Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay), plane crash