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Jan 19, 2019 Week: 02  \ Day: 19

86004 Today: H 39° \ L 19° \ Average Sky Cover: 15% 

Wind:   11mph\Gusts:  23mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 62°[1986]   Record Low: -13°[1943]

Jan Averages: 43°\11°

Today’s Quote

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me;

I am a free human being with an independent will. Charlotte Bronte

Random Tidbits

Swatch is the largest watch company in the world, with brands that cover the entire price spectrum and sales exceeding $8 billion and employing 33,000 people.

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Luxottica controls almost every high-end eyewear in the market. They own 80 percent of the major brands of eyeglasses. They own Prada, Tiffany and Co., Versace, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Rayban, Oakley, and many more.

Observances This Week

13-19

National Mocktail Week

17-23

National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week

18-25

Week of Christian Unity

19-20

Bald Eagle Appreciation Days

19-27

International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week

Observances for Today

Popcorn Day

Robert E. Lee Day  

Tin Can Day

World Day of Migrants and Refugees

World Quark Day 

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice day…a few clouds, a little wind, lots of blue sky.

Our retirement group had a good lunch conversation yesterday. Mary is heading to London and Paris with her son and his family over spring break. Hope Brexit doesn’t mess it up.

Early this week Flag made National News. A tanker, carrying 3500 gallons of hot liquid chocolate overturned on I-40, just east of town. It made quite a mess with a ‘river of chocolate’ running down the median. The interstate was closed for several hours. Not sure if they used a wet-dry vacuum or just waited for all that chocolate to solidify.

Our local PD just released a warming to watch for rabid wild animals…coyotes, fox, and skunks. Three people have been bitten since Jan 1. WOW!

End the shutdown. NOW!...Find a room, put all the stakeholders in there…bring in porta-potties…lock the door…open it when there is a signed law. No phones, no laptops, no WIFI allowed. Time for action.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1800’s

1883 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey

1900’s

1915 Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude

1929 Acadia National Park, Maine established

1937 Millionaire Howard Hughes sets transcontinental air record (7h 28m 25s)

1977 World's largest crowd gathering - the Hindu Kumbh Mela in India attracts a then record 15 million people

1979 US President Jimmy Carter announces he is awarding Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to anthropologist Margaret Mead

2000’s

2001 Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from Puente Grande maximum-security prison near Guadalajara by bribing prison guards and hiding in a laundry cart

Birthdays Today

1736 James Watt,

Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and

chemist (steam engine), born in Greenock,

Scotland (d. 1819)-@83

1807 Robert E. Lee,

American General who commanded the

Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the

American Civil War, born in Stratford Virginia

(d. 1870)-@63-stroke

1809 Edgar Allan Poe,

American writer, poet and critic (The Pit and the

Pendulum) considered the inventor of the

detective fiction genre (Murders in the Rue

Morgue), born in Boston, Massachusetts

(d. 1849)-@40- dies from "congestion of the

brain"

1839 Paul Cézanne,

French artist and Post-Impressionist painter

(The Basket of Apples), born in Aix-en-

Provence, France (d. 1906)-@67-pneunomia

1922 Guy Madison [Robert Moseley],

 American actor (Wild Bill Hickok), born in

Pumpkin Center, California

(d. 1996)-74-emphysema

1923 Jean Stapleton,

American actress (Damn Yankees, Klute, All in

the Family), born in NYC, New York

(d. 2013)-@90

1939 Phil Everly,

American singer and half of the rock and roll

duo "The Everly Brothers" (Bye Bye Love, Wake

Up Little Susie), born in Chicago, Illinois

(d. 2014)@74-lung disease

1943 Janis Joplin,

 American rocker and blues singer-songwriter

(Down on Me), born in Port Arthur, Texas

(d. 1970)-@27-heroin OD

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89- Nathalie "Tippi" Hedren,

American actress, animal rights activist and

former fashion model (The Birds, Marnie), born

in New Ulm, Minnesota

75- Shelley Fabares, American actress (Donna Reed

Show, Coach), born in Santa Monica, California

73- Dolly Parton, American country singer (Dolly, 9 to

5), born in Sevierville, Tennessee

72- Paula Deen,

American chef and restaurateur,

born in Albany, Georgia

65- Katey Sagal,

American actress & singer-songwriter (Peggy

Bundy-Married With Children), born in Los

Angeles, California

Historical Obits Today

@92-2013 Stan Musial,

American MLB hall of famer

@86-2000 Hedy Lamarr,

Austrian-American actress (Ecstasy, Samson

& Delilah) and inventor (radio guidance system

for Allied torpedoes)

@84-1990 Myles Horton,

American educator and Civil Rights Movement

teacher

@77-2006 Anthony "Tony" Franciosa [Papaleo],

American actor (Career, Ben-Hur, Jeff-Name

of the Game), dies after stroke

@64-2006 Wilson Pickett,

American R&B singer (Funky Broadway),

dies of a heart attack

@61-2017 Miguel Ferrer,

American actor (Robocop, NCIS LA),

dies of cancer