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Jan
28, 2019 Week: 04 \ Day: 28
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Today: H 50° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind: 3mph\Gusts:
6mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 63°[1986] Record
Low: -13°[1918]
Jan
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Today’s Quote
Our entire life –
consists
ultimately in accepting ourselves
as we are.
Jean Anouilh
Random Tidbits
Abbreviations
No.
Why is "No." the abbreviation for
"number," since there is no "O" in the word? Well, there
may not be an "O" in number, but there is one in the Latin word
numero, which is where the English word comes from.
Lb
How did the letters "L" and
"B" get to be the abbreviation for "pound"? It has to do
with the origins of the word. The English word "pound" originates
from an ancient Roman unit of measurement called a Libra pondo, meaning "a
pound by weight." "Pondo" became the English word
"pound," while the "Libra" provided the origin for the
"lb" abbreviation.
MO
If you've ever described someone's mannerisms
or habits by saying, "That's his MO!" without knowing what the M and
the O stand for, you're not alone. It comes from the Latin modus operandi,
meaning "method of operating," and was originally used to describe
the behavior of criminals.
Observances This Week
24-2/3
Sundance Film Festival
Catholic Schools Week
Meat Week
National Medical Group Practice Week
Tax Identity Theft Week
US Nationals Snow Sculpting Days
Observances for Today
Grammy Awards
National Kazoo Day
National Blueberry Pancake Day
National Pediatrician Day
Rubber Duckie Day
Thank A Plugin Developer Day
Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
My Rambling Thoughts
We had a very
good discussion group, and we added two new members so 2019 is looking good.
While doing the
reading and enjoying the discussion I had an aha! Moment:
Prior to the end
of WWII most diplomacy and
conflicts were
seen as a Win-Lose dilemma. For
example, after
WWI the winners punished the
losers
economically and politically. Then at the
end of WWII,
things changed, and the winners
decided to try a
WIN-WIN diplomacy. While
there were
restrictions on Germany and Japan,
the winners also
worked to fix the underlying
issues in those
countries so that the whole
world would
benefit. This has been the
underlying philosophy
for conflicts since WWII.
45 has lived and
continues to live his life with a
win-lose
philosophy. There can be only one
winner in any conflict
and therefore all others
lose.
Our national
diplomats must figure out how to deal with these two opposing philosophies.
Many of us who are not happy with the current leadership style must figure out
a way to deal with these two opposing philosophies. Until that time, conflict
will continue.
Should be a good
week ahead.
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1600’s
1624 Sir Thomas
Warner founds the first English
colony in the Caribbean, on Saint
Kitts.
1671 British
pirate Henry Morgan captures Panama
City from its Spanish defenders
1700’s
1724 The Russian
Academy of Sciences founded in
St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and
implemented in a Senate decree. Called
St.
Petersburg Academy of Sciences until
1917.
1800’s
1813 Jane
Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is
published by Thomas Egerton in the
United
Kingdom
1851 Northwestern
University (Chicago) chartered
1878 Yale Daily
News published, 1st college daily
newspaper
1887 In a
snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the
world's largest snowflakes are
reported, being
15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm)
thick.
1887 Work begins
on the Eiffel Tower in Paris
1900’s
1902 Carnegie
Institute founded in Washington, D.C.
1915 The United
States Coast Guard is created by
merging the US Life Saving Service
& the US
Revenue Cutter Service
1915 US President
Woodrow Wilson refuses to
prohibit immigration of illiterates
1933 The name
"Pakistan" is coined by Choudhry
Rahmat Ali and gradually accepted by
Muslims
in the Indian sub-continent who use it
to push
for a separate Muslim homeland in
South Asia
1934 1st US ski
tow (rope) begins operation
(Woodstock, Vermont)
1949 UN Security
council convicts Dutch
aggression in Indonesia
1958 The Lego
company patents their design of
Lego bricks, still compatible with
bricks
produced today
1981 Olympic
Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas,
spills 1 million gallons of oil in a
ship collision
1984 Record
295,000 dominoes toppled in Fuerth,
West Germany
1986 Space
Shuttle Challenger explodes 73
seconds after liftoff from Cape
Canaveral, with
all 7 crew members killed, including
Christa
McAuliffe who was to be the first
teacher in
space
2000’s
2013 Iran’s
Pishgam rocket successfully completes
a return trip of sending a monkey into
space
2017 US President
Donald Trump and Australian PM
Malcolm Turnbull have a contentious
phone
call over deal for US to take 1,250
refugees
Birthdays Today
1225 Saint Thomas
Aquinas,
Italian
theologian and saint, born in
Roccasecca, Italy
(d. 1274)-@48±, injury while
traveling
1706 John
Baskerville,
English printer
(typeface inventor)
(d. 1775)-@68
1841 Henry Morton
Stanley,
Welsh journalist
and African explorer
(found
Livingstone in Africa),
born in Denbigh,
Wales
(d. 1904)-@63
1890 Robert
Stroud,
American convict,
"Birdman of Alcatraz",
born in Seattle
Washington
(d. 1963)-@73
1912 Jackson
Pollock,
American
expressionist painter (Lavender
Mist), born in Cody, Wyoming
(d. 1956)-@44,
auto accident
1929 Acker Bilk,
English
clarinetist who was part of the
traditional jazz
revival of the 1950s and 1960s,
born in Pensford, Somerset (d. 2014)-@85
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83- Alan Alda,
[Alphonso
D'Abruzzo],
American actor
(Hawkeye Pierce-M*A*S*H),
born in NYC
79- Carlos Slim,
Mexican business
magnate (América Móvil)
once ranked as
the richest person in the world,
born in Mexico
City, Mexico
42- Joey Fatone Jr.,
pop singer
(NSYNC)
38- Elijah Wood,
American actor
(Good Son, The Lord of the
Rings), born in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Historical Obits Today
@87-1991 Harold
"Red" Grange,
football's galloping
ghost
@81-1996 Jerry
Siegel,
comic book writer
(Superman)
@74-2016 Signe
Toly Anderson,
American singer,
founding member of
Jefferson
Airplane,
dies of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
@74-2016 Paul
Kantner,
American rock
singer and guitarist (Jefferson
Airplane),
dies following a
heart attack
@71-814
Charlemagne,
German
emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814)
@63-1973 John
Banner,
Austrian-born
American actor (Hogan's
Heroes, Lone
Ranger, 36 Hours),
dies of a
abdominal hemorrhage
@55-1547 Henry
VIII,
King of England
(1509-47),
dies of gout?, scurvy?
@50-1596 Francis
Drake,
English pirate,
Admiral and Governor of
Newfoundland
(Porto Bello West Indies),
dies of dysentery
@37-1986 Christa
McAuliffe,
American teacher,
dies in the Challenger
space shuttle
disaster
