Saturday 1-29-11

TODAY’s HOLY MACKEREL: 1879 Custer Battlefield National Monument, Montana established


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MY FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
I, like so many other Americans, remember where I was 25 years ago today. I was working at Tonalea Day School. We had worked long and hard to get a satellite dish at the school. We wanted students to be able to watch educational programs. The government bureaucrats didn’t see the necessity of this, while that sat in their offices in Gallup and DC and went home to their own cable TV watching. The dish was finally set up on January 26. We had a TV in the library and three could be wheeled into the gym. The plan was to allow our youngest students to watch Sesame Street every day in the library. We had two kindergarten classrooms and both would easily fit into the library and be able to watch on one of two big—for the time—27” TVs. To inaugurate the system, we were setting up the Space launch live. Most of the teachers remembered watching some of the first lift-offs when they were younger. About 250 students and a staff of 40 watched the disaster unfold. It was one of the most difficult days in my career. It would be several months before we started using the satellite TV for Sesame Street.

The events in Egypt are, I fear, more frightening than most Americans realize. Egypt has been a ‘friend’ of the US for many years. The one thing the Egyptian Muslim citizens have never liked about our ‘friendship’ is our support of Israel. They wonder why Americans are not ever given the Palestinian side of the story. Since 1948 the US has backed a country that took land from Muslims to make Israel. The idea burns deep for them. Now that the Egyptian dictatorship is on the brink of collapse, a non-US friendly regime is certainly a concern. Our government’s stance on these events is being watched by the entire Arab world. After all, most of the recent populous uprisings have been spirited through Facebook and Twitter, both are American phenoms. To further our unique relationship with Egypt, none of the protests are ‘un-American’ or ‘Anti-American’ yet the tear gas canisters that are being used on the protestors are clearly marked “Made in the USA.” Some of the protestors are truly confused by this. Our government claims to believe in democracy and says it supports more democracies throughout the world…as long as they are friendly to our form of democracy. When a population overthrows a dictatorship that is friendly to the US, we support it. If not, we claim it is not really a democratic action. Right now, all we hear is that the demonstrators want an end to the Mubarak regime. Mubarak (82 years old) and his family seem so removed from the people. The protestors haven’t named a new leader they want. This is a very fluid situation for the people of Egypt. That makes it a very fluid situation for the entire world. Any change in this area of the world certainly makes change everywhere in the world. I hope the 80+ million people of Egypt realize that they need America as much as America needs them.

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DID YOU KNOW THAT…
○     The best time to de-gunk the bathroom mirror is in the morning after everyone takes their showers. Once the mirror steams up, wipe it off with a towel. the dirt comes off easily, and you'll save money on cleaners and paper products.
○     Do you have a tomato-stained plastic container? Simply put it in a sunny window or out on the patio and leave it there all day. The sun's rays make a great "bleach".

SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION… Monopoly—the game
○     The three most-landed-on properties in Monopoly are Illinois Avenue. "GO" and the B&O Railroad.
○     The game board streets in original Monopoly are named after streets in the gambling resort city of Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1972, the Atlantic City Commissioner of Public Works threatened to change the names of the real Baltic and Mediterranean Avenues, but public outcry vetoed the bill.
○     Both the Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads are no longer in business. And St. Charles Place was leveled to make room for a casino. In Atlantic City, the game's Marvin Gardens is actually spelled "Marven Gardens."

¤… Who Wants to be a Millionaire PUZZLE
…answers at bottom…
1. Which of these girls' names is also a herb?
Sue Ellen      Pamela      Rosemary      Amanda
2. The face of which actor appears on his own brand of salad dressing?
Tom Cruise      Paul Newman      Sylvester Stallone      Mel Gibson
3. Which green vegetable is associated with Popeye?
Lettuce      Cabbage      Spinach      Zucchini
4. What would you do with a truffle? 
Eat it      Spend it       Wear it      Bury it
5. Who produced the official report on the Clinton and Lewinsky affair?
Kenneth Cole      Cole Porter      Ringo Starr      Kenneth Starr
6. What colour belt do you buy for your outfit when beginning judo classes?
Yellow      White      Green      Black
7. Who first made the liqueur Benedictine?
Monks       Nurses      Crusaders      Sailors
8. In Greek legend, who was sent to fetch the 'Golden Fleece'?
Apollo       Jason      Hermes      Hector
9. What color is the ELEVEN on a 7-ELEVEN store sign?
Green      blue       red      orange
10. What was the first name of the man who invented the Rubik's Cube?
Erno      Emile      Ernst      Arnold
11. In 1913, which skyscraper was considered to be the tallest building in the world?
Empire State Building      Prudential Building       Chrysler Building      Woolworth Building
12. Which trained professional uses a theodolite in the course of his or her work?
Surgeon      Surveyor      Sea Captain      Graphic Designer
13. What is the offspring of a lion and a tigress called?
Tigelon      Ligron      Liger      Tigon
14. Which Gospel writer is the patron saint of Venice?
Mark      Luke      Matthew      John
15. Which cartoon character made his screen debut in 1935?
Porky Pig      Bugs Bunny      Popeye     Pluto

UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM… Los Angeles
Urination plus a colleague's door equals trouble.
That's the hard lesson to take away from the case of a California State University-Northridge math professor, who allegedly urinated on a colleague's door on campus.
Tihomir Petrov, 43, was charged with two misdemeanor counts of urinating in a public place. His arraignment was scheduled for Thursday at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in San Fernando, according to the AP.
School officials' yellow flags went up when they saw what they suspected was urine outside another math professor's door. Petrov was rumored to be in dispute with his colleague, according to school officials.
They allegedly struck gold by capturing an incident on camera in early December.

A LITTLE LAUGH…
Five-year-old Becky answered the door when the census taker came by. She told the census taker that her daddy was a doctor and wasn't home, because he was performing an appendectomy.
"My," said the census taker, "that sure is a big word for such a little girl. Do you know what it means?"
"Sure! Fifteen hundred bucks, and that doesn't even include the anesthesiologist!"

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¤…THIS WEEK…¤
23-29
National Handwriting Analysis Week ◘ National Nurse Anesthetists Week ◘ World Leprosy Week
24-Feb 4
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
¤…TODAY IS…¤
National Corn Chip Day
Curmudgeons Day
Freethinkers Day
National Puzzle Day
National Seed Swap Day
Seeing Eye Dog Day
Thomas Paine Day
World Leprosy Day
Gibraltar: Constitution Day (2006)
US: Kansas
Today’s Births

○ AUTHORS
1923 Paddy Chayevsky US, dramatist (Marty, Hospital)
Germaine Greer, 72, author (Daddy We Hardly Knew You, The Female Eunuch)
1737 Thomas Paine political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason)
○ ATHLETES
Gregory Efthimios (Greg) Louganis, 51, actor, Olympic diver
○ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1850 Ebenezer Howard British pioneer of garden cities
1874 John David Rockefeller Jr philanthropist
○ ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS/…)
1912 Professor Irwin Corey comedian (Car Wash, Doc)
1880 W C Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] actor, "on the whole, he'd rather be in Philadelphia"/actor (My Little Chickadee, Bank Dick)
1918 John Forsythe actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty)
Sara Gilbert, 36, actress (“The Big Bang Theory,” “Roseanne”)
Ann Jillian, 60, actress (“It’s a Living,” The Ann Jillian Story)
Adam Lambert, 29, singer, television personality (“American Idol”)
1915 Victor (John) Mature actor: The Robe, Samson and Delilah
Katharine Ross, 68, actress (The Graduate)
Tom Selleck, 66, actor (“Magnum, PI,” Three Men and a Baby, Mr Baseball)
Oprah Winfrey, 57, television talk show host (“The Oprah Winfrey Show”), actress (The Color Purple), producer (owner of Harpo Studios)
○ POLITICIANS
1843 William McKinley 25th U.S. President [1897-1901]; assassinated six months after the start of his second term
○ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1850 Lawrence Hargrave inventor (box kite)
¤…Today’s Obituaries…¤
1888 Edward Lear British poet/author, heart disease @ 75
1963 Robert Lee Frost US poet (4 Pulitzers), @ 88
¤…Today’s Events…¤
○ ARTS
1845 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" 1st published (New York City NY)
1920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week ($604.30 in 2010USD)with Kansas City Slide Co
1953 1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres
1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
1969 Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars
○ ATHLETICS
1963 Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football hall of fame
○ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1802 John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress He was paid $2 a day ($29.55 in 2009USD--$7365/annum).
1924 Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
1929 The Seeing Eye was incorporated -- in Nashville, TN. Its purpose was to train dogs to guide the blind.
○ INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1832 Folsom's Choctaws finally reach the Kiamichi River area, their new home. Several people, and lots of animals, die while en route. Cholera will strike all of the groups.
○ POLITICS (US)
1834 President Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
1850 Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate
○ POLITICS (International)
1900 Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed
1991 Nelson Mandela & Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet in Durban after 28 years
○ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1921 Hurricane hits Washington & Oregon(known as Great Olympic Blowdown of 1921)
1949 The ship, The Newport News, was commissioned as the first air-conditioned naval ship
1989 Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop

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ANSWERS
¤…Millionaire ANSWERS…¤
1. Which of these girls' names is also a herb? Rosemary
2. The face of which actor appears on his own brand of salad dressing? Paul Newman
3. Which green vegetable is associated with Popeye? Spinach
4. What would you do with a truffle? Eat it
5. Who produced the official report on the Clinton and Lewinsky affair? Kenneth Starr
6. What colour belt do you buy for your outfit when beginning judo classes? White
7. Who first made the liqueur Benedictine? Monks
8. In Greek legend, who was sent to fetch the 'Golden Fleece'? Jason
9. What colour is the ELEVEN on a 7-ELEVEN store sign? Green
10. What was the first name of the man who invented the Rubik's Cube? Erno
11. In 1913, which skyscraper was considered to be the tallest building in the world?
Woolworth Building
12. Which trained professional uses a theodolite in the course of his or her work? Surveyor
13. What is the offspring of a lion and a tigress called? Liger
14. Which Gospel writer is the patron saint of Venice? Mark
15. Which cartoon character made his screen debut in 1935? Porky Pig
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Owl
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Friday 1-28-11

TODAY’s HOLY MACKEREL: 1915 US President Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates

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MY FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
HELP WANTED: Candidate must be able to read ‘insurance language’ AND be able to translate it into Standard English. Employment will continue until employer stops receiving ‘Explanation of Benefits’ for two recent surgeries. Salary is commensurate with employee’s ability to perform task. Employer may or may not have USD to pay for this service…it depends on what the EOB means. Employer does have paper and coin money from England, Scotland, Egypt, South Africa, Namibia, Malaysia, and Borneo. Send resume along with letters of recommendation to employer. Only serious applicants need apply.

It seems that I am one of many Americans who is helping destroy the nation’s forests. Thank goodness I am not really sick, or infirm, or out of my mind—yet. The stack of paperwork has begun. I get that I have to pay all my deductible right away—since both my surgeries were done in early January. What I don’t get is how I am going to be billed. One column says “You Owe the Provider;” then under that it says “…you are not responsible for the difference between the submitted charges and our allowable charges.” If I am not responsible then why does it say ‘you owe the provider’? One of the pathologist and the friggen hospital sent me a bill. Both clearly stated that “You owe this amount”, then said “As a courtesy, we have sent the charges to the insurance provider you provided” and then “the insurance company has not yet paid and YOU are responsible for these charges.” I have a master’s degree in ESL. I learned many ways to make English more comprehensible to non-English speakers. I learned that many languages do not have the passive voice so students have a really hard time understanding sentences in the passive voice. No one teaching classes ever talked about ‘insurance speak’ and how to make it understandable. No classes were offered on the subject. My case is not that serious, and I know it will all work itself out in time. It is no wonder that less educated insurance holders are mystified. We are told that ‘early detection’ is the key to good health. The scare that doctors give you when they find something that is ‘a-typical’ must take a few days off the patient’s biological clock. The insurance paperwork must be taking a few months off the clock. Oh well, I will just sit it out and wait until I get a bill that says ‘final request—unless this is paid within 10 seconds after opening, your account will be turned over to a collection agency.”

My brother had an interesting story today. His wife had to fly from Miami to NYC this morning. Last night she got a txt that the flight was cancelled and she had been re-booked. She got that, weather in NYC and most of the east coast is not favorable for any travel right now. So she called the airline, punched all the right keys and got to a human. She asked if there were any flights from Ft Lauderdale that were going. Yes and Delta would be happy to rebook her on that flight. It is a 40 minutes drive—in Florida to the airport, where the weather is good. They headed out. Upon arrival the desk agent said that there was a flight but that she couldn’t fly on that flight. She and the agent did a little back and forth and finally a supervisor was called. That person finally agreed to let her on the flight. When the plane took off it was only 1/3 full. Laura never got an answer as to why she had all the problems. She made it to her meetings, on time. She is still wondering why she had all the problems.

We had a good lunch today. We started out by going to the new Chipolte that just opened in Flagstaff. It was very crowded so we went somewhere else. I doubt we will go back. One stands in line to watch your food made, then sit at long tables with strangers. It is nice for those who want a quick meal and don’t want to have any conversation with the people you came with. There were lots of college students there and they didn’t have any problem with the seating. We caught up on the week’s news. Mary had a great time in Vegas. She said the Cher concert was amazing with lots of costume changes and great music. She also left Vegas with a few hundred more than she went with. Cheryl is doing well with her healing, still losing weight—over 50lbs—and feels good. She had the handy man fix a bunch of little stuff around her house and is happy with the finished product. So nice to have this weekly lunch.

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DID YOU KNOW THAT…
○     Keep your plants straight! For even growth, give your plant a turn every day or two. It keeps their growth even since the foliage automatically bends toward the light.

SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION…
○     The world’s largest disco was held at the Buffalo Convention Center in New York, 1979. Thirteen thousand folks danced a place into the Guinness Book of World Records.
○     The Carpenters signature song, We’ve Only Just Begun, was originally part of a television commercial for a California bank.
○     The LP (long-playing) record was invented by Paul Goldmark in 1948. More than 10 million LPs are sold every year.

¤… Who Wants to be a Millionaire PUZZLE
…answers at bottom…
1. Which of these is not a country in Africa?
Burkina Faso       Saudi Arabia       Cote D'Ivoire       Botswana
2. What is the last name of the family depicted in the movie 'The Sound of Music'?
Von Plummer       Von Trapp       Von Vanderberg       Von Furstenburg
3. Crazy Horse was a celebrated leader among what people: 
Eskimos       Vikings       Maoris       Native Americans
4. The game of Mah-Jong originated in what country?
China       Japan       England       Russia
5. According to Lesley Gore's hit song, 'It's my party and I'll' what 'if I want to'?
Yell       Kiss       Dance       Cry
6. What nationality is celebrated on St. Patrick's Day?
Mexican       Welsh        American Indian       Irish
7. What chemical is added to the water in swimming pools?
Salt       Ammonia       Sulfur       Chlorine
8. The aircraft called the 'Spruce Goose' was built by which American millionaire?
Howard Hughes       William Randolph Hearst       John D. Rockefeller       David O. Selznick
9. Who wrote the novels that introduced the characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple?
Agatha Christie       H. G. Wells       Ellery Queen       Ruth Rendell
10. What is the Italian word for a square or marketplace?
Pisa       Piazza       Plaza       Presto
11. Which team won the first two Super Bowls?
Minnesota Vikings       Kansas City Chiefs       Green Bay Packers       Chicago Bears
12. What is singer Diana Ross's middle name?
Josephine       Maybelline       Libertine       Ernestine
13. What is the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger called?
Liger       Tiglon       Tigon       Ligron
14. Between which two planets are asteroids chiefly found?
Mars and Jupiter       Neptune and Pluto       Jupiter and Saturn       Saturn and Uranus
15. How many different combinations of dots are possible in Braille?
49      63       75       87

UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM… FLAGSTAFF, AZ (AP)
-- A convicted killer who escaped from an Arizona prison said after his capture that he had planned to overdose on heroin at Yellowstone National Park and let bears eat him to end the fear and panic he was experiencing while on the run.
Tracy Province told Mohave County sheriff's Detective Larry Matthews that he had wanted to go up on a mountain, inject a gram of heroin and "be bear food." As he was preparing the drug, a voice told him not to go through with the plan, and he changed course in favor of trying to hitchhike to Indiana to see family.
"He called it divine intervention," Matthews wrote in an August report.
Al Nash, a spokesman at Yellowstone National Park, said it's certainly possible that Province's plan would have worked, but it struck him as improbable.
"We have a fair number of bears in the ecosystem," Nash said. "They eat about anything. A bear would rather get an easy meal than a difficult meal, but human-bear encounters are very infrequent."
Authorities say Province asked fellow convict John McCluskey and their alleged accomplice, Casslyn Mae Welch, to take him to Yellowstone, so they drove him to the Wyoming park from New Mexico. Province doesn't name anyone else in the interview with Matthews, but it's clear whom he's with.

A LITTLE LAUGH…
A Kentucky State Trooper was patrolling late at night off the main highway.
He sees a couple in a car, with the interior light brightly glowing.
He carefully approaches the car to get a closer look.
Then he sees a young man behind the wheel, reading a computer magazine.
He immediately notices a young woman in the rear seat, filing her fingernails.
Puzzled by this surprising situation, the trooper walks to the car and gently raps on the driver's window.
The young man lowers his window. 'Uh, yes, Officer?'
The trooper asks: 'What are you doing?'
The young man says: 'Well, Officer, I'm reading a magazine.'
Pointing towards the young woman in the back seat the trooper says: 'And her, what is she doing?'
The young man shrugs: 'Sir, I believe she's filing her fingernails.'
Now, the trooper is totally confused.
A young couple, alone, in a car, at night in a lover's lane ... And nothing obscene is happening!
The trooper asks: 'What's your age, young man?'
The young man says: 'I'm 22, sir.'
The trooper asks: 'And her .... what's her age?'
The young man looks at his watch and replies: 'She'll be 18 in 11 minutes..

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DAYBOOK INFORMATION
¤…THIS WEEK…¤
20-30
Sundance Film Festival
23-29
National Handwriting Analysis Week ◘ National Nurse Anesthetists Week ◘ World Leprosy Week
24-Feb 4
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
24-28
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week ◘ National Medical Group Practice Week ◘ No Name Calling Week ◘ National Nuclear Science Week ◘ National Take Back Your Time Week
¤…TODAY IS…¤
Clash Day
Data Privacy
Fun at Work Day
National Kazoo Day
Rattle Snake Round-Up Day
Thank A Plugin Developer Day
Armenia: Army Day
Rwanda: Democracy Day (1961)
Today’s Births

○ AUTHORS..Artists
1582 John Barclay Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon, Argenis)
Acker (Bernard) Bilk, 82, clarinetist, composer: Stranger on the Shore
1912 Jackson Pollock abstract artist (Lavender Mist)
1933 Susan Sontag essayist/novelist/film director (The Benefactor)
○ ATHLETES
Jessica Ennis, 25, British track athlete
○ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1855 William Seward Burroughs New York, inventor (recording adding machine)
○ ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS/…)
Alan Alda (Alphonso D’Abruzzo), 75, actor (Paper Lion, The Four Seasons, “M*A*S*H”), director
1909 Lionel KP "Buster" Crabb British diver (WWII-George Medal), actor
1887 Artur Rubinstein American pianist: played solo for the Berlin Symphony at the age of 12
Elijah Wood, 30, actor (the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Ice Storm)
○ POLITICIANS
1822 Alexander MacKenzie (L) 2nd PM of Canada (1873-78)
Nicolas Sarkozy, 56, President of France
○ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1884 Lucien H d'Azambuja French astronomer (chromospheres of sun)
¤…Today’s Obituaries…¤
1973 John Banner actor (Schultz-Hogan's Heroes), Hemorrhage on 62nd birthday
0814 Charlemagne German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), pleurisy @ 71
1595 Sir Francis Drake English navigator/pirate (Porto Bello West Indies), dysentery @ about 50
1980 Jimmy Durante comedian (Jimmy Durante Show), @ 86
1725 Peter I "the Great" Romanov czar of Russia, gangrene @ 52
1939 William Butler Yeats Irish poet (Nobel), @ 73
¤…Today’s Events…¤
○ ARTS
1973 "Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV
1978 "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV
○ ATHLETICS
1904 1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on University of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them
1934 Robert Royce’s famous invention--ski tow rope--was used for the first time in Woodstock, VT
1990 Super Bowl XXIV San Francisco 49ers beat Denver Broncos, 55-10 in New Orleans
1996 Super Bowl XXX Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17 in Tempe
○ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1851 Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered
1902 The Carnegie Institution was established in Washington DC
1914 Beverly Hills, California, is incorporated
1932 1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted-Wisconsin
○ INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1854 In Oregon, 30 miners attack a peaceful Indian village on the Coquille River. Sixteen Indians are killed.
○ POLITICS (US)
1787 Philadelphia's Free Africa Society organizes
○ POLITICS (International)
1099 1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria
1945 General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell & truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China
○ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1613 Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
1899 American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress
1935 Iceland becomes 1st country to legalize abortion
1960 1st photograph bounced off Moon, Washington DC
1986 Challenger blew up, 1st teacher in space and others lost. 
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ANSWERS
¤…Millionaire ANSWERS…¤
1. Which of these is not a country in Africa Saudi Arabia
2. What is the last name of the family depicted in the movie 'The Sound of Music'? Von Trapp
3. Crazy Horse was a celebrated leader among what people: Native Americans
4. The game of Mah-Jong originated in what country? China
5. According to Lesley Gore's hit song, 'It's my party and I'll' what 'if I want to'? Cry
6. What nationality is celebrated on St. Patrick's Day? Irish
7. What chemical is added to the water in swimming pools? Chlorine
8. The aircraft called the 'Spruce Goose' was built by which American millionaire? Howard Hughes
9. Who wrote the novels that introduced the characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple?
Agatha Christie
10. What is the Italian word for a square or marketplace? Piazza
11. Which team won the first two Super Bowls? Green Bay Packers
12. What is singer Diana Ross's middle name? Ernestine
13. What is the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger called? Liger
14. Between which two planets are asteroids chiefly found? Mars and Jupiter
15. How many different combinations of dots are possible in Braille? 63 There are 6 dots in each Braille 'cell'. Each can be raised or flat, and an all-flat cell does not count. That makes (2*2*2*2*2*2) - 1, or 63 dot combinations.
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Battery

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Thursday 1-27-11

TODAY’s HOLY MACKEREL: 1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game
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I had a great lunch with my former colleague, John. He is busy working for the care giver company and taking care of his grandchild three days a week while his daughter is doing an internship In Fort Mohave. He and his wife have a time-share that they really like. On a recent visit they upgraded for more days, and better selection. The price was higher than they thought, but upon reviewing the documents, they had agreed to the higher price. So John has to work to make the payments. As John said, live and learn. It was a $20k lesson that carried a 17% interest rate if not paid off in 90 days. It is paid off at a 9% interest rate. He is looking forward to his daughter’s graduation, an end to his babysitting, and less work with the care givers group. When she graduates, she wants to work in Tuba so his wife will get a bigger BIA house and the three of them (grandma, mom, and toddler) will live there during the week until Maree retires. She doesn’t like living alone so it should work out fine. Like all people in their 60’s, we shared our medical issues. Neither of us has anything really serious, just complicated and tiresome. John and I are the same age. I got the senior salad for $9.50; John got the same food without the word ‘senior’ and paid $11.75. I pointed it out to him and he related a story from Coco’s. He and one of his elderly clients were having dinner. The client ordered off the senior menu and John decided to do the same. John was shocked that the waitress let him. He is 60; the menu is for those over 55. He thinks he should have at least been carded. I embraced the savings after I retired. John obviously doesn’t….yet.

I also learned today that my BCBS does NOT cover ID bracelets—even with a prescription. So I’m off on the internet to find one I will really wear. There seems to be a good .org place that costs $40 to join and $35 a year after the first year. You get the bracelet and EMT’s have world wide access to your medical history. They also notify your family if something happens. Sounds like a good deal. Of course you have to release your information, and I need to do some more checking to find out how secure it really is. Hopefully I won’t need to use it, but does give peace of mind.

I got a phone call from a company today. Turns out my mother had a small investment I knew nothing about. They emailed me the forms for my brother and I to sign, and then we get the money. The investment has doing well and is now worth about 9% more than it was at the time of her death. I sure wish some of my investments had done that well.

FEAR, I say FEAR…live in FEAR. Note: Sarcasm.The geniuses in Phx have proposed a bill that will allow students and employees to ‘open carry’ on all our college campuses. While campus violence is very scary, is this the answer? There are over 4000 campuses in the US—and that doesn’t include ‘satellite’ campuses. One campus, Virginia Tech, had a mass violence crazy in 2009. While that was tragic and unnecessary, the friends and family of the lost students want justice and prevention. I want prevention too. The idea of arming students and instructors is NOT the answer. I was on the adjunct faculty of two universities—NAU in Flagstaff and UofPhoenix. I taught many classes on the Rez. Many were full 18 week classes meeting one evening a week, others were weekend ‘wonder’ classes that did a marathon Friday night and all day Saturday and Sunday (8a-5p). I was teaching in the isolate heart of the rez. Many equally qualified would not ‘go onto the rez’. I can’t imagine ever, ever carrying a loaded gun to any of the places I taught. As a student, I took classes in Boulder and Flagstaff. I would have freaked if an instructor had walked into class carrying. The more guns there are, the chance that an innocent will be injured or killed increases. As a student, there were other students in the class who should never even see a gun, let alone carry one. I wonder how many legislators will want their child in a classroom where people are carrying. Sometimes instructors provide their students with controversial material to expand their minds. I sure don’t want students carrying in those classes. In my student teaching days I introduced to my 6th graders a program that had students read, without stopping, for up to 20 minutes. It was, back then, called uninterrupted silent sustained reading. My mentor and I were called into the Principal’s office with my university instructor. The principal had received a complaint that I was a communist and was teaching his daughter to be a communist. Being from a fairly liberal university the principal needed some clarification. After about 10 minutes in total disbelief, we all learned what the parent was talking about. Uninterrupted Silent Sustained Reading had an acronym—USSR. The intelligent educators were astounded, as was I. We worked it out; I continued to use the program by changing the name to TSSR—timed reading. Thank goodness the parent didn’t come to the school to shoot the commie. Times do change and not always for the better.

I still keep remembering that there were two people at the Tucson tragedy with loaded weapons. The crazed shooter and a citizen who believed in open carry and had a gun. He drew his gun and was ready to shoot but didn’t because ‘it didn’t feel right.’ He was about to shoot the man who had gotten the gun away from the crazy. I just don’t have enough faith in humanity to believe that every open carry individual would have this guy’s senses. I am not ready to find out.

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DID YOU KNOW THAT…
○     Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
○     Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION…
○     12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
○     A mistake made by doctors in 2006 cost a 47 year-old Los Angeles man his healthy right testicle. They where suppose to remove the left one!

¤… Who Wants to be a Millionaire PUZZLE
…answers at bottom…
1. When it gets dark out and you need to see, what do you turn on?
a dime      your heel      the charm      a light
2. When we wish to verify that everything is all right, we say that it's what?
IL      WA      OK      KO
3. One who isn't feeling well is said to be under the what?
Sun      thumb      weather      gun
4. Taking food along to eat outdoors is called what? 
an ant fest      a cake walk      a bee bash      a picnic
5. When animals come into the country from foreign lands, they are usually held by customs for a specified time in what?
Quarternary      quarantine      quarterage      quantum state
6. Henry Ford once said, 'Failure is the opportunity to __________.'
begin again, more intelligently           throw in the towel
lie down and die                                bounce back for more
7. A period of warm weather following the first frost of autumn is called what?
Irish spring      Dog days of summer       French fall       Indian summer
8. Who wrote 'The Mists Of Avalon'?
J.K. Rowling      Marion Zimmer Bradley      Jean M. Auel      Johanna Spyri
9. What is the canopy used in a Jewish wedding called?
Chutzpah       chuppah       choson        chrain
10. The four fundamental forces in physics are strong, electromagnetic, gravitational and what?
weak       limp       puny       Herculean
11. Which explorer coined the phrase 'New World'?
Francisco Pizarro       Ferdinand Magellan       Hernan Cortes       Amerigo Vespucci
12. The USS Cole was refueling on October 12, 2000 when it was blown up by a boat loaded with explosives off what country?
Yemen       Qatar        Oman        Iraq
13. Pate is the French word for what?
Paste        blend       couch        liver
14. What is fulgurite?
a flashing star        a tube like formation in sand or rock caused by lightning
a full bodied wine from southern France         an odorless gas used in lamps
15. Which president said, 'Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be'?
Harry Truman       James Madison       Calvin Coolidge       Abraham Lincoln

UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM… ROME — The body of Mike Bongiorno, who was Italy's top quiz show host for more than 50 years and a close friend of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, was stolen from his grave, officials said Tuesday.
Bongiorno, who died in September 2009 at the age of 85, was buried in Arona, near Milan. A pensioner who regularly visits the cemetery alerted police that the grave had been violated and emptied. Italian media said no ransom had been demanded so far.
Bongiorno, a fixture in Italian television since its first broadcast in the 1950s, helped Berlusconi launch commercial television in the 1970s.
It is not the first time that the body of a famous personality has been snatched in Italy.
In 2001, in a cemetery near the one where Bongiorno was buried, the corpse of investment banker Enrico Cuccia was stolen and a ransom demanded. The thieves were identified and arrested.

A LITTLE LAUGH…
Because my mother had a habit of losing her cordless phone, I bought her a phone with a clip on it so she could attach it directly to her belt. A few days later, I walked into my mother's home and found her standing in the middle of the living room, halfway dressed. That didn't strike me as odd so much as the fact that she was holding her pants to the side of her head and speaking into them.
"Don't look at me that way," she yelled. "The phone started ringing and I couldn't figure out how to undo this stupid clip!"

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¤…THIS WEEK…¤
20-30
Sundance Film Festival
22-25
Kid Film Festival
23-29
National Handwriting Analysis Week ◘ National Nurse Anesthetists Week ◘ World Leprosy Week
24-Feb 4
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
24-28
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week ◘ National Medical Group Practice Week ◘ No Name Calling Week ◘ National Nuclear Science Week ◘ National Take Back Your Time Week
¤…TODAY IS…¤
Punch the Clock Day
Auschwitz Liberation Day
Holocaust Memorial Day
International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
Mozart Day
Thomas Crapper Day
Viet Nam Peace Day (1973)
Mauritius: Cavadee: a Tamil legend—the road to faith is long and full of pitfalls
Today’s Births

○ AUTHORS
1832 Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], author (Alice in Wonderland)
1885 Jerome Kern the father of the American musical: composer: Show Boat, Ol’ Man River, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Lovely to Look At, The Way You Look Tonight, The Last Time I Saw Paris
1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austria, musical prodigy/composer (Figaro)
○ ATHLETES
1901 Art Rooney NFL team owner (Pittsburgh Steelers)
Keith Olbermann, 52, TV sportscaster, MSNBC guru
(Anthony) Cris Collinsworth, 52, sportscaster, football (Bengals)
○ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1850 Samuel Gompers Dutch/US, 1st president-American Federation of Labor
1908 William Randolph Hearst Jr newspaper publisher (Hearst Publishing)
○ ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS/…)
Mikhail Baryshnikov, 63, ballet dancer, actor
1936 Troy Donahue actor (Surfside Six, Cockfighter, Hawaiian Eye)
1918 Skitch Henderson English orchestra leader (Tonight Show)
1921 Donna Reed (Mullenger) actress: From Here to Eternity, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Benny Goodman Story, The Donna Reed Show
1919 David Seville [Ross Bagdasarian], entertainer (Alvin & Chipmunks)
1924 Sabu [Dastagir], India, actor (Elephant Boy, Drum)
○ POLITICIANS
Mairead Corrigan (Máiread Corrigan-Maguire and Mairead Maguire), 67, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, born Belfast, Northern Ireland
John G. Roberts, Jr, 56, Chief Justice of the US
○ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1900 Hyman Rickover ‘Father of the Nuclear Navy’: U.S. Navy Admiral: directed development of the Nautilus, the first nuclear reactor-powered submarine
¤…Today’s Obituaries…¤
1994 Claude Akins actor (Rio Bravo, Lobo), cancer @ 75
1967 Roger B Chaffee astronaut, @ 31 in Apollo I fire
1967 Virgil I (Gus) Grissom astronaut, @ 41 in Apollo I fire
1972 Mahalia Jackson gospel singer (He Got the Whole World), diabetes/heart failure @ 60
1967 Edward Higgins White II Lieutenant-Colonel USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4), @ 36 in Apollo I fire
¤…Today’s Events…¤
○ ARTS
1918 "Tarzan of the Apes", 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater
1961 "Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV
1976 "Laverne & Shirley" spin-off from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV
1977 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV
○ ATHLETICS
1984 Carl Lewis bettered his own two-year-old record by 9-1/4 inches when he set a new, world indoor record with a long-jump mark of 28 feet, 10-1/4 inches.
1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
○ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1662 1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI)
1785 1st US state university chartered, Athens GA
1870 1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw University in Greencastle IN)
1948 1st tape recorder sold
1970 Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"
○ INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1863 General Patrick Connor, and almost 300 California volunteers will fight Bear Hunter's Northern Shochone on Bear River, north of the Idaho-Utah boundary. The soldiers will report 224 of the warriors will be killed in the fighting, including Bear Hunter. Other sources will put the number nearer to 400, including many women and children. Connor is called "Star Chief" by the Indians. This will be called the "Battle of Bear River" by the Army.
○ POLITICS (US)
1915 US Marines occupy Haiti
○ POLITICS (International)
1556 Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies
1710 Czar Peter the Great sets 1st Russian state budget
1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square
1969 14 spies hung in Baghdad
○ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1880 Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp
1888 National Geographic Society organizes (Washington DC)
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ANSWERS
¤…Millionaire ANSWERS…¤
1. When it gets dark out and you need to see, what do you turn on? a light
2. When we wish to verify that everything is all right, we say that it's what? OK
3. One who isn't feeling well is said to be under the what? weather
4. Taking food along to eat outdoors is called what? a picnic
5. When animals come into the country from foreign lands, they are usually held by customs for a specified time in what? quarantine
6. Henry Ford once said, 'Failure is the opportunity to __________.' begin again, more intelligently
7. A period of warm weather following the first frost of autumn is called what? Indian summer
8. Who wrote 'The Mists Of Avalon'? Marion Zimmer Bradley
9. What is the canopy used in a Jewish wedding called? chuppah
10. The four fundamental forces in physics are strong, electromagnetic, gravitational and what? weak
11. Which explorer coined the phrase 'New World'? Amerigo Vespucci
12. The USS Cole was refueling on October 12, 2000 when it was blown up by a boat loaded with explosives off what country? Yemen
13. Pate is the French word for what? paste
14. What is fulgurite? a tube like formation in sand or rock caused by lightning
15. Which president said, 'Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be'? Abraham Lincoln
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Wednesday 1-26-11

TODAY’s HOLY MACKEREL: 1913 Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for being a pro

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MY FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
OK, so my follow up went good. He stuck the flashlight up my nose and down my throat. He seems to be really intrigued whenever he does this. It has a name: pachylaryngitis—a condition not even mentioned on the internet. It means something about ‘thick skin’ in the larynx. He keeps saying he wished I could see it and appreciate how unusual it really is. He says that it probably has a genetic trigger. Whatever…the ID tag will simply say ‘difficult intubation’…not nearly as exotic as I had hoped. But something even a new EMT would understand, I hope. He actually gave me a prescription for the bracelet. I get a blood check in about 3 weeks to see if I have to use any meds and see him again in three months. I still have the strips on my neck and he said to just let them fall off on their own, but that I was healing well. He also said that he again reviewed my gall bladder and they had ‘some’ trouble with the breathing tube, but said they probably just brushed it off as a ‘bad day’ thing. He said, now with three difficult procedures it really isn’t just a ‘bad day’ thing. He says it isn’t anything to worry about, just exciting to look at and watch. OK then. I’ll see tomorrow what the insurance company pays for. He did comment again on what an upbeat attitude I have. I asked him if we wanted me to come in more melancholy, I added that since there wasn’t anything I could do to fix this, why should I be upset? He just laughed and added he wished all of his patients had my attitude. I saw what he meant, sort of, when a teenager and her mom came in after me. The girl needed to have her tonsils removed. She acted like it was the end of the world. She was almost in tears as she and her mom filled out the forms. One would have thought she had just been told that she was going to have her neck removed and that she would be disfigured for the remaining three weeks of her life. Her mom seemed to think that her perfect little girl was somehow no longer perfect. Her words of comfort were ‘honey…there won’t be a visible scar.’ A comment like ‘you won’t be having sore throats, or missing your cheerleading practice when this is over’ would have been much better. I must say that the office staff is one of the happiest, friendly, professional group I have ever visited. There are four people in the outer office. They always look busy and are smiling even when no one is watching. Very nice to be at an upbeat office.

I keep forgetting it is winter. I am a little tired of the chilly and dry weather. But for winter, this was a great day. I still have some snow-ice on the front sidewalk but can get around it with no trouble so am not going to try and break it up. Enuf snow has melted that I did find 5 small silver ball ornaments from the two outdoor Christmas trees. That is a good sign that some snow is melting. Much still remains near the house but nothing like the amount from last year.

As I was waiting to see the ENT, I was checking headlines on my phone. Egypt is in a definite crisis. When I was there a couple of years ago, I was surprised at the locals view of their government. President Mubarak had been in office about 30 years. He is an elected dictator. I heard comments like ‘that’s the government, not the people.’ ‘He is the leader and that’s the way it is.’ Well today, following the Tunisian events, that may change. It is a little scary to see pictures of places I stood a few years ago, now rimmed by armed military that are shooting rubber bullets and tear gas. This is not yet a nationwide uprising and most of the events are taking place in the populated areas. Also interesting is that when the ‘call for prayer’ is sounded, the demonstrators and the military stop and pray. This is a difficult time for all Egyptians and my hope is that it will remain peaceful and no lives will be lost. Sadly the government has cut off Twitter in the country. That is never a good sign.

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DID YOU KNOW THAT…
Whenever you repair something or take it apart, tape the nuts, bolts or screws to the object so that you won't misplace any tiny pieces.

SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION… Library Part II
○     The second trend was the "circulating" library, which also developed in the late 1700s. These were often housed in bookstores or print shops, and rented out books. They offered popular materials such as the latest fiction, including that 18th century innovation - novels. What was probably the first circulating library was opened by William Rind of Annapolis, MD, in 1762. It only lasted two years, but the idea caught on.
○     Horace Mann, secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, was responsible for the third trend - school district libraries. Mann pushed for school libraries in the 1830s, raising a basic question: After we educate our children, what do they have to read? Educators and eventually legislators looked to the school district library (funded through taxes) to provide reading for adults as well as children.
○     The first library to combine those three principles was the town library of Peterborough, New Hampshire, founded in 1833. The state had collected taxes to start a state college, but the effort fizzled and the money was allocated among various towns to support education. Peterborough decided to use some of the money to purchase books for a town library--a publicly owned institution, free to all residents. The idea apparently proved popular; in 1849, New Hampshire became the first state to pass a law permitting local taxesto support public libraries.

¤… Who Wants to be a Millionaire PUZZLE
…answers at bottom…
1. How many colors are in a rainbow, according to a popular memory aid?
2      7      12      19
2. Which of these words has the most different letters ?
Teeth       Hundred      Science      Scissors
3. Which of these men is most commonly associated with World War II?
Adolf Hitler       Saddam Hussein      Bill Gates       Chris Sawyer
4. What country is the Taj Mahal located in?
India       Pakistan      China       Argentina
5. What cookie's slogan is 'America's Favorite Cookie'?
Chips Ahoy       Oreo       Keebler      Droxies
6. In terms of size, what is the largest U.S. State?
Texas      Montana      California      Alaska
7. What would be the correct thing to do secondly on an average combination number lock?
Clockwise directly to number          
Turn the arrow once 360 degrees counterclockwise, then go to number
Turn arrow 360 degrees clockwise, then go to number          
Turn arrow clockwise 3 times around, then go to number
8. What does the S in Ulysses S. Grant's name stand for?
Nothing       Soldier       Simpson       Stark
9. In what country is the Kalahari desert primarily located?
Sudan      South Africa       Oman       Lesotho
10. How did drummer John Bonham of Led Zeppelin die?
Alcohol      Food poisoning      Drugs       Suicide
11. What part of the human body does phrenology study?
earlobe       lungs      skull       tonsils
12. What number does the Book of Revelations in the New Testament primarily focus on?
Six       Three       Seven        Nine
13. What country's longest river is the Vltava?
Oman         Ukraine          Czech Republic         Papua New Guinea
14. Who played the part of Archibald in the original broadway cast of 'The Secret Garden'?
Robert Westenberg      Tom Wopat       James Cameron        Mandy Patinkin
15. What is the molecular formula of monosaccharide sugar?
C6, H12, O6           C6, H6, O12           C12, H6, O12            C6, H12, O12

UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM… MIAMI
— A grand piano recently showed up on a sandbar in Miami's Biscayne Bay, about 200 yards from condominiums on the shore. The piano, which weighs at least 650 pounds, was placed at the highest spot along the sandbar so it doesn't get underwater during high tide.
While officials aren't sure how it got there, they know it won't be going anywhere unless it becomes a hazard to wildlife or boaters.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Jorge Pino says the agency is not responsible for moving such items. And, he adds, unless it becomes a navigational hazard, the U.S. Coast Guard won't get involved.
For now, the piano has become a fancy roost for seagulls.

A LITTLE LAUGH…
After doctors set my broken arm and put a cast on it, I paid the bill and went on my way. Shortly thereafter, I received a bill from the hospital, this time for the $1.57 they claimed I still owed.
Apparently to prove that this was a hospital with heart, they included a payment book. It had me paying 3 cents a month for four years.

¤…CLOSEUP PICTURE
Can you identify this close up picture
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¤…THIS WEEK…¤
20-30
Sundance Film Festival
22-25
Kid Film Festival
23-29
National Handwriting Analysis Week ◘ National Nurse Anesthetists Week ◘ World Leprosy Week
24-Feb 4
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
24-28
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week ◘ National Medical Group Practice Week ◘ No Name Calling Week ◘ National Nuclear Science Week ◘ National Take Back Your Time Week

¤…TODAY IS…¤
Australia Day: since 1838 when British took over; also called Day of Mourning for indigenous people
Cockroach Race Day
Lotus 1-2-3 Day
National Peanut Brittle Day
Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement: legendary as a day to connect with people through the heart
Dominican Republic: Duarte's Day/Dia de Duarte: Father of Dominican Republic
India: Republic Day (1950)
Uganda: Liberation Day
US: Arkansas: General Douglas MacArthur Day
US: Michigan: Admission Day (1837: 26th state)
Today’s Births

○ AUTHORS / ARTISTS
1786 Benjamin Robert Haydon painter (Waiting for The Times)
1831 Mary Mapes Dodge writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates)
1804 Eugane "Marie Joseph" Sue France, novelist (Wandering Jew)
○ ATHLETES
Wayne Gretzky, 50, Hall of Fame hockey player
Robert George (Bob) Uecker, 76, sportscaster, former baseball player, actor
○ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
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○ ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS/…)
Ellen DeGeneres, 53, comedienne, actress (“Ellen”), television personality
1915 William Hopper actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason)
1928 Eartha Kitt singer/actress (Catwoman-Batman)
1925 Paul Newman Academy Award-winning actor: director: race car driver; salad dressing and spaghetti sauce maker
1946 Gene Siskel movie critic (Siskel & Ebert)
Eddie Van Halen, 56, guitarist
1913 Jimmy Van Heusen (Edward Chester Babcock) Academy Award-winning composer: Swinging on a Star [1944], All the Way [1957], High Hopes [1959], Call Me Irresponsible [1963]; wrote the music to over 75 songs for Frank Sinatra with lyricists Johnny Burke and Sammy Cahn: My Kind of Town, Second Time Around
1905 Maria Augusta von Trapp Austrian singer, inspired "Sound of Music"
○ POLITICIANS
Angela Davis, 67, political activist
1826 Julia Dent Grant 1st lady (1869-77)
1880 Douglas MacArthur General of the Army (WWII), born in Little Rock
1904 Sean MacBride Irish statesman/Amnesty International co-founder (Nobel '74)
○ SCIENCE & RELIGION
Father George Harold Clements, 79, Roman Catholic priest, civil rights leader
¤…Today’s Obituaries…¤
1983 Paul "Bear" Bryant college football coach, heart attack @ 69
1893 Abner Doubleday credited with inventing baseball, on 74th birthday
1992 José Ferrer Puerto Rico, actor/director (Cyrano de Bergerac), @ 80
1949 Victor Fleming director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), heart attack @ 65
1993 Jan Gies Dutch resistance fighter (helped Anne Frank), @ 87
1824 Edward Jenner discoverer (vaccination: smallpox) @ 73
1962 Charles "Lucky" Luciano ( Salvatore Lucani )Mafia gangster, heart attack @ 65
1973 Edward G Robinson [Goldenberg], actor (Little Caesar), @79
1979 Nelson Rockefeller former Vice President & 4 time Governor of NY, heart attack @ 70
1998 Shinichi Suzuki music teacher (Suzuki Method), @ 99
1932 William K Wrigley owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs) @ 70
¤…Today’s Events…¤
○ ARTS
1911 Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
○ ATHLETICS
1956 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
1977 Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai & Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift, Helsinki
1980 Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4½ minutes
○ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1850 1st German-language daily newspaper in US published, New York City NY
1905 World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa
○ INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1875 As many as 40 "Mexican Indians-cattle thieves" allegedly attack a corporal, and 4 soldiers from troop G, ninth cavalry, 18 miles from Ringgold Barracks, Texas. Two of the troopers are killed in the attack. Col.Edward Hatch, and troops B, and G, 9th Cavalry, capture several of the suspects. A coroner's jury will find 9 "Mexicans" guilty of murdering the troopers.
○ POLITICS (US)
1784 Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over the eagle as America's symbol
1802 Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library
1861 Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede
1915 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established
○ POLITICS (International)
1952 Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
1992 Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
2004 President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
○ SCIENCE & RELIGION
0066 5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
1875 Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green

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ANSWERS
¤…Millionaire ANSWERS…¤
How many colors are in a rainbow, according to a popular memory aid? 7 (The memory aid is 'ROY G. BIV' or 'Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain')
Which of these words has the most different letters ? Hundred
Which of these men is most commonly associated with World War II? Adolf Hitler
What country is the Taj Mahal located in? India
What cookie's slogan is 'America's Favorite Cookie'? Oreo
In terms of size, what is the largest U.S. State? Alaska
What would be the correct thing to do secondly on an average combination number lock?
Turn the arrow once 360 degrees counterclockwise, then go to number
What does the S in Ulysses S. Grant's name stand for? Nothing
In what country is the Kalahari desert primarily located? South Africa
How did drummer John Bonham of Led Zeppelin die? Alcohol
What part of the human body does phrenology study? skull
What number does the Book of Revelations in the New Testament primarily focus on?  Seven: In the Book of Revelations, the number seven is used fifty-four times total. The only real mention of six would be in the number 666, which is the number of the beast. In Revelations, there are seven churches, seven spirits, seven stars, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven vials, seven personages, seven dooms, and seven new things.
What country's longest river is the Vltava? Czech Republic
Who played the part of Archibald in the original broadway cast of 'The Secret Garden'? Mandy Patinkin
What is the molecular formula of monosaccharide sugar? C6, H12, O6
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