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Almanac: Week: 05 \ Day: 027
January
Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 52°\L 27°
Ave. humidity: 60% Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind ave:
6mph\Gusts:
17mph
Ave. High: 44° Record High: 61° (2003)
Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: -13° (1979)
Observances
January 27:
Auschwitz
Liberation Day
Holocaust
Memorial Day
International
Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
National
Geographic Day
Punch the Clock Day
Thomas Crapper Day
Viet
Nam Peace Day
Observances This
Week:
25-31
National Nurse Anesthetists Week
World Leprosy Week
Catholic Schools Week
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
Meat Week
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week
National Nurse Anesthetists Week
World Leprosy Week
Catholic Schools Week
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
Meat Week
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week
National
Medical Group Practice Week
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1302 - Dante becomes a Florentine political exile
1662 - 1st American lime kiln begins operation
(Providence RI)
1785 - 1st US state university chartered, Athens
Georgia
1825 - U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in
what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the
Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
1880 - Thomas Edison patents electric
incandescent lamp
1918 - "Tarzan of the Apes", 1st Tarzan
film, premieres at Broadway Theater
1944 - Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days
with 600,000 killed
1947 - Crown Prince Amir
Saud of Saudi Arabia toured the Salt River Valley to obtain ideas for
agricultural development
1948 - 1st tape recorder sold
1967 - Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom,
White & Chaffee
1972 - The British Army and the Irish Republican
Army engage in gun battles near County Armagh
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Stayed up late watching movies last night after a nice dinner with
friends. So today was a lazy day. Netflix put up The Interview. Typical Crazy
Bros movie. Glad I didn’t have to go to a theater…I would have never done that.
A lot of satire, but I sorta get how N. Korea could have been upset. Glad I
watched it but wouldn’t watch it again.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
is this rebus?
QUE___ON
QUE___ON
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
70’s
Inventions…
1975
The laser printer invented
The push-through tab on a drink can invented
Bank
Facts…
--A bank robber named "Pretty Boy" Charles Floyd was
known for destroying mortgage papers on heists, freeing hundreds of people from
property debt.
--Cash machines are as dirty as public toilets.
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
Searching for “binary” in Google Search changes the number of
found results to read out in binary
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS
AGO
A 1940 Hudson along with 10 other vehicles being towed from the
manufacturer in Detroit, Michigan, to Los Angeles was demolished when it
overturned near the Mount Elden CCC Camp. The wrecked car was left with Wilson
Coffin, Inc. The rest went on their way to The Coast.
Harper’s
Index…
3000
Estimated number of times SWAT teams were deployed in the US in
1980
60,000
In 2013
Rules of
Thumb…
AMASSING
A MUSIC COLLECTION
You will not tire of your music
collection if you have 200 CDs or more.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Japanese golfers take out insurance policies against scoring an
ace while golfing, since a player "lucky" enough to get a hole-in-one
is obligated to buy gifts for all his friends.
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Joke-of-the-day
A wise man once said ...... go ask a woman
Yep, It
Really Happened
Sperm whales are one of the largest species of cetaceans, as such
they have few natural enemies, other than man, but they do know how to protect
themselves, and one unfortunate group of divers in the Caribbean found out just
how effective this bizarre defense mechanism can be.
The divers, part of a government approved expedition, were photographing the whale off the small Island of Dominica, when the giant mammal surprised them with a giant underwater poo cloud.
Described as a 'poonado' by Canadian photographer, Keri Wilk, the peculiar behavior is thought to have been evidence of a rarely seen defense mechanism.
The whale managed to create a whirlwind of excrement by spinning on its side and flapping its tail.
"The water was crystal clear, initially, and was the most idyllic Caribbean blue water that you could imagine. Then after a few waves of feces were released and stirred vigorously by the whale, the water was like chocolate milk, I couldn't see my hand when I held it in front of my face."
To make matters worse, Mr. Wilk prefers to dive with just goggles and a snorkel as bubbles from scuba diving equipment tend disturb the whales.
"I had poop in my eyes, mouth, wetsuit, everywhere and I was soaked in it from head to toe."
On the plus side, Wilk said that this very well could be the first time that such an incident has been photographically documented.
The divers, part of a government approved expedition, were photographing the whale off the small Island of Dominica, when the giant mammal surprised them with a giant underwater poo cloud.
Described as a 'poonado' by Canadian photographer, Keri Wilk, the peculiar behavior is thought to have been evidence of a rarely seen defense mechanism.
The whale managed to create a whirlwind of excrement by spinning on its side and flapping its tail.
"The water was crystal clear, initially, and was the most idyllic Caribbean blue water that you could imagine. Then after a few waves of feces were released and stirred vigorously by the whale, the water was like chocolate milk, I couldn't see my hand when I held it in front of my face."
To make matters worse, Mr. Wilk prefers to dive with just goggles and a snorkel as bubbles from scuba diving equipment tend disturb the whales.
"I had poop in my eyes, mouth, wetsuit, everywhere and I was soaked in it from head to toe."
On the plus side, Wilk said that this very well could be the first time that such an incident has been photographically documented.
Somewhat
Useless Information
--In
1953, the Rocket Chemical Company began developing a rust-prevention solvent
called WD-40 for the aerospace industry. The name WD-40 indicates what the
product does (water displacement) and how many attempts it took to perfect it.
--Moby Dick was the favorite book of one of the three founders of the coffee empire Starbucks. He wanted to name the company after the story's fabled ship Pequod, but he and his partners reconsidered and settled instead on the name of the first mate, Starbuck.
--Don and Doris Fisher opened their first GAP store in 1969 to meet the unique clothing demands of customers between childhood and adulthood, identified and popularized then as "the generation gap."
--In 1971, the founders of Nike in Beaverton, Oregon, were searching for a catchy company name. Designer Jeff Johnson suggested Nike, the name of the Greek goddess of victory.
--Eugene the Jeep, a character in a 1936 Popeye comic strip, was actually a dog that could walk through walls, climb trees, and fly. When U.S. soldiers were given a new all-terrain vehicle in the early 1940s, they were so impressed that they may have named it after the superdog.
--The name Shell Oil was appropriated by Marcus Samuel, one of the company's founders. His father ran a London retail outlet called the Shell Shop, where he sold bags decorated with seashells. This grew into an import-export business, which diversified into a business that imported oil and kerosene.
--Moby Dick was the favorite book of one of the three founders of the coffee empire Starbucks. He wanted to name the company after the story's fabled ship Pequod, but he and his partners reconsidered and settled instead on the name of the first mate, Starbuck.
--Don and Doris Fisher opened their first GAP store in 1969 to meet the unique clothing demands of customers between childhood and adulthood, identified and popularized then as "the generation gap."
--In 1971, the founders of Nike in Beaverton, Oregon, were searching for a catchy company name. Designer Jeff Johnson suggested Nike, the name of the Greek goddess of victory.
--Eugene the Jeep, a character in a 1936 Popeye comic strip, was actually a dog that could walk through walls, climb trees, and fly. When U.S. soldiers were given a new all-terrain vehicle in the early 1940s, they were so impressed that they may have named it after the superdog.
--The name Shell Oil was appropriated by Marcus Samuel, one of the company's founders. His father ran a London retail outlet called the Shell Shop, where he sold bags decorated with seashells. This grew into an import-export business, which diversified into a business that imported oil and kerosene.
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Today’s
Events through History
1556 - Willem of Orange becomes a Knight of the
Order of the Golden Fleece
1956 - Elvis Presley's releases the single
"Heartbreak Hotel"
1957 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf
Open
1961 - "Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller]
premieres on NBC TV
1964 - "Introducing the Beatles" album
released in US
1976 - "Laverne & Shirley" spinoff
from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV
1984 - Michael Jackson is burned during
filming for Pepsi commercial
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Birthday’s
Today
Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Riga Latvia, ballet dancer (That's Dancing) is 67
Bridget
Fonda, actress (Scandal, Single White Female) is 51
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Remembered
for being born today
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Austria, musical prodigy (Figaro), 1756-1791@35
Lewis
Carroll, [Charles Dodgson], author (Alice in Wonderland) 1832-1898@65
Samuel
Gompers, American labor union leader (AFL) 1850-1924@74
Jerome
Kern, Broadway composer (Showboat), 1885-1945@60
Hyman G
Rickover, US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy) 1900-1986@86
Troy
Donahue, actor (Surfside Six, Hawaiian Eye) 1936-2001@65
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Historical
Obits Today
Pete
Seeger, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene) and activist, 2014, @ 94
J. D.
Salinger, American novelist, 2010, @91
Jack Paar, American
television show host, 2004, @85
Giuseppe
Verdi, Italian composer, 1901, @77
L Ron
Hubbard, novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), stroke, 1986, @74
Thomas Crapper, English plumber and inventor
(ballcock), 1910, @73
Paul "Bear" Bryant,
US football coach (Alabama), heart attack, 1983, @69
Claude
Akins, actor (Rio Bravo, Lobo), cancer, 1994, @67
Mahalia
Jackson, gospel singer (He Got the Whole World), heart failure, 1972, @
60
André the Giant, WWF wrestler, heart failure, 1993,
@49
Virgil I (Gus) Grissom,
astronaut, Apollo I fire, 1967, @40
Edward
Higgins White II, Lt Col USAF/astronaut, Apollo I fire 1967, @ 36
Roger B
Chaffee, astronaut, Apollo I fire, 1967, @31
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Brain Teasers Answers
It's out of the question.
(The letters I T and S are out of the word "question".)
(The letters I T and S are out of the word "question".)
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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…§
