Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. – Harold B. Melchart
TODAY – JANUARY 10th – TUESDAY
10th day of 2012 with 356 to follow.
Holidays for Today:
*Bittersweet Chocolate Day
*Peculiar People Day
*Volunteer Fireman’s Day
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BIRTHDAYS ON THIS DATE:
- 1638 Nicolas Steno, Copenhagen, Danish geologist, the father of geology and stratigraphy
- 1729 Lazzaro Spallanzani, Scandiano, Italian biologist, known for Interpreting digestion, saying that it is a process of chemical solution, and helping disprove the concept of spontaneous generation.
- 1738 Ethan Allen, Litchfield, Connecticut, Revolutionary War fighter (led the Green Mountain Boys)
- 1890 Grigory Landsberg, Vologda, Russian physicist, a co-discoverer of inelastic combinatorial scattering of light used now in Raman spectroscopy
- 1898 Katharine Blodgett, Schenectady, New York, scientist and inventor (invented low-reflectance “invisible” glass)
- 1916 Sune Bergström, Stockholm, Sweden, biochemist (Nobel / discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances)
- 1928 Philip Levine, Detroit, Michigan, poet (The Bread of Time)
- 1936 Robert Woodrow Wilson, Houston, Texas, co-discoverer of cosmic microwave background radiation (Nobel prize Physics 1978)
- 1938 Donald Knuth, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, mathematician and computer scientist (father of the analysis of algorithms)
- 1940 Harry Gant, Taylorsville, North Carolina, retired NASCAR driver (#33 Skoal Bandits car)
- 1943 Jim Croce, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, singer/songwriter (Time in a Bottle, Bad Bad Leroy Brown)
- 1944 William Sanderson, Memphis, Tennessee, actor (Painted Forrest , Deadwood, Avatar)
- 1944 Frank Sinatra, Jr., Jersey City, New Jersey, singer (“Tales of a Third Grade Nothing” )
- 1949 George Foreman, Houston TX, world HW boxing champ (1973-74, 95)
- 1953 Pat Benatar, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, singer (Love Is a Battlefield, Hit Me with Your Best Shot, We Belong and Heartbreaker)
- 1961 Evan Handler, New York, New York, actor, author & leukemia patient advocate (Time On Fire: My Comedy of Terrors, story of his recovery from Acute myeloid leukemia in his mid-twenties)
- 1961 Janet Jones, Bridgeton, Missouri, actress (Annie, Staying Alive and Snow White Live )
- 1973 Ryan Drummond, Lima, Ohio, voice actor (best known as the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog in the popular Sega video game)
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. – Abraham Joshua Heschel
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HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS:
- 49 BC Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
- 1776 “Common Sense”, by Thomas Paine, published.
- 1861 American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
- 1870 John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
- 1901 The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
- 1916 Erzerum Offensive during World War I, Russian victory over Ottoman Empire
- 1920 The League of Nations holds its first meeting, and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles, therefore ending World War I.
- 1922 Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
- 1929 Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, made his debut. This comic strip was eventually published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages.
- 1929 The Ring-tailed Lemur is officially listed at the type species for the genus Lemur by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) when it published Opinion 122, even though the genus originally described lorises.
- 1941 Lend-Lease is introduced in the U.S. Congress.
- 1949 RCA introduced the “single”, the 7-inch diameter 45 rpm record in the U.S. A
- 1962 Apollo Project: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket booster. It became better known as the Saturn V moon rocket, which launched every Apollo moon mission.
- 2000 America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history at the time.
- 2003 Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois’ death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
- 2005 A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
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Last year I entered a marathon. The race started and immediately I was the last of the runners.
It was embarrassing.
The guy who was in front of me, second to last, began making fun of me. He said, “Hey buddy, how does it feel to be last?”
I replied, “You really want to know?”
And then I dropped out of the race.
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ONE-LINERS: Bloopers from actual hospital charts
The patient refused autopsy.
The patient has no previous history of suicide.
Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital.
Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.
On the second day the knee was better and on the third day it disappeared.
The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed.
The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993.
Discharge status: Alive but without permission.
Healthy appearing decrepit 69-year old male, mentally alert but forgetful.
Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.
She is numb from her toes down.
While in ER, she was examined, x-rated and sent home.
The skin was moist and dry.
Occasional, constant infrequent headaches.
Patient was alert and unresponsive.
Rectal examination revealed a normal size thyroid.
She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life, until she got a divorce.
I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy.
Both breasts are equal and reactive to light and accommodation.
The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.
Skin: somewhat pale but present.
The pelvic exam will be done later on the floor.
Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities.
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pic of the day: Sunshine and Fog
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WARNING! ENTERING THE PUN ZONE!
“How’s your new job at the library?”
“Not all that great. I may quit.”
“Why? What don’t you like?”
“I’m in the periodicals department. I can’t stand working with the people there, they’re dealing with so many issues.”
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A guy is unloading garbage out of his pickup into a ditch. The Sheriff drives up and hollers, “What are you doing?!? Can’t you see that sign right over your head?”
“Yep. That’s why I’m dumpin’ it here. The sign says, ‘Fine For Dumping Garbage’.”
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An American, a Japanese man, and a man from a Botswana are in a sauna. There is a ringing sound the American makes his hand into a phone shape, whispers, “Phone call,” to the other two men, and answers it.
Then, there’s a beeping noise the Japanese man taps his wrist several times, and says, “I’m being IM’ed.”
The Botswana man goes to the bathroom, and when he comes back, there’s toilet paper trailing from his behind. The American says, “You know, uh, you have some toilet paper back behind…”
“I’m getting a fax.”
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TODAY IN TRIVIA: It’s PECULIAR DAY!
If you are peculiar, this is your day to be honored and prized. Chances are, you will find something peculiar about yourself, if you look hard enough. If you can’t find anything peculiar about yourself, then give some recognition and appreciation to your quirky friends and family.
Peculiar People Day is in honor of uniquely different, Un-ordinary, extraordinary, unusual, strange, odd, uncommon, intriguing, different, abnormal, and quirky people.
Flower of the Day: Freesia
Today’s Recipe: Chicken ala King
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QUIP OF THE DAY: A watched pot never boils. – Gaskell
THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!
Thought for the day. . .
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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