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FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 2021 On This Date 1851 – The Canadian government abolished primogeniture, wherein Quote of the Day the eldest son inherited all of the “We will open the book. deceased father’s property. Going Its pages are blank. We are forward, if there was no will, all property would be divided equally going to put words on them among the children. ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first 1899 – Canada agreed on the chapter is New Year’s Day.” Imperial Penny Postage. Using this stamp, a letter could be delivered ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce anywhere within the British Empire for two cents. 1947 – Canadian citizenship, as a status separate from British nationality, Happy New Year! was created by the Canadian New Year’s Day was originally Citizenship Act. observed on March 15, since this was 1975 – Product labeling using the considered the beginning of spring. metric system was introduced. It The date was changed to January was one more step in a transition to 1 in 153 BC when metric that began in 1970. Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and the guardian of Daily Trivia doors and entrances, was placed at the The song “Auld Lang Syne” head of the calendar. was composed by Robert Burns Pictured looking in sometime in the 1700s. The both directions, Janus symbolizes term means “old long ago.” the progression of the past to the future.

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RIDAY ANUARY F , J 1, 2021

Today is First Foot Day. The first foot is the first person to enter your home in the new year, a visitor considered to bring good fortune. In Scottish tradition,

a tall, dark-haired male is considered the be the luckiest first footer.

Root of the Matter 50 Years Ago Today

Cutting corners On this day 50 years ago, the

If someone is caught cutting corners, last cigarette commercials were then they have attempted to reach broadcast on television. Seconds their goal in the cheapest, quickest, before midnight, during a commercial easiest, and often most unreliable break for Johnny’s Carson’s Tonight way possible. This expression Show, an ad aired for Virginia Slims. originated in the 1800s In April of 1970, Congress passed and referenced the the Public Health Cigarette Smoking driving of horses and Act, which banned cigarette ads carriages. Horses that on TV and the radio. The tobacco cut corners, or turned too quickly industry had spent more than around a corner and ended up pulling $150 million per year on television the carriage onto the curb, were in advertising. The ban was a financial danger of overturning their carriage blow to the tobacco industry and and causing an accident. Here, haste the networks that relied on tobacco was equated with a dangerous ad revenue. practice. The phrase was later applied to automobiles. Word Scramble

E U N T B E L R C U Punny Business

Coffee has a rough time in our A state of agitated or

tumultuous movement

TURBULENCE house. It gets mugged every ANSWER: single morning!

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2021 On This Date 1492 – The Spanish forces of King Quote of the Day Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I captured the province of Granada “Now, God be praised, from the Moors. This “re-conquest” I will die in peace.” ended 781 years of Moorish rule. ~ James Wolfe 1813 – In York, England, Ned Ludd and his followers were placed on trial for destroying automated looms used in textile factories. They Happy Birthday! blamed their unemployment on the James Wolfe (1727–1759) was a use of such machinery. In modern British general who captured Québec usage, Luddite is a term describing in the French and Indian War. In those opposed to technology. September 1759, he led his army of 4,400 up a steep cliff to the Plains of Abraham above Québec. The British Did You Know? troops surprised the French, who had considered the cliff unclimbable, and Because of its high altitude, nearly defeated them in an open battle, now non-existent cloud cover, dry air, known as the Battle of the Plains and lack of light pollution and radio of Abraham. Wolfe and the French interference, the Atacama Desert in commander were both killed during northern Chile is the site of several the battle. Wolfe’s premier astronomical observatories. body was returned to The Atacama will be home to Britain and interred the Giant Magellan Telescope in the family vault in (GMT), which is currently under St. Alfege Church, construction and will be the largest Greenwich. He is optical telescope in the world when known as “the Hero it is completed in 2025. of Québec.”

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ATURDAY ANUARY S , J 2, 2021

Today is World Introvert Day, so if you’re an introvert, feel free to celebrate by staying at home by yourself. Studies show that introverts make smart, savvy, and

confident leaders, despite their reputations as timid homebodies who shun others.

Who Am I? Only Human

At age eight, I was kidnapped from my Time might fly when you’re having home in West Africa and shipped to fun, but it can also drag slowly. Boston on a slave ship. A family Scientists believe that purchased me for use as a servant, but our sense of time they also taught me history, literature, might be related to and how to read and write in Latin and how tired our brain cells are. When Greek. My first poem was published in people are sleep deprived, some a local newspaper when I was 13 years neurons in the brain slow down, old. In 1773, I published an entire leading to delayed responses to things book of poems, with a preface written going on around us. Researchers by John Hancock. In doing so, I observed neuron activity in became the first African American and volunteers. As neurons slowed down, first enslaved person in America to participants estimated that things felt publish a book of poetry. George like they took a lot longer than they

Washington even invited me to visit actually did. In their perception, time

Wheatley Phillis him. Who am I? ANSWER: was crawling by slowly. Time might

not be objective at all, but a subjective experience based on the perceptions Buy a Vowel of the individual.

S _ R _ N _ Riddle Me This

Calm and peaceful What animal has more lives

times. of

SERENE

ANSWER: ANSWER: than a cat?

Frogs. They croak millions millions croak They Frogs. ANSWER:

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 2021 On This Date 1863 – The first covered skating Quote of the Day rink in Canada opened in Halifax’s “A room without books is like Horticultural Gardens. a body without a soul.” 1938 – U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the March ~ Cicero of Dimes to fight polio. Roosevelt himself had suffered with the disease. 1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company Happy Birthday! introduced the world’s first electric Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 BC–43 BC) watch, the Hamilton Electric 500. was a celebrated Roman philosopher, “The watch that never needs winding” lawyer, and statesman from the final was an instant hit. years of the Roman Republic. Born into a wealthy family in Arpino, Italy, Cicero’s legendary oratory skills were well-known in Rome. He was also prominent in many 1992 – After 46 years, the Miss other fields, including politics, Canada Pageant was canceled. writing, and law. His success in the Organizers cited changing times and courtroom, particularly for taking on escalating costs. and winning difficult Daily Quiz cases, made him a very popular figure Q: What is the difference between in his time. He was bronze and brass? elected consul of the A: Bronze is an alloy of copper Roman government and tin. Brass is an alloy of copper in 63 BC and soon and zinc. Bronze dates back to after helped thwart a coup, which about 3500 BC. Brass dates earned him the title Pater Patriae, back to about 500 BC. or “Father of the Country.”

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UNDAY ANUARY S , J 3, 2021

Today is J. R. R. Tolkien Day, celebrating the birthday of the renowned fantasy author on this day in 1892. Lovers of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings can

join the Tolkien Society, a group dedicated to promoting Tolkien’s life and works.

Centennial Memories 25 Years Ago Today

On this day 100 years ago, the very On this day 25 years ago, the very first weather report was broadcast first clamshell “flip” phone went on over the radio on the University sale for $1,000. At the time, Motorola’s of Wisconsin’s 9XM radio station. StarTAC was the smallest mobile In 1915, the U.S. Department of phone available on the market, and Commerce granted the university an it quickly became the experimental radio station license industry standard. Motorola with the call sign 9XM. In 1916, the was so sure that consumers station began transmitting weather would love the clamshell reports in Morse code, requiring design that its initial farmers to translate the dots and magazine ad campaign featured an dashes into meaningful information. actual-sized cardboard pullout that In 1921, after the invention of readers could detach from the page to a “radiotelephone,” the first see for themselves how small the weather broadcast was sent using phone was. The StarTAC sold spoken words. 60 million units, and the clamshell design became the model for many Word Wise competing mobile phones. Which word is not like the others? Name Three balderdash dictum

Can you name three U.S. states that

malarkey bunkum

pronouncement; the others mean untruths. mean others the pronouncement; begin with the letter I?

Illinois, Idaho Illinois,

A dictum is a formal formal a is dictum A

ANSWER: ANSWER: Iowa, Indiana, Indiana, Iowa, : S ANSWER POSSIBLE

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MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2021 On This Date 1847 – Samuel Colt sold 1,000 Quote of the Day six-shot revolver pistols to the Texas “I grew really fast. It’s true Rangers. It was his first large sale I went from 5’6” to 6’1” in and allowed him to expand his six months in eighth grade.” business. Before long, he was one of the richest men in America. ~ Dot-Marie Jones 1903 – Thomas Edison, a backer of direct current (DC), sought to demonstrate the dangers of alternating Happy Birthday! current (AC) by electrocuting Topsy, Dot-Marie Jones, born in 1964, is a a circus elephant. The 15-time arm wrestling world champion. elephant had killed The stellar strength, softball, and an abusive trainer. track athlete set records in the shot The execution was put at her alma mater, California filmed and viewed State University, Fresno, and won by audiences across her first arm wrestling championship the country. at age 19. Jones is also an accomplished 2010 – At 2,722 feet, Burj Khalifa actress who starred became the tallest skyscraper in the in Glee, the popular world. It is located in Dubai, United Fox musical sitcom, Arab Emirates. as Coach Beiste, a Did You Know? role that earned her many award nominations, including In 1894, Dr. John Kellogg, the Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy superintendent of the Battle Series three years running, from 2011 Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, to 2013. Jones also received accolades accidentally invented for her work on the teen shows Lizzie corn flakes. McGuire and Material Girls.

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ONDAY ANUARY M , J 4, 2021

Today is Hansel Day. The first Monday was celebrated as Hansel Monday in Scotland, a day when hansels, or small tips or gifts of money, were traditionally

given. The word hansel derives from a word meaning “to deliver into the hand.”

Wild Kingdom Think-tionary

Last October, the “queen of the ocean” frangible was found in the waters off the coast of A. Easily broken into small pieces Nova Scotia, Canada. An OCEARCH or research team studying the marine life of sharks, seals, and dolphins found a B. Able to be inflated or enlarged

50-year-old female great white shark with air

that is more than 17 feet long and toys. frangible such with play to allowed NSWER: A. Children should not be be not should Children A. NSWER:

weighs a whopping 3,541 pounds. The A scientists named her Nukumi, after a When Was It? legendary wise old grandmother figure of the local Mi’kmaq people. It was during this year that Oceanographers were blown away by the first mass inoculation the shark’s massive size and are against polio was conducted. enthusiastic about all the wisdom she RCA built the earliest color will share in the years to come. television set. Hank Aaron debuted with the Milwaukee Braves. Bell Labs Whatchamacallit? created a solar-powered battery What do you call a group of… made from silicon. Roger Bannister buffalo? became the first person to run a sub-four-minute mile, and the band drove U.S. Supreme Court ruled that

bevy gang “separate but equal” schools were

GANG

ANSWER: unconstitutional. When was it? 1954 ANSWER:

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1889 – The word hamburger first appeared in print in the Walla Walla “For a comedy to work, Union, a newspaper from Walla magic has to happen.” Walla, Washington. The name comes from a German food called ~ Bradley Cooper hamburg steak—which means “from Hamburg,” not that it contains ham. Happy Birthday! 1914 – Henry Ford astonished the world by offering a $5 per day Bradley Cooper, born in 1975, is minimum wage. Labor turnover an American actor, director, and dropped so much producer. His first part was as a love that he stopped interest on Sex and the City. He then bothering to measure had a supporting role on the ABC spy it. To be eligible, show Alias but didn’t hit it big until workers needed to starring in 2009’s The Hangover. conduct their lives Since then, Cooper has become an in a manner deemed appropriate by accomplished filmmaker, and his the “Sociological Department.” projects have grossed over $11 billion. 1986 – Edmonton Oilers star Wayne Some of his hit films Gretzky became the first NHL player include Silver Linings to score 100 or more points in seven Playbook, American consecutive seasons. Sniper, and Joker. Celebrity Trivia Cooper also directed, wrote, and starred in 2018’s A Star Is Born—a Robert Duvall is a skilled tango remake of the classic drama. He dancer and owns tango studios earned accolades for the film’s chart- in Argentina and in the topping song, “Shallow,” which he United States. sings with Lady Gaga.

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UESDAY ANUARY T , J 5, 2021

Today is Whipped Cream Day, in honor of Aaron “Bunny” Lapin, the creator of Reddi-wip whipped cream. You can make homemade whipped cream using

whipping cream (with 35% milkfat) or heavy cream (with 36% or more milkfat).

50 Years Ago Today Gadgets & Gizmos

On this day 50 years ago, the Harlem Globetrotters lost a game to the New Jersey Reds, halting a 2,495-game winning streak. Fans might have noticed that something was off with the Globetrotters. The game was being played more like a real basketball contest as opposed to a fun and showy exhibition. The Reds CINEMOOD is a portable projector began to run up the score and it that fits in the palm of your wasn’t until two minutes remained hand. Marketed toward kids’ that the Globetrotters realized they entertainment, the three-inch cube were down by 12 points. Their comes preloaded with shows and comeback fell short and they lost movies so that parents can turn any 100–99. Kids cried. Fans booed. surface into a movie screen. The Red’s owner Red Klotz said it was device is also WiFi-enabled, so “like we’d just killed Santa Claus.” families can stream content from their favorite subscription channels. Word Scramble Riddle Me This S R P I C Y Why is England the wettest country

Thin, dry, and easily broken years for there

CRISPY

ANSWER: ANSWER: in the world?

Because the queen has reigned reigned has queen the Because ANSWER:

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2021

Quote of the Day “For in the dew of little things Three Kings’ Day, the heart finds its morning or Epiphany and is refreshed.” The Three Kings (also known as the ~ Kahlil Gibran Three Wise Men)—Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar—saw the star over Bethlehem where Christ was born. They followed it to find the baby. A feast celebrated on January 6, Happy Birthday! Epiphany (sometimes called Three Kings’ Day), is the climax of the Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931), a poet, Christmas season and the end of the philosopher, and artist, was born in Twelve Days of Christmas, which Lebanon but made are counted from December 25. the United States Epiphany is celebrated as “Little his home during the Christmas” in many countries. last 20 years of his life. The Prophet, 1877 – McLean’s opened the first a collection of 26 flour mill in Manitoba. Wheat was prose poems, is the quickly replacing fur as Manitoba’s author’s best-loved book. Especially main product. popular with the counterculture Say That Again movement of the 1960s, The Prophet remains famous to this day, with According to the Guinness Book of passages often read at weddings World Records, the most difficult and christenings. Gibran is the third tongue twister is “The sixth sick best-selling poet of all time, behind sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.” Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2021

Today is Technology Day, celebrating the innovations that transform society. What innovations might occur in the decades to come? Scientists are developing

concrete that can “fix” itself, tactile holograms, and floating farms.

Picture of the Day You Are What You Eat

In the 1700s, large numbers of Scottish immigrants settled in Charleston, South Carolina. They brought with them the Scottish crab and rice soup known as partan bree. The immigrants had no choice but to change the recipe ingredients and adapt their beloved bisque to the blue crabs of South Carolina. “Just try chucking it. It always Another of the changes to partan seems to work with wood; why bree was the addition of the not a computer?” orange-hued crab eggs, or roe, of the female blue crabs, known Now it’s your turn to come up colloquially as “she crabs” by with a good caption. fisherman. This roe gives she-crab Word to the Wise soup its signature pinkish-orange color and boosts the flavor. The word hothouse once meant a gardener’s greenhouse, where plants Buy a Vowel could be quickly grown in the winter. The term now means a place that _ M _ G _ N _

encourages the development of new Form a mental image

IMAGINE and innovative thinking. A campus is ANSWER: a perfect hothouse for ideas.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2021 On This Date 1610 – Galileo described telescopic Humor of the Day observations in which he saw four of Jupiter’s “How pleasant is the day moons. Discovery when we give up striving to of celestial bodies be young—or slender.” orbiting something ~ William James other than Earth dealt a blow to the geocentric theory, which proposed that everything Happy Birthday! orbits Earth. Sir Sandford Fleming (1827–1915) 1911 – Mary Pickford, one of the was a prolific Scottish-born Canadian most popular of the early Hollywood engineer and inventor. He was the film stars, married actor Owen “Father of Standard Time” and Moore. The troubled marriage lasted designed Canada’s first postage nine years. stamp, the Three-penny Beaver. 1924 – Twenty-six-year-old composer Fleming also promoted the use of George Gershwin began composing the 24-hour clock. Additionally, “Rhapsody in Blue,” which combines he served as chief engineer of the elements of classical music with Northern Railway jazz-influenced effects. of Canada and tirelessly advocated Daily Trivia for the construction of iron bridges When the mummy of Ramses II instead of wood for was sent to France in the mid-1970s, safety reasons. His it was issued a passport. accomplishments were well-known Ramses’ occupation? worldwide, and Queen Victoria “King (deceased).” knighted him in 1897.

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HURSDAY ANUARY T , J 7, 2021

Today is Harlem Globetrotter’s Day. On this day in 1927, the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team played their first game in Hinckley, Illinois. The

team was not actually from Harlem; it was founded in Chicago.

Eye in the Sky The Games People Play

The U.S. Navy recently admitted that The sport of parkour, which involves they were baffled by flying objects speedy and efficient movement seen and captured on film by their through an obstacle course, pilots. The sightings were deemed began with the volcanic so critical to national security that eruption of Mount Pelée the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena on Martinique in 1902. (UAP) Task Force was established French naval lieutenant to investigate. In some instances, George Herbert watched as objects accelerated from 100 g-forces the Caribbean locals evacuated over to thousands of g-forces, more the fallen debris with grace and speed, acceleration than a human pilot could while the Europeans were clumsy and survive. The speeding objects created slow. This inspired Herbert to develop no air disturbance and no sonic boom. a unique system of movement for the The Navy wants hard scientific data to French military. In 1988, Raymond explain the phenomena. Belle, a retired French Special Forces veteran, transformed the training

Word Wise into the sport of parkour, where Which word is not like the others? participants run, climb, swing, jump, roll, and vault over obstacles. hops grapes Riddle Me This

cardamom kiwi

plant; the others grow on vines. on grow others the plant; What happened when the red ship Cardamom grows on a tropical tropical a on grows Cardamom

ANSWER: ANSWER: crashed into the blue ship?

marooned. got crew The ANSWER:

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1815 – Réne-Robert Cavalier, sieur de La Salle reached Niagara Falls “They put me on television. And using a portage route established by the whole thing broke loose. It the Iroquois to bypass the rapids. was wild, I tell ya for sure.” 1869 – The first suspension bridge ~ Elvis Presley over the Niagara Gorge at Niagara Falls was opened to traffic. 1889 – Inventor Herman Hollerith Happy Birthday! patented the electric counting Elvis Presley (1935–1977) was the machine, which used punch cards to singer and cultural phenomenon encode data. known as “The King.” A pioneer 1951 – Eighteen nesting pairs of of the rockabilly sound, Presley Bermuda petrels, a bird thought to be scored his first of many No. 1 hits extinct, were discovered in Bermuda. with 1956’s “Heartbreak Hotel.” His rebellious charm and 2004 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, the provocative dance largest ocean liner ever built up to moves captivated a that time, was christened by Queen generation, making Elizabeth II at Southampton. him the best-selling solo artist of all time. Daily Trivia Elvis won a Grammy While exploring the Lifetime Achievement award at the Malay Archipelago, young age of 36. The singer starred Alfred Wallace in dozens of music-driven films, collected over including Jailhouse Rock and Girls, 126,000 specimens, Girls, Girls! His TV concerts Elvis most of which (1968) and Aloha From Hawaii Via were beetles. Statellite (1973) were smash hits.

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RIDAY ANUARY F , J 8, 2021

Today is Winter Skin Relief Day. Cold temperatures cause the skin to dry out. Hot showers strip skin of its essential oils. Instead, use warm water and

follow up bathing with skin moisturizers. Drinking water keeps you hydrated.

Garden Party Root of the Matter

Amorphophallus titanium, or the titan The elephant in the room arum, is a plant that has one of the If someone avoids talking about the largest flowers in the world, growing elephant in the room, it means up to nine feet tall. Buds do not appear every year. that they are deliberately avoiding an In many instances, the enormously difficult subject. This plant must grow and die imagery was first used in 1814 when for nine years before it the poet Ivan Krylov wrote a fable flowers. Just because the about a man who visited a natural flower is big does not history museum and noticed the mean it smells nice. The smallest details of the tiniest animals titan arum is one of the corpse but failed to notice the elephant. The flowers. Its massive bloom stinks of phrase evolved to mean a problem or rotting flesh, attracting beetles and fact so large and obvious that it could other pollinators for the 48 hours in not be ignored. By the 1950s, the which it is open. This unique flower is elephant was used as a metaphor to only found in the wild rainforests of express a taboo or unspoken subject. western Sumatra, Indonesia. Who Said So? Word Scramble This British theologian and writer of P E R V O P A fantasy said, “Miracles do not, in

Officially agree or accept fact, break the laws of nature.”

Lewis S. C. ANSWER: APPROVE ANSWER:

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2021 On This Date 1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard made Humor of the Day the first successful balloon flight in “So many singers want to act, the U.S. Spectators included George and so many actors Washington, John Adams, Thomas try to sing.” Jefferson, and James Madison. These early flights triggered a “balloonmania” ~ Crystal Gayle fad when all manner of objects were decorated with balloon images. 1838 – The “Boulevard du Temple,” a Happy Birthday! photograph taken by Louis Daguerre, Crystal Gayle, born in 1951, is a is thought to be the first to include singer best known people. When the photo is enlarged, for her country-pop a man can be seen having his shoes shined by a sidewalk vendor. crossover anthem “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.” Gayle had many hits on the country charts in the 1970s and ’80s, including “Wrong Road Again” and “Too Many Did You Know? Lovers.” Known for her almost floor- In Japan, noodles are slurped length hair, she was voted one of somewhat loudly when eaten. This People magazine’s 50 most beautiful indicates the food is delicious and people in 1983. She is the sister of also cools down the hot noodles. singers Peggy Sue Wright and Loretta Lynn and is married to her high school sweetheart, Bill Gatzimos. The couple has two children. The Grammy Award winner was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2017.

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ATURDAY ANUARY S , J 9, 2021

Today is Balloon Ascension Day. On this day in 1793, French inventor Jean Pierre Blanchard conducted the first balloon flight in the Americas

in Philadelphia. George Washington was on hand to watch the demonstration.

Only Human Where Am I?

A new study explains that men grow This ancient city on a hill was once beards as a natural cushion to absorb the capital of the Spanish empire punches and protect the jaw from before the royal court moved to Madrid harm. Scientists conducted in the 1500s. Outside the walls of the experiments demonstrating city, I visit the Roman circus, the that facial hair does indeed ancient entertainment complex built reduce the force of impact in the first century, where locals would from a punch. The watch chariot races. I then climb the researchers equated men’s beards to winding, cobblestoned streets to the the manes of male lions. Charles city’s hilltop, dominated by the Darwin postulated that lions evolved Alcázar, a massive fortress. From this to grow manes as a means of hilltop, I can see the city’s famous protection. The researchers went so far gothic cathedral, considered by as to theorize that this evolutionary many to be the most magnificent in facial protection is why facial hair is Spain. This city is also famous for its also associated with masculinity, sword making, thanks to a secret steel aggressiveness, and social dominance. alloy that has been used for centuries.

Where am I?

pain S Toledo, ANSWER: Buy a Vowel

N _ M _ R _ _ S Punny Business

Great in quantity Somebody stole all my lamps, and I NUMEROUS ANSWER:

couldn’t be more de-lighted.

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 2021 On This Date 1863 – The world’s first underground Quote of the Day railway opened to the public in London. Its wooden cars were pulled by “Give me golf clubs, fresh air, steam engines. Soon it was carrying and a beautiful partner, approximately 40,000 passengers a and you can keep the clubs day. London’s “tube” still ranks as and the fresh air.” one of the greatest metro systems in ~ Jack Benny the world.

Happy Birthday! Gisèle MacKenzie (1927–2003) was 1962 – NASA announced plans to an accomplished singer and violinist build the C-5 rocket, who trained at the which launched every Royal Conservatory Apollo moon mission. of Music in Toronto. Known as the Saturn V She moved to Los rocket, it remains the Angeles in 1951 tallest, heaviest, and and appeared on most powerful rocket numerous radio and ever launched. television shows such as Your Hit Parade, The Jack Benny Program, Daily Trivia and The Ed Sullivan Show. Her The large furniture company named best-selling song was 1955’s “Hard to Ethan Allen Inc. was founded in Get.” MacKenzie also performed in 1932 and chose its name because of musical theater shows such as Mame, its line of early-American furniture. Gypsy, The Sound of Music, and Hello, It has no other connection to the Dolly! Her daughter is contemporary historical figure Ethan Allen. jazz artist Gigi MacKenzie.

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UNDAY ANUARY S , J 10, 2021

Today is League of Nations Day. On this day in 1920, the League of Nations was created. This international diplomatic group, a precursor to the United Nations, was

created after World War I as a means of solving disputes and avoiding war.

Wild Kingdom Think-tionary

adynamia Last July, residents of Zehlendorf, Germany, were left scratching their A. The technical term for “writer’s heads after a crime spree left many block,” or the inability to think residents without their slippers, imaginatively or creatively sandals, and sneakers. The mystery or was solved by resident Christian Meyer when he spotted a fox dashing B. Lack of strength or energy due

through town with a flip-flop in its to a disease

worse. grew only adynamia my

NSWER: B. As my illness progressed, progressed, illness my As B. NSWER: mouth. Meyer followed the fox and A found a stash of over 100 missing shoes. This isn’t the first time a fox Toys of Yesteryear has pilfered footwear. In 2014, a fox in Leeds, England, began stealing In 1968, the Mattel toy company hoped shoes and leaving them in the to capitalize on the space toy craze and backyard of Elaine Hewitt. Hewitt the countercultural movement with put a shoe rack outside her home so Blippy, an alien in a music box. Blippy is people could reclaim their shoes. seen playing with his alien friends on a distant moonscape, riding a polka dot Word Scramble dinosaur, and carrying flowers with a lady friend. I N E W L K T

Sadly, this “far out”

Shine with a flickering light psychedelic jack-in-the-box

TWINKLE ANSWER: didn’t play Jimi Hendrix or the Grateful Dead.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2021 On This Date 1878 – In New York, milk was delivered for the first Daily Humor time in glass bottles. Up “I’ve always been asked, to that time, the milkman ‘What is my favorite car?’ had ladled it out of his and I’ve always said, container directly into the ‘The next one.’” customer’s container. ~ Carroll Shelby 1922 – At Toronto General Hospital, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson became the first person to receive an insulin injection as treatment for diabetes. His condition improved Happy Birthday! dramatically, and pharmaceutical Carroll Shelby (1923–2012) was a companies were given legendary automotive designer, racing the license to produce the driver, and entrepreneur. He is best remedy free of royalties. known for his involvement with the By 1923, insulin had Ford Motor Company, become widely available, developing the AC saving countless lives Cobra and Mustang, around the world. which came to be Did You Know? known as Shelby Mustangs. Shelby had Although he lived a full life, Carroll an exceptional racing career, setting Shelby suffered from heart problems 16 speed records and winning the 1959 since childhood. He established the 24 Hours of Le Mans, becoming just Carroll Shelby Children’s Foundation the second American to do so. He to cover medical bills of children was named Sports Illustrated’s driver who have heart disease but are of the year in 1956 and 1957. He unable to pay for treatment. retired from driving in 1959.

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ONDAY ANUARY M , J 11, 2021

Today is Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day. On this day in 1838, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail, the inventors of Morse code, conducted the first public

demonstration of the electric telegraph in Morristown, New Jersey.

Gadgets & Gizmos You Are What You Eat

Wander the streets of East and South London and you are bound to find a pie, mash, and eel shop. Pie and mash is a traditional English comfort food that was common amongst the working class of the 19th century. Minced beef wrapped in a pastry shell was served with mashed potatoes and a side of jellied eels. The The adjustable Neck Smartphone dish is traditionally covered with a Mount allows you to enjoy video thin green parsley sauce known as chatting, taking selfies, or watching liquor, although no kind of liquor is videos on your smartphone without used as an ingredient. Often, the having to hold it for hours. The mount liquid used to make the liquor is the is designed to hold the phone at the broth left over from boiling the eels. perfect angle and is padded at the neck for comfort. Who Said So?

Buy a Vowel This accomplished children’s book author and sculptor said, _ N _ M _ R _ T _ “The gain is not the having of

children; it is the discovery of

Mention things one by one

love and how to be loving.” : ENUMERATE : ANSWER

Berends Berrien Polly ANSWER:

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2021 On This Date 1879 – The British-Zulu War began Quote of the Day when British troops under Lieutenant “Courage, after all, is not being General Frederic Augustus Thesiger invaded Zululand from the southern unafraid, but doing what needs African republic of Natal. After to be done in spite of fear.” suffering initial defeats, the British ~ James Farmer turned the tables on the Zulus in the battle of Ulundi the following July. 1984 – Archaeologists halted efforts Happy Birthday! to restore the pyramids because water in modern cement was causing James Farmer (1920–1999), was a damage to nearby limestone blocks. celebrated civil rights activist who They then successfully adopted a championed an approach based system of interlocking blocks used on non-violent resistance. Born in by the original pyramid builders. Marshall, Texas, the son of a teacher and 2012 – Haiti was struck by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed a minister was an more than 250,000 people and badly exceptional student damaged the capital of Port-au-Prince. and debater who entered college at Daily Trivia age 14. He became When a specimen of the platypus was a key leader of the first sent to England, it was believed Civil Rights Movement alongside Australians had played a joke by Martin Luther King Jr. Farmer sewing the bill of a duck onto a rat. organized the transformative 1961 Freedom Rides and was a founder of the Congress of Racial Equality. His debating prowess was chronicled in the 2007 Denzel Washington film The Great Debaters.

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UESDAY ANUARY T , J 12, 2021

Today is Kiss a Ginger Day. Why are redheads called “gingers”? Some think the term comes from ginger-flavored foods, which have an auburn hue and fiery taste.

Others point to the sitcom Gilligan’s Island, where the redhead was named Ginger.

Fashion of Yesteryear Eye in the Sky

During the Crimean War of the 1850s, NASA’s TESS satellite, or the British soldiers were introduced to Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, Turkish tobacco. Suddenly, smoking is normally used to hunt for planets became a popular English pastime, in the galaxy, but it recently spotted with men retreating to smoking rooms something more dramatic: a to enjoy their pipes and cigars. Men “cataclysmic phenomenon known as began wearing dedicated a tidal disruption event.” Astronomers smoking jackets, made watched as a black hole tore apart a with plush materials and star. When a star strays too close to a designed to fall to the black hole, the black hole’s massive mid-thigh. They were gravitational power causes the star to thought to absorb the smoke odors pull apart into a stream of gas. While and protect the clothing from falling the tail of gas escapes into space, the ash. Smoking jackets remained rest of the broken star circles the black popular in England and abroad well hole in a disk of debris. into the 1950s. Fred Astaire was famously buried in his. Word Wise

Which word is not like the others? What’s in a Name? wasp scorpion This soccer player, considered the

greatest of all time, was born cobra stingray

creatures have stingers. have creatures

Edson Arantes do Nascimento.

venomous; the other other the venomous; is cobra A ANSWER:

Pelé : ANSWER

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2021 On This Date 1957 – The Wham-O Company Quote of the Day produced the first Frisbee. In the “I can always remember the 1960s, the company dances, even from shows came out with a $119 I did 40 years ago.” do-it-yourself bomb shelter. In addition, the ~ Gwen Verdon company introduced the Hula-Hoop, Slip ’N Slide, Super Ball, Happy Birthday! and Trac Ball. Gwen Verdon (1925–2000) was an 1979 – The YMCA filed a copyright acclaimed Broadway actress and infringement suit against the Village dancer who won four Tony Awards People for its song “Y.M.C.A.” for her work. The iconic redhead The suit was settled out of court, was an influential muse of legendary and the Association subsequently director-choreographer Bob Fosse, said that it celebrated the song’s who was also her positive message. second husband. Movie Quiz Verdon’s mother put her in ballet What 1933 movie has the Q: classes at age three word soup in its title? to combat leg A: Duck Soup, starring the Marx deformities caused Brothers. Filled with zany antics by a case of rickets as a toddler. She that the Marx Brothers did so more than overcame her physical well, the movie is famous for its challenges, becoming a celebrated hilarious, much-copied battle scene. dancer on stage and screen. Among Groucho plays the incompetent her many accomplishments, Verdon King of Freedonia, who wages war originated the roles of Lola in Damn on a neighboring country. Yankees and Roxie Hart in Chicago.

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EDNESDAY ANUARY W , J 13, 2021

Today is Make Your Dream Come True Day, a day to stop procrastinating and create a plan to fulfill your dreams. Research shows that step-by-step

planning is an effective way to turn dreams into reality.

The Games People Play Mystery to Me

To welcome the month of Ramadan, Antwerp, Belgium, hosts the Antwerp Indonesians play a unique form of World Diamond Centre, home to soccer known as fireball soccer. For the world’s major diamond mining the ball, a coconut is companies and their vaults. It was here drained of its milk and that Leonardo Notarbartolo rented an soaked in kerosene for office, posing as an Italian diamond days. Players coat their merchant, but spent many months legs and bare feet in planning a robbery that has been called non-flammable salts and spices. The “the heist of the century.” In 2003, ritual fasting and prayer of Ramadan Notarbartolo’s gang, known as the are believed to instill players with School of Turin, was able to penetrate the courage to kick the burning an “impenetrable” vault and steal over fireball with their bare feet. Playing $100 million worth of diamonds, gold, the game without hesitation or fear is and jewelry. Notarbartolo was caught a testament to the spirit of the player, and sent to jail for 10 years, but the loot a spirit strengthened by the rituals of has never been recovered. Ramadan and by the trial of fire. Buy a Vowel Who Said So?

This Russian actor who developed _ P _ N _ _ N _ T _ D

his own teaching method for acting Having and proudly stating your

said, “Love the art in yourself and own unwavering beliefs

OPINIONATED ANSWER:

not yourself in the art.” Stanislavski Constantin : ANSWER

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1784 – The Second Treaty of Paris was ratified by Congress to officially “I’m still the little southern end the Revolutionary War. This girl from the wrong side of pact came more than two years after the tracks who really didn’t the American and French victory at feel like she belonged.” Yorktown, the last major battle of the war. ~ Faye Dunaway 1954 – Marilyn Monroe married baseball great Joe DiMaggio. It was the culmination of a courtship Happy Birthday! that had captivated the nation. Faye Dunaway, born in 1941, is an Unfortunately, the marriage lasted American actress who grew up in a only nine months. military family that moved around 1968 – An ice storm fatally damaged the United States and Europe during the silver maple at 62 Laing Street, her childhood. Dunaway began her Toronto, Ontario. It was this tree career on Broadway in the early that had inspired Alexander Muir 1960s. Her breakthrough role as to write the 1867 song “The Maple Bonnie Parker in 1976’s Bonnie and Leaf Forever.” Clyde made her a star. She won an Academy Food Trivia Award for 1976’s Network. Some of her Vanilla is the extract of fermented other most popular and dried pods of several films include Barfly, species of orchids. The Three Muskeeters, The Thomas Crown Affair, Chinatown, and A Streetcar Named Desire. In 2019, she starred in Tea at Five, a play about Katharine Hepburn.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2021

Today is Organize Your Home Day. A home, or even a single room, can be a lot to organize. If the effort to organize your home feels too daunting, start with

one drawer or one closet. Don’t be afraid to purge items that you’ve never used!

Picture of the Day Bookworm

This book continues to be one of the most popular self-help books ever published. Written by a teacher of public speaking, it was designed to help people get noticed and elevate their status in social and business circles. The book was rather nonscientific and earned a fair share of criticism, but it was never intended to My dad keeps telling me he’s like be scientific. The how-to was written Einstein, but I’m not sure he was to inspire common readers to better talking about his messy desk. themselves. Perhaps this is why it has Now it’s your turn to come up sold 30 million copies and has been with a good caption. called one of the most influential

books of all time. What book is it?

Carnegie Dale by

People

How to Win Friends and Influence Influence and Friends Win to How : Word to the Wise ANSWER

Outdoor enthusiasts like skiers and hikers have used the phrase bluebird Word Scramble day for years, but it was recently added to the dictionary for all of us to E H M A D S A use. It means a perfect cloudless day

Feeling guilt or disgrace

ASHAMED with clear blue skies, a day thought ANSWER: worthy of recording on social media.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2021 On This Date 1559 – Elizabeth Tudor, the 25-year- Quote of the Day old daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, was crowned Queen “In the end, we will remember Elizabeth I at Westminster Abbey in not the words of our London. Known to enemies, but the silence her subjects as Good of our friends.” Queen Bess, her 44 years on the throne ~ Martin Luther King Jr. provided stability for the kingdom and helped forge a sense Happy Birthday! of national identity. The Elizabethan era marked the flowering of music, Martin Luther King Jr. (1929– 1968) literature, and theater, and she was is best known as a briliant, powerful one of Shakespeare’s chief patrons. speaker and the iconic leader at Super Steam Engines the helm of America’s Civil Rights Movement. He used nonviolent Since the distances they had to methods, following the teachings of cover were so long, steam engines Mahatma Gandhi. In 1959, King in North America were developed visited Gandhi’s birthplace in India. to hold large amounts of water and The trip affected fuel. Exhibit A of these types of King in a profound locomotives are the 36 Canadian- way, deepening his built Selkirk locomotives owned by understanding of the Canadian Pacific Railway. peaceful action and commitment to the struggle for equality and freedom. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while attending a rally for striking sanitation workers.

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RIDAY ANUARY F , J 15, 2021

Today is Bagel Day. In 2007, molecular scientist Robert Bohannon created the “Buzzed Bagel,” a caffeinated bagel baked with the equivalent caffeine

of two cups of coffee. Now that will wake you up in the morning!

Garden Party Root of the Matter

The jackal food plant, Hydnora Throw caution to the wind africana, is one of Africa’s strangest-looking flowers. To throw caution to the wind means It does not look like a that you have abandoned discretion or flower at all, but like caution completely and engaged in the jaws of a massive reckless behavior. In the mid-1600s, brown-skinned worm burrowing up the phrase to the winds was through the dirt. The flower’s interior commonly used to describe “mouth” is bright orange-red, attracting something that had vanished insect pollinators that become trapped completely or gone out of existence. in stiff bristles that resemble teeth. This John Milton wrote in his 1667 work parasitic plant traps the pollen-covered Paradise Lost, “And fear of death insect, which then drops down onto a deliver to the winds.” Centuries later, cushionlike stigma to pollinate the in the 1885 novel At Bay, author flower. It is called jackal food because Annie French Hector similarly wrote, jackals eat the plant’s starchy fruit. “You must throw fear to the winds.”

High Five Word Scramble

This hotshot Navy pilot and his R M I D Y O T O R

wingman say, “I feel the need,

the need for speed.” A hall or building with rooms (1986) Gun Top in Bradshaw “Goose”

Nick as Edwards Anthony and

Mitchell and beds for students DORMITORY ANSWER:

“Maverick” Peter as Cruise Tom ANSWER:

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2021 On This Date 1939 – Joe Shuster from Toronto Quote of the Day published his first Superman comic “I definitely feel more strip. Shuster made the drawings, comfortable in my own and his partner, Jerry Siegel, did the skin since turning 40.” writing. Employed by DC-National, the pair produced the lead feature in ~ Kate Moss the company’s first issue of Action Comics in 1939. Superman, the feature character in Happy Birthday! that issue, adhered to a strict moral Kate Moss, born in 1974, is an code and was an English supermodel who was enormous success discovered at age 14. Moss’ waifish, that led to what is “heroin chic” physique dominated referred to as the fashion magazines and runways in “Golden Age of the 1990s and beyond. Well-known Comic Books.” for her personal style, Moss is now a contributing fashion Hollywood Trivia editor at British Marnie Nixon did the singing for Vogue. She’s also Deborah Kerr in The King and I, had her own fashion Natalie Wood in West Side Story, and perfume lines. Janet Leigh in Pepe, and Audrey Moss has worked on Hepburn in My Fair Lady. many ad campaigns, such as for Levi’s, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Burberry, and H&M. In 2005, she was accused of drug use, causing many of her clients to let her go. After the charges were dropped, she resumed modeling.

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ATURDAY ANUARY S , J 16, 2021

Today is Appreciate a Dragon Day. Ancient Greeks and Sumerians wrote about flying serpents. Did dragons really exist? Scientists speculate that ancient

peoples found dinosaur bones and believed they were evidence of dragons.

Think-tionary Only Human

indite Why do we stick out our tongues A. To write or compose, as a when we are thinking hard or literary work concentrating? The tongue is a huge or and complicated muscle. It twists and

B. The layering of organic litter on contorts as we eat and form language, the forest floor, consisting of all the while avoiding our

leaves, needles, twigs, and bark dangerous teeth. As

place. comfortable quiet, a in

am alone alone am tongues work, they send

I when best indite I that find I A. NSWER: A massive amounts of data to our brains. Sticking out Who Am I? the tongue or even biting it while one I was a fighter pilot during World works or concentrates reduces its War II and was then chosen by NASA movement and cuts down on this data to become one of America’s first transmission, freeing the brain to seven astronauts, known as the devote more power to the pressing Mercury Seven for our participation tasks at hand. in the Mercury spacecraft missions. In 1962, aboard the Mercury, I became Buy a Vowel the first American to orbit Earth. After R _ D _ _ _ C T _ V _ my time with NASA, I became a U.S. Senator from Ohio, but I returned to Emitting harmful subatomic

space at age 77 when I took off aboard particles and energy

RADIOACTIVE ANSWER:

Glenn John the space shuttle in 1998. Who am I? ANSWER:

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1929 – Popeye, created by Elzie C. Segar, made his first appearance in “Retirement is not in my the comic strip Thimble Theatre. vocabulary. They aren’t going The character inspired millions of to get rid of me that way.” children to eat their spinach. ~ Betty White 1950 – A gang of Halloween- masked bandits hit the Brink’s treasury in Boston, making off with Happy Birthday! $2.8 million—the biggest heist in history up to that time. The police Betty White, born in 1922, is the recovered little of the cash, but beloved actress and comedian who several bandits went to prison. played Rose on Golden Girls. She originally aspired to be a forest 1991 – Operation Desert Storm began. ranger before learning women were The United States led a coalition of not allowed to do the job. Instead, 35 countries to expel Iraqi forces she pursued acting. Told she wasn’t from Kuwait. pretty enough for the movies, White made a name for herself on the radio. In 1949, she moved to TV as co-host Where Do I Sign? of the variety show Hollywood on Television, followed by multiple Want to join the French Foreign incarnations of The Legion? If so, the first step is to Betty White Show. write to them or show up in She produced and person. The address is: starred in Life with Elizabeth and had an Legion Etrangere acclaimed guest role Quartier Vienot on the Mary Tyler 13400 Aubagne, France Moore Show, among many others.

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2021

Today is Popeye Day. On this day in 1929, the beloved sailorman first appeared in cartoonist E. C. Segar’s Thimble Theater comic strip. By 1933,

Popeye the Sailor was more popular than Disney’s Mickey Mouse.

Wild Kingdom You Are What You Eat

Why do dogs have cold, wet noses? In 1949, as World War II was Scientists believe that dogs and other winding down, Herta Heuwer was carnivores have cold noses—colder running a food kiosk in than those of herbivores—because Berlin. British soldiers noses act as ultra-sensitive heat who frequented her detectors. While it is true that dogs kiosk gave her ketchup have a fantastic sense of smell that and curry powder. What happened they use while tracking, experiments next transformed Berlin’s cuisine revealed that dogs’ noses could detect forever. Heuwer, hoping to add some small heat sources from five feet spice to the bland food she’d been away. This adaptation might have serving during wartime, mixed the helped dogs detect prey in the form of ketchup and curry powder with small mammals. This research peppers, paprika, tomato paste, and disproved the theory that a dog’s cold Worcestershire sauce. She poured her nose helps regulate body temperature. new condiment over a grilled and sliced pork sausage to create Whatchamacallit? currywurst, a dish that would become What do you call a Germany’s favorite street food. group of bats? Riddle Me This cloud rabble What’s the difference between a

shadow intrusion teacher and a train? and the other says, “Chew, chew.” “Chew, says, other the and

CLOUD ANSWER:

One says, “Spit out that gum,” gum,” that out “Spit says, One ANSWER:

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MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 2021 On This Date Humor of the Day 1778 – James Cook became the first known European to discover the “Everyone wants to be Cary Hawaiian Islands, which he named Grant. Even I want to be the Sandwich Islands after the fourth Cary Grant.” Earl of Sandwich, his patron. ~ Cary Grant 1911 – The first landing of an aircraft on a ship took place when Lieutenant Eugene Ely safely Happy Birthday! landed his 50-horsepower Curtiss pusher biplane on Cary Grant (1904–1986) was an an 80-foot wooden English American actor and iconic platform attached to Hollywood leading the deck of the man. He was known U.S.S. Pennsylvania in for his debonair San Francisco Harbor. charm, impeccable style, good looks, 2009 – This was the final day of a and spot-on comic weeklong auction during which timing. Grant began auto giant General Motors sold off performing with an acrobat troupe about 200 historic cars from its at a young age, and he eventually Heritage Collection. At the time, moved to New York City after General Motors was facing enormous performing there on tour. Some financial difficulties. of his best-known films include Daily Trivia Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, and North by Northwest. Grant never The company Google took its name won an Oscar for any of his roles, from the word googol, which is but he did win an Honorary Oscar in a math term for 10 to the 100th 1970. He was married five times and power (or 1 followed by 100 zeros). had one daughter.

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ONDAY ANUARY M , J 18, 2021

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, commemorating America’s transformative civil rights leader. King was born with the name Michael. His father, a pastor, renamed both himself and his son after the leader of the

Protestant Reformation.

Centennial Memories Eye in the Sky

On this day 100 years ago, the The International Space Station infamous Chicago gangster (and recently received a favorite associate of Al Capone) brand new $23 million Frank Rio pulled off the daylight space toilet, known as robbery of a mail train in Chicago’s the Universal Waste Union Station, making off with Management System. NASA spent $462,000 worth of bonds and cash. six years developing the design. It is Rio was indicted for the robbery, but 65% smaller, 40% lighter, and more thanks to the bribing of judges and energy efficient than the commode intimidation of witnesses, he went currently in use. More importantly, free. Rio’s propensity to escape while toilets previously were conviction for this robbery and designed for male astronauts, this one many other crimes earned him was built to accommodate women, the nickname “Slippery Frank.” keeping in mind NASA’s Artemis Rio would become even more mission to land the first woman on the infamous for his suspected role in moon in 2024. the St. Valentine’s Day massacre. Who Said So? Buy a Vowel This writer, a winner of the Pulitzer V _ R _ C _ _ _ S and Nobel Prizes, said, “When we ask for advice, we are usually

Having a huge appetite looking for an accomplice.” VORACIOUS ANSWER:

Bellow Saul ANSWER:

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1898 – Brown defeated Harvard 6–0 in the first intercollegiate hockey “I’ve been asked repeatedly game in the U.S. Before that, ice what the ‘key’ to acting is, polo, which was played with short and as far as I’m concerned, sticks with rounded ends and a the main thing is to keep the rubber ball, was popular. audience awake.” 1953 – Lucy Ricardo gave birth to ~ Jean Stapleton little Ricky on I Love Lucy. More viewers in the U.S. tuned in to watch the episode than the following Happy Birthday! day’s inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Jean Stapleton (1923–2013) was an actress who grew up in New York 1966 – Indira Gandhi became prime City and went on to entertain devoted minister of India. fans as Edith Bunker on nine seasons She was India’s of CBS’s 1970s hit show All in the first female head Family. She was the daughter of an of government and opera singer mother and a salesman held that power until father. Stapleton began her career her assassination in theater, performing on Broadway in 1984. in many popular musicals, including Just Cloning Around Funny Girl, Bells Are Ringing, and Damn The first cloned animal, “Dolly Yankees. She then the Sheep,” was named after Dolly moved on to TV and Parton because the sheep was film projects, including cloned from a cell taken from My Three Sons and Cold Turkey, the ewe’s mammary gland. before focusing on All in the Family.

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UESDAY ANUARY T , J 19, 2021

Today is World Quark Day, not in honor of the subatomic particles studied by physicists, but for the mild, creamy cheese known as quark that people often

describe as a cross between cottage cheese and yogurt. Try some!

Mad Science 25 Years Ago Today

Malaysian researchers want people to On this day 25 years ago, it was digitally transmit smells as easily as reported that Major League Baseball they send a text message. Virtual owners unanimously approved reality is all the rage these days, with interleague play. It was a move 3D sight and ambient sounds intended to renew fan interest after the dominating immersive 1994 players’ strike. Purists worried technology experiences. that interleague play would spell the Researchers believe they end of the American League’s can add scent to virtual designated hitter rule and ruin the reality, allowing people to smell statistics baseball relies so heavily virtual dinner dates or walks in the upon, but most fears were unfounded, woods. The scientists have and fans returned to ballparks with experimented with delivering these enthusiasm. But after 25 years, now smells through electrodes inserted that crowds have returned, should into the nostrils. Using weak interleague play be abandoned? electrical currents, they have already recreated 10 different smells, ranging Word Wise from fruity to woody to minty. Which word is not like the others?

Name Three Beppu Old Faithful

Can you name three vegetables that Strokkur Steamboat

begin with the letter A? geysers. erupting famous are

asparagus, arrowroot arrowroot asparagus,

Beppu is a hot spring; the others others the spring; hot a is Beppu ANSWER:

artichoke, arugula, arugula, artichoke, : S ANSWER POSSIBLE

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2021 On This Date 1892 – The first organized basketball Quote of the Day game was played at the YMCA “Architecture is a visual art, in Springfield, Massachusetts. and the buildings speak Canadian-born James Naismith, a for themselves.” physical education teacher, invented the game as a form of winter ~ Julia Morgan exercise. His inspiration came from a children’s game called duck-on-a- rock, in which players threw a small Happy Birthday! rock at a “duck” placed on top of a larger rock in an attempt to knock Julia Morgan (1872–1957) was an it off. architect and engineer from San Francisco 1929 – The first full-length motion who designed more picture in the U.S. to be filmed than 700 buildings. outdoors was released. In Old Arizona As a child, Morgan starred Warner Baxter as “The Cisco became intrigued with Kid,” a carefree Mexican bandit architecture after meeting her cousin who outwitted the sheriff trying to Lucy’s architect husband, Pierre capture him. Le Brun. Morgan pursued a civil engineering degree at University of California, Berkeley, where she was an honors student and frequently the only woman in her courses. There she found a mentor, Bernard Maybeck, who encouraged her to continue her Daily Trivia studies in Paris. After returning to California in 1904, she became the Warner Baxter (the Cisco Kid) had state’s first woman to receive an a fear of horses in real life. architecture license.

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EDNESDAY ANUARY W , J 20, 2021

Today is Disc Jockey Day. On this day in 1965, the world lost one of its most beloved DJs, Alan Freed. In the 1940s and ’50s, Freed began playing rhythm and

blues hits on his Cleveland radio station and coined the term “rock and roll.”

Centennial Memories Gadgets & Gizmos

On this day 100 years ago, Charlie Chaplin’s silent movie The Kid premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The film was Chaplin’s masterpiece, a masterful blend of comedy and tragedy. Chaplin wrote, produced, directed, edited, starred in, and even composed a score for the movie. Young Jackie Coogan, who played the titular character, became Sony has developed a wearable one of Hollywood’s first child stars. personal speaker system that rests on Not only is The Kid considered one of your shoulders. Designed for movies, the silent era’s most important films, television, and games, the WS1 but it proved once and for all that delivers clear, immersive sound and Chaplin was one of Hollywood’s vibrations just for you. Sound no most prodigious talents. longer has to take up the entire room!

Who Said So? Buy a Vowel This pioneering movie producer of Hollywood’s Golden Age said, R _ S _ L _ T _

“A wide screen just makes a bad

Firmly determined

film twice as bad.” RESOLUTE ANSWER:

Goldwyn Samuel ANSWER:

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1677 – The first medical publication in America, a pamphlet on smallpox, “If you risk nothing, then was issued in Boston. you risk everything.” 1954 – USS Nautilus, the first ~ Geena Davis nuclear-powered submarine, was launched. It was also the first vessel to complete a submerged transit Happy Birthday! across the North Pole. Geena Davis, born in 1956, is an 1968 – A B-52 bomber crashed in American actress known for her Greenland. A copilot was killed, quirky, authentic performances. and one of the four nuclear bombs After starting out as a model, Davis on board has never been located. got her big break with a part in the 1982 Dustin Hoffman and Jessica 1976 – The Concorde first flew Lange blockbuster comedy Tootsie. between Britain and France. A A series of later 1980s films, including technological marvel, the supersonic The Fly, Beetlejuice, plane was never able to operate Earth Girls Are Easy, profitably and flew its last trip in 2003. and The Accidental Tourist, made her a full-fledged star. Other key projects include A League of Their Own, Thelma & Louise, and Super Words the TV shows Commander in Chief and Grey’s Anatomy. In 2004, Davis The words racecar and kayak are founded the Geena Davis Institute palindromes; they are the same on Gender in Media to promote whether they are read left to equality and more roles for women right or right to left. in the film industry.

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HURSDAY ANUARY T , J 21, 2021

Today is International Sweatpants Day, in honor of the most comfortable pants ever created. Sweatpants were first invented in the 1920s by Emile

Camuset, founder of Le Coq Sportif, a French sportswear company.

Picture of the Day The Games People Play

In the year 2000, tejo was declared the national sport of Colombia. The game originated amongst Colombia’s indigenous groups and involved tossing stones or small pieces of wood at a target, similar to darts. But the rules of tejo have evolved. Nowadays, players toss a heavy steel disk, or puck, at a board 20 yards away. The board is covered in soft clay and leans at a 45-degree angle. Hit a central ring and earn six Leave it to soccer players to points. But there’s a catch. misunderstand the meaning Triangular pouches filled with of “business casual.” gunpowder, or mecha, are set all

Now it’s your turn to come up around the ring. Hit an exploding with a funny caption. mecha and earn three points.

Riddle Me This Word Scramble

What happened to the turkey when N Y C L U M A

he got into a fistfight?

out of him. of out A false and slanderous statement

CALUMNY ANSWER:

He got the stuffing knocked knocked stuffing the got He ANSWER: ANSWER:

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1771 – Spain turned over the Falkland Islands to Britain. The islands are “I was born by the river, located 300 miles from the coast of in a little tent. Oh, and Argentina. The inhabitants of the just like the river, I been islands, who are of mainly Scottish running ever since.” descent, are British citizens and ~ Sam Cooke support British sovereignty. 1952 – The first jet airliner, the British de Havilland Comet, flew its Happy Birthday! first test flight. Sam Cooke (1931–1964) was a legendary, charismatic American singer, songwriter, and civil rights activist who died tragically young. Known as “The King of Soul” for his captivating, soulful voice 1968 – Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, and powerful, hopeful the NBC comedy, premiered. The lyrics, Cooke began show was No. 1 in the ratings for the singing as a child in 1968–69 and 1969–70 seasons. Cast a variety of gospel members Lily Tomlin and Goldie groups, including the Hawn later became noted film stars. Highway Q.C.’s and Daily Trivia Soul Stirrers. In the 1950s, he began recording secular pop/soul music, It is believed that Abdul Kassam ultimately racking up more than 30 Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the top 40 singles. Some of his most 10th century, carried his library with iconic songs include “You Send Me,” him wherever he went. 400 camels “A Change Is Gonna Come,” “Cupid,” trained to walk in alphabetical order “Wonderful World,” and “Bring It carried the 117,000 volumes. on Home to Me.”

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RIDAY ANUARY F , J 22, 2021

Today is Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day. Anthrozoologist Dr. John Bradshaw believes that cats view humans as large, useless cats. Change their

minds by giving them vertical spaces to explore and plenty of things to scratch.

Think-tionary Root of the Matter

talaria Hit the sack

A. A type of clock that measures When it is time to hit the sack, then the passage of time by recording it is time to go to bed for the night. changes in barometric pressure This expression originated in or America in the late 1800s, when

B. Winged sandals, often associated mattresses were little more than

with the Greek god Hermes sacks filled with hay. For this reason,

forged of pure gold by Hephaestus. by gold pure of forged the similar phrase hit the hay also

ANSWER: B. It is said that the talaria were were talaria the that said is It B. ANSWER: came into use. But why hit either the sack or the hay? It was common When Was It? practice before going to sleep to

It was during this year that Aretha “fluff” the mattress by punching or Franklin became the first woman hitting it. Some linguists say that inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall before 1880, the phrase hit the hay of Fame. The last wild meant specifically to sleep in a barn.

California condor was captured for captive Buy a Vowel breeding. “Baby Jessica” McClure _ V _ R Z _ _ L _ _ S was rescued after falling down a 22-foot-deep well in Texas, and Excessively eager

Canada introduced its one-dollar coin, and enthusiastic

OVERZEALOUS known as the “loonie.” When was it? ANSWER: 1987 ANSWER:

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2021 On This Date 1909 – A telegraphed distress call was received in Nantucket from the Quote of the Day RMS Republic after it collided with “Science never gives up another ship in heavy fog. The signal searching for truth, since was relayed to a nearby British it never claims to have Royal Navy ship, which rushed to help. The first radio rescue at sea achieved it.” saved 1,500 lives. ~ John C. Polanyi 1950 – The papers reported that Preston Tucker was cleared of fraud charges relating to his fledgling car company. His business failed despite Happy Birthday! auto enthusiasts who loved his cars. The 1988 movie Tucker: The Man John C. Polanyi, born in 1929, is and His Dream is based on Tucker a chemist who shared the Nobel and his company. Prize in Chemistry in 1986 with two others for contributions concerning You Don’t Say the understanding of The suits in a deck of cards represent chemical kinetics. the four major pillars of society in Born in Germany, the Middle Ages: hearts (♥) represent he immigrated to the church, spades (♠) represent Canada in 1952. the military, clubs (♣) represent Polanyi has been agriculture, and diamonds (♦) a professor at the represent the merchant class. University of Toronto since 1974. In addition to his scientific papers, the scientist has published approximately 100 articles on science policy. In 2004, the poetry and art fan married portrait artist Brenda Bury.

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ATURDAY ANUARY S , J 23, 2021

Today is Paul Pitcher Night in Cornwall, England. On this night, the townspeople, probably tin miners, celebrated the conversion of St. Paul to

Christianity by smashing clay pots and pitchers. Folks would throw stones at pots or throw the pots themselves and say, “It’s Paul’s eve, and here’s a heave!”

Where Am I? Garden Party

I have come to this destination to feel In 1925, a Ficus benghalensis, or what it is like to stand in the hottest banyan tree, was brought to Thomas place on Earth. In 1913, the Edison’s home in Fort Myers, Florida. temperature recorded here was 134°F. It was gifted to Edison by his friend The town has a population of only 24, Harvey Firestone in the but a campground welcomes visitors, hope that the tree’s and a golf course hosts a tournament white sap could be used called the Heatstroke Open. This is a as a domestic source real oasis, with water bubbling up of rubber, but the tree from an underground spring. I follow grew too slowly to prove viable. the waters only to find that they Nevertheless, the tree has remained

disappear into the sandy desert of the on Edison’s estate for nearly 100

valley. Where am I? California years. Its sprawling drooping limbs

Furnace Creek, Death Valley, Valley, Death Creek, Furnace ANSWER: have grown to cover one acre, and it stands 60 feet tall. For many, Edison’s banyan is the most striking feature of Whatchamacallit? the inventor’s Florida estate. What do you call a group of finches? Name Three

trip business Can you name three countries that

begin with the letter F?

charm flutter Islands Faroe Islands, Falkland Finland,

CHARM ANSWER:

France, Fiji, Fiji, France, : S ANSWER POSSIBLE

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1672 – The newly established Hudson’s Bay Company held its first “I owe it all to little official fur auction, at Garraway’s chocolate donuts.” Coffee House in London, England. ~ John Belushi 1922 – Christian K. Nelson patented the Eskimo Pie. Happy Birthday! 1935 – The Krueger Brewing Company placed the first canned beer on sale John Belushi (1949–1982) was an in Richmond, Virginia. By the end American comedian and actor who of the year, 37 breweries followed was one of the original cast members Krueger’s lead. on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, which premiered 1972 – Japanese Sergeant Shoichi in 1975. Prior to Yokoi was found his SNL fame, he hiding in a Guam had performed in jungle, where he had several successful been since the end comedy troupes, of World War II. including the West “It is with much Compass Trio and the Second City. embarrassment that He starred in multiple films, such as I have returned alive,” he said once National Lampoon’s Animal House, back home. The Blues Brothers, and Neighbors. Belushi died in 1982 of an accidental heroin and cocaine overdose. He Celebrity Trivia had struggled for years with drug Ernest Borgnine was the voice use, which compromised his career. of Mermaid Man on the popular Belushi was married to Judith children’s show SpongeBob Belushi. His tombstone reads: “I may SquarePants from 1999 until 2012. be gone but Rock and Roll lives on.”

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UNDAY ANUARY S , J 24, 2021

Today is Beer Can Day. The only problem is that the beverage industry is suffering a shortage of aluminum cans! So many people are enjoying canned

beer and soda at home that cans are hard to come by. Luckily, glass is available.

Only Human Wild Kingdom

New research suggests that the Katmai National Park in Alaska is one geography and climate of a place of the world’s best places to see can influence how language brown bears in the wild. evolves. The languages of people All summer long, the who live in mountainous regions use bears are active along the words and sounds that have intense Pacific coast, eating bursts of air. At higher elevations of sedges, clams, and salmon. And eat lower air pressure, it is easier to they must, for the bears must store form these sounds in the pharynx. enough fat to survive their winter Also, because consonant sounds do hibernations. The bears grow so not travel well through heated air, enormous that, each fall, Katmai tropical habits often produce celebrates the week leading up to the languages with open syllables, such first Tuesday of October as Fat Bear as in the word aloha. Even bird Week. Fans can watch videos of the species in the tropics sing with bears online to see which bear grows fewer consonant sounds than birds the fattest. Last October, a bear known in colder climates. as 747 grew to over 1,000 pounds.

Word Scramble Who Said So?

I Y K N F I C This matriarch of an American political dynasty said, “I know not

Fussy about one’s needs

FINICKY

ANSWER: ANSWER: age, nor weariness nor defeat.”

Kennedy Rose ANSWER:

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MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021 On This Date 1890 – Journalist Nellie Bly completed Quote of the Day her round-the-world “You’ve got to love trip in only 72 days, what’s yours.” beating the 80-day record of Jules Verne’s ~ Alicia Keys fictional character Phileas Fogg. 1924 – The first Winter Olympics were Happy Birthday! held in Chamonix, France. Athletes Alicia Keys, born in 1981, is an from 16 nations competed. Sonja American musician who grew up in Henie, at just 11 years old, skated in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in the ladies’ figure skating competition. New York City. She began taking piano lessons and studying classical 1927 – Jack Benny married Sadye music as a young girl, quickly falling Marks. She later in love with music and singing. She changed her name to began composing her own songs by Mary Livingstone, age 12 and signed her the name of the first record deal at character she had 15. Her debut album been playing on didn’t come until Jack’s radio show. 2001 but was worth Burns Trivia the wait. Songs in A Minor was honored Burns Night, honoring Scottish with five Grammy Awards (she now has poet Robert Burns, is celebrated 15) and launched her to superstardom. on January 25 with Burns supper. Some of Keys’ most popular singles The prolific, charismatic poet also include “Fallin’,” “You Don’t Know wrote the iconic New Year’s My Name,” and “My Boo,” a duet with song “Auld Lang Syne.” R&B star Usher.

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ONDAY ANUARY M , J 25, 2021

Today is Robert Burns Day, when many will honor the life and legacy of the Scottish poet with a Burns supper. Bagpipers welcome guests, and poems

accompany traditional Scottish dishes like Cullen skink and haggis.

Centennial Memories You Are What You Eat

On this day 100 years ago, Czech San Francisco is famous for Silicon playwright Karel Čapek debuted his Valley, the Golden Gate Bridge, and… science-fiction play R.U.R., which sourdough bread? In 1848, the introduced the word robot into the California Gold Rush lexicon. R.U.R. stood for Rossum’s began in hills just north of Universal Robots, in reference to a San Francisco, making San factory that makes artificial people. Fran the epicenter of a Čapek was appalled by the carnage of 300,000-person migration. One of the World War I and distrustful of most vital pieces of equipment for any humanity’s use of industrialization prospector was sourdough bread and technology. His word robot was starter, a miraculous foodstuff that derived from the Czech word robota, could transform any old flour into a meaning “forced labor.” In the play, delicious and nutritious loaf. When the robots become superior in intellect, Californians headed north to Canada strength, and productivity and render for the Klondike Gold Rush, they took their makers obsolete. their bread starters with them, sleeping with the starters on cold nights to keep Buy a Vowel the fermenting yeast active.

_ N M _ N T _ _ N _ B L _ What’s in a Name? Too embarrassing or shocking to

be talked about This Prohibition-era gangster was

UNMENTIONABLE ANSWER: born George Kelly Barnes.

Kelly Gun” “Machine

ANSWER:

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2021 Today is … Quote of the Day “If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who Australia Day! the sucker is, it’s you.” Celebrated annually, it marks the ~ Paul Newman anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British ships. On This Date Happy Birthday! 1905 – A 3,106-carat (1.37-pound) diamond was discovered in a Paul Newman (1925–2008) was one South African mine. Christened the of the most popular leading men of “Cullinan,” it was the largest diamond the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. He won ever found and was later cut into numerous awards, including the several polished gems by Joseph Best Actor Oscar for The Color of Asscher. It is said that he nearly Money (1986). Newman was also an shattered the diamond on his initial avid race car driver and competed attempt but satisfactorily divided in various Sports Car Club of it with his second blow—and then America events. His food company, promptly fainted. Newman’s Own, has donated profits and Jewelry Trivia royalties amounting The tradition of wearing a wedding to over $460 million ring on the fourth finger of the to charity. He was left hand stems from the ancient devoted to Joanne Egyptian belief that a love vein Woodward, his wife existed in that finger and went for 50 years, and straight to the heart. their three daughters.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2021

Today is Green Juice Day. Continue your resolution to find better health in the new year with green juice, a juice made of pressed fruits and vegetables like

cucumbers, spinach, mint, celery, kale, watercress, and chia seeds. Leafy green juices are great sources of amino acids, vitamins, and antioxidants.

Gadgets & Gizmos Eye in the Sky

Something is showering gold throughout the universe. This is especially strange because gold is an element, and the only way it can be created is through an intense nuclear fusion reaction. Scientists know that collisions between neutron stars are powerful enough to produce gold, but not in the massive amounts The Lovebox Messenger is a modern that astrophysicists are finding in take on the love note. Use a the universe. So where is the gold smartphone app to deliver a message coming from? No one knows. Even to the Lovebox. The red heart spins to supernovas so intense that stars are alert you of a new message. Open the flipped inside out are not powerful top to reveal the note that your beloved enough to explain gold’s abundance. has sent you. It’s a perfect way to keep in touch over long distances. Word Scramble

Punny Business O T M E R G M

A metal ring in cloth used for After the French cheese factory

exploded, the entire town was fastening or support

GROMMET ANSWER: covered in de Brie.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2021 On This Date 1926 – John Baird, a Scottish inventor, Quote of the Day demonstrated a pictorial transmission “Dancing is my obsession. machine called television. My life.” 1967 – Astronauts Virgil Grissom, ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov Edward White, and Roger Chaffee died in a launch simulation test Happy Birthday! when fire broke Mikhail Baryshnikov, born in 1948, is out in Apollo 1 a Latvian Russian American dancer, at Cape Kennedy. A subsequent choreographer, and actor. Heralded investigation revealed a wide range as one of the ballet greats of the last of lethal design hazards in the early century, Baryshnikov started out with Apollo command module. the Kirov Ballet in St. Petersburg Today’s Riddles (then known as Leningrad). In 1974, he defected to Canada in order to A. I go up and down the hill, yet I’m pursue dance opportunities in the always standing still. West. He then joined the American Ballet Theater, followed by the B. I am a word of letters three. Add New York City Ballet, where he two and fewer there will be. was a principal dancer. Later, he C. I appear once in a minute, twice in a was the American Ballet Theater’s moment, but never in a thousand years. artistic director and is known for Answers: promoting modern A. Road dance. Some of his films include The B. Few Turning Point and C. The letter M White Knights.

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EDNESDAY ANUARY W , J 27, 2021

Today is Auschwitz Liberation Day. On this day in 1945, the Soviet Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, unaware of the horrors

perpetrated within. Today is also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day.

What Am I? Fashion of Yesteryear

Although I was invented in Belgium, Altina Schinasi first used her artistic in England I was widely known as a skills to design windows for the “sackbut” and was frequently the butt chic stores along Fifth of jokes about my reputation in the Avenue. Here, she met orchestra. I was often called on for my Salvador Dalí and sheer volume, due to my ability to other artists. Walking overpower other instruments. But my up and down Fifth Avenue, Schinasi sound has been cherished since the was shocked by the boring eyeglass 1500s for my ability to evoke both frames in the windows. In the 1920s, bombast and pathos equally. Perhaps she decided to design something this is why I am at home in both remarkably different, which she classical orchestras and jazz bands. called the Harlequin frame. These You’ll even find my sound in rock “cat’s eye” glasses turned eyewear and roll. I am famously recognized for into the ultimate fashion accessory, my telescopic slide, which changes and Schinasi spent much of the ’30s

my pitch. What am I? A trombone A ANSWER: and ’40s growing her business.

Who Said So? Buy a Vowel This Lakota writer and activist S _ M _ L _ T _ _ N said, “The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our

An imitation of a process land away and we die.” SIMULATION ANSWER:

Bird Brave Mary ANSWER:

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1866 – Scottish explorer David Livingstone set off for Africa to find “The more experience and the source of the Nile. All contact insight I obtain into human with him was lost until 1871, when nature, the more convinced do reporter Henry Stanley finally located I become that the greater portion him. Stanley greeted him with the of a man is purely animal.” famous remark, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” ~ Henry Morton Stanley 1986 – Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all Happy Birthday! seven crewmembers, Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) including teacher was a Welsh journalist and explorer Christa McAuliffe. famous for his exploration of central The accident led to a Africa. He lived in a workhouse two-and-a-half-year from the age of seven until 15, after grounding of the shuttle fleet. which he served as a cabin boy and ended up in America. Stanley Soup Trivia became a journalist and traveled for the Dr. John T. Dorrance discovered New York Herald. the process for making condensed While working for soups in 1879, which helped make the paper, he went soup one of the first convenience to Africa to search foods. The ladies of the French for the source of the Nile and to court of Louis XI subsisted mainly locate explorer David Livingstone. on soup because they believed He became an agent for Belgium that chewing would cause them and controversially helped secure to develop facial wrinkles. Belgium’s control over the Congo.

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HURSDAY ANUARY T , J 28, 2021

Today is Data Privacy Day. Companies and individuals alike should use today to safeguard their digital data. To maintain digital privacy, never use unprotected

WiFi, create strong passwords, and set privacy settings on electronic devices.

The Games People Play Root of the Matter

Werewolf is a social party game where Cold turkey each player is given a role as either a If someone goes cold turkey to end werewolf or a villager. The game takes a bad habit, that means that they are place in two phases: day ending it immediately and are likely and night. During the to suffer withdrawal symptoms. The night, all players but phrase appeared as early as 1910 werewolves close their and had nothing to do with quitting eyes. Werewolves then an addictive habit. Cold meant silently decide one villager to “straightforward” and turkey eliminate from the game. During the referred to “talk turkey,” or discuss day, the chosen villager is eliminated something in a straightforward and all remaining players, villagers manner. In its original form, cold and werewolves alike (whose turkey meant that someone was identities are hidden), discuss who going to tell you a straight, hard, or they believe the werewolves to be and even dreadful truth. choose one player to eliminate. Werewolves win if their numbers Word Wise match the number of villagers. Which word is not like the others? Villagers win when they eliminate all the werewolves. Nantucket Orcas

Punny Business Mackinac Tahoe

islands. are others

Tahoe is an American lake; the the lake; American an is Tahoe I started sleeping in the fireplace and ANSWER: now I’m sleeping like a log!

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2021 On This Date 1845 – “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe was published in the New York Quote of the Day Evening Mirror. The poem begins, “Life isn’t fair, “Once upon a but you can be.” midnight dreary, while I pondered, ~ Tom Selleck weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.” Happy Birthday! 1964 – Dr. Strangelove, the classic Tom Selleck, born in 1945, is an dark comic movie about nuclear iconic TV actor and film producer. war, was released. The release was The heartthrob is most recognizable scheduled to occur in late 1963 as the lead character and private but was delayed because of the detective Thomas Magnum, from assassination of President Kennedy. the mega-hit CBS television series Football Fruit Magnum, P. I. Selleck enjoys sports and can be found playing volleyball Pangium edule is a tall tree in or watching a Los Angeles Kings Southeast Asia with fruit the size hockey game in his free time. He and and shape of a football—hence one his wife, Jillie, have one child, and of its names, football fruit. The fruit they live in southern California on is oval (about the size of a large a 60-acre avocado husked coconut) with a brown rough farm. While Selleck surface. The seeds, bark, and leaves says that he enjoys are poisonous. The seeds are used as being outdoors and rat poison, and the bark and leaves doing farmwork, he are sometimes used to stun fish so claims not to be a fan they can be scooped up easily. of the farm’s produce.

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RIDAY ANUARY F , J 29, 2021

Today is Freethinkers Day, honoring the life of Thomas Paine, who was born on this day in 1737. This philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary

American embodied independent thought and the freedom to pursue the truth.

Think-tionary Mystery to Me

awumbuk The Banco Central in Fortaleza is A. A feeling of heaviness or sorrow Brazil’s central bank, in charge of the after guests or visitors depart country’s money supply. In 2005, a group claiming to be a landscaping or company rented out a building two B. The use of natural materials, blocks away. It garnered no suspicion such as sticks or vines, to make that they hauled away soil day

repairs in lieu of manufactured after day. No one knew that they

replacement parts

were tunneling beneath the city for many days. days. many for persisted awumbuk

my break, winter the following

college right into the Banco Central. The

to returned children my After A. R: ANSWE robbers made off with almost R$165 million Brazilian reals, worth Toys of Yesteryear over $70 million. In the following

In 1952, Mr. Potato Head, with its years, various suspects were arrested, interchangeable body parts, became a but only R$20 million was ever popular toy. Throughout the 1950s recovered. No one knows how many and ’60s, Mr. Potato Head enjoyed an robbers were truly involved. expanding family of food friends. Word Scramble Hasbro introduced Cooky the Cucumber, Pete the H E P I S R E M H E Pepper, and even the Picnic

Pals: Frenchy Fry, Frankie A half of the earth HEMISPHERE

Frank, and Willy Burger. ANSWER:

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2021 On This Date 1815 – The Library of Congress, Humor of the Day which had been burned by British “When you reach the end of Troops during the War of 1812, was your rope, tie a knot reestablished with the purchase of 6,500 books from Thomas Jefferson’s and hang on.” private library. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt 1958 – The first two-way moving sidewalk was put in service at Dallas Love Field Airport in Texas. The Happy Birthday! length of the walkway through the airport was 1,435 feet. Today, such Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) moving sidewalks are common in was an American statesman who many airports. served as 32nd president of the United States from 1969 – The Beatles performed together 1933 until 1945. He for the last time, on the roof of their is considered one of Apple Studio in London. the most influential 2002 – Japan’s last coal mine was U.S. presidents, and closed. The closure was due to high he saw the nation production costs. The country now through both the imports all of the coal it burns. Great Depression and World War II. Did You Know? He endorsed a spate of government social programs. Roosevelt won a Table doilies are named after a record four presidential elections, 17th-century draper named motivating Congress to enact the Mr. Doiley from London. 22nd amendment limiting the presidency to two terms. Roosevelt suffered from polio that left him partially paralyzed, but he continued in politics, undaunted.

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ATURDAY ANUARY S , J 30, 2021

Today is Inane Answering Message Day. While the goal of this day might be to end senseless, rambling, or otherwise useless voicemail messages, the occasion is also a perfect opportunity to leave a silly message on a friend’s

phone.

Wild Kingdom Garden Party

After a 3,000-year absence, Nestled high in Switzerland’s Tasmanian devils have returned to alpine peaks and overlooking the mainland Australia. These “devils” picturesque Lake Lugano is San got their name in 1803 when a sailor Grato Park. These botanical gardens heard their eerie calls. are most famous for their sprawling They are not evil, just azaleas and rhododendrons, but in small marsupials that 2017, a variety of themed trails were once thrived on the island added for the pleasure of visitors. of Tasmania. As recently The Panoramic Trail offers views of as the 1990s, 150,000 of them lived the high peaks. The Relaxation Trail on the island, but populations were is flat and leisurely. A Fairytale decimated by a deadly mouth cancer. Trail for children winds through the Today, fewer than 25,000 of the magical azaleas. The Artistic Trail creatures remain. Biologists hope is lined with sculptures. The that the reintroduced population Sensory Path is designed to awaken will thrive in Australia’s Barrington the senses to the wonders of nature. Tops wildlife sanctuary.

Buy a Vowel Who Said So?

This poet of the Harlem Renaissance _ T _ R _ T _ _ N

said, “I swear to the Lord I still A version or repeated part

can’t see why democracy of a process

ITERATION

means everybody but me.” ANSWER:

ANSWER: Langston Hughes Langston ANSWER:

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2021 On This Date 1606 – Guy Fawkes, chief conspirator Quote of the Day in the “Gunpowder “There’s nothing wrong with Plot” to blow up the shooting for the stars.” Houses of Parliament in London, was executed. ~ Justin Timberlake The failure of the plot is now celebrated annually with fireworks. Happy Birthday! 1839 – John “Radical Jack” Lambton Justin Timberlake, born in 1981, is handed his Report on the Affairs the singer/songwriter known as “JT” of British North America to the to his many fans. British prime minister. He rose to fame as The former governor a lead vocalist in the recommended uniting hugely popular boy the Canadas under band, NSYNC. As one government, with a kid, he performed English as the only on Star Search and official language. The All-New Mickey Mouse Club. The superstar released his first solo Fashion Trivia album, Justified, in 2002, which earned him two Grammy Awards. A person’s social rank and FutureSex/LoveSounds, his next profession in the Medieval Ages record, was also a smash hit, as were was represented by the color of his third, fourth, and fifth efforts. their clothing. Nobility wore red; “Can’t Stop the Feeling!,” a song peasants wore brown and gray; and which he wrote for the Trolls movie, merchants, bankers, and gentry became the summer hit of 2016. The wore green. People violating pop icon has two children with his sumptuary laws were fined. wife, actress Jessica Biel.

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2021

Today is Inspire Your Heart with Art Day. Art, the external representation of our thoughts and feelings, is a powerful way to inspire others. Enjoy this day by either creating art or finding inspiration in the artwork of others.

Only Human Weather or Not

Many people believe that facial In the spring of 1780, New England expressions reflect how we feel experienced its “Dark Day.” At mid- inside. A frowny face morning, strange rust-colored clouds expresses sadness. A blew in and blotted out the smile means that we are sun. General George Washington, happy. New research encamped as far away as New Jersey, suggests that facial wrote in his diary about “heavy and expressions do not reliably show uncommon kind of clouds.” By noon, how someone feels inside. We use all of New England was shrouded in facial expressions instead as a way gloomy shadow. Dark and sooty rain to direct our relationship with the began to fall. Animals thought it was person we are interacting with. We night. People believed Judgment Day might smile in order to change the had arrived. The weather might have subject to something more pleasant cleared the next day, but it was not or to ingratiate ourselves. In this until 2007 that scientists finally sense, researchers say that we use concluded that the Dark Day was our faces in order to manipulate caused by massive Canadian wildfires. whoever we are looking at. Word Scramble Riddle Me This N O F R U E L D

Why did the student eat

his homework? Struggle helplessly in water cake. of piece

FLOUNDER

ANSWER:

The teacher told him it was a a was it him told teacher The ANSWER:

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