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Monday, January 16, 2017    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

2017 Super Bowl 51: The Official Home of the Super Bowl | NFL.com  02/05/2017, Houston, Texas
2018 Super Bowl 52, Minneapolis, Minnesota

NFL Playoffs - NFL.com
NFL Pro Bowl NFL.com  01/29/2017, Orland, Florida

Saint Paul Winter Carnival  01/26 - 02/05/2017, St. Paul, Minnesota  Saint Paul Winter Carnival  photos
Winter Triathlon National Championships  01/29/2017, Phalen Park, St. Paul, MN

Winter Triathlon  Run-Bike-Cross Country Ski

Home - Australian Open Tennis Championships 2017 - The Grand Slam of Asia-Pacific - Official Site by IBM
Finals: 01/28 & 1/29/2017

Minneapolis Home and Remodeling Show | U.S. Bank Stadium  Jan. 27-29, 2017, Minneapolis 

NFL Pro Bowl NFL.com  01/29/2017, Orland, Florida



12250 170130    January 30, 1882    Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) 
Biography.com
  Franklin D. Roosevelt
The New Deal in Three Minutes - YouTube
The New Deal Crash Course US History #34 - YouTube
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia  January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945, commonly known as FDR, an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and dominated his party for many years as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. His program for relief, recovery and reform, known as the New Deal, ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt whitehouse.gov     32nd President
Criticism of Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia
Presidents    Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)    #32

12249 170129-0130  Miss Universe 2016-2017 - Miss France Crowning Moment - Iris Mittenaere Druart - YouTube
Miss Universe News
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12248 170129-0130  SAG Awards: A night when politics trumped the prizes themselves - LA Times
Home | Screen Actors Guild Awards
Hidden Figures Cast Acceptance Speech 23rd Annual SAG Awards TNT - YouTube
Stranger Things Cast Press Room Q&A P.2 23rd Annual SAG Awards TNT - YouTube
In Memoriam | 23rd Annual SAG Awards | TNT - YouTube
SAG Awards 2017 Highlights GMA - YouTube
[FULL] Dolly Parton at 2017 SAG Awards - YouTube
Lily Tomlin Wins Lifetime Achievement Award 23rd Annual SAG Awards TNT - YouTube
Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards

12247 170129     born January 29, 1843    William McKinley
William McKinley | whitehouse.gov
William McKinley - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com with a video
William McKinley - Wikipedia 
January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901, 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination in September 1901. McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish–American War, raised protective tariffs to promote American industry, and maintained the nation on the gold standard in a rejection of inflationary proposals.... 
William McKinley is born - Jan 29, 1843 - HISTORY.com
Presidents   
William McKinley    #25

12246 170129     born January 29, 1874    John D. Rockefeller Jr.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. - Philanthropist - Biography.com
John D. Rockefeller Jr. - Wikipedia 
January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960, an American financier and philanthropist who was a prominent member of the Rockefeller family. He was the only son among the five children of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller and the father of the five famous Rockefeller brothers. ...
Rockefeller Center - Wikipedia
List of philanthropists - Wikipedia
Ohio


12245 170128  Putin's 2017 NYE Address Full Speech - YouTube  RT 

12244 170128  Chinese New Year,  New Moon (Jan. 28, 2017, Rooster)  Letter (only in Japanese) レター 25      When is Chinese New Year? 
China's Lunar New Year holiday to become global 'Golden Week' - Global Times
Xi's Lunar New Year speech inspires nation - Global Times
Chinese President Xi Jinping's 2017 New Year Address - YouTube
Chinese New Year - Holidays - HISTORY.com


12243 170128     born January 28, 1912    Jackson Pollock
Biography.com  Jackson Pollock
Top Twenty Jackson Pollock Paintings - YouTube
Art with Mati and Dada – Jackson Pollock | Kids Animated Short Stories in English - YouTube
Jackson Pollock - Wikipedia 
January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956, an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting....
Art  

12242 170128     born January 28, 1841    Henry Morton Stanley
BBC - History - Historic Figures: Henry Stanley (1841 - 1904)
Henry Morton Stanley's Unbreakable Will I Smithsonian
Stanley and Livingstone Movie Clip "Dr Livingstone, I Presume" - YouTube
Henry Morton Stanley - Wikipedia  Sir Henry Morton Stanley GCB, born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904, a Welsh-American journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Upon finding Livingstone, Stanley reportedly asked, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Stanley is also known for his search for the source of the Nile, ...
Explorers


12241 170128     R.I.P.    John Hurt    January 27, 2017
John Hurt, versatile star of The Elephant Man, Alien and Harry Potter, dies aged 77 | The Guardian
John Hurt - Wikipedia  Sir John Vincent Hurt, CBE, 22 January 1940 – 27 January 2017, an English actor and voice actor whose career spanned six decades. He initially came to prominence for his supporting role as Richard Rich in the film A Man for All Seasons (1966). After this, he played leading roles as Quentin Crisp in the film The Naked Civil Servant (1975), John Merrick in David Lynch's biopic The Elephant Man (1980), Winston Smith in the dystopian drama Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), Mr. Braddock in the Stephen Frears drama The Hit (1984), and Stephen Ward in the drama depicting the Profumo affair, Scandal (1989). He is also known for his television roles such as Caligula in I, Claudius (1976), and the War Doctor in Doctor Who
The Elephant man part 1  
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John Hurt - IMDb
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone Harry's Wand - YouTube
Harry Potter Deathly Hallow's Part 2 - Mr Olivander Checking The Wand's - YouTube

our Harry Potter page

12240 170127  Sentinels of a Northern Sky  "Astronomy Photo of the Day" by NASA  January 10, 2017
Astronomy  |  Minnesota Winter photos

12239 170127  Robotic food delivery is rolling into the United States in February | Popular Science

12238 170127  You Are Probably Doing This Online and You Need to Stop Immediately  Popular Science

12237 170127    born January 27, 1756     Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Mozart Biography  Austrian composer, pianist, songwriter
The Best of Mozart - YouTube

When Beethoven met Mozart for the first time! - YouTube

Amadeus (1984) - IMDb
my favorite scene from Amadeus - YouTube
Mozart Vs Salieri - YouTube
Mozart and Salieri 'lost' composition played in Prague - BBC News  Feb. 16, 2016 ... Deadly jealousy? "It is false. Salieri did not poison Mozart, but they both worked in Vienna and were competitors." ... What the 1984 film Amadeus gets wrong ...
Happy Birthday, by Beethoven Bach Mozart - Nicole Pesce on piano - YouTube
Music   

12236 170127     born January 27, 1832    Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll - Author - Biography.com
Lewis Carroll - Wikipedia  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. ...
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) - IMDb
Alice Through the Looking Glass Clip Compilation (2016) - YouTube


12235 170126  Hydrogen turned into metal in stunning act of alchemy that could revolutionise technology and spaceflight | The Independent
Metallic hydrogen, once theory, becomes reality  Phys.org
Silvera Group: High Pressure Physics Harvard Univ.


12234 170126  Layer Cake Sunset  "Astronomy Photo of the Day" by NASA  January 20, 2017
Astronomy

12233 170126     born January 26, 1891    Frank Costello
Frank "the Prime Minister" Costello - Organized Crime - Biography.com
Frank Costello | The Mob Museum
Frank Costello - Wikipedia
  Frank "the Prime Minister" Costello, born Francesco Castiglia; January 26, 1891 – February 18, 1973, an Italian-American gangster and crime boss. Costello rose to the top of the United States underworld, controlled a vast gambling empire across the United States, and enjoyed political influence.
Nicknamed "The Prime Minister of the Underworld," he became one of the most powerful and influential
mob bosses in American history, eventually leading the Luciano crime family (later called the Genovese crime family), one of the Five Families that operates in New York City.

Mobsters Frank Costello - YouTube
Gangsters


12232 170126  38 Stunning Photos From Women's Marches Around The World | The Huffington Post  Women's Marches, Jan. 21, 2017
Most marches on Washington are about politics. The Women’s March was about parenting, too. - The Washington Post
More Than 1 Million Rally at Women's Marches in US and Around World - ABC News
The Radical Possibility of the Women’s March - The New Yorker
The Much Needed Humor of the Women’s March - The New Yorker
Women's March in St. Paul MN draws an estimated 90,000 to 100,000  Pioneer Press
2017 Women's March - Wikipedia
Women's Rights

12231 170126  First Australian penal colony established - Jan 26, 1788 - HISTORY.com
Australian History - Penal Colonies - YouTube
Australia Day - Wikipedia 
National Day of Australia. Celebrated annually on 26 January, it marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, and the raising of the Flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by Governor Arthur Phillip. In present-day Australia, celebrations ...
Australia. History of Australia in 10 minutes. - YouTube

12230 170125  Balancing natural priorities  Deutsche Welle, 01/23/2017
Conservation

12229 170125  US no longer a 'full democracy,' but it's not Trump's fault: Report - AOL News

12228 170125    R.I.P.    Mary Tyler Moore    January 25, 2017        
Mary Tyler Moore, beloved TV actress, dies at 80 - CNN.com   
Mary Tyler Moore, groundbreaking television actor, dies aged 80 | The Guardian

born December 29, 1936    Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore - Actress - Biography.com  videos
A bronze statue of Mary Tyler Moore's iconic hat toss,  Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mary Tyler Moore - Wikipedia  December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017
, an American actress, known for her roles in the television sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a thirty-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis; and The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966), in which she played Laura Petrie, a former dancer turned Westchester homemaker, wife and mother. ...
New York  |  Minnesota's Famous People

12227 170125    born January 24, 1941    Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond - Songwriter, Singer - Biography.com
Neil Diamond - Topic - YouTube
Neil Diamond - Wikipedia  born January 24, 1941, an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor.
Neil Diamond. Solitary Man.Documentary. Part 1. - YouTube 1&2  not available: 3 &4
Music
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12226 170125  World's largest diamond found | This Day History  On January 25, 1905, at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa, a 3,106-carat diamond is discovered ...
The Cullinan Diamond | Priceless Pieces - YouTube
Cullinan Diamond- The largest gem-quality diamond ever found - YouTube
JMAsscher
Cullinan Diamond - Wikipedia


12225 170124  The 42 Best Foods For a Good Night's Sleep  MSN, Zero Belly
Foods
 
12224 170124  20 Foods That Keep You Young  MSN, Men's Fitness
Foods

12223 170124  Picturesque small towns in every state  MSN, USA TODAY
America

12222 170124     born January 24, 1712    Frederick the Great (Frederick II)
Frederick II  biography.com

Frederick the Great and the Enigma of Prussia 1-5 - YouTube  Part 1 > 5
Frederick the Great - Wikipedia 
Frederick II, 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786, King of Prussia from 1740 until 1786, the longest reign of any Hohenzollern king. His most significant accomplishments during his reign included his military victories, his reorganization of Prussian armies, his patronage of the arts and the Enlightenment in Prussia, and his final success against great odds in the Seven Years' War. Frederick was the last titled King in Prussia and declared himself King of Prussia after achieving full sovereignty for all historical Prussian lands. ...
Frederick II - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com


12221 170124  Gold discovered at Sutter’s Creek - Jan 24, 1848 - HISTORY.com
The Start of the California Gold Rush (1849) - YouTube    

California Gold Rush - Wikipedia

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California
10707 160114  Gold Rush
The Gold Rush of 1849 - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com
The Start of the California Gold Rush (1849) - YouTube  California
American Experience | The Gold Rush | PBS
Klondike Gold Rush - Wikipedia   Canada
Home | The Klondike Gold Rush | PBS
1898 Alaska Klondike Gold Rush Story, Dawson City, Yukon River - YouTube
The American West 05 - Gold in the Black Hills (1874) - from Timelines.tv - YouTube  South Dakota
The Start of the California Gold Rush (1849) - YouTube
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