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January 20th, 2011
This Week's High and Low Temps and Precipitation
Based on Observations at Pembina, North Dakota
Date High Low Snowfall
Tue. Jan 18th 5 -19 0
Mon. Jan 17th 10 -15 2.0"
Sun. Jan 16th -7 -15 .4
Sat. Jan 15th 15 -13 3.0
Fri. Jan 14th 16 -2 2.0
Thu. Jan 13th 10 4 Trace
Sunrise/Sunset Table For Drayton, North Dakota
U.S. Naval Observatory Data
Date Sunrise Sunset
"Thu. Jan 20th 8:12 a.m. 5:08 p.m.
Fri Jan 21st 8:11 am 5:10 pm
8:10a m
Sat Jan 22nd
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Sun Jan 23rd
5:11 pm
8:09 am 5:13 pm
Mon Jan 24th 8:08 am 5:14 pm
Tue Jan 25th 8:07 am 5:16 pm
Wed Jan 26th 8:06 am 5:17 pm
Valley News
& Views
Wednesday Wednesday
Ni, ht
Partly
Sunny
Hi 4 °F
Thursday Friday Friday Saturday Saturday
Ni ht Ni ht Nic
Thursday
Blustery
Hi -9 °F
Slight Chc Partly Mostly Mostly
Snow Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy
Lo -9 °F Lo -25 °F Lo -10 °F Lo -15 °F
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Chance
Snow
Hi -1 °F
Mostly
Cloudy
Hi -1 °F
Wednesday Night: A 20
percent chance of snow
showers. Mostly cloudy, with
a low around -9. W'md chill
values as low as -32. Blustery,
with a southwest wind 7 to
10 mph becoming north
northwest between 19 and
22 mph. Winds could gust as
high as 28 mph.
Thursday: Mostly sunny and
cold, with a high near -9.
Wind chill values as low as
-34. Blustery, with a north
northwest wind 19 to 22
mph decreasing to between
11 and 14 mph. Winds could
gust as high as 29 mph.
Thursday Night: Partly
cloudy, with a low around
-25. West northwest wind 5
to 10 mph becoming south
southeast.
Friday: A 40 percent chance
of snow. Mostly cloudy, with
a high near-1.
Friday Night: Mostly cloudy,
with a low around -10.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy,
with a high near - 1.
Saturday Night: Mostly
cloudy, with a low around -
15.
Sunday: Partly sunny, with a
high near 7.
Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy,
with a low around 2.
Monday: Mostly cloudy, with
a high near 13.
Monday Night: Mostly
cloudy, with a low around 3.
Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, with
a high near 17.
ASK THE OLD ]:ARME l'S ALMANAC
What are some superstitions ed3out spiders.C?
]Stj Ro]aert B. Thomas
JAN. 17, MONDAY
- Martin Luther King Jr.'s
Birthday (observed). Moon
at descending node. U.S.
First Lady Michelle Obama
born, 1964.
JAN. 18, TUESDAY --
Twenty-seven degrees below
zero F, Watts, Oklahoma,
1930. A 1/2-pound meteorite
crashed through the office
of Dr. Frank Ciampi, Lorton,
Virginia, 2010.
JAN. 19, WEDNESDAY -
- Full Wolf Moon. Explorer
Charles Wilkes claimed
discovery of Antarctica,
1840. Singer Wilson Pickett
died, 2006.
JAN. 20, THURSDAY
- National Hockey League
season began after 103-day
lockout, 1995. Two feet of
snow fell in New Hampshire
in what became known as
the "Kennedy Inaugural
Storm," 1961.
JAN. 21, FRIDAY --
Moon at perigee. Kiwanis
International founded, 1915.
Song "Over the Rainbow, ....
by Arlen and Harburg,
copyrighted, 1939.
JAN. 22, SATURDAY -- St.
Vincent. Moon on equator.
Madeleine Albright became
the first female secretary of
state after confirmation by
the U.S. Senate, 1997.
JAN. 23, SUNDAY -- Third
Sunday after Epiphany. Duke
Ellington played at New York
City's Carnegie Hall for the
first time, 1943. Patience is
the door of joy.
THE OLD FARMER'S
ALMANAC WEEKLY
RIDDLE
Q. What is the most
commanding date on the
calendar?
A: March 4th.
ASK THE OLD FARMER'S
ALMANAC: I am collecting
superstitions about spiders.
Do you know of any? -J. L.,
Moore, Okla.
Answer: Lots. Spiders
have been considered
highly reliable weather
prognosticators for many
centuries, so the weather lore
concerning spiders is almost
infinite. Here are just a few:
"Early morning cobwebs
predict a fair day, .... It's a
sign of rain when spiders
abandon their webs," or "It's
a sign of rain when spiders
spin webs in the grass during
Indian summer."
In England, a small
spider may be called a
• "money spider" or a "money
spinner," and it is considered
lucky, especially if it lands on
you, foretelling great wealth
or prosperity. Contrary to
what the bride might guess,
finding a spider on a wedding
dress is also considered very
good luck. ' spider in the
morning is a sign of sorrow.
A spider at noon brings
worry for tomorrow. / A
spider in the afternoon is a
sign of a gift; / but a spider
in the evening will all hopes
uplift." In Tahiti, spiders
are the gods' shadows. An
African proverb says, "When
spider webs unite, they can
tie up a lion." Many cultures
agree that to kill a spider
brings bad luck. "If you wish
to live and thrive, let a spider
run alive."
In folk remedies, spiders'
webs have been considered
indispensable for stopping
bleeding, by helping to
induce clotting. It's true that
the web can help make blood
coagulate, but some believe
that a spider's powers are
even stronger. Amulets have
been made of spiders held
inside nutshells or contained
in a pouch and worn around
the neck to' ward off evil,
contagion, fever, or other
ills. The age-old belief that
witches put spiders in their
brews probably stems from
the mistaken idea that
many spiders are highly
poisonous.
ASK TIlE OLD FARMER'S
ALMANAC: Are political
nicknames and slogans as
popular today as they once
were? -C. A., Essex Junction,
Vt.
Answer: Tough to know.
You'd probably have to wait
a hundred years to see what
the history books say. Of
course, we've heard "Tricky.
Dick" for Nixon, a negative
nickname that was probably
helped, in some part, by its
rhyming nature. Whether
the more positive campaign
names stick in our minds --
the way "Honest Abe" did --
remains to be seen. FDR for
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
and JFK for John Fitzgerald
Kennedy were both used as
if they were nicknames and
seem to denote honor.
Harry S. Truman was
honored with a campaign
slogan that had all the
possibilities of a long-lasting
tag: The Republicans chanted
"To err is Truman." He won
despiteitscleverness,though,
and it still didn't catch on as
he worked his way through
his term of office. On the
other hand, you don't have
to read the history books to
know about "Tippecanoe
and Tyler, too" for William
Henry Harrison and his
running mate, John Tyler. It
had a ring and a rhythm to
it, and somehow it stuck --
much longer than the man
who earned the office, who
died of a cold a month after
his inauguration.
"Stonewall" Jackson,
otherwise known as Thomas
Jonathan Jackson, made his
fame at the Battle of Bull
Run, where he and his men
made a solid obstacle. "There
is Jackson, standing like a
stone wall!" stated Brigadier
General Bernard Bee on
July 21, 1861. The nickname
gained wide popularity,
as did Jackson, who was
considered the Confederate's
best general next to Robert E.
Lee. Jackson didn't live to see
his 40th birthday however;
he was mortally wounded,
having been accidentally
shot by friendly fire.
ASK THE OLD FARMER'S
ALMANAC: Can you tell me
what is meant by a "stone
sloop" in the old maritime
logs?-K. M., Orleans, Mass.
Answer: Well, a sloop,
as you probably know, is a
single-masted sailboat, with
the sail rigged fore and aft.
It might or might not have
a bowsprit, but it will have
some sort of headsail. And a
stone sloop, as it sounds, is a
sloop that carries stone--not
one made of stone. Stone
sloops abounded around
the time when the granite
quarries were most active,
along the New England coast
from Rockport, Maine, to take much of a rough wind
Rockport, Massachusetts, or churning sea to set the
and some ways north and hull timbers creaking, the
south of those. Shipping pumps pumping, and the
stone by water was far stone headed to the bottom
cheaper than shipping it by of the ocean. Wise captains
land, but as you might guess, steered close to shore and
sailing a load of stone to its kept a good weather watch.
destination was a slow and Copyright 2010, Yankee
trickypropositionatbest.The Publishing Inc. Distributed
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Marlin Luder King
Jr. 's Birthday (obsen,ed)
Full Wo(f Moon
Old Farmer's u,.,,.
Almanac Best day, to grafi or
pollinate
Best days to begin a
die¢ to lose weight
artin Luther King |r.'$
birthday is observed
on January I 7 this year. He
w,s actually born on Janu-
ary 15. 1929, just 2 days
before BenFranklin's
birthday on the 17th. The
two lived more than two centuries
apart, but shared a commitment to
nonviolence. Benjamin Franklin
was a statesman and diplo-
mat during the American
Revolution, a time of hot
tempe and impromptu tea
parties. Martin Luther King
Jr. was born in a time of
American segregation and
civil injustice and was awarded a
Nobel peace prize for his leader-
ship in nonviolent protests.
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• If you bruise easily, add more vitamin C to your diet.
• On January 18. 1911, Eugene Ely proved that planes
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30 Sends money in
payment
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market
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48 Expectorated matter
50 Tamping tool
52 Japanese monetary
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pieces
63 Roman Catholic
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administration
64 Roth
66 Pressed beverage
68 Chubby
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70 Deteriorate
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9 Wooer
10 "In of"
11 Inquires
12 Word that expresses
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20 As opposed to wants
22 Broadcasting medium
24 Make saw-toothed
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26 The fourth or lowest
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32 In a cold manner
33 Not those
34 *Number of classical
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36 What's left after
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38 Lowest brass wind
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49 Legendary West
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sign of fishes
54 Trinity or triad
56 Nigerian monetary unit
57 Look for and gather
58 Starch from
cuckoopint root
59 Archaic word for
steals or pilfers
60 *Named after Roman
god of war
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