January 19th - Today is the 19th day of the year, with only 346 days remaining in 2006.

Cloning Patent Day
In 2000, the U.S. biotechnology company Geron Corporation, which had bought the Scottish research company formed by those who had cloned Dolly the sheep, won the first UK patents for cloning. The patents covered the nuclear transfer technology used to create Dolly in 1996.


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
FULL MOON - Jan 14   9:47 a.m.
LAST QUARTER - Jan 22   3:14 p.m.
NEW MOON - Jan 29   2:15 p.m.
FIRST QUARTER - Feb 5   6:28 a.m.


TAGLINES (http://taglinesgalore.com)
- Book Title: Cloning, written by Irma Dubble II
- Book title: Cheaper than IBM, written by P.C. Clone.
- Cloning is the sincerest form of flattery.
- I think I'm a clone now, and every pair of genes is a hand-me-down.
- Jurassic Park accidentally clones Barneys...world doomed!
- Let him who is without kin grow the first clone.
- Make love, not clones!
- My neighbor is so avant-garde, for Christmas he bought his daughter the first cloned doll.
- Science is to be practiced seriously. No cloning around.
- Seen pushing clone off bell tower; busted for obscene clone falls!
- To clone a felon, do I use the COPY CON command?
- What are vanilla, vanilla and vanilla? Ice-cream clones.


ACTING -
1922 Guy Madison (Robert Moseley), Bakersfield CA, actor (Wild Bill Hickok) [D: 02/06/96]
1923 Jean Stapleton, NYC, actress (Damn Yankees, Klute, All in the Family)
1924 Nicholas Colasanto, Providence RI, actor (Coach-Cheers) TV director (CHiPS) [D: 02/12/85]
1930 Nathalie "Tippi" Hedren, New Ulm MN, actress (The Birds, Marnie)
1931 Robert MacNeil, Montreal Canada, news anchor/journalist (The MacNeil/Lehrer Report)
1944 Shelly Fabares, Santa Monica CA, actress (Donna Reed Show, Coach)
1953 Desi Arnaz Jr, LA CA, actor (Craig-Here's Lucy, Fakeout, Joyride)
1961 Paul McCrane, Philadephila PA, actor (Dr Romano-ER, The Shawshank Redemption)
1971 Shawn Wayans, NYC, actor (In Living Color, Scary Movie I/II)

ARTISTIC -
1809 Edgar Allan Poe, Boston MA, author (Pit & the Pendulum) [D: 10/07/1849]
1932 Richard Lester, Philadelphia PA, movie director (Hard Day's Night, Help!, Superman II/III)

HISTORIC -
1807 Robert E. Lee, Westmoreland County VA, Confederate general [D: 10/12/1870]
1943 Princess Margriet Francisca, Ontario Canada, seventh in line to the Dutch throne
1944 Peter Lynch, Wall Street broker/president Fidelity Investments
1993 John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, son of Caroline Kennedy

MUSIC -
1917 John Raitt, Santa Ana CA, musical theater/Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame [D: 02/20/2005]
1939 Phil Everly, Chicago IL, singer (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie)
1943 Janis Joplin, Port Arthur TX, blues rock singer (Mercedes-Benz) [D: 10/04/70]
1946 Dolly Rebecca Parton, Sevierville TN, country singer/actress (Dolly, 9 to 5)
1949 Robert Palmer, Batley England, rocker (Addicted to Love, Simply Irresistible) [D: 09/26/2003]
1952 Dewey Bunnell, Yorkshire England, folk-rock (America-Horse With No Name, Sandman)

SCIENCE -
1736 James Watt, Greenock Scotland, inventor (steam engine) [D: 1819]
1904 James Winston Watts, developer (Frontal Lobotomy) [D: 11/15/90]

SPORTS -
1913 Minnesota Fats (Rudolph Walter Wanderone Jr.), Nashville TN, best known U.S. pool player /Hall of Fame [D: 01/15/96]
1932 Joe Schmidt, Pittsburgh PA, NFL Hall of Fame linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1944 Dan Reeves, Americus GA, NFL Coach (most Super Bowl appearances as player or coach with 9)
1969 Tiaina Seau, Jr., San Diego CA, NFL linebacker (Chargers) 12 Pro Bowls


1825 Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans.
1840 Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
1903 New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced.
1919 "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 meters high x 25 meters wide kills dozens in Boston.
1920 US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations.
1937 Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
1939 Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 seconds.
1953 68% of all United States television sets were tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
1955 "Scrabble" debuts on board game market.
1972 Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, and Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame.
1977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose).
1981 United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
1989 President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
AtiAtihan Festival - Philippines
Ethiopian Epiphany (Timket) - Ethiopia


THE MODERN FAMILY
A modern mother is explaining to her little girl about pictures in the family photo album. "This is the geneticist with your surrogate mother and here's your sperm donor and your father's clone. This is me holding you when you were just a frozen embryo. The lady with the very troubled look on her face is your aunt, a genealogist."


The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. - Lewis Thomas, US author, biologist, physician


PERFUME RIP-OFF: Eau de clone. (WordFoolery)

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