Ø TODAY’s “Geez”:
· 1652 - New Amsterdam (now NYC) passes 1st speed limit law in US
· 1942 - FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
· 1950 - US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam
· 1967 - The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
· 1985 - Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is decertified
Ø Free Rambling Thoughts…
It’s a small world. I’m Facebook friends with three of the safari guides from South Africa. They all have moved around to various venues since I was there. When I was watching the news clips I thought one of the guides looked familiar. This morning he posted on his wall that he in fact was one of four guides that took our first lady, the two kids, and grandma on a safari. Obama remains very popular with the South Africans. He was pretty happy about the experience.
Later in the day I got sad news that one of the cops I knew from the Rez had been shot and killed when responding to a family disturbance in Kaibeto. When I was a Kaibeto, he had a small room with a phone line, and a police radio in one of the non-functioning dorms. He was a good guy. Prayers go to the family of Sgt. Darrell Curley.
Then, when I got on FB this evening I discovered that our governor is writing a book--Scorpions for Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media and Cynical Politicos to Secure America’s Border." Great! I get that she has an agenda. It just doesn’t seem right that she is doing this while she is governor. She has talked numerous times about how hard it is to be governor. Now she has time to write a book. Really? While I am sure she will be the Lady in Shining Armor who is put in office when the elected governor went to DC, who is saving our state. Of course, all this will bring more bad press to AZ as people will believe her stories of beheaded people in our desert, drug runners hiring kids as mules, and how, without her our state would be a mess. It’s being published by Broadside Books which is a new subsidiary of Harper Collins that advertises publishing non-fiction conservative books for today’s conservative. We all have to wait until Nov. 1 to get our own copy.
Bob, my traveler on the called and is back from Italy. The group had a great time. Now he is getting ready for the Colorado River trip. Sounds good to me.
Ø Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)
1. The Strait of Gibraltar connects the Atlantic Ocean with which Sea?
2. The airline Danair is based where?
3. Which mountainous European country is divided into cantons?
4. Portugal lies east of which ocean?
5. Which English location would the French call Douvres?
6. In Greenland, a native of the country might be called Inuit or what?
7. Which country is also called the Hellenic Republic?
8. In Norway, a fjord is made up largely of what?
9. Majorca is part of which group of islands?
10. Tuscany is part of which country?
11. What is Europe's most mountainous country?
12. The province of Calabria is at the southernmost tip of which county?
13. What is the currency of Spain?
Ø Zoom-ed in Picture…Can you Identify what this is? (Answer at end of post)
Ø Hmmmmm…
· Date that the United Farm Workers began ‘Take Our Jobs’—a campaing asking legal US residents to work as farm laborers: 6/24/2010
Ø Somewhat Useless Information…
· Benjamin Franklin was the first head of the United States Post Office.
· The first macaroni factory in the United States was established in 1848. It was started by Antoine Zegera in Brooklyn, New York.
· The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. It was published in New Haven, Connecticut, by the New Haven District Telephone Company in February, 1878.
· The A&P was the first chain store business to be established. It began in 1842.
· The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was the first novel ever to be written on a typewriter. It was typed on a Remington in 1875 by Mark Twain himself. Twain did not want that fact known because he didn't want to write testimonials or answer questions about this "newfangled thing."
· King George VI of England became the first British monarch to set foot on American soil when he visited the World's Fair in New York City in 1939.
Ø Yeah, It Really Happened…
BOULDER, Colo. - Police in Colorado said a man spotted in the tank of a portable toilet at the Hanuman Yoga Festival escaped capture while "covered in feces." Boulder police said a woman who entered the portable toilet Friday suspected there was someone hiding under a tarp in the tank, which had been heavily used, and informed a security officer, The Denver Post reported Wednesday. The officer witnessed a man police said was shirtless, shoeless and "covered in feces" exit the portable toilet a short time later, but the suspect successfully fled on foot. The man, described as white and about 20 years old, was identified by some witnesses as a transient who calls himself Sky. Boulder police spokeswoman Kim Kobel said investigators do not know how the man, estimated to be between 6-foot-4 and 6-foot-8, managed to fit into the small tank. The man is being sought on a charge of criminal attempt to make unlawful sexual contact.
Ø Guffaw…or at least smile…
At a bar, one patron to another: “Excuse me but I think you owe me a drink.”
Why?
“You’re so ugly that I dropped mine when I saw you”
Ø Searchin’ “You Tube” I found…
Ø Daybook Information…
…Happening This Week:
26-7/2
· National Mosquito Control Awareness Week
· National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness
· Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week
Ø TODAY IS
· Decide To Be Married Day
· "Happy Birthday To You" Day
· National Columnists Day
· National HIV Testing Day
· Please Take My Children To Work Day
· Djibouti: Independence Day (1977 from France)
Ø Today’s Events:
… IN ARTS
1964 - Jan & Dean release "Little Old Lady From Pasadena"
1966 - 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premieres on ABC-TV
1974 - "Flip Wilson Show," last airs on NBC-TV
… IN ATHLETICS
1939 - Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 2-2, in 23 innings
… IN BUSINESS
1693 - 1st woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London)
1929 - 1st color TV demo (NYC)
1955 - 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
1977 - 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
… IN EDUCATION
1833 - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn
1922 - Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)
… FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1879 - The Drifting Goose Reserve will be created out of townsites number 119, 120, and 121 north, of range 63 west in the Dakota Territory today. It is created for the "MAG-A-BO-DAS or DRIFTING GOOSE Band of the Yankton Sioux "
… IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain
1990 - Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims … IN RELIGION
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… IN SCIENCE
1923 - Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
1954 - 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)
… IN US POLITICS
1934 - Federal Savings & Loan Association created
1950 - North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict
1963 - Pres Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland
1969 - Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days
… ARTISTS: AUTHORS: COMPOSERS
1808 - Everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher (The Guide)
…ATHLETES
Johnny Estrada, American baseball player, turns 36
1913 - Willie Mosconi, world champion pool player (1941-57)
…ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
Drake Bell, actor, songwriter turns 25
Julia Duffy , actor , turns 60
1862 - May Irwin, US comedienne/singer (Hot Time in the Old Town)
Khloe Kardashian, actress, real estate , turns 27
1927 - Bob Keeshan, aka Capt Kangaroo/Clarabelle (Good Morning)
Tobey Maguire, actor turns 36
1907 - John McIntire, actor (Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian)
1959 - Trisha Yearwood, singer (She's in Love With the Boy), turns 52
… ENTREPRENEUR & EDUCATORS
1905 - Ruby Middleton Forsythe, teacher (50 years in 1 room school in SC)
1869 - Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher (Mother Earth)
1880 - Helen Keller, blind-deaf author/lecturer
…POLITICIANS
1938 - Bruce E Babbitt, secretary of interior, AZ governor , turns 73
1930 - H Ross Perot, billionaire/presidental candidate (1992) , turns 81
…SCIENTISTS / THEOLOGISTS
1946 - Sally Priesand, 1st us woman rabbi , turns 65
Ø Today’s Obits:
2002 - John Entwistle, bass-player with The Who dies in his sleep of a heart attack at 57
1987 - Jackie Gleason, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners), dies of diabetes and phlebitis at 71
2005 - Frank Harte, Traditional Irish Singer and song collector dies at 72 ( The Traveler All Over The World)
1776 - Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed
2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor dies at 76
1986 - Don Rogers, of Cleveland Browns, dies of cocaine poisoning at 23
1829 - James Smithson, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute. Dies after long illness at 65
1844 - Joseph Smith Jr, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob at 38
2009 - Gale Storm, TV Personality dies at 87
Ø ANSWERS:
Ø Trivia Quiz
Mediterranean
2. The airline Danair is based where?
Denmark
3. Which mountainous European country is divided into cantons?
Switzerland
4. Portugal lies east of which ocean?
Atlantic
5. Which English location would the French call Douvres?
Dover
6. In Greenland, a native of the country might be called Inuit or what?
Eskimo
7. Which country is also called the Hellenic Republic?
Greece
8. In Norway, a fjord is made up largely of what?
Water
9. Majorca is part of which group of islands?
Balearics
10. Tuscany is part of which country?
Italy
11. What is Europe's most mountainous country?
Switzerland
12. The province of Calabria is at the southernmost tip of which county?
Italy
13. What is the currency of Spain?
Peseta
Ø Close Up Picture
Ø …AND THAT’S ALL FOR NOW
