June 8

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

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Free Rambling Thoughts   

A nice day, but I am suffering from a summer cold with stuffy nose and light cough. Boring. Our retirement group had a nice lunch downtown today. None of us likes to try and park downtown, so we took one vehicle and actually easily found a spot. Downtown is OK, but I still have little reason to go there. We had a good lunch at Heritage Square, in the center of downtown. The place, which was a high end hamburger joint, was cash only...interesting. We walked around to several stores and they too would only take plastic with a $10 purchase. It’s their choice but I find it strange.

I heard an interesting story today regarding tax breaks for the wealthy and for big corporations. Someone asked why the existing tax breaks have not created jobs to get us out this mess. There was a long silence…then some mumble jumble about more time being needed. I’m not buying the time thing.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game—A close up picture of what?

NPR Sunday Puzzle The Nouveau-Fame Name Game

Given names of people who became famous during the past twelve months, whom you probably never heard of before 2007. The player tells why they're famous.

NOTE: This is an old-er puzzle

1.     Lisa Nowak: NASA:

2.     Nicholas Sarkozi:

3.     Sanjaya Malakar:

4.     Joey Chestnut: 66: 12 minutes:

5.     Mark Ecko: $750,000 paid:

6.     Julian Gibbons: school teacher:

7.     Andrew Mayer: student: ‘Don’t Taze me bro”

8.     Charles Simonyi: paid $20 million: for ride on space shuttle

9.     Trouble: Maltese Dog: $12 million inheritance from Leona Hensley

What is the answer?

Which of the following words is the odd-one-out?IBIS IBEX ORYX SIKA ZEBU

3x3 Word Boxes

The answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc. Can you solve these Word Boxes? Each answer is 3 letters.1.              tree species
2.              sheltered side
3.              adult males

Lifestyle  Substance     

Summer Songs of the 1960’s

• Running Bear
, Johnny Preston 1960 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (3 weeks)

• Leaving On A Jet Plane
, Peter, Paul & Mary 1969 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (1 week)

• Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In
, The Fifth Dimension  1969 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (6 weeks)

• Mr. Tambourine Man
, The Byrds 1965 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (1 week)

Harper’s Index         

Width, in feet, of the narrowest home in NYC: 9.5

Found on You Tube 

        The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day

Peter was telling a friend that he had just lost his job. “Why did the foreman fire you?” the friend asked in surprise.“Oh,” Peter said, “you know how foreman are. They stand around with their hands in their pockets watching everybody else work.”“We all know that,” replied his friend. “But why did he let you go?”“Jealousy,” answered Pete. “All the other workers thought I was the foreman.”

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

The value of a finished pond is roughly three times the cost of constructing it.

Yeah, It Really Happened

WHISTLER, British Columbia - Police in Whistler, British Columbia, say officers shot and killed a black bear that swatted a man on the head as he relaxed in a backyard hot tub. The 55-year-old Coquitlam man had his back to the woods while soaking in the hot tub Sunday afternoon when a blow from behind knocked him over in the tub, police said in a statement Monday. When he turned around, he found himself staring at the bruin. He yelled at the animal and made his way into the house to call police. Police found the bear about 100 yards away in the forest and shot it. The man was treated for cuts on his head.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• After making a touchdown one Sunday afternoon in 1960, Tommy McDonald of the Philadelphia Eagles heaved the football into the stands instead of handing it to the ref. Sports historians refer to that gesture as the first "post-touchdown celebration."

• In 1965, wide receiver Homer Jones of the New York Giants pounded the ball at the ground after a touchdown - the first reported "spike." Eight years later, Isaac Curtis of the Cincinnati Bengals put a new spin on the spike when he tossed the ball backward over his shoulder after crossing the goal line.

• In 1973, Elmo Wright celebrated his touchdown with a high-stepping, running-in-place interlude before spiking the ball. The next season, Billy "White Shoes" Johnson turned the end into a cabaret as he performed his own version of the Funky Chicken after scoring.

• In 2003, wide receiver Joe Horn of the New Orleans Saints was fined $30,000 after an end-zone call to his mother during a game against the Giants. After he scored a touchdown, a teammate handed him a cell phone that had been concealed in the padding around the goal post.

• It was the Washington Redskins and the collective high-five performed by their "Fun Bunch" that finally made the NFL clamp down on excessive end-zone celebrations after the 1984 season.

• U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is a lifelong football fan. Her favorite touchdown celebration is the Ickey Shuffle, popularized by running back Elbert "Ickey" Woods of the Cincinnati Bengals.
           

For AZ centennial celebration: town names

• Tacna, AZ: in Yuma County, population is 555, total area of 1.9 square miles, the racial makeup of the CDP was 66.67% White, 1.08% Black or African American, 0.72% Native American, 0.54% Asian, 25.41% from other races, and 5.59% from two or more races. 50.81% of the population is Hispanic or Latino of any race.

• Tempe, AZ: in Maricopa County, also known as Hayden's Ferry during the territorial times, , population of 161,719, Hohokam initially lived in this area and built canals to support their agriculture, Pioneer Darrell Duppa is credited with suggesting Tempe's name, adopted in 1879, after comparing the Salt River valley near a 300-foot (91 m)-tall butte, to the Vale of Tempe near Mount Olympus 

• Tombstone, AZ: in Cochise County, population is 1,562, 4.3 sq mi (11.1 km2), from about 1877 to 1890, the town's mines produced USD $40 to $85 million in silver bullion,, one of the last wide-open frontier boomtowns in the American Old West, "The only rock you will find out there will be your own tombstone", where the now-famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place

• Tumacacori, AZ: in Santa Cruz County, population is 393, area of 6.2 square miles, Tumacacori is the site of a Franciscan mission that was built in the late 18th century, takes its name from an earlier mission site founded by Father Eusebio Kino in 1691, The racial makeup of the CDP was 76.98% White, 0.18% Black or African American, 1.05% Native American, 1.58% Asian, 17.57% from other races, and 2.64% from two or more races. 58.00% of the population is Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

2-8

   Black Single Parents Week
   International Clothesline Week
   National Business Etiquette Week
   National Headache Awareness Week

   (World) Dystonia Awareness Week
4-9

   National Sun Safety Week
   National Tire Safety Week

7-10

   Superman Week

Today Is                                                                      

Banana Split Day

Name Your Poison Day

National Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Upsy Daisy Day

World Ocean Day

Today’s Other Events                                                             

Before 1000CE

65: Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem

1700’s

1786: Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr Hall, NYC)

1789: James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House

1800’s

1829: 1st UK municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool

1861: People of Tennessee vote to secede from Union

1889: Cable Cars begin service in LA

1896: 1st car is stolen

1900’s

1915: William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State

1918: Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered

1936: 1st parking meters are invented

1940: Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced

1949: Siam changes name to Thailand

1953: Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court

1962: Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8)

1966: Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages

1968: James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, captured

1969: "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," last airs on CBS-TV

1988: Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%

1991: Victory parade held in Wash DC (Persian Gulf War)

2000’s

2004: Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Remembered for being born on this day

Giovanni D Cassini, Perinaldo, France, discoverer (4 moons of Saturn) in 1625

Robert Preston, Newton MA, actor (Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter) in 1918

Suharto, general/president Indonesia in 1921

Byron R ‘Whizzer’ White, Ft Collins, NFLer/Supreme Court Justice (1962-93) in 1917

Frank Lloyd Wright, Richland Center Wisc, master builder (Guggenheim) in 1867

In their 80’s

Barbara Pierce Bush, Flushing, New York, US 1st lady (1989-93) is 87

Jerry Stiller,  comedian (Frank Constanza-Seinfeld) is 83

In their 70’s

James Darren (James William Ercolani), Phila, actor (TJ Hooker, Diamond Head, Venus in Furs) is 76

Chuck Negron, singer (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World) is 70

Joan Rivers, [Molinsky], Bkln, comedienne (Late Show, Hollywood Sq) is 79

Nancy Sinatra, Jersey City, singer (Boots are Made for Walkin') is 72

In their 60’s

Boz Scaggs, [William Royce], Dallas Tx, rocker (Steve Miller Band) is 68

In their 50’s

Keenan Ivory Wayans, NYC, comedian (In Living Color) is 54

In their 40’s

Julianna Margulies, Spring Valley NY, actress (Carol Hathaway-ER) is 46

In their 30’s

Kanye West,  American rapper and record producer is 35

Today’s Obits                                                            

Cochise (Apache K'uu-ch'ish "oak") Chiricahua Apache leader dies of cancer in 1874 at about 69

Christiaan Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn), dies in 1695 at 66

Andrew Jackson, (D) 7th pres (1828-37), dies TB in 1845 at 78

William F Jenkins (nom de plume: Murray Leinster), author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants), dies in 1975 at 78

Mohammed, prophet of Islam (Koran), dies (according to tradition) of fever in 632 at 62

[Leroy] Satchel Paige, US baseball pitcher, dies of heart attack in 1982 at 75

Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies in 1809 at 72

Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days), dies of lung cancer in 1969 at 57

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game: Close Up Picture

What is the answer?

The IBIS is a bird, all others are mammals

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.     Lisa Nowak: NASA: diaper driving Astronaut to confront her rival

2.     Nicholas Sarkozi: President: of France

3.     Sanjaya Malakar: American Idol guy with all the hair

4.     Joey Chestnut: 66: 12 minutes:

5.     Mark Ecko: $750,000 paid:

6.     Julian Gibbons: school teacher:

7.     Andrew Mayer: student: ‘

8.     Charles Simonyi: paid $20 million:

9.    Trouble: Maltese Dog:

3x3 boxes

ELM

LEE

MEN

Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.

All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

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