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Today’s
Historical Highlights
1675: Start of "King Philip's war1782: Congress
approves Great Seal of US & eagle as its symbol
1840: Samuel Morse patents his
telegraph
1911: NAACP incorporates (NY)
1947: Pres Harry Truman vetoes
Taft-Hartley Act
1967: Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing
induction into armed services
1988: Supreme Court upholds a law
that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women &
minorities
1990: Nelson Mandela lands in NYC
to begin a tour of US
♪Happy Birthday To: ♪
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Free Rambling Thoughts
We had our weekly lunch early as Mary
leaves for a month in Oregon on Thursday. Great lunch at the best Mexican
Restaurant in AZ. Still family owned and operated with much of the same great
wait staff that has been there for decades. Nice. Mary got her SS thing
straightened out or at least understood. She retired in May, turned 62 in July
and someone put the wrong income in her forms. She had earned too much money in
that year and should not have got paid anything from SS that year. Since they
paid her, now they want that money back. She sent the check off today. Cheryl
is getting ready for summer visits from her son and his family and as soon as
they leave, her sister will fly in for a couple of weeks. So everyone will be
busy for the next month.
Egypt is certainly having its problems
with their new democracy. I am so thankful that I was able to visit and see the
beautiful country with all its history before the Arab spring began. It is such
a difficult time for all the people who live there. While we were assured that
all the military escorts and tourist police who were with us whenever we left
the hotel were just for ‘show’ and was Mubarak’s way of providing jobs. Not so
sure that was all true now. All our security was friendly and provided us with
help from the most aggressive vendors. They were armed and ready. One security
guard who was with us most of the trip in Cairo talked a little right at the
end of the trip and said he had never had to draw his weapon, but had been
trained if necessary. Hmmm
Game
Center: (answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A close up picture of what?
NPR Sunday Puzzle
Every answer is a word starting with
the letter V. Use an anagram of the clue to find the answer. For example, if
the clue is "serve," the answer would be "verse."
1.
Rival:
2.
Lovely:
3.
Caveat:
4.
Devote:
5.
Irving:
6.
Livery:
7.
Selves:
8.
Latvian:
9.
Savior:
10. Observe:
11. Octavian:
12. Dovetail:
13. Levantine:
What is the answer?
Rearrange the following letters to give the title of a popular song.
ECHO IN MUDDY LANE
4X4 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.
crossbow
ammunition
2.
do
what you're told
3.
jump
4.
category
Lifestyle
Substance
One Hit Wonders of the 1950’s
- He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands, Laurie London, 1958
- Volare, Domenico Modugno, 1958
- To Know Him Is To Love Him, Teddy Bears, 1958
- Rockin’ Robin, Bobby Day, 1958
Harper’s Index
Percentage increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes in the US: 50
Found on You Tube
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Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
Earl and Bob, both obsessed with baseball, never missed their favorite team’s game. They promised, whoever died first, and went to heaven, would come back to earth and tell the other if there was baseball in heaven. One day, Earl died. Bob waited for him to come back. Finally Earl did. |
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Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
If a choking person can verbally request the Heimlich maneuver, he or she doesn't need it.
Yeah, It Really Happened
Lincoln, NE (AP) --A handgun stolen from a Lincoln store nearly five years ago has turned up during the arrest of a man after a traffic stop in Northern California, officials said.The .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun was one of 79 handguns and rifles stolen in fall 2007 when two teenagers broke into the Scheels store at South Pointe Pavilions shopping center in Lincoln.The gun was found Monday in the center console of a car after a 25-year-old man was pulled over for speeding down U.S. Highway 101 in Petaluma, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.
The driver told police he had been using the gun for target practice but that it belonged to his uncle. The driver was arrested on suspicion of possessing a loaded gun.Two people were eventually convicted of breaking into Scheels. Cleophus Collier, 22, is in prison. Dominique Barton, 22, has been assigned to a community corrections program.Authorities have recovered 50 of the weapons stolen on Oct. 1, 2007."It's amazing how far these guns have ended up," said Lincoln Police Sgt. Jeri Roeder.Four of the rifles and 26 handguns were recovered the morning after the break-in, police said. Twenty more have turned up in various spots across the country, including Boulder County, Colo., and Phoenix. A soldier from Phoenix who had served in Afghanistan used one of the stolen semiautomatics to kill himself.Twenty-nine of the guns have not been recovered, and it's likely more have ended up in California.Trista Frederick, a spokeswoman for the Kansas City Division of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said California has stricter gun controls than some other states. Criminals buy weapons elsewhere and move them surreptitiously into California to sell on the black market, Frederick said.
Somewhat Useless Information
British children have their own version of Santa Claus. Called Father Christmas in the United Kingdom, he traditionally wore a green hooded cloak. But as American culture slowly worked its way across the Atlantic in the 1930s, Father Christmas started wearing the traditional red fur coat associated with the iconic American Santa Claus.Thirteen-year-old Charles Manson was sent to Father Flanagan's Boys Town in 1947. Within a week of arriving, he and another boy escaped and committed two armed robberies.According to the American Retail Association, Americans spend about $2 billion less on gifts for Dad on Father's Day than they do for Mom on Mother's Day. However, more collect calls are placed on Father's Day than any other day of the year.The hymn "Eternal Father" is known in the United States as The Navy Hymn" because it has been sung at each Sunday's Divine Services in Annapolis since 1879. It was Franklin D. Roosevelt's favorite hymn, and the Navy Band played it as John F. Kennedy's body was carried up the stairs of the Capitol to lie in state.Humorist Ralph Schoenstein has many books to his credit, including the I Hate Preppies Handbook, but one of his most popular publications doesn't even list his name on the cover. Schoenstein was the ghostwriter responsible for Bill Cosby's mega-selling book Fatherhood.
Some historians believe that Father Time is actually based on Cronus, the Titan god of agriculture, who carried a scythe for harvesting purposes. Perhaps it's because of this agricultural connection that Father Time is often depicted as being married to Mother Nature.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
14-21
Nursing Assistants Week
17-23
17-23
Universal Father's Week
Meet A Mate Week
Old Time Fiddlers Week
Meet A Mate Week
Old Time Fiddlers Week
Today Is
American Eagle Day
Ann & Samantha Day
is meant for reflection on Anne Franks and Samantha Smiths
Ice Cream Soda Day
National Daylight
Appreciation Day
Summer Solstice
World Juggling Day
World Refugee Day
West Virginia Admission
Day (1863—35th state)
Argentina: Flag Day
Today’s Other Events
Before 1000CE
451: Germans & Romans beat
Atiila the Hun at Catalarinische Fields
1200’s
1214: The University of Oxford
receives its charter
1500’s
1567: Jews are expelled from
Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique
1600’s
1631: The sack of Baltimore: the
Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates
1675: Abenaki, Massachusetts,
Mohegan & Wampanoag indians form anti-English front under Metacom
1700’s
1756: India rebels defeat
Calcutta on British army
1780: British Captain Henry Bird
commands a force of 1000 men, of which 850 are Indians. Today, they attack
Ruddle's Station, Kentucky. Three hundred settlers have taken refuge in the
station. Bird's forces have a cannon, and the settlers soon realize they are
outmatched. They agree to surrender. When they settlers open the gate, the
warriors rush in and start killing them. Before Bird could intercede, over 200
people will be killed. This will be called the "Ruddle's Station
Massacre."
1787: Oliver Ellsworth moves at
the Federal Convention to call the government the United States
1800’s
1819: 320 ton Savannah becomes
1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)
1863: 1st bank chartered in US
(National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
1871: Ku Klux Klan trials began
in federal court in Oxford Miss
1900’s
1919: Treaty of Versailles:
Germany ends incorporation of Austria
1936: Jesse Owens of US sets 100
meter record at 10.2
1943: Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE) founded
1963: US & USSR agree to set
up "Hot Line"
1966: Sheila Scott completes 1st
round-the-world solo flight by a woman
1968: Jim Hines becomes 1st
person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
1969: 150,000 attend Newport '69,
Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear
1994: OJ Simpson arraigned on
murder of Nicole Simpson & Ronald Goldman
Today’s Birthdays
Remembered for being born on this day
Lord George ESMH Carnarvon, England, Egyptologist
(Tutankhamen) in 1866
Errol Flynn, Hobart Tasmania, actor
(Captain Blood, Robin Hood) in 1909
George Hickes, English linguistic (Old
German Philology) in 1642
Audie Murphy, most decorated American
WW II hero/actor (Joe Butterfly) in 1924
Jacques Offenbach, Cologne, French
composer (Tales of Hoffmann) in 1819
Moses Waddel, American
educator/minister and bestselling author in 1770
Betty Washington- sister of George
Washington in 1733
In their 80’s
Olympia Dukakis, Lowell Mass, actress (Moonstruck,
Cemetery Club) is 81
Martin Landau, actor (Mission
Impossible) is 84
In their 70’s
John Mahoney, Manchester England,
actor (Fraiser, Frantic, 8 Men Out) is 72
Brian Wilson, Inglewood California,
vocalist (Beachboys-In My Room) is 70
In their 60’s
John Goodman, actor (Dan
Conner-Roseanne, Babe) is 60
Lionel Richie, singer (Commodores,
Hello, Penny Lover) is 63
In their 40’s
Nicole Kidman, actress (Dead Calm, Far
& Away) is 45
Today’s Obits
Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam,
dies in 1846 at about 67
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Benjamin
Siegelbaum), gangster, shot dead in 1947 at 41
Bob Stump, American politician (AZ) dies
of blood disorder in 2003 at 76
Answers
Brain Game: Close Up Picture
What is the answer?
Unchained Melody
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Rival:
viral
2.
Lovely:
volley
3.
Caveat:
vacate
4.
Devote:
vetoed
5.
Irving:
Virgin
6.
Livery:
verily
7.
Selves:
vessel
8.
Latvian:
valiant
9.
Savior:
various
10. Observe: verbose
11. Octavian: vacation
12. Dovetail: violated
13. Levantine: Valentine
4X4 boxes
BOLT
OBEY
LEAF
TYPE
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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