June 24

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1610: Membertou (Micmac) becomes the 1st Indian Catholic

1692: Kingston Jamaica founded

1817: 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast

1861: Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US

1894: Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years

1930: 1st radar detection of planes

1938: 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

1948: Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade

1968: Resurrection City in Wash DC closed permanently

1977: IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976

1982: Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat

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Free Rambling Thoughts   

Our discussion group meets tonight to mull over ‘cloning’ with all the good, bad, and ugly. The blog will be shortened.

It was a windy day and the wind was very warm. I hate the wind. Anyway, got the deck cleaned up, and laid out a bunch of stuff for the trip. Sure hope I can get it all into the required duffle bag and carry-on. I always make it, but never think I will. Getting excited for sure.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game—A close up picture of what?

NPR Sunday Puzzle Football Scramble

Every answer is a word or phrase used in football, delivered in the form of an anagram. For example, if the word given for the clue is "saps" the answer would be "pass."

1.     Cask;

2.     Recent:

3.     Melanin:

4.     Dies off:

5.     Aplenty:

6.     Spiking:

7.     Go postal:

8.     Remove it:

9.     Creep into:

10.  Dunner:

11.  Splinted:

12.  Snow drift:

13.  Dangerous:

What is the answer?

Supply the missing vowels to give six 6-letter names of countries. BLZ  CND  KWT  MLW  MXC  PNM

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.     where is it?
2.     Austen novel
3.     radiate
4.     destiny

Lifestyle  Substance     

One Hit Wonders of the 1960’s

• Johnny Gets Angry, Joanie Summers, 1962

• What’s Your Name, Don and Juan, 1962

• I Remember You, Frank Ifield, 1962

• Telstar, The Tornadoes, 1962

Harper’s Index         

Percentage increase since2001 in female participation in target shooting in the US: 46.5

Found on You Tube 

        What Really Happened at Tonkin Gulf? 60 Minutes

Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day

There were three Indian ladies. One slept on a deerskin, one slept on an elk skin and the third slept on a hippopotamus skin. All three became pregnant and the first two each had a baby boy. The one who slept on the hippopotamus skin had twin boys. This goes to prove that the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides.

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

If you invite 100 people to a cocktail party, plan on 75 coming; 25 will send regrets.

Yeah, It Really Happened

Cleveland, OH- Thomas Hatfield, 30, of Ohio is a felon who has previous convictions for aggravated riot and attempted aggravated arson from 1997.
Because of these convictions he must live with certain restrictions, one of these being he cannot be in possession of any firearms. That apparently is one he had a hard time sticking to, considering the weapons he was found with.
However, the Ohio judge who heard his case said he likely will not jail Hatfield whose firearm possession violation cost the man a testicle.
Hatfield pleaded guilty in Cincinnati to being a felon with a firearm after he accidentally shot off one of his own testicles with a .38-caliber semiautomatic handgun.
Police said Hatfield was also in possession of a single-shot 12-gauge shotgun.
"Because you injured yourself, that's kind of bad enough right there, so I'll consider probation," Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman told Hatfield after his guilty plea.
"Obviously," the judge told Hatfield, "you don't know a whole lot about firearms. You need to read the directions."       

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The closing credits in recent films are so long because of various unions that negotiated on-screen recognition as a way for behind-the-scenes folks to "sign" their work. This "signature" serves as a visual resume and helps carpenters, electricians, and so on secure jobs on future movie productions.

• A Foley artist is a sound effects specialist. Every sound in a film that isn't dialog or music is considered a sound effect. Interestingly enough, Jack Foley, the Universal Studios sound effects pioneer for whom the technique is named, never received an on-screen credit.

• The opening credits of a movie follow a very specific format. The studio's name and logo appear first, followed by the name of the production company. The next credit lists the investor(s) who backed the film. After the money guys are listed, the director gets his first credit (usually listed as "a film by...").

• A film today sometimes lists as many as a dozen producers, but most of them aren't actually producers; they're friends, personal assistants, or even fitness trainers of the film's stars. They get a production credit as a special "perk" of their relationship.

• Sometimes an actor is billed as "special guest star" or "and also starring." This is usually a deal negotiated by an agent for so-called "name" stars who have small parts in films.

• Some actors use three names because there is already another performer in the Screen Actors Guild Directory with their name. But others use it as a marketing tool; the longer the name, the more screen space it fills during the credits, making it stand out that much more among the other names.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

21-24 

   Watermelon Seed Spitting Week
24-30 

   Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
   Lightning Safety Awareness Weekend
   National Mosquito Control Awareness Week

Today Is                                                                      

America's Kids Day

Celebration of the Senses

Descendants Day

International Fairy Day

Log Cabin Day

Museum Comes To Life Day

China: Macau Day (1622, Dutch failure to colonize Macau)   

Today’s Other Events                                                             

Before 1000CE

451: 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1300’s

1314: Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England

1400’s

1497: John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia)

1500’s

1535: Anabaptists Protestants conquered & disbanded

1540: Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves

1600’s

1664: The colony of New Jersey is founded

1800’s

1832: Reverend Samuel Worcester has been arrested, and convicted of living, and working, among the Cherokee with have a state permit, or having sworn an oath of allegiance to the state of Georgia. Today the Supreme Court rules that the state of Georgia has unfairly tried to exercise control over the Cherokee contrary to federal law, and treaties. The court will strike down most of the anti-Indian laws passed by Georgia, including those seizing their lands, and nullifying tribal laws. Before the trail, President Andrew Jackson officially stated that he has no intention of supporting the Cherokee over the state of Georgia. Speaking to the court's decision today, Jackson would be quoted as saying, "John Marshall has rendered his decision; now let him enforce it." Jackson would ignore the Supreme Court ruling, and continue in his efforts to move the Cherokee out of the south, and into the Indian Territory.

1841: Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx

1853: Gadsden Purchase 29,670-square-mile (76,800 square km) from Mexico (now southern Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Franklin Pierce 

1900’s

1901: 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris

1916: Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract.

1931: USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty

1947: Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold

1949: "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)

1957: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States

1963: 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London

1970: Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

1997: USAF reports Roswell 'space aliens' were dummies

2000’s

2004: In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional

2007: The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Remembered for being born on this day

Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review) in 1912

Jack Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26) in 1895

Roy O. Disney, a founder of the Walt Disney Company in 1893

E I Du Pont, France, chemist/scientist (Du Pont) in 1771

Fred Hoyle, cosmologist (proposed steady-state universe theory) in 1915

In their 80’s

Billy Casper, SD Ca, golfer, 3-time PGA Player of Year ('66, '68, '70) is 81

In their 70’s

Mick Fleetwood, London, rock drummer (Fleetwood Mac-Go Your Own Way) is 70

Michele Lee, LA California, actress/singer (Karen-Knots Landing, Love Bug) is 70

In their 60’s

Jeff Beck, Surrey England, singer/guitarist (Jeff Beck Group) is 68

In their 50’s

Joe Penny, TV actor is 56

Today’s Obits                                                           

Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler kills self, wife, son in 2007 at 40

Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97), diesof heart attack in 1908 at 71

Patsy Ramsey, mother of JonBenét Ramsey dies of ovarian cancer in 2006 at 49

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game: Close Up Picture

What is the answer?

Belize, Canada, Kuwait, Malawi, Mexico, Panama

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.     Cask; sack

2.     Recent: center

3.     Melanin: lineman

4.     Dies off: off sides

5.     Aplenty: penalty

6.     Spiking: pig skin

7.     Go postal: goal post

8.     Remove it: overtime

9.     Creep into: reception

10.  Dunner: end run

11.  Splinted: split end

12.  Snow drift: first down

13.  Dangerous: nose guard

4X4 boxes

BEEF

EMMA

EMIT

FATE

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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