6-12-15

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Almanac: Week: 24 \ Day: 163
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 77°\L 52° Average Sky Cover: 40% 
Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  19mph
Ave. High: 78° Record High:  91° (1918) Ave. Low: 40° Record Low:  27° (1976)
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Observances Today:
Abused Women and Children's Awareness Day
Banana Split Days
Crowded Nest Awareness Day
Loving Day
Machine Day
Multicultural American Child Awareness Day
National Jerky Day
National Lemonade Days
National Peanut Butter Cookie Day
Race Unity Day
Red Rose Day
Superman Day

Children's Day (Ma)
Independence Day (Philippines-1898-from Spain)
Independence Day (Russia-1992)
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Observances This Week:
International Clothesline Week: 6-13 
Bed Bug Awareness Week: 7-13
Black Single Parents Week: 7-13 
End Mountain Top Removal Week:  7-13    
Jim Thorpe Native American Games: 7-13 
National Body Piercing Week: 7-13  
National Business Etiquette Week:  7-13  
National Headache Awareness Week:  7-13 
Pet Appreciation Week:  7-13 
Rip Current Awareness Week: 7-13 
National Automotive Service Professionals Week: 8-14 
Nursing Assistants Week: 11-18
Superman Days: 11-14  

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1665 - New Amsterdam legally becomes British and renamed New York after English Duke of York
1775 - 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (US) captures Margaretta (Br)
1838 - Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
1838 - Iowa Territory forms
1849 - Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett (Louisville Ky)
1859 - Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
1917 - Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
1923 - Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC
1930 - Tucson celebrated the completion of the Greater Airport at the Davis-Monthan field.
1931 - Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition & perjury
1935 - Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15½ hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words)
1965 - Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new celestial bodies know as blue galaxies
1967 - US Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages
1968 - U.S. premiere of horror film "Rosemary's Baby"
1981 - "Raiders Of The Lost Ark", the 1st an Indiana Jones film premieres
1987 - US President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall
1996 - Marge Schott gives up day-to-day operations because of her numerous insensitive comments about Adolf Hitler, working women & Asians
2009 - All television broadcasts in the United States switch from analog NTSC to digital ATSC transmission.
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Today’s World Events through History
1897 - Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (low mortality rate given size of earthquake, 1500 casualties)
1903 - Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
1942 - Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam)
1947 - Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Brit Women's Amateur Golf Champ
1964 - Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa
2007 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for his humanitarian work by President Putin
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Mary and I had a great time at Twin Arrows, the Navajo casino about 15 miles from Flagstaff. Good fry bread and mutton stew too. I didn’t win but they had surprising number of penny slots. Mary made about $30.
A little rain during the night, but none after sunrise. More on the way.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
When you were in your early school years, you can remember when you had a CRUSH on that cute girl sitting nearby. The only problem comes when you say something stupid and she SLAPS your face. Try to get from CRUSH to SLAPS in 5 steps by making a word each time.
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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… Celebrity Facts…
Leonardo DiCaprio was named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when DiCaprio first kicked.

Jason Earles played as a teenager in Hannah Montana, but he was actually born in 1977.

…Cool Facts…
In Tunisia, you can book an overnight stay in Luke Skywalker’s boyhood home for only $10.

Mico headphones read your brainwaves and select music based on your state of mind.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
Flagstaff will soon assume a real citified air when Marshall Bayless stakes out the corners with Safety Zone signals to protect foot traffic from auto traffic. If the crowding increases it will not be long before traffic cops will be required at the crossings.

Saturday afternoon at the Majestic Theatre there is to be a matinee showing four reels of scenic and educational films. The proceeds will be used to buy books for the new children's room at the library. It is appropriate for each citizen to support this work with the little expense of a quarter for admission.

…Harper’s Index…
2,000 – estimated number of traffic enforcers who wore diapers during the Pope;s visit to Manila

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
After going into heat, an un-spayed female ferret can actually die if she does not mate. She will remain in heat until she mates, and if she does not, the excess estrogen will cause anemia and eventual death.
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2 jokes for the day
A tail gunner was being court-martialed. “What did you hear in your headset?” demanded a superior officer.
“Well,” replied the airman. “I heard my squadron leader holler, ‘Enemy planes at 5 o’clock!”
“What action did you take?’ persisted another officer.
“Why, sir,” replied the gunner, “I just sat back and waited. It was only 4:30.”

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A preacher was standing at the pulpit giving his Sunday sermon when a note was passed to him.
The only word written on the sheet was IDIOT.
Looking up at the congregation, the preacher smiled and said:
I have heard of men who write letters and forget to sign their names but this is the first time I will see a man sign his name and forget to write the letter.          

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Yep, It Really Happened
AHMEDABAD, India (UPI) - An Indian city announced residents will be paid each time they use public toilets in a bid to curb public urination and defecation. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which has about 315 public toilets spread through the city, said officers posted at 67 toilets in areas fraught with public urination and defecation will hand out 1 rupee -- less than 1/5 of a single U.S. penny -- to each person who uses the toilets. "Once successful, the project will be implemented in all the 300 public toilets in Ahmedabad," AMC health officer Bhavikk Joshi said. Pravin Patel, AMC standing committee chairman, said repeat public urinators and defecators will be "identified and encouraged" to use the toilets. "The idea behind this project is to prevent open defecation in parts of the city where people, despite having public toilets, defecate in the open," Patel said. AMC officials said they plan to advertise the scheme at locations known to be hot spots for public defecation. They said the scheme, scheduled to take effect within the next 8-10 days, could lead to heavy fines for people who continue to forgo the toilets in favor of expelling their waste in public areas.        
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Somewhat Useless Information
Cheese making has been around for nearly 4,000 years, according to the International Dairy Foods Association. Though no one really knows who made the very first cheese, historical records indicate that travelers from Asia brought their technique of cheese making to Europe before the Roman Empire.

U.S. per capita cheese consumption is about 34 pounds per person-that's more than one full ton of cheese during the average lifetime. The French eat the most cheese, putting away an average of 57 pounds per person a year.

Wisconsin has the most cheese making plants in the U.S. with 90 percent of the state's milk being made into cheese-about 2.8 billion pounds per year.

It takes about 10 pounds of milk to make one pound of cheese, according to the Wisconsin Milk Marketing board.

Mozzarella cheese is the biggest-selling cheese variety in the U.S., followed by Cheddar.

The world's most expensive sandwich is Serendipity's "Quintessential Grilled Cheese" made with Caciocavallo Podolico cheese, a rare Italian variety made from the milk of free-ranging cows fed a diet of fennel grasses and wild strawberries, with a truffle spread and gold flakes. It retails for $214.

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Birthday’s Today
90 - George H. W. Bush, 43 US VP and 41st US President
87 - Vic Damone, [Vito Farinola], Bkln, singer (Street Where You Live)
85 - Jim Nabors, American actor\singer (Gomer Pyle)
74 - Marv Albert, "Yes!" sportscaster (NBC-TV)/back biter
33 - Artem Chigvintsev, Russian Professional Dancer-DSWTS
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Remembered for being born today
1802-1876@74 - Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist
1806-1869@63 - John Roebling, German-America civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge)
1929-1945@15 - Anne Frank, Dutch Jewish Nazi victim/diarist
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Historical Obits Today
Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host-2007@89
Gregory Peck, American actor-2003@87
Milburn Stone, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), heart attack-1980@75
Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexicans poet-1928@74
James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, US orchestra leader, cancer-1957@53
Medgar Evers, NAACP official, shot-1963@37
Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of OJ, murdered-1994@35 
Ron Goldman, waiter, murdered with wife of OJ Simpson-1994@27
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Brain Teasers Answers
CRUSH
CRASH
CLASH
CLASS
CLAPS
SLAPS

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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 contains mistakes and sadly once 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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