6-18-15

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Almanac: Week: 25 \ Day: 169
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 88°\L 50° Average Sky Cover: 0% 
Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  24mph
Ave. High: 80° Record High:  92° (1940) Ave. Low: 42° Record Low:  24° (1995)
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Observances Today:
Dump The Pump Day-ride Public transportation
Go Fishing Day
International Panic Day
International Picnic Day
International Sushi Day
National Splurge Day
Recess At Work Day
World Juggling Day

Ramadan Begins (until 7/16)
Evacuation Day (Egypt- 1956 the last major contingency of British troops left Suez)
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Observances This Week:
Nursing Assistants Week:11-18
National Hermit Week:13-20
Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in Public Week:13-21 
National Flag Week:14-20
Universal Father's Week:14-20   
US Open Golf Championship:15-21
Men's Health Week:15-21  
Animal Rights Awareness Week:17-23 

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1682 - William Penn founds Philadelphia, US
1730 - 7 CHEROKEE representatives will meet with King George II of England at Windsor Castle in London. They will acknowledge him as the sovereign of the CHEROKEE people.
1778 - British Redcoats evacuate Philadelphia
1812 - War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
1873 - Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for voting for President
1892 - Macadamia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
1898 - 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ
1912 - The Chicago national Republican Convention splits between President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt; after Taft is nominated, Roosevelt and progressive elements of the Party form the Progressive Party (also known as the 'Bull Moose Party')
1914 - Residents of Nogales, Arizona, were alarmed by a report that armed Yaquis were advancing for an attack on the Mexican garrison across the border.
1961 - CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke
1967 - Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California
1968 - Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing
1981 - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on US Supreme Court)
1986 - US House of Representatives approves Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa
2003 - Google launches AdSense, a program that enables website publishers to serve ads targeted to the specific content of their individual web pages, many of which like HistoryOrb.com go on to start their own publishing businesses
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Today’s World Events through History
1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
1815 - Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher
1940 - Winston Churchill's "this was their finest hour" speech urging perseverance during Battle of Britain delivered to British House of Commons
1972
- 3 members of the British Army are killed by an Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb in a derelict house near Lurgan, County Down
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Ran my Wed. errands. At Sam’s Club a poor woman was sitting in her car with the alarm going off  while playing with the key fob. I stopped to offer assistance, and suggested that she start the car and see what happens. She does and the alarm continues. I told her that was all I could offer. I went to my vehicle as the alarm continued. Several others stopped to help, all to no avail. As I was pulling out of the lot, the alarm finally silenced. She was so embarrassed. Felt bad that I couldn’t do anything.
It was another hot day for Flagstaff, but as they say, ‘it is a dry heat’—with humidity hovering under 10%. Thankfully, there is a breeze going through the house most of the time. Inside is about 83°…soon I will be bringing out my portable cooler. Last year I used the cooler for a only a couple of days in late July…it is only mid-June. I’m ready for the monsoon.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A spoonerism is a pair of words that can have their initial sounds switched to form new words. The pairs need only sound the same, not necessarily be spelled the same (power saw & sour paw, horse cart & coarse heart). There may sometimes be one or two connecting words (kick the stone & stick the cone, king of the rats & ring of the cats). Given the following definitions, what are the spoonerisms?

1) spoiled Neanderthal child & courageous cougar
2) child of a sorceress & liquid in a trench
3) milk and cheese & fops who are imaginary beings with magical powers
4) fondle feathers & Amsterdam

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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… Celebrity Facts…
Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies.

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.

…Cool Facts…
After coming across a "very sweet" homeless man from Jamaica named Michael on a night out, Londoner Jenny Baker took to Twitter, and within hours, using the hashtag #getmichaelhome, had raised thousands of pounds so that he could return home to Jamaica where he said he would be "happy again".

In Dubai, there’s a fridge magnet that orders a pizza delivered to your door.

In Iceland, 100% of domestically produced electricity comes from renewable energy.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
The city has embarked on a project of cutting down the curbs at the street corners downtown to make them accessible for wheelchairs.

Long’s Drug Store on South Riordan was robbed at 1 a.m. on May 29. The front windows were smashed to gain entrance. $7000 worth of guns and jewelry were taken. Later a suspect was apprehended when he tried to sell the stolen items at a local pawn shop.

…Harper’s Index…
1 in 4 – chance that a high-risk patient admitted to a US teaching hospital for heart failure will die

1 in 6 – that one admitted during a national cardiology conference will

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
In the Disney version of The Little Mermaid, Ariel and her sassy crab friend, Sebastian, overcome the wicked sea witch, and Ariel then swims off to marry the man of her dreams. However, in the original tale, the mermaid’s fins-for-feet exchange comes at a price—namely, that every step on her new legs causes her excruciating pain. And that’s not even the worst part—in the end, the prince marries someone else!
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2 jokes for the day
If a cat won an Oscar, what would he get?

An a-cat-emy award.

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Building Security has notified us that there have been 5 suspected terrorists working at our office.
Four of the five have been apprehended.
Bin Sleeping, Bin Loafing, Bin Gossiping, and Bin Surfing have been taken into custody.
Security advised us that they could find no one fitting the description of the fifth cell member Bin Working, in the office.
Police are confident that anyone who looks like Bin Working will be very easy to spot.
They thought they had apprehended Bin Working sitting at a desk, but it was actually Bin Surfing trying to impersonate Bin Working.      

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Yep, It Really Happened
CALGARY, Alberta (UPI) - A Calgary cab driver waived the $17 fare for a mother duck and her ducklings after he gave them a lift from a busy street to the nearest river. Checker Cab driver Urga Adunga said he was driving Thursday on a busy street when he came across a mother duck and her nine ducklings trapped in traffic. "I didn't want to pass them because there is no way for them to escape from the road. It's blocked all the way," Adunga told CBC News. Adunga said he put on his hazard lights and used his cab to block other vehicles from getting too close to the ducks while he and other witnesses worked to round them up. "The other people, they are very nice people, and they stopped and they helped me get the nine ducklings," he said. "One of the people who helped me was a mother, and she had a backpack for the baby and she tried to put them in there, but we couldn't do it. So I told them to put them for me in the car." The cabbie drove the duck family to the Bow River and waived the $17 fare. Checker Yellow Cabs shared a Facebook photo Adunga snapped of the ducks in his back seat. "As a human it is our responsibility to protect those animals, and nature and the environment," he said. "I could do it again, too. Not only the animals, humans, too. We have to rescue each other, we have to help each other." 
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Somewhat Useless Information
During the Championship period of Wimbledon 2014, 54,250 balls were used. 

The longest Wimbledon match ever lasted 11 hours and five minutes (Isner v Mahut 2010).

The first year that yellow balls were used was 1986. Prior to that Wimbledon used white balls.

The total prize money dedicated to Wimbledon 2015 was 26.75 million pounds. This is an increase of 7.6 percent from 2014.

There are a total of 250 ball kids, chosen from around 750 entries.

It was 2007 that the women's champion started to receive the same amount of prize money that the men's champion received. 
(www.livetennis.com)

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Birthday’s Today
78 - Gail Godwin, US, author (Perfectionists, Odd Woman)
73 - Paul McCartney, English musician and member of The Beatles
49 - Luke Jensen, Grayling Mich, tennis star (1993 French Open doubles)
41 - Bumper Robinson, actor (Webster, Night Court)
39 - Blake Shelton, American Country Singer
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Remembered for being born today
1915-2004@89 – Paul Red Adair, oilman (fought oil fires in Kuwait)
1906-1985@80 - Kay Kyser, orchestra leader (Kay Kyser's Kollege)
1854-1626@71 - Edward Wyllis Scripps, publisher/journalist
1942-2013@70 - Roger Ebert, Urbana Ill, film critic (Siskel & Ebert at the Movies)
1917-1981@63 - Richard Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel)
1908-1969@61 - Bud Collyer, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth)
1886-1924@37 - George Mallory, England, mountain climber ("because it is there")
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Historical Obits Today
José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel Prize laureate-2010@87
Johnny Mann, American Grammy-award winning musician-2014@85
Ethel Barrymore, [Blythe], actress (None but the lonely), heart attack-1959@79
Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom)-1902@66
Roald E G Amundsen, Norwegian pole explorer, plane crash-1928@55
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Brain Teasers Answers
1) cave brat & brave cat
2) witch daughter & ditch water
3) dairy foods & fairy dudes
4) touch down & Dutch town

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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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