6-22-15

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Almanac: Week: 26 \ Day: 173
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 89°\L 49° Average Sky Cover: 2% 
Wind ave:   5mph\Gusts:  22mph
Ave. High: 81° Record High:  94° (1974) Ave. Low: 43° Record Low:  31° (1947)
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Observances Today:
Baby Boomer's Recognition Day
Global Smurfs Day
National Chocolate Éclair Day
Stupid Guy Thing Day

Antifascist Struggle Day (Croatia-since 1941)
Ramadan (Islam)
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Observances This Week:
Animal Rights Awareness Week:17-23 
Meet A Mate Week:21-27
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week:21-27   
Lightning Safety Awareness Week:21-27  
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week:21-27   

Old Time Fiddlers Week:22-27 
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week:22-28 

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1611 - Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery & never seen again
1775 - 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)
1832 - John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine
1847 - Doughnut created
1851 - Fire destroys part of San Francisco
1868 - Arkansas re-joins the US
1870 - 1st Boardwalk in America invented
1870 - US Congress creates Department of Justice
1874 - Dr Andrew T Still, discovers the science of osteopathy
1892 - President Benjamin Harrison set aside one square mile of Arizona Territory surrounding the Casa Grande ruins as the first prehistoric and cultural reserve established in the United States. One of the largest prehistoric structures ever built in North America, its purpose remains a mystery. Archaeologists have discovered evidence that theancient Sonoran Desert people who built the Casa Grande also developed wide-scale irrigation farming and extensive trade connections which lasted more than a thousand years until about 1450 C.E.
1915 - BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service
1934 - John Dillinger is informally named America's first Public Enemy Number One
1943 - W.E.B. Du Bois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters
1944 - US President Franklin Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
1957 - KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system
1970 - President Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)
1970 - Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional
1982 - Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes
1985 - "Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey peaks at #12
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Today’s World Events through History
1342 - Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reckoning)
1633 - Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong)
1675 - Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charles sails to Scotland
1815 - 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)
1848 - Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1874 - Game of lawn tennis introduced
1904 - Chinese laborers arrive in South Africa following a severe labor shortage
1911 - King George V crowned king of the United Kingdom
1940 - France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms
1969 - The Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) stage a protest by blocking the Lecky Road in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland
1972 - The Irish Republican Army announce that it would call a ceasefire from 26 June 1972 provided that there is a "reciprocal response" from the security forces
1975 - The Ulster Volunteer Force try to derail a train by planting a bomb on the railway line near County Kildare, Ireland; a civilian tries to stop the UVF volunteers, and is stabbed-to-death (his actions delay the explosion enough to let the train pass safely)
1990 - Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in New York, saying that nothing, which has happened in South Africa, calls for a revision of the position that the Organization has taken in its struggle against apartheid; he adds that a democratic, non-racial SA is within reach
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Great, but warm Sunday.
Caught up on mail, caught up on DVR programs. All good.
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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) no-cost fish lures & honey shipment
2) leaping legumes & colliding dungarees
3) crustacean movement & criminal sunscreen
4) baseball term & seasonal pig

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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… America Facts…
According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.

The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."

…Cool Facts…
When he was 7, Vin Diesel and some friends broke into a New York theater with intentions to vandalize it. Instead of calling the police, the theater’s artistic director handed them scripts and offered them parts in the upcoming show. This became Diesel’s first acting role.

Sudbury Valley School allows students to do whatever they want; no curriculum, tests, homework, or even classes unless requested. 82% of students get accepted to college, as opposed to the 63% national public school average.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
The Civil Air Patrol on a routine mission noticed a beginning fire on the west rim of Oak Creek and alerted the Forest Service. A B-26 bomber was used to quickly quench the flames.
The sewer plant bid by Emil Krall of Prescott has been accepted. Funds from the Special Bond in the 1963 fall election will be used in the expansion as a portion of the major water improvement bond.

The Flagstaff School Board has voted to accept federal aid funds with the required matching funds to help build science labs, improve math teaching and add language facilities in our schools.

…Harper’s Index…
1/2 – portion of Americans who say they would ride in driverless cars if the technology were available

1/4 –who say they would get memory chips installed in their brains

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Frank Sinatra was the producer's first choice to play the role of Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry.
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2 jokes for the day
Teacher: Farai, what are the two days of the week, which start with letter "T"?

Farai: Today and tomorrow Sir.

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A very shy guy goes into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting at the other end.
After an hour of gathering up his courage he finally goes over to her and asks, tentatively, "Um, would you mind if I chatted with you for a while?"
To which she responds by yelling, at the top of her lungs, "No, I won't sleep with you tonight!"
By now, the entire bar is staring at them. Naturally, the guy is hopelessly and completely embarrassed and he slinks back to his table.
After a few minutes, the woman walks over to him and apologizes. She smiles at him and says, "I'm sorry if I embarrassed you. You see, I'm a graduate student in psychology and I'm studying how people respond to embarrassing situations."
To which he responds, at the top of his lungs, "What do you mean $200!"

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Yep, It Really Happened
NEUSS, Germany (UPI) - German police said a helicopter crew searching for a reported "lifeless body" rescued a figure clad in "red pants" and "blue outerwear" -- a Papa Smurf balloon. The District Police Rhein-Kreis Neuss said a train passenger reported spotting the "lifeless body" out a window near Dusseldorf and officers responded to the area in a helicopter. The helicopter crew soon spotted a figure "wearing red pants, blue outerwear, a red cap and a white beard," police said in a news release. The "body" turned out to be a partially deflated balloon in the shape of Papa Smurf, known in Germany as Papa Schlumpf. Police shared a photo of the rescued balloon buckled into the seat of a patrol car for safe transport back to police headquarters. Officers "took him to the police station, but have so far reached no relatives." Police said the witness was "entirely justified" in making the emergency call, which they said could "potentially save lives under different circumstances."  
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Somewhat Useless Information
Gin and Tonic were originally created by the British East India Company as a way to get soldiers to have quinine to prevent and treat malaria.
Quinine (in tonic) was too bitter.
In order to get them to drink the tonic officers added the soldiers’ gin rations with sugar, lime and water, according to wikipedia.org

Teddy Roosevelt was an avid boxer and became the first American ever to receive a brown belt in Judo.
He lined the White House basement with training mats and sparred with anyone that was willing including boxing champion John Sullivan, his wife, and a Swiss minister, according to mentalfloss.com
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Birthday’s Today
82 - Dianne Feinstein, 1st female mayor of SF/(Sen-D-Ca)
79 - Kris Kristofferson, Brownsville TX, singer/actor (Amerika, Millenium)
66 - Lindsay Wagner, LA Ca, actress (Bionic Woman, Paper Chase, Nighthawks)
66 - Meryl Streep, American actress (French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice)
62 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer (Girls Just want to have Fun, Time after Time)
51 - Dan Brown, American author of thriller fiction (The Da Vinci Code)
44 - Kurt Warner, FOOTBALL PLAYER

42 - Carson Daly, American television personality
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Remembered for being born today
 1906-2002@95 - Billy Wilder, dir (Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17)
1906-2001@94 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and aviator (Gift from the Sea)
1928-2014@85 - Ralph Waite, actor, director (Cool Hand Luke, The Waltons)
1856-1925@68 - Henry Rider Haggard, English author (King Solomon's Mine)
1941-2006@65 - Ed Bradley, Journalist\CBS news correspondent (60 Minutes)
1909-1958@48 - Mike Todd, [Avrom Goldbogen], theatre\film director
1947-1988@40 - "Pistol" Pete Maravich, NBA star (Atlanta Hawks)
1757-1798@40 - George Vancouver, surveyed Pacific coast SF to Vancouver Island
1903-1934@31 - John Dillinger, Indianapolis Indiana, notorious bank robber
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Historical Obits Today
Dody Goodman, American comedienne-2008@93
Fred Astaire, actor/dancer (Royal Wedding, Let's Dance)-1987@88
Ann Landers, Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer, American columnist-2002@83
Pat Nixon, 1st lady (1969-75)-1993@81
Dennis Day, actor/tenor (Jack Benny Show), ALS-1988@71
George Carlin, American comedian, actor, heart failure-2008@71
Howard Staunton, world chess champion, designer of chess pieces-1874@64
David O Selznick, producer (Gone With the Wind), heart attacks-1965@63
Judy Garland, actress (Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade), OD-1969@47
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Brain Teasers Answers
1) free bait & bee freight
2) jumping beans & bumping jeans
3) lobster motion & mobster lotion
4) ball four & fall boar

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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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