6-25-15

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Almanac: Week: 26 \ Day: 176
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 87°\L 54° Average Sky Cover: 35% 
Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  17mph
Ave. High: 81° Record High:  95° (1970) Ave. Low: 44° Record Low:  30° (1965)
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Observances Today:
Beatles Day
Color TV Day (CBS-1951)
Day of The Seafarer Global
Great American Backyard Campout
Log Cabin Day
National Bomb Pop Day
National Catfish Day
National Hand Shake Day

Independence Day (Mozambique-1975 from Portugal)
National Day (Slovenia-1991-from Yugoslavia)
Ramadan (Islam)
Ratification Day (Virginia-1788)
Victory Day (Sioux) 1876-Battle of Little Big Horn
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Observances This Week:
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 


North American Organic Brewers Days:25-28 
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week:25-28 

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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1630 - Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
1638 - Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in the American Colonies
1672 - 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass
1798 - US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1835 - 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
1867 - 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio
1868 - FL, AL, LA, GA, NC & SC readmitted to US
1868 - US President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day
1876 - Battle of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel (sometime Brevet Major General) George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne, Custer killed
1895 - The Peralta-Reavis claims to 12,750,000 acres of Arizona and New Mexico land were declared fraudulent by the U.S. Court at Santa Fe. James Reavis was later convicted of perjury and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary
1910 - Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1913 - American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913
1929 - President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1938 - Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week
1941 - Fair Employment Practices Commission established
1967 - Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) sentenced to 5 years
1981 - Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
1985 - Thurman v City of Torrington decides in favor of Tracey Thurman. 1zst woman to sue a police dept for violating her civil rights (not protecting against abusive husband).
1990 - Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known
1994 - Gay Games close in NYC
2014 - US Supreme Court rules that police cannot examine the digital contents of a cell phone without a court order
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Today’s World Events through History
1580 - Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published
1870 - Opera "Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)" is produced (Munich)
1920 - League of Nations places International Court of Justice in Hague

1950 - Korean conflict begins; North Korea invades South Korea
1976 - The Soweto Uprising in South Africa leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
1999 - In his first state of the nation address, South African President Thabo Mbeki promises to tackle rampaging crime; the nation's murder rate is the third highest in the world and more than 49,000 cases of rape were reported in 1998
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Had a great conversation with my brother on his recent visit with his half-siblings in Oregon. WOW, what an experience. This is the first time they have met together, and they are still looking for 2 or 3 more siblings.
Summer heat, dry lightning is never good in our area. There are 2 lightning caused fires at least 40 miles from our town. The Forest Service in its infinite wisdom has decided to let the fires burn to clear up the forest underbrush. The smoke from both fires has decided that it will settle in our town. While I can’t smell the fires, there is a constant haze over the town. Even with no clouds, as it was earlier today, it looks a lot like an eclipse….that has lasted all day. Very strange for sure. Sure hope the smoke moves on tonight.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Each pair of hints below relates to two words. One of the words is the other one spelled backward. What are the ten word pairs?
Example: married, moisture
Answer: wed, dew

1. light source, rodents
2. dwell, wicked
3. retain, sneaking look
4. weapons, tight fit
5. portion, catching device
6. prize, furniture compartment
7. drinking aid, skin blemishes
8. stopper, big swallow
9. implement, stolen goods
10. precinct, illustrate

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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… America Facts…
Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.

In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.

…Cool Facts…
There's a café in France which charges €7 for a coffee to rude customers and €1.40 to people who talk politely to staff.

Coffee comes from an edible fruit. The coffee cherry is sweet and tastes like watermelon, rosewater, and hibiscus all at once.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
This season’s first major fire began below the Mogollon Rim about 12 miles north of Payson. Since there was no lightning the Bray Fire has to have been man-caused. The fire is being fought by the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Arizona Development Bureau and the Bureau of Indian Affairs crews.

…Harper’s Index…
-5 percentage change since 2009 in the annual number of military-grade weapons purchased by the United States
+9 by France
+20 by Russia

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Janis Joplin left $2,500 in her will for her friends to "have a ball after I’m gone."
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2 jokes for the day
Why did the nerd eat the fifth grader's math test??

Because it was a piece of cake!!

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Did you hear about the two explorers, Bob and John who were going through the jungle when a ferocious lion jumped out in front of them?
Bob whispered to John to keep calm. Bob asked John if he remembered what they had read in the book on wild animals.
“If you stand absolutely still and look the lion straight in the eye, he will turn tail and run away,” said Bob.
John said, “Fine. You’ve read the book, I’ve read the book, but has the lion read the book?”      

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Yep, It Really Happened
BOGOTA (UPI) - Authorities in Colombia said a woman was arrested at an airport in the capital when her breast implants were found to contain 3.3 pounds of liquid cocaine. Authorities said Paola Deyanira Sabillon, 22, drew the attention of security staff at El Dorado International Airport when she appeared nervous in line and X-rays determined she had recently undergone surgery on her breasts. Sabillon, who is from Honduras and was preparing to fly to Spain, told investigators she received breast implants filled with an unknown substance she had been hired to transport. The implants were removed at a Bogota hospital and Sabillon was treated for an infection stemming from the original surgery, which is believed to have taken place at a clinic in Pereira, Colombia. The substance inside the implants was determined to be cocaine, authorities said. Sabillon was hospitalized for five days before being released into police custody. 
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Somewhat Useless Information
The Death Cap, Amanita phalloides is responsible for 90 percent of deaths caused by fungus poisoning world-wide. 

Yeasts, used in making beer and bread, are a form of fungus. 

African termites actually cultivate a species of fungus, Termitomyces. 

Penicillin is made growing the appropriate species of mold on nutrients; the active compound is then extracted from the culture fluid and purified. 

Most fungal species are saprophytes: they feed on remains of dead organisms or their by-products. Most forest soil has too much acid for bacteria to grow well, and so the fungi are the main decay producers.

Mucor is the name given to a group of mold fungi, which grow on the surface of decaying fruit, bread, horse manure, and other organic matter.

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Birthday’s Today
90 - June Lockhart, actress (Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction)
82 - James Meredith, American civil rights activist
70 - Carly Simon, POP SINGER
68 - Jimmie Walker, Bronx NY, comedian (JJ-Good Times, At Ease)
61 - Sonia Sotomayor, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
54 - Ricky Gervais, Reading England, actor and comedian (The Office)
52 - George Michael [Panos], British rock vocalist (Wham-I Want Your Sex)
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Remembered for being born today
 1898-1963@64 - Kay (Katherine Linn) Sage, Albany NY, American painter and poet
1933-1995@62 - Gary Crosby, California, actor (Bill Dana Show, Adam 12, Chase)
1903-1950@46 - George Orwell, [Eric A Blair], British writer (Animal Farm, 1984)
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Historical Obits Today
Axis Sally, [Mildred E Gillars], US nazi propagandist (WW II)-1988@87
Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer, heart attack-1997@87
Lester Maddox, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia-2003@87

Johnny Mercer, US songwriter (That old Black Magic), brain tumor-1976@66
Farrah Fawcett, American actress and pop culture figure-cancer-2009@62
Ephraim McDowell, American Physician (pioneered abdominal surgery)-1930@58
Stanford White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit-1906@52
Michael Jackson, King of Pop music, cardiac arrest-2009@50
Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France-1533@37
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. star, rats
2. live, evil
3. keep, peek
4. guns, snug
5. part, trap
6. reward, drawer
7. straw, warts
8. plug, gulp
9. tool, loot
10. ward, draw

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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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