6-28-15

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Almanac: Week: 27 \ Day: 179
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 90°\L 54° Average Sky Cover: 45% 
Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  17mph
Ave. High: 82° Record High:  94° (1990) Ave. Low: 45° Record Low:  30° (1965)
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Observances Today:
America's Kids Day
Descendants Day
Insurance Awareness Day
International Body Piercing Day
Log Cabin Day
National Columnist's Day
Paul Bunyan Day
Ramadan ARRL (American Radio Relay League) Field Day
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Observances This Week:
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week:22-28 

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

 
World Police and Fire Games:26-7/5
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness:27 -7/4


Water Ski Days:27-28 

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1762 - 1st reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston)
1770 - Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia
1776 - Charleston, SC repulses British sea attack
1778 - Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots
1888 - The Phoenix Herald announced the arrival of 16 ostriches delivered to M.E. Clanton who was establishing a local ostrich farm.
1894 - Labor Day established as a holiday for federal employees
1902 - Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin
1902 - US buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million
1956 - 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill
1964 - Organization for Afo-American Unity formed in NY by Malcolm X
1965 - 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President LBJ
1976 - 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo
1979 - OPEC raises oil prices 24%
2000 - Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order
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Today’s World Events through History
1389 - Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe
1635 - French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean
1820 - Tomato is proven non-poisonous
1838 - Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, London
1846 - Saxophone is patented by Antoine Joseph Sax
1859 - 1st dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England)
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip at 10.45, the casus belli of WWI
1919 - Treaty of Versailles, ending WW I and establishing the League of Nations, is signed in France
1922 - The Irish Civil War starts when Irish Free State forces attack anti-treaty republicans in Dublin
1962 - Thalidomide drug banned in Netherlands
1970 - Around 500 Catholic workers at the Harland and Wolff shipyard are forced to leave their work by Protestant employees as serious rioting continues in Belfast
1986 - Irish population condemns divorce
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
This last week has been historical in so many ways. This nation is making amazing changes and those who disagree are being left behind. Obamacare subsidies to help the poor was lawful, according to the Supreme Court. I’m sure this won’t stop the anti-people, but it certainly makes them look more and more foolish. The Supreme Court said that ‘marriage’ is ‘marriage’ based on love. It was nice to hear the National Anthem sung outside the Court. It showed that the decision was good for America and not just some protest group. I sure the religious far right is not happy, but not a lot they can do. Too bad many of them don’t realize that ‘we are all God’s creatures’…it’s in the Bible. Finally Obama gave an amazing eulogy, including a song, and challenged everyone to keep up the work against racism in our deeds, not our words. And then he sang! He sure sounded like a Christian to me. What a week, one we will all remember with many positive memories for a long time.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can you figure out the well-known expression which is represented below?

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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… America Facts…
Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.

The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.

…Cool Facts…
Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.

The rarest motorcycle in the world was found behind a brick wall in Chicago and has engine technologies well ahead of its time. The “Traub” is still running to this day.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
Mr. Fred Weiss, agent for the filming of “Kit Carson,” assured a gathering of concerned citizens that the cannons found in the Los Angeles-Albuquerque Warehouse are not a part of President Roosevelt’s Civil Defense Program but rather are here for the filming of “Kit Carson” and are now on their way to Kayenta.

 Flag Day, June 14, will be celebrated in Oak Creek Indian Gardens, announced by Leighton Crees, Exalted Ruler of the Flagstaff and Jerome Elks.

…Harper’s Index…
+2,590 – percentage change since 1993 in the annual sales of vinyl records in US

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
There's a rumor that Twinkies have a shelf life of 20-plus years. The truth of the matter, however, is that it’s closer to 25 days. The plastic-wrapped desserts contain the same apocalypse-vulnerable preservatives you’d find in most commercially baked breads.
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2 jokes for the day

There are three ways a man wears his hair - parted- unparted or departed

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Mr. Trent always scheduled the weekly staff meeting for four thirty on Friday afternoons.
When one of the employees finally got up the nerve to ask why, he explained.
“I will tell you why … I’ve learned that’s the only time of the week when none of you seem to want to argue with me.”    

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Yep, It Really Happened
ONATELAUNEE TOWNSHIP, Pa. (UPI) - More than a dozen different police departments in a southeastern Pennsylvania county responded to a wedding brawl that grew violently out of control Monday night, according to reports. Police arrested seven people -- including the groom -- during the altercation in Ontelaunee Township, which reportedly began over a guest letting her 14-year-old son drink alcohol. Officers from Northern Berks Regional Police were the first on scene, but they called for reinforcements after guests, some shirtless and bloodied, threatened them. Police from 16 different departments across Berks County responded and attempted to control the crowd. Police say one guest was unfazed after an officer twice used a stun gun on him, and the groom, Nicholas Papoutsis, 31, reportedly challenged police to fight before being subdued and charged with disorderly conduct, interfering with the administration of law and public drunkenness. Emergency workers meanwhile treated his bride for alcohol poisoning and dehydration. The involved officers came from departments in Fleetwood, Hamburg, Penn State, Berks County, Wyomissing, Bern, Spring, Tilden, Reading and Muhlenberg, among other locations. Four officers from Northern Berks Regional and Muhlenberg Township reportedly sustained minor injuries in the incident and received medical treatment at Reading Hospital. Police say the 14-year-old boy in question blew a .16 percent blood-alcohol content and told officers he drank two beers. Those blowing a .08 percent BAC are considered legally drunk in the state of Pennsylvania. The Reading Eagle quoted Northern Berks Regional Police Chief Scott W. Eaken as saying, "Several people were trying to be a calming influence in all of this, but at that point, alcohol had taken over."   
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Somewhat Useless Information
The Confederate states went through three official flags during the four-year Civil War, but none of them was the battle flag that's at the center of the current controversy.
The first was the "Stars and Bars," approved in 1861.
Like its Union sibling, it had a dark blue field in the upper left corner -- or the canton -- and only three stripes, two red and one white. It had seven stars to represent the breakaway states: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. And the white stars formed a circle, much like the original Betsy Ross American flag.
The original Confederate flag's similarity to the Union flag quickly confused soldiers, who often couldn't tell the difference between the two on smoke-filled battlefields.
Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard wanted something that looked distinctly different.
So politician William Porcher Miles came up with the design we know today -- the battle flag: a blue St. Andrew's Cross with white stars on a red field.
The Confederacy took the battle flag design and put it on the canton of its next flag, a white one. They called it the "Stainless Banner."
When the wind didn't blow, only the white was clearly visible, making it look like a white flag of surrender.
So, in the third incarnation of the Confederate flag, a red vertical stripe was added on the far end. This flag was called the "Blood-Stained Banner."
Shortly after that the South surrendered.
While it wasn't the Confederate states' official flag, the battle flag was flown by several Confederate Army units. The most notable among them was Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
And even Lee distanced himself from divisive symbols of a Civil War that his side lost.
"I think it wiser moreover not to keep open the sores of war," he wrote in a letter, declining an invitation by the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association.
There were no flags flown at his funeral, Confederate or otherwise.
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Birthday’s Today
89 - Mel Brooks, New York City, actor\director (Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs)
67 - Kathy Bates, academy award winning actress (Misery)
55 - John Elway, NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32/33)
49 - John Cusack, actor (Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead)
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Remembered for being born today
 1703-1791@87 - John Wesley, co-founder of the Methodist movement
1902-1979@77 - Richard Rodgers, composer (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
1712-1778@66 - Jean Jacques Rousseau, France, composer/social contractor
1577-1640@62 - Peter Paul Rubens, Siegen, Flemish Baroque painter 
1491-1547@55 - Henry VIII, King of England
1946-1989@42 - Gilda Radner, actress (SNL, Haunted Honeymoon)
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Historical Obits Today
Robert Byrd, American politician-2010@92
James Madison, 4th US pres (1809-17)-1836@85
Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer (Vassar)-1889@70
Meshach Taylor, American actor, cancer-2014@67
Fred Travalena, American comedian and impressionist, cancer-2009@66
Rod Serling, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery), heart attacks-1975@50
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Brain Teasers Answers
Safety in numbers
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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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