7-13-15

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Almanac: Week: 29 \ Day: 194
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 85° \ L 48° Average Sky Cover: 65% 
Wind ave:   10mph\Gusts:  20mph
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Observances Today:
Barbershop Music Appreciation Day
Embrace Your Geekness Day
Fool's Paradise Day Gruntled Workers Day
International Town Criers Day
National French Fries Day
World Cup Soccer Day

Feast of Lanterns (Japan)
Ramadan (Islam)
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Observances This Week:
Creative Maladjustment Week: 7-14 
Sports Cliché Week: 12-16 
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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1787 - Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)
1832 - Source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft)
1865 - Horace Greeley reputedly advises his readers to "Go west young man"
1923 - The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland" but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
1961 - St. Joseph's Hospital opened on Tucson's east side
1977 - NYC experiences 25 hr black-out
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Today’s World Events through History
1174 - William I of Scotland, key rebel in Revolt of 1173-1174, captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
1568 - Dean of St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer
1837 - Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
1854 - In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.
1917 - Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal
1943 - Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany
1969 - North Ireland loyalist Ian Paisley addresses a crowd at Loughgall, County Antrim, and is reported to have said: "I am anti-Roman Catholic, but God being my judge, I love the poor dupes who are ground down under that system."
1972 - A series of gun-battles and shootings erupt across Belfast between the Provisional Irish Republican Army and British Army soldiers
2014 - FIFA World Cup: Germany beats Argentina 1-0 in extra time to win football's 20th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro

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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice lazy Sunday. Stayed up way to late with Netflix, so didn’t do much today.
Geez…first a major drug lord in Mexico escapes from prison…US had tried to get him extradited to US, but Mexico gov’t said they could handle it…Now Trump tweets ‘I told you so’. I’m sure the far right Republicans will thrust Trump higher and higher. He could hopefully never win in the final election, but he is sure good at making friends and making enemies all at the same time. The idea of building fear has been the Republican strategy for decades…please stop.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can you make this sentence into a phrase by only adding punctuation? You may not add, subtract, or rearrange the words. Good luck.

that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
Putting your car alarm remote under your chin or beside your head increases its range.

There is a sport called Banzai Skydiving. You throw the parachute out of the airplane first and then jump after it.
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
Celebration of the 4th of July was very quiet in Flagstaff this year. Some traveled to Snowflake for more excitement.

The water in our new reservoir is gaining steadily at a rate of at least 2 inches daily.

Brakeman James Daugherty’s right foot was badly crushed when he caught it under a train wheel at Bellemont on Wednesday. A temporary dressing was put in place in Flagstaff before he was taken to Los Angles for an expected amputation.
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…Harper’s Index…
54 –percentage who believe that houses can be haunted by ghosts.
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… Relationship Facts…
Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.

As a rule, 66 percent of people keep their eyes closed while kissing. The rest take pleasure in watching the emotions run the gamut on the faces of their partners.
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…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Wonder Woman was created by psychologist William Moulton Marsten. Martsen is also credited as the inventor of the systolic blood-pressure test, a component of the modern polygraph machine.
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2 jokes for the day
In a darken theater where the suspenseful mystery story was being staged, a member of the audience suddenly stood up and cried, “Where is the murdered?”

A threatening voice behind her replied, “Right in back of you, if you don’t sit down!”
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A man got in a taxi cab to be driven to work.
They were about to turn a corner, but had to wait for the light.
The taxi cab driver wasn’t sure his blinkers were working so he said to the man "will you look out the window and make sure my blinkers are working?"
As requested, the man stuck his head out the window and responded..
"yes, no, yes, no, yes, no..."          
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Yep, It Really Happened
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (UPI) - A Jeep seen driving around the Louisville area is turning heads for an unusual reason -- it looks like a skeleton is driving. Mr. Bonz, a prop skeleton belonging to mechanic Andrew Johnson, has become a regular sight "driving" Johnson's Jeep around Louisville and the surrounding area. Johnson said the driving skeleton was born out of his affection for the Jeep, which has its steering wheel and pedals on the right side -- which is usually the passenger side for cars in the United States. Johnson installed a fake steering wheel in front of the left front seat and hired Mr. Bonz as his fake driver. "I get everything from screams, to 'man that's fantastic,'" Johnson told WDRB-TV. "It's just all in fun. It's just to make people smile. If I've scared anybody, I apologize." Johnson said Mr. Bonz was originally a temporary feature of the Jeep two Halloweens ago, but locals demanded his return. "People would stop me in Walmart, Kroger, Kmart, wherever and say, 'where's your skeleton?'"
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Somewhat Useless Information
Returns in the future…email for this site has disappeared!
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Birthdays Today
75 - Patrick Stewart, actor (Picard-Star Trek Next Generation)
73 - Harrison Ford, actor (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Frantic)
69 - Cheech Marin, [Richard], comedian (Cheech & Chong-Up in Smoke)
65 - Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic of China
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Hilary Grover Barratt Brown, conservationist -1997@71
Dave Garroway, Schnectady NY, TV host (Today Show)-1982@69
Julius Caesar, Rome, Roman military and political leader-44 BC@55
John Jacob Astor IV, American entrepreneur-1912@49
Bob Crane, Waterbury Ct, actor (Col Hogan-Hogan's Heroes)-1978@49
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Historical Obits Today
Nadine Gordimer, South African author & Nobel laureate-2014@90
Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragette, most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement-1934@87
Red Buttons (Aaron Chwatt), American comedian-2006@87
George Steinbrenner, owner of the Yankees-2010@80
Richard Darryl Zanuck, Award winning film producer, heart attack-2012@77
Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), heart failure-1973@67
Johnny Ringo, American Gunfighter, suicide?murder?-1882@32
Cory Monteith, Canadian actor\musician (Glee), OD-2013@31
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Brain Teasers Answers
That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is.
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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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