8-10-15

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Almanac: Week: 33 \ Day: 222
August Averages: 78°\50°
86004 Today: H 81° \ L 49° Average Sky Cover: 70% 
Wind ave:   5mph\Gusts:  16mph
Ave. High: 81° Record High: 89°[2002] Ave. Low: 50° Record Low: 40°[1900]
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Observances Today:
National Duran Duran Appreciation Day
Paul Bunyan Day Link
Skyscraper Appreciation Day 
Smithsonian Day
S'mores Day Link

Admission Day (Missouri-1821-24th)
Independence Day (Ecuador-1809-from Spain)
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Observances This Week:
8-15 Gay Games Link
National Motorcycle Week
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week Link  
National Resurrect Romance Week


10-16 Elvis Week  Link
10-14 Weird Contest Week

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1680 - In New Mexico, Popé leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniards
1776 - Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London
1827 - Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1833 - Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
1846 - US Act of Congress passes establishing the Smithsonian Institution, now world's largest museum and research complex
1866 - Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
1867 - US Army established Fort Crittenden between Sonoita and Patagonia to protect settlers from Apaches. The fort was officially abandoned in 1873, in part because of the high rates of malaria transmitted by the mosquitoes living the marshy cienegas of the area.
1921 - FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello
1954 - At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held
1981 - Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
1984 - Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run
1985 - Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million
1988 - Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec)
2014 - Unrest breaks out in Ferguson, Missouri after the death of African American Michael Brown by a policeman
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World Historical Highlights for Today
  610 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an.
1500 - Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight Madagascar
1519 - Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan's Spanish expedition of 5 ships set sail to circumnavigate the Earth (returned 5 Sept 1522)
1822 - Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
1945 - Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged
1976 - A Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer is shot dead by the British Army as he drove along a road in Belfast; his car then went out of control and killed 3 children, sparking a series of "peace rallies" throughout the month by a group that became known as 'Peace People'
2006 - Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States. All toiletries are banned from commercial airplanes
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice day. Cleaned up the deck and enjoyed reading the Sunday paper out there.
The media won’t just let Trump disappear from the headlines. Most of my favorite Sunday morning talk shows spent way too much time talking to and about Trump. Everybody has an opinion. Boring. Over the years I had worked with people who I thought had huge egos with little substance to follow up…Trump is the king of ego for sure. Freud would have had a lot to say about him.
I got my DNA test results from Ancestry.com. As an adoptee, my parents were given information that my birth mother gave at the time she put me up for adoption. They said that I was Irish/English. Hmmm…not exactly right, but…here is what Ancestry.com said: Europe 100%
Great Britain 45%   Europe West 31%   Iberian Peninsula 10%   Trace Regions 14%
(Europe East 5%   Ireland 4%   Scandinavia 4%   Finland/Northwest Russia 1%). Not sure what I will do next…but something for sure.
My brother called as he has returned to NYC. They are talking about moving to Mexico City or Merida for the business, but he has a job offer in NYC. They will work it out. Rent in NYC, even Brooklyn, is outrageous and their landlord may be selling the building the 2 lofts they are in—living in one, business in the other. He won’t give them a new lease until he decides about the sale. They are really tired of the high NYC rents and can do all of her business in Merida or Mexico City.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What phrase is represented below?

JG
UN
MI
PP
IM
NU
GJ
Good
New
New

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
           returns tomorrow
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS Ago-1990
On Tuesday, Yavapai County Division 11 Superior Court Judge James Hancock lifted the Coconino County imposed ban on water hauling from Oak Creek by Canyon Investments. The firm has been supplying wholesale water to Spring Express of Tucson since last January at a rate of up to 6 million gallons per year.
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…Harper’s Index…
20 – percentage of US evangelical Christians under the age of 40 who supported gay marriage in 2003
43  - Who do today
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…Instagram Photo of the Day… 

natgeoPhoto by @salvarezphoto|
Pedro Perucho on the rim of Paritucin Volcano, Michoacán, near the city of Uruapan and about 322 km west of Mexico City, at dawn.
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…Foreign Laws Tourists Need to Know…
The sale and chewing of gum in Singapore has been illegal for more than 20 years, but in 2004 the law changed, and citizens can now be prescribed gum by a doctor.
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…Nelson Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·         “Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.”
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…USA Facts…
The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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…Unusual Fact of the Day…
The average CD can hold 74 minutes’ worth of music. That unusual length was determined by Sony’s president, who decided that a single CD should be able to contain the longest recorded version of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
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2 jokes for the day
A man comes home from a night of drinking with the boys.
As he falls through the doorway of his house, his wife snaps at him, “what’s the big idea coming home half drunk?”
The man replies, “I’m sorry, honey. I ran out of money.”

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Did you hear about the calendar thief?
He got 12 months; they say his days are numbered!   

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Yep, It Really Happened
LEEMING BAR, England - A British motorist pulled over for driving with bald tires told police the sheep in the back of his car was just along for the ride to McDonald's. The North Yorkshire Police Roads Policing Group, which shared a picture of the car and its wooly passenger on Twitter, said the motorist was pulled over Wednesday evening when an officer noticed two of its tires were completely bald. The officer soon discovered there was a sheep in the back of the car. "Ewe have got to be kidding," the police tweet read. A police spokesman told the Northern Echo the motorist explained he had just taken the sheep with him for a quick trip to the McDonald's in Leeming Bar. "Some people take their dogs in their cars, I take my sheep," the man was quoted as saying to the officer. A follow-up tweet indicated the officer did not necessarily approve of the motorist's meal choice. "[The motorist] allegedly had just been through the 'Golden Arches,' drive through," the tweet said, using the apparently judgmental hashtag "#otherfastfoodisavailable." A police spokesman quipped the department would have liked to have gotten a clearer photo of the spectacle. "We have no other information apart from what the officer tweeted. Although we might equip our officers with better high-definition cameras," the spokesman told The Guardian.     
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Somewhat Useless Information
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes...when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "good night, sleep tight" came from. 

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." 

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, GP 

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver." 

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. 

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Birthdays Today
91 - Rhonda Fleming, [Marilyn Louis], Hollywood California, actress (Spellbound)
56 - Rosanna Arquette, actress (Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hour)
55 - Antonio Banderas, Malaga Spain, actor (Phila, Evita, Mambo Kings)
48 - Riddick Bowe, Brooklyn New York, HW boxing champ (Olympic-silver-1988)
43 - Angie Harmon, Actress (Law and Order)
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 Born this day…Died in __@__
Herbert Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st US President -1964@90
Jack Haley [John Joseph], American actor (The Wizard of Oz)-1979@81
Noah Beery Jr, actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot)-1994@81
Jimmy Dean, Tx, actor/singer (Jimmy Dean Show)-2010@81
Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement-1961@75
Bobby Hatfield, Wisc, rocker (Righteous Bros-Unchained Melody)-2003@63 Madeleine de Valois, wife of James V of Scotland-1537@17

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Historical Obits Today
Eydie Gorme, American singer-2013@84
Isaac Hayes, American musician and actor,stroke-2008@65
Robert H. Goddard, American rocket pioneer, cancer-1945@62
Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy-1963@3 days
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Brain Teasers Answers
Jumping up and down over good news.
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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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