8-13-15

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Almanac: Week: 33 \ Day: 225
August Averages: 78°\50°
86004 Today: H 80° \ L 53° Average Sky Cover: 65% 
Wind ave:   mph\Gusts:  mph
Ave. High: 80° Record High: 90°[2002] Ave. Low: 50° Record Low: 39°[1999]
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Observances Today:
International Lefthander's Day Link
National Navajo Code Talkers Day
Shop Online For Groceries Day Link 
V-J Day
Worldwide Art Day Link  

National Garage Sale Day

Independence Day (Central African Republic-1960-from France)
Women's Day (Tunisia)
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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
1608 - John Smith's story of Jamestown's first days submitted for publication
1892 - US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
1907 - 1st taxicab (NYC)
1914 - Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st US bus line, in Minnesota
1940 - Tucson was blacked out by a storm that flooded the power plant. A hand-set, hand-printed Arizona Daily Star edition carries news of the deluge.
1950 - President Harry Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime of Bao-Dai
1953 - President Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee
1953 - US General Omar Bradley becomes US chief of staff
1981 - Last broadcast of "The Waltons" on CBS-TV
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1521 - Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés capture Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc in Tenochtitlan marking the end of the Aztec Empire
1536 - Buddhist monks from Kyōto's Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance
1624 - Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII
1792 - Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette
1814 - Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch
1868 - Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
1876 - The Bayreuth Festspielhaus opens with the first complete performance of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle-a 15 hour composition
1913 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley, Sheffield, England
1961 - Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany
1975 - Bayardo Bar attack: Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers carry out a gun and bomb attack on a pub in Belfast frequented by Ulster Volunteer Force commanders; 4 Protestant civilians and 1 UVF member are killed
1985 - South African Defence Force soldiers, travelling in a convoy of more than ten armoured vehicles, surrounded the Thaba-Juluba high school in Soweto and arrest 200 students during a clampdown on school boycotts
2004 - 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Another wet evening and early morning as the monsoon drops over 1” of rain on our little mountain town. NICE! Clouds have returned this afternoon for another evening of rain. Ran my errands early in the day to avoid the rain.
 I have to agree with many in the media that many Americans are tired to the establishment political system. I really figured, a few months ago, that Hillary had the nomination and the win in the bag. Not so sure anymore. Several on the Dem side are making very positive comments about their run for the nomination. On the other side, the Trump show just continues. At least CNN is giving some air time to the ‘other’ candidates on both sides. Just shaking my head and smiling, knowing it is way too early to get excited.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Eating white is what I mostly do
If quick enough, a fruit and some things blue

When you see pink, sky blue, orange, or red
It would be wise to turn my yellow head

In a dark room with blue walls
I run from the ghosts that roam the halls

What am I?
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
The 8th annual Mormon Lake Rodeo began Friday at Tombler’s Lodge and Playground. There are Cowboy Dances each evening and ‘49 Camp and Carnival attractions all day and in the evening as well.

The Bureau of Animal Husbandry with veterinarians Jack King, Thos C. Coe and William Smith is here seeking and treating cattle for Bangs Disease and for T. B. They were joined Saturday by Donald Miller with the mobile unit.
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…Harper’s Index…
13.5 – pounds of marijuana a NM family discovered in a van they bought used thirteen years ago.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day… 

natgeoPhoto taken by @stevemccurryofficial // Sheep and goats have worn paths on this mountain in the Hindu Kush, Afghanistan, as they move towards grazing land.
They seem to defy gravity as they climb up incredibly steep rocky surfaces and move over ledges which are almost too small to see from below.
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…Foreign Laws Tourists Need to Know…
Littering is something we shouldn’t make a habit of, but every so often we are all guilty of spitting out our gum on the sidewalk. (It loses flavor, people!) Try doing that in Thailand, and you’ll be faced with a fine of $600 or more — and you can go to jail if you don’t pay it. Maybe Singapore has the right idea in banning it all together.
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…Nelson Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·         “When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace.”
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…USA Facts…
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.

The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Even Fidel Castro lashed out against New Coke, calling it "a sign of American capitalist decadence."
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2 jokes for the day
Q: What do college students and deer have in common?
A: They both stand in the middle

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Joe, a notoriously bad golfer, hits his ball off the first tee and watches as it slices to the right and disappears through an open window.
Figuring that's the end of it, he gets another ball out of his bag and plays on.
On the eighth hole, a police officer walks up to Joe on the course and says, "Did you hit a golf ball through a window back there?"
Joe says, "Yes I did."
"Well," says the police officer, "it knocked a lamp over, scaring the dog, which raced out of the house onto the highway. A driver rammed into a brick wall to avoid the dog, sending three people to hospital. And it's all because you sliced the ball."
"Oh my goodness," says Joe, "is there anything I can do?"
"Yes there is," the cop says.
"Try keeping your head down and close up your stance a bit."        

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Yep, It Really Happened
MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN, Germany - A female cyclist's underwire bra may have saved her from life-threatening injuries after a hunter accidentally shot her. The 41-year-old tourist was riding across a field with her husband when she unknowingly rolled into a boar hunt, German newspaper Gadebusch-Rehnaer reported Friday. During a break, the woman felt a sudden sharp pain in her chest, soon realizing the underwire from her bra deflected a bullet. The couple immediately alerted the alleged shooter of the accident after he was spotted at a neighboring farm. "Those in charge of the hunt broke it up straight away" area police spokesperson Andre Falke said. The shooter is reportedly being investigated on suspicion of injury caused by negligence. This isn't the first report of the undergarment blocking a potentially deadly bullet. In Feb., a Brazilian woman's life was saved when her black underwire bra stopped a stray round from hitting her in the heart. "It was not just the bra wiring, which softened [it] a little," she told reporters, "but God who saved me."       
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Somewhat Useless Information
Ziplining is also known by other names such as "an inclined strong," "flying fox," and "Tyrolean Crossing."

It can be traced back as far as 1897 when the H.G. Wells novel, "The Invisible Man" referenced "an inclined strong" as part of a Whit-Monday fair.

Ziplines are built with half-inch wide galvanized cable with a break strength in excess of 22,000lbs.

The gravity-fueled conveyance using cables and pulleys threaded between two points was created by workers and residents who needed to quickly transport people and supplies across canyons, rivers, and other impassable areas in remote regions of China, the Costa Rican rainforest, and the Australian Outback. 

Zipping pulleys have a break strength in excess of 14,000lbs. Platforms are designed to hold loads of at least 40,000lbs.

There are over 700 zipline courses worldwide.

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Birthdays Today
89 - Fidel Castro, Mayari, Oriente, Cuba, dictator/prime minister/president
86 - Pat Harrington Jr, actor (Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time)
71 - Kevin Tighe, LA CA, actor (Emergency)
69 - Janet Yellen, American economist (Chair of US Federal Reserve)
59 - Betsy King, Reading Pennsylvania, LPGA golfer (1990 US Women's Open)
56 - Danny Bonaduce, actor (Danny-Partridge Family)/Chicago DJ (WLUP)
33 - Sebastian Stan, actor ‘Bucky’ in Capt. America films
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 Born this day…Died in __@__
Ben Hogan, Dublin Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1950, 51, 53)-1987@84
George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (spectroscope)-1903@83
Alfred Hitchcock, English director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window)-1980@80
Don Ho, Hawaii, ukulele player (Tiny Bubbles)-2007@76
Lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Association)-1893@75
Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz)-1967@72
Neville Brand, Griswold, Iowa, American actor (Laredo)-1992@71
Annie Oakley [Phoebe Ann Moses], sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild West), 1926-@66
John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV)-1946@57
Dan Fogelberg, Peoria Ill, rocker (Same Auld Lang Syne)-2007@56
Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)-1907@52
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Historical Obits Today
Julia Child, American chef and television personality-2004@91
Edwin Newman, American broadcast journalist-2010@91
Helen Gurley Brown, American author/publisher-2012@90
Florence Nightingale, English nurse-1910@90
H. G. Wells, English writer, heart attack?-1946@79
Joe E Ross, comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), heart attack-1982@77
Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel Hymns)-1908@67
Mickey Mantle, baseball great (NY Yankees), cancer-1995@63

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Brain Teasers Answers
Pacman (Braingle version)
Pacman usually eats the white dots. When a fruit pops up, he may get it or it disappears. When Pacman eats the bigger white dots, the ghosts turn blue and he is able to eat them.
The colors of the ghosts are pink, sky blue, orange and red. When you are coming close to one, you should turn the other way.
The background is black and the maze walls are blue.

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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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