8-18-15

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Almanac: Week: 34 \ Day: 230
August Averages: 78°\50°
86004 Today: H 86° \ L 54° Average Sky Cover: 10% 
Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  23mph
Ave. High: 80° Record High: 87°[2002] Ave. Low: 49° Record Low: 36°[1975]
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Observances Today:
Birth Control Pills Day
Mail Order Catalog Day-1872
Serendipity Day
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Observances This Week:
15-21 National Aviation Week

18-24 Minority Enterprise Development Week

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1804 - Lewis and Clark meet with the Ottos to discuss the war with the Maha
1835 - Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
1846 - Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe NM
1872 - 1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward
1894 - Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
1909 - Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River
1926 - Weather map televised for 1st time
1938 - FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada
1956 - Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1
1958 - TV game show scandal investigation starts
1960 - 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie Ill
1969 - Workers at downtown Tucson's El Presidio Garage site began assembly of a crane described as the "biggest of its type in Arizona." The crane was approximately 105 feet high with a horizontal boom of 170 feet.
1969 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair closes with Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys
1987 - Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24)
1988 - Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million 
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World Historical Highlights for Today
293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica
1634 - Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France
1686 - Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
1834 - Mt Vesuvius erupts
1958 - "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov published
1958 - Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde
1964 - South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Another warm day as the monsoon has departed for a few days. Slight breeze keeps everything bearable.
Spent the day cleaning/fixing things. First was the seat of my vehicle that had a warn spot that was driving me crazy. Then on to the kitchen and a rearrangement and cleaning and throwing away cooking/baking essential ingredients. Actually was able to make some extra room in the limited cabinet space. Finally cleaning a table in my office that holds the TV, small sewing machine, and supplies for mending and minor sewing.
Amazed at how race relations have and have not changed since my college days. Never been a rap music fan and don’t get gansta’ rap, but have seen several movie reviews for ‘Straight Out of Compton’ and may go see it as it is the story of how gansta’ rap was a cry for help. Then I got hooked on the new HBO 6 part series (Show Me a Hero) about housing segregation in Yonkers, NY. One of the stars was on a talk show and told us that the housing case, that started in the late 1980’s, was not resolved until 2007. So amazing how ignorance breeds fear.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I am a five letter word namely
1 2 3 4 5 ... which is under you
If you put out 1, it's above you
If you put out 1 and 2, it's around you
What am I?

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
The City cut off the gas service to the motel at 2326 E. Santa Fe that has come under fire for putting cooking facilities in rental rooms under 150 square feet, which is considered to be too small for cooking safety. The owner protests that his renters can barely afford the $10-a-week rent let alone buy meals in a restaurant, pointing out the desperate need for low-cost housing in this city that his units help provide.
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…Harper’s Index…
$5,000 – monthly rent the Austrian government pays on Hitler’s birthplace to prevent it from becoming a pilgrimage site
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…Instagram Photo of the Day… 

natgeoPhoto by @TimLaman on assignment for @NatGeo. It’s great to be back in the magical rain forest of Gunung Palung in Borneo.
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…Foreigners Find These American Customs Offensive…
Tipping
A contentious issue even here, both over- and under-tipping can quickly make you the least popular person at the table. But in Japan and South Korea tipping is seen as an insult. In those countries, workers feel they are getting paid to do their job, and take pride in doing it well; they don't need an added incentive.
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…Nelson Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·         “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
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…USA Facts…
The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.

One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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…Unusual Fact of the Day…
If you combine the Electoral College results of the '80 and '84 elections, Reagan won 1014-62.
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2 jokes for the day
What was Spider Man's major in college? 
Web Design.

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Sitting on the side of the highway waiting to catch speeding drivers, a State Police Officer sees a car puttering along at 22 MPH. He thinks to himself, "This driver is just as dangerous as a speeder!" So he turns on his lights and pulls the driver over. 
Approaching the car, he notices that there are five old ladies -- two in the front seat and three in the back -- wide eyed and white as ghosts. The driver, obviously confused, says to him, "Officer, I don't understand, I was doing exactly the speed limit! What seems to be the problem? 
"Ma'am," the officer replies, "you weren't speeding, but you should know that driving slower than the speed limit can also be a danger to other drivers." 
"Slower than the speed limit? No sir, I was doing the speed limit exactly... Twenty-two miles an hour!" the old woman says a bit proudly. 
The State Police officer, trying to contain a chuckle explains to her that 22 was the route number, not the speed limit. A bit embarrassed, the woman grinned and thanked the officer for pointing out her error. 
"But before I let you go, Ma'am, I have to ask... Is everyone in this car OK? These women seem awfully shaken and they haven't muttered a single peep this whole time," the officer asks. 
"Oh, they'll be all right in a minute officer. We just got off Route 119."     

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Yep, It Really Happened
Government in action – Canada’s Dept. of Veteran Affairs requires any vet receiving disability benefits to have a doctor recertify the condition annually—including people like Afghan war double-leg amputee Paul Franklin. He complained to Canadian Broadcasting Corp. News that he had been harshly threatened with loss of benefits if he failed to file (even though the Department told CBC News that it might perhaps relax the certification requirement to ‘every third year.”           
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Somewhat Useless Information
The pierogi, a descendent of Eastern Europe culinary traditions, arrived in the U.S. in the early 1900s. During the 1940s, these crescent-shaped pockets became a staple of fundraisers held by churches in the northeast and throughout the upper Midwest.

By the early 1950s, pierogi appeal began broadening among Americans of all ethnicities.

On Oct. 8, 1952, Ted Twardzik, Sr., founder of Mrs. T's Pierogies, produced the company's first samples for a local grocery store. 

Pierogi are a dish consisting of boiled dumplings of unleavened dough stuffed with varying ingredients.

The word pierogies is popular in the U.S. and Canada because it underlines a plurality of this well-known Polish food. However, this usage is not so appropriate since in fact the word pierogi is already plural in the Polish language.

The Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team organizes a 'pierogi race' during their games. Four types of pierogi called Sauerkraut Saul, Cheese Chester, Jalapeno Hannah and Oliver Onion take part.

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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
? - 1st English child born in New World (Virginia Dare) d.?
 (90) - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Allahabad Oudh, Indian diplomat and politician d.1990
 (89) - Otto Harbach, songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes) d. 1963
88 - Rosalynn Smith Carter, Georgia, 1st lady (1977-1981), Jimmy's lust
 (88) - Casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87) d. 2006
(85) - Shelley Winters, actress (A Place in the Sun) d. 2006
82 - Roman Polanski, Poland, director (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates)
79 - Robert Redford, American actor (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby)
72 - Martin Mull, actor/comedian (Bad Manners, Flick, Serial)
(71) - Marshall Field, Conway Massachusetts, owner (Field Dept Store) d. 1906
(57) - Patrick Swayze, actor/dancer (Dirty Dancing, Ghost) d. 2009
58 - Dennis Leary, actor/comic (MTV; Rescue Me)
54 - Bob Woodruff, American journalist, anchor-wounded in Iraq
(53) - Grant Williams, actor (Hawaiian Eye, Incredible Shrinking Man) d. 1985
46 - Christian Slater, actor (Robin Hood, Untamed Heart, Heathers)
46 - Edward Norton, actor-Birdman, Primal Fear
37 - Andy Samberg, American comedian-SNL's Digital Shorts
(35) - Meriwether Lewis, solider (Lewis & Clark Expedition), d. 1809
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Historical Obits Today
Don Pardo, TV announcer (Jeopardy, Saturday Night Live)-2014@96
Vaughn Shoemaker, US cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer)-1991@89
B F Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box)-1990@86
Scott McKenzie, singer (Flowers in Her Hair), long illness-2012@73
Michael Deaver, Reagan Deputy White House Chief of Staff, cancer-2007@69 
James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth)-1803@67
Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror-1227@65
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Brain Teasers Answers
"CHAIR"
if you put out 1, it's above you
Ans. hair
if you put out 1 and 2, it's around you
Ans. air
And chair is under you.

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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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