8-2-15

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Almanac: Week: 32 \ Day: 214
August Averages: 78°\50°
86004 Today: H 79° \ L 59° Average Sky Cover: 85% 
Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  12mph
Ave. High: 81° Record High: 93°[1902] Ave. Low: 51° Record Low: 42°[1915]
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Observances Today:
National Doll Day  Link  (First Sunday)
National Kids' Day (First Sunday) Link
National Night Out
Take A Penny/Leave A Penny Day Link 

National Day (Macedonia-1944) 
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Observances This Week:
1-7 International Clown Week Link
National Scrabble Week
Simplify Your Life Week Link
World Breastfeeding Week Link


2-8 Assistance Dog Week Link 
Exercise With Your Child Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Farmers' Market Week Link
National Fraud Awareness Week Link
National Psychic Week: 2-8  Link  (First full week) 
Single Working Women's Week
Stop on Red Week Link

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1776 - Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people
1790 - 1st US census (population of 3,939,214; 697,624 are slaves) is conducted
1819 - 1st parachute jump in US
1858 - 1st mailboxes installed in Boston & NYC streets
1909 - 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1937 - Works Progress Administration (WPA) survey showed the average family of four in Tucson lived on $1,287 per year, somewhat higher than the national average.
1938 - 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals)
1945 - Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman & Churchill
1967 - "In the Heat of the Night" premieres in New York (Best Picture 1968)
1973 - "American Graffiti" premieres at the Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
1986 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1057 - Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium Pope Stephen IX
1701 - Great Peace of Montreal signed between New France and North American Indian nations at urging of Huron chief Kondiaronk
1865 - Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London
1875 - 1st roller skating rink opens (London)
1928 - Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1961 - Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club
1970 - Rubber bullets used 1st time in Northern Ireland during 'The Troubles'
1995 - Saudi Arabia's King Fahd issues a decree replacing all members of the Council of Ministers who do not have blood ties so the royal Family
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Great Saturday after a late night with Netflix. Did some small home repairs that needed to be done. Actually that can be a never ending adventure. But I always learn something.
I must admit I am fascinated with videos taken from drones, especially the ones of skydivers or placed on animals. There are all kinds of stories of drones having close calls with commercial and private planes. I’ve heard on the news, almost daily, that drones are prohibited from flying above 400’ and are prohibited within 5 miles of an airport. The 5 mile thing might be a problem for people in small towns, like me. Most of our town is within 5 miles of airport. I have to wonder if these idiots that don’t follow the rules are the kind of people who believe rules are made for others, I’ll be careful or if they are the kind of people who know the rules and don’t want the government telling them anything or if they just never read or listen to the news. Thankfully there has never been a commercial crash due to drones, but pilots seem to believe it is only a matter of time. Saturday at two close calls at JFK.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What drink does this represent? 

180 degree arc 
360 degree arc 
180 degree arc 

180 degree arc 
360 degree arc 
90 degree lines 
A

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.

Raj from the Big Bang Theory is married to Miss India.
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
Oak Creek is ablaze and closed to traffic. The Slide Rock area has been evacuated. Air tankers and helicopters are dropping fire retardant. The fire ignited in the Encinoso Picnic area and has already consumed 80 acres of forest.

The Flagstaff Planning and Zoning Commission says Flagstaff is not ready for the urbanization that a 285-foot tower would allow: cell phone gabbing while driving.

The Flagstaff Airport is requesting a $1.2 million grant from the federal government to complete the $2 million upgrade that was begun last year. This up-grade is especially important here due to our “unusual terrain” and our uncertain weather. It will be particularly invaluable during the winter months.
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…Harper’s Index…
4,000 – estimated number of deaths caused by the Islamic State since Jan. 2014
7,200 – by Boko Haram
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…Instagram Photo of the Day… 

natgeoPhoto by @amivitale. Yesterday was #WorldRangerDay and here is one of my heroes, Kamara, with two of the baby rhinos he looks after at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (@lewa_wildlife). Rangers like him literally put their lives on the line to protect and care for these animals every day. Thanks to their work and investment in the local communities, Lewa did not lose a single rhino to poaching in 2014. Ranger units like Lewa's and the Northern Rangelands Trust (@nrt_kenya) have significantly improved the security of wildlife and people in the neighboring areas.
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…Nelson Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·         “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
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…USA Facts…
According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease. HTML is an internet term.

According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Before Bob Ross became a TV painter, he spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force and retired with the rank of master sergeant.
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2 jokes for the day
Patient: Doctor, doctor I think I swallowed a spoon!
Doctor: Just sit patiently and try not to stir

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A man is in a pawnshop and sees this beautiful Grandfather Clock and winds up buying it.
He asks the owner if he can deliver the clock and the owner replies that he cannot make deliveries.
So only living a few blocks away the man decides to strap the clock on his back and carry it the few blocks.
After a block or so, a drunk comes staggering out of a bar and bumps into the man knocking him down on his back and smashing the clock to bits.
He then jumps up and starts cussing the drunk out and saying "look what you did to my beautiful clock you idiot”
The drunk then replies, gee buddy I’m really sorry why don’t you wear a wristwatch like everyone else.         

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Yep, It Really Happened
ARLINGTON, Texas - A Texas woman said disaster was narrowly averted when a birthday party guest noticed a pair of scissors in the store-bought cake before her mother put her face into it. Yoly Nava of Arlington said her brother purchased the $59.99 cake from the El Rancho Market in Arlington for the weekend surprise party for their mother, and they were about to have the guest of honor dive face-first into the cake as part of a Latino tradition when a guest noticed the blades of the scissors sticking out from the dessert. "What if those scissors would have been pointed up and I would have hurt my mom? Trying to make something good, I would have hurt my mom," Nava told CBS Dallas/Fort Worth. Nava posted a video of the cake and its unexpected ingredient on Facebook. She said the store gave her a replacement cake, which she then discovered contained what appeared to be a human hair. A manager for the El Rancho Market's corporate office contacted the family to apologize. Nava said she doesn't want any compensation from the company, she only wants the store to make sure its employees are properly trained. "I think it's enough. Scissors to me, that could have been an eye or something," she said. Marcos Rubalcava, a spokesperson for the El Rancho chain, said the incident is under investigation. "We are in the process of investigating this incident," Rubalcava told the Arlington Voice newspaper. "No matter what the situation, our policy is if something was done incorrectly, we want to rectify the situation with the customer."      
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Somewhat Useless Information
Magnets got their name from Magnesia, a province in Greece.

On average, 9,000 earthquakes take place worldwide everyday. 

In 1508, Leonardo da Vinci first described and sketched contact lenses.

On Star Trek, William Shatner's character Captain Kirk, was the first to utter 'hell' and engage in an interracial kiss on primetime television. 

The first European travelers in a hot-air balloon were a sheep, a duck and a rooster. The 1783 maiden flight lasted eight minutes.

Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, a French nobleman and a Franciscan, came to America in 1683. Cadillac established a fur-trading post in 1701, where Lake Erie connects to Lake St. Clair. That became Detroit.

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Birthdays Today
92 - Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister
76 - Wes Craven, director (Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream)
70 - Joanna Cassidy [Joanna Virginia Caskey], actress (Blade Runner, Under Fire)
51 - Mary-Louise Parker, Ft Jackson SC, actress (Fried Green Tomatoes)
39 - Michael Weiss, Washington DC, figure skater (1997 World Champ-7th)
32 - Nick Diaz, American MMA fighter
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 Born this day…Died in __@__
Myrna Loy, Helena Mont, actress (Jazz Singer)-1993@88
Jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros)-1978@86
Peter O'Toole, Ireland, actor (Lawrence of Arabia)-2013@81
Carroll O'Connor, actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night)-2001@76
John Tyndall, Leighlinbridge, County Carlow Ireland, Irish physicist who demonstrated why the sky is blue and proved that the Earth's atmosphere has a greenhouse effect-1893@73
Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Anet France, architect laid out Wash DC-1825@70
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Colmar France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty)-1904@70
James Baldwin, author (Go Tell it on Mountain, Another Country)-1987@63
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Historical Obits Today
William S Burroughs, author (Naked Lunch)-1997@83
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (telephone), anemia-1922@75
Shari Lewis, American puppeteer, cancer-1998@65
Horace Mann, American education advocate-1859@63
Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/Pulitzer writer-1963@61
Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), cancer-1788@61
Warren Harding, 29th Pres (1921-23), stroke-1923@57
Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, peritonitis-1921@48
Totie Fields, [Sophie Feldman], comedienne, blood clot-1978@48
James Butler ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's-1876@39
Thurmon Munson, NY Yankee, plane crash-1979@32
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Brain Teasers Answers
COCA COLA

[180 degree arc - C
360 degee arc - O
90 degree lines - L]

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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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