8-28-15

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Almanac: Week: 35 \ Day: 240
August Averages: 78°\50°
86004 Today: H 75° \ L 51° Average Sky Cover: 80% 
Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  17mph
Ave. High: 78° Record High: 89°[1948] Ave. Low: 47° Record Low: 33°[1920]
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Observances Today:            Observances This Week:
Dream Day Quest and Jubilee    23-29
Crackers Over The Keyboard Day        National Return To Work Week
National College Colors Day Link       National Safe at Home Week

Race Your Mouse Day                25-31
Radio Commercials Day             Be Kind To Humankind Week
(World) Daffodil Day Link                    28-30

  National Chuck Wagon Races
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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
The men surrendered their arms and ammunition, and were given three months pay and transportation to their homes. 1609 - Henry Hudson, discovers & explores Delaware Bay
1789 - William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
1830 - 1st locomotive in US, "Tom Thumb", runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill
1837 - Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufacture Worcestershire Sauce
1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue
1859 - A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far afield as Japan
1864 - The 1st Geneva Convention, governing rules of warfare, signed by 26 nations
1867 - United States occupy Midway Islands in the Pacific
1884 - First known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, SD
1907 - United Parcel Service is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington
1917 - Ten suffragists arrested as they picket the White House
1920 - Francisco "Pancho" Villa and his army were mustered out--the men surrendered their arms and ammunition, and were given three month’s pay and transportation to their homes.
1957 - US Senator Strom Thurmond (Rep, SC) begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
1963 - 200,000 march and demonstrate for African American civil rights in DC
1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC
1968 - Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Democratic National Convention
1981 - John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan
1982 - The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco2013 - China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria's use of chemical weapons
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1565 - Oldest European city in the US, St Augustine Fla, established
1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company
1968 - Gerry Fitt, MP, tables a House of Commons motion criticizing Royal Ulster Constabulary action in Dungannon on 24 August 1968 and demands that: "citizens of Northern Ireland should be allowed the same rights of peaceful demonstration as those in other parts of the United Kingdom"
2003 - An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today 


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My Rambling Thoughts
Still monsooning with several nice storms today. Lovin’ It.
We went to a new place today, on the Southside of Flag. Nice…at on the patio between rain storms. Cheryl is headed for CA in 2 weeks to see her son and his family. Mary and her husband are headed to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon for a footrace up there along the AZ trail. They will be giving water to the runners…added bonus…2 days in their camp trailer.
We are a country of immigrants. I wonder if all those who want the illegals sent back realize the problems. Here’s one: many actors, singers, and entertainers are from other countries. Those who become stars have ‘people’ who take care of all their paperwork, keep track of VISA dates etc.  The stars just keep being ‘stars’. Just like not everyone can make it to stardom, many immigrants do not have ‘people’ to keep track of their paperwork. I understand it is their responsibility, but working with the Feds is time consuming to say the least. Middle and low income immigrants have a hard time with the paperwork. Our founding fathers and many after that did not have those paperwork issues.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A part of the body is hidden in each of the following sentences. The first sentence contains "head." Can you find the rest?

1. The ad is for Monday's sale.
2. The tour group can go to either country.
3. My car makes funny noises sometimes.
4. Sarah and Tony are getting married.
5. That casino seems shady.
6. Can't you see that Hank needs help?
7. The sea is so calm out here.
8. Would you like to go surfing, Erin?

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing Facts…
Paul Walker (Fast & Furious) was in a jewelry store one day when he noticed a young U.S. military veteran with his fiancée shopping for a wedding ring. Paul went to the manager and said “Put that girl’s ring on my tab.”

Valentine Tapley promised to never shave again if Abraham Lincoln was elected president. He died in 1910 with a 12-foot-long beard.
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
Babbitt’s wholesale meat department has installed a “Tenderizer” for hams that will “cure” each ham in only five days. It will then be simply ready to heat and eat! No more home boiling required.

Gilbert Harris has bought the Milk Depot milk route. The new enterprise will be called Copper State Dairy. The old Coca Cola building on West Santa Fe Avenue is being entirely remolded. The pasteurizing and bottling equipment will be moved from the old Milk Depot. New refrigeration equipment is being installed by the Flagstaff Electric Company, which is using the new novel insulation of a 6-inch rock wool blanket. A Dodge panel truck has been purchased for deliveries. They own 32 cows and will be purchasing Jersey milk from E. Mulland.
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…Harper’s Index…
90 –percentage of women’s college-sports teams that had female coaches in 1972
43 – that do today
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…Instagram Photo of the Day… 

Earthpix Waterspouts on the Mediterranean off the coast of Turkey
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…Foreigners Find These American Customs Offensive…
11. Wearing sweatpants, flip flops, wrinkly clothing, or baseball caps in public
Sure "athleisure" (stylish sportswear worn outside of the gym) is a hot new trend stateside, but in most countries, notably Japan and most of Europe, this sort of sloppy appearance is considered disrespectful.
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…USA Facts…
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.

Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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…Unusual Fact of the Day…
The first disposable diaper was called a “boater.”
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2 jokes for the day
A doctor examined a woman, took the husband aside, and said, “I don’t like the looks of your wife at all,”
“Me neither doc,” said the husband. “But she’s a great cook and really good with the kids.”

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Erica is walking out of a movie theatre at the same time as a man with a parrot on his shoulder.
Erica turns to the man and says, "Your parrot actually seemed to understand the movie".
It looked around during the boring parts, it paid close attention to the dramatic parts, it even "squawked" during the funny parts. I don't understand how that can be.
The man turns to Erica and says "I don't understand it either.... he didn't like the book at all".           

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Yep, It Really Happened
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Security cameras at a Taiwan art exhibition captured the moment a 12-year-old tripped and punched a hole in a $1.5 million Paolo Porpora oil painting. Organizers of the "Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius" exhibition at Huashan 1914 Creative Park in Taipei released footage of the beverage-holding boy tripping next to the still life and putting his fist through the bottom of the canvas before freezing in apparent horror at his mistake. Sun Chi-hsuan, the exhibit's organizer, said the boy's family will not be charged for restoration costs and the $1.5 million painting, titled "Flowers," was insured. "The painting's bottom right is damaged," Sun told reporters. "The boy's hand made contact with the artwork and left a hole the size of a fist." A post on the exhibition's Facebook page thanked restoration specialist Tsai Shun-jen for helping to quickly restore the 350-year-old painting. The post included photos of the experts working to repair the canvas.      
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(82) - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust) d. 1832
(81) - Ben Gazzara, actor (Run for Your Life, QB VII) d.2012
(78) - Charles Boyer, France, actor (Algiers, Fanny, Barefoot in the Park) d.1978
(78) - Donald O'Connor, dancer/actor (Singing in the Rain) d.2003
(76) - Jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, Capt America) d.1994
  72 - David Soul, [Solberg] actor (Starsky & Hutch)
(69) - Nancy Kulp, actress (Miss Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies) d.1991
(66) - Rokie Roker, actress (Helen-Jeffersons) d.1995
  55 - Emma Samms, [Samuels], actress (Colby's, General Hospital)
  50 - Shania Twain, Windsor Ontario, Canadian singer (You're Still the One)
(46) - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint (1975) d. 1821
  46 - Jason Priestley, Vancouver, actor (Brandon-Beverly Hills 90210)
  46 - Jack Black, actor, comedian, producer
(45) - C Wright Mills, sociologist, writer (The Power Elite) d.1962
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Historical Obits Today
Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus)-1985@88
Charles Darrow, US inventor of Monopoly-1967@73
Melvin Schwartz, Physicist\Nobel Laureate (neutrinos), Parkinson's-2006@73
Adam Goldstein, American DJ also known as DJ AM, OD-2009@36
Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader-1805@83
Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect (designed Central Park)-1903@81
Emmett Till, Mississippi, kidnapped & lynched-1955@14
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Brain Teasers Answers
A part of the body is hidden in each of the following sentences. The first sentence contains "head." Can you find the rest?

1. The ad is for Monday's sale.
2. The tour group can go to either country.
3. My car makes funny noises sometimes.
4. Sarah and Tony are getting married.
5. That casino seems shady.
6. Can't you see that Hank needs help?
7. The sea is so calm out here.
8. Would you like to go surfing, Erin?

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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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