8-3-15

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Almanac: Week: 32 \ Day: 215
August Averages: 78°\50°
86004 Today: H 75° \ L 52° Average Sky Cover: 55% 
Wind ave:   11mph\Gusts:  20mph
Ave. High: 80° Record High: 91°[1994] Ave. Low: 52° Record Low: 37°[1956]
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Observances Today:
Assistance Dog Day Link  
Friendship Day: 3 Link 
National Psychic Day  Link


Independence Day (Niger-1960 from France)
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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


3-8 National Bargain Hunting Week
Old Fiddler's Week
Psychic Week Link 

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage with 3 ships Santa Maria, Pinta and Niña from Palos de la Frontera, Spain for the "Indies"
1527 - First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1678 - Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon
1860 - American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY
1881 - US National Lawn Tennis Association removes "National" from its name
1882 - Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded
1921 - 1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars)
1923 - VP Coolidge becomes 30th President upon death of President Harding1933 - Tucson's mayor and city council killed an ordinance which would have changed the zoning on the northeast corner of Speedway and Campbell from a residential to a commercial zone. Opposition to the ordinance was led by the staff of the Steward observatory at the University of Arizona who were hoping to curtail the encroachment of bright lights in the neighborhood of the campus which would interfere with astronomical observation and research.
1941 - Gas (petroleum) sales limited in US
1949 - Basketball Association of America & National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association
1955 - Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing
1963 - Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda"
1981 - 13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike; US President Reagan offers ultimatum to workers: 'if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated'
1992 - "Unforgiven" directed by Clint Eastwood premieres (Best Picture 1993)
1995 - CNN en Espanol premieres
2004 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens-closed since the 9/11 attacks.
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1829 - Gioacchino Rossini's "William Tell" premieres in Paris
1914 - 1st seaworthy ship passes through the Panama Canal
1926 - Traffic lights installed at Piccadilly Circus, London
1952 - 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland
1980 - 22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, USSR
1991 - Pan Am games open in Havana
2014 - The Israeli Defence Force remove much of its ground forces from the Gaza Strip following the destruction of 32 tunnels built by Hamas and other militants
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice this morning, then monsoon returned with several afternoon showers. Not a lot of rain, but moisture is always appreciated.
Last week I had a rant about guns. Today Fareed of CNN gave some very frightening statistics. Three times the number of Americans killed during the Vietnam War have died, in the US, by gun violence since 9/11. The United States has a gun homicide rate that is at least a dozen times higher than those of most other industrialized countries. According to shooting tracker.com there have been 204 mass (more than one person killed or injured) since Jan. 1, 2015. Now is the time to do something.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Add together each of the defined words to get a whole new word.
Example: to shout + what you say when you feel pain = a color = yellow.

1) A light brown color + to leave = a dance.

2) A store's announcement + a type of women's clothing = a building's location.

3) A vehicle + an animal pal = a floor covering.

4) The ocean + a father's boy = part of the year.

5) Another name for dad + a yellow veggie = a white fluffy snack.

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
The Power Rangers command center is a real building located in a California University.

Your spit has a painkiller 6 times stronger than morphine. It contains a substance called opiorphin that is stronger than morphine.
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
The Arizona Department of Weights and Measures has fined Win Oil Co. for providing substandard, below legal levels of octane gasoline that creates “pings and knocks," which, over time, do damage to engines.

City Public Works Director Ron Doba is asking that citizens respond to a voluntary reduction in water use because we have reached almost a million gallons of use per day. This is not sustainable.

Wild weather this week brought a 2-hour red sandstorm to Tuba City, and golf ball-sized hail to Phoenix, Buckeye, Gila Bend, Rainbow Valley and Deer Valley. A pounding 4 inches rain fell in Phoenix, flooding many streets.
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…Harper’s Index…
70 – number of countries worldwide in which attacks on school have occurred in the past 5 years
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…Instagram Photo of the Day… 

The view coming into Flagstaff, AZ
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…Nelson Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·         “Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.”
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…USA Facts…
The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman-- Madam C. J. Walker.

In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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…Unusual Fact of the Day…
The country with the most feral camels is Australia.
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2 jokes for the day
A husband comes home and sees his wife painting the living room, but she had her raincoat and her fur coat on.
He asks her why she has her coats on.
She replies, "I read the can, and it said for best results put on two coats."

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A couple had a fight after which the wife started packing her belongings.
Her husband asked her, 'where are you packing to?'
She answered, 'I'm going to my mother.'
After a while, the man started packing too.
She asked, 'what are you doing, where are you going?'
He answered, 'I'm going to my mother'.
She asked, 'what happens to the 6 children then?
Her husband answered, 'you're going to your mother, I'm going to my mother, and the children will also have to go to their mother!!'    

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Yep, It Really Happened
SWANSEA, Wales - A convicted drug dealer from England refused to travel to Wales for his sentencing because he can't understand the local accent. Dwaine Campbell, 25, pleaded guilty to heroin possession with intent to supply after he was arrested in Aberystwyth, Wales, with 51 packages of heroin and he spent seven days in custody before being moved to a jail closer to his home in England's West Midlands. Janet Gedrych, Campbell's lawyer, said he missed his sentencing hearing Monday at Wales' Swansea Crown Court because he refused to leave his jail cell. Gedrych said Campbell did not want to return to Wales for his sentencing because he couldn't understand what people in Aberystwyth were saying due to their Welsh accents. "He is worried that if he is sentenced here he will end up in a jail in Wales and have the same difficulties," she told Wales Online. Judge Peter Heywood said Campbell's sentencing has been rescheduled for next month and he will conduct the hearing over a video connection "so he can stay in the West Midlands."         
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Birthdays Today
89 - Tony Bennett, Queens NY, singer (Left a body part in SF)
75 - Martin Sheen, [Ramon Estevez], NY, actor (Subject Was Roses, Wall St)
74 - Martha Stewart, business magnate\TV personality, founder Omnimedia
65 - John Landis, director (Animal House, Michael Jackson's Thriller video)
64 - Jay North, North Hollywood California, actor (Dennis the Menace, Maya)
38 - Tom Brady, football player (New England Patriots, 4 Super Bowls)
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 Born this day…Died in __@__
P D [Phyllis Dorothy] James, English crime writer (Cover Her Face)-2014@94
Leon Uris, novelist (Exodus, QB VII, Battle Cry)-2003@78
Dolores del Rio, silent screen actress (Deseada, Bugambilia)-1983@77
Regina Jonas, German first woman rabbi-1944@42
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Historical Obits Today
Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer-2004@95
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer-2008@89
Ida Lupino, actress/director (Hard Way, High Sierra), stroke-1995@77
George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), stroke-1894@69
Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), heart attack-1924@66
Bubba Smith, American football player and actor, heart disease-2011@66
Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), cancer-1983@54 
Lenny Bruce, comedian, morphine overdose-1966@39
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Brain Teasers Answers
1) tan + go = tango.
2) ad + dress = address.
3) car + pet = carpet.
4) sea + son = season.
5) pop + corn = popcorn.

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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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