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Almanac: Week: 32 \ Day: 219
August Averages: 78°\50°
86004 Today: H 89° \ L 52° Average Sky Cover: 25% 
Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  19mph
Ave. High: 81° Record High: 92°[1978] Ave. Low: 51° Record Low: 39°[1991]
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Observances Today:
Braham Pie Day or Homemade Pie Day
International Beer Day Link
Kool-Aid Days Link  
Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day
Professional Speakers Day
Purple Heart Day
Sisters' Day
Tomboy Tools Day Link
Twins Day Link   


National Day (Cote D'Ivoire-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 


3-9 Sturgis Rally


4-7 Rock for Life Week Link


5-8 Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow Link


6-9 National Hobo Week Link

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1670 - Apache or Navajos attack the ancient Zuni Pueblo of Hawikuh. They burn the church, and kill the resident missionary
1760 - Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians
1782 - George Washington first creates Purple Heart medal (original name Badge of Military Merit)
1820 - 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
1912 - Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres
1925 - U.S. Border Patrol, organized July 1, 1924, reported capture of 1,310 illegal entrants into Arizona in one year. Forty men covered a 320-mile beat from the New Mexico line to a point 35 miles east of Yuma.
1930 - A large mob estimated at 2,000 lynch two young black men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana
1934 - US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"
1963 - Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st US First Lady to give birth (Patrick Kennedy) since Mrs Cleveland
1964 - US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
1970 - 1st computer chess tournament
1983 - Some 675,000 AT&T employees strike
1990 - Desert Shield begins - US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1461 - Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and his fellow adventurers aboard the Kon-Tiki reach the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia after 101 days at sea crossing the Pacific Ocean
1955 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan
1971 - A Catholic man is shot dead by a British soldier in Belfast
2012 - Heavy rain forces 20,000 people to flee their homes in Manila, Phillipines
2012 - 200,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Great lunch with Mary and Cheryl. Mary had lots of pics of her month in Oregon.
Debate with the ‘not so popular’ Rep. on Fox is interesting. Lots of ego, but not that much so far.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
In Numberrangements, you are given an arrangement of letters. The letters represent all of the whole numbers from 1 to the total number of letters used. Each letter represents a different number. Using the clues given, find which number each letter represents.

ABC
DEF
GHI

1. The sum of the top row is greater than the sum of the middle row, which is greater than the sum of the bottom row.
2. E is a prime factor of G.
3. F is greater than A.
4. The sum of B and G is equal to H.
5. I is not 1.

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
Youths John Simpson and Albert LeGay did a very fine job of extinguishing a fire they discovered that had been started by a cigarette in Oak Creek. If they had not caught it quickly it could have spread and been very serious. Ranger Harold Palmer.
Arizona is to get $125,082 in National Forest receipts for the fiscal year ending July 30 in lieu of the taxes that would have been paid if the lands were in private ownership.

There have been 442 forest fires so far this season.
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…Harper’s Index…
22  - percentage of US death certificates in which the stated cause of death is overly general or medically impossible
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…Instagram Photo of the Day… 

natgeoBret Adee opens one of his 72,000 beehives in the desert in southern California. Bret and his brother run the largest beekeeping operation in the world, which was started by their grandfather. These bees spent the summer collecting pollen and honey in South Dakota and can survive on their stored food for months until the almond bloom starts in early February. Because almonds bloom so early and they are planted in orchards that don't have habitat for other pollinators, they depend on honeybees for production. To learn more about this process, check out @anandavarma.
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…Foreign Laws Tourists Need to Know…
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…Nelson Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·         “When people are determined they can overcome anything.”
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…USA Facts…
During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.

In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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…Unusual Fact of the Day…
In the 16th century, gin was referred to as “mother’s ruin” because people thought it could induce an abortion.
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2 jokes for the day
How many personal injury lawyers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Three.

One to change the bulb, one to shake him off the ladder, and one to sue the ladder company.
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A man found a brass lamp, rubbed it vigorously, and a genie appeared.
"For freeing me from the lamp, I will grant you any wish you desire," the genie said.
The man replied, "I want a spectacular job. A challenge that no man has ever succeeded at or has ever even dared try."
"Poof!" Said the genie. "You're a housewife."    

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Yep, It Really Happened
PHILADELPHIA - The Canadian researchers behind the "hitchBOT" hitchhiking robot said a planned Boston-San Francisco voyage ended prematurely in Philadelphia. The hitchBOT team said the robot, which previously hitchhiked across Canada for 19 days last summer and also had a successful hitchhiking experience in Europe, said they received a photo Saturday night of the robot dismantled and damaged in Philadelphia. "We have no interest in pressing charges or finding the people who vandalized hitchBOT; we wish to remember the good times, and we encourage hitchBOT's friends and fans to do the same," the robot's creators said on their website. Frauke Zeller, a professor at Ryerson University in Toronto and co-creator of Hitchbot, said the culprit narrowly evaded being photographed by the robot's timed camera. "It didn't take any pictures unfortunately of the culprits," Zeller told The Guardian. "They were lucky because it takes images every 20 minutes so it must have been in-between that interval." The robot's camera was designed to send pictures back to its support team, which posted the photos on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The team pledged hitchBOT will return. "My trip must come to an end for now, but my love for humans will never fade," hitchBOT tweeted.     
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Somewhat Useless Information
It is suspected that the largest counterfeiter of U.S. currency is the nation of North Korea.

Martha Washington is the only woman whose portrait has appeared on a U.S. currency note. It appeared on the face of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1886 and 1891, and the back of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1896.

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The highest denomination bill ever printed was a $100,000 note that was printed from December 18, 1934 to January 9, 1935. It was used for transactions between Federal Reserve Banks. President Woodrow Wilson was pictured on the front.

The following bills have not been in print since 1946: $500 (William McKinley); $1,000 (Grover Cleveland); $5,000 (James Madison); and $10,000 (Salmon P. Chase, former Treasury Secretary).

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Birthdays Today
73 - B J Thomas, Hugo, Oklahoma, American singer (Raindrops)
73 - Garrison Keillor, Minn, PBS radio personality (Prairie Home Companion)
59 - Kent V Rominger, Del Norte Colo, US Navy /astronaut (STS 73, 80, 85)
57 - Alberto Salazar, marathoner (NYC Marathon Winner)
55 - David Duchovny, American actor (Fox Mulder in TV's X Files)
40 - Charlize Theron, Transvaal, South Africa, actress (The Cider House Rules)
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 Born this day…Died in __@__
Stan Freberg, satirist/ad executive/cartoon voice (Bertie)-2015@88
Billie Burke [Mary William Ethelbert Appleton], actress (Wizard of Oz)-1970@85
Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography-1859@80
Louis Leakey, Kabete Kenya, anthropologist-1972@69
Ralph Bunche, founder/diplomat (UN) (Nobel 1950)-1971@68
Ernst Laqueur, chemist/pharmacology/psychology (sexual hormones)-1947@67
Ruth Carter-Stapleton, Plains Ga, 1st sister/evangelist-1983@54
Mata Hari, [Margaretha G Zelle], dancer/courtesan/spy (WW I)-1917@41
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Historical Obits Today
Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director and producer-2007@90
Red Adair, American oil field firefighter-2004@89
Mike Seeger, American folk musician-2009@75
Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor, cancer-2005@67
Oliver Hardy, comedian of Laurel & Hardy, series of strokes-1957@65
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Brain Teasers Answers
A=7, B=1, C=9
D=6, E=2, F=8
G=4, H=5, I=3

From Clue 2, E must be 2, 3, 5, or 7, but it cannot be 5 or 7 because that would force G to be a greater multiple of 5 or 7, and only the numbers 1 to 9 are used. E must be 2 or 3 and G must be 4, 6, 8, or 9.
Let's try I=2. In that case, E=3 and G=6. H must be greater than 6 because of Clue 4. The most G+H+I can be is 14 because of Clue 1, since the sum of all nine numbers is only 45. So, I cannot be 2, and it therefore must be at least 3 because of Clue 5.
If I=4, then G cannot be 4, and must be 6, 8, or 9. Again, since H must be greater than G, the bottom row's sum will be too high. If I = 5, then the minimums for G and H would be 4 and 6, respectively -- a sum of 15. If I = 6, then the minimum sum again is 15.
This means I MUST be 3, which forces E=2 and G=4, 6, or 8. If G is 6 or 8, the sum of the bottom row will be too great, so G=4. The greatest that H can be is 7, which also means that B can only be 1, 2, or 3, from Clue 4. But 2 and 3 are already used, so B=1 and H=5.
This leaves A, C, D, and F, to be paired with 6, 7, 8, and 9, in some order. We know from Clue 1 that A+B+C > D+E+F, but E is already 1 greater than B, and from Clue 3, we know that F > A. This means that C must be at least 3 greater than D to make up for the top row trailing by at least 2. So, C must be 9, and D must be 6. This leaves 7 and 8 to be A and F, so of course, F=8 and A=7.

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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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