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Almanac: Week: 24 \ Day: 158
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 70°\L 49° Average Sky Cover: 30%
Wind
ave: 9mph\Gusts: 31mph
Ave. High: 76° Record High: 89°
(1985) Ave. Low: 39° Record
Low: 24° (1954)
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Observances Today:
(Daniel) Boone Day
America's Cup
Children's Awareness Memorial Day
Horseradish Days
National Cancer Survivors Day
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
Positive Power of Humor and
Creativity Days
VCR Day
Shavuot (Jewish - begins at sundown)
National Day (Malta)
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Observances This Week:
National Sun Safety Week: 1-8
Great American Brass Band Week: 4-7
International Clothesline Week: 6-13
Bed Bug Awareness Week: 7-13
Black Single Parents Week: 7-13
Jim Thorpe Native American Games: 7-13
National Body Piercing Week: 7-13
National Business Etiquette Week: 7-13
National Headache Awareness Week: 7-13
Pet Appreciation Week:
7-13
Rip Current Awareness Week:
7-13
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1769 - Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass
State of Kentucky
1875 - California Rifle and Pistol Association
founded
1887 - Monotype type-casting machine patented by
Tolbert Lanston, Wash DC
1909 - Mary Pickford made her screen debut at
the age of 161930 - NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in
"Negro"
1935 - Northern Arizona
rejoiced over news that $1,065,742 was earmarked for Highway 66 which was to
cross Apache, Navajo, Coconino, Yavapai and Mohave Counties.
1936 - Charles
"Lucky" Luciano is convicted-62 counts of compulsory
prostitution
1938 - 1st play telecast with original Broadway
cast, "Susan & God"
1946 - US Supreme Court bans discrimination in
interstate travel
1953 - 1st color network telecast in compatible
color (Boston Mass)
1953 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1955 - 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
1965 - Supreme Court decides on Griswold v.
Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples
1969 - "Johnny Cash Show" debuts
on ABC-TV
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Today’s World Events through History
1099 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem
1494 - The "new
world" is divided by the Catholic church
1798 - Thomas Malthus publishes the first edition
of his influential 'Essay on the Principle of Population' (date of the unsigned
preface)
1832 - Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by
Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada
1863 - Mexico City captured by French troops
1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience
1929 - Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female
minister (of Labor)
1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
1965 - Sony Corp introduced its home video tape
recorder, priced at $995
1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette
recorder for sale to the public
1989 - 23 year old Olympic barefoot South African
runner Zola Budd retires
2012 - 16th century archaeology remains of the
Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays were first performed,
were found under a pub in London
2014 - Maria
Sharapova wins the French Open women's tennis singles
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great rain last night and into this morning. Then the overcast sky
cleared and while it remained windy, it was a nice day.
Finished my India readings…very interesting how things can change
so quickly after so many decades of sameness. Good discussion ahead.
Crazily stayed up until almost 3a watching Netflix last night. It wasn’t
part of any plan, but just happened. Got started on a couple of series and
ended up binge watching. Slept in until 7a and later took a nice nap. Ready to
go now.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Inside
we're wet and outside we're dry
But the weather we do not defy
Losing our heads, we don't go berserk
But this is when we do our best work
Some of us activate with a click
Although human power makes us tick
We're instruments not found in a band
We're useless unless given a hand
What are we?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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… Celebrity Facts…
Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman looked so much alike on set,
not even their own mothers could tell them apart!
Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics in the early 1990s so
that he could play Spider-Man in his own movie.
…Cool Facts…
In the Bemba tribe of southern Africa, if someone does something
hurtful, they take the person to the center of the town where the entire tribe
comes and surrounds them. For two days they tell him every good thing he has
ever done, because they believe that every person comes into the world as good.
Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks'
of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are
essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
The City Council is getting behind the downtown renewal idea and
exploring possibilities. To begin, an improvement in off-street parking is
needed. Mayor Rollin W. Wheeler.
The Council also agreed unanimously to go before the Arizona State
Tax Commission to exceed the current fiscal year’s budget by $14,000 to ease
the added expense of increasing the police department.
…Harper’s Index…
73 –
percentage of US children in 1960 who lived in household headed by
heterosexuals in their first marriage
46 – who do
today
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
A 17th century children’s game called “dibstones”
was similar to what we call “jacks” today, only back then sheep’s knuckles were
used instead of little metal gizmos.
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2 jokes for the day
What did the Pacific Ocean say to the Atlantic
Ocean?
Nothing.
It just waved.
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One day a snake, a turtle and a centipede are
having a party.
After two cases of beer are gone, they needed more beer.
So they discuss who's going to go get the beer.
The turtle says, "I will go, you both just wait here."
Two hours later, the turtle wasn't back yet, so the centipede says, “I will
go.”
So they open the door and see the turtle is still walking out of the door.
Because turtles walk too slow the centipede says, “You both wait for me to come
back, I've got a lot of legs, so i can walk fast.”
The snake and the turtle wait for another two hours.
Finally the snake says, “What is taking the centipede so long?
So they open the door and check, the centipede is still at the front of the
door still trying to put on all his shoes.
Finally the snake says, “let me go, I can walk fast, and i don’t have feet to
put shoes on.”
So the snake leaves.
After three hours, the snake wasn't back yet.
Both of them went to the store to find the snake.
And they saw snake stand there.
The snake says, " Don't give me those dirty looks, it only took me 5
minutes to get to the store, but I am still figuring out how to bring the beer
back."
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Yep, It Really
Happened
A judge in Grand Rapids, Minn., has ruled that if someone else's
garage sits partially on your property, it's OK to saw it in half. The ruling
comes in the case against Roger Weber of Nashwauk who sawed Mark Besemann's
garage in half. Besemann had purchased the house from Weber's sister, unaware
that a family feud was raging over the location of the garage. Besemann sued
Weber but Judge Lois Lang has ruled that Weber had a legal right to remove the
portion of the garage that sat on his property.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Returns
tomorrow
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Birthday’s Today
75 - Tom Jones [Sir Thomas John
Woodward], Pontypridd, Welsh singer
72 - Ken Osmond, actor (Eddie Haskel-Leave
it To Beaver)
63 - Liam Neeson, N Ireland, actor
(Schindler's List, Les Miserables)
57 - (Prince), [Rogers Nelson], Minn,
rocker/actor (1999, Purple Rain)
41 - Edward
Michael Bear Grylls, British survivor
40 - Allen Iverson, NBA guard (Phila 76ers)
27 - Michael Cera, Canadian actor (Arrested
Development)
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Remembered for being born today
1909-1994@85 - Jessica Tandy, actress (Birds, Cocoon,
Batteries Not Included)
1917-1995@78 - Dean Martin, singer/actor (with Jerry
Lewis)
1825-1900@74 - Richard D Blackmore, England,
author (Norie, Lorna Doone)
1778-1840@61 - George
Bryan "Beau" Brummel,
English dandy
1811-1870@58 - James Young Simpson, Scotland, obsterician (used chloroform)
1848-1903@54 - Paul Gaugin, [Eugene Henri], French
post-impressionist painter
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Historical Obits Today
[Francis] Max Factor
Jr, makeup inventor-1996@91
Henry
Miller, American artist/author-1980@88
Jim McKay,
American sportscaster-2008@86
Chief
Seattle (Si'ahl), Duwamish leader-1866@85ish
Zasu
Pitts, actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), cancer-1963@69
Dan
Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), cancer-1968@60
Robert
Bruce, King of Scots (1306-29), leprosy-1329@53
William B Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for
treason-1862@42
Judy
Holliday, comedienne (Adam's Rib), cancer-1965@42
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Brain Teasers Answers
pens
lines 1-2: Pens are wet on the inside because of the ink they contain. They are
dry on the outside.
lines 3-4: Some pens have caps ("heads") that need to be removed
before one can write with them.
lines 5-6: Other pens work by pressing their button, which often produces the
sound of a "click". This "click" is not to be confused with
the click of a computer mouse. Pens work via "human power" whereas
computers need electric power in order to function.
lines 7-8: Pens are writing "instruments", not musical instruments.
Without the aid of one's "hand", pens are "useless".
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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.
§…And That Is All
for Now…§
