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Almanac: Week: 28 \ Day: 187
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 77° \ L 58° Average Sky Cover: 60%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 15mph
Ave.
High: 82° Record High: 96° (1989) Ave. Low: 42° Record Low:
35° (1978)
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Observances Today:
International
Kissing Day or World Kiss Day
National
Fried Chicken Day
Take
Your Webmaster to Lunch Day
Day
of Statehood (Lithuania-1253)
Independence
Day (Comoros-1975-from France)
Ramadan
(Islam)
Republic
Day (Malawi-1966-from Britain)
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Observances This Week:
National
Unassisted Homebirth Week: 1-7
Freedom Week: 4-10
Be Nice To New Jersey Week: 5-11
National Farriers Week: 5-11
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1699 - Pirate
Capt William Kidd is captured in Boston
1785 - Congress
unanimously resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal
coinage
1798 - US law
makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, ... & removed as
alien enemies"
1848 - Mexican-American
War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
1853 - William Wells Brown publishes
"Clotel", 1st novel by an African American
1900 - Warren Earp,
youngest of the Earp brothers, was shot to death in the Headquarters Saloon in
Willcox, AZ by John Boyett
1924 - 1st
photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England
1928 - 1st
all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY)
1971 - White House Plumbers unit formed to plug
news leaks
1983 - Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't
pay women less
1994 - "Forrest
Gump" is released
1999 - U.S. Army
private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep
the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered
showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams.
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Today’s World Events through History
1189 - Richard
the Lionheart is crowned King of England
1483 - England's
King Richard III crowned
1560 - England
and Scotland sign Treaty of Edinburgh
1652 - Fire on
Dutch Dam (Amsterdam's city hall burns)
1885 - Louis
Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine
1917 - T. E.
Lawrence captures port of Aqaba from Turks
1935 - Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum
Boymans opens
1942 - Anne Frank's
family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam
1945 - Nicaragua
becomes 1st nation to ratify the Charter of the United Nations
1970 - Irish Minister for External Affairs Partick
Hillery pays an unofficial visit to the Falls Road area of Belfast, an areas
only just subject to a curfew by British Army
1971 - A member of the Official Irish Republican
Army (OIRA) is killed in a premature explosion in County Tipperary, Republic of
Ireland
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Had a very nice 4th…small town local parade with some
music and politicians. No rain during the parade so that was good. Then a nice
monsoon rain. Didn’t go to the fireworks, but certainly heard them. About 6p
they announced a 30 minute delay due to possible rain over social media. Heard
them go off starting about 8:45 but couldn’t see any…too many trees. But that
was OK, watched the PBS thing and saw the DC fireworks on my HD TV. Almost like
being there.
Quiet Sunday with more monsoon. Kept the temps down and made it
another good day.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Oxymorons
are not thick bovines, but two words, with opposite meanings, linked together
to form a descriptive phrase. As an example, golfers play with metal woods.
Take a word from the top list, pair it with a word from the second, and find
all 7 oxymorons.
LIST ONE: fine, dry, awfully, slipped, sweet, good, standing
LIST TWO: jump, good, sorrow, sherry, drizzle, up, grief
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
If you arrange the first letters of the names of the main
characters in Inception, you would get DREAMS.
In 2012, as phone booths become increasingly obsolete because of
mobile phones, a Japanese artist has turned several booths in Osaka into
aquariums.
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…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
100 YEARS
AGO-1915
Pay your Dog Tax now. All owners are requested to call immediately
and pay for a dog license and secure a tag. All dogs running loose without a
tag will be shot. William Bayless, Marshal.
Wanted -- A lady cook for the employees club at Tuba Indian
School. $40 per month and food. Walter Runkee, Superintendent.
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…Harper’s Index…
1/3 –
portion of recently hired NYC correction officers whose applications should
have disqualified them
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… Relationship Facts…
There's a love mattress that is specifically designed for couples
who sleep on each other's arms.
In 2012, a Chinese man named Xiao Fan had a dress made out of
9,999 red roses for his girlfriend and then proposed - 9 in China means forever
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…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
Bill Clinton reportedly only ever sent two emails as president,
one of which was a test message to see if he was doing it correctly.
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2 jokes for the day
Mother mouse and a baby mouse were walking
along, when all of a sudden, a cat attacked them.
The mother mouse goes, "BARK!" and the cat runs away.
"See?" says the mother mouse to her baby. "Now do you see why
it's important to learn a foreign language".
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So there's this man with a parrot. And his
parrot swears like a sailor, I mean he's a pistol. He can swear for five
minutes straight without repeating himself.
The trouble is that the guy who owns the parrot is a quiet, conservative type,
and this bird's foul mouth is driving him crazy.
One day, it gets to be too much, so the guy grabs the bird by the throat,
shakes him really hard, and yells, "QUIT IT!"
But this just makes the bird mad and he swears more than ever. Then the guy
gets mad and says, "That's it. I'll get you." and locks the bird in a
kitchen cabinet.
This really aggravates the bird and he claws and scratches, and when the guy
finally lets him out, the bird cuts loose with a stream of invective that would
make a veteran sailor blush.
At that point, the guy is so mad that he throws the bird into the freezer. For
the first few seconds, there is a terrible din. The bird kicks and claws and
thrashes. Then it suddenly goes very quiet.
At first the guy just waits, but then he starts to think that the bird may be
hurt. After a couple of minutes of silence, he's so worried that he opens up
the freezer door.
The bird calmly climbs onto the man's outstretched arm and says, "Awfully
sorry about the trouble I gave you. I'll do my best to improve my vocabulary
from now on."
The man is astounded. He can't understand the transformation that has come over
the parrot. Then the parrot says, "By the way, what did the chicken
do?"
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Yep, It Really
Happened
PALM
BEACH, Fla. (UPI) - Cameras mounted on a Florida drawbridge captured the moment a
distracted driver jumped the gap as the bridge was rising. The Palm Beach
Police Department said James Montano, 29, became an unwitting daredevil when he
blew through a lowering arm on the Flagler Memorial Bridge and drove up the
rising bridge to jump the gap and stop on the other side. "Basically it
was a distracted driver incident," Officer Philip Salm told WPTV.
"The driver stated that he was looking at his GPS unit while driving
across the bridge and did not see the stop arm in the down position until he
crashed through it," Capt. Curtis Krauel told The Palm Beach Post.
"He did not show any visible indicators of impairment." Salm said
lucky timing allowed Montano to make it over the gap and survive the accidental
stunt. "The implications of what could have happened, had he hit at a
different time or he hit the ramp and went over the side, you're talking about
a potentially fatal accident," Salm said. Montano was cited for reckless
driving. He and a passenger were treated for minor injuries, police said. The
bridge was closed for about five hours while crews worked to repair damage.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Returns
tomorrow
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Birthdays Today
94 - Nancy Davis
Reagan, [Anne Francis Robbins], US First Lady (1981-89)
84 - Della Reese,
singer/actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family)
80 - 14th Dalai
Lama, Tibet, spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists
78 - Ned Beatty, Lexington Ky, actor
(Deliverance, Repossed, Network)
70 - Burt Ward,
[Gervis], actor (Robin-Batman)
69 - George W. Bush Jr,
43rd US President;46th Governor of Texas
69 - Sylvester
Stallone, actor/director (Rocky, Rambo, Cobra)
68 - Shelley Hack,
Greenwich Ct, actress (Tiffany Welles-Charlie's Angel)
63 - Grant
Goodeve, Middlebury CT, actor (Northern Exposure)
40 - 50 Cent, American rapper
36 - Kevin Hart,
Comedian
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Merv
Griffin, San Mateo California, TV host (Merv Griffin Show)-2007@82
Harry
Ford Sinclair, founder of Sinclair Oil (Teapot Dome Scandal)-1956@80
William J
Hooker, English botanist/director (Kew Gardens)-1865@80
Pat
Paulsen, Wash, comedian/pres candidate (Smothers Bros Show)-1997@69
Sebastian
Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair, Time Machine)-1977@59
Bill
Haley, Highland Park Mich, rock vocalist (Rock Around the
Clock)-1981@55
John Paul
Jones, naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight")-1792@45
Stamford
Raffles, British statesman and founder of Singapore-1826@44
Maximilian
I of Mexico and Archduke of Austria, first and only monarch of
the Second Mexican Empire-1867@34
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Historical Obits Today
Buddy
Ebsen, American actor-2003@95
Robert
McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense-2009@93
Roy
Rogers, American actor-1998@86
Joe E
Brown, comedian-1973@81
John
Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States-1835@79
Louis
"Satchmo" Armstrong, jazz
musician (Hello Dolly), heart attack-1971@71
Georg Ohm, German
physicist and mathematician (Ohm's law)-1854@65
William
Faulkner, US author (Nobel 1949), heart attack-1962@64
Sir
Thomas More, philosopher, author (Utopia) and statesman, executed (beheaded)
for treason-1535@57
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Brain Teasers Answers
Fine drizzle.
Dry sherry.
Awfully good.
Slipped up.
Sweet sorrow.
Good grief.
Standing jump.
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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…§
