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Almanac: Week: 29 \ Day: 193
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 48° Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 25mph
Ave.
High: 83° Record High: 94° (2002) Ave. Low: 50° Record Low:
39° (1952)
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Observances Today:
Different
Colored Eyes Day
Pecan
Pie Day
Simplicity
Day
Taos
Pueblo Pow Wow
Wayne
Chicken Days
Independence
Day (Kiribati-1979 from UK)
Ramadan
(Islam)
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Observances This Week:
Sports Cliché Week: 12-16 (Always Week of Maj. League Baseball)
Comic Con International: 9-12
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1775 - A part of a
legislative bill allocates $500 to Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, to be
dedicated to the education of Indian youth.
1843 - Mormon
leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy
1862 - Congress
authorizes Medal of Honor
1878 - Fever
epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500
1882 - 1st
ocean pier in US completed, Washington, DC
1909 - 16th
Amendment approved (power to tax incomes)
1917 - Nearly 1200
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) strikers were rounded up and deported
from Bisbee, AZ by county officials and citizen posses. Strikers were held at
the ballpark in Bisbee until a special train of 24 cattle cars
1928 - 1st
televised tennis match
1933 - Congress
passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1951 - Mob
tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero Ill
1954
- President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate
highway system
1957 - 1st
President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower
1973 - A fire
destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the
United States.
1974 - John
Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights
1984 - Geraldine
Ferraro, NY becomes 1st woman major-party VP candidate
1996 - Michael
Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million
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Today’s World Events through History
1902 - Australian
parliament agrees to female suffrage
1913 - 150,000
Ulstermen gather and resolve to resist Irish Home Rule by force of arms; since
the British Liberals have promised the Irish nationalists Home Rule, civil war
appears imminent
1962 - 1st time
2 manned crafts in space (USSR)
1969 - As the 'marching season' reaches its height
there is serious rioting in Derry, Belfast and Dungiven; many familles in
Belfast are forced to move from their homes
1970 - Thor
Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on raft Ra II, arrives in Barbados from Morocco
in 57 days
1990 - In Soweto, South Africa, Shanty town women
strip to the waist and confront bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish
their homes
1998 - Pres. Nelson
Mandela accompanies Queen Elizabeth II on a coach drive through the
streets of London
2013 - Malala
Yousafzai addresses the United Nations and calls for worldwide access to
education
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice Saturday in our little mountain town.,,a bit windy, but still
nice. Looked like a monsoon rain might help us out, but alas, just a dream.
So, The Trump is coming to Phx. When he planned the trip, he was
going to the Biltmore Resort. As it got closer his minions moved the venue to
the Phx Convention Center…a city owned property. The Maricopa Board of
Supervisors became sorta concerned, issuing statements about how it was a
public meeting place and they believe in the 1st Amendment, but
wondered how to show that just because he was speaking there, it does not mean
that Phx, Maricopa County, or AZ is supporting his run for President. It will
be interesting to see what this does to the Trump campaign.
Back in February, the local paper had a story about an elderly
woman…all of 66…had hit in killed a 3 year old boy in a well-marked crosswalk
at a shopping mall parking lot. The little boy was holding his mother’s hand
who was also hit and a sibling who was also hit. She was not ticketed or
arrested, according to the police, because it was on private property and not
on a public street. There was quite an outcry from the Native community as the
family was Navajo and the driver was not. This death has been very disturbing
to much of our little mountain town. Yesterday the city attorney filed
manslaughter charges against the driver. The wheels of justice move slow. It is
a sad comment, but in my opinion, had the driver been Native and the victim family
been Anglo, there would have been an arrest at the scene. Reading the posts on the
local paper’s website, is even more disturbing. A few people commented that
while it was a tragedy; the poor woman will have to live the rest of her life
knowing she killed a little boy; a charge of manslaughter seemed over the top.
Really?!? These idiots would most certainly be singing a different tune had the
races been reversed.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I
can run swiftly and silently when you want me to stay still,
I can move slowly and cautiously and am yours to fill.
You look at me often and yet you always forget me,
I am the most feared killer, yet you can't live without me.
Sometimes you have me for all to spare,
Yet when you need me, I am not there.
You can waste me, or cherish me, you choose the track,
But once you're done you can never get me back.
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood
called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school
graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high
school graduates scholarships.
Holding hands with someone you love can alleviate physical pain as
well as stress and fear.
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…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
25 YEARS
AGO-1990
Mountainaire has instituted extreme water-saving measures due to
its severe shortage by shutting the water off to 1,000 residences between 10
p.m. and 5:30 a.m. every other day until the monsoon comes. Walt Brown, who
owns the system, says this crisis points up the need for an extra pump and a
larger storage system, since residents are using more water than the current
facilities can generate.
Hoot Owl fire restrictions are in place on the Kaibab Forest and
the Bill Williams watershed is closed due to the dry conditions, the low
humidity and above average temperatures.
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…Harper’s Index…
11.7 – factor by
which the annual number of US measles cases has increased since 2013
1/3 – portion
of CA children between the ages of 1 and 3 who are insufficiently immunized,
accord to the CDC
53 - percentage of Americans who believe that
vaccines are safe and effective
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… Relationship Facts…
40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical
depression.
It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress
Cardiomyopathy.
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…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
Only about one-fifth of the world's largest desert, the Sahara, is
covered with sand; the remainder is made up of rock formations.
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2 jokes for the day
Which fish can perform operations?
A Sturgeon.
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At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates
reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated
"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we
would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal."
Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement:
"Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"
Not only that, but....
Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new
car.
Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would
just accept this, restart and drive on.
Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and
you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would
accept this too.
You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought
"Car95" or "CarNT".
But, then you would have to buy more seats.
Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five
times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of
the roads.
The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars,
which would make their cars run much slower.
The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single
"general car default" warning light.
New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.
If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
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Yep, It Really
Happened
VIRGINIA
BEACH, Va. (UPI) - The real-life version of Sharknado proved to be far less
threatening than its Syfy counterpart when a small shark fell from the sky into
a Virginia back yard. Sue Bowser of Virginia Beach said her grandchildren found
the 13-inch dogfish shark, also known as a sand shark, dead near a pond in her
back yard about two weeks ago. "This could be the shark house, but
hopefully not too many more will be falling from the sky," Bowser told
WAVY-TV. "The kids found it, and they came upstairs and they were all
excited and said, 'We found a shark in the backyard.'" Bowser said she
suspects the baby shark was the victim of an osprey that lost its lunch.
"There's a little mark on his side where the talons probably went in, and
it's a little bloody on the side where the talons had poked him," she
said. Susan Barco, research coordinator and senior scientist with the Virginia
Aquarium and Marine Science Center Foundation, said it would not be unusual for
an osprey to grab a dogfish shark pup from the shallow waters where they are
born. Bowser said she is keeping the shark frozen as an object of curiosity.
"I would like to preserve the shark because a lot of people have asked
about it and I think it's just so unique," she said.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Returns
tomorrow
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Birthdays Today
78 - Bill Cosby,
Phila, actor/comedian (I Spy, Cosby)
64 - Cheryl Ladd,
Huron SD, actress (Charlie's Angels, Purple Hearts)
37 - Topher Grace, actor (That 70’s
Show)
18 - Malala
Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever
Nobel Prize recipient
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Milton
Berle, Harlem comedian (Uncle Miltie, Mr Television)-2003@93
R
Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor (geodesic dome)-1983@87
Curly Joe
DeRita, American actor and comedian-1993@83
Beah
Richards, Vicksburg MS, actress/playwright (Big Shot)-2000@80
Van
Cliburn Jr, [Harvey Lavan], La, pianist (Tchaikovsky 1958)-2013@78
Louis B.
Mayer, film producer\creator of the star system (MGM)-1957@73
Oscar
Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers-1960@65
Henry
David Thoreau, naturalist/pacifist (Walden Pond)-1862@44
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Historical Obits Today
D T
Suzuki, Zen Buddhism scholar-1966@96
Sherwood
Schwartz, Television Writer (Gilligan, Brady Bunch)-2011@94
Dolley
Madison, 4th First Lady-1849@81
John
Chancellor, news anchor (VOA, NBC), cancer-1996@68
Lon
Chaney Jr, actor (Wolfman), long illness-1973@66
Robert
Henri, US painter (The Eight), cardiac arrest-1929@64
Tony Snow, press
secretary for George W. Bush, cancer-2008@53
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Brain Teasers Answers
Time
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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…§
