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Almanac: Week: 30 \ Day: 206
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 85° \ L 54° Average Sky Cover: 45%
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts: 18mph
Ave.
High: 82° Record High: 92° (1931) Ave. Low: 51° Record
Low: 41° (1913)
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Observances Today:
Lumberjack
Days
Carousel
Day or Merry-Go-Round Day http://carousels.org/index.html
National
Dance Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Dance_Day
National
Day
of the Cowboy http://nationaldayofthecowboy.com/wordpress/
Thread
The Needle Day http://www.jstor.org/stable/1255317
Video
Games Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._National_Video_Game_Team
Culinarians
Day
Constitution
Day (Puerto Rico)
Saint
James Day (Spain)
Republic
Day (Tunisia-1957-end of Monarchy)
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Observances This Week:
National
Moth Week: 18-26
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 19-25
Captive Nations Week: 19-25
Comi Great Texas Mosquitos Days: 23-25
Hemingway Look-alike Days: 23-26
World Lumberjack Championships: 23-25
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1722 - The Three Years War begins along the Maine
and Massachusetts border.
1729 - North Carolina becomes a royal colony
1775 - Maryland issues currency depicting George
III trampling Magna Carta
1850 - Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
1854 - Walter Hunt is awarded the first U.S. patent
for a paper shirt collar
1860 - 1st US intercollegiate billiard match
(Harvard vs Yales)
1861 - Washington DC - Crittenden resolution is
passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union & uphold the
Constitution, not to alter slavery
1868 - US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota,
Utah & Idaho)
1871 - Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider,
Davenport, Iowa
1897 - Writer Jack London sails to join the
Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
1898 - 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice,
at Guanica Bay
1923 - Tucson cracked
down on speeding autos. Police patrols picked up 21 cars and drivers on the
first day.
1947 - US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US
Department of Defense
1952 - Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US
commonwealth (Constitution Day)
1961 - In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes
that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
1961 - Disney animated film "101
Dalmations", based on the novel by Dodie Smith and directed by Clyde
Geronimi and Hamilton Luske is released in the US
1965 - Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electric guitar
at Newport Folk Festival
1969 - 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash
& Young (Fillmore East, NY)
1972 - US health officials concede African American
were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment
1978 - Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival
for using electric guitar
1997 - Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to
extort $40M from Bill Cosby
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Today’s World Events through History
1261 - Constantinople recaptured by Nicaean forces
under Alexios Strategopoulos for Emperor Michael VIII, re-establishing
Byzantine Empire.
1519 - San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba
1567 - Don Diego de Losada founds the city of
Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
1603
- James VI of Scotland is crowned James I
of English uniting kingdoms of England and Scotland
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay,
Hebrides in the last Jacobite Rebellion
1758 - Seven Years' War: the island battery at
Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are
destroyed or taken.
1759 - British capture Fort Niagara from French (7
Years' War)
1797 - Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men
and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
1907 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
1909 - France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane
flight across English Channel
1933 - 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke
Ellington
1944 - 1st jet fighter used in combat
(Messerschmitt 262)
1992 - 25th Olympic Summer games opens in
Barcelona, Spain
2012 - The 2012 Summer Olympics begin (Opening
ceremony 27th)
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Weatherman sez monsoon has returned…expect showers. Well the
clouds came in but no rain so far.
Ran some errands. A report from our local University discovered
that meat sold at most stores in Flagstaff carry the same antibiotics that are
used to cure certain microbial infections at the local hospital…and that some of
those infections are becoming antibiotic resistance. Never been a fan of the
antibiotics that are used on most animals that produce the meat we eat. Guess it’s
really time to spend a little more and buy organic. Started today with some
organic ground beef and some organic chicken…at least the label said no
hormones or antibiotics used. I’ll see how that all works out.
Surprising good news today. Bob, my neighbor from Denver, called
to tell me his oldest is marrying in Oct and they want me there. The couple
have been living together for 16 years and are very happy. Then she texted me
to be sure I would try to get there. Guess I better figure out a way to get to
Nebraska in Oct. Cool.
RANT: Bobby Jindal, Gov of LA and presidential candidate, was
having an update news conference over the horrific theater shooting. He is
asked about a discussion on gun control…his answer ‘this is not the time for
that discussion and after we bury the victims, there should be a conversation.’
This must be in some training manual for politicians as almost every politician
I have heard after the too many mass shootings have said the same statement.
The problem is no politician ever marks the calendar after one of these
shootings to set a date and time for such a conversation. The horrific act
occurs, the politicians show up and offer condolences while praising the police
and those involved, then leave and there is NEVER a conversation. My question,
exactly when to we have the conversation? A month later? A year later? A decade
later? We never have the conversation because another mass shooting always
occurs before the conversation begins and the politicians say ‘not at this
horrific time.’ It is time to hold our elected officials and those who want to
be elected to have that conversation NOW!
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Someone
has stolen Beethoven's Wig and has put it in one of four locked boxes. The
boxes are numbered from 1,2,3,4 in that order. There are four different keys
that each has their own color. Use the clues below to figure out which key goes
in which box and to find the box where Beethoven's wig is being kept.
1. The green key goes to the third or fourth box
2. The wig is to the left of the fourth box
3. The wig is to the right of the first box
4. The yellow key is to the left of the wig
5. The blue key is to the right of the yellow key and to the left of the green
key
6. The red key goes to the first box
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
As of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated $36,854,000,000 in his
lifetime! That's more than half of his total net worth!
Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack
nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
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…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
Flagstaff Police are keeping a tighter watch on parking and
issuing citations. Tires are marked with chalk when found with the red flag up
on the parking meters.
The final session for the Sabin Type 111 oral polio vaccine will
be held next week Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the County
Courthouse. This invaluable vaccine is available to all pre-school children.
even if they have missed earlier vaccine treatments.
Sunday afternoon a massive storm with lightning dropped an
estimated 2 inches of rain that flooded the underpass on Route 66 -- while not
a single drop fell at the Airport Weather Station.
This week there are to be three prescribed burns: east of
Flagstaff by Route 66, at Mud Tanks and in the Beaver Creek watershed.
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…Harper’s Index…
12/22/2014 – date on which
the FAA told Bigelow Aerospace that it would protect the company’s interests on
the moon
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… USA Facts…
Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign
for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in
the navy.
There are 189 people named 'Lol' in the U.S.
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…Unusual Fact of the
Day…
Bolivia is home to some of the world's most strangely named lakes
(at least, for English speakers), including Titicaca and Poopo.
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2 jokes for the day
A son is calling his mom from college, and
telling her that he had just got his degree.
The mother says: That's great honey! What kind of degree?
And the son, almost squealing with excitement says: The best one ever, a
Celsius degree!
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A woman is walking on the road and a voice
shouts out, "Don't take a step further."
She obeys and suddenly a ton of bricks fall on the place where she would have
otherwise been.
She thinks she imagined it and keeps walking until suddenly the voice calls out
again.
"Don't take a step further." She stops and a car skids past.
Then suddenly she hears the voice saying "I am your guardian angel, and I
will warn you before something bad happens to you. Now do you have any
questions to ask me?"
Yes! Shouts the woman, "Just where were you on my wedding day!"
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Yep, It Really
Happened
Proovidence,
RI - Even the most carefully thought out scam has a flaw. The woman
in today's story had a pretty good scam, as scams go. She would take items off
the rack at Nordstrom, and then return them to the register for a refund. And
apparently it worked pretty well, too. According to the police she was making
hundreds of dollars. But there was one contingency she didn't plan for; what to
do if she got caught.
The woman who was accused of shoplifting at the mall in Rhode Island, lost her
life when she jumped 25 feet to the ground in a failed attempt to flee from
guards.
The 35-year-old woman, who has not been identified, was shopping at the
Providence Place Mall when a female security officer saw her taking the
clothes.
As the officer approached her, she fled through the garage and she attempted to
escape by jumping over a railing barrier. The suspect then fell 25 feet to the
grass below and suffered serious injuries. She was rushed to Rhode Island
Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
The
now famous tutu was first worn by Italian dancer Virginie Zucchi in 1885 at the
Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. The tutu was actually designed
several years earlier by French painter Eugene Lami, in the form of a mid-calf
skirt.
The waltz is named for the German word "waltzen," meaning
"revolve." This dance consists of rotating, flowing motions performed
in triple time with smooth and even steps. The variations are the rapid
Viennese waltz and the slower, dipping Boston waltz.
The earliest known dance marathon took place in England in 1364. These
marathons, known as "derbies," reached their height in the Depression
era of the 1930s, when dancers went to great lenghts to compete for monetary
prizes. The longest recorded marathon lasted 22 weeks, three days.
The fox-trot, which alternates long and short steps in quadruple time, was
developed in the US in 1912. It was named in New York City in 1914 for music
writer Harry Fox (1882-1959).
Break-dancing, usually performed to rap or hip-hop music, originated in the
south Bronx, New York, in the late 1970s. Moves such as head-spinning or
moon-walking could be performed individually or in competition.
The Samba is Brazil's national dance. The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro made Samba
famous throughout the world.
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Birthdays Today
60 - Iman, [Abdulmajid], Mogadishu Somalia,
model/actress (Star Trek 6)
59 - Roger Clinton, singer, President
Clinton's half-brother
48 - Matt LeBlanc, Newton Massachusetts,
actor (Joey Tribbiani-Friends)
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Andrew
Cowper Lawson, Anstruther Scotland, Scottish-Canadian Geologist- 1st person to
identify and name the San Andreas Fault-1952@90
Estelle
Getty, American actress ("The Golden Girls")-2008@84
Walter
Brennan, American actor (Real McCoys)-1984@80
Frank
Sprague, Inventor installed 1st U.S. electric trolley system-1934@77
Thomas
Tompion, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel)-1713@74
Jane
Frank, American artist-1986@67
Jerry
Paris, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show)-1986@60
Davidson
Black, Canada, Paleoanthropologist (identified Peking Man)-1934@49
Walter
Payton, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)-1999@45
Brad
Renfro, American actor-2008@25
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Historical Obits Today
Ben Hogan, golfer
(Masters, Brit Open, US Open-1953)-1997@84
Vincente
Minnelli, American director (Gigi, Goodbye Charlie)-1986@83
Charles
Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (waterproof fabric)-1843@76
William
Forsyth, English gardening expert (Forsythia)-1804@67
Johann
Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer-1790@65
Charlie
Rich, country singer (Lonely Weekends), blood clot-1995@62
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, British poet, OD-1834@ 61
Big Mama
Thornton, American singer-alcoholism-1984@57
Randy
Pausch, professor of Computer Science,"Last Lecture",
cancer-1960@47
Montgomery
Clift, movie actor (From Here to Eternity), heart attack-1966@45
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Brain Teasers Answers
The wig is in the third box
The red key goes to the first box
The yellow key goes to the second box
The blue key goes to the third box
The green key goes to the fourth box
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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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