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Week: 33 \ Day: 223
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 78° \ L 52°
Average Sky Cover: 35%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave.
High: 80° Record High: 91°[1980]
Ave. Low: 50° Record Low: 36°[1900]
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Observances
Today:
Ingersoll
Day
Independence Day (Chad-1960-from
Chad)
Heroes' Day (Zimbabwe)
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Observances
This Week:
8-15
Gay Games Link
National Motorcycle Week
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week Link
National Resurrect Romance Week
10-16 Elvis Week Link
10-14 Weird Contest Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1802 - Tecumseh has
predicted an earthquake. It happen and becomes known as the "New Madrid
Earthquake."
1860 - US's 1st
successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev)
1866 - World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport RI)
1874 - Harry S Parmelee patents sprinkler head
1885 - $100,000 raised in US for pedestal for
Statue of Liberty
1885 - The San AgustÃn
church had been standing for nearly 20 years facing west on Tucson's Church
Plaza. When the new and larger St. Augustine cathedral was constructed in 1896,
the old church was converted into a hotel. Subsequently the building was
painted yellow and turned into a garage. The old church building was razed in
1936, but its facade and rosette window were saved. Part of the facade and rosette
window can now been seen adorning the front of the Arizona Historical Society
building in Tucson.
1909 - SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe,
off Cape Hatteras, NC
1919 - Green Bay Packers football club founded by
George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau - named after sponser Indian Packing
Company
1934 - 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in
SF Bay
1964 - Race riot in Paterson NJ
1965 - 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section
of Los Angeles
1975 - US vetoes proposed admission of North &
South Vietnam to UN
1984 - Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936
feat, wins 4 Olympic track golds
1985 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf
Classic
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
3114 BC - The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used
by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.
1863 - Cambodia becomes French protectorate
1904 - German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats
Herero in SW Africa
1948 - Summer Olympics opens in London
1954 - Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of
fighting in Indochina between French & Communist Vietminh
1970 - Two Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers
are killed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) when they set off a booby trap
bomb planted in a car near Crossmaglen, County Armagh
1971 - 4 people are shot dead in separate incidents
in Belfast; three of them by the British Army, as violence continues following
the introduction of Internment and Operation Demetrius
1972 - Two IRA members are killed when a bomb they
were transporting exploded prematurely
1997 - Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Monday went well. Monsoon returned late last night and clouds are
again rolling in for another evening storm.
I grew up with tension in the world, as did many others before me.
First it was the cold war threat of nuclear attack. Then it was racial tension.
Then it was the war in Vietnam. Many in my generation believed that we would
not be like those from the past…we would have racial harmony, we would find
ways to talk and not have wars that killed innocents. Well, we tried, we made
some gains, but our goals were not met. I spent decades on the Navajo Nation,
as a minority. I was a minority in power, but still a minority. I will always
remember the shock of the school board at Navajo Mountain when I said I would
be glad to visit several community areas to talk about education and the
importance of the school. They said, others would always say the family and
community are always welcome at the school, but couldn’t go out into the
community. I remember the time in Pine Ridge when I approved OT for aides to
stay with kids in the dead of winter because those kid’s homes were not safe during
the cold weather. The dorm manager had tears in her eyes when I did that,
saying that no principal had ever even considered such a decision. I was always
treated well and always treated others well. In those decades I also saw
discrimination toward the Navajo by non-Navajo. On a field trip I had 40 8th
graders in Flagstaff. Our trip was to visit a radio station, newspaper, TV
station and have lunch at a restaurant. We also planned to stop at a store on
the way out of town. I had called ahead to all the places to let them know
about when we would be there, that these were good kids, and that we had plenty
of chaperones. Everything went well, until we got to the store at the end of
the day. I went in first to let the manager know we were coming in to let the
kids buy treats. It was a large drug store type store. When we came in the
manager had one employee standing at each end of each of the five aisles for
security. They were way too obvious, standing there. I asked the manager and he
said that ‘Indians always steal and he has to protect his merchandise.’ We left
without any purchases and the manager still had to pay all those employees. The
kids were upset too, but learned a lesson.
I listen to those in the various communities that are having
racial problems and I understand what they are talking about. Painting any
group…the community members, the police, the business owners… with such a large
brush is wrong now, just as it has been wrong for centuries. I wish we had made
more strides to racial equality in this country and will still call people out
when I see discrimination.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
We're
all nuts .. can you name us?
1. Big country in South America.
2. A pod is my pad.
3. This came down in Germany.
4. Confection ingredient.
5. Sneaking a look-on.
6. Gorillas show dominance by beating this.
7. May be found in the company of a witch.
Scoring:
1-3 right. Sorry, you're normal.
4-5 right. I'm beginning to worry about you!
6-7 right. Definitely certifiable nut expert!
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS Ago-1990
City Manager Richard Barrett reports that the 7,000-foot
realignment project of Cedar Avenue, beginning at Forest Avenue, has begun. All
utilities will be underground, there will 4 lanes for traffic, a bike path and
a sidewalk. This project is being funded with BBB tax receipts. Residents have
been protesting the confusion that will result from the change in street names.
Gasoline prices are rising fast. Here in Flagstaff, regular is now
$1.35 per gallon and unleaded $1.27. The price of crude exploded minutes after
the first gun was fired in Kuwait.
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…Harper’s
Index…
1/2 –
estimated portion of calls to a lesbian-support line in Indian that are made by
men
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @stefanounterthiner | Hand of a newborn Hanuman
langur (Semnopithecus entellus). Infants spend their first weeks attach
themselves to their mothers and mostly just sleeping and suckling. Thar desert,
Rajasthan, India.
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…Foreign
Laws Tourists Need to Know…
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…Nelson
Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to
live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
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…USA
Facts…
There is a county in California called Yolo.
Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy'
Roosevelt.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Aluminum used to be so hard to produce that it was valued higher
than gold. Napoleon III even had all of his fine cutlery made of aluminum.
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2
jokes for the day
Isn't it strange how drivers who go slower
than you are idiots and those that go faster are maniacs?
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A husband asks: Why do you weep and sniffle
over a TV program and the imaginary sadness of people you have never met?
Wife: For the same reason you scream and yell when a man you don’t know makes a
touchdown.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Baltimore
– Offensive lineman John Urschel of the Baltimore Ravens added to
his curriculum vitae by co-authoring the latest of his several peer-reviewed
academic articles-“A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler
Vector of Graph Laplacians” in the Journal
of Computational Mathematics. When asked why he is a football player when
he is such a mathematician he answered “There’s a rush you get when you go out
on the field…and physically dominate the player across from you.” He added, “I
love hitting people.”
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Somewhat
Useless Information-(smithsonianmag.com)
The
terrifying Mosasaurus was not a dinosaur but a colossal marine lizard. It is
thought to have had poor depth perception and a weak sense of smell. Scientists
think that one of its main hunting techniques was lying in wait for prey near
the water's surface and attacking when animals came up for air. In 2013, one
mosasaur fossil found in Angola held the remains of three other mosasaurs in
its stomach, providing evidence that the aquatic beasts might also have been
cannibals.
Among several dinosaurs that share traits with ostriches, Gallimimus may have
employed an interesting feeding strategy. Because it was unable to physically
chew the plants it consumed, Gallimimus also ingested pebbles, which would mash
up the food internally during the digestion process.
With its arched back and curved tail, the Ankylosaurus resembles the dinosaur
version of a super-sized and much spikier armadillo. Thanks to the sharp, bony
plates that line its back, along with a tail shaped like a club, Ankylosaurus
has been given the nickname "living tank." Its main Achilles' heel
was its soft, exposed underbelly, but predators would have had to flip the
armored dinosaur over to get to this weak spot.
The Edmontosaurus was a medium-size duck-billed dinosaur that dined on fruits
and veggies. Nicknamed the "cow of the Cretaceous," these dinosaurs
moved in herds of thousands that may have traversed thousands of miles during a
single migration.
The horns of the Triceratops have long fueled debate among scientists about
their purpose. The latest research suggests that they likely served as
identification and ornamentation. However, previous findings also uncovered
Tyrannosaurs rex bite marks on Triceratops horns, indicating that the features
could have been used for defense in certain cases.
While it had a large body and several spiky plates that served as protection,
the Stegosaurus had an exceptionally small brain for its body size-its brain
has been compared to a walnut or lime. For some time, scientists believed the
dinosaur had an ancillary group of nerves in a cavity above its rear end that
helped to supplement its tiny noggin, but this hypothesis was later disproved.
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Birthdays
Today
88 - Claus Von Bulow, socialite accused of
murdering his wife
69 - Marilyn Vos Savant, St Louis Mo,
writer/world's highest IQ (228)
65 - Steve Wozniak, co-founder (Apple
Computers)
62 - Hulk Hogan, [Terry Bollea], former WWF
heavyweight
50 - Viola Davis, American actress
32 - Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
(Thor, Avengers)
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Mike
Douglas, talk show host (Mike Douglas Show)-2006@86
Hugh
MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve), Scotland, poet (Scots Unbound)-1978@86
Friedrich
Ludwig Jahn, founder of turnverein (gymnastics) movement-1852@74
Jerry
Falwell, US, TV evangelist (Moral Majority)-2007@73
Christiaan
Eijkman, Netherlands, physician (Nobel Prize in Medicine-1929)-1930@72
Enid
Blyton, children's writer and fifth most popular author in the world
(Famous Five, Secret Seven, The Adventure)-1968@71
Alex
Haley, writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots)-1992@70
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Historical
Obits Today
Mike
Douglas, singer and talk show host-2006-on birthday@88
Eunice
Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics-2009@88
Andrew
Carnegie, US steel industrialist/philanthropist-1919@83
Peter
Cushing, actor (Star Wars, Dr Who)-1994@81
Thaddeus
Stevens, architect of Radical Reconstruction, dropsy-1868@76
Edith
Wharton [-Jones], Pulitzer prize-winning author (House of Mirth),
stroke-1937@75
Robin
Williams, actor and comedian (Mork & Mindy), suicide-2014@63
Jackson
Pollock, abstract artist, auto accident-1956@44
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Brazil
2. Peanut
3. Walnut (The Berlin wall)
4. Coconut
5. Pecan (Peek on)
6. Chestnut (Gorillas drum on their chest as a threat)
7. Hazelnut (Witch Hazel)
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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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Is All for Now…▲
