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Almanac:
Week: 33 \ Day: 227
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 86° \ L 51°
Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind
ave: 11mph\Gusts: 18mph
Ave.
High: 80° Record High: 88°[1962]
Ave. Low: 49° Record Low: 33°[1968]
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Observances
Today:
Best
Friends Day
Chauvin
Day
Check
The Chip Day (Those Implanted in Pets)
International
Geocaching Day
International
Homeless Animals Day
World
Honey Bee Day
Assumption of the Virgin
Mary/Feast of the Assumption (Catholic)
Constitution Day (Equatorial
Guinea)
Independence Day (India-1947-from
UK)
Independence Day (Korea-1945-from
Japan)
N. Korea founded 1945
National Day (Congo-Brazzaville-1960-from
France)
National Day (Liechtenstein-2004-hereditary
prince becomes Regent)
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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
15-21 National Aviation Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1620 - Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with
102 Pilgrims
1748 - United Lutheran Church the American colonies
organized
1824 - Freed American slaves establish Liberia on
the West African coast through the American Colonization Society (ACS)
1848 - M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair
1858 - Regular mail to Pacific coast begins
1876 - US law removes Indians from Black Hills
after gold find
1893 - US no longer allowed exclusive rights in
Bering Sea
1906 - 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins,
underneath Chicago
1911 - Procter & Gamble unveils its Crisco
shortening
1914 - A male servant of American
architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the
architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living
quarters to the ground
1914 - US Secretary of State William Jennings
Bryan, in a letter to J P Morgan, declares that loans to any of the belligerents
go against US neutrality
1918 - 1st full length cartoon (Sinking of
Lusitania)
1928 - Flood waters from
mountains of Mexico swirled down on Nogales, Arizona, and wiped out 30 houses
and one bridge
1939 - "The Wizard of Oz", premieres at Grauman's
Chinese Theatre, Hollywood
1945 - US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel
oil ends1960 - UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
1969 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY
State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
1970 - Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro
football player (Orlando)
1971 - US President Richard
Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
1991 - 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in
Central Park
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland killed in battle
against his first cousin and rival Macbeth (not murdered in his sleep
as per Shakespeare's play). The latter does succeed him as King
1514 - Spanish
Bishop Bartoleme de las Casas releases the Indians he holds as serfs in
Hispaniola
1519 - Panama City founded
1534 - Ignatius of Loyola forms society of
Jesus/Jesuits
1537 - Asunción, Paraguay, is founded
1540 - Arequipa, Peru, is founded
1914 - Panama Canal opens (under cost)
1950 - Sukarno proclaims the unitary Republic
of Indonesia and becomes its 1st President
1952 - 9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in
Lynmouth, England killing 34
1998 - Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, the worst
terrorist incident of The Troubles, killed 29 people and injured about 220
2014 - North
Korea creates its own times zone -moving its clocks back half an hour to
GMT+8.5
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Watched the first raising of the American flag in Havana, live on
CNN today. It was really quite moving. The 3 Marines who lowered the flag in
1961 said, at the time, we will raise it again, were present in Havana and
carried the flag to the ceremony. John Kerry gave a great speech, some in
Spanish, about the importance of this event to the Cuban and American people. Poet
Richard Blanco, a Cuban American, read his
poem for the occasion. The day meant a lot to me as whatever country I
have visited, our tour always passes the US Embassy. Sometimes with the announcement
that we can’t take pictures for fear of our cameras being taken. There are
always high fences, military guards at the gate, and the American Flag flying
high. In Havana our tour passed the ‘closed’ US Embassy with no American flag.
It was very strange.
I have 3 mobile devices. Each has a protective clear screen so I
don’t scratch the real screen. I hate them. When they get scratched enough, it
is time for a new one. I can never get the new one to go on without leaving
damn air bubbles. Maybe it’s a left-handed thing, maybe I’m just uncoordinated.
Today I picked up a new one for my iPhone. I couldn’t believe it, I put it on
without any air bubbles…so proud of myself.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I
will make your day great
But during the night I'll keep you up late.
Away the darkness runs from me
Just so that you may see.
By nature and by man I am made.
Call me and I'll come to your aid.
Even though you may try so much
You'll never touch.
I am faster than a speeding train,
Faster than any plane.
So who may I be?
You'll just have to guess and see.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
In the last nine days there have been 14 Class A fires and 2
Class B fires in the Coconino National Forest. Two were man-caused.
Lake Mary is the lowest it has been during the past six years
although the fishing is good, with limits of catfish, bluegills and crappies
being caught every day. Crowds of guests are coming from the south to enjoy a
holiday. Mrs. John Clark, Concessions Proprietor.
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…Harper’s
Index…
1 – number of
indigenous mammal species that have gone extinct since the European settlement
of North America began. (Passenger Pigeon)
29 – since the
European settlement of Australia began
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto taken by @stevemccurryofficial // Lamayuru, an ancient
Tibetan Buddhist monastery, was established in the 11th century in Ladakh,
India.
It is famous for its statues, thangkas, and paintings. It belongs
to the Red Hat sect of Buddhism.
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…Foreign
Laws Tourists Need to Know…
Nigeria passed a law that make importing beer illegal, but it
is also illegal to brew beer in Nigeria. So does that mean it’s illegal to
drink in Nigeria? Wrong. It’s okay to purchase and drink beer if you can find
it, so long as you’re 21.
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…Nelson
Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·
“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.”
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…USA
Facts…
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the
bills.
In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
In 1980, Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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2
jokes for the day
This man comes through a door to the bar and
slipped on a pile of crap, he mumbles and brushes himself off.
He orders a drink and sits down.
A few minutes later a younger man walks through the door yelling and screaming,
and he slips on the pile of crap.
He gets up and looks around, and then he sits down next to the older guy.
The older man says, "I did that!" The younger man punches the old man
and leaves.
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A year ago, Hans Vonk conducted the St. Louis
Symphony Orchestra in a production of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. During the
final movement of Beethoven's Ninth, there is a large pause in the
Orchestration where only the chorus sings.
Four bass players, feeling they could use this break to get out and stretch
their legs, slipped off backstage and proceeded to go outside to smoke a
cigarette and take a little nip from a bottle one of them was carrying.
Well, they lost track of time and became quite inebriated. Finally one of them
says, "Say! We should really be getting back in... It's almost time to
play our part."
"Don't worry," confided one of the other bassists with a wink.
"I've fixed it so that we have a longer pause... I tied together the last
parts of the conductor's score before our part begins!"
All the bass players had a good chuckle and took a few more swigs and headed
in. Once they popped back on stage, they saw that conductor Vonk was absolutely
furious. After all, it was the bottom of the Ninth, the basses were loaded, and
the score was tied.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Recent cases to add to the classic ‘Don’t DIY’ file: Fred Horne of
Columbus, Ohio, burned down his house trying to smoke the bedbugs out of his
couch. The couch caught fire, and as Horne was carrying it out of the house, it
got stuck in the doorway and fire spread.
Near Darwin, Australia, an unnamed woman living in an RV came
face-to-face with a snake and decided to encourage the serpent to leave, by
lighting a fire beneath the RV’s floor so the smoke would deter the snake. The
vehicle was destroyed but, said the police superintendent, ‘we don’t know what
happened to the snake.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
(Times
of India)
Beer
is one of the world's oldest man made beverages, and is said to date back to
the early Neolithic age. The earliest known chemical evidence of barley beer
dates back to 3500-3100 BC. It was discovered from western Iran.
The study of beer and beer-making is known as zythology. It derives from the
Greek words "zythos" (beer) and "logos" (study).
Hops that give beer its bitter taste are flowers that belong to the marijuana
family. They are preferred in the brewing process because of their
anti-bacterial properties.
According to a study by the National Institutes of Health, dietary silicon in
the soluble form of orthosilicic acid (OSA) in beer, is believed to be
important for the growth and development of bones.
The Hymn to Ninkasi, a prayer to the Mesopotamian goddess of Beer, served as
both a prayer and as a method of remembering the recipe for beer in a culture
were not many knew how to read and write.
The largest beer-drinking country in the world is the Czech Republic followed
by Austria and Germany.
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Birthdays
Today
91 - Phyllis Schlafly, St Louis,
right-winger/Eagle Forum president
90 - Mike Connors, [Krekor Ohanian], actor
(Mannix), born in Fresno, California
80 - Abby Dalton, Las Vegas NV, actress
(Joey Bishop Show)
71 - Linda Ellerbee, Bryan Texas, newscaster
(Weekend, NBC Overnight)
69 - Jimmy Webb, Elk City Oklahoma,
songwriter (MacArthur Park, Up Up & Away)
47 - Debra Messing, actress (Will
& Grace)
43 - Ben Affleck, Berkeley California, actor
(Armageddon, Pearl Harbor)
26 - Joe Jonas, American singer (Jonas
Brothers)
25 - Jennifer
Lawrence, actress (Winter's Bone, Silver Linings Playbook)
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Julia
Child, Pasadena California, chef (French Chef)-2004@91
Ethel
Barrymore, film & stage actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green)-1959@79
Florence
Harding [DeWolfe], US 1st lady-1924@64
Walter
Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake)-1832@61
Napoleon Bonaparte,
Corsica, resident of Elba (emperor of France)-1821@51
Stieg
Larsson, Swedish author (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)-2004@50
Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)-1912@37
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Historical
Obits Today
Jerry
Wexler, music producer and coiner of the term "Rhythm &
Blues"-2008@91
Sir Hugh
Casson, British architect and artist-1999@89
Will
Rogers, humorist, killed in plane crash in Alaska-1935@55
Wiley
Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska-1935@36
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Now I have to keep a deal
And my name I must reveal
I drive away the night
Because I am "the light"
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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…▲
