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Almanac:
Week: 34 \ Day: 230
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 86° \ L 54°
Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 23mph
Ave.
High: 80° Record High: 87°[2002]
Ave. Low: 49° Record Low: 36°[1975]
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Observances
Today:
Birth Control Pills Day
Mail Order Catalog Day-1872
Serendipity Day
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Observances
This Week:
15-21 National Aviation Week
18-24 Minority Enterprise Development Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1804 - Lewis
and Clark meet with the Ottos to
discuss the war with the Maha
1835 - Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
1846 - Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures
Santa Fe NM
1872 - 1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward
1894 - Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
1909 - Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents
Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President
Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River
1926 - Weather map televised for 1st time
1938 - FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge
connecting US & Canada
1956 - Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be
Cruel" reaches #1
1958 - TV game show scandal investigation starts
1960 - 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10
debuts in Skokie Ill
1969 - Workers at
downtown Tucson's El Presidio Garage site began assembly of a crane described
as the "biggest of its type in Arizona." The crane was approximately
105 feet high with a horizontal boom of 170 feet.
1969 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair closes
with Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys
1987 - Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple
life (poisoned 24)
1988 - Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island
sold for $22 million
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is
founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica
1634 - Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of
sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France
1686 - Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting
Venus
1834 - Mt Vesuvius erupts
1958 - "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
published
1958 - Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban
pirate radio Rebelde
1964 - South Africa banned from Olympic Games
because of apartheid policies
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Another warm day as the monsoon has departed for a few days.
Slight breeze keeps everything bearable.
Spent the day cleaning/fixing things. First was the seat of my
vehicle that had a warn spot that was driving me crazy. Then on to the kitchen
and a rearrangement and cleaning and throwing away cooking/baking essential ingredients.
Actually was able to make some extra room in the limited cabinet space. Finally
cleaning a table in my office that holds the TV, small sewing machine, and supplies
for mending and minor sewing.
Amazed at how race relations have and have not changed since my
college days. Never been a rap music fan and don’t get gansta’ rap, but have
seen several movie reviews for ‘Straight Out
of Compton’ and may go see it as it is the story of how gansta’ rap was a
cry for help. Then I got hooked on the new HBO 6 part series (Show Me a Hero) about housing segregation
in Yonkers, NY. One of the stars was on a talk show and told us that the
housing case, that started in the late 1980’s, was not resolved until 2007. So
amazing how ignorance breeds fear.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I
am a five letter word namely
1 2 3 4 5 ... which is under you
If you put out 1, it's above you
If you put out 1 and 2, it's around you
What am I?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
The City cut off the gas service to the motel at 2326 E. Santa Fe
that has come under fire for putting cooking facilities in rental
rooms under 150 square feet, which is considered to be too small for
cooking safety. The owner protests that his renters can barely afford the
$10-a-week rent let alone buy meals in a restaurant, pointing out the desperate
need for low-cost housing in this city that his units help provide.
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…Harper’s
Index…
$5,000 – monthly
rent the Austrian government pays on Hitler’s birthplace to prevent it from
becoming a pilgrimage site
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @TimLaman on assignment for @NatGeo. It’s great to
be back in the magical rain forest of Gunung Palung in Borneo.
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…Foreigners
Find These American Customs Offensive…
Tipping
A contentious issue even here, both over- and under-tipping can
quickly make you the least popular person at the table. But in Japan and South
Korea tipping is seen as an insult. In those countries, workers feel they are
getting paid to do their job, and take pride in doing it well; they don't need
an added incentive.
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…Nelson
Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to
his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
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…USA
Facts…
The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim
breast implants as tax deductions.
One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa,
Idaho.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
If you combine the Electoral College results of the '80 and '84
elections, Reagan won 1014-62.
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2
jokes for the day
What was Spider Man's major in college?
Web Design.
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Sitting on the side of the highway waiting to
catch speeding drivers, a State Police Officer sees a car puttering along at 22
MPH. He thinks to himself, "This driver is just as dangerous as a
speeder!" So he turns on his lights and pulls the driver over.
Approaching the car, he notices that there are five old ladies -- two in the
front seat and three in the back -- wide eyed and white as ghosts. The driver,
obviously confused, says to him, "Officer, I don't understand, I was doing
exactly the speed limit! What seems to be the problem?
"Ma'am," the officer replies, "you weren't speeding, but you
should know that driving slower than the speed limit can also be a danger to
other drivers."
"Slower than the speed limit? No sir, I was doing the speed limit
exactly... Twenty-two miles an hour!" the old woman says a bit proudly.
The State Police officer, trying to contain a chuckle explains to her that 22
was the route number, not the speed limit. A bit embarrassed, the woman grinned
and thanked the officer for pointing out her error.
"But before I let you go, Ma'am, I have to ask... Is everyone in this car
OK? These women seem awfully shaken and they haven't muttered a single peep
this whole time," the officer asks.
"Oh, they'll be all right in a minute officer. We just got off Route
119."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Government
in action – Canada’s Dept. of Veteran Affairs requires any vet receiving
disability benefits to have a doctor recertify the condition annually—including
people like Afghan war double-leg amputee Paul Franklin. He complained to
Canadian Broadcasting Corp. News that he had been harshly threatened with loss
of benefits if he failed to file (even though the Department told CBC News that
it might perhaps relax the certification requirement to ‘every third year.”
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
pierogi, a descendent of Eastern Europe culinary traditions, arrived in the
U.S. in the early 1900s. During the 1940s, these crescent-shaped pockets became
a staple of fundraisers held by churches in the northeast and throughout the
upper Midwest.
By the early 1950s, pierogi appeal began broadening among Americans of all
ethnicities.
On Oct. 8, 1952, Ted Twardzik, Sr., founder of Mrs. T's Pierogies, produced the
company's first samples for a local grocery store.
Pierogi are a dish consisting of boiled dumplings of unleavened dough stuffed
with varying ingredients.
The word pierogies is popular in the U.S. and Canada because it underlines a
plurality of this well-known Polish food. However, this usage is not so
appropriate since in fact the word pierogi is already plural in the Polish
language.
The Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team organizes a 'pierogi race' during their
games. Four types of pierogi called Sauerkraut Saul, Cheese Chester, Jalapeno
Hannah and Oliver Onion take part.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
? - 1st English
child born in New World (Virginia Dare)
d.?
(90) - Vijaya
Lakshmi Pandit, Allahabad Oudh, Indian diplomat and politician
d.1990
(89) - Otto
Harbach, songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes) d. 1963
88 - Rosalynn Smith Carter, Georgia, 1st lady (1977-1981), Jimmy's lust
(88) - Casper
Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87) d. 2006
(85) - Shelley Winters, actress (A Place in
the Sun) d. 2006
82 - Roman Polanski, Poland, director
(Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates)
79 - Robert Redford, American actor (Sting,
Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby)
72 - Martin Mull, actor/comedian (Bad
Manners, Flick, Serial)
(71) - Marshall Field, Conway Massachusetts,
owner (Field Dept Store) d. 1906
(57) - Patrick Swayze, actor/dancer (Dirty
Dancing, Ghost) d. 2009
58 - Dennis Leary, actor/comic (MTV; Rescue
Me)
54 - Bob Woodruff, American journalist,
anchor-wounded in Iraq
(53) - Grant Williams, actor (Hawaiian Eye,
Incredible Shrinking Man) d. 1985
46 - Christian Slater, actor (Robin Hood,
Untamed Heart, Heathers)
46 - Edward Norton, actor-Birdman, Primal
Fear
37 - Andy Samberg, American comedian-SNL's
Digital Shorts
(35) - Meriwether Lewis, solider (Lewis &
Clark Expedition), d. 1809
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Historical
Obits Today
Don Pardo, TV
announcer (Jeopardy, Saturday Night Live)-2014@96
Vaughn
Shoemaker, US cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer)-1991@89
B F
Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box)-1990@86
Scott
McKenzie, singer (Flowers in Her Hair), long illness-2012@73
Michael
Deaver, Reagan Deputy White House Chief of Staff, cancer-2007@69
James
Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth)-1803@67
Genghis
Khan, Mongol conqueror-1227@65
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Brain
Teasers Answers
"CHAIR"
if you put out 1, it's above you
Ans. hair
if you put out 1 and 2, it's around you
Ans. air
And chair is under you.
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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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