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Week: 35 \ Day: 237
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 82° \ L 54°
Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 21mph
Ave.
High: 78° Record High: 88°[1985]
Ave. Low: 48° Record Low: 36°[2002]
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Observances
Today: Observances This
Week:
Kiss
and Make Up Day 19-23
National
Park Service Day National
Massage Therapy Week
National
Second-hand Wardrobe Day 23-29
National
Whiskey Sour Day National
Return To Work Week
National Safe at Home Week
Independence
Day (Uruguay-1825 25-31
from Brazil) Be Kind To Humankind Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
Ethelda
Bleibtrey1814 - British forces destroy Library of Congress;
3,000 books (War of 1812)
1886 - 1st international polo meet (US vs England)
1886 - Lt. Charles B.
Gatewood, accompanied only by two Apache scouts, entered an Apache camp in the
Sierra Madre Mountains south of the Mexican border and persuaded Geronimo to
surrender to General Nelson A. Miles.
1916 - US Department of Interior forms National
Park Service
1920 - 1st US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda
Bleibtrey-freestyle swimming)
1932 - Amelia Earhart completes
transcontinental flight
1950 - Harry Truman orders army to take control of
railroad to avert a strike
1952 - Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
1968 - Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African
American to win the US singles
1991 - Carl Lewis runs 100m in 9.86 seconds
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
325 - Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the
Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity
1609 - Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope
to Venetian lawmakers
1689 - Montreal taken by Iroquois
1804 - Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey
(England)
1868 - Acting
Governor Hall of Colorado telegraphs to the military that 200 Indians are
"devastating southern Colorado."
1875 - Matthew Webb (UK) becomes 1st to swim
English Channel (21h 45m)
1919 - 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane
(Paris-London)
1944 - Paris liberated from Nazi occupation
(Freedom Tuesday) General De Gaulle walks the Champs Elysees
1958 - Momofuku Ando markets 1st package of
precooked instant noodles (Chikin Ramen)
1960 - 17th
summer Olympics opens in Rome
1967 - The Beatles go to Wales to study
transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1989 - Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female
cabinet secretary
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Monday and still awaiting daily monsoon. It is cloudy enough, but
no rain has fallen.
Spent the AM with paperwork. My mom left us several small IRA
accounts and some stock. Finally got addresses for all that stuff. It hasn’t
been on the top of my to do list, since she passed almost 7 years ago. I gave
the addresses and stuff to my brother months ago, but he doesn’t seem to have
done anything either. I also have a checking account that is attached to one of
my investments. A few of my investments go into that account. A few years ago I
bought some more investments and left $95 in the account. Checked on it today
and it has grown slightly—to $30K…nice surprise.
I stop by Big Lots about once a quarter, just to see what they
have. Found something for my front door, but when I went to the line there were
2 registers open and 5 people in each lane. Didn’t want it that bad so will go
back later.
My brother gave me a pasta maker several decades ago. I used it
for a while then packed it away. Got it out yesterday and made some great
pasta, but remembered why I don’t use it more…it takes a lot of time, compared
to opening a package of dry noodles and throwing them in the boiling water…time
v taste…hmmm
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
The
pain is gone--it's old news
The memory though is hard to lose
Resulting in, today, the blues,
And dare I say, some darker hues
Can you please make it plain with these clues
What's this reminder of pain? Don't refuse.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
There's a restaurant in Albuquerque called
Tim's Place that serves breakfast, lunch, and hugs - and it's owned by a man
with Down's Syndrome.
The tallest wave in history was the 1958
Lituya Bay, Alaska megatsunami, reaching a height of 1,720 feet (524 meters).
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
Friday morning the Amtrak passenger train crashed into a
double-box 18-wheeler, peeling the rear trailer off the track. There were no
injuries. Five-gallon containers of chlorine granules were scattered at
the Enterprise crossing. None was punctured, according Capt. Paul Hellenberg,
Public Information Officer of the Flagstaff Fire Department. Ron Lange,
conductor of the train, had left the Flagstaff Depot at 7:11 a.m. with 350
passengers aboard and said the impact was unavoidable. He was traveling about 55 mph
and was able to slow to about 40 mph when the gates dropped on about 3
feet of the rear trailer.
The Fourth Street merchants are gathering to revitalize their once
flourishing commercial corridor and are seeking $20,000 from the city to form a
“Main Street.”
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…Harper’s
Index…
20,000 –
minimum number of pro-Islamic State accounts Twitter has suspended since Oct.
2014
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto taken by @stevemccurryofficial // Trinidad, Cuba.
Trinidad's colorful old homes, cobblestone streets, and tile roofs make it a
UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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…Foreigners
Find These American Customs Offensive…
8. Having
one hand in your pocket
This is considered arrogant in Turkey, as well as some Asian
countries, like South Korea.
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…USA
Facts…
Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40
years ago.
The average American spends a third of their overall time online
playing games and using social networks.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Washington state's Mt. Rainier is the tallest volcano in the
contiguous United States, measuring nearly 14,500 feet in height. It last
erupted in 1854.
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2
jokes for the day
A magician was facing an unruly crowd as his
tricks failed to impress them.
To cheer them up, the magician said: 'could anyone please give me an egg. For I
shall show you a marvelous trick'
One at the last row shouted: 'If we had an egg with us, it would have reached
you long before'
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A famous art collector is walking through the
city when he notices a mangy cat lapping milk from a saucer in the doorway of a
store and he does a double-take. He recognizes that the saucer is extremely old
and very valuable, so he walks casually into the store and offers to buy the
cat for two dollars.
The storeowner replies, "I'm sorry, but the cat isn't for sale.
The collector says, "Please, I need a hungry cat around the house to catch
mice. I'll pay you twenty dollars for that cat."
And the owner says "Sold," and hands over the cat.
The collector continues, "Hey, for the twenty bucks I wonder if you could
throw in that old saucer. The cat's used to it and it'll save me from having to
get a dish."
And the owner says, "Sorry buddy, but that's my lucky saucer. So far this
week I've sold sixty-eight cats."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Melbourne,
Australia – At Australia’s 6th annual National Disability Summit
in Melbourne, all the speaker except one were able-bodied. That person, in a
wheelchair, had to e lifted up to the stage because there was no ramp. Furthermore,
disabled activists in attendance told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that
the ‘disabled’ section’s table was at the back of the room, food tables were
elevated to accommodate standers, and one accessible toilet was being used as
storage space.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
smallest dog on record was a matchbox-size Yorkshire Terrier. It was 2.5"
tall at the shoulder, 3.5" from nose tip to tail, and weighed only 4
ounces.
Zorba, an English mastiff, is the biggest dog ever recorded. He weighed 343
pounds and measured 8' 3" from his nose to his tail.
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Dogs
can smell about 1,000 times better than humans. While humans have 5 million
smell-detecting cells, dogs have more than 220 million. The part of the brain
that interprets smell is also four times larger in dogs than in humans.
Dogs like sweets a lot more than cats do. While cats have around only 473 taste
buds, dogs have about 1,700 taste buds. Humans have approximately 9,000.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
94 - Monty Hall,
Winnipeg Canada, TV game show host (Lets Make a Deal)
(92) - Van
Johnson, Newport RI, actor (Brigadoon) always wore red socks d.2008
(90) - Mel Ferrer, Elberon New Jersey, actor
(Longest Day) d.2008
(80) - Don Defore, actor (George-Hazel)
d.1993
85 - Sean
Connery, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (James Bond films)
84 - Regis
Philbin, Bronx, talk & game show host
82 - Tom
Skerritt, actor (Ryan's Four, Alien, Big Bad Mama)
(79) - George C Wallace, Clio Ala,
(gov-D-Ala)/pres candidate d.1998
(76) - Althea Gibson, 1st African Am. tennis
champion in a major event-d.2013
(75) - Theodor
Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist (Nobel 1909) d.1917
(72) - Leonard
Bernstein, conductor/composer (West Side Story) d.1990
66 - Gene
Simmons, [Chaim Witz], Haifa Israel, rock guitarist (KISS)
(66) - Richard Greene,
English composer/actor (Adv of Robin Hood) d.1985
61 - Elvis
Costello, [Declan Patrick McManus], Lon, rock vocalist (Allison)
(60) - Walt Kelly,
cartoonist, creator (Pogo) d,1973
57 - Tim
Burton, Burbank, film director (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands)
(54) - Ivan IV [Ivan
the Terrible], 1st tsar of Russia d.1854
54 - Billy
Ray Cyrus, Flatwoods Ky, country singer (Achy Breaky Heart)
51 - Blair
Underwood, Tacomma Wash, actor (Jonathan-LA Law, High Incident)
47 - Rachael Ray-Chef, TV host
39 - Alexander
Skarsgård, Swedish actor (True Blood)
17 - China Anne McClain, Disney actress
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Historical
Obits Today
Neil
Armstrong, American astronaut-2012@82
Edward [Ted] M. Kennedy, Senator MA-brain
cancer-2009@77
Michael
Faraday, English scientist-1867@75
Truman
Capote, American author (In Cold Blood), liver cancer-1984@59
Friedrich
Nietzsche, German Philosopher, syphilis (Hg poisoning)-1900@55
Samantha
Smith, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), plane crash-1985@13
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Brain
Teasers Answers
A bruise.
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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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