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July 15, 2017 Week: 28 \ Day: 196
86004 Today: H 85° \ L 54°
Average Sky Cover: 35% 
Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  16mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 92°[1970]   Record Low: 38°[1905]
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Quote of the Day
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings

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Observances Today
Be A Dork Day 
Celebration of The Horse Day: 15-16 (3rd Weekend)
Cow Appreciation Day- Go out and give a cow a hug
Gummi Worm Day Link
International Sister Cities Day: 13-15  Link 

National Give Something Away Day
National Pet Fire Safety Day Link  Link
Robin Hood Day: 14-15

Saint Swithin's Day 
Strawberry Rhubarb Wine Day  Link

Toss Away the "Could Haves" and "Should Haves" Day
Woodie Wagon Day

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Observances This Week
National Farriers Week: 9-15 
Sports Cliché Week: 9-15 
Nude Recreation Weekend: 10-16 
National Ventriloquism Week: 12-15  Link
Rabbit Week: 15-21

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
 Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1000’s
1099 City of Jerusalem is captured and plundered by Christian forces during the First Crusade
1700’s
1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1800’s
1806 Zebulon Pike begins his journey to explore the American Southwest
1830 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, sign fourth Treaty of Prairie du Chien giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa & Missouri
1888 Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years
1898 Camillo Golgi discovers the Golgi Apparatus (a delicate network inside cells essential for the transmission and reception of information between cells) 

1900’s
1904 1st Buddhist temple in US forms, Los Angeles
1911 46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Philippines
1912 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
1922 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at NY zoo
1929 1st airport hotel opens-Oakland, Ca
1933 Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world

1934 Continental Airlines commences operations.
1948 Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain
1955 18 Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by 34 more laureates
1959 The US steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
1964 Barry M Goldwater (Sen-R-Az) nominated for president by Republicans
1971 US President Richard Nixon announces he would visit People's Republic of China
1996 MSNBC begins Microsoft internet-NBC TV
2000’s
2003 AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
2016 Attempted military coup in Turkey fails, nearly 300 killed, 6,000 then arrested

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My Rambling Thoughts
Yesterday was Mary’s b-day lunch. We had a great time, but it lasted into the late afternoon. Thus no post yesterday. We left a good tip for the waiter since we hogged the table. And there were only 3 of the 15 tables being used. I hate parking in downtown Flag, but they have way too many good restaurants for the college and tourists and brave locals who try to find a parking place. We went to a great little place with great food.

Headed out around 9a this morning to do some shopping. Finished up about 11:00 and drove in home in the rain. I was listening to NPR and the local weather guy says, just as the downpour starts, that today might have a few isolated showers, but nothing big. Well I was on the far side of town and it rained all that way home. Hauled everything into the house…in the rain. All done and now the rain stops. Life during Monsoon season.

Let’s just assume that little JR. has daily meetings with international business people and there is always a translator present. I see how he could have forgotten one meeting. But I can’t believe that he then reviewed his stuff, he found a string of emails and for full transparency he released them, but he didn’t release a list of people at this forgotten meeting.

Tired to the ‘travel ban’ talk. Glad that one judge made the brilliant conclusion that grandparents are now close family. He realized that without grandparents there would be no traveler. Simple science, something the current administration doesn’t like.

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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of post)
The New Colossus
You might not be familiar with this poem's title, but you're almost certainly familiar with its most famous lines: "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Ah, now you get it! This all-American ode, which is an example of the sonnet form, was written by Emma Lazarus on Nov. 2, 1883. Go ahead and impress all of your English major friends with that one! Source: National Park Service

34.8% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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Harper’s Index
245,000→Number of votes received by Waad Qannam, the winner of the Palestine show The President

6→Number of years by which the actual Palestinian presidential election has been delayed

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Yep, It Really Happened
*------------- Birds of a Feather -------------*

A drunk driver in Louisiana was arrested while attempting to bail out her friend who had earlier been arrested for drunk driving. Slidell Police Department said officers pulled over a "car full of drunks" on Saturday night and arrested the driver, who was charged with a DWI. About an hour after police secured the offending vehicle in the parking lot and the passengers took a cab ride home, the woman decided to return to the scene to pick up the vehicle and get her friend out of jail. "She then drives drunk to the Slidell Police Department in order to bail out her friend. Instead of bailing out her friend, she's was able to join him inside the jail," police said. Upon arriving at the police department, the woman was arrested for drunk driving and police hoped she learned a valuable lesson. "Lesson of the day...don't drive drunk to a police station in order to bail out your drunk friend!" police said.

           
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Somewhat Useless Information
In 1928, David Armbruster first filmed swimmers under water to study strokes. The Japanese also photographed and studied world-class athletes, using their research to produce a swim team that dominated the 1932 Olympic Games. This marked the beginning of research into stroke mechanics.
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During the Middle Ages, people feared water because they thought it contained diseases. Swimming was not again appreciated until the nineteenth century when it became popular in England. People felt they could finally trust the water to be free of disease.
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In 1946 war rationing of material inspired the invention of the two piece bathing suite, called a "bikini." It was named for a U.S. nuclear testing site in the South Pacific.

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Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death
80’s
@-82- Charles Anthony [Caruso],
tenor (2,928 performances at Metropolitan Opera), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
(d. 2012)
70’s
@-77- Alex Karras,
NFLer (Detroit Lions)/actor (George-Webster), born in Gary, Indiana
(d. 2012)
73- Jan-Michael Vincent,
actor (Hooper, Tribes, Buster & Billie), born in Denver, Colorado
71- Linda Ronstadt,
singer (Dif Drum)/actress (Pir of Penzance), born in Tucson, Arizona
60’s
@-67- Francesca Xavier Cabrini, [Mother Cabrini],
1st US saint
(d. 1917)
67- Arianna Huffington,
Greek-American author, syndicated columnist and creator of The Huffington Post, born in Athens, Greece
66- Jesse Ventura, [James Janos],
wrestler, actor and politician (Governor of Minnesota 1999-2003), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
@-63- Rembrandt van Rijn,
Dutch painter (Night Watch), born in Leiden, Netherlands
(d. 1669)
50’s
56- Forest Whitaker,
actor and director (The Last King of Scotland, Platoon), born in Longview, Texas
54- Brigitte Nielsen,
Eisinore Denmark, actress (Red Sonja, Rocky IV)
40’s
40- Gabriel Iglesias,
comedian (Fluffy)

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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@95-2012 Celeste Holm,
American actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve)
80’s
@87-1948 John J. Pershing [Blackjack],
American general and WWI commander
60’s
@61-1521 Juan Ponce de León,
Spanish explorer and conquistador who searched for the fountain of youth and the first European to discover Florida, attacked by indigenous of Florida
50’s
@57-1991 Bert Convy,
American actor and game show host (Tattletales), brain cancer
@50-1997 Gianni Versace,
Italian fashion designer (Versace), shot and murdered by Andrew Cunanan
40’s
@44-1904 Anton Chekhov,
Russian writer (Uncle Vanya), TB
@44-1883 Tom Thumb,
famous small person (40"), stroke
20’s
@21-1881 Billy the Kid [William H Bonney],
shot by sheriff Pat Garrett

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Trivia Hive  Answers
The New Colossus
You might not be familiar with this poem's title, but you're almost certainly familiar with its most famous lines: "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Ah, now you get it! This all-American ode, which is an example of the sonnet form, was written by Emma Lazarus on Nov. 2, 1883. Go ahead and impress all of your English major friends with that one! Source: National Park Service

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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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