Jul 21

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July 21, 2017 Week: 29 \ Day: 202
86004 Today: H 77° \ L 53°
Average Sky Cover: 85% 
Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  14mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 92°[1937]   Record Low: 38°[1924]
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Quote of the Day
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
  Gilbert K. Chesterton



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Observances Today
Legal Drinking Age Day


No Pet Store Puppies Day

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Observances This Week
Rabbit Week: 15-21

Captive Nations Week: 16-22 
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 16-22 Link 
National Parenting Gifted Children Week: 16-22Link  
National Zoo Keeper Week: 16-22 Link  
National Independent Retailers Week:16-22 Link  
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
National Baby Food Week: 19-22 Link
Comic Con International: 20-23
Hemingway Look-alike Days: 20-23 


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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
 Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1800’s
1846 Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley)
1861 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va - South wins
1865 In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.


1900’s
1921 To prove his contention that air power is superior to sea power, US Colonel William Mitchell demonstrates how bombs from planes can sink a captured German battleship
1925 "Monkey Trial" ends - John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism
fined $100 & costs 1930 US Veterans Administration forms
1951 Dalai Lama returns to Tibet
1960 In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM
1962 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany Ga
1969 Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
1971 Sam Giancana returns to the United States after spending seven years of exile in Mexico
1972 Bloody Friday: within the space of seventy-five minutes, the Provisional Irish Republican Army explode twenty-two bombs in Belfast; six civilians, two British Army soldiers and one UDA volunteer were killed, 130 injured
1974 US House Judiciary approves two Articles of Impeachment against President Richard Nixon
1990 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood
1997 The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday, setting sail for the first time in 116 years.

2000’s
2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the series by J. K. Rowling is published worldwide. 11 million copies sell in 24 hrs

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My Rambling Thoughts
Very good lunch with Mary as Cheryl decided to stay in Williams. Big thunderstorm hit about 1/2way through lunch. Waited about 15 minutes after finishing for the rain to stop. Love the rain, forest is very happy.

I heard a couple of BBC political commentators discussing the first 6 months. Interesting that one guy said “I said 6 months ago that this administration will be like nothing America has ever seen”; the other British guy said ‘Nothing will surprise me with that administration.” True and very scary.

Over that years I have either become a Big Brother fan for that season or never watched any episodes in another season. Well, this season has me using my DVR for the episodes. Watching the various contestants certainly is a crazy cross-section of our great country.

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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of post)
The NCAA once banned what basketball move?
Hook shots    Three-point shots
Dunks             Crossovers

68.2% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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Harper’s Index
1→Number of statewide elected offices in Texas that are held by Democrats

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Yep, It Really Happened
*------- When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go -------*

Police are looking to arrest a man who urinated on a woman while riding on a train, according to police in New York. The New York Police Department said that the suspect took advantage of the 26-year-old victim who was listening to music with her eyes shut while traveling in the Manhattan bound J train. The incident unfolded shortly after the train left the 75th Street-Elderts Lane station. The 26-year-old woman decided to relax and listen to music. She closed her eyes for a few minutes, until she felt something hitting her face. When she opened her eyes, the woman saw the man standing next to her and urinating on her face. The suspect then fled at the Cypress Hills station in Brooklyn.

           
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Somewhat Useless Information
As early as 200 B.C., the Chinese were writing on green bamboo stalks and heating it on coals to dry. Sometimes if left too long over the heat, the wood expanded and even burst, with a bang of course. According to Scientific American, Chinese scholars noticed that the noises effectively scared off abnormally large mountain men. And, thus, the firecracker was born. By some accounts, fireworks were also thought to scare away evil spirits.
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Sometime between 600 and 900 C.E., Chinese alchemists accidentally mixed saltpeter (or potassium nitrate) with sulfur and charcoal, inadvertently stumbling upon the crude chemical recipe for gunpowder. Supposedly, they had been searching for an elixir for immortality.
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Firework color concoctions are comprised of different metal elements. When an element burns, its electrons get excited, and it releases energy in the form of light. Different chemicals burn at different wavelengths of light. Strontium and lithium compounds produce deep reds; copper produces blues; titanium and magnesium burn silver or white; calcium creates an orange color; sodium produces yellow pyrotechnics; and finally, barium burns green.


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Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death
80’s
@-82- Paul Julius Baron von Reuter,
German-born founder of Reuters news service, born in Kassel
(d. 1899)
@-81- Don Knotts,
Morgantown WV, actor (Andy Griffth Show, 3's Company)
(d. 2006)

60’s
69- Cat Stevens [Steven Demetre Georgiou; Yusaf Islam], 
rock vocalist (Peace Train), born in London, England
@-63- Robin Williams,
American actor and comedian (Mork & Mindy, Good Will Hunting), born in Chicago,
(d. 2014)
@-61-Ernest Hemmingway,
author
(d. 1961)

30’s
39- Josh Hartnett,
actor
39- Damian Marley,
reggae singer, son of Bob

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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@91-1998 Robert Young,
American actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby, M.D.)

70’s
@75-1967 Basil Rathbone, 
actor (Sherlock Holmes), heart attack
@74-1998 Alan Shepard,
astronaut (Mrrcury/Apollo), leukemia
@72-2006 Mako,
Japanese-born American actor (Sand Pebbles), cancer

30’s
@37-1796 Robert Burns, 
Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), heart issues

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Trivia Hive  Answers
Dunks
For more than a decade, the NCAA prohibited players from performing dunks. The league's rules committee officially launched the ban during the 1967-1968 season and kept the prohibition until 1977. Why did the NCAA outlaw the dunk? Over the course of the 1965-1966 season, league medical personnel recorded 1,500 incidents in which players were injured after colliding with the backboard. The committee believed the ban would prevent such incidents. However, many college basketball fans speculate that the NCAA instituted the prohibition due to then-UCLA star and eventual NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who enjoyed posterizing opponents. Source: Mental Floss.

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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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