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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
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
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
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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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