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July 20, 2017 Week: 29 \ Day: 201
86004 Today: H 85° \ L 54°
Average Sky Cover: 65%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
14mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High:
91°[1939] Record Low: 42°[1940]
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Quote of the Day
If
one way be better than another, that you may be sure
is
nature's way.
Aristotle
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Observances Today
Get
to Know Your Customers Day
International Cake Day Link
National Lollipop Day Link
Space
Exploration Day Link
World Jump Day Link
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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
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1300’s
★1304 Wars of Scottish
Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last
rebel stronghold of the war.
1700’s
★1749 Earl of
Chesterfield says "Idleness is only refuge of weak minds"
1800’s
1878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
1881 Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops
1900’s
1926 A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow
women to become priests.
★1928 The government of
Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle
permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as
other Hungarians.
★1956 France recognizes
Tunisian independence
1964 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's
"Surf City"
1968 Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida"
becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117
1969 1st Moon Landing: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from Apollo 11, 530
million watch live global broadcast
1977 The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents
under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control
experiments.
★1982 Hyde Park and
Regent's Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in
Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in
London
1984 Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America
★1989 Burma government
puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest
1989 Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at
Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution's
Corcoran Gallery cancels it.
1994 O.J.
Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's klller
★1994 Supreme Leader of
North-Korea, Kim Il-sung is placed in a public Mausoleum at
the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun
1995 The Regents of the University of California vote to
end all affirmative action in the UC system by 1997.
2000’s
2000 The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002
Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and
racketeering
★2000 Terrorist Carlos
the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly
torturing him.
★2002 Bartenders doing
tricks with fire start a major fire in a night club in Lima, Peru that kills 25
and injures 100
★2005 Canada becomes
the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill
C-38 receives its Royal Assent.
2012 12 people are killed and 59 injured after a gunman
opens fire at a Dark Knight movie premier in Aurora, Colorado,
2015 Hacker group the Impact Team announce they have
hacked married dating site Ashley Madison
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My Rambling Thoughts
Wednesday is shopping day. Found some
great new polo shirts at Kohl’s on sale for $10 (Reg. $35-45). Then headed to Sam’s. What a
mess…for the past month and continuing into the next millennium they have been ‘remodeling’.
Lucky shoppers…every week things that have always been in one part of the store
are now somewhere else. And a new trend began this week: where products were
last week will not be where they will be this week. Basically have to go
through the whole store to find items on the shopping list. Got what I needed
and some stuff that was on sale, then headed to the grocery store. It too has been ‘remodeling’
for about a month and again, no end in sight. Since the beginning of time,
dairy has been near a back corner of the store. Today it was on an isle in the
middle of the store. Hopefully it will move back where it belongs. As an old
grocery store worker, dairy sells lots of product…thus it is in the back of the
store so everyone has to walk down an aisle to get to it and hopefully will
grab other stuff on the way to the milk. Where it is now does not have a way to
load it up from a back cooler…meaning that all that fresh, cold stuff will have
to be loaded up, hauled out to the aisle and loaded from the front. Not good
for the workers, not good for the consumers.
But, eventually both stores say
customers will have a better shopping experience…key word is eventually.
Rant completed. We had a great monsoon
at dusk last night. The lightning/thunder made the sky amazing as the sun was
setting. Way too much rain to get any good pictures, but a storm that will be
remembered as one of the best of the season.
As an administrator on the Navajo Rez, I
had to meet with various chapter houses that were served by the school for updates,
questions, and concerns of the Chapter. Most meetings were conducted in Navajo
and while I had a working understanding of School-stuff Navajo, I always
brought a trusted translator with me to any such meetings. It was out of
respect for the adults who only spoke Navajo, and to be sure that the school’s
message was properly delivered to the group. Now, back then, I was the ‘top guy’
and I was very successful in that role. I saw other ‘top guy’ people who did
not bring a translator, and for various reasons were soon gone from a community. So it is beyond my
comprehension how the ‘top guy’ for our country would sit down with anyone and
only have the other guy’s translator to let him know what was going on. I
wonder if he that was the way he met foreigners when he was in international
business meeting for this own brand? Probably not.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
What English actress requested that her
character on "Game of Thrones" be killed off?
Maisie
Williams Sophie Turner
Lena
Headey Natalie Dormer
22.5% taking the
internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
1/3→Portion of congressional districts that backed
presidential and congressional candidates from different parties in 1980
1/7→In
2017
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Yep, It Really Happened
When It Comes to Prostitutes, It Doesn't
Pay to be Cheap
A man who wanted to have sex with a prostitute, tried to avoid paying for a
hotel room by sneaking into a football stadium, according to police in
Louisiana. The Louisiana State University Police Department said that they have
arrested 36-year-old Lucien Hamilton of Brusly, after being caught outside the
Tiger Stadium with his hired prostitute. Security at the football stadium
noticed the man and the woman climbing a ladder that leads into the facility.
When questioned, Hamilton allegedly admitted to hiring the female prostitute.
Instead of paying for a hotel room, Hamilton decided to save money by having
sex inside the empty stadium. However, his plan backfired, and he will now have
to come up with money to pay for his legal bills.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@-88- Edmund
Hillary,
Explorer
and Mountaineer (1st to scale Mt Everest with Tenzing Norgay), born in
Auckland, New Zealand
(d. 2008)
70’s
72- Kim
Carnes,
rock
vocalist (Bette Davis Eyes), born in Pasadena, California
70- Carlos
Santana,
Mexican
rock guitarist (Santana-Black Magic Woman), born in Autlán de Navarro
60’s
@-65- Buddy Knox,
American
rock vocalist (Party Doll, Lovey Dovey), born in Happy, Texas
(d. 1999)
@-61- Gregor
Mendel,
Austrian
monk and geneticist (discoverer of laws of heredity), born in Heinzendorf,
Austria
(d. 1884)
50’s
@-50- Billy Mays,
pitchman,
infomercials
(d. 2009)
40’s
46- Sandra
Oh,
actress (Gray’s
Anatomy)
44- Omar
Epps,
Actor
@-43- Natalie Wood,
[Natasha Gurdin],
SF, (Gypsy,
Rebel Without a Cause)
(d. 1981)
30’s
@-32- Alexander the Great,
Macedonian
king and military leader, born in Pella, Macedonia
(d. 323 BC)
32- John
Francis Daley,
TV actor
(Bones)
20’s
29- Julianne
Hough,
American
ballroom dancer
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Historical Obits Today
60’s
@65-2007 Tammy
Faye Messner (Bakker),
American
televangelist, cancer
@63-1937 Guglielmo
Marconi,
Italian
engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), heart attack
50’s
@55-1923 Pancho
Villa, [Doroteo Arango],
Mexican
rebel, murdered
@52-1984 Jim
[James] Fixx,
jogger/writer
(Jim Fixx on Running), heart attack
40’s
@48-1993 Vince
Foster,
American
lawyer and Deputy White House Counsel, suicide
30’s
@35-1973 Robert
Smithson,
American
land artist, plane crash
@32-1973 Bruce
Lee [Lee Yuen Kam],
Hong Kong
and American martial artist and actor (Enter the Dragon), allergic
reaction/death by misadventure
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Trivia Hive Answers
Sophie Turner
Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark on
the hit HBO drama, told producers the eldest Stark daughter should fall before
the series ends. "I don't want to survive," Turner told The Wall
Street Journal. "If you're on 'Game of Thrones' and you don't have a cool
death scene, then what's the point?" The show is known for killing off
characters, leading and otherwise. In fact - and this might be a bit of a
spoiler - more than 700 characters perished throughout the first five seasons!
Sources: The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
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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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