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July 22, 2017 Week: 29 \ Day: 203
86004 Today: H 78° \ L 56°
Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 1mph\Gusts:
10mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High:
92°[1996] Record Low: 38°[1995]
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Quote of the Day
You
are remembered for the rules you break.
Douglas MacArthur
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Observances Today
Casual
Pi Day (22/7)
Fragile X Awareness Day
National
Day of the Cowboy Link
National Penuche Fudge Day Link
Spooners (Spoonerism) Day
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Observances This Week
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
National
Moth Week: 22-30
National Scrabble Week: 22-26 Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1600’s
1686 City of Albany, NY chartered
1800’s
1893 Katharine Lee Bates writes
"America the Beautiful" in Colorado
1900’s
★1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm,
Sweden closes
1933 Caterina Jarboro sings
"Aida", NYC-1st negro prima donna in US
1955 Richard Nixon becomes the first US Vice President to
preside over a cabinet meeting
1967 Jimi Hendrix quits as opening
act of the Monkees' tour
★1992 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes prison
2000’s
★2015 'Oldest' Qur'an fragments
discovered in collection of Birmingham University, radiocarbon testing dates to
AD568 - AD645
★2016 Japan’s Funai Electric announce
they will manufacture world's last videocassette this month
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another monsoon day. Took off early to
head for Target. Haven’t been there in months. After today’s visit, I know why.
Nothing of interest there for me. Usually find some interesting stuff when I do
visit, but today…nada…zilch.
Listening to the new guy in the WH press…Great,
we get it…you are rich, you went to lots of schools, and you love the
President. Is that all you have?
My personal opinion: Sean Spicer made
the right decision.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
What is the name of the vodka brand for
which Diddy is a brand ambassador?
Svedka Grey Goose
Ciroc SKYY
42.2% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
44→Number of times the state of Texas has sued
the federal government during the Obama Administration
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Yep, It Really Happened
I was going to tell you a story about a
man whose fiancée nagged him into buying a lottery ticket that turned out to be
worth $500,000, but then I saw this bit of luck...
A Florida man survived with only minor injuries when a 7,000-pound metal pipe
fell from a crashed truck and crushed the roof of his van.
Jesus Armando Escobar, 36, of Orlando, was exiting Interstate 4 when a Mach
truck loaded with scrap metal crashed into an overpass guardrail and
overturned.
A 7,000 pound metal pipe fell from the truck as it crashed, fell from the
overpass, and landed on Escobar's van.
State troopers said the driver's side roof of the van was crushed by the pipe,
but Escobar was able to walk away with minor injuries. Officials said anyone
sitting in any other seat in the van likely would have been killed.
Theodore Olson of recycling center AATR Orlando said he was shocked to hear the
driver had survived.
"I've seen crushed cars before, but nothing in this kind of circumstance,
where, like, they were up on upper bridge and it rolled out of a container and
crushed a car. I thought it was a fatality, to be honest with you. But they
came out and said, 'Nope, he's only got scratches.'"
The truck driver, Antonio Santiago Wharton, 33, was ticketed for careless
driving.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Most modern fireworks displays use
aerial shells, which resemble ice cream cones. Developed in the 1830s by
Italian pyrotechnicians, the shells contain fuel in a cone bottom, while the
"scoop" contains an outer layer of pyrotechnic stars, or tiny balls containing
the chemicals needed to produce a desired color, and an inner bursting charge.
***
Americans have been setting off
fireworks to celebrate their independence since 1777, at least. Even some of
the very first Independence Day celebrations involved fireworks. On July 4,
1777, Philadelphia put together an elaborate day of festivities, notes American
University historian James R. Heintze. The celebration included a 13 cannon
display, a parade, a fancy dinner, toasts, music, musket salutes, "loud
huzzas," and of course fireworks.
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Layers of an organic salt, like sodium
salicylate, combined with the oxidizer potassium perchlorate burn one at a
time. As each layer burns, it slowly releases a gas, creating the whistling
sound associated with most firework rockets. Aluminum or iron flakes can create
hissing or sizzling sparkles, while titanium powder can create loud blasts, in
addition to white sparks.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
100’s
@- 104- Rose
Fitzgerald Kennedy,
mom of JFK,
RFK & Ted, born in Boston, Massachusetts
(d. 1995)
90’s
94- Bob
Dole,
American
politician
80’s
83- Louise Fletcher,
actress
(One Flew over Cuckoo's Nest), born in Birmingham, Alabama
@- 82- Oscar
de la Renta,
Dom Rep,
designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1973)
(d. 2014)
70’s
77- Alex Trebek,
Canadian-American
TV game host (High Rollers, Jeopardy), born in Sudbury, Ontario
76- George
Clinton,
rocker
(Parliament-Funkadelic), born in Kannapolis, North Carolina
71- Danny
Glover,
actor
(Lethal Weapon, Operation Dumbo Drop), born in San Francisco
70- Don
Henley,
drummer
(The Eagles)
60’s
69- SE
Hinton,
young adult
writer (The Outsiders)
@- 66- Amy
Vanderbilt,
American
authority on etiquette (Complete Book of Etiquette, Complete Cook Book), born
in NYC.
(d. 1974)
62- Willem
Dafoe,
Wisc, actor
(Platoon, Roadhouse 66, Mississippi Burning)
50’s
53- David
Spade,
comedian
(SNL, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep)
53- John
Leguizamo,
Bogotá,
Colombia, Colombian American actor (Mambo Mouth, Whispers in the Dark)
40’s
45- Colin
Ferguson,
Canadian
actor (Eureka)
30’s
@-37- Emma Lazarus,
poet
("New Colossus" - on the base of Statue of Liberty), born in New York
City
(d. 1887)
20’s
25- Selena Gomez,
American
actress and singer (Revival, Stars Dance), born in Grand Prairie, Texas
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Historical Obits Today
0’s
@30-1802 Marie Francois Xavier Bichat,
a founder
of histology, falling down stairs
@89-1967 Carl
Sandburg,
poet
(Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years)
@84-2008 Estelle Getty,
American
actress ("The Golden Girls")
@69-2013 Dennis
Farina,
American
actor (TV cop), pulmonary embolism
@85-2016 Thomas
Sutherland,
American
hostage (Lebanon) and academic
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Trivia Hive Answers
Ciroc
Beyond his penchant for sending TV-show
contestants on long walking trips to get him cheesecake on the other side of
New York City and frequently changing his stage name, Diddy has several
non-entertainment business ventures. In addition to his Sean John clothing, he
represents the Ciroc vodka brand in the U.S. This marketing partnership, along
with Diddy's other business enterprises, has brought him massive financial
success. This bad boy for life has truly transitioned into a multimillionaire
business mogul. Source: Vibe
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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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