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Almanac:
Week: 32 \ Day: 219
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 89° \ L 52°
Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 19mph
Ave.
High: 81° Record High: 92°[1978]
Ave. Low: 51° Record Low: 39°[1991]
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Observances
Today:
Braham Pie
Day or Homemade Pie Day
Particularly Preposterous
Packaging Day
Professional Speakers Day
Purple Heart Day
Sisters' Day
Tomboy Tools Day Link
Twins Day Link
National Day
(Cote D'Ivoire-1960-from France)
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Observances
This Week:
1-7 International Clown Week Link
National Scrabble Week
Simplify Your Life
Week Link
World Breastfeeding
Week Link
2-8 Assistance Dog Week Link
Exercise With Your Child
Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Farmers' Market
Week Link
National Fraud Awareness
Week Link
National Psychic Week: 2-8 Link (First full week)
Single Working Women's Week
Stop on Red Week Link
3-8 National Bargain Hunting Week
Old Fiddler's Week
Psychic Week Link
3-9 Sturgis Rally
4-7 Rock for Life Week Link
5-8 Gallop International Tribal Indian
Powwow Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1670 - Apache or Navajos attack the ancient Zuni Pueblo of Hawikuh. They burn
the church, and kill the resident missionary
1760 - Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee
Indians
1782 - George Washington first creates Purple
Heart medal (original name Badge of Military Merit)
1820 - 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
1912 - Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres
1925 - U.S. Border
Patrol, organized July 1, 1924, reported capture of 1,310 illegal entrants into
Arizona in one year. Forty men covered a 320-mile beat from the New Mexico line
to a point 35 miles east of Yuma.
1930 - A large mob estimated at 2,000 lynch two
young black men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana
1934 - US Court of Appeals upheld lower court
ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James
Joyce novel "Ulysses"
1963 - Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st US First
Lady to give birth (Patrick Kennedy) since Mrs Cleveland
1964 - US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin
resolution
1970 - 1st computer chess tournament
1983 - Some 675,000 AT&T employees strike
1990 - Desert Shield begins - US deploys troops to
Saudi Arabia
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1461 - Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao
Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and his fellow
adventurers aboard the Kon-Tiki reach the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia
after 101 days at sea crossing the Pacific Ocean
1955 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the
precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan
1971 - A Catholic man is shot dead by a British
soldier in Belfast
2012 - Heavy rain forces 20,000 people to flee
their homes in Manila, Phillipines
2012 - 200,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai
in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Great lunch with Mary and Cheryl. Mary had lots of pics of her
month in Oregon.
Debate with the ‘not so popular’ Rep. on Fox is interesting. Lots
of ego, but not that much so far.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
In
Numberrangements, you are given an arrangement of letters. The letters
represent all of the whole numbers from 1 to the total number of letters used.
Each letter represents a different number. Using the clues given, find which
number each letter represents.
ABC
DEF
GHI
1. The sum of the top row is greater than the sum of the middle row, which is
greater than the sum of the bottom row.
2. E is a prime factor of G.
3. F is greater than A.
4. The sum of B and G is equal to H.
5. I is not 1.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
Youths John Simpson and Albert LeGay did a very fine job of
extinguishing a fire they discovered that had been started by a cigarette in
Oak Creek. If they had not caught it quickly it could have spread and been very
serious. Ranger Harold Palmer.
Arizona is to get $125,082 in National Forest receipts for the
fiscal year ending July 30 in lieu of the taxes that would have been paid if
the lands were in private ownership.
There have been 442 forest fires so far this season.
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…Harper’s
Index…
22 - percentage of US death certificates in which
the stated cause of death is overly general or medically impossible
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoBret Adee opens one of his 72,000 beehives in the desert in
southern California. Bret and his brother run the largest beekeeping operation
in the world, which was started by their grandfather. These bees spent the
summer collecting pollen and honey in South Dakota and can survive on their
stored food for months until the almond bloom starts in early February. Because
almonds bloom so early and they are planted in orchards that don't have habitat
for other pollinators, they depend on honeybees for production. To learn more
about this process, check out @anandavarma.
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…Foreign
Laws Tourists Need to Know…
In 2011, Dubai’s Foreign Office decreed that tourists holidaying in the
UAE during Ramadan should be considerate of local laws and customs, which
means no eating or drinking during the day.
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…Nelson
Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·
“When people are determined they can overcome anything.”
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…USA
Facts…
During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear
weapon on the moon.
In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China,
the typical school year is 251 days.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
In the 16th century, gin was referred to as
“mother’s ruin” because people thought it could induce an abortion.
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2
jokes for the day
How many personal injury lawyers does it take
to screw in a lightbulb?
Three.
One to change the bulb, one to shake him off the
ladder, and one to sue the ladder company.
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A man found a brass lamp, rubbed it
vigorously, and a genie appeared.
"For freeing me from the lamp, I will grant you any wish you desire,"
the genie said.
The man replied, "I want a spectacular job. A challenge that no man has
ever succeeded at or has ever even dared try."
"Poof!" Said the genie. "You're a housewife."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
PHILADELPHIA - The
Canadian researchers behind the "hitchBOT" hitchhiking robot said a
planned Boston-San Francisco voyage ended prematurely in Philadelphia. The
hitchBOT team said the robot, which previously hitchhiked across Canada for 19
days last summer and also had a successful hitchhiking experience in Europe,
said they received a photo Saturday night of the robot dismantled and damaged
in Philadelphia. "We have no interest in pressing charges or finding the
people who vandalized hitchBOT; we wish to remember the good times, and we
encourage hitchBOT's friends and fans to do the same," the robot's
creators said on their website. Frauke Zeller, a professor at Ryerson
University in Toronto and co-creator of Hitchbot, said the culprit narrowly
evaded being photographed by the robot's timed camera. "It didn't take any
pictures unfortunately of the culprits," Zeller told The Guardian.
"They were lucky because it takes images every 20 minutes so it must have
been in-between that interval." The robot's camera was designed to send pictures
back to its support team, which posted the photos on Facebook, Twitter and
Instagram. The team pledged hitchBOT will return. "My trip must come to an
end for now, but my love for humans will never fade," hitchBOT tweeted.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
It
is suspected that the largest counterfeiter of U.S. currency is the nation of
North Korea.
Martha Washington is the only woman whose portrait has appeared on a U.S.
currency note. It appeared on the face of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1886 and
1891, and the back of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1896.
***
The
highest denomination bill ever printed was a $100,000 note that was printed
from December 18, 1934 to January 9, 1935. It was used for transactions between
Federal Reserve Banks. President Woodrow Wilson was pictured on the front.
The following bills have not been in print since 1946: $500 (William McKinley);
$1,000 (Grover Cleveland); $5,000 (James Madison); and $10,000 (Salmon P.
Chase, former Treasury Secretary).
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Birthdays
Today
73 - B J Thomas, Hugo, Oklahoma, American
singer (Raindrops)
73 - Garrison Keillor, Minn, PBS radio
personality (Prairie Home Companion)
59 - Kent V Rominger, Del Norte Colo, US
Navy /astronaut (STS 73, 80, 85)
57 - Alberto Salazar, marathoner (NYC
Marathon Winner)
55 - David Duchovny, American actor (Fox
Mulder in TV's X Files)
40 - Charlize Theron, Transvaal, South
Africa, actress (The Cider House Rules)
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Stan
Freberg, satirist/ad executive/cartoon voice (Bertie)-2015@88
Billie
Burke [Mary William Ethelbert Appleton], actress (Wizard of Oz)-1970@85
Carl
Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography-1859@80
Louis
Leakey, Kabete Kenya, anthropologist-1972@69
Ralph
Bunche, founder/diplomat (UN) (Nobel 1950)-1971@68
Ernst
Laqueur, chemist/pharmacology/psychology (sexual hormones)-1947@67
Ruth
Carter-Stapleton, Plains Ga, 1st sister/evangelist-1983@54
Mata Hari,
[Margaretha G Zelle], dancer/courtesan/spy (WW I)-1917@41
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Historical
Obits Today
Ernesto
Alonso, Mexican actor, director and producer-2007@90
Red Adair, American
oil field firefighter-2004@89
Mike
Seeger, American folk musician-2009@75
Peter
Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor, cancer-2005@67
Oliver
Hardy, comedian of Laurel & Hardy, series of strokes-1957@65
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Brain
Teasers Answers
A=7, B=1, C=9
D=6, E=2, F=8
G=4, H=5, I=3
From Clue 2, E must be 2, 3, 5, or 7, but it cannot be 5 or 7 because that
would force G to be a greater multiple of 5 or 7, and only the numbers 1 to 9
are used. E must be 2 or 3 and G must be 4, 6, 8, or 9.
Let's try I=2. In that case, E=3 and G=6. H must be greater than 6 because of
Clue 4. The most G+H+I can be is 14 because of Clue 1, since the sum of all
nine numbers is only 45. So, I cannot be 2, and it therefore must be at least 3
because of Clue 5.
If I=4, then G cannot be 4, and must be 6, 8, or 9. Again, since H must be
greater than G, the bottom row's sum will be too high. If I = 5, then the
minimums for G and H would be 4 and 6, respectively -- a sum of 15. If I = 6,
then the minimum sum again is 15.
This means I MUST be 3, which forces E=2 and G=4, 6, or 8. If G is 6 or 8, the
sum of the bottom row will be too great, so G=4. The greatest that H can be is
7, which also means that B can only be 1, 2, or 3, from Clue 4. But 2 and 3 are
already used, so B=1 and H=5.
This leaves A, C, D, and F, to be paired with 6, 7, 8, and 9, in some order. We
know from Clue 1 that A+B+C > D+E+F, but E is already 1 greater than B, and
from Clue 3, we know that F > A. This means that C must be at least 3
greater than D to make up for the top row trailing by at least 2. So, C must be
9, and D must be 6. This leaves 7 and 8 to be A and F, so of course, F=8 and
A=7.
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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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