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Almanac: Week: 25 \ Day: 169
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 88°\L 50° Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 24mph
Ave. High: 80° Record High: 92°
(1940) Ave. Low: 42° Record
Low: 24° (1995)
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Observances Today:
Dump The Pump Day-ride Public
transportation
Go Fishing Day
International Panic Day
International Picnic Day
International Sushi Day
National Splurge Day
Recess At Work Day
World Juggling Day
Ramadan Begins (until 7/16)
Evacuation Day (Egypt- 1956 the last major contingency of
British troops left Suez)
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Observances This Week:
Nursing Assistants Week:11-18
National Hermit Week:13-20
Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in Public Week:13-21
National Flag Week:14-20
US Open Golf Championship:15-21
Animal Rights Awareness Week:17-23
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1682 - William Penn founds Philadelphia, US
1730 - 7 CHEROKEE representatives will
meet with King George II of England at Windsor Castle in London. They will
acknowledge him as the sovereign of the CHEROKEE people.
1778 - British Redcoats evacuate Philadelphia
1812 - War of 1812 begins as US declares war
against Britain
1873 - Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for voting for
President
1892 - Macadamia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
1898 - 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ
1912 - The Chicago national Republican Convention
splits between President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt; after Taft is
nominated, Roosevelt and progressive elements of the Party form the Progressive
Party (also known as the 'Bull Moose Party')
1914 - Residents of
Nogales, Arizona, were alarmed by a report that armed Yaquis were advancing for
an attack on the Mexican garrison across the border.
1961 - CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke
1967 - Monterey International
Pop Festival rocks Southern California
1968 - Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in
sale & rental of housing
1981 - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires
(replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on US Supreme Court)
1986 - US House of Representatives approves Bill to
impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa
2003 - Google launches AdSense, a program that
enables website publishers to serve ads targeted to the specific content of
their individual web pages, many of which like HistoryOrb.com go on to start
their own publishing businesses
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Today’s World Events through History
1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at
Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this
Irish legislature.
1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain,
sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
1815 - Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and
France defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under
Blucher
1940 - Winston Churchill's "this was their
finest hour" speech urging perseverance during Battle of Britain delivered
to British House of Commons
1972
- 3 members of the British Army are killed by
an Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb in a derelict house near Lurgan, County Down
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Ran my Wed. errands. At Sam’s Club a poor woman was sitting in her
car with the alarm going off while
playing with the key fob. I stopped to offer assistance, and suggested that she
start the car and see what happens. She does and the alarm continues. I told
her that was all I could offer. I went to my vehicle as the alarm continued.
Several others stopped to help, all to no avail. As I was pulling out of the
lot, the alarm finally silenced. She was so embarrassed. Felt bad that I couldn’t
do anything.
It was another hot day for Flagstaff, but as they say, ‘it is a
dry heat’—with humidity hovering under 10%. Thankfully, there is a breeze going
through the house most of the time. Inside is about 83°…soon I will be bringing
out my portable cooler. Last year I used the cooler for a only a couple of days
in late July…it is only mid-June. I’m ready for the monsoon.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A
spoonerism is a pair of words that can have their initial sounds switched to
form new words. The pairs need only sound the same, not necessarily be spelled
the same (power saw & sour paw, horse cart & coarse heart). There may
sometimes be one or two connecting words (kick the stone & stick the cone,
king of the rats & ring of the cats). Given the following definitions, what
are the spoonerisms?
1) spoiled Neanderthal child & courageous cougar
2) child of a sorceress & liquid in a trench
3) milk and cheese & fops who are imaginary beings with magical powers
4) fondle feathers & Amsterdam
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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… Celebrity Facts…
Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies.
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess
when they appeared in X-Men 2.
…Cool Facts…
After coming across a "very sweet" homeless man from
Jamaica named Michael on a night out, Londoner Jenny Baker took to Twitter, and
within hours, using the hashtag #getmichaelhome, had raised thousands of pounds
so that he could return home to Jamaica where he said he would be "happy
again".
In Dubai, there’s a fridge magnet that orders a pizza delivered to
your door.
In Iceland, 100% of domestically produced electricity comes from
renewable energy.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
25 YEARS
AGO-1990
The city has embarked on a project of cutting down the curbs at
the street corners downtown to make them accessible for wheelchairs.
Long’s Drug Store on South Riordan was robbed at 1 a.m. on May 29.
The front windows were smashed to gain entrance. $7000 worth of guns and
jewelry were taken. Later a suspect was apprehended when he tried to sell the
stolen items at a local pawn shop.
…Harper’s Index…
1 in 4 – chance that
a high-risk patient admitted to a US teaching hospital for heart failure will
die
1 in 6 – that one
admitted during a national cardiology conference will
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
In the Disney version of The Little Mermaid, Ariel and
her sassy crab friend, Sebastian, overcome the wicked sea witch, and Ariel then
swims off to marry the man of her dreams. However, in the original tale, the
mermaid’s fins-for-feet exchange comes at a price—namely, that every step on
her new legs causes her excruciating pain. And that’s not even the worst
part—in the end, the prince marries someone else!
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2 jokes for the day
If a cat won an Oscar, what would he get?
An a-cat-emy award.
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Building Security has notified us that there
have been 5 suspected terrorists working at our office.
Four of the five have been apprehended.
Bin Sleeping, Bin Loafing, Bin Gossiping, and Bin Surfing have been taken into
custody.
Security advised us that they could find no one fitting the description of the
fifth cell member Bin Working, in the office.
Police are confident that anyone who looks like Bin Working will be very easy
to spot.
They thought they had apprehended Bin Working sitting at a desk, but it was
actually Bin Surfing trying to impersonate Bin Working.
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Yep, It Really
Happened
CALGARY,
Alberta (UPI) - A Calgary cab driver waived the $17 fare for a mother duck and
her ducklings after he gave them a lift from a busy street to the nearest
river. Checker Cab driver Urga Adunga said he was driving Thursday on a busy
street when he came across a mother duck and her nine ducklings trapped in
traffic. "I didn't want to pass them because there is no way for them to
escape from the road. It's blocked all the way," Adunga told CBC News.
Adunga said he put on his hazard lights and used his cab to block other
vehicles from getting too close to the ducks while he and other witnesses
worked to round them up. "The other people, they are very nice people, and
they stopped and they helped me get the nine ducklings," he said.
"One of the people who helped me was a mother, and she had a backpack for
the baby and she tried to put them in there, but we couldn't do it. So I told
them to put them for me in the car." The cabbie drove the duck family to
the Bow River and waived the $17 fare. Checker Yellow Cabs shared a Facebook
photo Adunga snapped of the ducks in his back seat. "As a human it is our
responsibility to protect those animals, and nature and the environment,"
he said. "I could do it again, too. Not only the animals, humans, too. We
have to rescue each other, we have to help each other."
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Somewhat Useless
Information
During
the Championship period of Wimbledon 2014, 54,250 balls were used.
The longest Wimbledon match ever lasted 11 hours and five minutes (Isner v
Mahut 2010).
The first year that yellow balls were used was 1986. Prior to that Wimbledon
used white balls.
The total prize money dedicated to Wimbledon 2015 was 26.75 million pounds.
This is an increase of 7.6 percent from 2014.
There are a total of 250 ball kids, chosen from around 750 entries.
It was 2007 that the women's champion started to receive the same amount of
prize money that the men's champion received.
(www.livetennis.com)
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Birthday’s Today
78 - Gail Godwin, US, author
(Perfectionists, Odd Woman)
73 - Paul McCartney, English musician and
member of The Beatles
49 - Luke Jensen, Grayling Mich, tennis star
(1993 French Open doubles)
41 - Bumper Robinson, actor (Webster, Night
Court)
39 - Blake Shelton, American Country Singer
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Remembered for being born today
1915-2004@89 – Paul Red
Adair, oilman (fought oil fires in Kuwait)
1906-1985@80 - Kay Kyser, orchestra leader (Kay
Kyser's Kollege)
1854-1626@71 - Edward Wyllis Scripps,
publisher/journalist
1942-2013@70 - Roger Ebert, Urbana Ill, film critic
(Siskel & Ebert at the Movies)
1917-1981@63 - Richard Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun
Will Travel)
1908-1969@61 - Bud Collyer, TV emcee (Beat the Clock,
To Tell the Truth)
1886-1924@37 - George Mallory, England, mountain
climber ("because it is there")
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Historical Obits Today
José
Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel Prize laureate-2010@87
Johnny
Mann, American Grammy-award winning musician-2014@85
Ethel
Barrymore, [Blythe], actress (None but the lonely), heart attack-1959@79
Samuel
Butler, British writer (Erewhom)-1902@66
Roald E G
Amundsen, Norwegian pole explorer, plane crash-1928@55
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Brain Teasers Answers
1) cave brat & brave cat
2) witch daughter & ditch water
3) dairy foods & fairy dudes
4) touch down & Dutch town
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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.
§…And That Is All
for Now…§
