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Almanac:
Week: 32 \ Day: 217
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 86° \ L 51°
Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 22mph
Ave.
High: 79° Record High: 90°[1944]
Ave. Low: 52° Record Low: 35°[1976]
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Observances
Today:
National Oyster
Day Link
National Underwear Day Link
Homeland
Thanksgiving Day (Croatia-1995)
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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
1812 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Native American
force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing
them to flee and retreat
1837 - 1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in
Adirondack, NY
1861 - US Army abolishes flogging
1864 - US Civil War: Battle of Mobile Bay won by
the Union led by Rear Admiral Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
1882 - Standard Oil of New Jersey is established
1884 - Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on
Bedloe's Island (NYC)
1891 - 1st travelers checks issued (American
Express)
1914 - 1st traffic light installed in USA (Euclid
Ave & E 105th St, Cleveland)
1917 - First Arizona
Regiment was drafted into the United States Army. By the end of World War I,
8,113 men in Arizona had entered the National Guard; 1,854 were in the regular
Army; 1,269 men were in the Navy; and 147 men were in the Marines. A total of
321 Arizonans died in military service during the war.
1924 - Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie"
by Harold Gray debuts
1926 - 1st talkie movie "Don Juan" at
Warner Theatre, NY
1936 - At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd
Olympic medal
1953 - "From Here to Eternity" based on
book by James Jones, released (Best Picture 1954)
1957 - "American Bandstand" premieres on
network TV (ABC)
1957 - Bkln Sports Authority gets an engineering
report on 50,000-seat stadium in downtown area for estimated $207 million
1964 - US begins
bombing North Vietnam
1966 - Martin Luther
King Jr. stoned during Chicago march
1981 - US
President Regan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers
1984 - Joan Benoit
(US) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2:24:52)
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
695
- Forces under Maya King Jasaw Chan K'awiil I (Sky Rain) defeat
an army from Calakmul under Maya King Yich'aak K'ak' (Fiery Claw).
910 - The last major Viking army to raid England
is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall
1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance
to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London
for trial and execution
1388 - Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish
between the Scottish and the English in Northern England
1583 - Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for the
British crown - first English colony in North America and the beginning of the
British Empire
1689 - 1,500 Iroquois attack the village of
Lachine, in New France
1763 - Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run - British
forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run
1962 - Nelson
Mandela arrested for incitement & illegally leaving S Africa
1969 - The UVF plant
their first bomb in the Republic of Ireland, damaging the RTÉ Television Centre
in Dublin
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Went to my PCP this morning. Need to change my thyroid meds and
return in 3 weeks to see if things are back to where they should be. Just a
bump, but tired of the changes.
So the Fox Debate is still on schedule. Not expecting a lot from
the debate or the second one either. It’s summer reruns, so I’ll probably be
watching on Thursday. Mostly for the entertainment value.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Unscramble
the words below, then take the letters from each word as instructed to form
another word that is the answer to this teaser:
YLAP Take letters 1 & 2
DRAAW Take letters 1 & 4
ELT Take letter 2
Unscramble the letters you collected... What do you get?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool
Facts…
After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until
the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers
that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
Scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg
brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so
that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
Strayed from Deadman’s Flat: Sorrel mare and colt with ear split
at the tip; 2-year-old brown mare brand 77 on left hip. Will pay $10 a head for
return of same. Jockey Stables. J. R. Pond.
Having bought the Cozy Café, I invite the public to visit my
lunchroom. Everything is clean and the food wholesome. Mason Faive.
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…Harper’s
Index…
22 – number of
the twenty-three health insurance co-ops created under the Affordable Care Act
that reported losses last year
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by Michael Yamashita. @yamashitaphoto. Dawn in
#Zanzibar: fishing dhows head for the open seas.
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…Nelson
Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I
fell down and got back up again.”
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…USA
Facts…
In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast
of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
There is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
As of 2010, Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana was living in a
one-bedroom apartment in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
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2
jokes for the day
Life is very short.
It’s only a 4-letter word.
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“Is there anything wrong?” asked bartender of
the young, well-dressed customer who sat staring grimly into his drink.
“Two months ago my grandfather died and left me one- hundred thousand dollars”
said the man.
“That doesn’t sound like anything to be upset about,” said the bartender. “It
should happen to me.”
“Yeah,” said the sour young man, “but last month an uncle on my father’s side
passed away. He left me ninety-five thousand dollars.”
“So why are you sitting here looking so unhappy?” Asked the bartender.
“This month – so far – not a cent.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
NYC-NY – Elizabeth
Qu9inn Gallagher, 23, received free around-the-world plane travel just for
having the correct name. Jordan Axani used to have a girlfriend of that name,
but they broke up, and the tickets were not refundable. Axani decided to find a
compatible “Elizabeth Gallagher” to use the ticket with him, and the
23-year-old Cole Harbor, Nova Scotia, student won out over 19 other ‘Elizabeth
Gallaghers’. The trip was ‘strictly platonic,’ he said though he acknowledge
that Gallagher’s boyfriend did not seem pleased.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Pearls are an organic gem, created by Nature. A pearl is created
when oysters cover any object with beautiful layers of nacre.
Long ago, pearls were considered to be very sound and important financial
assets, equivalent to owning a house of your own, as thousands of oysters had
to be searched for only one pearl. They were rare because they were created
only by chance.
Today, pearls are cultured by man. Oysters are stimulated to cover beads with
nacre and create the pearls. Pearls are available in white and beautiful hues
of off white and pink. They are also available in black.
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Birthdays
Today
70 - Ja'net Dubois, Brooklyn, actress (Good
Times, Beverly Hill 90210)
70 - Loni Anderson, St Paul Minn, American
actress (Jennifer-WKRP in Cincinnati)
69 - Erika Slezak, Hollywood, California,
actress (Viki-One Life to Live)
59 - Maureen McCormick, Encino California,
actress (Marcia-Brady Bunch)
53 - Patrick Ewing, Kingston Jamaica, NBA
center (NY Knicks/Olympic-gold-92)
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Reginald
Owen, actor (1st Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes)-1972@85
Neil
Armstrong, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker-2012@82
Selma
Diamond, London Ontario, comedienne (Selma-Night Court)-1985@64
Guy de
Maupassant, France, author (Boule de Suif)-1893@42
Joseph
Merrick, "The Elephant Man", Leicester, England-1890@27
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Historical
Obits Today
Sir Alec
Guinness, British actor (Bridge on the River Kwai)-2000@86
Millicent
Fawcett, British suffragist-1929@82
Edgar
Guest, US poet/newspaperman-1959@77
Judy
Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox), cancer-1983@69
Richard
Burton, Welsh stage\screen actor (Cleopatra, The Robe), stroke-1984@58
Marilyn
Monroe, actress\model-suicide-1962@36
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Brain
Teasers Answers
YLAP Take letters 1 & 2 - PLAY, take P,L
DRAAW Take letters 1 & 4 - AWARD, take A,R
ELT Take letters 2 - LET, take E
Unscramble the above to get 'Pearl'
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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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Is All for Now…▲
