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Almanac:
Week: 33 \ Day: 222
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 81° \ L 49°
Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 16mph
Ave.
High: 81° Record High: 89°[2002]
Ave. Low: 50° Record Low: 40°[1900]
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Observances
Today:
National Duran Duran Appreciation Day
Paul Bunyan Day Link
Skyscraper Appreciation Day
Smithsonian Day
S'mores Day Link
Admission
Day (Missouri-1821-24th)
Independence
Day (Ecuador-1809-from Spain)
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Observances
This Week:
8-15
Gay Games Link
National Motorcycle Week
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week Link
National Resurrect Romance Week
10-16 Elvis Week Link
10-14 Weird Contest Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1680 - In New Mexico, Popé leads rebellion of
Pueblo Indians against Spaniards
1776 - Word of the United States Declaration of
Independence reaches London
1827 - Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave
for Canada)
1833 - Chicago incorporates as a village of about
200
1846 - US Act of Congress passes establishing the
Smithsonian Institution, now world's largest museum and research complex
1866 - Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke
to Queen Victoria
1867 - US Army established
Fort Crittenden between Sonoita and Patagonia to protect settlers from Apaches.
The fort was officially abandoned in 1873, in part because of the high rates of
malaria transmitted by the mosquitoes living the marshy cienegas of the area.
1921 - FDR stricken with polio at summer home
on Canadian Is of Campobello
1954 - At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking
ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held
1981 - Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34
million into black business
1984 - Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd
during 3,000m Olympic run
1985 - Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every
Beatle song) for $47 million
1988 - Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free
style (48.42 sec)
2014 - Unrest breaks
out in Ferguson, Missouri after the death of African American Michael Brown by
a policeman
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
610 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat
al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an.
1500 - Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first
European to sight Madagascar
1519 - Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan's
Spanish expedition of 5 ships set sail to circumnavigate the Earth (returned 5
Sept 1522)
1822 - Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about
20,000 die
1945 - Japan announces willingness to surrender to
Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged
1976 - A Provisional Irish Republican Army
volunteer is shot dead by the British Army as he drove along a road in Belfast;
his car then went out of control and killed 3 children, sparking a series of
"peace rallies" throughout the month by a group that became known as
'Peace People'
2006 - Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot
to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States.
All toiletries are banned from commercial airplanes
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice day. Cleaned up the deck and enjoyed reading the Sunday paper
out there.
The media won’t just let Trump disappear from the headlines. Most
of my favorite Sunday morning talk shows spent way too much time talking to and
about Trump. Everybody has an opinion. Boring. Over the years I had worked with
people who I thought had huge egos with little substance to follow up…Trump is
the king of ego for sure. Freud would have had a lot to say about him.
I got my DNA test results from Ancestry.com. As an adoptee, my
parents were given information that my birth mother gave at the time she put me
up for adoption. They said that I was Irish/English. Hmmm…not exactly right,
but…here is what Ancestry.com said: Europe 100%
Great Britain 45% Europe
West 31% Iberian Peninsula 10% Trace Regions 14%
(Europe East 5% Ireland 4% Scandinavia 4% Finland/Northwest Russia 1%). Not sure what
I will do next…but something for sure.
My brother called as he has returned to NYC. They are talking
about moving to Mexico City or Merida for the business, but he has a job offer
in NYC. They will work it out. Rent in NYC, even Brooklyn, is outrageous and
their landlord may be selling the building the 2 lofts they are in—living in
one, business in the other. He won’t give them a new lease until he decides
about the sale. They are really tired of the high NYC rents and can do all of
her business in Merida or Mexico City.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
phrase is represented below?
JG
UN
MI
PP
IM
NU
GJ
Good
New
New
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
returns tomorrow
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS Ago-1990
On Tuesday, Yavapai County Division 11 Superior Court Judge James
Hancock lifted the Coconino County imposed ban on water hauling from Oak Creek
by Canyon Investments. The firm has been supplying wholesale water to
Spring Express of Tucson since last January at a rate of up to 6 million
gallons per year.
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…Harper’s
Index…
20 –
percentage of US evangelical Christians under the age of 40 who supported gay
marriage in 2003
43 - Who do today
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @salvarezphoto|
Pedro Perucho on the rim of Paritucin Volcano, Michoacán, near the
city of Uruapan and about 322 km west of Mexico City, at dawn.
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…Foreign
Laws Tourists Need to Know…
The sale and chewing of gum in Singapore has been illegal for more
than 20 years, but
in 2004 the law changed, and citizens can now be prescribed gum by a doctor.
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…Nelson
Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·
“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.”
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…USA
Facts…
The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000
restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s
degrees.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The average CD can hold 74 minutes’ worth of music. That unusual
length was determined by Sony’s president, who decided that a single CD should
be able to contain the longest recorded version of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
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2
jokes for the day
A man comes home from a night of drinking with
the boys.
As he falls through the doorway of his house, his wife snaps at him, “what’s
the big idea coming home half drunk?”
The man replies, “I’m sorry, honey. I ran out of money.”
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Did you hear about the calendar thief?
He got 12 months; they say his days are numbered!
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Yep,
It Really Happened
LEEMING
BAR, England - A British motorist pulled over for driving with bald tires told
police the sheep in the back of his car was just along for the ride to
McDonald's. The North Yorkshire Police Roads Policing Group, which shared a
picture of the car and its wooly passenger on Twitter, said the motorist was
pulled over Wednesday evening when an officer noticed two of its tires were
completely bald. The officer soon discovered there was a sheep in the back of
the car. "Ewe have got to be kidding," the police tweet read. A
police spokesman told the Northern Echo the motorist explained he had just
taken the sheep with him for a quick trip to the McDonald's in Leeming Bar.
"Some people take their dogs in their cars, I take my sheep," the man
was quoted as saying to the officer. A follow-up tweet indicated the officer
did not necessarily approve of the motorist's meal choice. "[The motorist]
allegedly had just been through the 'Golden Arches,' drive through," the
tweet said, using the apparently judgmental hashtag "#otherfastfoodisavailable."
A police spokesman quipped the department would have liked to have gotten a
clearer photo of the spectacle. "We have no other information apart from
what the officer tweeted. Although we might equip our officers with better high-definition
cameras," the spokesman told The Guardian.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
In
Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes...when you
pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on.
That's where the phrase, "good night, sleep tight" came from.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter
pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50
caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded
into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got
"the whole 9 yards."
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, GP
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To
Beaver."
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating
are already married.
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Birthdays
Today
91 - Rhonda Fleming, [Marilyn Louis],
Hollywood California, actress (Spellbound)
56 - Rosanna Arquette, actress (Desperately
Seeking Susan, After Hour)
55 - Antonio Banderas, Malaga Spain, actor
(Phila, Evita, Mambo Kings)
48 - Riddick Bowe, Brooklyn New York, HW
boxing champ (Olympic-silver-1988)
43 - Angie Harmon,
Actress (Law and Order)
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Herbert
Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st US President -1964@90
Jack
Haley [John Joseph], American actor (The Wizard of Oz)-1979@81
Noah
Beery Jr, actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot)-1994@81
Jimmy
Dean, Tx, actor/singer (Jimmy Dean Show)-2010@81
Hilda
Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement-1961@75
Bobby
Hatfield, Wisc, rocker (Righteous Bros-Unchained Melody)-2003@63 Madeleine de Valois, wife of James V of
Scotland-1537@17
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Historical
Obits Today
Eydie
Gorme, American singer-2013@84
Isaac
Hayes, American musician and actor,stroke-2008@65
Robert H.
Goddard, American rocket pioneer, cancer-1945@62
Patrick
Kennedy, son of President Kennedy-1963@3 days
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Jumping up and down over good news.
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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…▲
