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Almanac:
Week: 34 \ Day: 234
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 82° \ L 52°
Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 19mph
Ave.
High: 79° Record High: 88°[1938]
Ave. Low: 48° Record Low: 32°[1968]
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Observances
Today:
International Tongue Twister
Day Link
Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo
Day
Take Your Cat To The Vet Day
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Observances
This Week:
18-24 Minority Enterprise Development Week
19-23 National Massage Therapy Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1762 - 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper
editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1848 - United States annexes New Mexico
1877 - Nez Perce flee into Yellowstone National Park
1901 - Cadillac Motor Company is founded
1902 - Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief
executive to ride in a car
1906 - 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
1933 - Southern Pacific
Railroad offered a roundtrip fare Phoenix\Tucson for $245
1950 - Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competitor
in national tennis competition
1975 - McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens
1989 - 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
1994 - DNA testing links OJ Simpson to murder
of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended
after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed
with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
565 - St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
1639 - Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by
the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak
rulers
1788 - Sierra Leone settled by British as a haven
for former slaves
1944 - Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed
1952 - The penal colony on Devil's Island is
permanently closed
1962 - Failed assassination on French president Charles
de Gaulle
1968 - 1st papal visit to Latin America, Pope Paul
VI arrives in Bogota to open a Eucharistic congress
1971 - Approximately 130 non-Unionist councilors
announce their withdrawal from participation on district councils across
Northern Ireland in protest against Internment (allowing suspected terrorists
to be indefinitely detained without trial)
1972 - IRA bomb explodes prematurely at a customs
post at Newry, County Down - 9 people, including three members of the IRA and
five Catholic civilians, are killed in the explosion
2004 - "The Scream" (1910 painted
version) and "Madonna", two paintings by Edvard Munch,
are stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway
2014 - 2nd
Ebola death in Nigera, Africa’s most populated country
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Monsoon is returning, so today is pretty windy…and much cooler.
Nice!
Rhone River trip had 2 pieces of good news…price went down a few
hundred bucks and more cabins have opened up. Sure hope Focus finds enough people
for this trip. It is looking better and
better.
Time to cool down both Koreas. We don’t need any military action
over there.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
In
these Word Pyramids, the first letter is given to you (which is the first
answer). Use the clues to build the pyramid to find the answer. In each
consecutive answer, a letter is added to the previous answer. However, the
answer letters might not be in the same order. Good Luck!!
Starting letter: I
Clues:
1. 3.1415926535...
2. to cut, tear apart
3. a support for two adjacent bridge spans
4. first in excellence, quality, or value
5. ------ State Building
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
50 WPA workers have completed the concrete roadway from Sitgreaves
to the college entrance at the junction of Routes 66 & 79.
The pinto bean cleaner is ready and waiting for the electrical
power to be installed.
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…Harper’s
Index…
2,761 – minimum
number of people who have paid to be considered for a one-way trip to Mars
planned by a Dutch media company
4 – number the
company plans to select for a reality show set on the planet
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @gerdludwig. Metaphorically walking on water,
camels cross the dry bed of the Aral Sea, Kazakhstan. Irrigation tapping into
the lake’s feeder rivers has shrunk its size drastically and created this
graveyard of rusting shipwrecks, where once a beautiful bay glistened.
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…Foreigners
Find These American Customs Offensive…
5.
Calling the USA "America"
© Provided by Business Insider In South America, claiming you're
from America, rather than the United States, is seen as being politically
incorrect, as it implies that only the US should be considered America, and
that South America is unworthy of the title.
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…USA
Facts…
According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion
worth of unredeemed gift cards.
No president of the United States was an only child for his
parents. George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, and
Barack Obama had/have half-siblings but no full siblings
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Dr. John Dee, a 16th century predecessor to James
Bond, supposedly used the code 007 to send messages to Queen Elizabeth. The two
zeros meant “for your eyes only.”
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2
jokes for the day
A young man bought an expensive piece of
jewelry as a present for his girlfriend.
“Don’t you want her name engraved on it?” asked the clerk.
The young man thought for a moment, and then, ever the realistic, steadfastly
replied,
“No, just engrave it: To My One and Only Love. That way, if we break up and she
throws it back to me in anger, I can use it again.”
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It was a particularly tough football game, and
nerves were on edge. The home team had been the victim of three or four close
calls, and they were now trailing the visitors by a touch-down and a field
goal. When the official called yet another close one in the visitors' favor,
the home quarterback blew his top.
"How many times can you do this to us in a single game?" he screamed.
"You were wrong on the out-of-bounds, you were wrong on that last first
down, and you missed an illegal tackle in the first quarter."
The official just stared.
The quarterback seethed, but he suppressed the language that might get him
tossed from the game. "What it comes down to," he bellowed, "is
that you STINK!"
The official stared a few more seconds. Then he bent down, picked up the ball,
paced off 15 yards, and put the ball down. He turned to face the steaming
quarterback.
The official finally replied, "And how do I smell from here?"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Camarillo,
CA – A dentist was arrested and charged with suspicion of setting
fire to three competing dental offices (one for the 4th time). One
victim said the arsonist even drilled holed in the roof and poured gasoline to accelerate
the blaze.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
yeast extract left over from the manufacture of beer is considered a delicacy
in Australia.
Tonya Harding was the first American ice skater to successfully land a triple
axel in competition.
If you have a 'Sister Joseph's Nodule,' you have been diagnosed with
belly-button cancer.
Hummingbirds live an average of 5 years. They are hatched from eggs that are so
small that a penny would cover three of them. Hummingbirds are usually hatched
in pairs in nests that average 1.5 inches in diameter.
The average age of a French oak tree harvested to make wine barrels is 170
years old. This is because the older oak tends to be denser. This is good for
adding flavor to wine.
The only two spots below sea level in the United States are Death Valley, CA
and New Orleans, LA. Death Valley is 282 feet below sea level and New Orleans
is 8 feet.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(92) - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese party leader d.
1997
(91) - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury, Ill, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451), (d. 2012)
90 - Honor
Blackman, English actress (Goldfinger, The Avengers)
(89) - Willis Rodney Whitney, Chemist, founder
of the General Electric research laboratory, and pioneer of industrial
scientific research d. 1958
(81) - James Kirke Paulding, American author d.
1860
(78) - H Norman Schwarzkopf, 4-star Army
general (Gulf War) d. 2012
76 - Valerie
Harper, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda)
74 - Bill
Parcells, Englewood New Jersey, NFL coach (Giants, Jets, Patriots)
(73) - Dorothy Parker, short story writer
(1958 Marjorie Peabody Award) d. 1967
(71) - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American
astronomer d. 1906
70 - Steve
Kroft, Kokomo Ind, co-editor (60 Minutes)
68 - Cindy
Williams, Van Nuys California, actress (Shirley- Laverne & Shirley)
66 - Diana
Nyad, swimmer (1st to swim Bahamas to Fla-1979)
(66) - Charles Francis Jenkins, Inventor
(altimeter, automobile self-starter, and early television pioneer) d.1934
(65) - John Lupton, Highland Park Ill, actor
(Tom-Broken Arrow)
(56) - Claude Debussy, composer (La Mer, Clair
de lune) d. 1918
48 - Ty
Burrell, actor (Modern Family)
45 - Giada
De Laurentiis, Italian/American chef and television host
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Historical
Obits Today
Jerry
Leiber, American songwriter (Yackety
Yak)-2011@78
Nick
Ashford, American songwriter (Ashford & Simpson), cancer-2011@70
Jacob
Bronowski, Polish-born British mathematician and science writer best known
as the presenter of the BBC television series, The Ascent of Man, heart
attack-1974@66
Sebastian
Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair), stroke-1977@59
Richard
III, king of England (1483-85), in battle-1485@32
Michael
Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush-1922@31
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Brain
Teasers Answers
I
PI
RIP
PIER
PRIME
EMPIRE
The Empire State Building is once again New York City's tallest skyscraper (it
was for nearly 40 years prior to the World Trade Center). The building is a
symbol of this city and was constructed in only two years - 1930 to 1931. It
stands 1,453 feet tall and weighs approximately 365,000 tons.
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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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