June 10

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1639: 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)

1760: NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine

1793: 1st public zoo opens in Paris

1857: England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system

1905: 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me

1939 – My parents, Charles and Beryl, were married in Denver today

1963: JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men & women

1976: 49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy

♪Happy Birthday To: ♪ 

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Free Rambling Thoughts   

Today is a short version of the blog, as our discussion group meets tonight and I had to get prepared. It was another very windy day here in town. My cold is much better and I did spend a nice afternoon on my deck, reading to get ready for tonight.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game—A close up picture of what?

NPR Sunday Puzzle

Returns tomorrow

What is the answer?

Note: yesterday, another answer could have been 50, the only number divisible by 5

Rearrange the letters of the following phrase to give the name of a U.S. state:  VIEWING A STIR

4x4 Word Boxes

The answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc. Can you solve these Word Boxes? Each answer is 4 letters.1.              matter unit
2.              lion handler's task
3.              warning sign
4.              fix

Lifestyle  Substance     

Songs of the 1970’s

Hotel California , The Eagles--1977
Stairway To Heaven, Led Zeppelin--never charted
American Pie, Don McLean--1972 
Stayin' Alive, Bee Gees--1978

Harper’s Index         

Median sale price of a single-family US home sold last year: $166,200

Found on You Tube 

Spencer Tracy: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner        

Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day

"Honey," said this husband to his wife, "I invited a friend home for supper."
"What? Are you crazy? The house is a mess, I didn't go shopping, all the dishes are dirty, and I don't feel like cooking a fancy meal!"
"I know all that."
"Then, why did you invite a friend for supper?"
"Because the poor guy is thinking about getting married."

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

On a cold day, soaking wet blue jeans will draw heat from your lower body twice as fast as wearing no pants at all.

Yeah, It Really Happened

 AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch artist said he decided to pay tribute to his departed cat by turning the departed feline's taxidermied remains into a working helicopter. Bart Jansen said his cat, Orville, was named after legendary aviator Orville Wright and the feline's namesake helped inspire him to transform the stuffed remains into a radio-controlled helicopter with the help of RC expert Arjen Beltman, The Mirror, Britain, reported Monday. Jansen said the "Orvillecopter," which is being displayed at the Kunstrai art festival in Amsterdam, is a tribute to his beloved pet. "After a period of mourning he received his propellers posthumously," he said. The artist said his "half cat, half machine" creation will soon be "flying with the birds." "He will receive more powerful engines and larger props for his birthday. So this hopping will soon change into steady flight," Jansen said.              

Somewhat Useless Information   

• New York physician George Huntington was only 22 years old in 1872 when he published a paper describing the condition that caused involuntary twitches and tremors now known as Huntington's Chorea. He also correctly surmised at the time that the disease was hereditary and never skipped a generation.

• Alois Alzheimer was a German doctor who would eventually gain fame after studying an otherwise healthy 51-year-old female patient who was showing signs of dementia. After her death, he autopsied her brain and noted abnormalities in the cerebral cortex.

• For hundreds of years, leprosy was thought to be a hereditary disease or a curse from God. In 1873, Dr. Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen of Norway discovered the bacterium that causes leprosy, and the condition is now more properly referred to as Hansen's disease.

• James Parkinson was a British physician who wrote some of the first medical papers describing gout and the connection between an inflamed appendix and peritonitis. But he will always be remembered for his 1817 essay on the "Shaking Palsy" which today is known as Parkinson's Disease.

• Until 1961, the condition known as Down Syndrome was commonly referred to as "Mongolian Idiocy." The World Health Organization voted to change the name to honor John Langdon Down, the physician who first described the characteristic head shape and hand folds of children born with the syndrome.

• When campaigning for the presidency, John F. Kennedy went to great lengths to project an image of youth and vigor in order to hide the fact that he was suffering from Addison's Disease. Various photos of Kennedy during that era show the facial puffiness that resulted from the heavy doses of steroids he was taking.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

7-10

   Superman Week
10-16

   National Flag Week
   Jim Thorpe Native American Games
   Men's Health Week
   National Automotive Service Professionals Week

Today Is                                                                      

Abused Women and Children's Awareness Day

Alcoholics Anonymous (Founders) Day

Ball Point Pen Day

Children’s Sunday

Iced Tea Day

Multicultural American Child Day

Race Unity Day National Yo-Yo Day

Ride The Wind Day, Ride For Wind Day or World Wind Day

Portugal: Day of Portugal

Today’s Other Events                                                             

1100’s

1190: Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to Jerusalem

1600’s

1619: Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt

1652: In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America

1700’s

1719: Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel

1752: Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning

1776: Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Decl of Ind

1800’s

1850: Millard Fillmore sworn-in as president of US (replacing Taylor)

1851: California treaty: According to the Costan internet one in a series of treaties with California Indians will be signed today at Camp Persifer F. Smith. The treaty's purpose was to guarantee reserved lands and protections from the Europeans

1900’s

1902: Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan

1911: Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam

1915: Girl Scouts founded

1924: 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland

1943: FDR becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime

1955: 1st separation of virus into component parts reported

1972: An Act of Congressional today (17 stat. 391) will further define the SAUK and FOX reserve in Kansas

1977: Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II

1990: Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing

1997: Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold

2000’s

2001: Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint Saint Rafqa

2003: The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Remembered for being born on this day

Clyde Beatty, US animal trainer/actor (Big Cage) in 1903

Saul Bellow, Lachine Quebec, author (Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976) in 1914

Wilbur J Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System in 1913

Judy Garland, [Frances Gumm], Minnesota, actress/singer (Wizard of Oz) in 1922

Jacques Marquette, jesuit/missionary founder (Chicago) in 1637

Maurice Sendak, NYC, author/illustrator (Where The Wild Things Are) in 1928

In their 90’s

Philip Mountbatten, Greece, Duke of Edinburgh/Prince, Mr Elizabeth II is 91

In their 70’s

F Lee Bailey, Waltham Mass, attorney (Sam Shepard case, OJ case) is 79

In their 60’s

Jeff Greenfield, NYC, media commentator (Firing Line, Nightline) is 69

In their 40’s

Elizabeth Hurley  actress (Christabel) is 47

In their 30’s

Tara Lipinski  figure skater (1997 World Champ) is 30

Today’s Obits                                                           

Alexander the Great, Macedonian king, dies from either fever or excessive wine in 323BC at 32

Ray Charles, Grammy winning crooner who blended gospel and blues, dies of liver failure in 2004 at 73

Louis L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie), dies of cancer in 1988 at 80

Nathaniel Pryor, Sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies in 1839 at 59

Spencer Tracy, US actor (7th Cross, Father ot Bride), dies of heart attack in 1967 at 67

Richard Webb, actor (Captain Midnight), shoots himself in 1993 at 77

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game: Close Up Picture

What is the answer?

West Virginia

NPR Sunday Puzzle

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4X4 boxes

ATOMTAMEOMENMEND 

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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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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