June 16

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1775 - Liberty Bell rang for the 2nd Continental Congress

1784 - Holland forbids orange clothes

1805: Sacajawea drinks mineral water today to treat an illness

1858 - Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"

1880 - Salvation Army forms in London

1903 - Ford Motors incorporates

1903 - Pepsi Cola company forms

1909 -  makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, 

             this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals

1933 - US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created

1969 - Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House

1984 - Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race

1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession 

            charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him

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Free Rambling Thoughts   

Great day in Flag…warm, breezy, cloudless sky…who could ask for more.

I am glad that Obama has finally made a statement on Illegal immigrants that should stick. Let all the racists and bigots live with it. We have always been a country of immigrants and we must all remember that our founding families were illegals who were looking for a better life…and many of the young people who are here illegally came with their parents and should not be punished.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game—A close up picture of what?

NPR Sunday Puzzle Beginnings and Endings

Given a word, the response is a word that completes a common two-word phrase. The first two letters of a given word will be the last two letters of the player's word, reversed.

For example, given "tucker," the response would be "out" because "tucker out" is a common phrase where the first word begins with "tu" and the response word ends with "ut."

1.     Bar: __ab

2.     Pace:

3.     Teacher’s :

4.     Tight:

5.     Dowsing:

6.     Garbage:

7.     Aegean:

8.     Lemon:

9.     Motel:

10.  Navy:

11.  Pink:

12.  End:

13.  Drug:

14.  Pork:

15.  Dog:

What is the answer?

Rearrange the following letters to give the name of a famous singer.

WESTERN VIDEO

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 3 letters.

1.     congealed blood
2.     disabled by wounds or soreness
3.     leave out
4.     head (French)

Lifestyle  Substance     

Songs of the 1970’s

• Dreams Fleetwood Mac 1977

• Night Fever, Bee Gees 1978

• Angie, The Rolling Stones 1973

• Grease, Frankie Vallie 1977

Harper’s Index         

Percentage of the world’s Christians who lived in sub-Saharan Africa in 1912:1Today: 24

Found on You Tube 

Jim Thorpe, The World's Greatest Athlete      

Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day

This old man was feared by all his neighbors because they believe he practiced black magic and was responsible for missing cats and dogs and strange sounds at all hours. Every time he had a confrontation with his wife, screams and yelling could be heard deep into the night along with the same statement. “When I die I will dig my way up and out of the grave to come back and haunt you for the rest of your life!”
Well he died abruptly under strange circumstances and the funeral had a closed casket. After the burial, the wife went straight to the local bar and began to party as if there was no tomorrow.
The cheerfulness of her actions was becoming extreme while her neighbors approached in a group to ask these questions: are you not afraid? Worried? Concerned? That this man who practiced black magic and stated when he died he would dig his way up and out of the grave to come back and haunt you for the rest of your life?
The wife put down her drink and said, “Let the jerk dig. I had him buried upside down.”

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

The average person can attach 400 to 450 pressure-sensitive address labels to envelopes per hour. Someone who is very good can do 800.

Yeah, It Really Happened

 KLAGENFURT, Austria - Officials at an Austrian zoo said two 115-year-old turtles appear to be ending a romance that spanned more than a century. Helga Happ, head of the zoo in Klagenfurt, said the giant turtles, together since they were young, came to the facility from the Basel Zoo in Switzerland 36 years ago, the Austrian Times reported Monday. "But for no reason that anyone can discover they seem to have fallen out; they just can't stand each other," Happ said. She said the turtles, named BiBi and Poldi, had to be separated when Bibi bit off a chunk of her mate's shell. "We have staff talking to and trying to engage the two in interacting, and we hope that they might find their harmony again," she said. "We were told that it's very rare that after so many years animals who are a pair will fall apart, but that's where we are. We hope, though, we can [achieve] a reconciliation."                

Somewhat Useless Information   

• For lustrous hair with more shine, keep brushes and combs clean. Remove natural oil build-up and hair product residue by soaking combs and brushes in a solution of 1 teaspoon of baking soda in a small basin of warm water. Rinse and allow to dry.

• If you purchase a new bike for your child, place their picture inside the handle bar before placing the grips on. If the bike is stolen and later recovered, remove the grip and there is your proof who owns the bike.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

10-16

   National Flag Week
   Jim Thorpe Native American Games
   Men's Health Week
   National Automotive Service Professionals Week
14-21

   Nursing Assistants Week
   US Open Golf Championship
   Duct Tape Days

Today Is                                                                      

Bloomsday: commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce

Fudge Day

Ladies' Day (Baseball) since 1883

National Hollerin' Contest Day

National Nursing Assistants Day

Recess At Work Day

World Juggling Day

South Africa: Youth Day

Today’s Other Events                                                             

Before 1000CE

632 - Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era

1500’s

1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland

1700’s

1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it is Breed's Hill)

1779 - Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the siege of Gibraltar begins

1794 - 1st stone laid at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch)

1800’s

1832: Battle of Pecatonica, Wisconsin: As a part of the "Black Hawk Wars," Kickapoo 

           kill 5 settlers at Fort Hamilton, Wisconsin, today. The Kickapoo will be chased to 

           the Pecatonica River by Gen.Henry Dodge and 30 militiamen. During the 

           subsequent fighting, 3 soldiers, and 11 Kickapoo will be killed.

1871 - The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, 

            Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology

1879 - Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC

1882 - 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa

1884 - 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)

1900’s

1909 - 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000

1913 - South-African parliament forbids blacks owning land

1923 - Sun Yat Sen founds military academy

1935 - US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal"

1941 - 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC

1947 - 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"

1955 - Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine Pres Juan Peron

1960 - "Psycho," opens in NY

1970 - Race riots in Miami Florida 1979 - Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra 

            base hit

1995 - Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002

2000’s

2000 - Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it 

            issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel 

            withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Remembered for being born on this day

Jack Albertson, Malden Mass, actor (Thin Man, Chico and the Man) in 1907

Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday) in 1899

Geronimo (Goyaałé [kòjàːɬɛ́] "one who yawns"), Apache leader in 1829

Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher in 1738

Katharine Graham, NYC, newspaper publisher (Wash Post) in 1917

Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], England, comedian (Laurel & Hardy) in 1890

Jean Peugeot, Frans auto manufacturer (Peugeot) in 1896

Erich Segal, Brooklyn NY, author (Love Story, Oliver's Story) in 1937

Tupac Shakur, Bkln NY, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet) (killed in 1996) in 1971

Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans in 1644

In their 70’s

Joyce Carol Oates, NY, novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights) is 74

In their 60’s

Joan Van Ark, NYC, actress (Valene-Dallas, Knots Landing) is 69

In their 50’s

Laurie Metcalf, actress (Jackie-Roseanne) is 57

In their 40’s

[Eric] Randy Barnes, Charleston WV, shot putter (Oly-silv/gold-88, 96) is 46

John Cho, Korean-American actor is 40

Today’s Obits                                                           

Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner dies in 1881 at 86

Brian Piccolo, American football player dies of testicular cancer in 1970 at 26

George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), shoots self in 1959 at 45

Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland dies in 1622 at 67

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game: Close Up Picture

What is the answer?

Stevie Wonder

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.     Bar: tab

2.     Pace: lap

3.     Teacher’s : pet

4.     Tight: fit

5.     Dowsing: rod

6.     Garbage: bag

7.     Aegean: sea

8.     Lemon: peel

9.     Motel: room

10.  Navy: bean

11.  Pink: slip

12.  End: zone

13.  Drug: lord

14.  Pork: chop

15.  Dog: food

4X4 boxes

CLOT

LAME

OMIT

TETE

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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