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Today’s Historical Highlights
1430: Joan of Arc is captured
at Compiegne & sold to the British
1853: Buenos Aires gains
independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
1863: Organization of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan
1922: Walt Disney incorporates
his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
1958: Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes
1959: Presbyterian Church accepts women preachers
1960: Israel announces capture
of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
1982: Colin Wilson rides a
surfboard 294 miles
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Free Rambling
Thoughts
I had a busy and
educational day. Started off with buying airline tickets from Phx to Houston
for my Kenya trip. Got on Expedia about 7am and the round trip was $360. That
sounded a little high, but not a lot of choices. Filled out the form, get to
the price page and see a big red flag at the top stating that the price had
changed since it was posted and was now $425. Outrageous price…and I have to
wonder how long a brick and mortar store would stay in business if they raised
their prices 20% from the time the customer picked an item on the shelf and
made it to the check-out stand. So I closed that site and went to Kayak and
found a ticket, on the same airline, at the same time of day, on the same day
for $318. Bought it. I also read today that families traveling this summer by
air will no longer necessarily get seated together without paying. Great… just
what every airline passenger looks forward to…a three year old next to them
with the parents 14 aisles away. Then I called the pharmacy to renew some eye
drops. I didn’t have the little box they come in, so had to wait 10 minutes to
talk to someone. This is at 10am. At 11:30 they called to say that the
prescription needs to be renewed by the eye doctor. I called at 3pm to see if
the script was ready. They said they hadn’t heard from the Dr. So I called the
Dr., who is usually on top of this stuff. They said the fax came in 2:00pm and
would call the pharmacy. They did. I asked the Pharmacy Tech why it took from
11:30s until 2:00pm to fax the script across town. The answer…the fax line must
have been busy. I worked with fax lines when I was working, they automatically
redial every minute or so until it goes through.
I decided today was a
good day to set up my front fountain. I saw a cool idea on making a homemade
fountain so I tried it. It works great. It works much better than the one I designed
last year. Happy Camper.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A close up
picture of what?
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NPR Sunday Puzzle
Clues are given for two
words. The first word has two or more G's in it. Remove all the G's and the
remaining letters, in order, will spell the answer to the second clue. For
example, given "joke writers" and "prayer ending," the
answer would be "gag men" and "amen."
1.
Uses Listerine or Scope; French city in Van Gogh paintings:
2.
Keeps several ball in the air; writer—Verne:
3.
Long and matted as a dog’s hair; a rural carriage:
4.
A non-Wizard in Harry Potter books; offspring of horse and donkey:
Each first answer has
more than two g’s
5.
Exercise activity on track or street; become a member of:
6.
Protective eye wear; cries at a bull fight:
7.
Boasting, intellect:
8.
Sound of a drowning person (2 words); sang “To Sir with Love”:
Riddle of the day
What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Anagram: unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s Index
Percentage of Americans who believe it is ‘extremely important’ to halt the flow of illegal immigration at the border: 53Who believe that illegal immigrants already in the country should be allowed to stay and become US citizens: 64
Found on You Tube
Joe DiMaggio on What's My Line
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
Q. How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb? A. None. That's a hardware issue.
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
If you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. Quoting Charles Arthur in The Guardian, July 20, 2006.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
WINDSOR, Ontario, Canada (AP) --Police in the Canadian province of Ontario say they are holding a man who is accused of swallowing a $20,000 diamond as long as it takes for him to produce the evidence.It has been nearly a week since Richard Mackenzie Matthews, 52, is alleged to have switched a diamond at Precision Jewellers and swallowed the real one.Matthews has been held at police headquarters while they wait for the 1.7-carat stone to pass through his system. Sgt. Brett Corey said Thursday that Matthews has gone to the washroom numerous times, but the diamond hasn't passed.Corey says a recent X-ray showed a pair of fake diamonds, or cubic zirconiums, stuck in the man's intestines but because a diamond is translucent, it isn't visible. He says the suspect is eager to get the ordeal over with and is co-operating.In the early stages, Corey says Matthews was being given laxative type foods, but is now being fed whatever he wants, in an effort to get things moving.Matthews is charged with theft and breach of court conditions, and is also wanted on warrants in Toronto.
Somewhat Useless
Information
- Advertisements for coffee in London in 1657 claimed that the beverage was a cure for scurvy, gout and other ills.
- Almonds are the oldest, most widely cultivated and extensively used nuts in the world.
- In 1932 James Markham obtained the 1st patent issued for a tree. The patent was for a peach tree.
- Rice paper isn't made from rice but from a small tree which grows in Taiwan.
- Willow bark, which provides the salicylic acid from which aspirin was originally synthesized, has been used as a pain remedy ever since the Greeks discovered its therapeutic power nearly 2,500 years ago.
- The first American advertisement for tobacco was published in 1789. It showed a picture of an Indian smoking a long clay pipe.
For AZ centennial
celebration: town names
- Dateland, AZ: unincorporated community in Yuma County, specialize in growing dates, the population is 852
- Dennehotso, AZ: (Navajo: Deinihootso—green valley) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States,. the population is 734 , 9.9 sq mi (25.6 km2), The racial makeup of the CDP was 98.64% Native American, 0.82% White, and 0.54% from two or more races. 0.27% of the population is Hispanic or Latino of any race.
- Dragoon, AZ: unincorporated community in Cochise County, the population is 297
- Duncan, AZ: a town in Greenlee County, the population of the town is 713, primarily populated by ranchers and miners (especially from copper and silver mines , Justice Sandra Day O'Connor grew up near Duncan, the town has a total area of 2.6 square miles (6.7 km2), the racial makeup of the town was 81.77% White, 0.49% Black or African American, 0.86% Native American, 0.12% Asian, 13.55% from other races, and 3.20% from two or more races. 31.53% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Calendar Information
…Happening This Week:
19-25
National Safe Boating Week
21-27
Recreational Water Illness and Injury Prevention Week
National Medical Transcription Week
National Backyard Games Week
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing
Territories Old-Time Player Piano Week
Today Is
Declaration of the Bab Day (Baha’i)
National Taffy Day
Penny Day
World Crohn's and Colitis Day
World Turtle Day
Canada: Victoria Day
Sweden: Linnaeus Day (for Carl Linnaeus (b. 1707). Botanist who
gave order to the plant and animal kingdoms)
Today’s Other Events
1200’s
1275: King Edward I of Engld
orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
à
1400’s
1421: Jews of Austria
imprisoned & expelled
1500’s
1568: The Netherlands declare
their independence from Spain
à
1700’s
1785: Benjamin Franklin
announces his invention of bifocals
1800’s
1807: The Chickasaw Treaty of
July 23, 1805 is publicly proclaimed
1813: South American
independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of
Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator")
1838: Under the provisions of
the New Echota Treaty of December 29, 1835, this the deadline for Cherokees to
emigrate to the Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma). Any Cherokees still
east of the Mississippi River, after today, are force to leave
1865: Flag flown at full staff
over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot
1873: 1st Preakness: G Barbee
aboard Survivor wins in 2:43 (2012 winning time: 1:55.94)
1882: 6" of snow falls in
eastern Iowa
1900’s
1940: 1st great dogfight
between Spitfires
1945: Heinrich Himmler, German
Nazi leader & Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44
1945: Winston Churchill resigns as British PM
1948: Joe DiMaggio hits 3
consecutive HRs
1949: Federal Republic of
[West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day)
1958: Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) start "Great leap
forward" movement in China
1962: Scott Carpenter orbits
Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
1970: A fire breaks out in the
Britannia
Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial
destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage
1977: Moluccan extremists hold
105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Neth,
children released May 27, siege ends June 11
1990: Cost of rescuing savings
& loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
1998: The Good Friday
Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes
2000’s
2002: The "55
parties" clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by
Iceland
2008: The International
Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu
Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two
countries
Today’s Birthdays
Remembered for being born on this day
Scatman Crothers,
[Benjamin], Terre Haute IN, actor (Zapped, Shining) in 1910
Douglas Fairbanks, Denver
CO, actor (Zorro/3 Musketeers/Robin Hood)in 1883
Robert A Moog, inventor
(Moog Synthesizer) in 1934
Artie Shaw, [Arthur
Arshawsky], NYC, bandleader in 1910
In their 80’s
Barbara Barrie, actress (Breaking Away,
Barney Miller)
is 81
In their 70’s
Joan Collins, actress,
author is 79
à
In their 50’s
Drew Carey, comedian,
game show host is 54
"Marvelous"
Marvin Hagler, NJ, middleweight boxing champ (1982-83) is 58
Shelly West, Cleve OH,
country singer (Red Hot, West by West) is 54
à
In their 30’s
Ken Jennings, American
game show contestant (Jeopardy) is 38
Today’s Obits
Archibald Alison,
Scottish historian, dies in 1867 at 74
Clyde Barrow, outlaw
(Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush in 1934 at 23
Lloyd Bentsen, US Senator
(TX), Sec. of Treasury, VP candidate (1988) dies in 2006 at 85
Kit Christopher Houston Carson,
American trapper, scout, and Indian agent dies of aneurysm in 1868 at 58
Ismail I, Shah of Persia
and poet, dies in 1524 at 36
William Kidd, Scottish
pirate, hanged in 1701 at 56
George Jessel, US
comic/toastmaster (Diary of Young Comic), dies in 1981 at 83
Jackie "Moms"
Mabley (Loretta Mary Aiken), comedienne (Amazing Grace), dies in 1975 at 81
Bonnie Parker, outlaw
(Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush in 1934 at 24
John Davison Rockfeller,
industrialist, dies in 1937 at 97
Sam Snead, American
golfer dies in 2002 at 89
Answers
Brain Game: Close Up
Picture
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Riddle of the day
Your name
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Uses Listerine or Scope; French city in Van Gogh paintings: gargles;
Arles
2.
Keeps several ball in the air; writer—Verne: juggles, Jules
3.
Long and matted as a dog’s hair; a rural carriage: shaggy; shay
4.
A non-Wizard in Harry Potter books; offspring of horse and donkey: Muggle;
mule
Each first answer has
more than two g’s
5.
Exercise activity on track or street; become a member of: jogging; join
6.
Protective eye wear; cries at a bull fight: goggles: oles
7.
Boasting, intellect: bragging; brain
8.
Sound of a drowning person (2 words); sang “To Sir with Love”: glug,
glug: Lulu
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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 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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