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Almanac: Week: 23 \ Day: 152
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 85°\L 44° Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 27mph
Ave. High: 74° Record High: 88°
(1977) Ave. Low: 37° Record
Low: 24° (1923)
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Observances Today:
Buddah Birthday
Dare Day
Flip a Coin Day
Global Day of Parents
Heimlich Maneuver Day-1974
National Go Barefoot Day
National Leave the Office Early Day
National Thank God It's Monday Day
Oscar The Grouch Day
Say Something Nice Day
Stand For Children Day
Admission Day (Kentucky-15th-1792)
Admission Day (Tennessee-16th -1796)
Day of Vesak (Buddhist)
Independence Day (Samoa)
International Children's Day (China)
Jerusalem Day (Yom Yerushalayim -
Israel)
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Observances This Month:
Adopt-A-Cat
Month
Adopt A Shelter Cat Month
African-American Music Appreciation Month
Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month (APS)
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Beautiful in Your Skin Month
Black Music Month
Cancer From The Sun Month
Caribbean-American Heritage Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celibacy Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Dairy
Month
Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month
Fashion in Colonial Virginia Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Georgia Blueberry Month
Gay & Lesbian Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
International Surf Music Month
June is Lane Courtesy Month
June
is Perennial Gardening Month
June is Turkey Lovers Month
Men’s Health Education and Awareness Month
Migraine Awareness Month
National Accordion Awareness Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Candy Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Congenital Cytomegalovirus Awareness Month
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Pride Month
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Book Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also September)
National Ice Tea Month
National Migraine and Headache Awareness Month
National Pet Preparedness Month
National Rivers Month
National Rose Month
National Safety Month
National Scoliosis Awareness Month
National Smile Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
National Zoo and Aquarium Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
PTSD Awareness Month
Ramadan (6/18-7/16)
Rebuild Your Life Month
Scleroderma Awareness Month
Skyscraper Month
Sorghum Month
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month
Vision Research Month
World Naked Bike Ride Month (Northern Hemisphere)
Women's Golf Month
World Infertility Month
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Observances This Week:
National Sun Safety Week: 1-8
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1638 - 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth,
Mass
1657 - 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
1660 - Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law
banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1789 - 1st US congressional act becomes law (on
administering oaths)
1808 - 1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio
Univ, Athens, Ohio
1843 - Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her
career as antislavery activist
1862 - Slavery abolished in all US possessions
1868 - Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the
Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1869 - Voting machine patented (Thomas A Edison)
1877 - US troops authorized to pursue bandits into
Mexico
1880 - 1st pay telephone installed
1888 - California gets its 1st seismograph
1906 - Mule drawn street
car made its last run to the University of Arizona beside the electric street
car which had gone into operation five days before.
1921 - Race riot in Tulsa Oklahoma (21 whites &
60 blacks killed)
1927 - Peace Bridge between US & Canada opens
1939 - 1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova
defeats Max Baer
1949 - 1st magazine on microfilm offered to
subscribers (Newsweek)
1961 - FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard
1974 - The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking
victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1980 - 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network
1992 - America West Arena opens in Phoenix
1994 - FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts
1996 - Woody Harrelson is arrested in Lee
County, Kentucky, after he symbolically planted four hemp seeds to challenge
the state law which did not distinguish between industrial hemp and marijuana
2009 - General Motors files for chapter 11
bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
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Today’s World Events through History
1495 - First written record of Scotch Whisky
appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller
1533 - Anne Boleyn crowned queen of England
1935 - Driving test & license plates introduced
in England
1941 - British troops occupy Bagdad, Iraq
1964 - Kenya becomes a republic and Jomo
Kenyatta its President
1966 - George Harrison is impressed by Ravi
Shankar's concert in London
1979 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia
in 90 years takes power.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Warming up here for sure. Able to read the Sunday paper on the
deck at 8a. Nice.
A friend dropped by and we went out to breakfast. Good conversation,
good time.
And people wonder why there is little belief in Congress doing its
job. Must say it is a much needed debate that should have taken place a very
long time ago. Really not sure who to believe on this debate.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Remove
a letter from each of the words below and rearrange the remaining letters to
form new words. The 10 words will all fall into a certain category. For
example, given the words DEAR, ANGRY, and RENEGE, you could drop the
"A" in DEAR to get RED, drop the "N" in ANGRY to get GRAY,
and drop an "E" in RENEGE to get GREEN. These would all fall into the
category of "Colors".
If you're stuck, the hint will name the category. The tough part is getting all
10 words.
EPOCH
EXPEL
WRIST
BUNDLE
INWARD
REPUTE
UNSEAT
ASCRIBE
MEMOIRS
PHRASING
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…China Facts…
Daizi Zheng, a Chinese designer, made a Coca-Cola powered cell
phone. She designed a battery that uses enzymes to generate electricity from
the carbs.
In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes
out as "eat your fingers off".
…Cool Facts…
Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by
reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular
human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on
consciousness.
There is a “Fruit Salad Tree” which can grow up to 6 different
types of fruit.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
50 YEARS AGO - 1965
In an attempt to control the Great Basin tent caterpillar, a
22,700-acre area of the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests is being sprayed
with an especially approved insecticide as natural factors have been unable to
check this growing infestation.
At Anderson’s, 24 S. Beaver St., you will find great values in
bedding plants. Tomatoes and peppers 54 cents a 6-pack this weekend only. Free
with each $1 purchase you will get a packet of flower seeds containing
for-get-me-not’s and California poppies.
Nature forgot the date this Memorial Day weekend and sent snow and
sleet, giving us 0.40 inches of moisture and high winds. It was 32 degrees on
Sunday and the high Monday only got up to 40.
…Harper’s Index…
1975 – year in
which Congress instituted an automatic annual cost of living adjustment to
Social Security Payments
2 – number of
times over the next 35 years that the adjustment was less than 2%
4 – number of
times in the past 5 years that it has been
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
The term "lawn mullet" means having a neatly manicured
front yard and an unmowed mess in the back.
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2 jokes for the day
A woman on the phone to her friend;
I feel like my body has gotten totally out of shape, so I got my doctor’s
permission to join a fitness club and start exercising….
I decided to take and aerobics class for seniors.
I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour.
But, by the time I got my leotards on, the class was over.
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A man lying on his deathbed called to him, his
lawyer, his doctor, and his pastor.
"I am going to die tonight," and I want to prove that when you go to
heaven you can take it all with you.
So to my three most trusted friends, you three of course, I am leaving 50,000
dollars in these envelopes.
When I die you must come to my funeral and put the envelopes in my coffin with
me."
The man handed the three men identical envelopes.
A day later they each received news that, that night the old man had died . So
each knew they must go to his funeral and fulfill his death wish.
Standing over the coffin one week later the pastor confessed,
" I can't hide what I've done. I took 10,000 dollars from the envelope
because the church needed to be painted."
Then as he did so the doctor also started to fidget then finally confessed
“I took 30,000 dollars from my envelope because the hospital needed a new
wing."
Ten the lawyer said plainly “You bunch of crooks! I wrote him a check for the
full amount!"
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Yep, It Really
Happened
BAMIYAL,
India (UPI) - Indian police said they have detained a pigeon suspected of
being a Pakistani spy after it was found to have a message stamped on its body.
Punjab police said a 14-year-old boy in Manwal, a village close to the
Pakistani border, brought the pigeon to a police station when he noticed it
bore a stamped message on its wing feathers written in Urdu, the official language
of Pakistan, and a Pakistani phone number. The pigeon's feathers also
reportedly bore the seal of a Pakistani district in Pakistan's Punjab province.
Officers at the Bamiyal police post dubbed the bird a "suspected spy"
in a diary report. Police Superintendent Rakesh Kaushal said police conducted
an X-ray of the white pigeon. "Nothing adverse has been found, but we have
kept the bird in our custody," Kaushal told The Times of India. "This
is a rare instance of a bird from Pakistan being spotted here. We have caught a
few spies here. The area is sensitive, given its proximity to Jammu, where
infiltration is quite common."
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Who
was the last president of the Soviet Union? - Mikhail Gorbachev.
What political system was gradually dismantled in South Africa, starting in
1989? - Apartheid.
Where is the Suez Canal? - Egypt
What's the Symbol to iron? - Fe
The Golden Gate Bridge? - San Francisco, California, USA.
Where is Broadway? - New York City, USA.
What's the first name of Shakespeare? - William
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Birthday’s Today
81 - Pat Boone, Florida, singer/actor (April
Love, Cross & Switchblade)
78 - Morgan Freeman, Academy award winning
actor (Driving Mrs Daisy, Glory)
41 - Heidi Klum, German supermodel
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Remembered for being born today
1917-2012@95 - William S. Knowles, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
1926-2012@86 - Andy Griffith, Mount Airy NC, actor
(Andy Griffith Show, Matlock)
1762-1844@82 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of
the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers
1801-1877@76 - Brigham Young, Vermont, religious
leader (Mormon church)
1935-2009@74 - Reverend Ike, SC, evangelist minister
(Joy of Living)
1921-1985@64 - Nelson Riddle, musical conductor
(Batman, Frank Sinatra)
1882-1937@54 - John Drinkwater, English
poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln)
1926-1962@36 - Marilyn Monroe, [Norma Jean Mortenson],
actress (Some Like It Hot)
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Historical Obits Today
John
Dewey, US philosopher (Common Faith)-1952@92
Ann B.
Davis, American actress-2014@88
Helen Keller, blind
& deaf/author (Let us Have Faith)-1968@87
Hank
Ketcham, American cartoonist (Dennis the Menace)-2001@81
James
Buchanan, 15th US president, respiratory failure-1868@77
James
Gordon Bennett, Sr., NY Herald publisher-1872@76
Yves
Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, brain cancer-2008@71
Curly
Lambeau, 1st coach of the GB Packers, heart attack-1965@67
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Brain Teasers Answers
Like the hint says, these are all recipe directions:
CHOP
PEEL
STIR
BLEND
DRAIN
PUREE
SAUTE
BRAISE
SIMMER
GARNISH
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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.
§…And That Is All
for Now…§
