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Almanac: Week: 24 \ Day: 159
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 78°\L 36° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind
ave: 11mph\Gusts: 22mph
Ave. High: 77° Record High: 89°
(1985) Ave. Low: 39° Record
Low: 24° (1950)
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Observances Today:
Best Friends Day
Name Your Poison Day
National Caribbean American HIV/AIDS
Awareness Day
Upsy Daisy Day
World Oceans Day
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Observances This Week:
National Sun Safety Week:1-8
International Clothesline Week:6-13
Bed Bug Awareness Week:7-13
Black Single Parents Week:7-13
Jim Thorpe Native American Games:7-13
National Body Piercing Week:7-13
National Business Etiquette Week:7-13
National Headache Awareness Week:7-13
Pet Appreciation Week:7-13
Rip Current Awareness Week:7-13
National Automotive Service
Professionals Week:8-14
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1786 - Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised
(Mr Hall, NYC)
1789 - James Madison introduces a proposed
Bill of Rights in the U.S. House
1861 - Tennessee votes to secede from the Union
1880 - Executive order
reserved lands for the Havasupai Reservation.
1889 - Cable Cars begin service in LA
1896 - 1st car is stolen
1936 - 1st parking meters are invented
1966 - Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado
that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed
US$100 million in damages
1995 - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott
O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia
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Today’s World Events through History
452 - Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
1829 - 1st UK municipal swimming pool outside of
London opens in Liverpool
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure
"Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)
1938 - Gert Terblanche, a local school boy,
discovers fossils of an unknown 'robust-type' human ancestor, later named
Paranthropus robustus by Robert Broom, at Kromdraai, Blaauwbank River Valley in
South Africa
1988 - Nippon Airways announces that painting
eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
2014 - Rafael Nadal wins
his ninth French Open title
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great weather Sunday.
Discussion group was outstanding last night. We had all our
articles on India + the recent Time magazine cover story on India’s leader.
Amazing how much of the discontent/problems of India go back to the
Colonialization period. Those wounds take many generations to heal. Taking even
longer is the centuries old caste system.
There is a lot of hope that India, as its population overcomes
China, it will be able to be a true world power.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
John,
Paul, George, and Ringo all enter a race, but there is nobody at the finish
line to judge the ending. When the judge finally shows up to award the prize
for coming in first, these are the statements the four of them make:
John: I was neither first nor last.
Paul: I did not finish last.
George: I won the race!
Ringo: I came in last.
The judge starts to hand George the prize, when Yoko, who was watching the
race, says, "Exactly one of these four is lying."
To whom should the judge grant the prize?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
Returns tomorrow
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… Celebrity Facts…
In their early careers, Sylvester Stallone and Jackie Chan both
took part in porn.
For his time as James Bond, Daniel Craig has the privilege of
taking any Aston Martin from the factory for the rest of his life.
Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.
…Cool Facts…
MDIF, a New York based non-profit organization, is planning to
beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
On October 28, 2013, wind power provided 100% of Denmark's power.
At 2:00am, it was producing 122% of the country's energy needs.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
On July 1, 1940, our post office is to become the sixth post
office in the state of Arizona to receive the rank of First Class Post Office.
To achieve this status the office must gross $14,000, less 10 percent of the
stamps and box rent. George Babbitt, Post Master.
The Western Union Telegraph office has extended its hours and will
now be open until 9 p.m. Thomas Campbell started work on Wednesday to assist W.
G. Dickerman, manager of the local office.
…Harper’s Index…
7 –
percentage of married US households that are multiracial
14 – of unmarried
US households
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
After a 2011 vote, Toyota announced that the official plural of
Prius was Prii.
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2 jokes for the day
A woman sadly tells her husband: We will not
be together in heaven as we may die at different times my dear.
After a pause her husband replied; my dear that is why the place is known as
'Heaven'.
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A man was driving along the highway, and saw a
rabbit hopping across the middle of the road.
He swerved to avoid hitting the rabbit, but unfortunately the rabbit jumped in
front of the car and was hit.
The driver, being a sensitive man as well as an animal lover, pulled over to
the side of the road and got out to see what had become of the rabbit.
Much to his dismay, the rabbit was dead. The driver felt so awful he began to
cry.
A woman driving down the highway saw the man crying on the side of the road and
pulled over.
She stepped out of her car and asked the man what was wrong.
"I feel terrible," he explained. "I accidentally hit this rabbit
and killed it."
The woman told the man not to worry. She knew what to do. She went to her car
trunk and pulled out a spray can.
She walked over to the limp, dead rabbit, and sprayed the contents of the can
onto the rabbit.
Miraculously, the rabbit came to life, jumped up, waved its paw at the two
humans and hopped down the road.
50 meters away the rabbit stopped, turned around, waved at the two again,
hopped down the road another 50 meters, turned, waved, and hopped another 50
meters.
The man was astonished.
He couldn't figure out what substance could be in the woman's spray can!
He ran over to the woman and demanded, " What was in your spray can? What
did you spray onto that rabbit?"
The woman turned the can around so that the man could read the label.
It said: " 'Hare Spray' Restores Life to Dead Hare. Adds Permanent
Wave."
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Yep, It Really
Happened
Five days. That's how long 28-year-old Regis Walker spent in a
hospital "passing" the drug pellets after she was arrested last week
at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Walker, a U.S. citizen,
arrived on a flight from Jamaica. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials
took her aside for a baggage search and interview. She was taken to Broward
Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale after agreeing to be X-rayed. The
X-ray revealed that Walker appeared to be carrying approximately 54 pellets
filled with cocaine within her body.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
There
are more museums in the U.S. than there are Starbucks and McDonalds—combined as
of 2015, according to washingtonpost.com.
Actually,
there are roughly 11,000 Starbucks locations in the United States, and about
14,000 McDonald’s restaurants. But joined, the two chains don’t come close to
the number of museums in the U.S., which stands at a whopping 35,000!
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Al
Capone was known for sending flowers to rival gang member’s funerals; one
funeral he spent over $5000 on flowers, according to msu.edu.
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Birthday’s Today
90 - Barbara Bush, Flushing, New York, US
First Lady
88 - Jerry Stiller, Brooklyn comedian (Frank
Constanza-Seinfeld)
79 - James Darren, Phila, actor (TJ Hooker, Diamond Head, Venus in Furs)
75 - Nancy Sinatra, Jersey City, singer
(Boots are Made for Walkin')
72 - William Calley, American war criminal
71 - Boz Scaggs, [William Royce], Dallas Tx,
rocker (Steve Miller Band)
64 - Bonnie Tyler, [Gaynor Hopkins], rocker
(Total Eclipse of the Heart)
57 - Keenan Ivory Wayans, comedian (In
Living Color)
49 - Julianna Margulies, Spring Valley NY,
actress (Carol Hathaway-ER)
38 - Kanye West, American rapper and record
producer, born in Atlanta, Georgia
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Remembered for being born today
1867-1959@91 - Frank Lloyd Wright, master builder
(Guggenheim)
1916-2004@88 - Francis Crick, DNA's structure and
Nobel laureate (1962)
1625-1712@87 - Giovanni D Cassini, France, discoverer
(4 moons of Saturn)
1917-2002@84 - Byron R Whizzer White, Ft Collins, NFL/Supreme
Court Just
1933-2014@81 - Joan Rivers, [Molinsky], Bkln,
comedienne
1924-1995@72 - George Kirby, comedian (ABC Comedy Hour)
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Historical Obits Today
Frank
Cady, actor (Green Acres), 2012@96
Andrew
Jackson, (D) 7th US President (1828-37), TB-1845@78
[Leroy] Satchel Paige,
US baseball pitcher, heart attack-1982@75
Thomas
Paine, English/American writer (Common Sense)-1809@72
Cochise (K'uu-ch'ish "oak"),
Chihuicahui Apache leader,
cancer-1874@70ish
Robert
Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days), lung cancer-1969@57
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Brain Teasers Answers
The prize should go to Paul.
If John is lying, then George and Ringo would be telling the truth, which would
mean John was not lying, so he can't be the liar.
If Paul was lying, then Ringo would also be lying, so he must be telling the
truth, as well.
So we now know that neither John nor Paul finished last. If Ringo was lying,
then George would have finished last, which would mean that he was lying, as
well. So Ringo can't be lying.
This leaves George as our liar, so we know George did not finish first. Neither
did Ringo (he finished last), nor did John (he finished neither first nor
last). Therefore, Paul won the race!
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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…§
