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Almanac: Week: 24 \ Day: 162
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 73°\L 57° Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave. High: 78° Record High: 90°
(1918) Ave. Low: 40° Record
Low: 26° (1954)
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Observances Today:
Career Nurse Assistants Day
Corn on the Cob Day
King Kamehameha Day
National Cotton Candy Day
National Hug Holiday
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Observances This Week:
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
Nursing Assistants Week: 11-18
Superman Days: 11-14
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1578 - England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent
to explore & colonize North America
1742 - Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin
stove
1776 - Continental Congress creates committee
(Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert
R. Livingston) to draft a Declaration of Independence
1838 - Iowa Territory is organized
1859 - Comstock silver load discovered near
Virginia City, Nevada
1876 - Chiricahua Apache
were moved from their reservation in Cochise County to the San Carlos
Reservation.
1896 - US Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota
authorized
1898 - 1st US Marines (600) land at Guantanamo Cuba
during Spanish-American War
1927 - Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st
Distinguished Flying Cross
1928 - Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, "Case Of
Jonathan Drew," is released
1935 - Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first
public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New
Jersey
1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The
Races" released
1947 - WW II sugar rationing finally ends in US
(began May 28, 1942)
1950 - Ben Hogan wins US Open golf tournament
1963 - US President JFK says segregation
is morally wrong & that it is "time to act"
1966 - "I Am A Rock" by Simon &
Garfunkel peaks at #3
1967 - Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard
mobilizes
1993 - "Jurassic Park" opens, sets box
office weekend record of $502 million
2004 - Ronald Reagan's funeral is held at
Washington National Cathedral.
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Today’s World Events through History
1770 - Capt James Cook discovers Great
Barrier Reef off Australia
1870 - 1st-stone Amstel Brewery opens in Amsterdam
1892 - The Limelight Department, one of the world's
first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
1921 - Brazil adopts women suffrage
1964 - Manfred Mann record Do Wah Diddy Diddy Dum
Diddy Do
1966 - "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling
Stones peaks at #1
1972 - Gun battle between Loyalist and Republican
paramilitaries break out in the Oldpark area of Belfast
1990 - UN appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental
ambassador
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
And the showers continue…nice
Shocked when I turned on the computer and saw a picture of Luxor,
Egypt where a guy blew himself up. I stood at Luxor on my visit to Egypt a few
years ago. I remember that it was hot, hot, hot and that there were tourists
everywhere. I am so fortunate that I was able to visit this beautiful country
back then. It is a shame to see so much destruction taking place there in the
name of political power. While I will also not forget the huge number of very aggressive
vendors at most of the venues, I now realize that all those vendors are
basically out of business. Back then I wrongly saw them as greedy, when in
fact, they were very poor and trying to make money to feed their families.
Our little mountain town is having a problem. Two of our council
member received nasty unsigned post cards in the mail yesterday. One told the
council woman to go back where she came from—Eastern Europe; the other had
racist comments about a two term lady who is not afraid to say what she
believes. So sad.
Cheryl is still in CA, so Mary and I are headed to Twin Arrows, a
Navajo casino about 20 minutes from Flagstaff. I’m not a big gambler, or even a
little gambler, but do enjoy the noise and the décor. A little gambling with a
good lunch.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Simple
nearly beyond compare.
He is noble. He is rare.
He makes you squeak! Quiescent! Light!
Bright colored things He brings to flight!
For all of that (so we are told)
He can be amazingly cold.
Who is He?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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… Celebrity Facts…
Heath Ledger locked himself in a hotel room for a month to prepare
for his iconic role as the Joker in The Dark Knight
Hugh Jackman walked around Comic Con wearing his full Wolverine
costume and nobody noticed.
…Cool Facts…
In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they
found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam
Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
Cuban rescue workers use sniffer rabbits to find people in collapsed
buildings.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
100 YEARS
AGO-1915
There is 18 feet of water in the big city reservoir and more is
flowing in every day. City Water Superintendent, John Marshall.
The toll being charged to cross at Davenport Lake is reported as
being inconsistent. It may be $5 or as much as $25. The need has arisen since
the lake overflowed and wiped out a section of the roadway. Some travelers are
finding a way around and avoiding the charge.
The trout fishing season on Oak Creek opened on the first of June.
Fish stories will be accepted at the usual rates.
…Harper’s Index…
-84 –
percentage change since 2000 in the number of Mexicans apprehended at the
US-Mexico border
+783 –in the number
of non-Mexicans
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
Japanese golfers take out insurance policies against scoring an
ace while golfing, since a player "lucky" enough to get a hole-in-one
is obligated to buy gifts for all his friends.
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2 jokes for the day
Q: What did the guy say when he walked into
the bar?
A: Ouch.
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Two old men were sitting in the yard outside
the old people's home one day when Tim turned to the other and said
"John I'm really feeling my age today I just hurt all over, how are you
feeling?"
John replied "I feel just like a new born baby"
Tim looked at him startled "A new born baby, really?"
"Yep, I have no hair, no teeth, and I think I just wet my pants."
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Yep, It Really
Happened
DONGYANG,
China (UPI) - Surgeons in China who removed 420 kidney stones from a single
patient blamed the man's tofu-heavy and water-light diet for the condition.
Doctors at the Dongyang City People's Hospital said the patient, identified as
Mr. Ho, 55, complained of stomach pain in May and a CT scan of his left kidney
revealed it was filled with 420 stones. Dr. Wei Yubin told the Quianjiang
Evening Post the man's love of tofu and lack of water likely led to his
condition. "Soy products, especially gypsum tofu, are very high in
calcium, the excess of which cannot be excreted from the body without a
sufficient intake of water," he said. Doctors said Ho, who previously had
10 kidney stones removed about 20 years ago, could have lost his kidney if he
had waited any longer to receive medical attention. The man's uncomfortable
condition may have been painful, but it fell far short of a world record --
Guinness World Records said a surgeon in India removed 172,155 kidney stones
from a patient's left kidney in 2009.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Sugar makes kids go crazy.
The Journal of the American Medical Association published a review of 23
studies on the subject of kids and sugar, the conclusion: Sugar doesn't affect
behavior. And it's possible that it is the idea itself that is so ingrained as
fact that it affects our perception.
***
Cholesterol
in eggs is bad for the heart.
The perceived association between dietary cholesterol and risk for coronary
heart disease stems from dietary recommendations proposed in the 1960s that had
little scientific evidence, other than the known association between saturated
fat and cholesterol and animal studies where cholesterol was fed in amounts far
exceeding normal intakes. Since then, study after study has found that dietary
cholesterol (the cholesterol found in food) does not negatively raise your
body's cholesterol. It is the consumption of saturated fat that is the demon
here. So eat eggs, don't eat steak.
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Birthday’s Today
84 - Tab Hunter, actor (Tab Hunter Show)
82 - Gene Wilder, American actor(Silver
Streak)
76 - Jackie Stewart, Scotland, driver/sports
announcer (27 Grand Prix)
70 - Adrienne Barbeau, actress (Maude)
68 - Henry Cisneros, 1st Hispanic to serve
as mayor of a major U.S. city
59 - Joe Montana, NFL quarterback (San
Francisco 49ers)
56 - Hugh Laurie [James Hugh Calum
Laurie], English actor (House)
55 - Mehmet Oz, TV show
host (Dr. Oz)
29 - Shia LaBeouf, American actor
(Disturbia, Transformers)
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Remembered for being born today
1900-1994@93 - Lawrence E Spivak, Brooklyn, news
panelist (Meet the Press)
1880-1973@92 - Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to
Congress (Rep-Montana)
1910-1997@87 - Jacques Cousteau, French oceanic
explorer (Calypso)
1937-2012@75 - Chad Everett [Raymon Lee Cramton],
actor (Medical Center)
1886-1960@74 - David Steinman, bridge designer
(Hudson, Triborough)
1907-1977@70 - Anton D Hildebrand, children's book
writer (Man in the Moon)
1943-2012@69 - Henry Hill Jr., Brooklyn, FBI
informant (inspired Goodfellas)
1572-1637@65 - Ben Jonson, England, playwright/poet
(Volpone, Alchemist)
1815-1879@63 - Julia Margaret Cameron, English
photographer
1913-1970@57 - Vince Lombardi, Brooklyn NFL coach (Packers)
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Historical Obits Today
Ruby Dee,
American actress-2014@91
David
Brinkley, television reporter-2003@82
John
Wayne [Marion Mitchell Morrison], actor, cancer-1979@72
Quang Duc,
Buddhist monk, immolates himself-1963@65ish
Ray
Sharkey, actor (Wiseguy, No Mercy, Body Rock), AIDs-1993@40
Timothy
McVeigh, American terrorist-execution-2001@33
Karen Ann
Quinlan, comatose patient-1985@31
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Brain Teasers Answers
"He" is the chemical symbol for Helium.
Helium is the second simplest element.
Helium is a "rare" or "noble" gas.
When inhaled, helium leads to a high-pitched voice.
Helium is stable and lighter than air, two properties which make it the natural
choice for filling balloons.
Helium can be super-cooled down to a few millionths of one degree.
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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…§
