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Almanac: Week: 25 \ Day: 167
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 84°\L 47° Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind
ave: 2mph\Gusts: 19mph
Ave. High: 79° Record High: 92°
(1940) Ave. Low: 41° Record
Low: 24° (1907)
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Observances Today:
Bloomsday- commemoration and
celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce
Fresh Veggies Day
Fudge Day Ladies' Day (Baseball)-since 1883
National Hollerin' Contest Day
National Nursing Assistants Day Recess
at Work Day
Youth Day (South Africa)
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Observances This Week:
Nursing Assistants Week: 11-18
Superman Days: 11-14
National Hermit Week: 13-20
Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in Public Week: 13-21
National Flag Week: 14-20
US Open Golf Championship: 15-21
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1858 - Abraham Lincoln says "A house
divided against itself cannot stand" accepting Illinois Republican Party's
nomination for the Senate
1871 - Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic
Shrine founded, NYC
1873 - Pres Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for
Nez-Perce
1879 - Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS
Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC
1884 - 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
1893 - RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack
1903 - Pepsi Cola company forms
1909 - Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball
pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to
forfeit his Olympic medals
1910
– Tucson Fire Dept’s
horse-drawn wagons raced through city streets at 9 p.m.
in response to
an alarm. Suddenly a man appeared in
the middle of the street waving a red lantern.
The drivers veered to one side and later learned they
had avoided plunging into
a six foot ditch which had
been dug across the street for a sewer line.
1922 - Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter
to US Bureau of Aeronautics
1933 - US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC) created
1947 - 1st network news-Dumont's "News from
Washington"
1960 - "Psycho", starring Janet
Leigh, Anthony Perkins, and Vera Miles, opens in New York City
1968 - Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of
golf's US open under par
2012 - Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60
years
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Today’s World Events through History
632 - Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era
1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in
Lochleven Castle prison Scotland
1880 - Salvation Army forms in London
1959 - In South Africa, Apartheid government
efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center
to Kwa Mashu, a newly established black township on the outskirts, is met with
violent resistance.
1976 - Students in Soweto, South Africa, march
against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary
schools.
1979 - Muslim Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo
Syria
1992 - Longest salami is 68'9 & 25
circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Eyes have healed, got a new script and headed out to buy new
glasses. Talk about sticker shock…the place I have been buying glasses for
decades, had a 2 for 1 sale. I could pay the full price--$675—for one pair and
get a second pair for free. I didn’t want two pair, but they had no other deal,
so I could pay for one pair and get one pair of pay for one pair and get two
pair. In a way each pair was only $337.50. Seems a little stupid, but I will
soon have 2 pair.
Then the dentist called, at my last visit I paid $39 but the new
lady gave my card a credit of $39. I had to go back in with the card to get it
straightened out. She got an earful when my receipt showed I owed them $400
from a treatment back in December—that was the crazy, then new, hygienist who
scaled some teeth, without talking to the dentist and without telling me it
would cost that much. I had complained back in December when a bill came and
never got another bill. The new office manager said that cost was never
submitted to my insurance by the previous manager. After my dialogue she agreed
that ‘trust’ is important and that she would bring it up at the next meeting.
Whatever…
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
The
following are colloquialisms/idioms written in their literal form. Try to find
all four.
Example: A Panthera Pardus is incapable of altering its texture. (A leopard
can't change its spots)
1. Revert to the first quadrilateral of equal sides and angles.
2. One suffering from Macular Degeneration guiding one with less than 1/10 of
normal vision.
3. Restrain your multiple Equus caballus.
4. The writing utensil containing small amounts of ink is more puissant than
the iron hand-held weapon.
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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… Celebrity Facts…
The world record for alcohol consumption is by Andre the Giant,
who drank 156 beers in one sitting (over 73 liters/16 gallons).
Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite. Freddie
Mercury held parties with midgets carrying around trays of cocaine.
…Cool Facts…
Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds
of edible plants - such as fruit trees, vegetables plants, herbs, etc… Free to
“anyone and everyone.” If successful, it will be the first “food forest” of the
nation.
There is a fake village with fake shops and restaurants that is
actually a care home for elderly dementia sufferers in the Netherlands.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
50 YEARS
AGO-1965
The Great Basin tent caterpillar is invading the Navajo
Reservation and the Forest Service is planning to spray there in the hope of
containing the spread.
The City Recreation Department has developed six playgrounds for
children 5 to 18 years of age at Sechrist, South Beaver, Kinsey, Weitzel and
Mount Elden Elementary Schools. At Flag High there are to be girls softball,
weight lifting, tennis , golf and bowling. At the roller rink there will be
classes on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 1 p.m. and on Saturday a family
skate from 2 to 4 pm.
Sheep and goat shearing is going on at Buffalo Park.
There was a small blaze at Southwest Forest Industries on Thursday
that was quickly controlled. Fire Chief James Samson.
…Harper’s Index…
24 – hours per
day that a death-row inmate in China wears hand and ankle restraints
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue” was written by Shel Silverstein.
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2 jokes for the day
Ah! Yes, love is blind, and marriage is an eye
opener!
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Two elderly couples were enjoying a friendly
conversation when one of the men asked the other, "Fred, how was the
memory clinic you went to last month?"
"Outstanding," Fred replied. "They taught us all the latest
psychological techniques: visualization, association, etc. It was great."
"That's great! And what was the name of the clinic?"
Fred went blank. He thought and thought, but couldn't remember.
Then a smile broke across his face and he asked, "What do you call that
flower with the long stem and thorns?"
"You mean a rose?"
"Yes, that's it!"
He turned to his wife, "Rose, what was the name of that memory
clinic?"
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Yep, It Really
Happened
FRUITLAND PARK, Fla. (UPI) - A
44-year-old Florida man was arrested after he allegedly called 911 to brag
about his big muscles and ask the dispatcher on a date, police said. Eduardo
"Edward " Garcia was camping at Lake Griffin State Park in Fruitland
Park, Fla., about 50 miles north of Orlando, when he called 911 to report a
harassing phone call he received, police said. While on the phone, he asked the
female dispatcher if she was single and told her he had big muscles. He called
back twice more after the dispatcher hung up on him. Officers went to the park
where Garcia was camping and found him lying in his tent with an open can of
beer and three more cold ones by his side. Officers called the phone number the
911 calls had originated and the phone by Garcia rang. While in handcuffs in
the police cruiser, Garcia allegedly told the police officer he wanted to head
butt and kill him. He also spit on one of the officers, police said. Garcia is
being held on charges of battery on a law enforcement office and misuse of the
911 system.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
As
the 20th century began, most Americans wore union suits or
"all-in-ones"-undergarments that combined pants and a top.
"Day of the Week" underpants were a craze in the 1950s. Each pair of
underpants in the set of seven was labeled with a different day of the week.
Colorful Underoos hit stores in 1978. The fun underwear secretly transformed
thousands of kids into Batman and Wonder Woman.
In Florence during the Renaissance, Catherine de Medici decreed it bad manners
to have a thick waist and designed a hinged corset that narrowed the waist to
13 inches.
In the 1920's a Russian immigrant named Ida Rosenthal founded the Maidenform
lingerie company with her husband William. They made bras for women of every
size and introduced the cup system (A, B, C, D).
The ancient Greeks were the first to wear girdles. They called them zones. A
band of linen or soft leather was bound around a woman's waist and lower torso
to shape and control her mid-body.
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Birthday’s Today
72 - Joan Van Ark, American actress and
director (Valene-Dallas, Knots Landing)
71 - Takamiyama Daigorō, [Jesse Kuhaulua], 1st
non-Japanese sumo champion
60 - Laurie Metcalf, actress
(Jackie-Roseanne)
45 - Phil Mickelson, PGA golfer (five-time
major winner)
43 - John Cho, Korean-American actor
42 - Eddie Cibrian [Edward Carl], actor
(Sunset Beach, Third Watch)
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Remembered for being born today
1902-1992@90 - Barbara McClintock, US, cytogeneticist
(Nobel 1983)
1914-1998@84 - E G Marshall, actor (Defenders, Caine
Mutiny)
1917-2001@84 - Katharine Graham, newspaper publisher
(Wash Post)
1829-1909@79 - Geronimo, Apache leader
1890-1965@74 - Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson],
comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
1907-1981@74 - Jack Albertson, Malden Mass, actor
(Chico & the Man)
1937-2010@72 - Erich Segal, Brooklyn, author (Love
Story, Oliver's Story)
1888-1960@72 - Bobby Clark, vaudevillian (World's
funniest circus clown)
1971-1996@25 - Tupac Shakur, East Harlem, rap
star/actor
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Historical Obits Today
Andrew
Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, 1st to map the entire San Andreas
Fault-1952@90
Wernher
von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), cancer-1977@65
George
Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), suicide?-1959@45
Brian
Piccolo, American football player (Brian’s Song)-cancer-1970@26
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Back to Square One--A term meaning to go back to the beginning,
or the original idea.
2. Blind leading the blind--Term which means the person in charge knows no more
than the person or people he is leading.
3. Hold your Horses--Meaning be patient and to wait.
4. The pen is mightier than the sword--A phrase that means you can get more
accomplished by solving your problems in a calm way, than resorting to
violence.
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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…§
