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Almanac: Week: 26 \ Day: 172
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 92°\L 47° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 18mph
Ave. High: 80° Record High: 93°
(1936) Ave. Low: 43° Record
Low: 26° (1975)
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Observances Today:
Alzheimer's Awareness Day
Ann & Samantha Day
Atheists Solidarity Day
Baby Boomers Recognition Day
Cuckoo Warning Day
Family Awareness Day
Global Orgasm Day
Go Skate Day
Go Skateboarding Day
Husband Caregiver Day
National Daylight Appreciation Day
National Selfie Day
Summer Solstice (Northern Hemisphere)
Tall Girl Appreciation Day
Winter Solstice (Southern
Hemisphere)
World Handshake Day
World Humanist Day
World Music Day
Father's Day (US)
Midsummer (Wiccan)
National Day (Greenland)
Ramadan (Islam)
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Observances This Week:
Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in Public Week:13-21
National Flag Week:14-20
US Open Golf Championship:15-21
Animal Rights Awareness Week:17-23
Duct Tape Days:19-21
Meet A Mate Week:21-27
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1607 - 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established,
Jamestown
1684 - King Charles II revokes
Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
1788 - US Constitution goes into effect as NH is
9th to ratify
1821 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ)
Church organizes (NYC)
1877 - The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants,
are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
1879 - F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost
immediately)
1893 - 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's
Columbian Exposition)
1898 - Guam becomes a territory of US
1916 - Mexican troops beat US expeditionary force
under Gen Pershing
1933 - 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip
completed, New Orleans
1936 - I.A. Eddy of Yuma
developed the first home evaporative cooler, a device which promised to provide
Arizonans some longed-for relief from the intense heat of summer.
1948 - 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's
planned to be phased out (Dr Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records)
1964 - Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers,
found guilty 30 yr later
1969 - Zager & Evans release "In the Year
2525"
1983 - Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes
double bypass heart surgery
1989 - Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a
political expression
1994 - Steffi Graf becomes 1st defending
tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to Lorrie
McNeal)
2001 - Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is the 1st
Hispanic woman to be honored on a US postage stamp
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Today’s World Events through History
1547 - Great fire in Moscow
1633 - Galileo Galilei is forced by
Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican
heliocentric views
1734 - In Montreal in New France (today primarily
Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique,
having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured
and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her
disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
1749 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1957 - Ellen
Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
1978 - The British Army shoot dead 3 Provisional
Irish Republican Army volunteers and a passing Ulster Volunteer Force member at
a postal depot on Ballysillan Road, Belfast; it is claimed that the PIRA
volunteers were about to launch a bomb attack
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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 heat wave continues…better at 7000’ than for those in the
valley—Phx.
Enjoyed an early morning walk before it got hot, then reading the
morning paper on the deck made it a great day. Portable cooler still in a
holding pattern, just in case. All the little kids with their skateboards aren’t
coming out until around 6pm these last few days. Must be hot for them too. And
when they do come out they are quite loud and rambunctious, but all is good…they
are just kids being kids.
Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there. Missing my dad who passed at 80 in 1994. Still missed for the great work is did raising two boys,
My brother is up in Oregon, reuniting with half-brothers and sisters he just learned about in the last two years. Seven 'kids' are there with a search continuing for one more.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
does this mean?
tree ri_ge tree
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
Returns tomorrow
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… America Facts…
The Native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and
squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a
structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil,
and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a
sexually-transmitted disease.
…Cool Facts…
The hole in the soda can tab is actually used to hold a straw in
place and stop it from rising.
Crows living in some urban areas drop nuts into traffic to let the
passing cars crush them, then they wait for the red lights to stop the traffic
so they can grab and eat it.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
The census shows the city to be slightly short of 5,000 residents.
It is believed that many citizens were neither contacted nor counted. Anyone
who was not counted is urged to report. At least 50 persons who were called
upon by Wes Weaver of the Chamber of Commerce and his Boy Scouts had not been
previously contacted.
…Harper’s Index…
8,000,000,000,000 – Estimated
minimum gallons of water used annually to produce Coca-Cola products
1/4 – portion of
the world’s population that amount could supply with drinking water each year
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
During a 1992 state dinner, President George H. W. Bush, ill with
the flu, lost his lunch in the lap of the Japanese prime minister. Bush’s faux
pas led the Japanese to coin a slang word, bushusuru, which
translates as “to do the Bush thing,” and means “to vomit.”
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2 jokes for the day
A young man was trying to park his car between
two others.
He put in reverse, and bang -right into the car behind him.
He then went forward and bang - right into the car in front.
A young woman watching the maneuver couldn't contain herself, "Do you
always park by ear?" she asked.
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A dog went to a telegram office, took out a
blank form and wrote:
"Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof."
The clerk examined the paper and politely told the dog, "There are only
nine words here. You could send another 'Woof' for the same price."
The dog replied, "But that would make no sense at all!"
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Yep, It Really
Happened
OREM,
Utah (UPI) - Officials at Utah Valley University said a staircase with a
designated texting lane made famous in viral photos has received positive
feedback from students. The staircase in the Oren school's Student Life &
Wellness Center is marked with separate lanes labeled "walk,"
"run" and "text" to accommodate the different speeds of
students, but officials said the benefits are more aesthetic than functional.
"When you have 18- to 24-year-olds walking on campus glued to their
smartphones, you're almost bound to run into someone somewhere; it's the nature
of the world we live in," said Matt Bambrough, UVU's creative director.
"But that isn't the reason we did it -- we used that fact to engage our
students, to catch their attention and to let them know we are aware of who
they are and where they're coming from. The design was meant for people to
laugh at rather than a real attempt to direct traffic flow." Amy Grubbs,
the school's director for campus recreation, said students often cited
staircases as being among the "gloomist" spots on campus. "The
stairs were just lifeless before," Grubbs told ABC News. "Students
don't necessarily abide by it but it's funny to watch students push their
friends over in the right lane as a joke if they're texting." "Other
people don't even see it because they're so consumed in their phones," she
said. The text lane is reminiscent of a scheme in Chongquing, China, which saw
a section of sidewalk marked off for those who choose to look at their phones
while walking instead of watching where they are going.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
There’s
a plant in Australia that will make you vomit in pure agony just by touching
it. Read below how it is called and a lot more info about it.
Its
name is Gympie-Gympie.
With
the exception of its roots, every single part of the deadly tree – its heart
shaped leaves, its stem and its pink/purple fruit – is covered with tiny
stinging hairs shaped like hypodermic needles.
You
only need to lightly touch the plant to get stung, after which the hair
penetrates the body and releases a painful toxin called moroidin.
Sometimes,
merely being in the presence of the plant and breathing the hair that it sheds
into the air can cause itching, rashes, sneezing and terrible nosebleeds,
according to odditycentral.com
Roald
Dahl is the world known author of the books “James and the Giant Peach” and
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. He has also written the screenplay for a
movie. Can you guess for which one?
He
actually wrote the screenplay for the James Bond movie, “You Only Live Twice”,
according to wikipedia.org.
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Birthday’s Today
83 - Lalo [Boris] Schifrin, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer
82 - Bernie Kopell, actor (Love Boat, Get
Smart, That Girl)
78 - Ron Ely, Hereford, Texas, American
actor (Tarzan, Doc Savage)
75 - Mariette Hartley, actress (Poloroid
spokesperson, Marooned)
68 - Meredith Baxter-Birney, Ca, actress
(Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie)
68 - Michael Gross, actor (Family Ties, FBI
murders)
36 - Chris Pratt, TV actor
33 - Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, son
of Prince Charles & Lady Diana
32 - Edward Snowden, American NSA contractor
leaker
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Remembered for being born today
1851-1941@90 - Daniel Carter Beard, US, organized 1st
boy scout troop
1921-2011@89 - Jane Russell, Bemidji MN, full-figured
actress (Outlaw)
1639-1723@84 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan
minister
1925-2006@80 - Maureen Stapleton, Troy NY, actress
(Airport, Coccoon)
1953-2007@54 - Benazir Bhutto, 1st female leader of a
Muslim nation (Pakistan)
1890-1959@69 - Frank Sherman Land, The order of
DeMolay founder
1774-1825@50 - Daniel D Tompkins, (D-R), 6th US
vice-president
1922-1965@43 - Judy Holliday, comedienne/actress (Born
Yesterday, Adam's Rib)
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Historical Obits Today
Bob Evans,
American restaurateur-2007@89
Leon Uris,
American writer (Exodus), renal failure-2003@78
Carroll
O'Connor, American actor (Archie Bunker), heart attack-2001@76
Bertha
von Suttner, Austrian writer\pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace
Prize-1914@71
Niccolo
Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author-1527@57
Maureen
"Little Mo" Connolly, 1st woman grand slam (1953), cancer-1969@34
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Brain Teasers Answers
Partridge in a pear tree
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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…§
