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Almanac: Week: 26 \ Day: 175
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 93°\L 56° Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind
ave: 2mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave. High: 81° Record High: 94°
(1974) Ave. Low: 44° Record
Low: 32° (1975)
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Observances Today:
Celebration of the Senses
International Fairy Day or Faerie
Day
Museum Comes To Life Day
Take Your Dog to Work Day
Windjammer Days
John's Day (Latvia-summer solstice festival)
Macau Day (China-1622-battle stopped
Dutch takeover)
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Observances This Week:
Meet A Mate Week:21-27
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week:21-27
Old Time Fiddlers Week:22-27
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week:22-28
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1610 - Membertou (MICMAC) becomes the 1st Indian
Catholic.
1664 - The
colony of New Jersey is founded.
1841 - Fordham
University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
1853 - Gadsden
Purchase 29,670-square-mile (76,800 square km) from Mexico (now southern
Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Pierce
1861 - Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to
secede from Union
1916 - Mary
Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar
contract.
1947 - Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by
pilot Ken Arnold
1949 - "Hopalong
Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
1957 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is
not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States.
1970 - US Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1972 - Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory
of US (US Air Force)
1982 - Equal
Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
1982 - US Supreme Court rules president can't be
sued for actions in office
1993 - Yale computer science professor Dr. David
Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his
right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
2004 - Capital
punishment is declared unconstitutional in New York
2006 - "Pirates
of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", premieres at Disneyland - becomes
fastest film to gross over 1 billion
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Today’s World Events through History
1314 - Battle
of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
1441 - Eton
College founded by Henry VI
1497 - John
Cabot claims Eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova
Scotia)
1509 - Henry
VIII is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey
1540 - English
King Henry VIII commands his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves, to leave
the court
1692 - Kingston,
Jamaica, founded
1748 - The
Kingswood School is opened by John Wesley and his brother Charles
Wesley in Bristol. The school later moved to Bath.
1880 - First
performance of "O Canada," the song that would become the national
anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
1894 - Decision
to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1901 - 1st
exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris
1948 - Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade
1972 - The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill 3
British Army soldiers in a land mine attack near Dungiven, County Derry
2012 - Mohamed Morsi
of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another hot day with only a slight breeze. Not many kids out and
about around here.
Stayed up a little late last night…Netflix…If you have it, check
out Sense8. It’s a very strange series.
So I guess we all have a lot to learn about prison in today’s
world. Those 2 guys who escaped had metal instruments smuggled into the prison
in ‘hamburger meat’. So I guess a guy who is in a maximum security prison can
cook his own food…really? I watched those old b/w prison movies when the girl
friend would sneak a file into her boyfriend baked in a cake. I saw lots of
cartoons with that scenario too. From the cartoons, it never worked. Who needs visitors
in prison when the guards and civilian workers help you escape? And why are
civilian workers, a seamstress, having any contact with prisoners without
guards watching? So much to learn.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Emperor
Akbar once ruled over India. He was a wise and intelligent ruler, and he had in
his court the Nine Gems, his nine advisors, who were each known for a
particular skill. One of these Gems was Birbal, known for his wit and wisdom.
The story below is one of the examples of his wit. Do you have it in you to
find out the answer?
There was once a blacksmith who used to make spears and shields. He came to
Emperor Akbar's court and claimed - "Your Majesty, nobody can make shields
and spears like mine. My shields are so strong that nothing can pierce them and
my spears are so sharp that there is nothing they cannot pierce."
On hearing this statement, Birbal immediately said, "You lie and I can
prove that you are lying." What did he find wrong with the man's statement?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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… America Facts…
The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim
breast implants as tax deductions.
91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
…Cool Facts…
A natural gas vent in Iraq known as The Eternal Fire has been
burning continuously for over 4,000 years, and is mentioned by Herodotus,
Plutarch, and in the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel.
Scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn't cause cavities.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
A metallic “party balloon“ filled with helium released at Leroux
and Aspen became entangled with electric power wires at about 9 p.m. Saturday
evening. This resulted in about 4,000 homes in the downtown area losing power
for about an hour. APS rerouted the electrical service and restored power with
a temporary rearrangement of wires and spent the next day returning things to
normal to avoid any further overloading of the wires.
This Saturday come to the Malpais Kiwanis Children’s Fishing Derby
at 8 am Thorpe Pond. Bring your own gear.
…Harper’s Index…
$380,000,000
–estimated minimum annual cost of fraudulent salaries paid to
Iraqi ‘ghost soldiers’
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
Here's Buddy Guy's complete Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
acceptance speech: "If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep
living."
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2 jokes for the day
Two drunks were staggering home along a
railway line. “This is the longest staircase I’ve ever climbed, moaned
one."
“It certainly is,” slurred his buddy. “And the banister’s so low my back is
killing me.”
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An elderly couple was in bed one night and the
woman woke up from a bad dream.
She was scared and panicking. Her husband awoke and turned the light on to calm
her. He asked what was wrong.
She said "I had a dream that I died and you got remarried." she asked
him "if I died tomorrow would you get remarried?"
He said "sure, I don’t want to spend the rest of my life lonely."
Then she asked "well would you two live in this house?"
He replied "sure, we just got finished paying off our mortgage."
She asked again, angry now "well would she sleep in this bed?"
He snickered and said "yes, of course, this bed is brand new and
expensive, there's no reason to rid of it."
She asked irately, "well would she use my golf clubs?"
He replied with a straight, serious face "No. She's left handed."
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Yep, It Really
Happened
Reuters - Researchers studying the
human-brain-eating Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea reported in a June journal
article that they have identified the specific "prion" resistance
gene that appears to offer complete protection against mad cow disease and perhaps
other neurodegenerative conditions such as dementias and Parkinson's. The tribe
customarily dined on relatives' brains at funerals (although has abandoned the
practice) and consequently suffered a major 1950s epidemic that wiped out 2
percent of the tribe annually. According to the lead researcher, survivors,
with the specific resistance gene, demonstrated "a striking example of
Darwinian evolution in humans."
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Somewhat Useless
Information
The
'dog days of summer' refer to the weeks between July 3 and August 11 and are
named after the Dog Star (Sirius) in the Canis Major constellation. The ancient
Greeks blamed Sirius for the hot temperatures, drought, discomfort, and
sickness that occurred during the summer.
Before
the Civil War, schools did not have summer vacation. In rural communities, kids
had school off during the spring planting and fall harvest while urban schools
were essentially year-round. The long summer holiday didn't come about until
the early 20th century.
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Birthday’s Today
92 - Jack Carter,
Brooklyn, comedian/actor (Amazing Dobermans, Octagon)
68 - Mick Fleetwood,
rock drummer (Fleetwood Mac-Go Your Own Way)
68 - Peter Weller, Stevens Point WI, actor
(Robocop, Of Unknown Origin)
59 - Joe Penny,
English TV actor (Riptide)
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Remembered for being born today
1895-1983@87 - Jack
Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", heavyweight boxing champion
1899-1981@83 - Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh
Nation, actor (Little Big Man)
1931-2015@83 - Billy
Casper, SD Ca, golfer, 3-time PGA Player of Year
1893-1971@78 - Roy
O. Disney, co-founder of the Walt Disney Company
1915-1990@75 - Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review)
1842-1914?@72 - Ambrose
Bierce, American writer\satirist (Devil's Dictionary)
1771-1834@63 - E
I Du Pont, France, chemist/scientist (Du Pont)
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Historical Obits Today
Eli
Wallach, American actor-2014@98
Rufino
Tamayo, Mexican painter-1991@91
Paul
Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist-2005@82
Charles D. Poston, "Father of
Arizona", heart attack-1902@77
Jackie
Gleason, comedian (Honeymooners), cancer-1987@71
Grover
Cleveland, 22nd & 24th US President, heart attack-1908@71
Sarah
Orne Jewett, American writer, stroke-1909@59
Carlos
Gardel, Argentine singer most prominent figure in tango, plane crash-1935@44
Chris
Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler, suicide-2007@40
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Brain Teasers Answers
Birbal told the man - "I can prove you wrong. Let's do a
simple test."
The man, supremely confident, agreed.
Birbal said smilingly - "OK, hold up one of your shields and I will pierce
it with one of your spears."
The man realized he had been outwitted because both his statements could never
be true at the same time. Only one of his statements would hold true under any
situation. Shamed to silence, he quietly left the court.
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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…§
