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Almanac: Week: 27 \ Day: 183
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 90°\L 59° Average Sky Cover: 55%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 16mph
Ave.
High: 82° Record High: 91° (1990) Ave. Low: 47° Record Low:
34° (1997)
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Observances Today:
I
Forgot Day
Made
In The USA Day
UN
International Day of Cooperatives
World
UFO Day
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Palio
(Italy-horse race)
Ramadan
(Islam)
Tour
De France (France)
Visitation
Of The Virgin Mary Day (Christian)
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Observances This Week:
National
Unassisted Homebirth Week: 1-7
Beans and Bacon Days: 1-5
National Tom Sawyer Days: 2-5 (aka Fence Painting Days)
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1613 – 1st
English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall.
1679 - Europeans
first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by
Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
1843 - An
alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, SC
1850 - Benjamin
Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus
1862 - Lincoln
signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges
1863 - Battle
of Gettysburg (2nd day)
1867 - 1st US
elevated railroad begins service, NYC
1881 - US
President James Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau a disappointed
office-seeker; Garfield died 79 days later
1926 - US Army
Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized
1937 - Amelia
Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean
1955 - "Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on
ABC
1972 - "Fiddler
on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 perfs
1976 - Supreme Court rules death penalty not
inherently cruel or unusual
1979 - Susan B.
Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman
2001 - Bush Administration announce that it will
seek to let oil companies drill on about 1,500,000 acres of the Gulf of Mexico
2002 - Steve
Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a
balloon.
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Today’s World Events through History
1505 - After an
encounter with a violent thunderstorm, Martin Luther declares that he will
become a monk
1698 - Thomas
Savery patents the first steam engine
1787 - Marquis
de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered
1839 - Slaves
aboard a Spanish schooner La Amistad revolt to secure their freedom while being
transported from one Cuban port to another
1865 - One-time
Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine found the
Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation) as the East London Christian Mission
1916 - Lenin says
Imperialism is caused by capitalism
1970 - The Prevention of Incitement to Hatred Act
(Northern Ireland) is introduced; it proved difficult to secure convictions
under its provisions and was seldom enforced
1976 - Formal reunification of North & South
Vietnam
1990 - Panic in tunnel of Mecca: 1,426 pilgrims
trampled to death
1993 - Muslim fundamentalists in Sivas, Turkey, set
hotel on fire, kill 36
1998 - "Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" the 2nd book in the series is published
by Bloomsbury in the UK
2000 - Vicente Fox Quesada
is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido
Acción Nacional after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido
Revolucionario Institucional.
2013 - 16
people are killed and 200 are injured in protest clashes at Cairo University
against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Technology…can’t live without it; can’t understand it. So while
running errands today I pick up a new inexpensive TV for my office. Come home
and hook it up. The TV has a screen that leads you through the whole process…cool.
After the setup is complete I have no picture, but do see the cable box menu on
the screen, just where it should be. What could it be? Have an extra HDMI cable
and try it…now everything works. So the lightning the other night did not blow
out the TV, it messed up the HDMI cable. Now I have an extra TV. Bummer.
An afternoon monsoon cooled down the neighborhood fairly quickly.
Nice.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Unscramble
the words below, then take the letters from each word as instructed to form
another word that is the answer to this teaser:
DOD Take letter 1
ONRUM Take letters 1,2 & 5
CROSITH Take letters 1,2 & 3
ERVNE Take letters 1,2
Unscramble the letters you collected... what do you get?
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and
the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping
"wings" attached to their arms.
Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep
Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
25 YEARS
AGO-1990
Mayor Christopher Bavasi is asking for voluntary water
conservation by limiting lawn watering to alternate days. Three $100 dollar 1st
prizes, two 2nd prizes of $150 and one 3rd Prize of $50 are to be awarded for
the most creative landscaping that conserves water. Be quick, there is only one
week to apply.
The water situation at Lake Mary has become precarious, with only
12 percent of its capacity filled against a normal 60-70 percent at this time
of year. Our current needs are being filled by pumping from the Lake Mary wells
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…Harper’s Index…
12 – Estimated
number of Indian surveillance agents assigned to the wife of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
0 –
estimated number of times Modi has seen his wife in the past three decades
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… Relationship Facts…
There's a Japanese artist and designer who makes wedding rings
embedded with the sound waves for "I do".
Women are more attracted to men with a stronger sense of humor
because they interpret it to signify intelligence and honesty.
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…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
Gureng-gureng, Gabi-Gabi, Waga-Waga, Wemba-Wemba, and Yitha-Yitha
are all names of native Australian languages.
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2 jokes for the day
While visiting Annapolis, a lady tourist
noticed several students on their hands and knees assessing the courtyard with
pencils and clipboards in hand.
"What are they doing?" she asked the tour guide.
"Each year," he replied with a grin, "the upperclassmen ask the
freshmen how many bricks it took to finish paving this courtyard."
When they were out of earshot of the freshmen, the curious lady asked the
guide: "So, what's the answer?"
The guide replied: "One."
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As a jet was flying over Arizona on a clear
day, the copilot was providing his passengers with a running commentary about
landmarks over the PA system.
"Coming up on the right, you can see the Meteor Crater, which is a major
tourist attraction in northern Arizona. It was formed when a lump of nickel and
iron, roughly 150 feet in diameter and weighing 300,000 tons, struck the earth
50,000 years ago at about 40,000 miles an hour, scattering white-hot debris for
miles in every direction. The hole measures nearly a mile across and is 570
feet deep."
The lady sitting next to me exclaimed: "Wow, look! It just missed the
highway!"
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Yep, It Really
Happened
DETROIT
(UPI) - Authorities in Detroit struggled to remove a pig estimated to
weigh between 400 and 500 pounds from the basement of a recently deceased man,
according to reports. Police arrived at the home Friday morning after receiving
an anonymous tip that a pig inside the dwelling was being fed human remains.
Officers discovered a pig was trapped in the basement of the house, which was
accessible only by ladder. "No pun intended but it looks like a
pigsty," Assistant Police Chief Steve Dolunt told WXYZ. "There's two
feet of feces down there." Animal rescue workers built a ramp for the
animal and, with some difficulty, were eventually able to get the pig out of
the basement. Police say cadaver dogs were unable to find evidence of human
remains. Neighbors say the homeowner was Gary Roquemore, who owned multiple
houses on the block and was found dead in a nearby residence earlier in the
week. Police did not identify Roquemore but said the pig's owner died of
natural causes on Tuesday. "There is a stench emanating from all three
homes," Dolunt said. "It looks like at this time, preliminarily, this
is a hoarder, so we can't tell what we have in all three homes." The pig
was originally slated to go to a farm in Canton, Michigan but was deemed too
large. Animal rescue group Devoted Barn reportedly adopted the animal.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Independence
Day was formally declared on July 2, 1776, when Congress approved the final
text of the Declaration. It was not signed until August 2, 1776.
Three of the first five presidents died on the Fourth of July. Two of them,
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, died on the same day in 1826, which possibly
dampened the celebrations somewhat. James Monroe, the fifth president, died
five years later in 1831.
John Hancock, president of the Second Continental Congress, signed the
declaration first, and his vast, elaborate signature left little room for the
others. The autograph became so famous that the term 'John Hancock' is still
used as a synonym for signature in America today.
Fourth of July celebrations became more common as years passed. In 1870,
Congress declared July 4 to be an unpaid national holiday for federal
employees. In 1938, Congress changed the legislation to be a paid federal
holiday.
Around 900 copies of the Declaration were created by printer John Dunlap. Only
26 copies, referred to as "The Dunlap Broadsides" are left: 21 are
owned by American institutions, two by British institutions and three are
privately owned.
Robert Livingston, a member of the Provincial congress of New York, was one of
the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence - but was recalled by
his state before he was able to sign it, and missed out on his place in
history.
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Birthdays Today
86 - Imelda
Marcos, politician/shoe collector/former 1st lady of Philippines
78 - Polly Holliday, Jasper Ala, actress
(Flo-Alice, Flo-Flo)
73 - Vicente Fox, Former Mexican president
68 - Larry David,
Brooklyn NY, actor/comedian/writer (Seinfeld)
56 - Wendy B Lawrence, Jacksonville Fla,
astronaut (STS 67, 86, sk:91)
51 - Jose Canseco, Havana Cuba, outfielder
(Oak A's, Red Sox, 1988 AL MVP)
31 - Johnny Weir, American figure skater
29 - Lindsay
Lohan, Disney actress
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Hermann
Hesse, Switzerland, novelist (Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946), 1962@85
Thurgood
Marshall, 1st African American Supreme Court justice 1993@84
Barry
Gray, [Bernard Yaroslaw], interviewer (started call-in radio) 1996@80
Brock
Peters, actor/singer (Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird) 2005@78
Ken
Curtis, [Curtis Gates], Lamar CO, actor (Festus-Gunsmoke) 1991@74
Dave
Thomas, founder (Wendy's Restaurants) 2002@69
Dan Rowan, Beggs,
Oklahoma, comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in) 1987@65
Ralph
Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center) 1950@57
Thomas
Anderson, Scottish Chemist (discovered pyridine structurally related to
benzene) 1874@55
Patrice E
Lumumba, Zaire, revolutionary/1st premier of Congo 1961@35
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Historical Obits Today
Jimmy
Stewart, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life)-1997@89
Olivier
de Serres, French farming pioneer (silkworms)-1619@80
Beverly
Sills, American operatic soprano, cancer-2007@78
Mario
Puzo, American author, heart failure-1999@78
Nostradamus, [Michel
de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist, dropsy-1566@62
Robert "Bobbie" Peel,
British PM/founder London Police-1850@62
Ernest
Hemingway, author\Nobel laureate, suicide-1961@61
Betty
Grable, US actress (How to Marry a Millionaire), cancer-1973@56
Lee
Remick, actress (Days of Wine & Roses), cancer-1991@55
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Brain Teasers Answers
DOD Take letter 1 - ODD, take O
ONRUM Take letters 1,2 & 5 - MOURN, take M,O,N
CROSITH Take letters 1,2 & 3 - OSTRICH, take OST
ERVNE Take letters 1,2 - NEVER, take N,E
Unscramble the above to get 'Moonstone'.
The Moonstone is known because of the way it catches the light and gives out a
mystical gleam. The way the light appears changes as you change the position of
the moonstone. In ancient times, these changes to the glowing gem was
associated with the waxing and waning of the moon.
Moonstone is the perfect choice for soft, sensuous, feminine jeweler because of
its beautiful glow.
In different cultures, the moonstone represents various things. In India, it is
believed to bring sweet dreams. In Arab countries, it is a symbol of fertility.
It is also believed to enhance feelings of intuition and sensitivity.
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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…§
