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Almanac: Week: 29 \ Day: 196
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 81° \ L 53° Average Sky Cover: 45%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 21mph
Ave.
High: 83° Record High: 92° (1970) Ave. Low: 50° Record Low:
38° (1905)
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Observances Today:
Be
A Dork Day
Gummi
Worm Day
National
Pet Fire Safety Day
Saint
Swithin's Day-today’s weather is the weather for the next 40 days
Take
Your Poet To Work Week
Tapioca
Pudding Day
Ramadan
(Islam)
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Observances This Week:
Sports
Cliché Week: 12-16
Rabbit Week: 15-21
National Baby Food Week: 15-18
National Ventriloquism Week:
15-18
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1741 - Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast
Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to
visit Alaska.
1806 - Zebulon Pike begins the Osage River
Expedition with twenty-three whites, and fifty-one Osage and Pawnee.
1830 - Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, sign
fourth Treaty of Prairie du Chien giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa &
Missouri
1862 - Advance troops of
the U.S. Army's California Column were ambushed in Apache Pass by a group of
Chiricahua Apaches led by Cochise (Cheis) and Mangas Coloradas (Dasoda-hae).
The Apaches were finally driven off, but they surrounded the spring in the
pass, keeping the troops from the water. The Apache warriors were finally
dislodged from the rocks around the spring with the use of howitzers -- weapons
they had never seen before.
1870 - Georgia becomes last confederate to be
readmitted to US
1904 - 1st Buddhist temple in US forms, Los Angeles
1915 - The head of German propaganda in the US, Dr
Heinrich Albert, loses his briefcase on a subway in New York City; an
examination of its content reveals an extensive network of German espionage and
subversion across the US
1932 - President Hoover cuts own salary
15%
1933 - Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world
1934 - Continental Airlines commences operations.
1959 - The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to
significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States
history.
1964 - Barry M Goldwater (Sen-R-Az) nominated for
president by Republicans
1971
- Pres Nixon announces he would visit People's
Rep of China
1975 - Soyuz 19 & Apollo 18 launched; will
rendezvous 2 days later
1996 - MSNBC begins Microsoft internet-NBC TV
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Today’s World Events through History
1099 - City of Jerusalem is captured\plundered by
Christian forces during 1st Crusade
1662 - King Charles II charters Royal
Society in London
1799 - The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian
village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's
Egyptian Campaign.
1869 - Margarine is patented by Hippolye
Méga-Mouriès for use by French Navy
1870 - Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province &
NW Territories created
1912 - British National Health Insurance Act goes
into effect
1914 - Mexican president Huerta flees with 2
million pesos to Europe
1948 - Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain
1961 - Spain accepts equal rights for men &
women
1992 - The Security Council of the UN examine
violence in South Africa
1994 - Hundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire
in the Congo near the end of the Rwandan Genocide
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice day, nice monsoon last night. The kids in the neighborhood
are usually skateboarding until about 10p every night. Not a big distraction,
but realize they are outside when the windows are open. Last night the rain hit
about 8p and I have to say it chased all the kids inside about 7p and the
pounding rain and silence was very enjoyable.
Major ‘staples’ shopping today. It happens about once a month or
so. Amazed how much stuff I use at my house.
Political thought of the day: Brains are awesome. I wish everyone
had one.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Art
is to be appreciated from afar, rarely touched, and certainly never altered
from the artist's original vision. One would never pencil in eyebrows on the
Mona Lisa or dare to bolt mannequin arms to the Venus de Milo.
Yet, despite all this, there is a well-known piece of art that has been
blatantly defaced. What is even stranger is that the offending defacer, though
he meant to do his nasty work, did not WANT to. His identity was known, yet he
was never arrested and never punished. Quite the opposite, his defacement was
encouraged by the highest of powers in his day.
What is the piece of art?
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
The world's tallest snowman was created in Bethel, Maine in 2008.
It measured in at 122 feet / 1 inch and weighed 13,000,000 lbs.
Nachos were actually invented by a guy named Nacho. Happy Nacho
Day!
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…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
75 YEARS
AGO-1940
Friday morning the start whistle blew at Southwest Lumber Co. with
60 men employed on opening day. The regular scale of wages will be paid. The
pond is full of logs for the first time since 1938.
A truck with 15 speeds ahead, 6 speeds reverse, double
differential and carrying a total weight of 20 tons arrived here on Wednesday
along with two representatives from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Weights
and Measures Division, to check on the accuracy of heavy scales in our
community. Bert H. Unsaker, Arizona State Engineer.
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…Harper’s Index…
127 – factor by
which a Democratic senator is more likely than the average American to be a
lawyer.
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… Relationship Fact…
Historically, sweat has been an active ingredient in perfume and
love potions.
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…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
West Virginia is no longer the coal-mining capital of the U.S.;
nine of the ten top-producing coal mines are located in Wyoming.
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2 jokes for the day
How do fireflies lose weight?
They burn calories.
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Dear Dad, $chool i$ really great. I am making
lot$ of friend$ and $tudying very hard. With all my $tuff, I $imply can`t think
of anything I need. $o if you would like, you can ju$t $end me a card, a$ I
would love to hear from you.
Love, Your $on
The Reply:
Dear Son,
I kNOw that astroNOmy, ecoNOmics, and oceaNOgraphy are eNOugh to keep even an
hoNOr student busy. Do NOt forget that the pursuit of kNOwledge is a NOble
task, and you can never study eNOugh.
Love, Dad
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Yep, It Really
Happened
Wall
Street Journal - The enormous compensation CEOs of large corporations receive is
justified in part by their bringing prosperity to their shareholders, but last
year (an excellent one for most investors), two of the nation's best-paid chief
executives "earned" handsome raises despite presiding over losses:
Philippe Dauman of Viacom Inc. (paid $44.3 million, stock lost 6.6 percent) and
Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric (an 88 percent raise to $37.3 million, stock
lost 6.7 percent). CEO Steven Newman of Transocean earned only $14.2 million,
according to a June Wall Street Journal report, but that was a 2.2 percent
boost -- for stewardship that resulted in one of 2014's biggest flops --
Transocean's 59.9 percent loss for its shareholders.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
The
“Stomp-stomp-clap” in Queen’s “We Will Rock You” was not part of the original
song. Can you guess why it was included in the end?
It
was added to match what the crowd did during early performances of the song,
according to npr.org.
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Iceland’s
slogan is “Come Find Yourself”, but do you know the story behind this choice?
Iceland’s
slogan “Come Find Yourself” came around after a tourist joined her own search
party throughout a weekend, according to toostupid.org.
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Can
you guess which is safer between these two kinds of boxing?
Bare
knuckle boxing is bloodier and looks more violent but is actually far safer
than boxing using gloves, according to twentytwowords.com.
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Birthdays Today
76 - Patrick Wayne, actor (Rounder, Shirley,
Beyond Atlantis)
71 - Jan-Michael Vincent, Denver, CO, actor
(Hooper,)
69 - Linda Ronstadt, Tucson Az, singer (Dif
Drum)/actress (Pir of Penzance)
65 - Arianna Huffington, Greek-born author, creator
of The Huffington Post
64 - Jesse "The Body" Ventura, wrestler/actor/Governor
55 - Kim Alexis, supermodel (Sports
Illustrated swimsuit cover) and actress
54 - Forest Whitaker, Longview TX, actor
(Bloodsport, Platoon, Stakeout)
52 - Brigitte Nielsen, Eisinore Denmark,
actress (Red Sonja, Rocky IV)
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Clement Clarke Moore, US, author ('Twas the Night
Before Xmas)-1863@83
Inigo
Jones, architect (Old St Paul's Cathedral, Coven Garden)-1652@78
Alex
Karras, NFLer (Detroit Lions)/actor (George-Webster)-2012@77
Maggie Mitchell Walker, 1st woman bank director/philanthropist-1934@70
Rembrandt van Rijn,
Leiden Netherlands, painter (Night Watch)-1669@63
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Historical Obits Today
Celeste
Holm, American actress (Gentleman's Agreement)-2012@95
Robert H.
Brooks, founder of Hooters of America-heart attack-2006@69
Bert
Convy, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw)-brain tumor-1991@57
Gianni
Versace, fashion designer, shot to death-1997@50
Tom Thumb, famous
small person (40"), stroke-1883@44
Anton
Chekhov, Russian writer (Uncle Vanya)-TB-1904@44
John Ball, English
priest/ideologist of Boer uprising, hanged-1381@42ish
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Brain Teasers Answers
The work in question is Michelangelo's "Last Judgment"
in the Sistine Chapel. The fresco depicts the Earth, Heaven, and Hell. The
figures are of various saints, all bearing the instruments of their deaths.
These figures, each and every one, is entirely nude. Or at least they WERE.
Michelangelo originally painted every figure completely naked, saying that in the
end times the fresco represents, there would be no secrets, nothing would be
unknown.
These nude figures caused quite a stir even before the final masterpiece was
revealed. Many called it shocking and obscene, but it wasn't until 23 years
later that anything was done. Pope Pius IV brought in Daniele da Volterra, one
of Michelangelo's students, against his will to cover up the objectionable
parts with painted cloths.
Some of the cloths have since been professionally removed, but the debate over
the decency of the painting continues to this day.
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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…§
