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Almanac: Week: 29 \ Day: 199
July Averages: 82°\50° Flash Flood
Watch
86004 Today: H 83° \ L 51° Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 23mph
Ave.
High: 82° Record High: 93° (2005) Ave. Low: 51° Record Low:
42° (1940)
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Observances Today:
Celebration
of The Horse Day
Flitch
Day
Global
Hug For Your Kids Day
National
Caviar Day
National
Get Out of the Doghouse Day
National
Hot Dog Day International
Nelson
Mandela International Day
Constitution
Day (Uruguay)
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Observances This Week:
Rabbit
Week: 15-21
National Baby Food Week: 15-18
National Ventriloquism Week:
15-18
National Moth Week: 18-26 (Last Full Wk)
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1743 - 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY
Weekly Journal)
1768 - Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty
Song", America's 1st patriotic song
1864 - President Lincoln asks for 500,000
volunteers for milt service
1922 - A huge 36-inch
lens was installed at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory.
1936 - Charles
"Lucky" Luciano is sentenced to 30 to 50 years in state
prison
1938 - Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan
arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
1952 - KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins
broadcasting
1964 - Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to
Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln)
1968 - The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa
Clara, California1980 - Federal
court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women
1994 - Crayola announces introduction of scented
crayons
2013 - Detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy to
become the largest US municipal bankruptcy at $18.5 Billion
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Today’s World Events through History
64 - Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero
1759 - British
Superintendent for Indian Affairs in the Southern Department, Edmund Atkins,
meets with Choctaws in
the upper Creek villages.
They sign a treaty which establishes trade, and a promise of mutual aid in case
of war. This treaty angers the Choctaw’s
former allies, the French.
1925 - Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
(original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle)
Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice")
1963 - The United Nations Special Committee on
Apartheid releases its second interim report pressing for international
sanctions against South Africa, particularly the supply of arms, ammunition and
petroleum
1972 - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat throws out
20,000 Russian military aids
1977 - Vietnam becomes member of UN
1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter
2012 - Kim Jong-un is officially appointed
Supreme Leader of North Korea
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Looks like a monsoon is about ready to hit…even the weather
service put us under a Flash Flood watch for most of the weekend. Yesterday,
just a few sprinkles here and then blue sky. Interesting to see what will
happen today.
I try to avoid shopping on weekends, including Fri. However today
I needed to pick up a few things. Ran into a good friend from Tuba and we
blocked the Gatorade isle for almost an hour. Then as I turn the corner a
former student who also worked for me at Navajo Mountain was shopping with his
wife…another 15 minutes catching up. During the conversation my phone rang and
another friend from Tuba was headed to my place. All in all it was nice to see
everybody.
I had texted Mary on Wed. morning, giving her a Flag update while
she was in Oregon. I got no reply so figured she was out on a boat or
something. Then yesterday, after our lunch I texted her with the ‘news’…read
gossip…from Cheryl. About 2 hours later she replied to let me know that on Wed.
she was walking in front of the beach house, fell and skinned her knee
(bandages) and broke her elbow (cast). This ‘getting old’ stuff is scary. Mary
just turned 69 and we had joked how she soon would be in need a cane…little did
we know she would need one in 2 weeks.
She is fine and should heal well.
Good spirits too.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
In China, teachers allow children to sleep in class for around 20
minutes to help improve their learning.
Water, electricity, and gas has been free in Turkmenistan since
1991.
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…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
50 YEARS
AGO-1965
The Flagstaff Police Department policy of checking hitchhikers has
reduced the city’s crime rate by over 50 percent. Officers on patrol make
routine checks of unfamiliar cars and of those driving them. In an average
month they find 13 AWOL military men, two military mental institution
deserters, and two escaped convicts. It is not possible to check all, but the
effort in making the arrests allows for routine FBI checks. Chief of Police
Elmo E. Maxwell.
After 0.91 inches of rain fell on Saturday, all forest closures in
the area have been lifted. Regional Forester Fred Kennedy.
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…Harper’s Index…
20 –
percentage by which a white patient with back pain is more likely that a black
patient to be given a prescription for opioids
67 – than a Hispanic
patient
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… USA Facts…
In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy
weather affected cloud computing.
In Colorado, USA, there's a small town called Dinosaur. Some of
its street names include Brontosaurus Blvd, Brontosaurus Bypass, Stegosaurus Freeway,
and Tyrannosaurus Trail.
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…Unusual Fact of the
Day…
Tire mogul Harvey Firestone gave President Calvin Coolidge a pygmy
hippopotamus in 1927. Today, many of the pygmy hippos in US zoos are that one's
descendants.
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2 jokes for the day
Panting and perspiring, two men on a tandem
bicycle at last got to the top of a steep hill.
“That was a stiff climb,” said the first man. “It certainly was,” replied the
second man.
“And if I hadn’t kept the brake on, we would have slid down backward.”
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When the fellow called a motel and asked how
much they charged for a room, the clerk told him that the rates depended on
room size and number of people.
"Do you take children?' the man asked.
"No, sir" replied the clerk. "only cash and credit cards."
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Yep, It Really
Happened
I am reminded of the video of the camper who was so stunned by the
appearance of a double rainbow that all he could say was, "Whoa...oh, my
God! What does it mean? What does it mean?"
But instead of a meteorological phenomenon I am stunned and
mystified by the appearance of hundreds of dildos hanging from the power and
phone lines around Portland, Oregon.
The large white and bright orange dildos appear to have been
strung together in pairs, and flung across line above a number of major
commercial streets.
Portlanders have been speculating about their origins. Maybe the
gay mafia finally making its presence known?
"You could spot them in several intersections and you could
see all sorts of reactions to them," said one Portland resident.
"Some would blush, others would laugh, and most would take photos."
A spokesman for public utility Portland General Electric said he
did not believe the rubber products posed a fire hazard.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
LOS
ALAMOS, N.M. (UPI) - Plutonium is definitely a metal. But unlike all other
metals, it cares little for magnets and their so-called magnetism. In fairness,
magnets care little for plutonium and its standoffishness.
But why don't magnets and plutonium get along? Scientists have been befuddled
by the absence of attraction for some time. New research, however, has revealed
an answer. The key to their disassociation lies in metal's electrons.
Electrons circle the nucleus of an atom in shells or orbitals, some closer and
some slightly farther out. Each shell has a maximum number of electrons it can
contain. For metals, the max capacity of their atoms' outer shell is fixed.
In a stable, grounded state (uninfluenced by heat, electricity or other outside
forces), the number of electrons in metals like copper and iron is always the
same.
But when scientists took a closer look at the outer orbitals of plutonium
atoms, using a method called neutron spectroscopy, they found a less
predictable population of electrons -- sometimes four, sometimes five,
sometimes six, sometimes more.
The constantly rotating cast of outer electrons make it impossible for
plutonium and its unpaired electrons to line up with an abutting magnetic
field.
The discovery proves that plutonium's magnetism is not necessarily missing,
only sporadic; it also explains why the metal is so unstable.
"It provides a natural explanation for plutonium's complex properties and
in particular the large sensitivity of its volume to small changes in
temperature or pressure," Marc Janoschek, a researcher the Department of
Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, said in a press release.
Janoschek is the lead author of a new paper on the discovery, published in the
journal Science Advances.
More than just revealing plutonium's atomic secrets, the new research will help
scientists more accurately predict and model the behavior of new materials.
"A predictive theory of materials is a big deal because we eventually will
be able to simulate and predict properties of materials on a computer,"
Gabriel Kotliar, a physics professor at Rutgers, told LiveScience. "For
radioactive materials like plutonium, that's a lot cheaper than doing an actual
experiment."
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Birthdays Today
94 - John H Glenn Jr, Cambridge OH, astronaut
(Mer 7, sk:STS 95)/(Sen-D-Oh)
78 - Roald Hoffman, Polish-born chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
75 - James Brolin, actor (Dr Kiley-Marcus
Welby, Peter-Hotel)
74 - Martha Reeves, singer (&
Vandellas-Dancing in St)
65 - Richard Branson, British music
enterperneur (Virgin Atlantic)
61 - Ricky Skaggs, Cordell Ky, country
singer (Heartbroke, Toy Hearts)
58 - Nick Faldo, English golfer (six-time
Major Championship winner)
51 - Wendy Williams, radio host
48 - Vin Diesel (Mark Sinclair), American
actor
44 - Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway, NBA guard
(Orlando, Oly-gold-96)
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Nelson
Mandela, Qunu South Africa, political prisoner (ANC)/President/Nobel
(1993)-2013@95
Hume
Cronyn, London Ontario, actor (World According to Garp, Cocoon)-2003@91
Harriet
Nelson, singer/actress (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet)-1994@85
S I
Hayakawa, (Sen-R-CA), educator (Language in Action)-1992@85
Red
Skelton, [Richard], Vincennes Ind, comedian (Red Skelton Show)-1997@84
Andrei
Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President-1989@79
Chill
Wills, Seagoville Texas, actor (Fronteir Circus, Rounders)-1978@76
Marvin
Miller, St Louis Mo, actor (Millionaire)-1985@71
Charles
Wilson, Pres of General Motors (1940-53)/Sec of Def -1961@71
George Machine Gun Kelly [Georgio
Barnes], American gangster-1954@59
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Historical Obits Today
William
Westmoreland, American military officer 2005@91
Thomas
Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook & Son)-1892@83
Eugene
Shoemaker, astronomer (Shoemaker-Levy comet), auto accident-1997@69
Benito
Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), heart attack-1872@66
George Machine Gun Kelly,
American gangster, heart attack on b-day-1954@59
John Paul
Jones, American naval commander-kidney failure-1792@45
Jane Austen
,
English novelist, lymphoma-1817@41
Bobby
Fuller, rock singer and guitarist (I Fought the Law), suicide?-1966@23
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Brain Teasers Answers
Eleanor Roosevelt
'L' in 'or'
rows of 'elt'
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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…§
