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Almanac: Week: 30 \ Day:
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 81° \ L 50° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 21mph
Ave.
High: 82° Record High: 92° (1996) Ave. Low: 51° Record
Low: 39° (1995)
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Observances Today:
Amelia
Earhart Day
Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Pioneer Day
Cousins
Day
Lumberjack
Days
National
Drive-Thru Day
National
Tell An Old Joke Day
National
Tequila Day
Parents'
Day
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Observances This Week:
National
Moth Week: 18-26
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 19-25
Captive Nations Week: 19-25
Comi Great Texas Mosquitos Days: 23-25 (
Hemingway Look-alike Days: 23-26
World Lumberjack Championships: 23-25
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1683 - 1st
settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord
1701 - Antoine de
la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft Pontchartrain, which later becomes
the city of Detroit
1824 - Harrisburg
Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear
lead for Andrew Jackson
1847 - Brigham
Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT
1847 - Rotary-type printing press patents by
Richard March Hoe, NYC
1866 - Tennessee
becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union
1870 - 1st
trans-US rail service begins
1877 - 1st time
federal troops are used to combat strikers
1893 - For only
time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern
seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago
1898 - City of Globe, AZ
was extensively damaged by flood. The Silver King Saloon with its entire stock
of liquors and cigars was wrecked by flood waters as were many private homes.
Mines in the area suffered flooded and caved-in
1901 - O. Henry
is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for
embezzlement from a bank.
1908 - John
Hayes wins 4th Olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record)
1925 - John T
Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in the “Scopes monkey trial”, Dayton,
Tennessee, fined $100 & costs
1929 - NY to SF
foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
1934 - 1st
ptarmigan hatched & reared in captivity, Ithaca, NY
1937 - Alabama
drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
1938 - Instant
coffee invented
1952 - US President Harry Truman settles 53-day
steel strike
1959 - US VP Nixon
argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"1969 - Apollo 11 returns to Earth
1969 - Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing
induction in US Army on appeal
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Today’s World Events through History
1534 - Jacques
Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France
1567 - Mary
Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate; her 1-year-old son becomes King James
VI of Scots
1783 - Georgia
becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
1793 - France
passes 1st copyright law
1823 - Slavery
is abolished in Chile
1851 - Window
tax abolished in Britain
1911 - Hiram
Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas
1965 - Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling
Stone"
1967 - Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize
marijuana
2002 - On 200th anniversary of his birth French
author Alexandre Dumas' ('The Three Musketeers') ashes are interred in the
Panthéon in Paris in a televised ceremony.
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great lunch on the restaurants patio. Not a lot happening with
Cheryl. We are both having a nice quiet summer.
A lot of people believe anything and everything they read…even on
the internet machine. I read a lot of stuff on the internet and especially on
FB that is just crazy. It is becoming more and more cumbersome to check it out
for some kind of truth. When I find a FB post or an email that seems
outrageous, I check it out, and then send an IM to the ‘friend’ who posted it
with links to the truth. Several times recently I have seen something, checked
it out and notified the person who posted it. Today I did that on a Diane Feinstein
quote someone posted. Snopes said the quote was false because it was from a now
defunct satirical web newspaper. I sent an IM to the person. She responded that
Snopes is a liberal website that cannot be trusted and she stands by her post.
Really? I believe you never argue with an idiot because you can never win and
it lowers you to their level. So I didn’t respond. So unfortunate that there
are so many undereducated people on the internet machine…and that they are
spreading the falsehoods around the world.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Inside
each set of the following words, there are a pair of smaller words. By putting
& between them, lo & behold, you'll make a familiar phrase. For
example, "Thighbone/Swallowtail" conceals "High & Low."
1. Skyrocketing/Trolleyman
2. Thermometer/Apoplexy
3. Delaware/Bordering
4. Surprised/Trashiness
5. Throughout/Stumblebum
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station,
Japan, is a cat!
The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon River once
in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This
results in a continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
The U.S. Civil Service has compiled an exam for Power Plant
Switchboard Operators in the U. S. Quartermaster Corps War Department at Fort
Huachuca. It pays $2,000 per year less $180 for housing quarters, which are
supplied and an additional 3.5 percent for a retirement annuity. This sounds
like a very good employment opportunity.
The new potato sprayer bought by the Fort Valley Potato Sprayer
Association is now in operation. It sprays the newly developed dry lime sulfur
solution at high pressure. The solution is now made by just mixing it with
water. No more need to cook it. It will cover 25 acres per day drawn by a tractor
or 15 acres with a horse.
Thurs & Fri. No rain. There were only 5 forest fires
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…Harper’s Index…
0 – number
of sq miles of seabed in International waters that were under contract for
mining operation is 2000
463,323 – That are
today
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… USA Facts…
In March, 2014, Colorado sold $19 million dollars worth of
Cannabis. $1.9 million went to schools and crime fell by 10%.
Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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…Unusual Fact of the
Day…
Al Capone's brother was a cop.
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2 jokes for the day
Q: What did the first stoplight say to the
second stoplight?
A: Don’t look I’m changing!!
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Three Antartians were going on a hunting trip
one day.
They came to a high fence and saw a sign that said, "No Trespassing. All
violators will be shot!"
They ignored the sign's warning and climbed the fence anyway.
After they were over the fence (it was dark now), they saw a car's headlights
speeding toward them.
They remembered the sign's warning and scrambled up separate trees.
The driver, who was a farmer, said, "I know I saw someone climb one of
these trees." He went to the first tree and yelled, "Who's up
there?"
The first man was very silent and the farmer moved to the next tree. Again he
yelled, "Who's up there?"
The second man knew that the farmer would take a closer look this time, so he
said, "Whooo Whooo [like an owl]."
The farmer then went to the last tree thinking he could have made a mistake and
did not see anyone.
The farmer looked up in the next tree and said, "Who's up there?"
The third man then said confidently, "Mooooooooooooooo."
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Yep, It Really
Happened
EVESHAM,
England (UPI) - When the secretary of a members-only bar in Britain opened up
one day to find the premises trashed, he wasn't expecting the culprit to be a
squirrel, let alone a drunk one. Sam Boulter, 62, the secretary of the
Honeybourne Railway Club near Evesham in Worcestershire, told the BBC he found
the bar covered in beer and smashed glasses and beer bottles when he opened up
Sunday evening. After making the discovery, he said he saw a squirrel
"staggering around," coming out from behind a box of potato chips.
"There were bottles scattered around, money scattered around, and he had
obviously run across the bar's pumps and managed to turn on the Caffrey's
tap," Boulter said. "He must have flung himself on the handle and
drank some, as he was staggering around all over the place and moving a bit
slowly. "I've never seen a drunk squirrel before. He was sozzled and
looked a bit worse for wear, shall we say," he added. Boulter told the
Daily Mail he and two customers spent about an hour chasing around the
squirrel, trying to get him out of the bar. He eventually caught the rodent in
a trash can and let him go out a window. He said the squirrel's antics cost the
bar about $470 in damage. "He is the rowdiest customer we have ever had
but I hope he enjoyed his lock-in," Boulter said.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
White
rice, wild, jasmine, arborio and basmati rice all keep forever so there's no need
to throw them out. Brown rice is the one exception because it has a higher oil
content so store it in the refrigerator or freeze it to maximize its shelf
life. Once you've opened a bag or box of rice, move it to an airtight container
or resealable freezer bag to keep it fresh.
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Honey.
Whether you use it in your tea, on your toast or as an alternative sweetener,
that jar of pure honey is good forever. It may get grainy or change color, but
it's still safe to eat - and delicious - because its antibiotic properties keep
it from spoiling.
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Birthdays Today
79 - Mark Goddard,
Lowell Mass, actor (Don West-Lost in Space)
79 - Ruth Buzzi, Westerly RI, comedienne
(Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl)
68 - Robert Hays, Bethesda Md, actor
(Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous)
64 - Lynda Carter, Phoenix Az, Miss USA
(1973)/actress (Wonder Woman)
58 - Pam Tills, Country music artist
47 - Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and
actress
46 - Jennifer Lopez,
Bronx, actress and pop singer (Selena)
33 - Anna Paquin,
oscar winning actress (Piano)
17 - Bindi Irwin,
Australian entertainer; daughter of Steve Irwin
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Robert
Graves, writer/poet (I Claudius)-1985@90
Chief Dan
George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, actor (Little Big Man)-1981@82
Bella
Abzug, (Rep-D-NY, 1970-74)-1998@77
Alexandre
Dumas, Aisne France, author ('The Three Musketeers', 'The Count of
Monte Cristo')-1870-68
Simón
BolÃvar, Caracas, Venezuela, political and military leader (freed 6 Latin
American republics from Spanish rule)-1830@47
Amelia
Earhart, Atchison Kansas, aviator (1st woman to solo Atlantic)-1937@41
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Historical Obits Today
William J
Brennan, supreme court justice (1956-90)-1997@91
Martin
Van Buren, 8th US president (1837-41)-heart failure-1862@79
Chad
Everett, actor (Medical Center), lung cancer-2012@75
Sherman
Hemsley, Actor (The Jeffersons), cancer-2012@74
Constance
Bennett, actress (Madame X, Topper), stroke-1965@60
Peter
Sellers, actor (Pink Panther, Mouse that Roared), heart attack-1980@54
Vicente
Acosta, Salvadoran poet-1908@41
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Rock & Roll
2. Mom & Pop
3. Law & Order
4. Rise & Shine
5. Rough & Tumble
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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.
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