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Almanac: Week: 30 \ Day: 207
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 85° \ L 52° Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts: 21mph
Ave.
High: 82° Record High: 92° (1935) Ave. Low: 51° Record
Low: 40° (1913)
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Observances Today:
All
or Nothing Day
Aunt
and Uncle Day
Aunties
Day
One
Voice-to
amplify Israel and Palestine voices
Paddle
for Perthes Disease Awareness Day
Parents'
Day
Ratification
Day (New York-1788-11th
to ratify constitution)
Independence
Day (Liberia-1847
from American Colonization Society)
Independence
Day (Maldives-1965
from UK)
National
Day (Cuba-1953
rebellion)
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Observances This Week:
AFRMA Fancy Rat & Mouse Week ->8/1
National Parenting Gifted Children Week
->26
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1579 - Francis
Drake leaves San Francisco to cross Pacific Ocean
1775 - United
States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin
1835 - 1st
sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
1844 - Mariano Samaniego,
southern Arizona freighter, cattleman and operator of the stage line from Tucson
to Oro Blanco, who became a citizen of the United States under the terms of the
Gadsden Purchase, was born
1848 - 1st
Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)
1878 - In
California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart"
makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo
stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.
1903 - 1st
automobile trip across the United States (SF-NY) completed
1908 - United
States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately
staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of
Investigation).
1917 - J. Edgar
Hoover gets job in US Department of Justice
1926 - National
Bar Association incorporates
1946 - President
Harry Truman orders desegregation of all US forces
1947 - National Security Act establishes CIA
1953 - Arizona
Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on
residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
1959 - Betsy
Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open
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World Historical Highlights for Today
657 - Battle
of Siffin during the first Muslim civil war between Ali ibn Abi Talib and
Muawiyah I beside Euphrates River
1519 - Francisco
Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America
1529 - Francisco
Pizarro appointed governor of Peru
1656 - Dutch
painter Rembrandt van Rijn declares he is insolvent
1803 - The
Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south
London.
1805 - Naples/Calabria
struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die
1858 - Baron
Lionel de Rothschild becomes first Jewish person elected to British Parliament
1865 - The capital of New Zealand moves from
Auckland to Wellington
1887 - 1st
Esperanto book published
1953 - Fidel Castro begins
rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's
regime
2005 - Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17
inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
2014 - The Chinese
government suspends the operations of a Shanghai meat dealer and has makes
arrests after the company sold out-of-date meat to fast food chains, including
McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great day, but no rain…clouds looked promising but no such luck.
Watching our President’s trip…so exciting to see him in Kenya and soon
Ethiopia. I’ve been to many of the places he is visiting. His trip is helping
educate our citizens and the world that Africa is a continent and Kenya and
Ethiopia are two of its 54 countries. He is also bringing along very rich
people who he hopes will bring business and trade to these two countries. Very
cool!
Email…Hillary…gov’t rules. This issue is not going to help her
campaign. When I was a Federal worker, I worked a lot with ‘Personnel’ on
issues regarding the employees I supervised. I had a real government e-mail
address as well as private email addresses. When a ‘sensitive’ matter was
involved—like disciplinary action—all the backup documentation as well as the
proposals and final action could not be emailed to another office…everything
had to be faxed. Both ends would have appreciated email since all our
information was on computers. But both ends had to print out the documents, fax
them on a secure fax line, and destroy the print outs. When a final decision
was issued, the letter was faxed, retyped by the secretary and given to me. She
destroyed the fax. The letter was issued, the employee signed it and the
original had to be mailed by USPS certified mail with signature to be filed at
the other end. It seemed a little crazy, but that’s what we did. When Hillary took the job as Sec. of State,
she knew the rules and chose not to follow them. The idea that her ‘personal
server’ was OK is just stupid. When her lapse to rules was discovered, she
could have saved herself lots of headaches by simply turning over the server.
By not doing that she left herself open to continuing questions. She is not
above the law. Sadly until the server is turned over, there will continue to be
conspiracy theories that will never go away, no matter what the outcome of the political
election.
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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. Gulliver/Clearness
2. Tragicomedy/Pentagon
3. Chinchilla/Magdalene
4. Terrestrial/Ecoterrorist
5. Thundershower/Intellectual
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
Mackinac Island, Michigan, has banned cars since 1898!
Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged
literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his
empire before they were even conquered.
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…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
The last obstacle to the widening of Butler Avenue from 40 feet to
72 feet has been resolved. The city will pay the appraised value of $60,000 to
the county, which will vacate their annex and relocate it to temporary quarters
in the old Jamison Henderson Building located just west of the intersection
with Enterprise.
Achievement tests show that Flagstaff students rate well above in
both the state and the national averages. Assistant Superintendent Lee Hager
says both the students and our city should be proud of their achievement.
On Friday the Two Guns Trading Post, which has been vacant and
heavily vandalized for about five years, was allowed to burn the ground by the
Doney Park firefighters as a cost-saving measure. Arson is suspected.
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…Harper’s Index…
8 – number of
years in the past decade in which the violent-crime rate in the US has fallen
10 –in which
the majority of Americans have believed that the crime rate is on the rise
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**NEW**… Life
Lessons…
1. Critical Information
"A
man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower,
when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs
downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbor.
Before
she says a word, Bob says, 'I'll give you $800 to drop that towel.'
After
thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of
Bob. After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves..
The woman
wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the
bathroom, her husband asks, ' Who was that?'
'It was
Bob, the next door neighbor,' she replies.
'Great,'
the husband says, 'did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?'
Moral of the story: If you share critical information
pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a
position to prevent avoidable exposure."
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…USA Facts…
In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would
generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally
built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
Napoleon wasn't short. At 5 feet, 7 inches, he was taller than the
average French man of the era. The popular myth about his height is the result
of his nickname, Le Petit Caporal (The Little Corporal). Early in Napoleon’s
military career, French soldiers used the moniker to mock his low position on
the Army’s Officer totem pole. Unfortunately for Napoleon, the nickname stuck.
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2 jokes for the day
Herds of elephants from all over Africa were
summoned to a meeting in the jungle, as their national leader took his place on
the stage, one of the African elephants trumpeted impatiently:
“Come on, tell us what this is all about. We’re all ears.”
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An inebriated man and his drunken friend were
sitting at a bar.
“Do you know what time it is?” Asked the drunk.
“Sure,” said the man
“Thanks,” said the drunk.
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Yep, It Really
Happened
WINTER
HAVEN, Fla. (UPI) - Police are working to identify a Florida man who apparently
knocked himself out for a few seconds by head-butting a bus out of anger over a
$2 fare. The Winter Haven Police Department, which posted video of the incident
to its Facebook page, said the man got off the bus about 11:35 a.m. Saturday
when it arrived at its stop. Police said the man told the driver he wanted to
go to another location, and he became "extremely agitated" when the
driver told him it would be an additional $2 fare to travel to the other
location. The driver locked the bus and went inside the enclosed part of the
bus terminal, leaving the passenger sitting alone on a bench. The man walked
away, but returned to the still-locked bus four minutes later. The video shows
the man get a running start before head-butting the door of the bus, shattering
a glass window. The man falls to the ground and appears to be knocked out for a
few seconds before collecting himself and running away. "File this under
what NOT to do when you get mad regarding bus fare -- ouch," police wrote
on Facebook.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Returns
tomorrow
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Birthdays Today
96 - Marjorie
Lord [Wollenberg], actress (Make Room for Daddy)
72 - Mick Jagger,
English, rock vocalist (Rolling Stones)
70 - Helen Mirren [Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna
Mironoff], English actress (The Queen)
56 - Kevin Spacey,
South Orange NJ, actor (Dad, Henry & June, Darrow)
51 - Sandra
Bullock, Wash DC, actress (Speed, Net, Love & War)
50 - Jeremy Piven,
American actor and producer (Entourage, Serendipity)
42 - Kate Beckinsale, British actress
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Born this day…Died in __@__
George
Bernard Shaw, dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925)-1950@94
Blake
Edwards, writer/director (10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany's)-2010@88
Carl Jung, Swiss
Psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology)-1961@85
George
Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes)-1872@76
George
Clinton, NY, 4th VP (1805-12)-1812@72
Vivian
Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy) 1979@70
Stanley
Kubrick, Bronx NY, director (2001, Dr Strangelove, Lolita)-1999@70
Aldous
Huxley, English author ('Brave New World', 'Island')-1963@69
Gracie
Allen, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen)-1964@69
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Historical Obits Today
Sally
Louisa Tompkins, American nurse and philanthropist, only commissioned woman in US
Confederate Army-1916@82
George
Gallup, pioneer of public opinion polls-1984@82
Ed
"Psycho" Gein, mass
murderer ("Psycho" & "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre"
based on him), cancer-1984@77
JJ Cale,
American rock guitarist (Tulsa Sound), heart attack-2013@74
Sam
Houston, 1st President of Republic of Texas, pneumonia-1861@70
William
Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), heart attack-1925@65
Mary
Wells, US soul singer (My Guy), cancer-1992@49
Eva Perón [Evita],
Argentine First Lady and actress, cancer-1952@33
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Live & Learn
2. Come & Go
3. Hill & Dale
4. Trial & Error
5. Show & Tell
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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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Is All for Now…§
