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Almanac: Week: 31 \ Day: 208
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 85° \ L 54° Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 22mph
Ave.
High: 82° Record High: 93° (1947) Ave. Low: 51° Record
Low: 36° (1913)
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Observances Today:
National
Korean War Veterans Armistice Day
Take
Your Houseplant For A Walk Day
Walk
on Stilts Day
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Observances This Week:
AFRMA Fancy Rat & Mouse Week ->8/1
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1586 - Sir Walter Raleigh brings first
tobacco to England from Virginia
1789 - US Congress establishes Department of
Foreign Affairs (State dept)
1816 - US troops destroy Fort Apalachicola, a Seminole
fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
1919 - Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks
killed, 500 injured)
1924 -"It's no place
for a cowboy--it's too far east. There's not much coffee and too much
tea," declared Ed Echols of AZ upon his return from a rodeo in London
1940 - Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare"
1944 - US regains possession of Guam from Japanese
1967 - LBJ sets up commission to study cause
of urban violence
1986 - Greg LeMond is 1st American to win Tour de
France
1999 - Tony Hawk is the first skateboarder to
land a "900"
2007 - Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: News
helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide
over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police
chase; there were no survivors. This was the first known incidence of two news
helicopters colliding in mid-air, and the worst civil aviation incident in
Phoenix history.
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1501 - Copernicus formally installed as canon
of Frauenberg Cathedral
1689 - Battle of Killicrankie: Jacobite Scottish
Highlanders under Viscount Dundee defeat royalist force under General MacKay
1921 - Frederick Banting and Charles Best
isolate insulin-University of Toronto
1924 - 8th Olympic Games closes in Paris
1954 - Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
1957 - St James' Theater in London closes
2012 - Queen Elizabeth II announces the
opening of the London 2012 Olympics at the opening ceremony
2014 - Liberia shuts down most of its borders with
fears about the spread of Ebola epidemic
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Still no rain…but clouds remain somewhat promising.
While I don’t think Trump has a snowballs chance in hell of
getting the Republican nomination, I have to smile as he follows his own rules
in his run. It is so interesting to listen to a narcissist who seems to believe
the world revolves around his existence. I guess that why he talks about being
a great businessman but never talks about his bankruptcies, and the pain it
causes his investors and employees…it is kinda like the gambler who tells the
world how he had a $500 win, but doesn’t mention that he put $600 in the
machine to get that $500.
Listened to the Sec of Energy talking about the Iran talks on the
Sunday morning news shows. Sure made sense to me. I hope the Congress reads the
paperwork to make their decision.
I’ve been on Instagram for over a year. I don’t post a lot, but I
sure enjoy many of the great photos of others. Adding my daily choice to this
blog starting today.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Justin
Case and Auntie Bellum are fellow con artists who deliver coded messages to
each other to communicate. Recently Auntie Bellum was put in jail for stealing
a rare and expensive diamond. Only a few days after this, Justin Case sent her
a friendly letter asking her how she was. On the inside of the envelope of the
letter, he hid a code. Yesterday, Auntie Bellum escaped and left the envelope
and the letter inside the jail cell. The police did some research and found the
code on the inside of the envelope, but they haven't been able to crack it.
Could you help the police find out what the message is?
This is the code:
llwatchawtfeclocklnisksundialcirbetimersool
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
If you chew gum when you study a subject and then chew the same
flavor when you take the test, it will help you remember!
The biggest burger in Britain, dubbed the 'Apocalypse Burger', is
a mammoth 25,000 calories, weighs 11kg (25lb) and contains £150 (around $233
USD) worth of ingredients.
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…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
Mayor Francis said the big rock crusher plant is now doing
business and it announces the morning, noon and night hours with a husky
whistle. This plant should grow and be a solid new industry for our town.
A work train was sent out of Flagstaff to the west this
week to cut down the embankment along “The Cuts” to prevent more problems with
slides of rocks onto the tracks during wet weather.
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…Harper’s Index…
98 – minimum
number of times in 2014 that Rikers Island correction officers broke the bones
of an inmate
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**NEW**…Instagram Photo
of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by Stephanie Sinclair @stephsinclairpix . Shot on assignment
for @natgeo, an Ethiopian teenager feeds her baby in a rural area of the Amhara
region. With her husband disabled from an accident and her education halted by
her marriage, the girl had limited ability to support her young family.
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… Life Lessons…
2.
Knowledge is power.
"A priest offered a Nun a lift. She got in and crossed her
legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg. The priest nearly had an accident.
After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg.
The nun said, 'Father, remember Psalm 129?'
The priest removed his hand. But, changing gears, he let his hand
slide up her leg again . The nun once again said, 'Father, remember Psalm 129?'
The priest apologized 'Sorry sister but the flesh is weak.'
Arriving at the convent, the nun sighed heavily and went on her
way.
On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm
129. It said, 'Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory.'
Moral of
the story: If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a great
opportunity.
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…USA Facts…
In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth,
similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and
was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all
other methods of communication.
Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times,
declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both
presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had
accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is as wide at its base as it is tall
(630 feet).
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2 jokes for the day
Why did the football coach go to the bank?
To get his quarter back.
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A little girl was watching her parents dress
for a party.
As her dad donned his tuxedo she warned, “Daddy, you shouldn’t wear that suit.”
“And why not, darling?” he asked.
“You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning.”
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Yep, It Really
Happened
LEAVITTSBURG,
Ohio (UPI) - An Ohio woman whose house was damaged by a fire said she
believes her "cousin" set the fire intentionally because "he
can't get with" her. The Warren Township Fire Department said the
Leavittsburg fire is believed to have started about 3:45 a.m. Thursday in Heather
and Dennis Tenney's garage before spreading to their home and a neighboring
home. Trumbull County Fire Investigation Unit Chief Matt Balut said the fire is
being treated as suspicious. Heather Tenney said she believes she knows who was
behind the blaze. "It was cause of my cousin and I don't want to mention
no names," Heather Tenney told WKBN-TV. "He is mad because he can't
get with me. I am married to my husband." Dennis Tenney told TribToday.com
a conflict with a wife's relative had escalated via text messages Wednesday
evening. He did not say whether the relative was his wife's cousin, but the
relative had asked to come over and Tenney said he told the relative,
"No." Dennis Tenney said he and his wife had seen an unidentified man
walking back and forth in front of their house around midnight. Investigators
said they are seeking a person of interest in the fire.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
8
interesting facts about Pluto!
- Its size is
2,370 kilometers (1,473 miles) in diameter, give or take 20 kilometers.
This makes it the largest dwarf planet, and the undisputed King of the
Kuiper Belt.
- It’s challenging
to describe the terrain of Pluto because it’s a complex, diverse world
with distinct regions. It has a polar cap of methane and nitrogen ice,
with more methane unevenly distributed across its surface. The darkest
regions have yet to be explored in detail, but are already bearing the
names of dark gods.
- In all the
close-up images released so far of the Tombaugh Regio, we haven’t seen a
single crater.
- Current theories
are that Pluto has an unexpected heat source, stored heat, or is more efficient
at using heat.
- In terms of
specific terrain, there was found a mountain range, Norgay Montes,
equal to the Rockies here on Earth, and vast weirdly textured plains, the
Sputnik Planum. The rugged mountains are made of hard ice, possibly water
ice which approximates the strength at rock at Pluto’s frigid
temperatures.
- Pluto has
an ionized tail like a comet, produced by nitrogen from its atmosphere
leaking into the solar wind. The rate of escape is staggering: it’s
possible 450,000 kilograms (500 tons) of gas are escaping the little world
into space every hour.
- Pluto’s craters
could be named after Star Trek characters. Craters on the surface of Pluto
are likely signs of deep impact from smaller space rocks colliding with
the planet. Researchers may name some of these craters after characters
from Star Trek.
- Dark spots have
been noticed on Pluto’s surface. What’s strange about these irregularities
is their similar size and spacing.
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Birthdays Today
93 - Norman Lear, TV writer/producer (All in
The Family)
84 - Jerry Van Dyke, Danville Ill, actor (My
Mother the Car, Coach)
71 - Bobbie Gentry, Mississippi,
singer/songwriter (Ode to Billy Joe)
67 - Betty Thomas, St Louis Mo, actress
(Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues)
67 - Peggy Fleming Jenkins, figure skater
(Olym-gold-1968)
66 - Maureen McGovern, Youngstown Oh, singer
(Got To Be a Morning After)
57 - Christopher Dean, Olympics skater
(Torvill & Dean/Olympic-gold-1984)
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Audley ‘Queen Mother’ Moore,
civil rights activist, humanitarian -1997@98
Guy
Carawan, folk singer (popularized "We shall Overcome"), 2015@87
Leo
Durocher, baseball player\manager (Dodgers, Giants)-1991@86
Geoffrey
de Havilland, British aircraft designer-1965@82
Don
Galloway, Brooksville Ky, actor (Arrest & Trial, Ironside)-2009@71
Keenan
Wynn, actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor)-1986@70
Friedrich
Ernst Dorn, German physicist discovered that radon is emitted from radium-1916@68
Ludovico Sforza [il
Moro], Italian duke commissioned The Last Supper-1508@55
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Historical Obits Today
Bob Hope,
English-born American actor, comedian and entertainer-2003@100
Billy
[William] Wyler, US director (Ben
Hur, Funny Girl), heart attack-1981@79
James
Mason, British actor (Lolita), heart attack-1984@75
Gertrude
Stein, US/Fren author/poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), cancer-1946@72
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,
Shah of Iran (1941-79), cancer-1980@60
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Brain Teasers Answers
The message was "loose bricks in left wall." The message
was put backward with words related to time in between.
This is how the message looks when separated:
ll watch awtfe clock lnisk sundial cirbe timer sool
If you take out watch, clock, sundial, and timer, this is what is left:
llawtfelniskcirbesool
Look at this backwards and this is what you have:
loose bricks in left wall
Auntie Bellum took out the bricks and escaped in the night. Then, she put the
bricks back where they were.
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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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