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Almanac:
Week: 32 \ Day: 214
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 79° \ L 59°
Average Sky Cover: 85%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 12mph
Ave.
High: 81° Record High: 93°[1902]
Ave. Low: 51° Record Low: 42°[1915]
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Observances
Today:
National
Kids' Day (First Sunday) Link
National
Night Out
National
Day (Macedonia-1944)
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Observances
This Week:
1-7 International Clown Week Link
National Scrabble Week
Simplify Your Life
Week Link
World Breastfeeding
Week Link
2-8 Assistance Dog Week Link
Exercise With Your Child
Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Farmers' Market
Week Link
National Fraud Awareness
Week Link
National Psychic Week: 2-8 Link (First full week)
Single Working Women's Week
Stop on Red Week Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1776 - Formal signing of the US Declaration of
Independence by 56 people
1790 - 1st US census (population of 3,939,214; 697,624
are slaves) is conducted
1819 - 1st parachute jump in US
1858 - 1st mailboxes installed in Boston & NYC
streets
1909 - 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1937 - Works Progress Administration
(WPA) survey showed the average family of four in Tucson lived on $1,287 per
year, somewhat higher than the national average.
1938 - 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs
Cardinals)
1945 - Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin,
Truman & Churchill
1967 - "In the Heat of the Night"
premieres in New York (Best Picture 1968)
1973 - "American Graffiti" premieres at
the Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
1986 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for
heptathlon (7161 pts)
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1057 - Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st
Belgium Pope Stephen IX
1701 - Great Peace of Montreal signed between New
France and North American Indian nations at urging of Huron chief Kondiaronk
1865 - Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland"
1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground
tube railway, opens in London
1875 - 1st roller skating rink opens (London)
1928 - Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty
with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1961 - Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's
Cavern Club
1970 - Rubber bullets used 1st time in Northern
Ireland during 'The Troubles'
1995 - Saudi Arabia's King Fahd issues a decree
replacing all members of the Council of Ministers who do not have blood ties so
the royal Family
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Great Saturday after a late night with Netflix. Did some small
home repairs that needed to be done. Actually that can be a never ending
adventure. But I always learn something.
I must admit I am fascinated with videos taken from drones, especially
the ones of skydivers or placed on animals. There are all kinds of stories of
drones having close calls with commercial and private planes. I’ve heard on the
news, almost daily, that drones are prohibited from flying above 400’ and are
prohibited within 5 miles of an airport. The 5 mile thing might be a problem
for people in small towns, like me. Most of our town is within 5 miles of
airport. I have to wonder if these idiots that don’t follow the rules are the
kind of people who believe rules are made for others, I’ll be careful or if
they are the kind of people who know the rules and don’t want the government
telling them anything or if they just never read or listen to the news.
Thankfully there has never been a commercial crash due to drones, but pilots
seem to believe it is only a matter of time. Saturday at two close calls at
JFK.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
drink does this represent?
180 degree arc
360 degree arc
180 degree arc
A
180 degree arc
360 degree arc
90 degree lines
A
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool
Facts…
The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
Raj from the Big Bang Theory is married to Miss India.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
Oak Creek is ablaze and closed to traffic. The Slide Rock area has
been evacuated. Air tankers and helicopters are dropping fire retardant. The
fire ignited in the Encinoso Picnic area and has already consumed 80 acres of
forest.
The Flagstaff Planning and Zoning Commission says Flagstaff is not
ready for the urbanization that a 285-foot tower would allow: cell phone
gabbing while driving.
The Flagstaff Airport is requesting a $1.2 million grant from the
federal government to complete the $2 million upgrade that was begun last
year. This up-grade is especially important here due to our “unusual terrain”
and our uncertain weather. It will be particularly invaluable during the winter
months.
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…Harper’s
Index…
4,000 –
estimated number of deaths caused by the Islamic State since Jan. 2014
7,200 – by Boko
Haram
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @amivitale. Yesterday was #WorldRangerDay and here
is one of my heroes, Kamara, with two of the baby rhinos he looks after at Lewa
Wildlife Conservancy (@lewa_wildlife). Rangers like him literally put their
lives on the line to protect and care for these animals every day. Thanks to
their work and investment in the local communities, Lewa did not lose a single
rhino to poaching in 2014. Ranger units like Lewa's and the Northern Rangelands
Trust (@nrt_kenya) have significantly improved the security of wildlife and
people in the neighboring areas.
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…Nelson
Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change
the world.”
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…USA
Facts…
According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a
sexually-transmitted disease. HTML is an internet term.
According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half
of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth
orbits the Sun.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Before Bob Ross became a TV painter, he spent 20 years in the U.S.
Air Force and retired with the rank of master sergeant.
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2
jokes for the day
Patient: Doctor, doctor I think I swallowed a
spoon!
Doctor: Just sit patiently and try not to stir
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A man is in a pawnshop and sees this beautiful
Grandfather Clock and winds up buying it.
He asks the owner if he can deliver the clock and the owner replies that he
cannot make deliveries.
So only living a few blocks away the man decides to strap the clock on his back
and carry it the few blocks.
After a block or so, a drunk comes staggering out of a bar and bumps into the
man knocking him down on his back and smashing the clock to bits.
He then jumps up and starts cussing the drunk out and saying "look what
you did to my beautiful clock you idiot”
The drunk then replies, gee buddy I’m really sorry why don’t you wear a
wristwatch like everyone else.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
ARLINGTON,
Texas - A Texas woman said disaster was narrowly averted when a
birthday party guest noticed a pair of scissors in the store-bought cake before
her mother put her face into it. Yoly Nava of Arlington said her brother
purchased the $59.99 cake from the El Rancho Market in Arlington for the
weekend surprise party for their mother, and they were about to have the guest
of honor dive face-first into the cake as part of a Latino tradition when a
guest noticed the blades of the scissors sticking out from the dessert.
"What if those scissors would have been pointed up and I would have hurt
my mom? Trying to make something good, I would have hurt my mom," Nava
told CBS Dallas/Fort Worth. Nava posted a video of the cake and its unexpected ingredient
on Facebook. She said the store gave her a replacement cake, which she then
discovered contained what appeared to be a human hair. A manager for the El
Rancho Market's corporate office contacted the family to apologize. Nava said
she doesn't want any compensation from the company, she only wants the store to
make sure its employees are properly trained. "I think it's enough.
Scissors to me, that could have been an eye or something," she said.
Marcos Rubalcava, a spokesperson for the El Rancho chain, said the incident is
under investigation. "We are in the process of investigating this
incident," Rubalcava told the Arlington Voice newspaper. "No matter
what the situation, our policy is if something was done incorrectly, we want to
rectify the situation with the customer."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Magnets
got their name from Magnesia, a province in Greece.
On average, 9,000 earthquakes take place worldwide everyday.
In 1508, Leonardo da Vinci first described and sketched contact lenses.
On Star Trek, William Shatner's character Captain Kirk, was the first to utter
'hell' and engage in an interracial kiss on primetime television.
The first European travelers in a hot-air balloon were a sheep, a duck and a
rooster. The 1783 maiden flight lasted eight minutes.
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, a French nobleman and a Franciscan, came to
America in 1683. Cadillac established a fur-trading post in 1701, where Lake
Erie connects to Lake St. Clair. That became Detroit.
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Birthdays
Today
92 - Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party
leader/prime minister
76 - Wes Craven, director (Nightmare on Elm
Street, Scream)
70 - Joanna Cassidy [Joanna Virginia
Caskey], actress (Blade Runner, Under Fire)
51 - Mary-Louise Parker, Ft Jackson SC,
actress (Fried Green Tomatoes)
39 - Michael Weiss, Washington DC, figure
skater (1997 World Champ-7th)
32 - Nick Diaz, American MMA fighter
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Myrna Loy, Helena
Mont, actress (Jazz Singer)-1993@88
Jack
Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros)-1978@86
Peter
O'Toole, Ireland, actor (Lawrence of Arabia)-2013@81
Carroll
O'Connor, actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night)-2001@76
John
Tyndall, Leighlinbridge, County Carlow Ireland, Irish physicist who
demonstrated why the sky is blue and proved that the Earth's atmosphere has a
greenhouse effect-1893@73
Pierre
Charles L'Enfant, Anet France, architect laid out Wash DC-1825@70
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Colmar France, sculptor
(Statue of Liberty)-1904@70
James
Baldwin, author (Go Tell it on Mountain, Another Country)-1987@63
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Historical
Obits Today
William S
Burroughs, author (Naked Lunch)-1997@83
Alexander
Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (telephone), anemia-1922@75
Shari
Lewis, American puppeteer, cancer-1998@65
Horace
Mann, American education advocate-1859@63
Oliver Hazzard
Perry La Farge, US
anthropologist/Pulitzer writer-1963@61
Thomas
Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), cancer-1788@61
Warren
Harding, 29th Pres (1921-23), stroke-1923@57
Enrico
Caruso, Italian opera singer, peritonitis-1921@48
Totie
Fields, [Sophie Feldman], comedienne, blood clot-1978@48
James Butler ‘Wild Bill’
Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held
a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's-1876@39
Thurmon
Munson, NY Yankee, plane crash-1979@32
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Brain
Teasers Answers
COCA COLA
[180 degree arc - C
360 degee arc - O
90 degree lines - L]
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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…▲
