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Almanac:
Week: 32 \ Day: 215
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 75° \ L 52°
Average Sky Cover: 55%
Wind
ave: 11mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave.
High: 80° Record High: 91°[1994]
Ave. Low: 52° Record Low: 37°[1956]
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Observances
Today:
Assistance
Dog Day Link
National Psychic Day Link
Independence
Day (Niger-1960 from France)
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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
3-8 National Bargain Hunting Week
Old Fiddler's Week
Psychic Week Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail on his
first voyage with 3 ships Santa Maria, Pinta and Niña from Palos de la
Frontera, Spain for the "Indies"
1527 - First known letter was sent from North
America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1678 - Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America,
Griffon
1860 - American Canoe Association founded at Lake
George NY
1881 - US National Lawn Tennis Association removes
"National" from its name
1882 - Congress passes 1st law restricting
immigration
1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
founded
1921 - 1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill
caterpillars)
1923 - VP Coolidge becomes 30th President
upon death of President Harding1933
- Tucson's mayor and city council killed an ordinance which would have changed
the zoning on the northeast corner of Speedway and Campbell from a residential
to a commercial zone. Opposition to the ordinance was led by the staff of the
Steward observatory at the University of Arizona who were hoping to curtail the
encroachment of bright lights in the neighborhood of the campus which would
interfere with astronomical observation and research.
1941 - Gas (petroleum) sales limited in US
1949 - Basketball Association of America & National
Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association
1955 - Automobile Association of America ends
support of auto racing
1963 - Allan Sherman
releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda"
1981 - 13,000 Air
Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike; US President Reagan offers
ultimatum to workers: 'if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they
have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated'
1992
- "Unforgiven" directed by Clint Eastwood premieres
(Best Picture 1993)
1995 - CNN en
Espanol premieres
2004 - The
pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens-closed since the 9/11 attacks.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1829 - Gioacchino Rossini's "William
Tell" premieres in Paris
1914 - 1st seaworthy ship passes through the Panama
Canal
1926 - Traffic lights installed at Piccadilly
Circus, London
1952 - 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland
1980 - 22nd
Olympic games close at Moscow, USSR
1991 - Pan Am games
open in Havana
2014 - The
Israeli Defence Force remove much of its ground forces from the Gaza Strip
following the destruction of 32 tunnels built by Hamas and other militants
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice this morning, then monsoon returned with several afternoon
showers. Not a lot of rain, but moisture is always appreciated.
Last week I had a rant about guns. Today Fareed of CNN gave some
very frightening statistics. Three times the number of Americans killed during
the Vietnam War have died, in the US, by gun violence since 9/11. The United
States has a gun homicide rate that is at least a dozen times higher than those
of most other industrialized countries. According to shooting tracker.com
there have been 204 mass (more than one person killed or injured) since Jan. 1,
2015. Now is the time to do something.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Add
together each of the defined words to get a whole new word.
Example: to shout + what you say when you feel pain = a color = yellow.
1) A light brown color + to leave = a dance.
2) A store's announcement + a type of women's clothing = a building's location.
3) A vehicle + an animal pal = a floor covering.
4) The ocean + a father's boy = part of the year.
5) Another name for dad + a yellow veggie = a white fluffy snack.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool
Facts…
The Power Rangers command center is a real building located in a
California University.
Your spit has a painkiller 6 times stronger than morphine. It
contains a substance called opiorphin that is stronger than morphine.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
The Arizona Department of Weights and Measures has fined Win Oil
Co. for providing substandard, below legal levels of octane gasoline that
creates “pings and knocks," which, over time, do damage to engines.
City Public Works Director Ron Doba is asking that citizens
respond to a voluntary reduction in water use because we have reached almost a
million gallons of use per day. This is not sustainable.
Wild weather this week brought a 2-hour red sandstorm to Tuba
City, and golf ball-sized hail to Phoenix, Buckeye, Gila Bend, Rainbow Valley
and Deer Valley. A pounding 4 inches rain fell in Phoenix, flooding many
streets.
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…Harper’s
Index…
70 – number of
countries worldwide in which attacks on school have occurred in the past 5
years
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
The view coming into Flagstaff, AZ
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…Nelson
Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·
“Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of
their people.”
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…USA
Facts…
The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black
woman-- Madam C. J. Walker.
In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between
the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck
became a slang for a dollar.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The country with the most feral camels is Australia.
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2
jokes for the day
A husband comes home and sees his wife
painting the living room, but she had her raincoat and her fur coat on.
He asks her why she has her coats on.
She replies, "I read the can, and it said for best results put on two
coats."
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A couple had a fight after which the wife
started packing her belongings.
Her husband asked her, 'where are you packing to?'
She answered, 'I'm going to my mother.'
After a while, the man started packing too.
She asked, 'what are you doing, where are you going?'
He answered, 'I'm going to my mother'.
She asked, 'what happens to the 6 children then?
Her husband answered, 'you're going to your mother, I'm going to my mother, and
the children will also have to go to their mother!!'
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Yep,
It Really Happened
SWANSEA, Wales - A convicted drug dealer from England refused to
travel to Wales for his sentencing because he can't understand the local
accent. Dwaine Campbell, 25, pleaded guilty to heroin possession with intent to
supply after he was arrested in Aberystwyth, Wales, with 51 packages of heroin
and he spent seven days in custody before being moved to a jail closer to his
home in England's West Midlands. Janet Gedrych, Campbell's lawyer, said he
missed his sentencing hearing Monday at Wales' Swansea Crown Court because he
refused to leave his jail cell. Gedrych said Campbell did not want to return to
Wales for his sentencing because he couldn't understand what people in
Aberystwyth were saying due to their Welsh accents. "He is worried that if
he is sentenced here he will end up in a jail in Wales and have the same difficulties,"
she told Wales Online. Judge Peter Heywood said Campbell's sentencing has been
rescheduled for next month and he will conduct the hearing over a video
connection "so he can stay in the West Midlands."
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Birthdays
Today
89 - Tony Bennett, Queens NY, singer (Left a
body part in SF)
75 - Martin Sheen, [Ramon Estevez], NY,
actor (Subject Was Roses, Wall St)
74 - Martha Stewart, business magnate\TV
personality, founder Omnimedia
65 - John Landis, director (Animal House,
Michael Jackson's Thriller video)
64 - Jay North, North Hollywood California,
actor (Dennis the Menace, Maya)
38 - Tom Brady, football player (New England
Patriots, 4 Super Bowls)
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Born this day…Died in __@__
P D [Phyllis
Dorothy] James, English crime writer
(Cover Her Face)-2014@94
Leon Uris,
novelist (Exodus, QB VII, Battle Cry)-2003@78
Dolores
del Rio, silent screen actress (Deseada, Bugambilia)-1983@77
Regina
Jonas, German first woman rabbi-1944@42
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Historical
Obits Today
Henri
Cartier-Bresson, French photographer-2004@95
Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer-2008@89
Ida
Lupino, actress/director (Hard Way, High Sierra), stroke-1995@77
George
Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), stroke-1894@69
Joseph
Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), heart attack-1924@66
Bubba
Smith, American football player and actor, heart disease-2011@66
Carolyn
Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), cancer-1983@54
Lenny
Bruce, comedian, morphine overdose-1966@39
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1) tan + go = tango.
2) ad + dress = address.
3) car + pet = carpet.
4) sea + son = season.
5) pop + corn = popcorn.
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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…▲
