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Almanac:
Week: 32 \ Day: 216
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 85° \ L 50°
Average Sky Cover: 35%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 22mph
Ave.
High: 81° Record High: 91°[1994]
Ave. Low: 51° Record Low: 35°[1936]
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Observances
Today:
National Night Out
National Underwear Day
Single Working Women's
Day
Social Security Day
Revolution Day (Burkina
Faso-1960)
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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
Single Working Women's Week
Stop on Red Week Link
3-8 National Bargain Hunting Week
Old Fiddler's Week
Psychic Week Link
3-9 Sturgis Rally
4-7 Rock for Life Week Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1790 - US Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter
Service
1821 - 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post
(publishes until 1969)
1830 - Plans for city of Chicago laid out
1859 - First issue of the
Weekly Arizonian was published in Tucson--first newspaper in Arizona, having
been established in Tubac
1862 - US government collects its 1st income tax
1873 - While protecting a railroad survey party in
Montana, 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer,
clashes for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man
on each side is killed).
1922 - Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL
all-star team
1929 - Jones Beach in NY opens
1964 - Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner,
Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen
Mississippi dam
1977 - US President Carter establishes Department
of Energy
1984 - Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter
dash at LA Summer Olympics
1996 - 26th Olympic games closes at Atlanta, Georgia
2009 - Kim Jong-il meets former president Bill
Clinton. He pardons and releases captured American journalists Euna Lee and
Laura Ling who were found guilty of entering the country illegally.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1578 - Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat
Portuguese, 10,000 killed
1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom
Perignon's invention of Champagne
1870 - British Red Cross Society forms
1902 - The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River
Thames opens.
1917 - Pravda calls for the killing of all
capitalists, priests & officers
1944 - Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by
German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who
was never identified
1956
- 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm
Herz-210 mph/338 kph)
2012 - South African Oscar Pistorius becomes first
amputee to compete at the Olympics
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Week is starting off in good shape. Schools are getting ready to
start and stores are filled with aisles of school supplies and many kids and
parents are in the aisles, looking at lists, and grabbing. I was part of that,
as an educator, for so many years. It’s nice to watch from the outside…until I
got to the very long checkout lines. A little surprised, since it is Monday,
not the first of the month. Guess the manager wasn’t ready either, as only
about 1/3 of the registers were open and the lines at each one was at least 5
carts. Oh well, I’m retired and not in that big a hurry.
Sent my registration and hold money for my river trip from
Barcelona to Paris in January. A little early, but got an email that the
cheap-er room cabins are going fast. Maybe I’ll be lucky and the rooms will be
gone and I’ll get a free upgrade…like that would ever happen.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
7
dogs were boarding at the local Pet Lodge. Each dog was in a separate run, all
in a single row. One of the employees left the cages unlocked and the dogs have
all gotten out of their runs. She needs to put each of them back in the right
cage, but this is all she remembers. Help her get them in the right cages, and
QUICK!
Dogs: Beau, Duke, Fluffy, Lady, Princess, Rover, and Spike
1. Spike doesn't like other dogs much, so he was on one of the ends.
2. Princess was somewhere to the left of Beau.
3. Rover was in the third run from the right.
4. The only dog between Fluffy and Lady was Princess.
5. Duke was directly to the left of Lady.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool
Facts…
There is a growing sport in Berlin and London called Chess Boxing.
Players alternate between a round of chess and a round of boxing until one is
declared winner either by checkmate, KO, or technical stoppage.
Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets,
take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending
machines.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
At the Majestic Friday night “The Virginian” in five reels.
Adults 25 cents. Children 10 cents.
Nine passenger cars derailed at Hackinberry Sunday night and
delayed all eastbound traffic on Monday morning. There were no injuries.
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…Harper’s
Index…
64 – percentage
of deaths in the developing world caused by chronic diseases
1 – percentage
of all medical development aid allocated to fighting chronic diseases
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
Photo by @haarbergphoto (Orsolya Haarberg) Old, foggy Scots pine
(Pinus sylvestris) forest and rocks covered by Arctoparmelia lichen
(Arctoparmelia centrifuga) in the Stora Sjöfallet National Park in #Sweden.
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…Nelson
Mandela Inspiring Quote …
• “Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success
if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.”
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…USA
Facts…
The United Arab Emirates donated a laptop to every high school
student in Joplin, Missouri, after the city had been devastated by a tornado.
In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb
blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a
nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The M.C. in M.C. Escher stands for Maurits Cornelis.
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2
jokes for the day
There were three tomatoes: a mum, a dad and a
son.
The son lagged behind and fell splat on the floor.
His dad yelled to him, "Ketchup, son."
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Joe was a single guy living at home with his
father and working in the family business.
When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sick father died,
he decided he needed a wife with whom to share his fortune.
One evening at an investment seminar he spotted the most beautiful woman he had
ever seen.
Her beauty took his breath away.
“I may look like just an ordinary man,” he said to her, “but in just a few
years, my father will pass, and I’ll inherit his large fortune.”
Impressed, the woman took his business card and three months later, she became
Joe’s stepmother.
Women are so much better at estate planning than men!!
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Huntington,
PA- Kimberly Kitchen, 45, was a successful estate lawyer here with
more than 30 clients for the BMZ Law firm. So successful in her 10 year career
that she had just been promoted to partner and had served as president of the
local bar association. There was one complication--she is not a lawyer at all.
Her diploma, bar exam results, and other documents were forgeries. The PA attorney
general’s office has filed charges
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Somewhat
Useless Information
When
fabric gets wet, light coming towards it refracts within the water, dispersing
the light. In addition, the surface of the water causes incoherent light
scattering. The combination of these two effects causes less light to reflect
to your eyes and makes the wet fabric appear darker.
Drinking water after eating hot spicy food will not calm your tongue. The
spices in most of the hot foods that we eat are oily, and oil and water don't
mix. In this case, the water just rolls over the oily spices. What can you do
to calm your aching tongue? Eat bread. The bread will absorb the oily spices. A
second solution is to drink milk. Milk contains a substance called
"casein" which will bind to the spices and carry them away.
In ancient times, it was believed that certain colors could combat the evil
spirits that lingered over nurseries. Because blue was associated with the
heavenly spirits, boys were clothed in that color, boys then being considered
the most valuable resource to parents. Although baby girls did not have a color
associated with them, they were mostly clothed in black. It was only in the
Middle Ages when pink became associated with baby girls.
Blood is bright red in its oxygenated form and a dark red in deoxygenated form.
In simpler terms, it is bright red when it leaves the lungs full of oxygen and
dark red when it returns to the lungs for a refill. Veins appear blue because
light penetrating the skin is absorbed and reflected in high energy wavelengths
back to the eye. Higher energy wavelengths are blue.
Onions, like other plants, are made of cells. The cells are divided into two sections
separated by a membrane. One side of the membrane contains an enzyme which
helps chemical processes occur in your body. The other side of the membrane
contains molecules that contain sulfur. When you cut an onion, the contents on
each side of the membrane mix and cause a chemical reaction. This reaction
produces molecules such as ethylsufine which make your eyes water.
Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move,
not because of their transport capabilities. Camels sway from side to side
because they move both legs on one side at the same time, elevating that side.
This is called pacing, a ship-like motion which can make the rider feel sick.
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Birthdays
Today
70 - Richard Belzer, KOed by Hulk
Hogan/comedian (How to be a Stand Up)
60 - Billy Bob Thornton, actor (Sling Blade)
60 - Alberto Gonzales, American U.S.
Attorney General
57 - Mary Decker Tabb Slaney, NJ, olympic
track star (mile record 4:16.71)
54 - Barack Obama, Honolulu,44th President 1st
African--American president
53 - Roger Clemens, Dayton Ohio, MLB pitcher
(7 Cy Youngs, MVP)
47 - Daniel Dae Kim, actor (Lost,
Hawaii-50)
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Elizabeth
Bowes-Lyon, consort of King George VI\Queen Mother 2002@101
Helen
Thomas, UPI journalist (starts press conferences)-2013@92
Louis
Vuitton, Anchay France, Founder of the leather goods company-1892@70
Louis
Armstrong, jazz trumpeter (Hello Dolly)-1971@69
William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician-1865@60
Percy
Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais)-1822@29
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Historical
Obits Today
Victor
Mature, American actor-1999@86
Lee
Hazlewood, country singer, songwriter and producer, cancer-2007@78
Hans
Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, cancer-1875@70
Vladimir
Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism-heart attack-1940@59
Juan R
Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright-1639@58ish
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Duke-Lady-Princess-Fluffy-Rover-Beau-Spike
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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…▲
