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Almanac:
Week: 33 \ Day: 221
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 81° \ L 53°
Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave.
High: 81° Record High: 89°[1980]
Ave. Low: 50° Record Low: 44°[1999]
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Observances
Today:
International Day of The
World's Indigenous People
Kool-Aid Days Link
Nagasaki Day
Perseid Meteor
Showers
Twins Days Link
Veep Day
Moment of
Silence (Japan)
National Day
(Singapore)
National Women's
Day (South Africa)
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Observances
This Week:
3-9 Sturgis Rally
4-7 Rock for Life Week Link
6-9 National Hobo Week Link
8-15
Gay Games Link
National Motorcycle Week
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week Link
National Resurrect Romance Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1803 - 1st horses arrive in Hawaii
1814 -The Treaty of Fort
Jackson (7 stat.120) officially ends the Creek War. The Creeks,
including those who fought with Andrew Jackson, are forced to cede 22,000,000
acres
1831 - 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to
Schenectady, NY)
1842 - US-Canada border defined by
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
1848 - US Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges
with Free Soil Party nominating Martin Van Buren for president
1854 - Henry David Thoreau publishes
"Walden"
1859 - Elevator patented
1893 - 1st US bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published
in NY
1905 - Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty
Cobb's mother kills him
1909
– Party of six men with Dean Byron Cummings, archaeologist from
the University of Arizona, became the first known non-Indigenous people to explore Betatakin
Ruins, an Anasazi cliff dwelling located in
what is now the Navajo National Monument.
1930 - Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's
animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes
1936 - Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin
Olympics
1944 - Smokey Bear debuts
as spokesman for fire prevention
1945 - US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man"
on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki
1971 - Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into
baseball's Hall of Fame
1974 - Richard Nixon resigns US presidency, VP
Gerald Ford swears oath of office to become 38th US president
1984 - Daley Thomas of Britain sets decathalon
record (8,847) in LA Cal
1992 - 25th Olympic Summer games closes in
Barcelona, Spain
2001 - US President George W.
Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on
embryonic stem cells
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1173 - Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins,
and it takes 2 centuries to complete
1483 - Opening of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican
1655 - Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell divides
England into 11 districts
1666 - Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on
the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships in the Vlie
estuary, and pillaging the town of West-Terschelling, an act later known as
"Holmes's Bonfire"
1803 - Robert Fulton tests his steam
paddle-boat on the River Seine, France
1855 - Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal
uprising
1907 - The first Boy Scout camp concludes at
Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, Southern England.
1942 - Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested
in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India
Congress
1971 - Operation Demetrius (or Internment) is
introduced in Northern Ireland allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely
detained without trial; the security forces arrested 342 people suspected of
supporting paramilitaries
1972 - There is widespread and severe rioting in
Nationalist areas of Northern Ireland on the anniversary of the introduction of
Internment
2012 - Usain Bolt becomes the first person to
win the 100m and 200m sprint in back to back Olympics
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Maybe the monsoon, maybe not. Clear sky after a long night of
rain, then this afternoon the clouds returned. Nice!
Today became laundry day. Not bad as I had little planned. Now
everything is clean, folded or hung and I’m ready for another day.
Lots of talk about the ‘debate’ even today. Donald continues to
keep his name in the news with crazy comments. Sure makes the Republicans look
less than impressive and politics in general look ‘off the wall’.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Unscramble
the words below and follow the directions in parentheses. Unscramble the new
letters to get the name of a former U.S. President.
evon (take the 1st and 2nd letters)
cromaeviw (take the 5th and 9th letters)
drigef (take the 2nd and 6th letters)
knsi (take the 1st letter)
blate (take the 1st and 4th letters)
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
Expect “bitter water” as the new transmission line is being put
into operation. It is not harmful and will clear up very shortly. Water
Superintendent Jim Robinson.
A 2-ton rock slab that fell from a ledge on Schnebly Hill reveals
200 million-year-old evidence of life in northern Arizona. The fall was
discovered by Fred Perkins of Sedona.
A record-breaking number of passengers were flown by Frontier
Airline during the month of July. 142 passengers were boarded at Flagstaff and
203 at Winslow.
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…Harper’s
Index…
$111,600 – average
househo9ld savings of Americans aged 65-69 living with a spouse
$12,500 – living alone
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @tbfrost A young aboriginal boy rests in the
morning after a long walk with his father in the bush of Arnhem Land,
Austrailia. His father, Otto, was waking the morning star songline to show his
sons the sites that make up the songline.
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…Foreign
Laws Tourists Need to Know…
In Belgium, it is perfectly legal to throw Brussels sprouts at
tourists — so don’t offend the locals unless you’re prepared to accept
your just (albeit bitter) desserts.
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…Nelson
Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill
your enemies.”
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…USA
Facts…
There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in
America than in Ireland.
Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904
World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked
a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
There is a word that rhymes with orange! It’s sporange: a rare
alternative form of sporangium, a botany term that means "spore
case."
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2
jokes for the day
Q: What's the definition of mixed emotions?
A: When you see your mother-in-law backing off a cliff in your brand new car.
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A guy comes home from work, runs into the
living room, and flops down in front of the TV.
He quickly turns it on and starts flipping through the channels.
His wife walks into the living room and the guys says to her, "Wife, hurry
up and get me a beer before it starts!"
The wife goes to the fridge, cracks a beer and gives it to her husband.
The husband slams down the beer, gives her the empty, and tells her,
"Hurry up and get me another one! It's gonna start soon!"
The wife goes to the fridge, gets another beer, cracks it open, and takes it to
her husband.
The guy slams the beer again, gives her the empty, and says, "Hurry up and
get me 1 more beer, it's gonna start ANY minute!"
The wife, getting upset, goes to the fridge, gets him a beer, cracks it open,
gives it to her husband and says "You know, all you ever do around here is
come home from work, sit in front of the TV, bark orders at me, drink beer...”
The guy, hearing his wife complaining, sips his beer, sighs, and says,
"YEP, IT'S STARTED!"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
NEW
ORLEANS - A 23-year-old man is accused of driving his sportscar through a
fence and onto an active runway in New Orleans before being arrested for drunk
driving Wednesday, law enforcement said. Police say the man drove a blue Dodge
Challenger through a fence at about noon local time, drove across a runway at
Louis Armstrong International Airport and plowed through another fence.
Officials said the suspect, Kaleb Clement, was later captured hiding behind an
air conditioning unit at a nearby auto shop after leading police on a brief
chase. No one was hurt in the incident, but investigators said Clement had been
driving under the influence, The (New Orleans) Times Picayune reported. Clement
was arrested and booked on suspicion of DUI and hit-and-run. Although the
driver got onto an active runway, officials at the airport said no flights were
disrupted. The New Orleans Advocate reported Clement has marijuana-related
probation violations on his record and a domestic battery charge that was
ultimately dropped.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
1. Ghost was the
highest-grossing film of 1990.
2. Demi Moore’s
then husband, Bruce Willis, was offered the role of Sam.
3. The sound of
the dark shadows are really just baby cries.
4. Oda Mae Brown
is Bruce Joel Rubin’s favorite character he’s ever written. The role
wasn’t originally written with Whoopi Goldberg in mind. She got the role after
Swayze, who was a huge fan of hers, convinced producers she would be good for
the part.
5. Nicole Kidman
auditioned for the role of Molly Jensen. Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathleen Turner,
Kim Basinger, Geena Davis, Molly Ringwald, Meg Ryan, and Madonna were also
considered for the role of Molly.
6. Patti LaBelle
auditioned for the role of Oda Mae Brown.
7. The interior of
Molly and Sam’s loft was the real home of artist/sculptor Michele Oka Doner.
It’s in Manhattan’s trendy Soho neighborhood.
8. The famous
pottery scene was the sexiest thing Patrick Swayze said he’d ever done.
9. There’s a Japanese
remake of the film called Ghost: In Your Arms Again. In this version, the woman
plays the ghost, a fact that’s made pretty obvious in the movie poster.
10. Patrick Swayze’s
emotions are real in the finale goodbye scene. The actor thought about his
own father who passed away in 1982.
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Birthdays
Today
77 - Rod Laver, Australia, tennis ace (1962,
1969 Grand Slam)
73 - David Steinberg, Winnipeg Canada,
comedian/director (End)
71 - Sam Elliott, actor (Big Chill, Fatal
Beauty)
58 - Melanie Griffith, actress (Working
Girl, Milk Money, Now & Then)
48 - Deion Sanders, NFL \MLB player (Cowboys\Yankees)
47 - Gillian Anderson, actress (X-Files)
45 - Chris Cuomo, American TV journalist
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Elizabeth
Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice-1988@82
Ken
Norton, heavyweight boxing champ-2013@70
Robert
Aldrich, US director/producer (Dirty Dozen)-1983@65
Chris
Haney, Canadian journalist (created Trivial Pursuit)-2010@59
Robert
Shaw, England, actor (Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday)-1978@51
Whitney
Houston, Newark NJ, singer (One Moment in Time, Bodyguard)-2012@48
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Historical
Obits Today
Hermann
Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946)-1962@85
Ed Nelson, actor
(Peyton Place)-2014@85
Gardner
Quincy Colton, American lecturer 1st to use nitrous oxide as an anesthetic in
dentistry-1898@84
Edward
Frankland, British chemist-co-discovered helium and developed the theory of
valence-1899@74
John
Gates ("Bet-a-million" Gates), inventor - established the
market for barbed wire fencing, throat tumor-1911@56
Jerry
Garcia, rock vocalist (Grateful Dead), heart attack-1995@53
Bernie
Mac, American comedian, actor, pneumonia-2008@50
Sharon
Tate, actress (Valley of Dolls), murdered by Manson's gang-1969@26
Michael
Brown, black man shot dead by white Ferguson police officer-2014@18
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Brain
Teasers Answers
The unscrambled words are:
oven
microwave
fridge
sink or skin
table
o, v, o, e, r, e, s, t, l
Unscramble the letters to get:
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919), also known as
T.R. and to the public as Teddy, was the 26th President of the United States
(1901-1909). He was the 25th Vice President before becoming President upon the
assassination of President William McKinley. At age 42, he was the youngest
President to date. Within the Republican Party he was a Progressive reformer
who sought to bring his party's conservative ideals into the 20th century. He
broke with his friend and appointed successor William Howard Taft and ran as a
third-party candidate in 1912 on the Progressive Party ticket.
(Franklin Delano Roosevelt is also an acceptable answer)
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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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