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Almanac:
Week: 33 \ Day: 225
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 80° \ L 53°
Average Sky Cover: 65%
Wind
ave: mph\Gusts: mph
Ave.
High: 80° Record High: 90°[2002]
Ave. Low: 50° Record Low: 39°[1999]
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Observances
Today:
International
Lefthander's Day Link
National Navajo Code Talkers Day
Shop Online For Groceries Day Link
V-J Day
Worldwide Art Day Link
National Garage Sale Day
Independence Day (Central
African Republic-1960-from France)
Women's Day (Tunisia)
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Observances
This Week:
8-15
Gay Games Link
National Motorcycle Week
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week Link
National Resurrect Romance Week
10-16 Elvis Week Link
10-14 Weird Contest Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1608 - John Smith's story of Jamestown's first days
submitted for publication
1892 - US black newspaper "Afro-American"
begins publishing from Baltimore
1907 - 1st taxicab (NYC)
1914 - Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st US
bus line, in Minnesota
1940 - Tucson was blacked
out by a storm that flooded the power plant. A hand-set, hand-printed Arizona
Daily Star edition carries news of the deluge.
1950 - President Harry Truman gives
military aid to Vietnamese regime of Bao-Dai
1953 - President Eisenhower establishes
Government Contract Compliance Committee
1953 - US General Omar Bradley becomes US chief of
staff
1981 - Last broadcast of "The Waltons" on
CBS-TV
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1521 - Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés
capture Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc in Tenochtitlan marking the end of
the Aztec Empire
1536 - Buddhist monks from Kyōto's Enryaku Temple
set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke
Disturbance
1624 - Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister
of France by Louis XIII
1792 - Revolutionaries imprison French royals
including Marie Antoinette
1814 - Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British
by the Dutch
1868 - Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300
million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
1876 - The Bayreuth Festspielhaus opens with the
first complete performance of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle-a 15
hour composition
1913 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry
Brearley, Sheffield, England
1961 - Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in
East Germany
1975 - Bayardo Bar attack: Provisional Irish
Republican Army volunteers carry out a gun and bomb attack on a pub in Belfast
frequented by Ulster Volunteer Force commanders; 4 Protestant civilians and 1
UVF member are killed
1985 - South African Defence Force soldiers,
travelling in a convoy of more than ten armoured vehicles, surrounded the
Thaba-Juluba high school in Soweto and arrest 200 students during a clampdown
on school boycotts
2004 - 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees massacred at
the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Another wet evening and early morning as the monsoon drops over 1”
of rain on our little mountain town. NICE! Clouds have returned this afternoon
for another evening of rain. Ran my errands early in the day to avoid the rain.
I have to agree with many
in the media that many Americans are tired to the establishment political
system. I really figured, a few months ago, that Hillary had the nomination and
the win in the bag. Not so sure anymore. Several on the Dem side are making
very positive comments about their run for the nomination. On the other side,
the Trump show just continues. At least CNN is giving some air time to the ‘other’
candidates on both sides. Just shaking my head and smiling, knowing it is way
too early to get excited.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Eating
white is what I mostly do
If
quick enough, a fruit and some things blue
When
you see pink, sky blue, orange, or red
It
would be wise to turn my yellow head
In
a dark room with blue walls
I
run from the ghosts that roam the halls
What
am I?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
The 8th annual Mormon Lake Rodeo began Friday at Tombler’s Lodge
and Playground. There are Cowboy Dances each evening and ‘49 Camp and Carnival
attractions all day and in the evening as well.
The Bureau of Animal Husbandry with veterinarians Jack King, Thos
C. Coe and William Smith is here seeking and treating cattle for Bangs Disease
and for T. B. They were joined Saturday by Donald Miller with the mobile unit.
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…Harper’s
Index…
13.5 – pounds of
marijuana a NM family discovered in a van they bought used thirteen years ago.
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto taken by @stevemccurryofficial // Sheep and goats have
worn paths on this mountain in the Hindu Kush, Afghanistan, as they move
towards grazing land.
They seem to defy gravity as they climb up incredibly steep rocky
surfaces and move over ledges which are almost too small to see from below.
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…Foreign
Laws Tourists Need to Know…
Littering is something we shouldn’t make a habit of, but every so
often we are all guilty of spitting out our gum on the sidewalk. (It loses
flavor, people!) Try doing that in Thailand, and you’ll be faced with a fine of
$600 or more — and you can go to jail if you don’t pay it. Maybe Singapore has
the right idea in banning it all together.
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…Nelson
Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·
“When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his
people and his country, he can rest in peace.”
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…USA
Facts…
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by
American workers instead of Chinese.
The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over
150 times.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Even Fidel Castro lashed out against New Coke, calling it "a
sign of American capitalist decadence."
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2
jokes for the day
Q: What do college students and deer have in
common?
A: They both stand in the middle
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Joe, a notoriously bad golfer, hits his ball
off the first tee and watches as it slices to the right and disappears through
an open window.
Figuring that's the end of it, he gets another ball out of his bag and plays
on.
On the eighth hole, a police officer walks up to Joe on the course and says,
"Did you hit a golf ball through a window back there?"
Joe says, "Yes I did."
"Well," says the police officer, "it knocked a lamp over,
scaring the dog, which raced out of the house onto the highway. A driver rammed
into a brick wall to avoid the dog, sending three people to hospital. And it's
all because you sliced the ball."
"Oh my goodness," says Joe, "is there anything I can do?"
"Yes there is," the cop says.
"Try keeping your head down and close up your stance a bit."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN,
Germany - A female cyclist's underwire bra may have saved her from
life-threatening injuries after a hunter accidentally shot her. The 41-year-old
tourist was riding across a field with her husband when she unknowingly rolled
into a boar hunt, German newspaper Gadebusch-Rehnaer reported Friday. During a
break, the woman felt a sudden sharp pain in her chest, soon realizing the
underwire from her bra deflected a bullet. The couple immediately alerted the
alleged shooter of the accident after he was spotted at a neighboring farm.
"Those in charge of the hunt broke it up straight away" area police
spokesperson Andre Falke said. The shooter is reportedly being investigated on
suspicion of injury caused by negligence. This isn't the first report of the
undergarment blocking a potentially deadly bullet. In Feb., a Brazilian woman's
life was saved when her black underwire bra stopped a stray round from hitting
her in the heart. "It was not just the bra wiring, which softened [it] a
little," she told reporters, "but God who saved me."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Ziplining
is also known by other names such as "an inclined strong,"
"flying fox," and "Tyrolean Crossing."
It can be traced back as far as 1897 when the H.G. Wells novel, "The
Invisible Man" referenced "an inclined strong" as part of a
Whit-Monday fair.
Ziplines are built with half-inch wide galvanized cable with a break strength
in excess of 22,000lbs.
The gravity-fueled conveyance using cables and pulleys threaded between two
points was created by workers and residents who needed to quickly transport
people and supplies across canyons, rivers, and other impassable areas in
remote regions of China, the Costa Rican rainforest, and the Australian
Outback.
Zipping pulleys have a break strength in excess of 14,000lbs. Platforms are
designed to hold loads of at least 40,000lbs.
There are over 700 zipline courses worldwide.
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Birthdays
Today
89 - Fidel Castro, Mayari, Oriente, Cuba,
dictator/prime minister/president
86 - Pat Harrington Jr, actor (Danny Thomas
Show, 1 Day at a Time)
71 - Kevin Tighe, LA CA, actor (Emergency)
69 - Janet Yellen, American economist (Chair
of US Federal Reserve)
59 - Betsy King, Reading Pennsylvania, LPGA
golfer (1990 US Women's Open)
56 - Danny Bonaduce, actor (Danny-Partridge
Family)/Chicago DJ (WLUP)
33 - Sebastian Stan,
actor ‘Bucky’ in Capt. America films
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Ben Hogan, Dublin
Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1950, 51, 53)-1987@84
George
Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (spectroscope)-1903@83
Alfred
Hitchcock, English director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window)-1980@80
Don Ho, Hawaii,
ukulele player (Tiny Bubbles)-2007@76
Lucy
Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Association)-1893@75
Bert Lahr, [Irving
Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz)-1967@72
Neville
Brand, Griswold, Iowa, American actor (Laredo)-1992@71
Annie
Oakley [Phoebe Ann Moses], sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild
West), 1926-@66
John
Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV)-1946@57
Dan
Fogelberg, Peoria Ill, rocker (Same Auld Lang Syne)-2007@56
Johann
Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)-1907@52
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Historical
Obits Today
Julia
Child, American chef and television personality-2004@91
Edwin
Newman, American broadcast journalist-2010@91
Helen
Gurley Brown, American author/publisher-2012@90
Florence
Nightingale, English nurse-1910@90
H. G.
Wells, English writer, heart attack?-1946@79
Joe E
Ross, comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), heart attack-1982@77
Ira D
Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel Hymns)-1908@67
Mickey Mantle, baseball great (NY
Yankees), cancer-1995@63
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Pacman (Braingle version)
Pacman usually eats the white dots. When a fruit pops up, he may get it or it
disappears. When Pacman eats the bigger white dots, the ghosts turn blue and he
is able to eat them.
The colors of the ghosts are pink, sky blue, orange and red. When you are
coming close to one, you should turn the other way.
The background is black and the maze walls are blue.
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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…▲
