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Almanac:
Week: 35 \ Day: 239
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 77° \ L 54°
Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 15mph
Ave.
High: 78° Record High: 88°[1944]
Ave. Low: 47° Record Low: 36°[1978]
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Observances
Today: Observances This Week:
Global
Forgiveness Day 23-29
Just
Because Day National
Return To Work Week
The Duchess Who Wasn't Day▼ National Safe at Home Week
Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford 25-31
Be
Kind To Humankind Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1667 - Earliest recorded hurricane in North America
(Jamestown Virginia)
1832 - Black Hawk, leader of Sauk tribe, gives
himself up
1859 - 1st successful oil well drilled, near
Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake
1892 - NYC Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
1913 - Gideon Sundback of Hoboken applies to patent
all-purpose zipper
1921 - J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay
granted an NFL franchise
1927 - Parks College, America's oldest aviation
school, opens
1929
-The airship Graf Zeppelin sailed over Tucson on its around-the-world journey
1938 - Two NYC subway trains collide at 116th
Street killing 2 and injuring 51
1953 - "Roman Holiday" is released
1955 - "Guinness Book of World Records"
1st published
1976 - Transsexual Renee Richards barred from
competing in US Tennis Open
1984 - US President Ronald
Reagan announces Teacher in Space project
2008 - Barack Obama becomes the first
African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1783 - First hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned);
reaches 900 m altitude
1883 - Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a
force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people
1958
- USSR launches Sputnik 3 with two dogs aboard
1965 - The Beatles spend an evening with Elvis
Presley
1979 - 18 British Army soldiers killed when Provisional
Irish Republican Army explode 2 roadside bombs at Narrow Water Castle near
Warrenpoint
1981 - Divers recover a safe found aboard sunken
Italian liner Andrea Doria
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today c
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Monsooning continues…rained most of the night and on and off today—got
about 1” at my place. Getting pretty green in this high desert. Nice. A great
summer with no worries of huge wildfires in our forest. Sure hope our decade’s
long drought is ending.
Did some running around and picked up some stuff for the pot luck
following the funeral on Saturday. That’s going to be a long and tough day.
Still hearing the same old story…’Now is not the time…’when 2 news
professionals are shot by unstable former employee of station. He shot 15
times. Again, when is the time to deal with mental health issues and gun
violence?
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A
man hijacks an airplane transporting both passengers and valuable cargo. After
taking the cargo, the man demands two parachutes, puts one of them on, and
jumps, leaving the other behind. Why did he want two?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
In 1975, officials in the Chinese city of
Haicheng were so alarmed by odd and anxious behavior of dogs and other animals,
they ordered the evacuation of 90,000 residents from the city. Only a few hours
later, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake destroyed nearly 90 percent of the city’s
buildings.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
Bootlegger booze watered the grass in front of the jail when F.
Arango, who was arrested last week, pled guilty in Superior Court of shipping a
truck filled with whiskey. He was fined $125 and given a one-year suspended
sentence. Then the sheriff, watched by a number of sad faces standing by,
poured out the 13 gallons of booze as they watched. Glug, glug, glug into the
earth.
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…Harper’s
Index…
$1,118,580 – amount
the National Shooting Sports Foundation has given to collegiate shooting programs
since 2009
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @amivitale. Thank you for the incredible outpouring
of love after the loss of beloved black rhino Kilifi. Kilifi was a great
ambassador for all rhinos and taught us that man and wildlife can coexist in
harmony. Please show your support and get engaged by following Lewa Wildlife
Conservancy (@lewa_wildlife), the Northern Rangelands Trust (@nrt_kenya) and
The Nature Conservancy in Africa (@nature_africa). We will pass on your
comments to the rangers who lovingly protect these rhinos like their own
children.
Lewa announced that Kilifi's death was caused by Clostridium
perfringens, a lethal bacteria that normally kills within four hours from the
onset of signs. Kilifi died in the early morning, leading to the conclusion
that the infection had spread at night as the baby rhino slept. Despite the
vet's greatest efforts, the rhino succumbed to the effects of endotoxin. This
infection is the first case ever recorded on Lewa. The staff there are
currently giving the other three orphans antibiotics for short-term protection,
with plans to have annual polyvalent vaccines as a long-term deterrent.
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…Foreigners
Find These American Customs Offensive…
10. Opening a present immediately
© Provided by Business Insider: In most Asian countries, most
notably China and India, tearing into a gift in front of the gift giver is poor
form. It looks greedy.
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…USA
Facts…
Correction: In Breton, Alabama, Brewton, Alabama there is a
law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat. It came
from the times when Murder Creek overflowed in monsoons and the downtown areas
of Brewton and East Brewton were flooded. Correction from reader who grew up
there.
You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
In 1777, Morocco became the first country to seek diplomatic
relations with the United States.
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2
jokes for the day
Money can't buy happiness but it keeps the
kids in touch!
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It's about 3:30 in the morning, a wife wakes
up to find she is alone in the bed and she can hear her husband crying
uncontrollably.
She gets up and starts to look for him.
He's not in the bathroom, living room, or in the kitchen.
As she passes the laundry room, she hears his faint sniffels coming from the
basement.
She turns on the light and goes downstairs to find him.
Finally, she finds him huddled in the corner, rolled up into a ball, and crying
hysterically.
She runs over to him and asks why he is crying.
He says, "Do you remember when we got married twenty (20) years ago?"
She looks at him and says, "yes".
He says, "well, a couple of months before, your dad said that I could
marry you or go to jail."
She says, "I already know that. I don't see what the problem is."
He says, " don't you see!!! I would have gotten out today!"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
BEIJING - Police
in Beijing said a woman who wasn't allowed to bring a bottle of expensive
cognac on a plane chugged the entire bottle at airport security. Police said a
woman identified by the surname Zhao had the bottle of Remy Martin XO
Excellence cognac in her carry-on luggage Friday at Beijing Capital
International Airport when security workers told her the item would not be
allowed on the plane. Zhao apparently decided to drink the entire bottle on the
spot rather than allow it to go to waste, and police officers said they found
her shouting and screaming on the floor at her boarding gate, unable to stand
on her own. The woman was taken in a wheelchair to a room where she could rest
after the captain of her Wenzhou-bound flight decided not to allow her on
board, police said. Zhao, who police said had purchased the liquor for about
$200 during a trip to the United States and was at the airport to transfer to a
domestic flight, woke up a few hours later and thanked police for taking care
of her. They said she was not detained or charged with any crime.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Since
the Emmys' inception, nine husband and wife duos have walked away with Emmys.
Included in these elite group of Emmy winners: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward,
William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman and Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft.
Back in 1977, Roots set the record for the most Emmy nominations earned by a
single season in a single year when it picked up 37 nominations.
The Outstanding Drama Series category has been a category with a diverse group
of winners over the years, but there have been four dramas that have been able
to take home the prize multiple times. So which dramas hold this honor? As it
turns out, the four dramas to have won four Outstanding Drama Series Emmys are
Hill Street Blues, L.A, Law, Mad Men and The West Wing.
In 1971, Actor George C. Scott rejected his Oscar win (for the film Patton) due
to his feelings that the Oscars were nothing more than a "petty popularity
contest." The funny thing is, the same year Scott took home an Emmy Award
for his work in Hallmark's The Price - and he had no problem accepting that
honor.
Over the course of the Emmys' history, Candice Bergen and Don Knotts managed to
rack up five Emmys for their respective work on Murphy Brown and The Andy
Griffith Show. With those five wins, the duo hold the record for the most Emmys
won by an actor for the same role.
Actress Cloris Leachman currently holds the title as the all-time Primetime
Emmy winner with eight wins for her work on hit series such as The Mary Tyler
Moore Show and A Brand New Life.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(85) - Charles Gates Dawes, (R) 30th VP (Nobel
1925) d.1951
(81) - Hannibal Hamlin, (R) 15th VP d. 1891
(78) - Martha Raye, [Margaret Reed], Butte
Mont, Martha Raye Show d.1994
78 - Tommy
Sands, singer/actor (Teenage Rock, Dream With Me)
72 - [Susan] Tuesday
Weld, actress (Dobie Gillis, Wild in Country)
68 - Barbara
Bach [Goldbach], Queens, actress (The Spy Who Loved Me)
(64) - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th US President d. 1973
(63) - Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch flower
painter d.1693
63 - Pee-wee
Herman, [Paul Reubens], NY, actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
54 - Tom
Ford, American fashion designer
52 - Downtown
Julie Brown, Welsh TV personality and MTV VJ
(32) - Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto
manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd) d.1910
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Historical
Obits Today
W E
B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP)-1963@95
Charles
Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice-1948@86
Emperor Haile Selassie,
depossed Ethiopian emperor, strangled?-1975@83
Louis
Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma\Queen Elizabeth II's cousin,
assassinated by IRA bomb-1979@79
Bennett
Cerf, (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line)-1971@73
Gracie
Allen, actress (Burns & Allen), heart attack-1964@62
Brandon
Tartikoff, TV exec (NBC), cancer-1997@48
Stevie
Ray Vaughan, American blues guitarist, helicopter crash-1990@35
Brian
Epstein, rock manager (Beatles), drug overdose-1967@32
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Brain
Teasers Answers
If the officials thought he was jumping with a hostage, they would
never risk giving him a faulty parachute.
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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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