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Almanac:
Week: 35 \ Day: 240
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 75° \ L 51°
Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 17mph
Ave.
High: 78° Record High: 89°[1948]
Ave. Low: 47° Record Low: 33°[1920]
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Observances
Today: Observances This Week:
Dream
Day Quest and Jubilee 23-29
Crackers
Over The Keyboard Day National Return To Work Week
National College Colors
Day Link National Safe at Home Week
Race
Your Mouse Day
25-31
Radio
Commercials Day Be Kind To
Humankind Week
(World) Daffodil Day Link 28-30
National Chuck Wagon Races
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
The men surrendered their arms and ammunition,
and were given three months pay and transportation to their homes. 1609 - Henry
Hudson, discovers & explores Delaware Bay
1789 - William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon
Enceladus
1830 - 1st locomotive in US, "Tom Thumb",
runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill
1837 - Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins
manufacture Worcestershire Sauce
1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes its
first issue
1859 - A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora
Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA,
Europe, and even as far afield as Japan
1864 - The 1st Geneva Convention, governing rules
of warfare, signed by 26 nations
1867 - United States occupy Midway Islands in the
Pacific
1884 - First known photograph of a tornado is made
near Howard, SD
1907 - United Parcel Service is founded by James E.
Casey in Seattle, Washington
1917 - Ten suffragists arrested as they picket the
White House
1920 - Francisco
"Pancho" Villa and his army were mustered out--the men
surrendered their arms and ammunition, and were given three month’s pay and
transportation to their homes.
1957 - US Senator Strom Thurmond (Rep, SC) begins
24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
1963 - 200,000 march and demonstrate for African
American civil rights in DC
1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his
"I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln
Memorial, Washington DC
1968 - Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at
Chicago's Democratic National Convention
1981 - John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt
to kill President Reagan
1982 - The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco2013 - China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council
meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria's use of
chemical weapons
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1565 - Oldest European city in the US, St Augustine
Fla, established
1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company
1968 - Gerry Fitt, MP, tables a House of Commons
motion criticizing Royal Ulster Constabulary action in Dungannon on 24 August
1968 and demands that: "citizens of Northern Ireland should be allowed the
same rights of peaceful demonstration as those in other parts of the United
Kingdom"
2003 - An electricity blackout cuts off power to
around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's
underground rail network to a halt
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Still monsooning with several nice storms today. Lovin’ It.
We went to a new place today, on the Southside of Flag. Nice…at on
the patio between rain storms. Cheryl is headed for CA in 2 weeks to see her
son and his family. Mary and her husband are headed to the North Rim of the
Grand Canyon for a footrace up there along the AZ trail. They will be giving
water to the runners…added bonus…2 days in their camp trailer.
We are a country of immigrants. I wonder if all those who want the
illegals sent back realize the problems. Here’s one: many actors, singers, and
entertainers are from other countries. Those who become stars have ‘people’ who
take care of all their paperwork, keep track of VISA dates etc. The stars just keep being ‘stars’. Just like
not everyone can make it to stardom, many immigrants do not have ‘people’ to
keep track of their paperwork. I understand it is their responsibility, but
working with the Feds is time consuming to say the least. Middle and low income
immigrants have a hard time with the paperwork. Our founding fathers and many
after that did not have those paperwork issues.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A
part of the body is hidden in each of the following sentences. The first
sentence contains "head." Can you find the rest?
1. The ad is for Monday's sale.
2. The tour group can go to either country.
3. My car makes funny noises sometimes.
4. Sarah and Tony are getting married.
5. That casino seems shady.
6. Can't you see that Hank needs help?
7. The sea is so calm out here.
8. Would you like to go surfing, Erin?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
Paul
Walker (Fast & Furious) was in a jewelry
store one day when he noticed a young U.S. military veteran with his fiancée
shopping for a wedding ring. Paul went to the manager and said “Put that girl’s
ring on my tab.”
Valentine Tapley promised to never shave again
if Abraham Lincoln was elected president. He died in 1910 with a 12-foot-long
beard.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
Babbitt’s wholesale meat department has installed a “Tenderizer”
for hams that will “cure” each ham in only five days. It will then be
simply ready to heat and eat! No more home boiling required.
Gilbert Harris has bought the Milk Depot milk route. The new
enterprise will be called Copper State Dairy. The old Coca Cola building on
West Santa Fe Avenue is being entirely remolded. The pasteurizing and bottling
equipment will be moved from the old Milk Depot. New refrigeration equipment is
being installed by the Flagstaff Electric Company, which is using the new
novel insulation of a 6-inch rock wool blanket. A Dodge panel truck has been
purchased for deliveries. They own 32 cows and will be purchasing Jersey milk
from E. Mulland.
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…Harper’s
Index…
90 –percentage
of women’s college-sports teams that had female coaches in 1972
43 – that do
today
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
Earthpix Waterspouts on the Mediterranean off the coast of Turkey
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…Foreigners
Find These American Customs Offensive…
11. Wearing sweatpants, flip flops, wrinkly clothing, or baseball
caps in public
Sure "athleisure" (stylish sportswear worn outside of
the gym) is a hot new trend stateside, but in most countries, notably Japan and
most of Europe, this sort of sloppy appearance is considered disrespectful.
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…USA
Facts…
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit
slip correctly.
Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The first disposable diaper was called a “boater.”
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2
jokes for the day
A doctor examined a woman, took the husband
aside, and said, “I don’t like the looks of your wife at all,”
“Me neither doc,” said the husband. “But she’s a great cook and really good
with the kids.”
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Erica is walking out of a movie theatre at the
same time as a man with a parrot on his shoulder.
Erica turns to the man and says, "Your parrot actually seemed to
understand the movie".
It looked around during the boring parts, it paid close attention to the
dramatic parts, it even "squawked" during the funny parts. I don't
understand how that can be.
The man turns to Erica and says "I don't understand it either.... he
didn't like the book at all".
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Yep,
It Really Happened
TAIPEI,
Taiwan - Security cameras at a Taiwan art exhibition captured the moment
a 12-year-old tripped and punched a hole in a $1.5 million Paolo Porpora oil
painting. Organizers of the "Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius"
exhibition at Huashan 1914 Creative Park in Taipei released footage of the
beverage-holding boy tripping next to the still life and putting his fist
through the bottom of the canvas before freezing in apparent horror at his
mistake. Sun Chi-hsuan, the exhibit's organizer, said the boy's family will not
be charged for restoration costs and the $1.5 million painting, titled
"Flowers," was insured. "The painting's bottom right is
damaged," Sun told reporters. "The boy's hand made contact with the
artwork and left a hole the size of a fist." A post on the exhibition's
Facebook page thanked restoration specialist Tsai Shun-jen for helping to
quickly restore the 350-year-old painting. The post included photos of the
experts working to repair the canvas.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(82) - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt,
social philosopher (Faust) d. 1832
(81) - Ben Gazzara, actor (Run for Your Life,
QB VII) d.2012
(78) - Charles Boyer, France, actor (Algiers,
Fanny, Barefoot in the Park) d.1978
(78) - Donald O'Connor, dancer/actor (Singing
in the Rain) d.2003
(76) - Jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men,
Spider-Man, Hulk, Capt America) d.1994
72 - David
Soul, [Solberg] actor (Starsky & Hutch)
(69) - Nancy Kulp, actress (Miss
Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies) d.1991
(66) - Rokie Roker, actress (Helen-Jeffersons)
d.1995
55 - Emma
Samms, [Samuels], actress (Colby's, General Hospital)
50 - Shania
Twain, Windsor Ontario, Canadian singer (You're Still the One)
(46) - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint
(1975) d. 1821
46 - Jason
Priestley, Vancouver, actor (Brandon-Beverly Hills 90210)
46 - Jack
Black, actor, comedian, producer
(45) - C Wright Mills, sociologist, writer
(The Power Elite) d.1962
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Historical
Obits Today
Ruth
Gordon, actress (Big Bus)-1985@88
Charles
Darrow, US inventor of Monopoly-1967@73
Melvin
Schwartz, Physicist\Nobel Laureate (neutrinos), Parkinson's-2006@73
Adam
Goldstein, American DJ also known as DJ AM, OD-2009@36
Alexander
Carlyle, Scottish church leader-1805@83
Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect (designed
Central Park)-1903@81
Emmett
Till, Mississippi, kidnapped & lynched-1955@14
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Brain
Teasers Answers
A part of the body is hidden in each of the following sentences.
The first sentence contains "head." Can you find the rest?
1. The ad is for Monday's sale.
2. The tour group can go to either country.
3. My car makes funny noises sometimes.
4. Sarah and Tony are getting married.
5. That casino seems shady.
6. Can't you see that Hank needs help?
7. The sea is so calm out here.
8. Would you like to go surfing, Erin?
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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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