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July 22, 2017 Week: 29 \ Day: 203

86004 Today: H 78° \ L 56°

Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Wind ave:   1mph\Gusts:  10mph

Visibility: 10 mi

July Averages: 82°\50°

July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)

Record High: 92°[1996]   Record Low: 38°[1995]

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Quote of the Day

You are remembered for the rules you break.

  Douglas MacArthur

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Observances Today

Casual Pi Day  (22/7)

Fragile X Awareness Day 

Hammock Day

National Day of the Cowboy  Link  

National Penuche Fudge Day Link

Ratcatcher's Day

Spooners (Spoonerism) Day

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Observances This Week

Captive Nations Week: 16-22 

Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 16-22 Link 

National Parenting Gifted Children Week: 16-22Link  

National Zoo Keeper Week: 16-22 Link  

National Independent Retailers Week:16-22 Link  

Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25

National Baby Food Week: 19-22 Link

Comic Con International: 20-23

Hemingway Look-alike Days: 20-23 

National Moth Week: 22-30 

National Scrabble Week: 22-26  Link 

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s

1686 City of Albany, NY chartered

1800’s

1893 Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" in Colorado

1900’s

★1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden closes

1933 Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida", NYC-1st negro prima donna in US

1955 Richard Nixon becomes the first US Vice President to preside over a cabinet meeting

1967 Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour

★1992 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes prison

2000’s

★2015 'Oldest' Qur'an fragments discovered in collection of Birmingham University, radiocarbon testing dates to AD568 - AD645

★2016 Japan’s Funai Electric announce they will manufacture world's last videocassette this month

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My Rambling Thoughts

Another monsoon day. Took off early to head for Target. Haven’t been there in months. After today’s visit, I know why. Nothing of interest there for me. Usually find some interesting stuff when I do visit, but today…nada…zilch.

Listening to the new guy in the WH press…Great, we get it…you are rich, you went to lots of schools, and you love the President. Is that all you have?

My personal opinion: Sean Spicer made the right decision.

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Today’s Trivia Hive

(answers at the end of post)

What is the name of the vodka brand for which Diddy is a brand ambassador?

Svedka                       Grey Goose

Ciroc                           SKYY

 42.2% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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Harper’s Index

44→Number of times the state of Texas has sued the federal government during the Obama Administration

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Yep, It Really Happened

I was going to tell you a story about a man whose fiancée nagged him into buying a lottery ticket that turned out to be worth $500,000, but then I saw this bit of luck...

A Florida man survived with only minor injuries when a 7,000-pound metal pipe fell from a crashed truck and crushed the roof of his van.

Jesus Armando Escobar, 36, of Orlando, was exiting Interstate 4 when a Mach truck loaded with scrap metal crashed into an overpass guardrail and overturned.

A 7,000 pound metal pipe fell from the truck as it crashed, fell from the overpass, and landed on Escobar's van.

State troopers said the driver's side roof of the van was crushed by the pipe, but Escobar was able to walk away with minor injuries. Officials said anyone sitting in any other seat in the van likely would have been killed.

Theodore Olson of recycling center AATR Orlando said he was shocked to hear the driver had survived.

"I've seen crushed cars before, but nothing in this kind of circumstance, where, like, they were up on upper bridge and it rolled out of a container and crushed a car. I thought it was a fatality, to be honest with you. But they came out and said, 'Nope, he's only got scratches.'"

The truck driver, Antonio Santiago Wharton, 33, was ticketed for careless driving.

           

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Somewhat Useless Information

Most modern fireworks displays use aerial shells, which resemble ice cream cones. Developed in the 1830s by Italian pyrotechnicians, the shells contain fuel in a cone bottom, while the "scoop" contains an outer layer of pyrotechnic stars, or tiny balls containing the chemicals needed to produce a desired color, and an inner bursting charge.

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Americans have been setting off fireworks to celebrate their independence since 1777, at least. Even some of the very first Independence Day celebrations involved fireworks. On July 4, 1777, Philadelphia put together an elaborate day of festivities, notes American University historian James R. Heintze. The celebration included a 13 cannon display, a parade, a fancy dinner, toasts, music, musket salutes, "loud huzzas," and of course fireworks.

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Layers of an organic salt, like sodium salicylate, combined with the oxidizer potassium perchlorate burn one at a time. As each layer burns, it slowly releases a gas, creating the whistling sound associated with most firework rockets. Aluminum or iron flakes can create hissing or sizzling sparkles, while titanium powder can create loud blasts, in addition to white sparks.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

100’s

@- 104- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy,

mom of JFK, RFK & Ted, born in Boston, Massachusetts

(d. 1995)

90’s

94- Bob Dole,

American politician

80’s

83- Louise Fletcher,

actress (One Flew over Cuckoo's Nest), born in Birmingham, Alabama

@- 82- Oscar de la Renta,

Dom Rep, designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1973)

(d. 2014)

70’s

77- Alex Trebek,

Canadian-American TV game host (High Rollers, Jeopardy), born in Sudbury, Ontario

76- George Clinton,

rocker (Parliament-Funkadelic), born in Kannapolis, North Carolina

71- Danny Glover,

actor (Lethal Weapon, Operation Dumbo Drop), born in San Francisco

70- Don Henley,

drummer (The Eagles)

60’s

69- SE Hinton,

young adult writer (The Outsiders)

@- 66- Amy Vanderbilt,

American authority on etiquette (Complete Book of Etiquette, Complete Cook Book), born in NYC.

(d. 1974)

62- Willem Dafoe,

Wisc, actor (Platoon, Roadhouse 66, Mississippi Burning)

50’s

53- David Spade,

comedian (SNL, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep)

53- John Leguizamo,

Bogotá, Colombia, Colombian American actor (Mambo Mouth, Whispers in the Dark)

40’s

45- Colin Ferguson,

Canadian actor (Eureka)

30’s

@-37- Emma Lazarus, 

poet ("New Colossus" - on the base of Statue of Liberty), born in New York City

(d. 1887)

20’s

25- Selena Gomez, 

American actress and singer (Revival, Stars Dance), born in Grand Prairie, Texas

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Historical Obits Today

0’s

@30-1802 Marie Francois Xavier Bichat, 

a founder of histology, falling down stairs

@89-1967 Carl Sandburg,

poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years)

@84-2008 Estelle Getty, 

American actress ("The Golden Girls")

@69-2013 Dennis Farina,

American actor (TV cop), pulmonary embolism

@85-2016 Thomas Sutherland,

American hostage (Lebanon) and academic

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Trivia Hive  Answers

Ciroc 

Beyond his penchant for sending TV-show contestants on long walking trips to get him cheesecake on the other side of New York City and frequently changing his stage name, Diddy has several non-entertainment business ventures. In addition to his Sean John clothing, he represents the Ciroc vodka brand in the U.S. This marketing partnership, along with Diddy's other business enterprises, has brought him massive financial success. This bad boy for life has truly transitioned into a multimillionaire business mogul. Source: Vibe

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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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