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July 10, 2017 Week: 28 \ Day: 191
86004 Today: H 85° \ L 56°
Average Sky Cover: 75%
Nearest lightning 3.5
miles
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
12mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High:
94°[2003] Record Low: 37°[1926]
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Quote of the Day
Maybe
this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley
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Observances Today
Clerihew
Day
Don't Step On A Bee Day
International Town Criers Day
Piña Colada Day Link
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Observances This Week
Freedom
Week: 4-10
Creative Maladjustment Week: 7-14 Link
National Farriers Week: 9-15
Sports Cliché Week: 9-15
Nude Recreation Weekend: 10-16
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
500’s
★-552 Origin of Armenian calendar
900’s
★-988 The city of Dublin is founded on the
banks of the river Liffey
1000’s
★-1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback
through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of
Mercia, to lower taxes
1200’s
★-1212 The most severe of several early
fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1800’s
★-1800 The British Indian Government
establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other
vernaculars of sub-continent.
★-1847 Urbain J J Leverrier & John Couch
Adams, co-discoverers of Neptune, meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel
1890 Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st w/ female sufferage)
1892 1st
concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
1900’s
1913 Death
Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature
recorded in the United States.
★-1923 2-pound
hailstones kill 23 & many cattle (Rostov, Russia)
1933 1st
police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY
★-1934 1st
sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Columbia
★-1938 Howard Hughes flies
around the world in 91 hours
★-1944 "Father of Medicare" Tommy Douglas becomes the 7th Premier of Saskatchewan
1956 650,000
US steel workers go on strike
1962 Telstar,
1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1967 Bobbie
Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe" - single goes on to win 4 Grammys
★-1972 Herd of stampeding elephants kills
24, Chandka Forest India
★-1973 Bahamas declares Independence from UK
& adopts constitution
★-1981 CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton
beam collision (570 GeV)
★-1982 Samuel Morse's 'Gallery of the Louvre' sells for $3.25 million.
★-1985 French foreign intelligence agents
blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to
prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch
photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.
★-1991 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected
President of the Russian Federation
1998 Roman
Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to
nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest
Rudolph Kos.
2000’s
2000 Coldplay release their debut album
"Parachutes" (Grammy Award Best Alternative Album 2002)
★-2002 At
a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents
is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Kenneth, Lord Thomson.
2005 Hurricane
Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
2012 The
American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay
marriages
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My Rambling Thoughts
Our monsoon is doing well. It is warm,
not hot, cloudy, and rain should be here soon. We need all the moisture, and
the cooler temps are very nice.
A quiet, but busy day here. I mopped,
stripped, and polished the kitchen and bathrooms. Looks lots better. Easier to
do in the early morning before the warm temps hit.
There were several authorities on Sunday
News shows that said the media should just ignore any tweets from our leader. I
am beginning to agree. They believe that the tweets give our leader much needed
attention. It is certainly worth a try.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
What started the Great Chicago Fire?
A
cow A meteor
Cause
unknown A cigarette
21.7% taking the
internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
25→Minimum number of countries in which Trump has
business interests
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Yep, It Really Happened
*------------- Finger-Lickin' Good
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A man Oregon, was arrested after he was seen touching a chicken in a sexual
manner for his own pleasure. Jackson County police said that they have arrested
27-year-old Joshua Brian Woltmon, after being accused of touching the chicken's
sexual organs. Woltmon has been charged with sexual assault of an animal,
public indecency, menacing and disorderly conduct. He was also charged with
probation violation for meth possession. Woltmon has now pleaded guilty to
felony-level sexual assault of an animal. The judge sentenced Woltmon to 20
days in the Jackson County Jail. He will receive credit for the time he has
served since his arrest. Woltmon was also placed on two years’ probation and he
was also ordered to register as a sex offender.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The most difficult language to learn is
Basque, which is spoken in north-western Spain and south-western France. It is
not related to any other language in the world. Mandarin is the most spoken
language in the world, followed by English. But as home language, Spanish is
the second most spoken in the world.
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The youngest language in the world is
Afrikaans, spoken by South Africans. Dutch and German Protestants fled
persecution from the Roman Catholic Church in the 17th and 18th century to
settle in the Dutch colony of Cape of Good Hope on the southern point of
Africa. By the early-20th century Afrikaans had developed from Dutch, German
and other influences into a fully fledged language with its own dictionaries.
***
The smallest country in the world is the
Vatican. It also is the only country where Latin is the official language.
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Birthdays Today
@ indicates age at death
90’s
96- Jake
LaMotta,
middleweight
boxing champ (1949-51) (Raging Bull), born in The Bronx
@92- Earl Hamner Jr,
creator and
narrator of TV show "The Waltons", born in Schuyler, Virginia
(d. 2016)
80’s
@89- Don Herbert,
Waconia
Minn, scientist/TV host (Watch Mr Wizard)
(d.2007)
@86- Nikola Tesla,
Serbian-American
physicist, electrical engineer and inventor, developed alternating current and
the Tesla Coil, born in Smiljan, Austrian Empire (now Croatia)
(d. 1943)
@82- David Brinkley,
NBC news
anchor (Huntley-Brinkley), born in Wilmington, NC
(d. 2003)
70’s
@79- Mary McLeod Bethune,
SC,
educator (Bethune-Cookman College)/civil rights leader
(d. 1955)
@77- Ima Hogg,
Texas art
patron/founder of Houston Symphony
(d. 1975)
@73- Camille
Pissarro,
Danish
Antillean/French painter (Impressionism), born in Charlotte Amalie, Saint
Thomas, Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)
(d. 1903)
@71- Ron Glass,
actor
(Barney Miller, Frank's Place), born in Evansville, Indiana
(d. 2016)
70- Arlo Guthrie
singer
(Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans), born in Brooklyn
60’s
@66- Fred Gwynne,
American
actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters), born in NYC, cancer
(d. 1993)
50’s
@56- William Blackstone,
jurist
(Blackstone's Commentaries), born in London, England
(d. 1780)
40’s
@49- Arthur Ashe,
American
tennis star (1968 US Open, 1975 Wimbledon), born in Richmond, Virginia
(d. 1993)
45- Sofia Vergara,
TV
actress
41- Adrian
Grenier,
TV actor
30’s
37- Jessica Simpson,
American
singer and popstar ("I Wanna Love You Forever" "I Think I'm In
Love" and "Where You Are"), born in Abilene, Texas
@34- Jack
"Legs" Diamond,
American
bootlegger
(d. 1931)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@84-1979 Arthur
Fiedler,
orchestra
leader (Boston Pops)
@83-2015 Omar
Sharif, [Michael Shalhoub],
Egyptian
actor (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia)
@83-1863 Clement
Clarke Moore,
American
Professor and writer ('Twas the Night Before Xmas)
@81-1989 Mel
Blanc,
cartoon
voice (Warner Bros cartoons)
70’s
@71-2015 Roger
Rees,
Welsh Tony
winning stage and screen actor (The Life and
Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.), brain
cancer
60’s
@63-1851 Louis=Jacques Daguerre,
French
inventor and photographer (daguerreotype)
50’s
@59-1099 El
Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar),
of Castile,
famine
@50-1941 Ferdinand
"Jelly Roll" Morton,
pioneer
jazz pianist, asthma
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Trivia Hive Answers
Cause unknown
While the blame for the Great Chicago
Fire of 1871 is routinely placed at the foot - or hooves, as the case may be -
of a cow owned by Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, the story of this alleged
bovine arsonist may have been exaggerated. While it is acknowledged that the
fire did start in or around a barn owned by the O'Learys on Oct. 8, 1871, the
O'Learys strenuously insisted a cow was not to blame. More likely, the
combination of an exceedingly warm, dry season and the city's primarily wooden
infrastructure combined to turn Chicago into an almost-literal powderkeg.
Source: History.com
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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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