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July 11, 2017 Week: 28 \ Day: 192
86004 Today: H 88° \ L 56°
Average Sky Cover: 65%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts:
14mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High:
92°[2003] Record Low: 40°[1979]
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Quote of the Day
Adventure
is worthwhile.
Aesop
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Observances Today
Bowdler's
Day
Day of The Five Billion Link
Fast of Tammuz
National Rainier Cherries Day Link
Slurpee Day or 7-11's Birthday Link
Chick-fil-A's Cow Appreciation Day
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Observances This Week
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
1400’s
★1405 Chinese
fleet commander Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time
1500’s
★1533 Pope
Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII
1804 Vice
President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former
Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel
1900’s
★1900 Charlotte
Cooper beats Hélène Prévost to become the 1st female Olympic tennis
champion and the 1st individual female Olympic champion in any sport
1922 The
Hollywood Bowl opens.
1934 FDR became
1st US president to travel through Panama Canal 1955 Congress
authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust"
1955 New
USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in
Colorado with 300 cadets
1960 "To
Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is first published by
J. B. Lippincott & Co.
★1969 David
Bowie releases the single "Space Oddity" 9 days before Apollo 11
lands on the moon
1977 US
Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr
1980 American
hostage Richard Queen freed by Iran militants due to illness
1984 Government
orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989
1991 Total
solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii
2000’s
2012 Steve
Nash is traded by the Phoenix Suns to the Los Angeles Lakers
★2015 Mexican
drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from Altiplano
maximum-security prison west of Mexico City via a specially constructed 1.5 km
tunnel from his cell to a nearby house
★2015 122nd
Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams beats Garbine
Muguruza (6-4 6-4)
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My Rambling Thoughts
Monday turned out to be busy. Got Mary’s
b-day lunch all set. Did some much needed ‘household staples’ shopping. If
anyone should ask, I hate stores that open one or two checkout lines, forcing
you to wait in a long line or go to the self-checkout. I spent much of my HS
and college days checking groceries. I know how to check, to bag, and to be
efficient. The problem is that the self-checkout lanes do not have a good way
to use your own bags, and you have to put everything on the damn scale area.
Most don’t have a ‘skip bagging’ option. I bought 40lbs of birdseed, 3 gallons
of distilled water for my indoor plants. There isn’t room on the counter for
all this plus my other stuff. I had to wait for the ‘attendant’ to come over
and put her key, then a special code, then the skip bagging showed up. What a
waste of her time and my time. Note: this store had 14 checkout stations, but
only 2 open. There are 9 self-checkout stands. Crazy.
Breaking news: Republicans say they will
have a new Health Care bill for the senate on Thursday. They have had 7 years
to come up with something better, but can’t. Now, the Senate leadership hopes
we will all be overjoyed on Thursday. Not holding my breath. For now, I just
wish politicians would shut up about just about everything.
I’ve seen many giraffes in the wild. I’ve
seen a few in zoos. Always wondered why their tongues were purple. Read Trivia
Hive below and you too will know…if you don’t already.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
Why do giraffes have black or purplish
tongues?
Their
diet Sunburn prevention
High
cholesterol Low hemoglobin
36.9% taking the
internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
1→Rank of corrupt government officials among
Americans’ great fears.
17→Of
climate change.
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Yep, It Really Happened
*------ If You Can't Find One, Raise One
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A married teacher adopted one of her students so she could have sex with him
every day, according to police in New Jersey. Burlington Township police said
that they have arrested 43-year-old Rayna Culver, after being accused of having
sex with her student, who was adopted by her at the age of 15. According to the
police investigation, Culver has been married to her husband for 14 years. She
has also been a teacher for many years. When the boy was 15 years old, he was
kicked out of his home. Culver then decided to adopt the child. The boy told
police that the teacher adopted him because she wanted to have sex with him.
Over a period of several months, the boy and he teacher had sex every day
behind the back of her husband. The boy told police that he was initially
afraid to tell anyone because he believed that Culver would kick him out of her
home. Eventually, the boy told police about the sex abuse. The boy showed
police text messages that he exchanged with Culver, describing multiple sex
acts. Culver denied all the allegations, saying that the troubled boy made
everything up.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The Death Cap, Amanita phalloides is
responsible for 90 percent of deaths caused by fungus poisoning world-wide.
***
Yeasts, used in making beer and bread,
are a form of fungus.
***
African termites actually cultivate a
species of fungus, Termitomyces.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@-86- E. B. White,
American
writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style), born in Mount Vernon, New York
(d. 1985)
86- Tab
Hunter,
American
actor (Tab Hunter Show, Lust in the Dust), born in NYC
83- Giorgio
Armani,
Italian
fashion designer (American Gigolo), born in Piacenza, Italy
@-82- David Kelly,
actor
(Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fawlty Towers), born in Dublin,
(d. 2012)
@-80-John Quincy Adams,
6th
US President
(d. 1804)
70’s
@-75- Harry Von Zell,
TV
announcer (Burns & Allen), born in Indianapolis,
(d. 1981)
@-74- Walter Wanger,
[Feuchtwanger],
US producer
(Stagecoach)
(d. 1968)
60’s
@-65- Yul Brynner,
Russian-Swiss
actor (The King and I, The Ten Commandments), born in Primorsky Krai, Russia
(d. 1985)
64- Mindy
Sterling,
actress
(Grinch Who Stole Christmas)
64- Leon
Spinks,
heavyweight
boxing champ (1978, Olympic-gold-1976), born in St. Louis
50’s
58- Richie
Sambora,
Bon Jovi lead
guitarist
@-54- Robert Bruce,
King of
Scots (1306-29)
(d. 1329)
40’s
43- Lil'
Kim,
American
rapper
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@94-2007 Lady
Bird Johnson,
First Lady
of the United States
80’s
@87-1962 Owen
D. Young,
American
industrialist (RCA) and diplomat (Young Plan)
@82-1989 Laurence
Olivier,
English
stage and screen acting great (Hamlet, Rebecca)
60’s
@65-2014 Tommy
Ramone [Erdélyi Tamás],
Hungarian-American
punk rock drummer/bassist (Ramones), bile duct cancer
50’s
@57-1926 Gertrude
Bell,
British
archaeologist, accidental? OD
@56-2015 Claudia
Alexander,
Canadian-born
American NASA Scientist (led Galileo mission to Jupiter), cancer
@50-1987 Thomas
F Waddell,
founder
(Gay Olympics), AIDS
30’s
@38-1937 George
Gershwin,
American
composer (An American in Paris), brain tumor
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Trivia Hive Answers
Sunburn prevention
Before you head out to a long day of fun
in the sun at the beach, you slather on a nice, thick layer of sunscreen. While
you're at the beach soaking in the rays, you might also enjoy an ice cream
cone, gelato or Italian ice. With your tongue spending a lot of time in the
sun, you might want to put some sunscreen on it, too, right? For giraffes, who
spend hours each day in the African sun eating acacia leaves, they get to leave
the lotion behind because of their tongue color. Scientists believe the
blue/purple/black color helps these animals avoid sunburn on their tongues
while they chomp down. If that feat of evolutionary brilliance wasn't enough,
giraffes also have antiseptic saliva. Ah, the wonders of nature. Source: Mental
Floss
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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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