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July 12, 2017 Week: 28 \ Day: 193
86004 Today: H 83° \ L 55°
Average Sky Cover: 85%
Wind ave: 14mph\Gusts:
-mph
Nearest lightning: 3.1 miles
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High:
94°[2002] Record Low: 39°[1952]
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Quote of the Day
Real
knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
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Observances Today
Night
of Nights (Maritime Radio) Link
Simplicity
Day Link
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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
National Ventriloquism Week: 12-15 Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★- Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1100’s
★-1109 Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city
of Tripoli
★-1191 English
King Richard I / the Lionheart & Crusaders defeat Saracens
in Palestine
1200’s
★-1290 Jews are expelled from England by
order of King Edward I
1600’s
1630 New
Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster
Island, it is later known as Ellis Island
★-1679 Britain's
King Charles II ratifies Habeas Corpus Act allowing prisoners’
right to be imprisoned to be examined
1800’s
★-1817 1st flower show held (Dannybrook,
County Cork, Ireland)
1843 Mormon
leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy
★-1863 In New Zealand, British forces invade
Waikato, home of the Maori King Movement, beginning a new phase of the wars
between Maori and Colonial British
★-1874 Ontario Agricultural College founded
1878 Fever
epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500
1882 1st
ocean pier in US completed, Washington, D.C.
★-1902 Australian parliament agrees to
female suffrage
1900’s
1909 16th
Amendment approved (power to tax incomes)
1917 The
Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking
miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
★-1928 1st televised tennis match
1933 Congress
passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
★-1948 1st jets to fly across Atlantic (6
RAF de Havilland Vampires)
1951 Mob
tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero Ill
1954 President Eisenhower put
forward a plan for an interstate highway system
1957 1st
President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower
★-1960 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
1966 US
Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price
at Philadelphia & Denver mints
★-1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses
Atlantic on raft Ra II, arrives in Barbados from Morocco in 57 days
1972 Democrats
nominated George McGovern for president in Miami Fla
1973 A
fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of
the United States.
1976 1st
"Family Feud" game show debuts on ABC hosted by Richard Dawson
1984 Geraldine
Ferraro, NY becomes 1st woman major-party VP candidate
1996 Michael
Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million
2000’s
★-2013 Malala Yousafzai addresses
the United Nations and calls for worldwide access to education
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great day, monsoon is trying real hard
to drop some rain. I know it will, the question is when today?
Out and about and ran into a colleague
from Tuba. Nice to catch up. She retired a couple of years ago and her husband
just retired this year. Both said that if they had known how good retirement
was, they would have done it much sooner. Told her she was preaching to the
choir.
Smiling broadly. Senate is cutting 2
weeks off their summer break do get something, actually anything, done. And
America is asking why? The answer, Democrats are holding up the Republican
agenda. Ha! Check your seating chart, Republicans have the majority in both
houses.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL:
In
order to have full transparency, Jr. has released emails that led up to the
Russian meeting. Guess the NY Times saying they were releasing them had nothing
to do with his release.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
Which Florida city is nicknamed the
"Magic City"?
Tampa Miami
Tallahassee Orlando
18.8% taking the
internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
15→Percentage of Americans who have used ride-hailing
apps such as Uber and Lyft
33→Who have never hear of either
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Somewhat Useless Information
Penicillin is made growing the
appropriate species of mold on nutrients; the active compound is then extracted
from the culture fluid and purified.
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Most fungal species are saprophytes:
they feed on remains of dead organisms or their by-products. Most forest soil
has too much acid for bacteria to grow well, and so the fungi are the main
decay producers.
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Mucor is the name given to a group of
mold fungi, which grow on the surface of decaying fruit, bread, horse manure,
and other organic matter.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@-93- Milton Berle,
Harlem
comedian (Uncle Miltie, Mr Television), born in NYC
(d. 2002)
80’s
@-87- R Buckminster
Fuller,
architect/inventor
(geodesic dome)
(d. 1983)
@-83- Curly Joe DeRita,
American
actor and comedian
(d. 1993)
@-80- Beah Richards,
American
actress-Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
(d. 2000)
80- Bill Cosby,
American
actor and comedian (Cosby Show, I Spy), born in Philadelphia, legal issues
70’s
@-78± George Washington
Carver,
botanist
(studied the peanut)
[d. 1943]
@-78- Van Cliburn Jr,
[Harvey Lavan],
La, pianist
(Tchaikovsky 1958)
(d 2013)
@-77- George Eastman,
American
inventor (Kodak camera, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company), born in
Waterville, New York
(d. 1932)
@-73- Louis B. Mayer,
Dymer,
Ukraine, American film producer and creator of the star system (MGM)
(d. 1957)
60’s
@-69- Pablo Neruda,
Chilean
poet (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971), born in Parral, Chile
(d. 1973)
69- Richard
Simmons,
exercise
guru (Deal-a-Meal)
69- Jay
Thomas [Jon Thomas Terrell],
American
actor and comedian (Cheers, Murphy Brown), born in Kermit, Texas
66- Cheryl
Ladd,
Huron SD,
actress (Charlie's Angels, Purple Hearts)
@-65- Oscar Hammerstein
II,
American
lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers, born in NYC,
(d. 1960)
@-64- Josiah Wedgwood,
English
pottery designer and manufacturer (Wedgwood), born in Burslem
(d. 1795)
40’s
@-44- Henry David Thoreau,
American
naturalist and pacifist (Walden Pond), born in Concord, Massachusetts
(d. 1862)
@-41- Eric Carr [Paul
Charles Caravello],
rock
drummer (Kiss), born in Brooklyn, New York
(d. 1991)
30’s
39- Topher
Grace,
American
actor (That 70’s Show)
20’s
20- Malala
Yousafzai,
Pakistani
activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize recipient, born
in Mingora, North-West Frontier Province
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@96-1966 D
T Suzuki,
Zen
Buddhism scholar
80’s
@85-2004 Betty
Oliphant,
co-founder
of National Ballet of Canada
@85-1712 Richard
Cromwell,
English
Lord Protector (1658-59)
@81-1849 Dolley
Madison,
4th First
Lady Of The United States
70’s
@72-1892 Alexander Cartwright,
American
sportsman (recognized as inventor of modern baseball)
60’s
@67-1973 Lon
Chaney Jr,
American
actor (Wolfman), long illness
50’s
@53-2008 Tony
Snow,
former
speechwriter for Presidents George H. W. Bush and press secretary for George W.
Bush, colon cancer
40’s
@49-1804 Alexander Hamilton,
US Founding
Father; 1st Secretary of the Treasury, killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in
pistol duel
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Trivia Hive Answers
Miami
Florida is certainly a unique place, but
who knew one of its cities was magical? Actually, the name supposedly refers to
Miami's fast-growing development. Although Miami was officially incorporated as
a city in 1896, it was home to native peoples and Spanish settlers who arrived
in the 16th century. You'd think Bay Lake would be nicknamed the "Magic
City." After all, Bay Lake is home to the Magic Kingdom. Sources:
Thrillist, City of Miami website
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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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