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July 13, 2017 Week: 28 \ Day: 194
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 49°
Average Sky Cover: 75%
Nearest Lightning: 4.2
miles
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts:
13mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High:
94°[1972] Record Low: 35°[1904]
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Quote of the Day
Better
keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see
the world.
George Bernard Shaw
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Observances Today
Gruntled
Workers Day
International
Sister Cities Day: 13-15 Link
National
French Fries Day Link
World Cup Soccer Day (Anniversary Observance)
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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
1700’s
1787 Congress
establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)
1800’s
1835 Swedish-American
inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw
propeller design
★- 1837 Queen Victoria is
1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
★- 1854 US forces shell &
burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
1865 Horace
Greeley reputedly advises his readers to "Go west young man"
1865 P
T Barnum's museum burns down
1868 Oscar
J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana
★- 1871 World's
first championship cat show; Organised by Harrison Weir and held in Crystal
Palace, London
1900’s
1923 The
Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los
Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last
letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
1939 Frank
Sinatra makes his recording debut
1967 Race
riots break out in Newark, 27 die
1977 NYC
experiences 25 hr black-out
★- 1985 "Live Aid"
concerts held at both Wembley Stadium (London) and John F. Kennedy Stadium
(Philadelphia) raises over $70 million for African famine relief
★- 1986 Zola
Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games, a direct
consequence of Britain's refusal to support economic sanctions against the
apartheid government of South Africa
2000’s
★- 2015 Greek Credit Crisis:
Eurozone agrees conditional deal to lend €86bn over 3 years if Greece passes
reforms.
★- 2016 Theresa May is
elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Conservative Party MPs
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My Rambling Thoughts
I was busy on Sunday evening, so I DVR-d
Earth-Live
on the National Geographic Channel. Great show, 2 hours of wild animals across
the world. I watched it last night. It is 2 hours of mostly live coverage and
The Kenya camera was amazing. Been there, seen it live, but this was a nice way
to see it again. Well worth the watch if it comes on again. Also enjoyed the
religious man feeding the hyenas in the dark in Ethiopia. Moon cam was amazing.
Very cool.
Great Monsoon yesterday. There were 2
hard, heavy downpours, each lasting about 30 minutes. Trees are happy. Clouding
up again today, but our local weatherman says to expect less rain for a couple
of days. Thunder has already started, so I’ll see if he is right.
FB continues to amaze me. I had a friend
in TC who moved to Hawaii. Haven’t seen or heard from him for at least 25
years. Then yesterday a friend request showed up. I checked it out and
accepted. He instant messaged me early this morning. He is now living in Tucson
but is coming back up North for a class reunion in August. He plans to stop by.
This would never have happened without FB. Cool.
When I was an Acting Principal, one of
many jobs was to advertise for a new principal. I would get calls from some
applicants that I already knew. I would tell them to apply. If they asked about
chances, I would always say that it was unknown as the board was involved. I
always documented those calls and would let the superintendent know. I didn’t
want to get into any trouble for pushing for a certain candidate before the
board and I had interviewed all the candidates. I find it almost impossible to
believe Don Jr. would not tell his father about his meeting. I also find it
very impossible that he just wanted to see what she had. Come on, the nation is
not all idiots.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
What is the actual name of "The
Bean" sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park?
Shiny
Bead Cloud Gate
Silver
Teardrop Reflection Bean
28.9% taking the
internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
$3,500,000,000→Amount the Saudi government has announced it
will invest in Uber
0→Number of Saudi Uber vehicles that will be
driven by women
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Yep, It Really Happened
If you want to commit suicide but don't
quite have the guts to follow through with it, apparently one quick way to help
get the job done is to call the police.
Like last year when a Florida woman called the police because her boyfriend was
drunk and lying in bed playing with a knife.
Two SWAT officers showed up with assault rifles and promptly shot him dead. Did
I mention he was lying in bed?
But never let it be said that the police don't have a sense of proportion about
these things. Like this story of a disturbed man in Texas.
Police were called when two women observed a mentally ill man who had doused
himself in gasoline and appeared to be getting ready to set himself on fire.
Officers arrived, got the women out of the home and began talking to the man.
While officers tried to calm him down, a police spokeswoman said, he poured
more gasoline on himself and was believed to be holding a lighter in one hand.
Perhaps not wanting to waste all that expensive fuel, the officers decided the
best way to subdue him was to deploy a taser.
The spark from the weapon set the man off like a torch.
The spokeswoman acknowledged the risk of using an electrical stun gun near
gasoline, but said the man was "very frantic and erratic and became a
danger to everyone in the room."
That being namely himself, seeing as how the police had already cleared
everyone else out.
On the plus side, the man did not die. Officers wrapped him in a blanket to put
out the fire and got the man outside the home. He was later taken to a
hospital.
The officers were also taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Swimming as an organized activity goes
back as far as 2500 B.C. in ancient Egypt and later in ancient Greece, Rome,
and Assyria. In Rome and Greece, swimming was part of the education of
elementary age boys and the Romans built the first swimming pools (separate
from bathing pools). The first heated swimming pool was built by Gaius Maecenas
of Rome in the first century BC.
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Ancient civilizations left ample
evidence of their swimming abilities. Bas-relief artwork in an Egyptian tomb
from around 2,000 B.C. shows an overarm stroke like the front crawl. The
Assyrians showed an early breaststroke in their stone carvings. The Hittites,
the Minoans, and other early civilizations left drawings of swimming and diving
skills.
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The first municipal pool in the U.S. was built in Brookline, Mass., in 1887.
Soon after that, New York City built public facilities, then called
"baths."
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
70’s
@-77- Ernest Gold
[Goldner],
Austrian-born
American film composer (Exodus), born in Vienna
(d. 1999)
77- Patrick Stewart,
English
actor (Picard-Star Trek Next Generation, Charles Xavier-X-men), born in
Mirfield, Yorkshire, England
75- Harrison Ford,
actor (Star
Wars, Indiana Jones, Frantic), born in Chicago
73- Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
inventor (Rubik's cube), born in Budapest
71- Cheech
Marin, [Richard],
comedian
(Cheech & Chong-Up in Smoke)
60’s
@-69- Dave Garroway,
Schnectady
NY, TV host (Today Show)
(d. 1982)
50’s
@-55- Francis
Drake,
explorer
(d. 1596)
@-55- Julius Caesar,
Roman
military and political leader, born in Rome
(d. 44 BC),
40’s
@-49- Bob Crane,
actor (Col
Hogan-Hogan's Heroes, Donna Reed), born in Waterbury, Connecticut
(d. 1978)
48- Ken
Jeong,
actor
(Hangover) and physician
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@87-2006 Red
Buttons (Aaron Chwatt),
American
comedian
@87-1934 Kate
Sheppard,
New Zealand
suffragette and the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage
movement
@82-1946 Alfred Stieglitz,
American
photographer/art dealer (Camera Work)
70’s
@77-2012 Richard
Darryl Zanuck,
American
Academy Award winning film producer, heart attack
@76-1951 Arnold Schoenberg,
Austrian
composer (Verklärte Nacht) and painter associated with the expressionist
movement, heart failure
30’s
@31-2013 Cory Monteith,
Canadian
actor and musician, heroin/alcohol OD
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Trivia Hive Answers
Cloud Gate
When Chicago tourists and residents
aren't too busy practicing their best Mike Ditka impersonation and munching on
Garrett's popcorn, they're often congregating at Cloud Gate, the iconic,
reflective and bean-shaped sculpture in Millennium Park. Many a person has crowded
around the installation hoping to get some interesting selfies with the object
that's come to be locally known as "the Bean." Anish Kapoor, who
created Cloud Gate, allegedly isn't fond of the colloquial moniker. One can
only wonder about his thoughts regarding the many fingerprints on the
sculpture's reflective surface. 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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