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July 21, 2017 Week: 29 \ Day: 202
86004 Today: H 77° \ L 53°
Average Sky Cover: 85%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
14mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High:
92°[1937] Record Low: 38°[1924]
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Quote of the Day
The
traveler sees what he sees,
the
tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Observances Today
Legal
Drinking Age Day
No
Pet Store Puppies Day
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Observances This Week
Rabbit
Week: 15-21
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
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1800’s
1846 Mormons found 1st English settlement in California
(San Joaquin Valley)
1861 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va -
South wins
1900’s
1921 To prove his contention that air power is superior to
sea power, US Colonel William Mitchell demonstrates how bombs from planes can
sink a captured German battleship
1925 "Monkey Trial" ends - John Scopes found
guilty of teaching Darwinism
fined $100 & costs
1930 US Veterans Administration forms
★1951 Dalai Lama returns to Tibet
★1960 In Sri Lanka
(then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM
1962 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration
in Albany Ga
1969 Neil
Armstrong becomes
the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
1971 Sam Giancana returns to the United States after
spending seven years of exile in Mexico
★1972 Bloody Friday: within the space of seventy-five
minutes, the Provisional Irish Republican Army explode twenty-two bombs in
Belfast; six civilians, two British Army soldiers and one UDA volunteer were
killed, 130 injured
1974 US House Judiciary approves two Articles of
Impeachment against President Richard
Nixon
★1990 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is performed where the
Berlin Wall once stood
1997 The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old
Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday, setting sail for the first time
in 116 years.
2000’s
★2007 Harry Potter and
the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the series by J. K. Rowling is published worldwide. 11 million copies
sell in 24 hrs
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My Rambling Thoughts
Very good lunch with Mary as Cheryl
decided to stay in Williams. Big thunderstorm hit about 1/2way through lunch.
Waited about 15 minutes after finishing for the rain to stop. Love the rain,
forest is very happy.
I heard a couple of BBC political
commentators discussing the first 6 months. Interesting that one guy said “I
said 6 months ago that this administration will be like nothing America has
ever seen”; the other British guy said ‘Nothing will surprise me with that
administration.” True and very scary.
Over that years I have either become a
Big Brother fan for that season or never watched any episodes in another
season. Well, this season has me using my DVR for the episodes. Watching the
various contestants certainly is a crazy cross-section of our great country.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
The NCAA once banned what basketball
move?
Hook
shots Three-point shots
Dunks Crossovers
68.2% taking the
internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
1→Number
of statewide elected
offices in Texas that are held by Democrats
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Yep, It Really Happened
*------- When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go
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Police are looking to arrest a man who urinated on a woman while riding on a
train, according to police in New York. The New York Police Department said
that the suspect took advantage of the 26-year-old victim who was listening to
music with her eyes shut while traveling in the Manhattan bound J train. The
incident unfolded shortly after the train left the 75th Street-Elderts Lane
station. The 26-year-old woman decided to relax and listen to music. She closed
her eyes for a few minutes, until she felt something hitting her face. When she
opened her eyes, the woman saw the man standing next to her and urinating on
her face. The suspect then fled at the Cypress Hills station in Brooklyn.
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Somewhat Useless Information
As early as 200 B.C., the Chinese were
writing on green bamboo stalks and heating it on coals to dry. Sometimes if
left too long over the heat, the wood expanded and even burst, with a bang of
course. According to Scientific American, Chinese scholars noticed that the
noises effectively scared off abnormally large mountain men. And, thus, the
firecracker was born. By some accounts, fireworks were also thought to scare
away evil spirits.
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Sometime between 600 and 900 C.E.,
Chinese alchemists accidentally mixed saltpeter (or potassium nitrate) with
sulfur and charcoal, inadvertently stumbling upon the crude chemical recipe for
gunpowder. Supposedly, they had been searching for an elixir for immortality.
***
Firework color concoctions are comprised of different metal elements. When an
element burns, its electrons get excited, and it releases energy in the form of
light. Different chemicals burn at different wavelengths of light. Strontium
and lithium compounds produce deep reds; copper produces blues; titanium and
magnesium burn silver or white; calcium creates an orange color; sodium
produces yellow pyrotechnics; and finally, barium burns green.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@-82- Paul Julius Baron
von Reuter,
German-born
founder of Reuters news service, born in Kassel
(d. 1899)
@-81- Don Knotts,
Morgantown
WV, actor (Andy Griffth Show, 3's Company)
(d. 2006)
60’s
69-
rock
vocalist (Peace Train), born in London, England
@-63- Robin
Williams,
American
actor and comedian (Mork & Mindy, Good Will Hunting), born in Chicago,
(d. 2014)
@-61-Ernest Hemmingway,
author
(d. 1961)
30’s
39- Josh
Hartnett,
actor
39- Damian
Marley,
reggae
singer, son of Bob
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@91-1998 Robert
Young,
American
actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby, M.D.)
70’s
@75-1967
actor
(Sherlock Holmes), heart attack
@74-1998 Alan
Shepard,
astronaut (Mrrcury/Apollo),
leukemia
@72-2006 Mako,
Japanese-born
American actor (Sand Pebbles), cancer
30’s
@37-1796
Scottish
poet (Auld Lang Syne), heart issues
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Trivia Hive Answers
Dunks
For more than a decade, the NCAA
prohibited players from performing dunks. The league's rules committee
officially launched the ban during the 1967-1968 season and kept the
prohibition until 1977. Why did the NCAA outlaw the dunk? Over the course of
the 1965-1966 season, league medical personnel recorded 1,500 incidents in
which players were injured after colliding with the backboard. The committee
believed the ban would prevent such incidents. However, many college basketball
fans speculate that the NCAA instituted the prohibition due to then-UCLA star
and eventual NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who enjoyed posterizing opponents.
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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