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Almanac: Week: 25 \ Day: 170
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 88°\L 51° Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 21mph
Ave. High: 80° Record High: 92°
(1936) Ave. Low: 42° Record
Low: 25° (1979)
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Observances Today:
Family Awareness Day
Garfield the Cat Day
Husband Caregiver Day
Juneteenth- Emancipation Day
National Flip Flop Day
Ugliest Dog Day
Work@Home Father's Day
World Sauntering Day
World Sickle Cell Day
Orthodox Festival of All Saints
(Orthodox)
Ramadan (Muslim)
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Observances This Week:
National Hermit Week:13-20
Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in Public Week:13-21
National Flag Week:14-20
US Open Golf Championship:15-21
Animal Rights Awareness Week:17-23
Duct Tape Days: 19-21
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1862 - Slavery outlawed in US territories
1915
- Seventy thousand people witnessed the launch of
the USS Arizona at
the New York Naval Yard.
The ship was christened with a bottle of
the first water to flow over
the Roosevelt Dam and champagne. Cost of the ship: $13,000,000.
1931 - 1st photoelectric cell installed
commercially West Haven Ct
1934 - Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
created
1936 - German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion
KOs Joe Louis
1940 - "Brenda Starr", 1st cartoon strip
by a woman, appears in Chicago
1941 - Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal
1956 - Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin end
partnership after 16 films
1961 - US Supreme Court struck down a provision in
Maryland's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God
1978 - Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st
appears as a comic strip
1987 - Ben & Jerry Ice Cream & Grateful
Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia
1999 - At about 4:30 pm, Stephen King is
hit by a car on the shoulder of Route 5, in Lovell, Maine. He would suffer
numerous injuries, including a collapsed right lung, multiple fractures of his
right leg, scalp laceration and a broken hip
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Today’s World Events through History
1464 - French King Louis XI forms postal service
1610 - Samuel de Champlain and his French army
defeat the Mohawk people at the Battle of Sorel in New France, present-day
Sorel-Tracy, Quebec
1829 - Robert Peel founds the London
Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)
1913 - Natives Land Act, Act No 27, passed in South
Africa: confines Africans to hopelessly overcrowded reserves and deprives them
of rights to purchase land outside the native reserves
1917 - The British Royal Family, which has had
strong German ties since George I, renounces its German names and titles and
adopts the name of Windsor
1948 - USSR blocks access road to West Berlin
1972 - A Catholic civilian is shot dead by the
Provisional Irish Republican Army in the Cracked Cup Social Club, Belfast
1972 - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
William Whitelaw concedes 'special category' status, or 'political status' for
paramilitary prisoners in Northern Ireland
1991 - Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders
to police
2006 - Prime ministers of several northern European
nations participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at
the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another very warm day. While it is considered hot here, we are
nothing like Phoenix. No complaints.
Had a good lunch with Cheryl and Mary. Cheryl had some great
stories about her family in Michigan. Mary is staying in ‘cool’ Flagstaff this week
as neither her nor her two little dogs can deal with the Phx heat. Can’t blame
either one.
Another horrific shooting last night, this time at a church.
President Obama is right when he says there has to be a conversation about why
this type of mass gun violence happens in these United States and does not
happen in any other developed democracy in the world. I’m ready for that
conversation…have been since Columbine.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Inspector
Ixolite of the Yard was investigating a murder at Nottonmye Manor.
It was a difficult case, and Ixolite was completely stumped until he noticed a
message sent to him by the killer cunningly hidden in a newspaper advertisement
selling Car License Plates.
Inspector Ixolite thought about it for a while, and when he had solved the
puzzle, immediately arrested the guilty man.
Q1) How did Ixolite know the advert was a clue for him?
Q2) Solve the code and tell me who Ixolite arrested.
This is the newspaper advert (Car license plates for sale) that Inspector
Ixolite saw.
Plates For Sale;
[W 05 NWO]
[H 13 HSR ]
[O 05 EBM]
[D 08 UNE]
[U 10 HTY]
[N 04 BRE]
[N 16 TTE]
[I 26 LHC ]
[T 10 AEE]
[I 26 CNA]
[X 22 VDA]
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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… Celebrity Facts…
Bill Murray was arrested in 1970 for trying to smuggle 10lbs of
Marijuana during his 20th Birthday.
Judge Judy makes $45 million a year.
Oprah Winfrey makes $10 per second.
…Cool Facts…
You can hear the blood flowing through your ears if you find a
quiet place and cover them tightly.
An African Baobab tree in South Africa, known as Big Baobab, has a
circumference of 154 feet and even has a bar inside the trunk that can fit 60
people.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
There’s a large slide warning on the Old Trails route near
Davenport Lake. It will be many weeks before the new cut will be open. H. R.
Sullivan.
Burr Kelly, lumberjack at the Greenlaw Lumber logging camp, was
badly cut below the knee when his double-bit ax rebounded. He’s now in the
Milton Hospital. It is hoped that there will be no permanent injury.
The light snow that fell on Thursday melted quickly.
G. H. Enters' auto had a narrow escape on Monday. When he detoured
to avoid a team at Aspen and San Francisco streets, he ran up over the curb.
Fortunately he was only badly shaken up. It’s the auto that took a beating. The
team was uninjured.
…Harper’s Index…
86 –percentage
of HIV-positive Americans who are not receiving regular treatment
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
In 2009, five Pennsylvania women completed a two-year quest to
visit every Wawa Convenience Store in existence.
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2 jokes for the day
A woman walked up to a little old man rocking
in a chair on his porch. "I couldn't help noticing how happy you
look," she said. "What's your secret for a long happy life?"
"I smoke three packs of cigarettes a day," he said. "I also
drink a case of whiskey a week, eat fatty foods, and never exercise."
"That's amazing," said the woman, "how old are you?"
"Twenty-six," he said.
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A dog thinks:
Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm,
dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... They must be Gods!
A cat thinks:
Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm,
dry house, pet me, and take good care of me... I must be a God!
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Yep, It Really
Happened
LYDEN,
Wash. (UPI) - The Washington State Patrol said a woman who became lost while
riding her mobility scooter was escorted home by a trooper at 6 mph. The patrol
said Trooper Dave Hintz responded June 9 to a report of an elderly woman riding
her scooter in circles on a stretch of Highway 546 in Lyden and he asked the
woman to move to the side of the road. Hintz said the woman told him she had
been riding in circles because she was lost about 4 miles from home. "I
just treated her the way I would've wanted somebody to treat my mom,"
Hintz told KOMO-TV. Hintz drove behind the woman at 6 mph to escort her home.
He said the journey took more than an hour. Amused witnesses posted photos and
videos of the escort on social media. "Our motto with the state patrol is
service with humility," Hintz said. "It took a lot of patience and
humility to take care of this lady."
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Every
Dutch police car is “equipped” with a teddy bear, in case something troubling
happens to a child, according to scoopwoops.com.
The
United Kingdom and Portugal hold the longest standing alliance in the world, it
started in 1386, according to wikipedia.org.
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Birthday’s Today
73 - Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane,
rocker (Spanky & Our Gang-Lazy Day)
68 - Salman Rushdie, novelist (Midnight's
Children, Satanic Verses)
67 - Phylicia Rashad, actress and singer
(The Cosby Show)
65 - Ann Wilson, American musician
(Heart-What About Love)
61 - Kathleen Turner, actress (Accidental
Tourist, Jewel of Nile)
53 - Paula Julie Abdul, Van Nuys California,
singer/choreographer (Straight Up)
43 - Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
17 - Atticus Shaffer,
TV Actor
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Remembered for being born today
1896 -1986@89- Wallis
Simpson [Duchess of Windsor]
1916-1994@78 - Pat
Buttram, actor (Mr Haney-Green Acres)
1897-1975@77 - Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], Brooklyn,
(The 3 Stooges)
1902-1977@75 - Guy
Lombardo, Canadian orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne)
1566-1625@58 - James
Stuart, King James VI of Scotland\ James I of Eng/Ire
1623-1662@39 - Blaise
Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal)
1903-1941@37 - Lou
Gehrig [Henry Louis Gehrig], "Iron Horse", 1st baseman
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Historical Obits Today
Slim
Whitman, American country singer-2012@90
William
Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983)-1993@81
James M
Barrie, Scottish writer (Dear Brutus/Peter Pan), pneumonia-1937@77
Sam
Giancana, American gangster, multiple gunshot wounds-1975@67
Bobby
Helms, singer (Jingle Bell Rock), asthma-1997@63
James
Gandolfini, American actor, heart attack, 2013@51
Ethel
Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing, -1953@37
Julius
Rosenberg, NYC, 1st US civilian executed for espionage-1953@35
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Brain Teasers Answers
1)The first bit is easy, as the first letter of each plate spells
WHODUNNIT IX
(A challenge to our Inspector.)
2)The second bit is a little trickier, but I gave you the solution.
If you read the last three letters in each plate from the bottom up and right
to left you get
ADVANCE EACH LETTER BY THE NUMBER SHOWN, so advance W by 5 to get B,
H by 13 to get U and so on until you spell BUTLER DID IT.
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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.
§…And That Is All
for Now…§
