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Almanac: Week: 26 \ Day: 177
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 90°\L 54° Average Sky Cover: 45%
Wind
ave: 4mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave. High: 81° Record High: 96°
(1970) Ave. Low: 45° Record
Low: 26° (1975)
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Observances Today:
America's Kid's Day
Beautician's Day
Descendants Day
Drive Your Corvette to Work Day
Forgiveness Day
International Day Against Drug Abuse
and Illicit Trafficking
International Day in Support of
Victims of Torture
National Canoe Day
National Chocolate Pudding Day
Take Your Dog To Work Day
Log Cabin Day
Independence Day (Madagascar)
Ramadan (Islam)
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Observances This Week:
Meet A Mate Week:21-27
Old Time Fiddlers Week:22-27
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week:22-28
North American Organic Brewers Days:25-28
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week:25-28
World Police and Fire Games:26-7/5
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1721 - Dr
Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America
1797 - Charles
Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they
fear effects of iron on soil!
1848 - 1st pure
food law enacted in US
1870 - 1st
section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
1870 - The Christian holiday of Christmas is
declared a federal holiday in US
1896 - 1st movie
theater in US opens, charging 10 cents for admission
1919 - NY Daily News
begins publishing
1927 - The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney
Island
1933
- Bakers
raised the price of bread from eight to nine cents a loaf in Tucson
1945 - United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations
in San Francisco
1959 - Queen
Elizabeth & President Eisenhower open St Lawrence Seaway
1963 - US
President John F. Kennedy gives his famous "Ich bin ein
Berliner" (I am a Berliner) speech in West Berlin
1974 - The
Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of
Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
1989 - Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive
death penalty
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the
Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment
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Today’s World Events through History
1284 - Pied
Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away (actually happened)
1498 - Toothbrush invented
1553 - Christ's
Hospital in England granted a charter
1843 - Hong
Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
1906 - Hongar
Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix (Le Mans, France)
1952 - Nelson
Mandela & 51 others infringe South Africa curfew
1970 - Two young girls die in a premature explosion
in Derry after their father, a member of the Irish Republican Army, was making
an incendiary device, presumably for use against the British Army
1972 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)
begin a "bi-lateral truce" as of midnight
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Smoke returned to our mountain town. Same fires as yesterday.
Keeps everyone on our toes.
Great lunch with Cheryl and Mary today. Cheryl’s son and family
are coming in sometime next week. She wishes it could be a longer visit, but
will deal with the days she has with them. Mary is heading to Phx to sit in her
pool. Then the following week Mary is headed to Oregon to the family summer
beach house for the month. Her daughter and family just moved there, so she is
spending some extra time. Mary’s son was on Ancestory.com and found that his 7
times great grandfather was the Jack Daniel of whiskey fame. His dad had always
been very clear that the family name was Daniel and not the more common
Daniels. Turns out there were lots of school discussions when the teacher
and/or administration added the ‘s’ to Mary’s daughter and son. I get that. We
had similar discussions when my name was listed as Frazier II instead of
Frazier III. A long time ago, someone in BIA housing in Gallup sent a letter to
Frazier II. I knew it was a rent raise that couldn’t happen until I signed for
the letter. I refused it stating ‘no such person at this address’. About a week
later a lady was in my office from Gallup with the letter, and she was very
unhappy because she had to drive over to deliver it. I showed her my ID to
prove that I was not Frazier II. I tried to explain to her that it was illegal
to open a letter addressed to my father, who had passed about 5 years earlier. She
didn’t get it, but left my office, went to a secretary, used her typewriter and
retyped the letter. Then I gladly signed for it. She never let me forget it.
Speaking of the government, I got ‘my letter’ today that it is
possible that my information was stolen in the recent OPM breech. More
paperwork to fill out. And now free credit bureau checking begins. What a pain….just
when my FICA score broke 810. Oh well.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Ms.
Arroyo asked the class to see if they could find the sum of the first 50 odd
numbers. As everyone settled down to their addition, Terry ran to her and said,
"The sum is 2,500." Ms. Arroyo thought, "Lucky guess," and
gave him the task of finding the sum of the first 75 odd numbers. Within 20
seconds, Terry was back with the correct answer of 5,625.
How does Terry find the sum so quickly?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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… America Facts…
Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the
U.S. to have sex is the car.
According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion
worth of unredeemed gift cards.
…Cool Facts…
In 2012, Swedish artist Fredrik Saker created a super-detailed
self portrait and successfully submitted it as his driver’s license picture.
In 1996, an Iraqi man named Sam Eisho moved to Australia and used
the welfare system as income. Some years later, he became successful and wrote
a cheque for more than $18,000 to the Australian Government (every cent they
gave him).
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
100 YEARS
AGO-1915
East Aspen Avenue is rapidly improving and promises well for the
future. The street is being opened up and graded. New cement sidewalks are
being laid. New buildings are planned.
County Immigration Officer Allen is to have a neat little office
on San Francisco Street in the former OK Chop or HOP House, which is being
thoroughly fumigated.
…Harper’s Index…
5, 4 –respective
rank of Great Britain and France among world leaders in GDP in 2012
4, 5 –
respective rank in 2013 after Great Britain began accounting for prostitution
and illegal drugs
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
Comic book publishing giants Marvel and DC can both churn out
whiz-bang serialized adventures, but they disagree on one very important aspect
of a super hero’s origin. Marvel sets all its characters in real cities (New
York, Los Angeles, etc.). DC Comics, however, chooses to keep the fantasy alive
with places like Batman’s Gotham City and Superman’s Metropolis.
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2 jokes for the day
Q: Why did Mr. Stupid tiptoe past the medicine
cabinet?
A: He didn't want to wake up the sleeping pills!!
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Job notices—what they say: what they mean
"JOIN OUR FAST-PACED COMPANY": We
have no time to train you.
"CASUAL WORK ATMOSPHERE": We don't pay enough to expect that you'll
dress up; well, a couple of the real daring guys wear earrings.
"MUST BE DEADLINE ORIENTED": You'll be six months behind schedule on
your first day.
"SOME OVERTIME REQUIRED": Some time each night and some time each
weekend.
"DUTIES WILL VARY": Anyone in the office can boss you around.
"MUST HAVE AN EYE FOR DETAIL": We have no quality control.
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Yep, It Really
Happened
ADELAIDE,
Australia (UPI) - An Australian doctor has warned against the dangers of
so-called "skinny jeans," citing a patient who collapsed after a day
of strenuous activity while wearing tight pants. Neurologist Thomas Kimber, of
the Royal Adelaide Hospital, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp., on Tuesday
that a 35-year-old woman from Adelaide was recently hospitalized after wearing
skinny jeans. Kimber said the woman was helping a relative move and spent the
day squatting to help them clean. "She noticed that her legs were becoming
increasingly uncomfortable as the day went on [but] didn't really think much of
it," Kimber said. The woman didn't notice anything was wrong until she
fell on the sidewalk and couldn't get up again. "By this time it was dark
and quite late at night and she was unable to stand up again, and really was
there for some time before she could crawl to the side of the road, hail a cab
and bring herself to the Royal Adelaide Hospital," Kimber said. The
woman's legs were so swollen that hospital staff had to cut her jeans off of
her body. She suffered severe muscle swelling and nerve compression and had to
be treated with intravenous fluids. According to a Kimber's report of the
incident, which was published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and
Psychiatry, the patient suffered compartment syndrome -- when increased
pressure to body parts, particularly the leg or forearm, leads to muscle or
nerve damage. "We believe it was the combination of the squatting and
tight jeans that caused the problem," Kimber said in the report. The woman
was unable to walk for several days but eventually made a full recovery.
"The take home message I would like to leave people is if they are going
to doing a lot of squatting ... wear something looser, with more elasticity
perhaps," he added.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
While
men tend to die earlier than women of natural causes, they also account for 94
percent of all on-the-job fatalities, even though they barely represent 50
percent of the U.S. workforce.
Men are also four times more likely than women to be murdered, and 10 times
more likely to commit murder.
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Worldwide,
there are approximately 107 baby boys born for every 100 baby girls. Scientists
believe the elevated birth rate in favor of boys may be linked to the higher
mortality rates of boys in infancy and childhood.
The brains of adult men are about 10 percent larger in total size than the
brains of women. Because men generally have a larger stature and more muscle
mass than women, their brains require more neurons to control the body.
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Birthday’s Today
81 - John V
Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion/(Rep/Sen-D-California)
59 - Chris Isaak,
Stockton Ca, rock singer/songwriter (Wicked Game)
54 - Greg LeMond,
US professional road cyclist (Tour de France winner)
47 - Shannon
Sharpe, NFL tight end (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
45 - Chris
O'Donnell, actor (School Ties, Robin-Batman Forever)
41 - Derek Jeter,
Pequanock NJ, shortstop (NY Yankees, Rookie of Year 1996)
35 - Michael Vick, American football player
29 - Drake Bell,
American actor, musician
22 - Ariana
Grande, Boca Raton Florida, American singer (Problem, The Way)
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Remembered for being born today
1909-1997@87 - "Col
Tom" Parker, [Dries Van Kruijk], Neth, rock mgr (Elvis Presley)
1922-2004@81 - Frances Rafferty, Sioux City Iowa,
actress (December Bride)
1892-1973@80 - Pearl
Sydenstricker Buck, China, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938)
1902-1978@75 - William Lear, engineer/manufacturer/CEO
(Lear Jet Corp)
1819-1893@73 - Abner
Doubleday, Mjr Gen (Union)/inventor (baseball)
1911-1956@45 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias [Mildred Ella],
athlete (U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame)
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Historical Obits Today
Strom
Thurmond, U.S. Senator-2003@100
George H
Gallup, pollster (Gallup Poll)-1984@82
Liz
Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer, cancer-2007@78
Roy
Campanella, 3xMVP catcher (Dodgers), heart attack-1993@71
James
Weldon Johnson, African American leader (NAACP), car crash-1938@67
Francisco
Pizarro, Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire is
assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist,
Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed-1541@65-70
Phil
Rubenstein, US, actor (Tango & Cash, Robocop)-1992@58
Sergio
Vega, Mexican Banda singer, murdered-2010@40
Israel
Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer, morbidly obese-1997@38
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Brain Teasers Answers
The following pattern holds: The sum is equal to n x n, when n is
the number of consecutive odd numbers, starting with 1. For example, the sum of
the first 3 odd numbers is equal to 3 x 3, or 9; the sum of the first 4 odd
numbers is equal to 4 x 4, or 16; the sum of the first 5 odd numbers is equal
to 5 x 5, or 25; and so on.
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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…§
