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Almanac: Week: 29 \ Day: 194
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 85° \ L 48° Average Sky Cover: 65%
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Observances Today:
Barbershop
Music Appreciation Day
Embrace
Your Geekness Day
Fool's
Paradise Day Gruntled Workers Day
International
Town Criers Day
National
French Fries Day
World
Cup Soccer Day
Feast
of Lanterns (Japan)
Ramadan
(Islam)
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Observances This Week:
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1787 - Congress
establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)
1832 - Source
of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft)
1865 - Horace
Greeley reputedly advises his readers to "Go west young man"
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.
1961 - St. Joseph's
Hospital opened on Tucson's east side
1977 - NYC
experiences 25 hr black-out
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Today’s World Events through History
1174 - William
I of Scotland, key rebel in Revolt of 1173-1174, captured at Alnwick by forces
loyal to Henry II of England.
1568 - Dean of
St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer
1837 - Queen Victoria is
1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
1854 - In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General
Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset
Boulbon.
1917 - Vision
of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal
1943 - Greatest tank battle in history ends with
Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were
lost by Germany
1969 - North Ireland
loyalist Ian Paisley addresses a crowd at Loughgall, County Antrim, and is
reported to have said: "I am anti-Roman Catholic, but God being my judge,
I love the poor dupes who are ground down under that system."
1972 - A series of gun-battles and shootings erupt
across Belfast between the Provisional Irish Republican Army and British Army
soldiers
2014 - FIFA
World Cup: Germany beats Argentina 1-0 in extra time to win football's 20th
World Cup in Rio de Janeiro
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice lazy Sunday. Stayed up way to late with Netflix, so didn’t do
much today.
Geez…first a major drug lord in Mexico escapes from prison…US had
tried to get him extradited to US, but Mexico gov’t said they could handle it…Now
Trump tweets ‘I told you so’. I’m sure the far right Republicans will thrust
Trump higher and higher. He could hopefully never win in the final election, but
he is sure good at making friends and making enemies all at the same time. The
idea of building fear has been the Republican strategy for decades…please stop.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can
you make this sentence into a phrase by only adding punctuation? You may not
add, subtract, or rearrange the words. Good luck.
that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is
that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
Putting your car alarm remote under your chin or beside your head
increases its range.
There is a sport called Banzai Skydiving. You throw the parachute
out of the airplane first and then jump after it.
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…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
100 YEARS
AGO-1915
Celebration of the 4th of July was very quiet in Flagstaff this
year. Some traveled to Snowflake for more excitement.
The water in our new reservoir is gaining steadily at a rate of at
least 2 inches daily.
Brakeman James Daugherty’s right foot was badly crushed when he
caught it under a train wheel at Bellemont on Wednesday. A temporary dressing
was put in place in Flagstaff before he was taken to Los Angles for an expected
amputation.
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…Harper’s Index…
54 –percentage
who believe that houses can be haunted by ghosts.
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… Relationship Facts…
Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
As a rule, 66 percent of people keep their eyes closed while
kissing. The rest take pleasure in watching the emotions run the gamut on the
faces of their partners.
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…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
Wonder Woman was created by psychologist William Moulton Marsten.
Martsen is also credited as the inventor of the systolic blood-pressure test, a
component of the modern polygraph machine.
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2 jokes for the day
In a darken theater where the suspenseful
mystery story was being staged, a member of the audience suddenly stood up and
cried, “Where is the murdered?”
A threatening voice behind her replied, “Right in back of you, if you don’t sit down!”
A threatening voice behind her replied, “Right in back of you, if you don’t sit down!”
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A man got in a taxi cab to be driven to work.
They were about to turn a corner, but had to wait for the light.
The taxi cab driver wasn’t sure his blinkers were working so he said to the man "will you look out the window and make sure my blinkers are working?"
As requested, the man stuck his head out the window and responded..
"yes, no, yes, no, yes, no..."
They were about to turn a corner, but had to wait for the light.
The taxi cab driver wasn’t sure his blinkers were working so he said to the man "will you look out the window and make sure my blinkers are working?"
As requested, the man stuck his head out the window and responded..
"yes, no, yes, no, yes, no..."
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Yep, It Really
Happened
LOUISVILLE,
Ky. (UPI) - A Jeep seen driving around the Louisville area is turning heads
for an unusual reason -- it looks like a skeleton is driving. Mr. Bonz, a prop
skeleton belonging to mechanic Andrew Johnson, has become a regular sight
"driving" Johnson's Jeep around Louisville and the surrounding area.
Johnson said the driving skeleton was born out of his affection for the Jeep,
which has its steering wheel and pedals on the right side -- which is usually
the passenger side for cars in the United States. Johnson installed a fake
steering wheel in front of the left front seat and hired Mr. Bonz as his fake
driver. "I get everything from screams, to 'man that's fantastic,'"
Johnson told WDRB-TV. "It's just all in fun. It's just to make people
smile. If I've scared anybody, I apologize." Johnson said Mr. Bonz was
originally a temporary feature of the Jeep two Halloweens ago, but locals
demanded his return. "People would stop me in Walmart, Kroger, Kmart,
wherever and say, 'where's your skeleton?'"
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Returns
in the future…email for this site has disappeared!
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Birthdays Today
75 - Patrick
Stewart, actor (Picard-Star Trek Next Generation)
73 - Harrison Ford,
actor (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Frantic)
69 - Cheech Marin,
[Richard], comedian (Cheech & Chong-Up in Smoke)
65 - Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic
of China
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Hilary Grover Barratt Brown, conservationist
-1997@71
Dave
Garroway, Schnectady NY, TV host (Today Show)-1982@69
Julius
Caesar, Rome, Roman military and political leader-44 BC@55
John
Jacob Astor IV, American entrepreneur-1912@49
Bob Crane,
Waterbury Ct, actor (Col Hogan-Hogan's Heroes)-1978@49
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Historical Obits Today
Nadine
Gordimer, South African author & Nobel laureate-2014@90
Kate
Sheppard, New Zealand suffragette, most prominent member of New Zealand's
women's suffrage movement-1934@87
Red
Buttons (Aaron Chwatt), American comedian-2006@87
George
Steinbrenner, owner of the Yankees-2010@80
Richard Darryl Zanuck, Award winning film producer,
heart attack-2012@77
Lon
Chaney Jr, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), heart failure-1973@67
Johnny
Ringo, American Gunfighter, suicide?murder?-1882@32
Cory
Monteith, Canadian actor\musician (Glee), OD-2013@31
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Brain Teasers Answers
That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is.
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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…§
