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Almanac:
Week: 34 \ Day: 229
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 87° \ L 54°
Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind
ave: 2mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave.
High: 80° Record High: 88°[2002]
Ave. Low: 49° Record Low: 38°[1979]
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Observances
Today:
Black
Cat Appreciation Day Link
Cupcake
Day Link
Meaning
of "Is" Day
National
Thrift Shop Day
Independence Day (Gabon-1960-from France)
Independence
Day (Indonesia-1945-from Netherlands)
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Observances
This Week:
15-21 National Aviation Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1590 - John White returns to Roanoke, NC to find no
trace of colonists he had left there 3 years earlier
1788 - Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded
1807 - Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins
1st trip up Hudson River
1858 - 1st bank in Hawaii opens
1863 - Federal batteries & ships attacked Fort Sumter
in SC
1870 - 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
1891 - 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in
NYC (People's Bath)
1891 - Electric self-starter for automobile patented
1903 - Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia University;begins
Pulitzer Prizes
1918 - University of
Arizona campus was operating under its World War I declaration as a military
establishment, and prostitution and gambling were outlawed within a ten mile
zone.
1945 - Koreas divided on 38th parallel with US
occupying the southern area
1957 - Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth
twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on
the stretcher
1960 - Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in
Moscow
1961 - Kennedy administration establishes Alliance
for Progress
1994 - NY Central park reservoir officially named
after Jackie Kennedy Onasis
1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: US
President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an
"improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica
Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled
people" about his relationship.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1836 - British parliament accept registration of
birth/marriage/death
1883 - The first public performance of the
Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
1946 - George Orwell publishes "Animal
Farm" in the United Kingdom
1980 - Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken
by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicized trial in Australian
history
2012 - Three members of Russian punk band Pussy
Riot are jailed for two years
2013 - 18 people are
killed in conflict between Boko Harem and Nigerian military
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Quiet and warm Sunday.
We had a really good discussion group last night. As the media is
talking about Sunni and Shia and the religious was over there we learned that
it is mostly perpetrated by the media. Some of the political leaders have changed
their religious affiliation as it fits their political objectives. The closest
thing we have here is having a politician say he is Baptist and changing later to
Methodist. Before our leaders send any more young men into war, the leaders
have the responsibility to know exactly what they are getting into and how such
a war will threaten our homeland. Not understanding the culture of the people
of a country that is invaded will not work anymore.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
has the head of a horse, the tail of a monkey, eyes like a chameleon, and the
pouch of a kangaroo?
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
An explosive blast from the Cedar Avenue road-building project
sent a large rock crashing through the roof of the home at 111 E. Oak Ave.
Tuesday’s heist at First Interstate Bank at 700 W. Riordan ended
with a suspect being nabbed within an hour. As he fled toward Safeway with
about $2,000 in cash he was pursued by the assistant bank manager. He grabbed a
yellow shirt from a dumpster, then entered the Village Inn, where he shaved off
his mustache in the restroom and called for a taxi to take him to the Mad
Italian on 101 S. San Francisco, where he was arrested. There were already
warrants for his arrest as he had escaped from a California Correctional
Facility and robbed a Los Angeles bank on his way out of that town.
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…Harper’s
Index…
10 – number of
bird species names the Swedish Ornithological Society changed recently over
concerns of racism
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @stefanounterthiner | A lonely guanaco in Torres
del Paine NP, Chile. During early autumn, guanacos gathering ahead of the
annual moving down to lower elevations where food will be more easily
accessible during the winter months.
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…Foreign
Laws Tourists Need to Know…
There are some glaringly obvious reasons why you wouldn’t want a
moose on your team during a beer pong tournament, but it’s actually written law in Alaska that giving beer to a moose
is illegal.
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…Nelson
Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·
“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who
keeps on trying.”
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…USA
Facts…
In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left
by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the
caps as legal tender.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
William S. Gray, A. Sterl Artley, and May Hill Arbuthnot were once
three of the most widely read authors in the United States. They were the
authors behind the Dick and Jane series for school children.
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2
jokes for the day
A child asked his father, "How were
people born?" So his father said, "Adam and Eve made babies, then
their babies became adults and made babies, and so on." The child then
went to his mother, asked her the same question and she told him, "We were
monkeys then we evolved to become like we are now." The child ran back to
his father and said, "You lied to me!" His father replied, "No,
your mom was talking about her side of the family."
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Teacher: "Kids, what does the chicken
give you?"
Student: "Meat!"
Teacher: "Very good! Now what does the pig give you?"
Student: "Bacon!"
Teacher: "Great! And what does the fat cow give you?"
Student: "Homework!"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
APOPKA,
Fla. - A Florida woman accused of leaving her young children in the
car while drinking in a bar was caught on camera having her 4-year-old blow
into her breathalyzer. The Apopka police officer's body camera was recording
Sunday when April King, 35, handed the breathalyzer installed in her vehicle to
her 4-year-old son so he could blow into it and start the car. The officer was
questioning King on allegations she left the boy and his 2-year-old sibling
alone in the car while she drank at Froggers Grill and Bar. King was arrested
on child endangerment charges and held in lieu of $1,500 bail. King's husband,
Doug King, said he had the breathalyzer installed in his wife's car after her
recent stint in rehab. He said his wife has a drinking problem and he does not
intend to bail her out of jail. "I think this is the best thing for her.
Rehab hasn't worked and she hasn't learned anything from it," Doug King
told WFTV. He said he is taking his children, who were released into the
custody of a babysitter because he was out of town at the time of the incident,
and moving to Oklahoma.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
|
The
most played song on American radio during the twentieth century was You've
Lost That Loving Feeling which was written by Barry Mann, Phil
Spector, and Cynthia Weil. Although recorded by different artists, the
song is the only one in history to be played over 8 million times on the
radio. That amounts to about 45 years if the song was played back to
back! Three songs were played 7 million times: Never My Love,
Yesterday, and Stand By Me (in that order).
Source: The BMI Top 100
Songs (BMI)
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
95 - Maureen
O'Hara [Fitzsimmons], Irish actress\singer (Miracle on 34th St)
(95) - W. Mark Felt, FBI official\Watergate
"Deep Throat" d.2008
(94) - Samuel Goldwyn, [Shmuel Gelbfisz],
movie producer (MGM) d.1974
(87) - Mae West, actress\singer (She Done him Wrong), d. 1980
72 - Robert
De Niro, actor (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull), born in NYC, New York
(71) - Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Sioux musician-actor d. 2007
(68) - Ted Hughes, Mytholmroyd Yorkshire,
British Poet Laureate d.1998
63 - Guillermo
Vilas, Argentina, tennis champ (US Open-1977)
(59) - Glenn Corbett [Glen Edwin Rothenburg],
actor (Route 66) d.1993
55 - Sean
Penn, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
(52) - Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa
movement d.1940
(49) - Davy
Crockett, frontiersman/adventurer/politician (Alamo), d. 1836
(47) - Francis
Gary Powers, US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident) d.1977
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Historical
Obits Today
Ira
Gershwin, lyricist-1983@86
Conrad
Aiken, US poet (Pulitzer)-1973@74
Pearl
Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, heart attack-1990@72
José de San MartÃn, South American revolutionary hero-1850@72
Vivian
Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), cancer-1979@67
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Brain
Teasers Answers
A seahorse (male)
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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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