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Almanac: Week: 24 \ Day: 160
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 84°\L 40° Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave. High: 77° Record High: 88°
(1902) Ave. Low: 39° Record
Low: 24° (1950)
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Observances Today:
Donald Duck Day-1934-81 yrs ago
World APS Day –recurrent clotting disease
World Pet Memorial Day
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Observances This Week:
International Clothesline Week: 6-13
Bed Bug Awareness Week: 7-13
Black Single Parents Week: 7-13
Jim Thorpe Native American Games: 7-13
National Body Piercing Week: 7-13
National Business Etiquette Week: 7-13
National Headache Awareness Week: 7-13
Pet Appreciation Week:
7-13
Rip Current Awareness Week:
7-13
National Automotive Service
Professionals Week: 8-14
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1534 - Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of
St Lawrence River
1772 - 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio)
holds communion
1772 - 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes
place in Providence, RI
1790 - 1st book copyrighted under constitution,
"Philadelphia Spelling Book"
1802 - US Academy at West Point founded
1860 - 1st US "dime novel" published:
"Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs Ann Stevens
1869 - Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer
(Phila)
1902 - 1st Automat restaurant opens (818 Chestnut
St, Phila)
1924 - "Jelly-Roll Blues" is recorded by
blues great Jelly Roll Morton
1932 - After an absence
of 104 years, the Franciscan Order again occupied resident quarters in San
Xavier del Bac Mission, AZ
1943 - "Pay-as-you-go" (withholding) US
income tax deductions authorized
1963 - Equal Pay Act enacted
1970 - Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of
Music at Princeton University
1978 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood
1980 - Comedian Richard Pryor suffers
burns from free basing cocaine
1989 - Michael Chang's French Open tennis win makes
him youngest male @17 to go to finals
2013 - Edward
Snowden publically makes his identity known as the leaker of NSA documents
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Today’s World Events through History
68 - Roman Emperor Nero commits
suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a
Senate-imposed death by flogging.
1549 - Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the
Church of England
1910 - A passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle
with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland)
1977 - Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of
Great Britain celebrated with fireworks
2013 - French Tennis Open: Rafael Nadel defeats
David Ferrer to win his eighth French Open title (6–3 6–2 6–3)
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice Monday.
Ran lots of errands.
Sure seems like ‘maximum security prison’ isn’t as bad as we are
led to believe. The 2 convicts on the run certainly had a plan, and help.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Let's
get ready for challenge.
I think you know where I am.
Because, as you know, I hold lots of knowledge.
Really, I can lend a helping hand.
Although since people most often come for
Riveting good stories and tales,
You, my friend, can find knowledge in me.
Whether it be history, science, or Braille.
I cannot be held in your hand, you see.
I'm quite a bit larger than that.
So come right in, and let's begin.
Put on your thinking cap!
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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… Celebrity Facts…
The Rock accidentally knocked out Michael Clarke Duncan while
filming a fight scene for The Scorpion King and had a custom Rolex made as an
apology gift, but liked the watch so much that he kept it for himself.
During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to
help sell war bonds and teach American soldiers how to escape from German
handcuffs.
…Cool Facts…
When the 2013 government shutdown threatened the closing down of a
national program giving medical attention and meals to children, John D. Arnold
donated $10 million of his own money to keep it afloat.
Thomas Edison taught his second wife Morse code so they could
communicate in secret by tapping into each other’s hands when her family was
around.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
The new city well being drilled in the Lake Mary Field is now at
550 foot deep and still going down. This well is being paid for by the
Ponderosa Pulp and Paper Company. City Manager H. L. Field, Jr.
The Flagstaff community hospital has awarded a $518,000 contract
to a Phoenix firm to build its new 18-bed patient wing. It will include an
emergency suite, a space for minor surgery and plaster casting plus an
intensive care unit and a nursery with bassinets.
This week another wintry blast brought us 18 inches of snow,
pellets, hail, thunder and lighting.
…Harper’s Index…
6 – number of
the 10 states with the highest turnout of black voters in 2008 that subsequently
passed voter-ID laws
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
Despite the well-known urban legend, if a bird ingests uncooked
rice it will not explode.
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2 jokes for the day
Q. Why was the fly dancing on the jam jar?
A. Because on the lid it said, "Twist to open."
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An Antartian was walking through the Sahara
desert, desperate for water, when he saw something, far off in the distance.
Hoping to find water, he walked towards the image, only to find a little old
man sitting at a card table with a bunch of neckties laid out on it.
The Antartian asked, "Please, I'm dying of thirst, can I have some
water?"
The man replied, "I don't have any water, but why don't you buy a tie?
Here's one that goes nicely with your robe."
The Antartian shouted, "I don't want a tie, you idiot, I need water!"
"OK, don't buy a tie. But to show you what a nice guy I am, I'll tell you
that over that hill there, about 4 miles, is a nice restaurant. Walk that way,
they'll give you all the water you want."
The Antartian thanked him and walked away towards the hill and eventually
disappeared. Three hours later the Antartian came crawling back to where the
man was sitting behind his card table. The old man said, "I told you,
about 4 miles over that hill. Couldn't you find it?"
The Antartian rasped, "I found it all right but they wouldn't let me in without
a tie!"
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Yep, It Really
Happened
In 2001 Portugal decriminalized a number of illicit drugs and
began focusing on treatment programs instead of punishment. Under the
decriminalization laws, users are allowed to possess a 10-day supply of illicit
drugs - anything from marijuana to heroin - and those who have more are sent
before a three-person drug commission. The panel decides on a fine or treatment,
but opts for treatment in four out of every five cases.
The way to treat a drug problem is the American way; you declare a war on it.
You criminalize everything. You suspend basic human rights like the prohibition
against unreasonable searches and seizures and burden of proof. And you give
the police unprecedented powers like asset forfeiture, with almost no
accountability.
Then, after decades of enforcement and hundreds of billions of dollars, what
you get is the highest incarceration rate in the world, with about half of the
inmates (according to some federal estimates) in prison for some form of drug
offense or another, and an actual increase in drug use and traffic.
THAT'S how you deal with drugs.
But when you pussyfoot around with drugs like they have been doing in Portugal
for the last 14 years you know what you get?
The total number of people using drugs in Portugal since 2001 has actually
fallen by more than a third. Not only have overall rates come down, heroin
addiction rates have been cut in half.
HIV infections, which are spread by shared needles, have also been cut in half,
while the number of drug-related deaths has been cut by 75 percent.
Stupid Portuguese.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
The
largest desert in the world is the entire continent of Antarctica according to
universetoday.com
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Birthday’s Today
84 - Joe Santos, Brooklyn, actor (Rockford
Files)
76 - Dick Vitale, US, sportscaster (ESPN,
ABC "Oh Baby!")
54 - Michael J. Fox, Alberta, Canadian actor
(Family Ties, Back to the Future)
52 - Johnny Depp, Queensboro Ky, actor (21
Jump Street, Ed Wood)
34 - Natalie Portman [Natalie
Hershlag], Jerusalem, Israeli/American actress
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Remembered for being born today
1812-1910@98 - Johann G Galle, German astronomer
(discovered Neptune)
1915-2009@94 - Les Paul, Waukesha Wi,
guitarist/inventor (Les Paul guitar)
1916-2009@93 - Robert S McNamara, US Sec of
Defense/head (World Bank)
1900-1984@84 - Fred Waring, Tyrone Penn,
conductor/inventor (Waring Blender)
1836-1917@81 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1st woman
mayor in England
1908-1990@80 - Robert Cummings, Joplin Mo, actor (Love
that Bob)
1891-1964@74 - Cole Porter, Indiana, composer/lyricist
(Anything Goes)
1843-1914@71 - Bertha von Suttner, Austria,
novelist/pacifist (Nobel 1905)
1781-1848@67 - George Stephenson, English inventor (RR
locomotive)
1672-1725@52 - Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich
Romanov],Tsar of Russia
1934-1984@49 - Jackie Wilson, singer (Lonely
Teardrops, Night)
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Historical Obits Today
George
Beadle, US Biologist Nobel Laureate (biochemical genetics)-1989@85
Miguel
Asturias, Guatemalan writer-1974@74
Carry Amelia
Moore Nation, American temperance
leader-1911@64
Charles
Dickens, English writer (David Copperfield), stroke-1870@58
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Brain Teasers Answers
A library. (Also, the first letter of the first few lines spell
out "library")
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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…§
