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Almanac: Week: 30 \ Day: 200
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 76° \ L 56° Average Sky Cover: 85%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts:
22mph
Ave.
High: 82° Record High: 92° (1989) Ave. Low: 51° Record
Low: 34° (1987)
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Observances Today:
Anne
Hutchinson Memorial Day
Celebration
of The Horse Day
Flitch
Day
Lake
Superior Day
National
Ice Cream Day
National
Ice Cream Day
National
Raspberry Cake Day
National
Liberation Day (Nicaragua-1979- Sandinista
National Liberation Front)
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Observances This Week:
Rabbit
Week: 15-21
National Moth Week: 18-26
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 19-25
Captive Nations Week: 19-25
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1848 - 1st US
women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organized by Elizabeth Cady
Stanton & Lucretia Mott
1866 - Tennessee
is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights
1899 - National
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers forms
1912 - A
meteorite of estimated 190kg mass explodes over Holbrook in Navajo County,
Arizona, causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the
town.
1913 - Billboard
publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular
Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
1932 - Governor Hunt asked Congress
for $45,000,000 in federal aid under a federal relief bill to help build more
highways and employ more unemployed workers.
1956 - US
refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1961 - 1st
in-flight movie shown (TWA)
1967 - 1st air
conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
1969 - Apollo
11 goes into Moon orbit
1987 - Jane
Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1991 - Cal
Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
1996 - XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta Georgia
2007 - The
first episode of "Mad Men" debuts. Jon Hamm stars as Don
Draper
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Today’s World Events through History
695 - Maya King Waxaklahun Ubah K’awil
ascends to the throne at Copán, Honduras.
1595 - Astronomer Johannes
Kepler has an epiphany and develops his theory of the geometrical basis of
the universe
1877 - 1st
Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64)
1952 - 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki,
Finland
1979 - 2
supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill
1980 - 22nd
modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott
2001 - Michael
Brunet discovers the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, thought to be the
oldest known species in the human family tree, in the Djurab Desert, Chad. It
lived 6-7 million years ago, about the same time as the last common ancestor to
apes and humans.
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
We remain under a flash flood advisory as the monsoon drops more
rain on our little mountain town. I am in no danger, but have friends who have
been flooded before and are in danger yet again as the result of a careless
fire from several years ago.
Computer began acting up yesterday. Called my tech people and it
turns out that some Windows updates didn’t completely load or somehow became
corrupted. After about 2 hours he called me and said the new download would
take several more hours…so much for ‘high speed’ internet. Will know tomorrow
if all worked out.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Discovered
in Africa, I spread like a tide
To become a hot staple known the world wide.
A necessity to some, a treasure to many,
I'm best enjoyed among pleasant company.
Some like me hot and some like me cold.
Some prefer mild, others only bold.
Some take me straight, while some like to savor
My essence to which has been added a flavor.
So put down your cares and sit awhile with me;
I'll send you back refreshed and full of energy.
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of "Yesterday" one
night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around
for a month to make sure that he didn't subconsciously plagiarize it from
somebody else.
Scientists have developed a 'hangover-free' beer that has
electrolytes, making it more hydrating and refreshing.
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…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
25 YEARS
AGO-1990
Bookman’s Used Books opened its doors on Saturday with free Pepsi,
live music and giveaways. Credit is offered for books brought in. They carry
records and video games as well as books.
The Sky Ride at Fairfield Snow Bowl is up and running for
sightseers up the mountain to see the views. Ride both ways or opt to hike
down.
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…Harper’s Index…
2 – factor by
which a placebo for Parkinson’s disease is more effective when the patient is
told its costs $1500 rather than $100
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… USA Facts…
The pink cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. were a gift from
Imperial Japan in 1912. They sent more than 3,000 seeds to be planted near the
Potomac River as a symbol of friendship between the two nations.
The US Air Force researched a “Gay Bomb”: A non-lethal bomb
containing really strong pheromones that will make the enemy forces attracted
to each other. It won the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize.
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…Unusual Fact of the
Day…
Habitual singing causes the lungs to release leptin, a protein
manufactured by the body’s fat cells that is involved in the regulation of
appetite. This may partially explain why opera stars tend to lean toward the
heavy end of the scale.
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2 jokes for the day
Q: What do you call a cow jumping over a
barbed-wire fence?
A: An "utter" disaster!
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Four best friends met at the hospital since their
wives were giving births to their babies.
The nurse comes up to the first man and says, "Congratulations, you got
twins."
The man said "How strange, I'm the manager of Minnesota Twins."
After awhile the nurse comes up to the second man and says, "Congratulations,
you got triplets."
The man was like "Hmmm, strange I worked as a director for the "3
musketeers."
Finally, the nurse comes up to the third man and says "Congratulations,
you got twins x2."
The man is happy and says, "Ironic, I work for the hotel "4
Seasons."
All three of them are happy until they see their last buddy jumping all over
the place, cursing God and banging his head on the wall.
They asked him what's wrong and he answered, "What's wrong? I work for
7up"!
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Yep, It Really
Happened
CAMPBELL
RIVER, British Columbia (UPI) - Residents of a British Columbia
town said they are afraid to let their cats wander the neighborhood because
someone keeps shaving them. Jo-Jo Yarjau of Campbell River said her 12-year-old
cat, Tabby, came home with a square-shaped patch shaved into her belly in
January and the feline has since come back with patches of hair missing four
more times. "The first time it was the base of her tail as well, and under
her belly," Yarjau told CTV News. "It looks like a razor did it
because it looks like her nipples were cut, and that's a pretty defining factor
of what's going on." Neighbor Vance Assu told the Campbell River Mirror he
started noticing patches of fur missing from his 4-year-old cat, Twilight,
"in February or March" and the incidents became a regular occurrence.
Assu said his family has tried keeping Twilight in the house, but the feline
refuses to cooperate. "He doesn't want anything to do with being in here,
other than to eat and have a nap," he said, "but even that is very
rare. We've tried keeping the litter box inside, but he simply won't use
it." Yarjau said Tabby is too old to change her behavior to become a
strictly indoor cat. "She'll go crazy. She's 12. You can't just do that
all of a sudden," she said. Yarjau said her family only lets Tabby out at
night to avoid the shaving, which thus far has only occurred during the day.
She said she fears for the feline's life. "We only let her out at night
now," she said, "because it's never happened at night. She's not
allowed to wander during the day anymore, because one day she just might not
come back."
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Somewhat Useless
Information
While
people in both Belgium and northern France claim to have first created the
french fry, the "french" part of the term may have been coined by
American soldiers who tasted locally made fries in Belgium during World War I.
French was the official language of the Belgium army then; hence,
"french" fries.
Food historian Karen Hess says Thomas Jefferson is believed to have served
French-fried potatoes to White House dinner guests at the turn of the 19th
century.
Around seven per cent of the potatoes grown in the U.S. end up being sold by
McDonald's. They sell more than one-third of all the French fries sold in
restaurants in the U.S. each year.
The earliest known reference to French fries in English literature is in A Tale
of Two Cities. Charles Dickens refers to "Husky chips of potato, fried
with some reluctant drops of oil."
The average American eats 30 pounds of French fries per year.
The slang term for potato, "spud", comes from the spade-like tool
that is used to harvest the potatoes.
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Birthdays Today
74 - Vikki Carr
[Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)], El Paso Texas, singer (Let
it Be Him)
71 - Commander
Cody (George Frayne IV), singer/pianist
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Born this day…Died in __@__
George
McGovern, (Sen-D-SD)/pres candidate (D-1972)-2012@90
Max
Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer-1972@89
Pat
Hingle [Martin Patterson], American actor (Batman Returns)-2009@84
Charles
Horace Mayo, surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic)-1939@73
Charles
Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist-1919@72
Lizzie
Borden, American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents (gave her
mother forty whacks)-1927@66
Samuel
Colt, US inventor/industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), 1862@47
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Historical Obits Today
James
Garner, American actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick)2014@86
Jack
Warden, American actor (Shampoo)-2006@85
Frank
McCourt, Irish-American author, cancer-2009@78
Joe Flynn, actor
(McHale's Navy), drowned/heart attack-1974@59
Lefty
Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter-stroke-1975@47
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Brain Teasers Answers
Coffee. It was first discovered in the area of Africa now called
Ethiopia. Legend has it that a goat herder observed his goats acting unusually
frisky after eating berries from a bush. When he tried them himself, his energy
was renewed. And the rest is history.
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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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