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6.2.16 Week: 22 \ Day: 154
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 81° \ L 41°
Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts:
18mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 86°[1977]
Record Low: 24°[1923]
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Quote of the Day
People demand freedom of speech as a
compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ~Soren Kierkegaard
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Observances Today
Leave
The Office Early Day
National
Rotisserie Chicken Day Link
Yell "Fudge" at Cobras in North America Day
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Coronation Day
(Bhutan)
Coronation Day (UK)
Republic Day (Italy)
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Observances This Week
○ 1-5
Great
American Brass Band Week
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US Historical Highlights
for Today
1763 Pontiac's Rebellion:
At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac
by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a
ball into the fort.
1774 Intolerable Acts:
Amendment to original Quartering Act enacted, allowed governor in colonial
America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or
other buildings if suitable quarters not provided.
1835 P T Barnum & his
circus begin 1st tour of US
1851 1st US alcohol
prohibition law enacted (Maine)
1863 Harriet
Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
1873 Construction begins
on Clay St (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad
1886 Grover
Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom)
1913 1st strike
settlement mediated by US Dept of Labor - railroad clerks
1919 Pulitzer prize
awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
1920 Pulitzer prize
awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
1924 If they were not already
based on treaty provisions, all American Indians become U.S. citizens today.
1925 NY Yankee Lou
Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak
1928 Velveeta Cheese
created by Kraft
1930 Sarah Dickson
becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
1933 FDR authorizes
1st swimming pool built inside the White House
1938 Robert and Edward
Kennedy, youngest sons of the American Ambassador to London, open the children’s
zoo in Regent’s Park. Children are charged sixpence to watch chimpanzees have a
tea party
1952 650,000 metal
workers go on strike in US
1952 Maurice Olley of
General Motors begins designing the Corvette
1959 Allen
Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid", SF
1960 Broadway theaters
close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
1994 Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's
"Schindler's List"
1997 Timothy McVeigh
found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168
2004 Ken Jennings begins
his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
2015 US Congress passes
new legislation to reform National Security Agency procedures, restricting
gathering of phone records.
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
1875 Alexander
Graham Bell makes first sound transmission
1896 Guglielmo
Marconi applies to patent the radio, accepted 2 July
1897 Pygmies
discovered in Dutch New Guinea
1949 - The Ireland Act is passed
in Westminster, declaring the special relationship of Irish citizens to the
United Kingdom and guaranteeing Northern Ireland's status within the UK
1953 Coronation
of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London
1979 John
Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a Communist country (Poland)
1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are
blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in
Tiananmen Square, Beijing
2015 100
volunters in Bhutan set a world record for tree planting - 49,672 in 1 hour
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My Rambling Thoughts
Cloudy
day…hope some rain falls…but probably not.
Another
shooting on a college campus…UCLA…this has to end. Presidential candidates need
to step up now!
So
Trump says the Media is biased. Really? Doesn’t he understand the role of the 4th
estate in our democracy? Or is he just a bully? In my career as an educator, I
had to deal with a lot of kid bullying and even some adult bullying. It is not
easy. After retiring, I have discovered I can just keep any bully out of my
circle.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Emotional
Distress
Riddles
are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles
frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
I
am feared by many people;
but scramble my letters
and I become hated.
What am I?
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…Harper’s Index…
13- Length in days of
France’s official presidential campaign season
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
natgeoFor #globalrunningday day
an on assignment shot for @natgeo -
a story on the limits of the human body.
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2 jokes for the day
Teacher:
Johnny, where were you born?
Little Johnny: Los Angeles
Teacher: Which part?
Little Johnny: What do you mean which part? The whole body was born in Los
Angeles.
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As I was going to visit a friend, I saw
my neighbor’s little child at the street corner holding two dollars and crying.
I asked him, ”Junior, what is the matter?”
He replied, ”My mummy gave me one dollar to buy sugar and one dollar to buy soy
milk, and now I can't remember which dollar is for sugar and which dollar is
for the milk.”
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Yep, It Really Happened
*--------
Sounds Like a Successful Date --------*
A
Massachusetts high school student went to a doctor the day after prom to remove
the boutonniere pin she accidentally inhaled before the party. Kathleen Garvey,
a senior at Wellesley High School, said her prom date, Colin Emerson, was
having trouble keeping his boutonniere from falling off during the bus ride to
prom so she placed the pin in her mouth while adjusting the floral arrangement.
A likely story. "He made some funny joke and I laughed and inhaled it but
wasn't positive that's what had happened," she told local news. "I
wasn't in pain or anything, and the only thing happening was I was coughing so
I just assumed it went missing." The teenager said she was eventually
satisfied that the pin had been lost and went to the prom, where she ate and
drank without any pain or discomfort. Garvey's mother took her to the doctor
the following day as a precaution, and an X-ray quickly revealed the pin's
hiding place. "It went down my throat, down my trachea and in my bronchial
tube right before my lung," Garvey said. Doctors were able to remove the
pin with a scope and determined there was no damage to the teenager's body.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
In
1905, Einstein discovered that mass could be changed into energy and vice
versa. In 1918, Sir Ernest Rutherford showed that atoms could be split. By
1942, the world had its first nuclear reactor.
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Today,
104 nuclear plants supply about 20 percent of the United State's electricity.
The oldest plants have been operating since before 1979. There have been no new
sites built since the Three Mile Island disaster (1979).
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Currently,
nuclear waste in the United States is stored in cooling pools of water and in
dry storage casks at nuclear power plants. The United States government,
however, hopes to bury its waste deep underground at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
Nevadans and surrounding states have protested this proposal.
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The
United States has 71,862 tons of nuclear waste. Waste can stay dangerous for
tens of thousands of years. The industry's nuclear pile of waste is growing
about 2,200 tons a year. Some waste sites contain four times the amount of
spent fuel they were designed to handle.
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The first nuclear-powered surface vessel was the Russian icebreaker Lenin. The
largest nuclear powered surface ship is the 1,122-foot-long USS Enterprise,
which was launched in 1960. It is the longest naval vessel in the world and has
eight reactors driving four propellers. It is still active.
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The
U.S.S. Nautilus was the first nuclear-powered submarine and was put to sea in
December 1954. Named after the submarine in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea, she was the first vessel to travel submerged under the
North Pole, on August 3, 1958. She was decommissioned in 1980 and has been
preserved as a National Historic Landmark.
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Birthdays Today
“(
)” indicates age at death
(87) Thomas Hardy,
poet and novelist (Far from the
Madding Crowd), born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset (d. 1928)
(80) Hedda Hopper, [Elda
Furry],
PA, gossip columnist (From Under My
Hat) (d.1966)
(79) Johnny Weissmuller,
actor (Tarzan)/100m swimmer (Oly-5
gold-1924, 28) (d.1984)
79- Sally Kellerman,
actress (M*A*S*H, Back to School),
born in Long Beach, California
75- Charlie Watts,
drummer (Rolling Stones), born in
London, England
75- Stacy Keach,
Savannah Ga, actor (Mickey
Spillane's Mike Hammer)
(74) Marquis de Sade,
French philosopher and writer
(Justine). The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name, born in
Paris, France (d.1814)
68- Jerry Mathers,
Sioux City Iowa, actor
(Beaver-Leave It To Beaver)
(60) Walter Tetley,
animation voice (Sherman-Bullwinkle
Show), born in NYC, New York (d.1975)
44- Wayne Brady,
American actor and comedian (The
Wayne Brady Show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?), born in Columbus, Georgia
43- Wentworth Miller,
American actor
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Historical Obits Today
@94-1987 Andres Segovia,
Spanish composer/guitarist
@92-2001 Imogene Coca,
American actress
@90-2008 Mel Ferrer,
American actor, film director and
film producer
@79-2012 Richard Dawson,
English-American actor, esophageal
cancer
@79-2008 Bo Diddley,
American musician, heart failure
@71-1961 George S Kaufman,
playwright/dir/pulitzer prize
winner
@66-1927 Lizzie Borden,
American woman acquitted of the
murder of her parents, pneumonia
@37-1941 Lou Gehrig,
1st baseman (NY Yankee), dies of
ALS i
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Brain Teasers Answers
death
Many people fear death. "HATED" is an anagram of "DEATH".
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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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