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6.20.16 Week: 25 \ Day: 172
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 92° \ L 53°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
15mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 92°[1936]
Record Low: 30°[1979]
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Quote of the Day
When a son gives to his father, both laugh.
When a son gives to his father, both cry. ~William
Shakespeare
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Observances Today
American
Eagle Day Link
Finally Summer Day
Finally Summer Day
Flitch
of Bacon Day Link Link
Ice Cream Soda Day
Ice Cream Soda Day
Ride
To Work Day (Motorcycles) Link
Ryan Moran Day Link
Summer ( Summer Solstice) 6:34 PM EDT
World Juggling Day
Ryan Moran Day Link
Summer ( Summer Solstice) 6:34 PM EDT
World Juggling Day
World
Productivity Day
World Refugee Day
Ann & Samantha Day (Summer & Winter Solstices. Also Dec. 21)
World Refugee Day
Ann & Samantha Day (Summer & Winter Solstices. Also Dec. 21)
•••
Admission
Day (West Virginia-35th-1863)
Flag Day (Argentina)
Flag Day (Argentina)
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Observances This Week
○ 13-20
National
Hermit Week
○ 19-25
○ 19-25
Animal
Rights Awareness Week Link
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week Link
Old Time Fiddlers Week
Universal Father's Week Link
○ 20-26
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week Link
Old Time Fiddlers Week
Universal Father's Week Link
○ 20-26
Meet
A Mate Week
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US Historical Highlights
for Today
1675 Abenaki,
Massachusetts, Mohegan & Wampanoag tribes form anti-English front under
Metacom
1782 Congress
approves Great Seal of US & eagle as it's symbol
1840 Samuel
Morse patents his telegraph
1867 US
President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
1893 Lizzie
Borden acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in
Fall River, Massachusetts
1910 "Krazy
Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
1911 NAACP
incorporates (NY)
1936 Jesse
Owens of US sets 100 meter record at 10.2
1943 National
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes
1949 Central
Intelligence Agency Act passes
1967 Muhammad
Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services
1990 Nelson
Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of US
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
451 Battle
of the Catalaunian Plains: Roman and Visigoths forces defeat Attila the Hun in
north east France
1567 Jews
are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique
1631 The
sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian
pirates.
1837 Queen Victoria at
18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. She ruled
for 63 years ending in 1901
1944 Nazis
begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz
1983 Iran
moves into northern Iraq (casualties top 13,800 in ten days)
2015 1000
humanoid robots named "Pepper" sell out in under a minute ($1,600
each) in Japan, according to its creator SoftBank Robotics Corp.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Hot
Sunday. Hope everyone had a great Father’s Day.
Stayed
up late with Netflix. Slept in and then caught up on my Sunday News shows.
Quiet and relaxing day.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Celebration
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English
language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
My
first three letters are a term in golf,
While my second, third, and fourth are drawings.
My first four are less than a whole,
And all of me is a celebration.
What am I?
While my second, third, and fourth are drawings.
My first four are less than a whole,
And all of me is a celebration.
What am I?
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…Harper’s Index…
107-Avereage
number of gallons of water used each bay by a typical LA resident
32,000-By
a single Bel Air resident
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
umlanibushcamp Our
resident hippo from Marco's dam #safari #getclosetonature#umlanibushcamp #southafrica #timbavati #hippo
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2 jokes for the day
I'll
Pass On the Wings
The
flight attendant on the trip was handing out plastic pilot wings to some kids.
As the young man stepped forward, she playfully offered some to him.
He passed, pointing to the Airborne wings on his Army uniform. He explained, “The last time someone gave me wings, I had to jump out of the airplane.”
He passed, pointing to the Airborne wings on his Army uniform. He explained, “The last time someone gave me wings, I had to jump out of the airplane.”
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Feline Fiasco
I telephoned the veterinarian's office
to ask when I should take my three month old kitten in to be vaccinated for
rabies. After a few initial questions, the woman who answered the telephone
asked, "What is the kitten's name?"
"Demon," I replied.
"Demon? That's an odd name," she said.
"Maybe, but it's appropriate anyway."
I heard clicking of a computer keyboard, then she said, "Our records show that you have cats named Gato [which is Spanish for 'male cat'], Scamp, Stinky, and now you named one Demon. Is that right?"
"Yes, it is."
"You really don't like cats, do you?"
"Demon," I replied.
"Demon? That's an odd name," she said.
"Maybe, but it's appropriate anyway."
I heard clicking of a computer keyboard, then she said, "Our records show that you have cats named Gato [which is Spanish for 'male cat'], Scamp, Stinky, and now you named one Demon. Is that right?"
"Yes, it is."
"You really don't like cats, do you?"
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-----
Motorized 'Off-Road' Roller Blades -----*
From
the inventor of screen doors on submarines, a Polish inventor came up with a
way to take his roller blades "off road" by powering the wheels with
an electric motor. The video shows inventor Jacek Skopinski testing out his
self-propelled "off road" roller blades by taking them over surfaces
including dirt lots, grassy fields and other rough terrain. The roller blades
are powered by electric motors attached to the rear of the skates that are
connected with a wire to a control Stopinski holds in his hand.
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Birthdays Today
“(
)” indicates age at death
88- Martin Landau,
American actor (Mission Impossible,
Space 1999), born in Brooklyn
[77] Chet Atkins,
Luttrell Tenn, guitarist (Me &
My Guitar)[d2001]
76- John Mahoney,
actor (Fraiser, Frantic, 8 Men
Out), born in Manchester, England
67- Lionel Richie,
American singer (Commodores, Hello,
Penny Lover), born in Tuskegee, Alabama
64- John Goodman,
actor (Dan Conner-Roseanne, Babe), born
in St Louis, Missouri
[50] Errol Flynn,
actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood),
born in Hobart Tasmania (d. 1959)
49- Nicole Kidman,
actress (Dead Calm, Far &
Away), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
[46] Audie Murphy,
Kingston, Texas, most decorated
American WW II hero/actor (Destry, Joe Butterfly) [d1971]
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Historical Obits Today
@81-2005 Jack Kilby,
American electrical engineer and
Nobel laureate
@76-2003 Bob Stump,
American politician, blood disorder
@75-1972 Howard Johnson,
US restaurant/hotel founder
@55-1920 Dmitry Ivanovsky,
Russian Botanist who discovered the
organisms that came to be known as viruses
@41-1947 Benjamin
"Bugsy" Siegel,
gangster, shot
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Brain Teasers Answers
Party
Par is the maximum number of strokes you should need to hit the ball in the hole.
Art can be drawings, sculptures, or anything of the sort.
Part is not a whole thing, so it is not a whole.
A party is a celebration.
Par is the maximum number of strokes you should need to hit the ball in the hole.
Art can be drawings, sculptures, or anything of the sort.
Part is not a whole thing, so it is not a whole.
A party is a celebration.
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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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