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6.21.16
Week: 25 \ Day: 173
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 94° \ L 55°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind
ave: 4mph\Gusts: 19mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 93°[1936]
Record Low: 28°[1975]
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Quote
of the Day
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I
have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. ~Robert Frost
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Observances
Today
Atheists Solidarity
Day Link
Baby Boomers Recognition Day
Cuckoo Warning Day
Global Orgasm Day Link
Go Skateboarding
Day Link
National Daylight
Appreciation Day
National Selfie Day Link
Ramadan: -7/5
Tall Girl Appreciation
Day
World Handshake Day Link
(Do not confuse with
National Handshake Day - different sponsor on June 24)
World
Humanist Day
World Music Day
•••
National Day (Greenland)
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Observances
This Week
○ 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
Meet A Mate Week
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1607 1st
Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown
1684 King Charles
II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
1788 US
Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it
1834 American
inventor and businessman Cyrus Hall McCormick patents the reaping
machine
1877 The
Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and
Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
1879 F
W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)
1893 1st
Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
1898 Guam
becomes a territory of US
1900 In
the Philippines, General Arthur McArthur, US military governor of the
Philippines, issues an amnesty proclamation to those Filipinos who will
renounce the insurgent movement and accept US sovereignty
1907 E W
Scripps founded United Press
1915 The
U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347
1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1942 Rommel takes
Tobruk in North Africa
1943 Federal
troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead
1948 33
1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's planned to be phased out (Dr Peter
Goldmark-Columbia Records)
1964 Three
civil rights workers, Michael H Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E Chane,
disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail
1982 John
Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President
Reagan by reason of insanity
1983 Tennis
ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery
1989 Supreme
Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression
1990 At
Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a NY Yankee baseball cap &
proclaims "I am a Yankee!"
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1547 Great
fire in Moscow
1734 In
Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the
French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that
destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in
a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
1749 Halifax,
Nova Scotia, is founded.
1854 -
Charles Davis Lucas from Drumagole, Co Armagh, age 20 and a mate in the Royal
Navy, hurls a Russian shell (its fuse still burning) from the deck of his ship
during the Crimean War. For this action, he will become the first recipient of
the Victoria Cross in 1857. Lucas later achieved the rank of rear admiral
1887 Britain
celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
1994 Steffi
Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major
tournament (Wimbledon to Lorrie McNeal)
1997 - At
the county prison, which was closed as a jail in 1995 and reopened as The Old
Jail Museum, the four Molly Maguires executed on this date in 1877, were
remembered in a Memorial Mass attended by 100 of their descendants and members
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
2000 Section
28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is
repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
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My
Rambling Thoughts
And the heat
continues…even at 7000’. Agreed, not has hot as Phoenix and anything south of
us…but hot still the same.
Did some
early running around and bought a fan for the upstairs. Probably will only use
it for a few days, but I’m just way too hot to sleep. The crazy weatherman says
some moisture is on the way, but right now it is 7% humidity…yeah, a dry heat,
so I’m not sure I really believe any moisture is headed this way.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at
the end of post)
Not in
Space
Trivia
brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure
trivia questions.
Difficulty:
2.82
What is the
connection to the answers of the following questions?
1. What star sign would you be if you were born on the 10th May?
2. Which constellation has a belt?
3. What Spanish word means "party", "feast" or
"festival"?
4. What England region was named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon Kingdom called
the Kingdom of the East Angles?
5. Who is the antagonist in the Clint Eastwood film "Dirty Harry"
played by Andy Robinson?
6. What UK brand of chocolate is known as Dove in America?
7. Which Spanish city is named after the pomegranate?
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…Harper’s
Index…
100,000,000-Estimated
number of people who will be driven into extreme poverty by 2030 because of
climate change
-66-extimated
percentage change in the rate of extreme poverty worldwide over that past
twenty years.
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
Ramona Creek
Photography by @ (Rob Etzel).
Ramona Creek just downstream of Ramona Falls in the Mount Hood National Forest.
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2
jokes for the day
Going Down
with the Ship
When I lost
my rifle, the Army charged me $85. That's when I finally understood why in the
Navy, the captain goes down with the ship.
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It's Wider
At an art gallery, a woman and her 10 year old son were
having a tough time choosing between two paintings. They finally chose and went
with the autumn themed one.
“I see you prefer an autumn scene as opposed to a floral one,” said the gallery
owner, who happened to be nearby and witnessed the mother-son interaction.
“No,” said the boy. “This painting is wider, so it’ll cover the three holes I
put in the wall.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*----------
That's Not How the Law Works ----------*
A mother
wants $40 million from people who attended a party for failing to protect her
drunk daughter. The New York mother is suing the owners of a house in the
Hamptons and 100 unidentified guests because they did not realize that her
daughter drowned in a pool. 29-years-old Olya Lipina died during an all-night
party. Her body was found only around noon the next day, floating in the pool.
The death was ruled accidental. Now, her mother, Alla Lipina-Skyba from
Brooklyn, has filed a civil lawsuit. However, she is not only suing the
homeowners, Daniel and Linda Finer, and Laura Edith Kreft, but she is also
suing the 100 party goers, claiming that they were negligent by allowing her
daughter to get so drunk.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Solstice
comes from the Latin (sol, sun and sistit, stands). For several days before and
after each solstice, the sun appears to stand still in the sky as its noontime
elevation does not seem to change. At the solstices the sun's apparent position
on the celestial sphere reaches its greatest distance above or below the celestial
equator, directly overhead at noon at the Tropic of Cancer.
***
In the
Northern Hemisphere the longest day and shortest night of the year occur on
this date, marking the beginning of summer. At winter solstice, about December
22, the sun is overhead at noon at the Tropic of Capricorn; this marks the
beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. For several days before and
after each solstice the sun appears to stand still in the sky, i.e., its
noontime elevation does not seem to change from day to day.
***
Before the
Civil War, schools did not have summer vacation. In rural communities, kids had
school off during the spring planting and fall harvest while urban schools were
essentially year-round. The long summer holiday didn't come about until the early
20th century.
***
The 'dog
days of summer' refer to the weeks between July 3 and August 11 and are named
after the Dog Star (Sirius) in the Canis Major constellation. The ancient
Greeks blamed Sirius for the hot temperatures, drought, discomfort, and
sickness that occurred during the summer.
***
According to
Forbes, the top 9 most hazardous summer injuries are caused by 1) playground
equipment; 2) skateboards; 3) trampolines; 4) lawn mowers; 5) amusement
attractions; 6) non-powder guns, BBs pellets; 7) beach, picnic, camping
equipment; 8) barbeque grills, stoves, equipment; and 9) trimmers, small garden
tools.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )”
indicates age at death
[89] Jane
Russell,
Bemidji
MN, full-figured actress (Outlaw) [d2011]
84- Lalo
[Boris] Schifrin,
83- Bernie
Kopell,
actor
(Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl), born in NYC, New York
[80] Maureen
Stapleton,
Troy
NY, actress (Airport, Coccoon, Plaza Suite) [d2006]
[74] Jean-Paul
Sartre,
French
existentialist philosopher and writer (Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined), born in
Paris (d. 1980)
[54] Benazir
Bhutto,
11th
Prime Minister of Pakistan and 1st female leader of a Muslim nation, born in
Karachi, Pakistan (d. 2007)
[50] Daniel
D Tompkins,
(D-R),
6th US vice-president (1817-25) [d1825]
[49] Robert
Pastorelli,
American
actor (Eldin-Murphy Brown), born in Brooklyn, New York [d2004]
[43] Judy
Holliday,
comedienne/actress
(Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib), born in NYC, [d1965]
34- Prince
William,
Duke
of Cambridge, son of Prince Charles & Lady Diana, born in London, England
33- Edward
Snowden,
American
NSA contractor who leaked classified information from the agency, born in
Elizabeth City, North Carolina
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Historical
Obits Today
@98-1995 Laurence
McKinley Gould,
American
Geologist and Polar Explorer who was chief scientist and second-in-command on
the first expedition to the interior of Antarctica in 1929
@88-2001 John
Lee Hooker,
American
musician
@78-2003 Leon
Uris,
American
writer (Exodus), kidney failure
@76-2001 Carroll
O'Connor,
American
actor, heart attack
@64-1908 Nikolai
A Rimski-Korssakov,
Russian
composer (Sheherazade), angina
@64-1893 Leland
Stanford,
American
business tycoon and founder of Stanford University, heart failure
@58-1527 Niccolo
Machiavelli,
Florentine
statesman/author-(The Prince)
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Taurus
2. Orion
3. Fiesta
4. East Anglia
5. Scorpio
6. Galaxy
7. Granada
All are models of Ford cars.
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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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