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6.27.16
Week: 26 \ Day: 179
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 89° \ L 47°
Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind
ave: 14mph\Gusts: 21mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 94°[1974]
Record Low: 26°[1965]
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Quote
of the Day
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible
to others ~Jonathan Swift
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Observances
Today
Decide To Be Married
Day
"Happy Birthday To You" Day
Industrial Workers of The World Day
National HIV Testing Day Link
National Sunglasses Day Link
PTSD Awareness Day Link
Please Take My Children To Work Day
Ramadan: -7/5
Sun Glasses Day
•••
Independence Day (Djibouti-1977-from France)
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Observances
This Week
○ 26-7/2
Fish Are Friends, Not
Food! Week Link
National Mosquito Control Awareness
Week Link
○ 27-7/4
National Prevention of
Eye Injuries Awareness
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1542 Juan
Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain
1652 New
Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America
1778 Liberty
Bell came home to Philaelphia after the British departure
1833 Prudence
Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females
at Canterbury Conn
1847 New
York & Boston linked by telegraph wires
1914 US
signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia
1915 100°F
(38°C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)
1922 Newberry
Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)
1929 1st
color TV demo (NYC)
1950 North
Korean troops reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry
Truman orders US Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict
1955 1st
automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
1963 US
President John Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland
1966 1st
sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premieres on ABC-TV
1980 1st
female state police graduates (NJ)
1981 "Bette
Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes returns to #1 slot
1982 "Dancin'"
closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1,774 performances
1985 Route
66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is decertified
1994 Aerosmith
become first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the
internet
2003 The
United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted
telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolls
almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1693 1st
woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London)
1806 Buenos
Aires captured by British
1967 The
world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London
1987 - U2
returns to Dublin's Croke Park for the first time in two years; U2's set-list
appropriately includes "A Sort of Homecoming"
1986 In
referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce
1998 Opening
of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.
2007 -
Ireland elects its first black mayor
A Nigerian
man who came to Ireland in 2000 to seek asylum in Ireland makes history by
becoming Ireland's first black mayor. 43-year-old Councillor Rotimi
Adebari is elected the Mayor of Portlaoise Town Council by a vote of six to
three and with the support of Fine Gael, Sinn Féin and Independent members of
the council. At a meeting attended by officials from the Nigerian, South
African and the United States embassies, the new mayor is quoted as saying his
election was proof that “Ireland is not just a country of a thousand welcomes
but it is a country of equal opportunity.”
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Another very
warm day…makes it hard to get excited about doing anything. The heavy breeze is
helping survive the heat.
Sunday news
programs were informative. I better understand what is happening with the EU
and UK. Glad to see that conservative George Will won’t be voting for Trump and
is leaving the GOP. I seldom agree with his views, but do learn from him.
Change my regular schedule and my week gets all messed up. Got up this morning
after a good night’s sleep and took my AM pills—thyroid. The weekly box said to
take Sunday pills, but I was convinced in my mind that is was Saturday. Had to
get my phone to see what day it was. That Friday night sleep test messed up my
pattern. Getting’ old-er.
I’ve been
waiting for years, if not decades, to have a GOP-er explain to me how they are
for ‘small government’ and yet set up so many laws about women’s rights, voting
rights, adoption rights… Still waiting for an answer. They seldom listen to the
people’s ideas, unless it is to their perceived advantage…UK pulling out of the
EU for example. Strange for sure.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at
the end of post)
Letter
Juggle 10
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
Take the
given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a
pair of synonyms, or near synonyms.
For example,
given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating two synonyms:
Boat - Ship.
1. Flat - Pump
2. Feather - Crate
3. Bet - Stop
4. Ear - Trip
5. Lopes - Shills
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…Harper’s
Index…
1/2 –
Portion of American who worry that a family member will be a victim of
terrorism
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*---
Horses Pass DUI Checkpoint in Colorado ---*
Police in
Colorado were met with a surprise when a group of people on horseback passed
through a DUI checkpoint. Lakewood police shared photos of the three equestrian
travelers and noted that even horses are required to adhere to the checkpoint.
"Well, this was a first for a DUI checkpoint - but we are in Golden, so
maybe we shouldn't be surprised..." they wrote in another tweet. The
Lakewood police did not report arrests of any of the horseback riders they
encountered on Wednesday. The Denver Post reported a 45-year-old Colorado man
was arrested on suspicion of DUI while on horseback in 2013. I'm sure that arrest
was in the interest of public safety and not revenue generation, because of all
the drunk equitation related deaths.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )”
indicates age at death
[87] Helen
Keller,
American
blind-deaf author and lecturer who had more sense than many, born in Tuscumbia,
Alabama (d. 1968)
[87] Ruby
Middleton Forsythe,
teacher
(50 years in 1 room school in SC) [d1992]
[86] Paul
F Conrad,
US
cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa [d2010]
86- H
Ross Perot,
Texas,
billionaire/presidental candidate (1992)
[80] Willie
Mosconi,
world
champion pool player [d1993]
78-- Bruce
E Babbitt,
(Gov-D-AZ)/secretary
of interior, born in Flagstaff
[76] Bob
Keeshan,
Lynbrook
NY, aka Capt Kangaroo/Clarabelle (Good Morning) [d2004]
65- Julia
Duffy [Julia Margaret Hinds],
American
actress (Newhart, Baby Talk), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
[47] Thomas
Say,
USA,
American naturalist and father of descriptive entomology, born in Philadelphia,[d1834]
41- Tobey
Maguire,
American
actor (Spider-Man, The Great Gatsby), born in Santa Monica, California
[33] Paul
Laurence Dunbar,
American
poet and novelist (Oak & Ivory), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1906)
32- Khloe
Kardashian,
American
reality television star (Keeping Up with the Kardashians), born in Los Angeles,
California
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Historical
Obits Today
@87-2009 Gale
Storm,
TV
Personality
@76-2001 Jack
Lemmon,
American
actor, cancer
@68-2012 Don
Grady [Agrati],
actor
(Mouseketeer,
My 3 Sons), cancer
@64-1829 James
Smithson,
his
will establishes Smithsonian Institute
@55-1831 Sophie
Germain,
French
mathematician, cancer
@38-1844 Joseph
Smith Jr,
founder/leader
(Mormon Church), shot by mob
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Fat -
Plump
2. Father - Create
3. Best - Top
4. Tear - Rip
5. Slopes - Hills
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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…☼☼☼☼
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