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6.29.16
Week: 26 \ Day: 180
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 80° \ L 52°
Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind
ave: 2mph\Gusts: 31mph Visibility: 7 mi
Record
High: 93°[1990]
Record Low: 30°[1965]
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Quote
of the Day
Correction does much
but encouragement does more. ~Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
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Observances
Today
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Isra
Al Mi'Raj (Ascent of the Prophet Muhammad - Islam)
Ramadan:
-7/5
Independence
Day (Seychelles-1976-from UK)
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Observances
This Week
○ 26-7/2
○ 27-7/4
National
Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1776 Virginia
state constitution adopted and Patrick Henry made governor
1891 US
National Forest Service organized
1899 Brazo
River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage
1936 Empire
State Building broadcasts high definition TV-343 lines
1940 US
passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
1950 US
beats England 1-0 in a world cup soccer game (next win in 1994)
1956 US
Federal interstate highway system act signed
1964 Civil
Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in the US Senate
1969 1st
Jewish worship service at White House
1977 Supreme
Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults
1994 US
reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees
2006 Hamdan
v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's
plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and
international law.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
512 A
solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
1534 Jacques
Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada
1540 English
ex-chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic
1613 Shakespeare's
Globe Theatre burns down
1888 First
(known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax
cylinder
1903 British
government protests against abuses in Belgian Congo
1931 Pope
Pius XI publishes encyclical on Nun abbiamo bisogno (We do not need fascism and
Mussolini)
1949 South
Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1969 Ireland
enacts exemption from income tax for creators of works of 'cultural or artistic
merit'
1974 Military
coup in Ethiopia
2002 Naval
clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South
Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2007 Enya receives
an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland, Galway
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My
Rambling Thoughts
The monsoon has arrived in
our little mountain town. This is great news to help with the heat and of
course, to dampen our very dry forest. We had a nice little storm yesterday
afternoon, then another one this morning. Sure ain’t complaining.
While I was enjoying the
nice storm, I had CNN on the TV. Trump laid out his newest 7 point plan. I can’t
believe there are so many that fall for his drivel. He promises to bring back
manufacturing to America, yet all his clothes and campaign stuff are made in
foreign countries. Time for him to Walk the Talk. He promised PA he would bring
back the steel industry in America to build strong buildings like the Empire
State Bldg. Yet he redesigned a whole complex so that he wouldn’t have to use
American Steel. His promises do sound good, but when the time comes to do it,
he will back down…much like the idiots in the UK who promised that not paying
the EU would give money to the Heath Care System, but now they are saying, ‘well
maybe not.’
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of
post)
Missing Letters IV
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
What same three letters
fit into the following five combinations to form 5 words?
_ _ _ E F
F A _ _ _ C
D E _ _ _ S
H Y _ _ _ D
L U _ _ _ C A N T
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…Harper’s
Index…
9
–Percentage of US
Muslim doctors who say their religion has caused patients to refuse their care
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
nakedplanet Turquoise
waterfall from Urederra River in Navarra, Spain showing us the beauty and force
of nature.
PC: ©Juan Pixelecta
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
believed that the center of thought was the heart and that the brain's function
was merely to cool the heart. It was an early Greek physician, Alcmaeon of
Croton (c. 6th century B.C.), who was the first to claim that the brain, not
the heart, is the central organ of sensation and thought.
***
In South America,
scientist have discovered deliberately made 'skull holes' that may have been
made to treat painful headaches, brain disease, or to let 'evil spirits' out of
the head. Called 'trepanation,' the process of making those holes was
incredibly painful. The high number of trepanized skulls suggests that this
brain surgery was commonplace.
***
Contrary to the popular
belief that humans use just 10 percent of their brain capacity, humans actually
use virtually every part of the brain, and most of the brain is active all the
time.
***
There are more than
100,000 chemical reactions happening in the human brain every second.
***
A 20-year-old man has
around 109,000 miles (176,000 km) of myelinated axons in his brain, which is
enough to wrap around the earth's equator four-and-a-half times. A 20-year old
woman's brain is typically smaller than a male's, and, consequently, requires
less wiring
***
If brain cells were
replaced, like skin or liver cells, scientists hypothesize we would lose our
memories.
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Birthdays
Today
“[ ]” indicates age at
death
[101] Nellie Taylor
Ross,
1st
woman to serve as a gov (Wyoming, 1925-27) [d1977]
86- Robert Evans,
director/actor
(Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown), born in NYC, New York
[78] William James
Mayo,
surgeon/co-founder
Mayo clinic in Minnesota [d1939]
72- Gary Busey,
Goose
Creek Tx, actor (Buddy Holly Story, Star in Born)
[69] George Washington
Goethals,
engineer
(built Panama Canal) [d1928]
69- Richard Lewis,
comedian
(Marty Gold-Anything But Love), born in NYC, New York
68- Fred Grandy,
Sioux
City IA, (Rep-R-Iowa)/actor (Love Boat)
[65] Nelson Eddy,
Providence RI, baritone (Duets with Jeanette MacDonald) [d1967]
[59]- Little Eva [Eva Boyd],
American
pop singer (Locomotion), born in Belhaven, North Carolina (d. 2003)
[57] Stokeley
Carmichael, [Kwame Toure],
US,
Black Power-activist [d1998]
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Historical
Obits Today
@96-2003 Katharine
Hepburn,
American
actress
@75-1995 Lana Turner,
actress
(Madame X), cancer
@75-1852 Henry
Clay,
American
politician known as "the Great Compromiser", tb
@74-2002 Rosemary Clooney,
American
singer and actress, cancer
@63-2007 Joel Siegel,
American
film critic, cancer
@55-1861 Elizabeth
Barrett Browning,
British
poet and writer ("How Do I Love thee"), long illness/morphine
@49-1978 Bob Crane,
actor
(Donna Reed Show, Hogan-Hogan's Heroes), murdered in Phoenix
@46-1933 Roscoe
"Fatty" Arbuckle,
US
actor (Keystone comedies), heart attack
@34-1967 Jayne Mansfield,
actress
(Female Jungle), car crash
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Brain
Teasers Answers
BRI.
BRIEF
FABRIC
DEBRIS
HYBRID
LUBRICANT
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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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