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6.6.16 Week: 23 \ Day: 158
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 85° \ L 48°
Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts:
19mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 87°[2002]
Record Low: 25°[1943]
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Quote of the Day
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect
practice makes perfect.
~Vince Lombardi
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Observances Today
Atheists
Pride Day Link
D-Day
Drive-in Movie Day
National
Higher Education Day
National Thank God It's Monday Day
Ramadan: 6-7/5
Russian Language Day Link
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Dragon
Boat Festival (China)
Flag Day (Sweden)
Memorial Day (Korea)
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Observances This Week
○ 4-11
International
Clothesline Week
Bed Bug Awareness Week
Black Single Parents Week
End Mountain Top Removal Week Link
National Business Etiquette Week
National Headache Awareness Week Link
National Sun Safety Week Link
Pet Appreciation Week
Rip Current Awareness
Week Link
○ 6-12
National
Automotive Service Professionals Week
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US Historical Highlights
for Today
1716 1st slaves arrive in
Louisiana
1816 10" snowfall in
New England, "year without a summer" following the eruption of Mount
Tambora in Indonesia
1850 Levi
Strauss make his 1st pair of blue jeans
1885 Sitting Bull signs
contract today to work in Buffalo Bill"s Wild West Show.
1889 Great Fire in
Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
1900 US Congress pass an
act authorizing a civil code and government for the territory of Alaska after
gold discoveries bring lawlessness and disorder to the area
1912 The eruption of
Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the
20th century.
1925 Walter Percy
Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca is 8 months old)
1932 US Federal gas tax
enacted
1933 1st drive-in theater
opens (Camden NJ)
1934 Securities &
Exchange Commission established
1942 1st nylon parachute jump
(Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
1944 Alaska Airlines
commences operations.
1966 Stokely Carmichael
launches "Black Power" movement
1968 Senator Robert
F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night.
1977 Supreme Court tosses
out automatic death penalty laws
1981 Maya Yang Lin wins
competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial
1988 George H W Bush
makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II to Japanese-American
internees (promise broken, May 1989)
1998 TV sitcom "Sex
and the City" premieres in the US on HBO, starring Sarah Jessica
Parker,Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon
2005 The United States
Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich.
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
1844 Young
Men's Christian Association (YMCA) forms in London
1983 Bottle
with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland
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My Rambling Thoughts
A
very late night with Netflix. At my age I should know better than to binge
watch, but the shows were so good. Went to be about 2a, woke up at 6a, stayed
up till 7a, went back to bed and slept till 9a. Missed most of my Sunday
morning news roundups, but sure enjoyed the sleep.
Another
hot day. Amazing how they just stay around.
People
who haven’t lived in a real rural situation have no idea what it is like.
Yesterday afternoon a Navajo family from Shiprock posted on FB that 2 young
boys had been abducted by the step-father, after he tried to run over the
mother and stating that he was taking the kids into the desert and leaving
them. Then he left the area in a stolen car. Amber Alert…right. Nope, not on
Navajo. They haven’t upgraded the system, although they have the Federal $$ to
do so. Then this morning about 10:30 my phone blasts out the Amber Alert on my
phone, stating he could be headed for AZ or NM. Then about 11am I see a post on
FB that the kids are safe, found in Gallup, but the guy is still at large. In
most cases after the children are found, I get another Amber Alert on my phone
notifying me. Not this time…maybe because the guy is still at large. Whatever
the reason it is hard to believe it took almost 24 hours to get out the Amber
Alert…sad state of affairs in Rural America.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Common
Groups
These
brain teasers rely on your ability to recognize groups of common attributes.
For each of these puzzles you'll need to figure out why the words or letters
are grouped as they are. Sometimes you will be asked to pick the odd-one-out or
to place a new word into the correct group.
Can
you uncover what each group of three has in common?
1. doughnut
notebook
golf course
2. turtle
peanut
oyster
3. brown
polar
Kodiak
4. cough
tear
rain
5. soap
granola
candy
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…Harper’s Index…
14-Minimum number of US
teenages who died last year from injuries sustained while playing high-school
football
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2 jokes for the day
A
man rushed into a busy doctor's office and shouted, "Doctor! I think I'm
shrinking!"
The doctor calmly responded, "Now, settle down. You'll just have to be a
little patient."
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When I was a teenager, I worked as a
bagger for the local supermarket. One of the rules there was baggers cannot
accept tips when helping people bring groceries to their car. One day I was
putting groceries in an old man's car. When he was finished he said, "Here
young man. I want you to have a picture of your uncle George."
What it really was, was a dollar bill. Thinking quickly, I pocketed the
'picture'. I then asked him, "Have any pictures of my grandfathers Ulysses
and/or Benjamin?"
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-----
If Women Can Do It To Their Breasts -----*
It's
called a Scrotal Uplift or a Scrotoplasty, and it's exactly what you probably
think it is; a sign of the decline of western civilization. In the past such
procedures were almost exclusively performed to correct abnormalities or to
restore the scrotum to its normal self after injury or cancer, but now this
intimate procedure is being performed for purely aesthetic reasons. Men are now
worried their balls have gone a bit loose at the seams. The procedure itself is
minimally invasive: excess skin is removed and the joins are positioned where
natural grooves form up to the scrotal 'seam' so as to minimize any scar
visibility. The whole thing takes around an hour and is performed under local
anaesthetic. All you need is a lot of insecurity and a lot of money. The
procedure is not covered by insurance.
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Birthdays Today
“(
)” indicates age at death
90- Tom
Ryan,
comic strip cartoonist
(Tumbleweeds)
77- Gary
"US" Bonds, [Anderson],
Fla, singer/songwriter (New
Orleans)
69- Robert
Englund,
American actor (Freddy vs. Jason, A
Nightmare on Elm Street), born in Glendale, California
(64) David
Abercrombie,
Abercrombie & Fitch founder (d.
1931)
(61) Diego
Velázquez,
Spanish painter (d. 1660)
61- Sandra
Bernhard,
actress (King of Comedy,
Nancy-Roseanne), born in Flint, Michigan
60- Björn
Borg,
Swedish tennis champion (Wimbledon
1976-79), born in Stockholm, Sweden
(43) Robert
Falcon Scott,
British leader of ill-fated south
pole expedition, born in Plymouth, England (d. 1912)
29- Daniel
Logan,
New Zealand actor (Boba Fett-Star
Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones), born in Auckland
(21) Nathan
Hale,
American Revolutionary War patriot,
"I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.",
born in Coventry, Connecticut, North American Colonies (d. 1776)
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Historical Obits Today
@91-2013 Esther Williams,
American swimmer and actress
@85-1961 Carl Jung,
Swiss Psychiatrist (founded
analytic psychology)
@83-1976 J. Paul Getty,
oil magnate/billionaire
@83-1946 Gerhart Hauptmann,
writer
@80-2015 Vincent Bugliosi,
American attorney/author
(Helter-Skelter)
@80-1979 Jack Haley,
American actor (The Wizard of Oz)
@80-1956 Hiram Bingham,
American Archaeologist (Incan site
of Machu Picchu)
@73-2005 Anne Bancroft,
American actress, uterine cancer
@64-1991 Stan Getz,
jazz saxophonist (Girl from
Impanima), liver cancer
@63-1799 Patrick Henry,
American Revolutionary and Founding
Father famous for his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, stomach
cancer
@62-1941 Louis Chevrolet,
American automotive pioneer
@42-1968 Robert F. Kennedy,
(Sn-D-NY), assassinated by Sirhan
Sirhan
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
They all have holes
2. They all have shells
3. They are all kinds of bears
4. They are all kinds of drops
5. They are all kinds of bar
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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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