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7.10.16
Week: 28 \ Day: 192
July
Averages: 81°\51°
86004
Today: H 87° \ L 50°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 23mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 94°[2003]
Record Low: 37°[1926]
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Quote
of the Day
We all need people
who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve. ~Bill Gates
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Observances
Today
Clerihew
Day
Don't
Step On A Bee Day
Piña
Colada Day
Taos
Pueblo Pow Wow
Wayne
Chicken Day
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Admission Day (Wyoming-1890-44th)
Independence Day (Bahamas-1973-from
UK)
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Observances
This Week
Freedom
Week: 4-10
Nude Recreation Weekend: 4-10
Creative Maladjustment Week: 7-14 Link
National Farriers Week: 10-16 (First Full
Week)
Sports Cliché Week: 10-16 (Always
Week of Maj. League Baseball)
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1778 American
Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain
1847 Urbain
J J Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune, meet for 1st
time at home of John Herschel
1850 Millard
Fillmore sworn in as president of US (replacing Taylor)
1866 Indelible
pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
1892 1st
concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
1929 US
issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
1933 1st
police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY
1934 1st
sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
1938 Howard
Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours
1949 1st
practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Ohio
1956 650,000
US steel workers go on strike
1962 Telstar,
1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1998 Roman
Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to
nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest
Rudolph Kos.
2000 EADS,
the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of
Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
2012 The
American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay
marriages
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
988 The
city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey
1040 Lady
Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force
her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes
1746 Bonnie
Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye
1921
- Unionists burn 160 homes in Belfast, killing 15 and injuring 58
1991 Boris
Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected President of the Russian Federation
2000 -The
Irish government concedes for the first time that a referendum may have to take
place in 2001 to get voter approval for a major revision to the European Union
treaties
2001 - A
draft chapter from Irish writer James Joyce's classic novel Ulysses is sold for
nearly £900,000 at auction.
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice quiet Saturday…a
little warm, but nice. Downtown had an interesting display of
art/trinkets/homemade stuff. Nice walk around, but don’t need any more ‘stuff’.
Nice time on the deck,
reading the morning paper and watching the birds.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of
post)
Ag Ag Ag
Rebus
brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent
common phrases.
What does this represent?
Ag Ag Ag Ag Ag
Ag CIRRUS Ag
Ag Ag Ag Ag Ag
Ag Ag Ag Ag Ag
Ag CUMULUS Ag
Ag Ag Ag Ag Ag
Ag Ag Ag Ag Ag
Ag STRATUS Ag
Ag Ag Ag Ag Ag
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Today’s
Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of
post)
How many months were
originally in a Roman Calendar?
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…Harper’s
Index…
10,000 – Number of refugee children who
entered Europe in 2015 whose whereabouts are unknown
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeotravel Photo by @FransLanting Fall colors burst forth when deciduous plants
quit producing chlorophyll as days grow shorter and cooler. The yellows and
reds we see are stages in this seasonal retreat of life. In the Arctic the
height of fall color comes and goes in a matter of days—in some places, it
happens in late summer. In Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, I
captured the fleeting nature of this phenomenon by contrasting the peaking
colors on the slope in the foreground with those already fading on the opposite
side.
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2
jokes for the day
The Ham and Cheese
Sandwich
A ham and cheese sandwich
walks into bar and asks for a drink.
Bartender says, "Sorry, we don't serve food here."
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Maybe I Do Like Your
Boyfriend
Father: What do you see in
that boyfriend of yours?
Teen daughter: Well... he’s reliable.
Father: He’s always late picking you up!
Teen daughter: I know and I can always count on it. Remember when you had to
sit in the front room with my dates until I was ready?
Father: Now that you mention it, I’m beginning to like this guy!
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*--- 6-foot Man Stuffs
Himself into Suitcase ---*
A nearly 6-foot tall man
was caught on a surveillance camera emerging from a suitcase at a train station
in Switzerland. Video shot by a Swiss border guard shows the man's hand
sticking out from the suitcase before officers arrive to fully unzip the bag.
The man was from Eritrea and had packed himself into the suitcase to cross the
border from Italy into Switzerland. The man, who was one of about 3,400
migrants attempting to enter Switzerland's Ticino region, was ultimately sent
back to Italy after being discovered inside the suitcase by border guards.
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Birthdays
Today
“[ ]” indicates age at
death
[86] Nikola Tesla,
Serbian-American physicist, electrical
engineer and inventor,
developed alternating current and the
Tesla
Coil [d1943]
95- Jake LaMotta,
middleweight boxing champ (1949-51)
(Raging
Bull),
born in The Bronx
[89] Don Herbert,
Waconia Minn, scientist/TV host (Watch Mr
Wizard)
[d2007]
[82] David Brinkley,
Wilmington NC, NBC news anchor (Huntley-
Brinkley) [d2003]
[73] Camille Pissarro,
Danish Antillean/French painter
(Impressionism),
born in Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas,
Danish
West Indies
(now
US Virgin Islands) (d. 1903)
71- Ron Glass,
Evansville IN, actor (Harris-Barney
Miller,
Frank's Place)
69- Arlo Guthrie,
singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New
Orleans),
born in Brooklyn, New York
[66] Fred Gwynne,
actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters),
born in NYC,
[d1993]
[64] Alvan Graham
Clark,
American telescope maker and astronomer
(d. 1897)
[56] William Blackstone,
jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries),
born
in London, England
[d1780]
[54] John Calvin,
Protestant religious reformer/theologian
[d1564]
[49] Arthur Ashe,
tennis pro (1968 US Open, 1975 Wimbledon)
[d1993]
44- Sofia Vergara,
Colombian-American actress (Modern
Family),
born in Barranquilla, Colombia
[36] Nick Adams,
Nanticoke Pa, actor (Johnny Yuma-Rebel)
[d1968]
[34] Jack
"Legs" Diamond",
American bootlegger
(d. 1931)
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Historical
Obits Today
@84-1979 Arthur Fiedler,
orchestra leader (Boston Pops)
@83-2015 Omar Sharif,
[Michael Shalhoub],
Egyptian actor (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence
of
Arabia)
@83-1863 Clement Clarke
Moore,
('Twas the Night Before Xmas)
@81-1989 Mel Blanc,
cartoon voice (Warner Bros cartoons)
@63-1851 Louis Daguerre,
French inventor and photographer
@62-138 Hadrian,
Roman emperor (117-138), heart failure
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Trivia
Hive Answers
10
You may have noticed that
if you look at the original Latin roots of our months, they just don't add up.
Sept comes from 7 but September is the ninth month and the oct- in October-
what?! But, actually, the original Roman calendar year was 10 moons long (no
that is not a typo, the word 'month' came from 'moon'). The months were around
30 days long and the year lasted about 304 days. So where are those other 61
random days hanging out? Well, they just kind of skipped over winter which we
don't think is such a terrible idea, either. Source: LiveScience
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Every cloud has a silver
lining.
Cirrus, cumulus, and stratus are types of clouds. Ag is the chemical symbol for
silver.
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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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