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7.17.16
Week: 29 \ Day: 199
July
Averages: 81°\51°
86004
Today: H 87° \ L 51°
Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 22mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 93°[2009]
Record Low: 40°[1904]
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Quote
of the Day
Why does the eye see
a thing more clearly in a dream than the imagination when awake?
~Leonardo da Vinci
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Observances
Today
Celebration
of The Horse Day
Disneyland Day-construction begins…1954
Lake Superior Day
Wrong Way
Corrigan Day-1938
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Constitution Day (South Korea)
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Observances
This Week
Rabbit
Week: 15-21
(Re:
Magician Rabbits The sponsor is Melvin Rabbit up in Canada. No website. )
Captive Nations Week: 17-23
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 17-23 Link
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1775 1st
military hospital approved
1850 Harvard
Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
1861 US
Congress authorizes paper money
1867 1st
US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1879 1st
railroad opens in Hawaii
1897 1st
ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon
1918 Longest
errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
1938 Douglas
(Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland
1945 Shannon
Airport and customs free zone opened
1945 Potsdam
Conference (Truman, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting
1954 1st
major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
1955 Arco
Idaho becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
1955 Disneyland
televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
1962 Senate
rejects medicare for aged
2004 Martha
Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home
confinement for lying to federal investigators
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1203 Siege
of Constantinople begins during the fourth Crusade, Crusaders aboad a Venetian
fleet attack the city
1585 English
secret service discovers Anthony Babington's murder plot against Queen Elizabeth
I
1912 IAF
(Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
1917 Royal
Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family
from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor
1936 Spanish
generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising,
starting the Spanish Civil War
1959 Paleoanthropologist Mary
Leakey discovers the partial skull of a new species of early human
ancestor, Zinjanthropus boisei or 'Zinj' (now called Paranthropus boisei) that
lived in Africa almost 2 million years ago
1964 ANC
leader Nelson Mandela, recently sentenced to life imprisonment, is awarded
the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
1970 - The
National Youth Orchestra of Ireland makes its debut
1976 21st
modern Olympic games opens in Montreal: 25 African teams (later rising to 33
nations) boycott the games due to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South
Africa
1988 4
Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute
1988 Florence
Griffith Joyner of USA sets 100m woman's record (10.49)
1995 Forbes
Mag announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world ($12.9B)
2000 -
Guinness announces plans to lay off as many as 200 workers as part of a major
cost-cutting strategy
2002 - New
birth figures show that one in three children in Ireland are born out of
wedlock.
2004 Former
South African President Nelson Mandela calls for commitment by the
world to take action against Aids
2015 Scientists
solve mystery of sleeping sickness in two villages in northern Kazakhstan -
uranium mining had caused increase in carbon monoxide
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice warm day.
I never shop on Saturday
since my retirement. Before retirement, Saturday was the only shopping day in
town. Had to pick up some soda for these hot days. The checkout lady was a
former student from Tonalea. She ask if it was me. Nice, quick talk about what
has been happening. Always nice to see successful former students.
Wow, Turkey having
turmoil. My college roommate was an Air Force Brat and graduated from high
school in Izmir, Turkey in 1968. Had great stories of travel through that area
of the world during his high school years.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of
post)
Hurry Up!
Rebus
brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent
common phrases.
Can you decipher this
phrase?
T _ _ E
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Today’s
Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of
post)
How many U.S. presidents
have been assassinated?
*Weekend Bonus Question
What was the last country
to join the European Union?
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…Harper’s
Index…
6:1
– Ration of state-level
lobbying organizations to state lawmakers in the US
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
history Jul
17, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as
the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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2
jokes for the day
The Cow Likes Oranges
A squirrel was sitting
in an apple tree. All of a sudden a cow started climbing up the tree. Surprised
to see a climbing cow the squirrel asked the newcomer, "What the heck are
you doing here?"
The cow replied, "I thought I'd eat some oranges."
"But this is an apple tree."
"I know. I brought my own."
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I Know Exactly Where I
Am
A drunk stumbled out
the door of the bar. He stood on the corner waiting for the light. He wife
calls and asks if he is drunk. The man replies, "Of course not!"
Being suspicious that he is drunk, she says, "Okay then, tell me where you
are and I will come and get you."
The drunk replies, "I am at the corner of WALK and DON'T WALK!"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*-- Two Men Fall Off
Cliff Playing Pokemon Go --*
Two men who fell from a
seaside cliff north of San Diego told authorities they became distracted while
playing augmented reality game Pokemon Go. Encinitas fire Battalion Chief
Robbie Ford said one of the men fell about 50 feet down the bluff in Encinitas
while the other man fell about 80 to 90 feet to the beach below. Ford said the man
who fell to the beach told San Diego County sheriff's deputies he and the other
man had been playing smartphone game Pokemon Go, which sends players to
real-world locations to capture digital monsters. The man who fell 50 feet down
the bluff was rescued by firefighters using ropes and harnesses, Ford said.
Sgt. Rich Eaton of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department agreed players of
the game should steer clear of dangerous areas. "I think people just need
to realize this is a game," Eaton told the Los Angeles Times. "It's
not worth your life. No game is worth your life."
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Birthdays
Today
“[ ]” indicates age at
death
[97] Art Linkletter,
Saskatchewan
Canada, TV host (People are Funny) [d2010]
[95] Phyllis Diller,
American
comedienne and actress (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number), born in Lima, Ohio (d.
2012)
[86] James Cagney,
American actor
(Yankee Doodle Dandy), born in New York City [d1986]
[80] Erle Stanley Gardner,
American
detective writer (Perry Mason), born in Malden, Massachusetts (d. 1970)
81- Donald
Sutherland,
St John New
Brunswick, Canadian actor (M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers)
81- Diahann Carroll,
actress (Julia,
Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty), born in The Bronx, New York
77- Spencer Davis,
Wales, vocalist
(Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
74- Gale Garnett,
singer (We'll
Sing in the Sunshine), born in Auckland, New Zealand
69- Camilla Parker Bowles (Duchess of
Cornwall),
wife of Prince
Charles, born in London, England
64- David Hasselhoff,
American actor
(Night Rider, Mitch-Baywatch), born in Baltimore, Maryland
62- Angela Merkel,
German
politician, Chancellor of Germany, born in Hamburg, West Germany
[60] Phoebe Snow,
singer (Theme
from "It's a Different World") [d.2011]
[49] Eelco Refer,
linguist
(Dictionary for the Dutch translator) [d1879]
40-Luke
Bryan,
country singer/song
writer
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Historical
Obits Today
@92-2009 Walter Cronkite,
American
broadcast journalist
@88-2006 Mickey Spillane,
American author
@77-1881 Jim Bridger,
American mountain
man, Indian fighter, and explorer
@74-1961 Ty Cobb,
baseball great
(Det Tigers), cancer
@68-1935 George William
Russell,
Irish
nationalist, poet and artist, cancer
@67-1790 Adam Smith,
Scottish
economist (Wealth of Nations) and moral philosopher
@63-1974 Jay Hanna
"Dizzy" Dean,
pitcher (St Louis
Cards), heart attack
@50-1918 Nicholas II Alexandrovich,
last Tsar of
Russia, executed
@44-1959 Billie Holiday, jazz singer, cirrhosis
of the liver
@40-1967 John Coltrane,
US jazz
sax/composer (Round Midnight), cancer
@17-1918 Anastasia
Nikolaevna,
daughter of Tsar
Nicholas II, executed
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Trivia
Hive Answers
4
There are monumental moments in time
that people seem to never forget: This year, we will remember that dark day in
June when the U.S. experienced its deadliest shooting in recorded history. We
all remember where we were during 9/11 or when we found out about Columbine and
Sandy Hook. How about when John F. Kennedy was assassinated? Kennedy was the
fourth and, to this day, final assassination of an American president. Before
his death, William McKinley was killed by an anarchist in 1901, James Garfield
in 1881 and the first president to be assassinated at gunpoint was Abraham
Lincoln in 1865. Source: The History Channel
Bonus Answer
Croatia
Well, you know who the last country to
leave the E.U. was but did you know Croatia was the last to join? In 2013,
Croatia was looking for a recession bail-out and was hoping to walk straight
into the comforting embrace of the European Union. However, things haven't
turned out so well for the newest member. They haven't exactly had money
falling from the sky since they joined and hit their 6th year in recession at
the beginning of 2016. Though it looks like it has been steadily inclining this
year, the U.K. peace-out isn't going to make things any easier for the small
country. Just the thought has us reaching for the sljivovica! Source: BBC and
Bloomberg
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Brain
Teasers Answers
I'm out of time. I M are
out of T I M E. The hint refers to what the white rabbit said in Alice in Wonderland.
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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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