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7..16 Week: 27 \ Day: 185
July Averages: 81°\51°
86004 Today: H 79°
\ L 51° Average Sky Cover: 85%
Wind ave: 38mph\Gusts:
5mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 93°[2007] Record Low: 34°[1997]
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Quote of the Day
It is not
length of life, but depth of life. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Observances Today
International
Plastic Bag Free Day Link
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Admission Day (Idaho-1890-43rd)
Ramadan -7/5
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Observances This Week
Beans
and Bacon Days: 6/30-7/4 Link (Around first Wed. in July)
National Tom Sawyer Days: 1-4 (aka Fence Painting Days)
Rosewell UFO Days: 1-4 Link
*National Unassisted Homebirth Week: 1-7
Be Nice To New Jersey Week: 3-9 (First Full Week)
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1754 George
Washington surrenders to French, Fort Necessity (7 Years' War)
Michael
Keens1839 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3
students
1861 Pony
Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
1863 Battle
of Gettysburg: the largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends
in a major victory for the Union during (US Civil War)
1886 1st
NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine
1913 Common
tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have
crossed the Atlantic)
1915 After
exploding a bomb in the US Senate reception room the previous day, Erich
Muenter, an instructor in German at Cornell University, shoots JP Morgan for
representing the British government in war contract negotiations
1929 Dunlop
Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
1930 US
Veterans Administration created
1934 FDIC
pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL
1938 President Franklin
Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the
eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
1939 Lou
Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech
1947 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC
1950 1st
time US & North Korean forces clash in Korean War
1986 President
Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
1989 US
Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1608 Samuel
de Champlain founds city of Quebec
1767 Norway's
oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition
published this date).
1806 Michael
Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
1900 Trying
in stem the growing popular resentment, Tsar Nicholas of Russia issues a decree
that abolishes the banishment of dissidents and troublemakers to Siberia
1907 Pope
decree forbids modernization of theology
1976 90th
Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Ilie Năstase (64
62 97)
1976 Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers
being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers
1993 100th
Wimbledon Women's Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Jana Novotna (7-6 1-6 6-4)
2001
The National Museum of Ireland launches a new range of craft and souvenir items
which range in price from just £1 for a biro (pen) with the museum logo to
£10,000 for a unique, hand crafted piece of jewelry.
2004 Official
opening of Bangkok's subway system.
2005 The
national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.
2011 125th
Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal (6-4 6-1
1-6 6-3)
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My Rambling Thoughts
Crazy weather
night last night. Lots of wind, then lots of rain, some lightning and some
thunder. About 5a the sky was bright gold clouds…very unusual. FB is reporting
an early morning tornado on the other side of town…no damage reported. Wind was
blowing so hard I had to close the windows throughout the house about 3a as the
rain was blowing in everywhere.
Lazy day.
Caught up on some computer stuff, watching some DVR’d shows.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the
end of post)
Shuffle #2
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
In this teaser,
you are to start with the letter 'U', and then each time add a letter and
shuffle it to make a new word. You need to continue this process until you
reach the word 'SUPPORT'.
Not including 'U', you must do this in six (6) turns.
Good luck.
U
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S U P P O R T
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
How many
combinations are there of turning a dollar into change?
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…Harper’s Index…
3 – Number of remaining northern white rhinoceroses
2 –b Number of armed guards
employed by Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy to protect them
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
Photography by @ (Julian John). The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi.#mosque #architecture #AbuDhabi #SheikhZayed #UAE
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Yep, It Really Happened
*----- This
Is How You Blow a Job Interview -----*
A Kentucky man
attempted to rob a local Chuck E. Cheese while participating in a job
interview. Police Lt. Andrew Daughtery told the Lexington Herald-Leader that
the manager of the Chuck E. Cheese said the man came into the Lexington
location to get a job application at 2 p.m. and returned at 4 p.m. for an
interview. Daughtery said the man announced that he wanted to rob the
restaurant and implied that he had a firearm. The manager reportedly told the
man that he did not have access to the safe and advised the would-be robber to
leave the premises. Police said the man apologized to Chuck E. Cheese employees
and began to cry. Police continued their search for the unidentified man and
hoped to track him down with the information provided in his interview if it
was truthful.
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Somewhat Useless Information
This Monday is
Independence Day. We will be celebrating with fireworks, picnics and music all
in the name of our country's freedom. I can't share any fireworks with you, but
I have put together a few, fun facts to intimidate your friends and family with
next week.
***
John Adams
wrote that we actually declared our independence from Britain in Philadelphia
on July 2. "The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable
Epocha, in the History of America," Adams wrote on July 3, 1776. "It
ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns,
Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other
from this Time forward forever more."
***
The 56 signers
of the Declaration of Independence did not sign at the same time, nor did they
sign on July 4, 1776. The official event occurred on August 2, 1776, when 50
men signed it. The names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were
withheld from the public for more than six months to protect the signers. If
independence had not been achieved, the treasonable act of the signers would
have, by law, resulted in their deaths.
***
We have come a
long way since 1776. In July 1776, the estimated number of people living in the
newly independent nation was 2.5 million. The nation's estimated population on
this July Fourth is 313.9 million.
***
The tablet held
by in the Statue of Liberty's left hand bears the date July 4, 1776, but the
statue itself was presented to the U.S. by France on July 4, 1884. It was
dedicated two years later, on October 28, 1886, by President Grover Cleveland.
***
The melody for
"The Star-Spangled Banner" was taken from "To Anacreon in
Heaven," a drinking song of a London society. The song, written during the
British attack on Fort McHenry, was originally titled "Defense of Fort
McHenry".
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Birthdays Today
“[ ]” indicates
age at death
[98] Earl
L Butz,
US Secretary of Agriculture (1971-76) [d2008]
[75] Charlotte
Perkins Gilman,
American feminist, writer and lecturer for social
reform, born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1935)
73- Geraldo
Rivera, [Gerry Rivers],
news personality (20/20, Geraldo), born in NYC, New
York
[64] George M. Cohan,
American father of musical comedy (Phantom
President, Give My Regards to Broadway), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d.
1942)
[63] Jean-Claude Duvalier [Baby
Doc],
Deposed Haitian president-for-life (1971-86), born
in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (d. 2014)
[61] Samuel de Champlain,
French explorer (Lake Champlain), born in
Hiers-Brouage or La Rochelle, France (d. 1635)
54- Tom Cruise,
American actor (Risky Business, Jerry MaGuire,
Rainman), born in Syracuse, New York
[47] Laura
Branigan,
American singer-songwriter (Gloria), born in Mount
Kisco, New York (d. 2004)
45- Julian Assange,
Australian founder of Wikileaks, born in
Townsville, Queensland
[40] Franz Kafka,
Czech author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika), born
in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1924)
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Historical Obits Today
@86-2012 Andy
Griffith,
American actor
@83-1993 "Curly"
Joe DeRita,
last of Three Stooges
@80-1989 Andrei
Gromyko,
Soviet diplomat
@79-2009 John
A. Keel,
American Fortean, television scriptwriter, author
of The Mothman Prophecies
@76-1989 Jim
Backus,
actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), pneumonia
@66-1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
French writer/composer (Pygmalion), stroke
@61-1981 Ross
Martin,
actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West), heart attack
@56-1993 Don
Drysdale,
American Major League Baseball player, heart attack
@27-1971 Jim
Morrison,
rock singer (Doors), heart failure
@25-1965 Trigger,
horse (Roy Rogers)
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Trivia Hive Answers
Have two half
dollars? No problem! Got a half dollar and two quarters? Sure! Stuck with four
dimes, nine nickels, and fifteen pennies? Why not?! There are 293 combinations
of change for a dollar that you can give and they are all created equal! Well,
most are created equal, Lincoln wheat pennies, which were made from 1909
through 1958, can be worth over a thousand dollars! Source: The Math
Association of America
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Brain Teasers Answers
U
UP
PUT
POUT
SPOUT
STUPOR or SPROUT
SUPPORT
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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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