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8.21.16
Week: 34 \ Day: 234
July
Averages: 80°\49°
86004
Today: H 79° \ L 45°
Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 18mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 90°[1991]
Record Low: 33°[1979]
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Quote
of the Day
Don’t cry because it’s
over. Smile because it happened. ~Dr. Seuss
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Observances
Today
Brazilian
Blow-out Day Link
Poet's Day
♥♥♥
Admission
Day (Hawaii-1959-50th)
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Observances
This Week
National
Aviation Week: 15-21 (Always week of Orville
Wright's Birthday on 19th)
Minority Enterprise Development Week: 18-24
North American Organic Brewers Week: 18-21
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1680 Pueblo
Indians takes possession of Santa Fé from Spanish
1831 Nat
Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)
1852 Tlingit
Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
1858 1st
Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
1878 American
Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY
1888 American
inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine
1897 Oldsmobile
begins operation as a General Motors Corp division
1922 Curly
Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise
1955 Emmett
Till arrives in Money, Mississippi, a week before he is murdered1975 US
lightens trade embargo against Cuba
1983 "La
Cage aux Folles" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 1761 performances
1987 Clayton
Lonetree, 1st US marine court-martialed for spying, convicted
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1541 Ottoman
Turks under Suleiman the Magnificent capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian
Kingdom. Dominate central Hungary for 150 years
1760 The
church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez (Puerto
Rico)" is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.
1791
Birth of the word ‘quiz’ (allegedly and disputed). Richard Daly, a theatre
proprietor in Dublin, makes a bet that within 48 hours he can introduce a new
word into the English language. After the evening performance, Mr. Daly
distributes cards to all the staff with the word written on it, and instructs
them to write it on walls all over the city. Thus ‘quiz’ enters the language
1879 The
Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly
appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
1911 "Mona
Lisa" stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913)
1952
Mau Mau rebellion with other nationalist leaders by British authorities
1961 Kenyan
political activist Jomo Kenyatta released from jail after 9 years.
Imprisoned during
1972 1st
hot air balloon flight over Alps
2015 Oldest
"message in a bottle" - more than 108 years after put in sea by UK
Marine Biological Association announced found on beach in Amrum, Germany
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice to return to Flag and
find the monsoon in full swing. Daily rains keep us wet and cool. Much needed.
I mentioned our ship, the
locks, and the great cruise…today pictures are below.
Did a read on the Kurds
last night and again this morning. Can’t believe how much I didn’t know about
in that part of the world. The Kurds are still fighting for independence, and
even though they have been let down numerous times, are still our friends…amazing.
Should be an interesting discussion tonight.
After my recent trip my
phone wouldn’t ring. It would vibrate,
but not ring. A real pain in the butt. I checked all the settings. I changed
the ringtone, I did everything, still no ring. I finally googled ‘iphone won’t
ring’. Surprise…first article has a picture of this tiny button by the volume
control. Moved the button and the phone now rings. Feeling happy, and a little
slow.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of
post)
Letter Juggle 9
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
Take the given words, and
by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms,
or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to
'Hip' creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. Our - Start
2. Strip - Tumble
3. Clause - Idea
4. Cash - Broom
5. Plight - Lam
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Today’s
Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of
post)
How many registered users
does Pandora Internet Radio have?
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…Harper’s
Index…
2,700-Number of elephants employed by Burma’s
state-run logging comany
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…My
Holiday Photo of the Day…
Entering one of the 13 locks
We are going to go under that bridge
And under this one too.
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2
jokes for the day
The Olympic Speech
The veteran politician,
not known for his public speaking skills, was going to give a speech at the
Olympics. He looked at the teleprompter and began, "O, O, O, O, O."
An aid quickly ran over and told him, "That is the logo sir."
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Not In Front of Them
A happily married man had
only one complaint, his wife was always nursing sick birds. One cold evening,
he came home to find a raven with a splint on its beak sitting in his favorite
chair.
On the dining room table there was a feverish eagle pecking at an aspirin while
in the kitchen his wife was comforting a shivering little wren that she found.
The furious spouse strode over to where his wife was toweling down the cold
little bird.
"I can't take it anymore! We've got to get rid of all of these
darn..."
The wife held up her hand to cut him off in mid-curse. "Please dear,"
she said, "not in front of the chilled wren."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*------------- Lattes
and Blowjobs -------------*
A soon-to-open cafe in Geneva, Switzerland will serve coffee with a side of
oral sex. The business model would see men ordering a coffee and using an iPad
to select a prostitute they want to perform oral sex on them. They would then
sit at the bar. The coffee-blowjob packages would be priced at 60 francs
(approximately $62), plus another 5 francs to upgrade to a macchiato. The concept
has proved controversial, with anti-prostitution groups arguing that it would
effectively "legalize pimping." While prostitution is legal in
Switzerland, it is tightly regulated and workers must be properly permitted.
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Birthdays
Today
“[ ]” indicates age at
death
[85] William Murdoch,
Scottish
inventor (d. 1839)
[79] [William] Count
Basie,
jazz
musician and band leader ( "One O'Clock Jump"), born in Red Bank, New
Jersey (d. 1984)
78- Kenny Rogers, singer (Through
the Years), born in Houston, Texas
77- Clarence Williams
III,
actor
(Mod Squad, 52 Pick Up, Purple Rain), born in NYC, New York
75- Jackie DeShannon,
Hazel
Kentucky, singer (What
the World Needs Now)
72- Peter Weir,
Australian
director/writer (Witness, Dead Poets Society), born in Sydney, New South Wales
[63] [George] Bugs Moran,
American
gangster, born in St. Paul, Minnesota (d. 1957)
[63] Wilt Chamberlain,
American
NBA Legend (LA Lakers, 5 time MVP), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1999)
60- Kim Cattrall,
actress
(Mannequin, Star Trek VI), born in Liverpool, England
[47] Stéphane Charbonnier [Charb],
French
cartoonist and editor of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, born in
Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (d. 2015)
42- Amy Fisher,
shot
Mary Jo Buttafucco, born in Long Island, New York
33- Brody Jenner,
American
actor
30- Usain Bolt,
Jamaican
sprinter (Triple Triple Olympic Gold), born in Sherwood Content, Trelawny,
Jamaica
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Historical
Obits Today
@81-2015 Bob Hepple,
South
African-born academic and Nelson Mandela's lawyer
@77-1940 Ernest Thayer,
American
poet who wrote the famous baseball poem "Casey"
@62-1940 Leon Trotsky,
Russian
revolutionary, icepicked by Ramón Mercader
@54-1614 Elizabeth
Báthory,
the
world's most prolific female serial killer, with between 80-600 murders
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Trivia
Hive Answers
250 million
iHeartRadio announced in
May that it has over 85 million registered users which is, like, super
impressive until you look at Pandora's numbers. The music streaming powerhouse
has over 250 million subscribers and 81 million of them are active monthly. But
what do you expect from a music service named after the "all-gifted"?
Source: TechTimes
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Sour - Tart
2. Trip - Stumble
3. Cause - Ideal
4. Crash - Boom
5. Light - Lamp
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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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