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8.27.16 Week: 34 \ Day: 240
July Averages: 80°\49°
86004 Today: H 73°
\ L 49° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
14mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 88°[1944] Record Low: 36°[1978]
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Quote of the Day
It takes a
long time to become young. ~Pablo Picasso
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Observances Today
Franchise
Appreciation Day
International
Bat Night-28
The Duchess Who Wasn't Day
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Independence Day (Moldova-1991-former
Soviet Union)
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Observances This Week
Be
Kind To Humankind Week: 25-31
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1667 Earliest recorded
hurricane in North America (Jamestown, Virginia)
1832 Black Hawk, leader
of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
1910 Using twenty 137,000
candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox
Park
1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs
publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"
1945 US troops land in
Japan after Japanese surrender
1950 General Foods
blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
1953 "Roman
Holiday", starring Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, and Eddie
Albert, is released
1976 Transsexual Renee
Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
1984 US
President Ronald Reagan announces 'Teacher in Space' project
1995 Worst fire in New
York in 80 years ends after 4 days
2008 Barack
Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major
political party for President of the United States
2012 First interplanetary
human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1783 First
hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1870 The Oceanic, a liner
built in Belfast by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line, is launched
1883 Krakatoa,
west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately
40,000 people
1952 Emil
Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2)
1955 "Guinness
Book of World Records" 1st published
1979 Assassination of Lord
Louis Mountbatten off the coast of Co. Sligo
1981 Divers
begin to recover a safe found aboard sunken Italian liner Andrea Doria
1993 The
Rainbow Bridge connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba is
completed.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Busy day
yesterday. The plan was to have lunch in Williams and head to Bearizona to see
the new black jaguar. Lunch was great with our retirement group, but the
monsoon put a damper on Bearizona. Heavy rain hit us and since the venue is
totally outside we decided to forego that adventure.
And the monsoon
continues today. Dark clouds everywhere, just waiting for the downpour.
Yesterday’s rain started in the afternoon and continued, on and off, until
after midnight.
Paid the last
payment of my Singapore trip a few days ago. Now getting excited about the trip.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the
end of post)
One Letter
of Separation 8
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
Each group of
definitions describes three words that are spelled the same, except for one
letter (each group describes a different set of words). Example: king, ring,
wing. The length of the words in each group is provided.
1) a small bundle & a pointed stake for a fence & a small isolated area
or group (6 letters)
2) to express in words & not freshly made & to look fixedly at
something (5 letters)
3) a dance that conveys a story & a makeshift bed & a hammer-like
implement (6 letters)
4) a local branch of a society & a mercantile lease of a ship & to talk
incessantly (7 letters)
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
What is the
name of the hospital in Grey's Anatomy?
Bonus
What are the
names of all the Golden Girls?
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…Harper’s Index…
2 – Factor by which a male English professor is more likely
than a female to be described as ‘brilliant’ by students
1.5 – by which a female English professor is more likely to be described
as ‘horrible’
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2 jokes for the day
Got Milk?
Farm Boy: My
pop can't decide whether to get a new cow or tractor for his farm.
City Boy: He'd certainly look silly riding around on a cow.
Farm Boy: Yeah, but he would look a lot sillier milking a tractor!
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Playing
Ruthless
His team was 20
points behind and the coach was desperate, so he looked down the bench to his
330 pound tackle that was not his brightest player. The coach called him over
and asked him, "If I put you in, can you play ruthless?"
"I sure can coach! Which one is ruthless?"
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Yep, It Really Happened
*--------------
The $6 million Lay --------------*
A California student won a large amount of money after having sex with his
teacher and getting her pregnant. Laura Whitehurst was 24 when she had a sexual
relationship with her 16-year-old student. Despite telling the boy that she
cannot conceive, the teacher became pregnant by him. The teacher had a
year-long relationship with the boy and gave birth to his daughter when he was
just 17 years old. The student, who is now 21, sued the school district,
claiming that they knew about the affair and they "turned a blind
eye," allowing the teacher to continue having sex with him. The attorney
for the student, said that the school did not inform the student's family or
law enforcement over the sexual abuse of the student. The Redlands Unified
School District officials agreed to settle the lawsuit for $6 million.
Whitehurst was arrested and sentenced to one year in county jail and five years
of probation. The student, who was present at the birth, has shared custody of
the baby. However there is a no-contact order between the teacher and her
daughter's father. I'm starting to think I did high school wrong.
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Somewhat Useless Information
A diamond is
the hardest natural substance on earth, but if it is placed in an oven and the
temperature is raised to about 1405 degrees Fahrenheit, it will simply vanish,
without even ash remaining. Only a little carbon dioxide will have been released.
***
Diamonds are formed over a period of a billion or more years deep within
earth's crust - about 90 miles deep - and is pushed to the surface by
volcanoes. Most diamonds are found in volcanic rock, called Kimberlite, or in
the sea after having been carried away by rivers when they were pushed to the
surface.
***
A diamond is 58 times harder than the next hardest mineral on earth, corundum,
from which rubies and sapphires are formed. It was only during the 15th century
that it was discovered that the only way to cut diamonds was with other
diamonds. Yet, diamonds are brittle. If you hit one hard with a hammer, it will
shatter.
***
The world's largest diamond was the Cullinan, found in South Africa in 1905. It
weighed 3,106.75 carats uncut. It was cut into the Great Star of Africa,
weighing 530.2 carats, the Lesser Star of Africa, which weighs 317.40 carats,
and 104 other diamonds of nearly flawless color and clarity. They now form part
of the British crown jewels.
***
Not all diamonds are white. Impurities lend diamonds a shade of blue, red,
orange, yellow, green and even black. A green diamond is the rarest. It is not
the rarest gemstone, however. That title goes to a pure red ruby. Diamonds
actually are found in fair abundance; thousands are mined every year. 80% of
them are not suitable for jewelry - they are used in industry. Only diamonds of
higher clarity are sourced to the jewelry stores.
***
A diamond carat differs from a gold carat. The gold carat indicates purity -
pure gold being 24 carats. One diamond carat is 0.007055 oz. The word carat
derives from the carob bean. Gem dealers used to balance their scales with
carob beans because these beans all have same weight.
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Birthdays Today
“[ ]” indicates
age at death
[78] Martha
Raye, [Margaret Reed],
Butte Mont, actress (Martha Raye Show) [d-1994]
[77] Ed Gein,
American serial killer (inspired Psycho & The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre), born in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, (d. 1984)
73- [Susan]
Tuesday Weld,
actress (Dobie Gillis, Wild in Country), born in
NYC, New York
69- Barbara Bach [Goldbach],
American actress (The Spy Who Loved Me, Force 10
from Navarone), born in Queens, New York
[64] Lyndon B. Johnson,
36th US President (Democrat: 1963-69), born in
Stonewall, Texas (d. 1973)
64- Pee-wee Herman [Paul
Reubens],
American actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure), born in
Peekskill, New York
[57] Johann
Georg Hamann,
German counter-enlightenment philosopher
("Reason is language"), born in Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia (d.
1788)
53- Downtown
Julie Brown,
Welsh TV personality and MTV VJ
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Historical Obits Today
@95-1963 W
E B Du
Bois,
scholar/founder (NAACP)
@79-1979 Louis
Mountbatten,
1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Queen Elizabeth
II's cousin, assassinated by an IRA bomb on his boat in Ireland
@73-1971 Bennett
Cerf,
(Random House)/panelist (What's My Line)
@68-1980 Sam
Levenson,
humorist (Sam Levenson Show), heart attack
@63ish-2001 Abu
Ali Mustafa,
leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine (assassinated)
@58-2015 Darryl
Dawkins,
American professional basketball player
(Philadelphia 76ers, NJ Nets), heart attack
@57-1958 Ernest Lawrence,
American nuclear scientist and inventor (Cyclotron
- Nobel 1939), after surgery
@35-1990 Stevie
Ray Vaughan,
American blues guitarist, helicopter crash
@32-1967 Brian Epstein,
rock manager (Beatles), drug overdose
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Trivia Hive Answers
Grey-Sloan
Memorial Hospital
It has been
eleven years since Meredith Grey started her internship at Seattle Grace
Hospital- now Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital- and man has life changed! In fact,
only four of the original cast members are still around after 12 years: Chandra
Wilson (Dr. Bailey), James Pickens Jr. (Dr. Webber), Justin Chambers (Alex) and
Ellen Pompeo (Meredith Grey). Oh, Meredith Grey, our hats off to thee! Source:
IMDB
Bonus
Blanche,
Dorothy, Sophia, and Rose
Here's
something that might surprise you: Estelle Getty, who played Sophia, was
actually a year younger than Bea Arthur who played her on-screen daughter,
Dorothy. It took hair and makeup nearly an hour every taping to get rid of
Getty's youthful glow. Unfortunately, only one Golden Girl is still alive-
Betty White. Rue McClanahan passed away in 2010, Bea Arthur in 2009 and Estelle
Getty in 2008. We just want to say, "Thank you for being a friend!"
Source: IMDB
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Brain Teasers Answers
1) packet,
picket, pocket
2) state, stale, stare
3) ballet, pallet, mallet
4) chapter, charter, chatter
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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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