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8.28.16 Week: 35
\ Day: 241
August Averages:
80°\49°
86004 Today: H 63° \ L 48°
Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
27mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 88°[1948]
Record Low: 33°[1920]
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Quote of the Day
A great deal of
intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~Saul
Bellow
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Observances
Today
Crackers Over The Keyboard Day
Dream Day Quest and Jubilee
Go Topless Day Link
International Bat Night
Pony Express Day
Radio Commercials Day
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Family Day
(Tennessee)
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Observances This
Week
Be Kind To Humankind Week: 25-31
World Water Week: 28-9/2 Link
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1837 Pharmacists John Lea &
William Perrins manufacture Worcestershire Sauce
1845 Scientific American magazine
publishes its first issue.
1859 A geomagnetic storm causes
the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of
USA, Europe, and even as far afield as Japan.
1907 United Parcel Service is
founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
1917 Ten suffragists arrested as
they picket the White House
1949 Riot prevents Paul Robeson
from singing near Peekskill NY
1963 Martin Luther King Jr.
delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
1965 1st Subway sandwich shop
opens in Bridgeport, Connecticut
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
1609 English
explorer Henry Hudson, discovers & explores Delaware Bay
1640 Second Bishop's War: King Charles
I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn
1710 – Ireland: A board of trustees for linen
manufacture is established
1864 The first Geneva Convention,
governing rules of warfare, signed by 26 nations.
1937 Toyota Motors becomes an
independent company.
2003 An electricity blackout cuts
off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60%
of London's underground rail network to a halt.
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My Rambling
Thoughts
OK…weatherman loses again. He said the monsoon season was ending on
Friday. It poured all night, lots of thunder and lightning. Raining on and off
today. Enjoying the moisture.
Kinda a lazy day here…what with the rain…and retirement…and just being
lazy. Caught up on some computer stuff so all is good.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
8 + 8 = 91?
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a
trick that makes them really easy.
How can you make the following equation correct without changing it at
all?
8 + 8 = 91
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Today’s Trivia
Hive
(answers at the end of post)
How many times has golf been included in the Olympic Games?
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…Harper’s Index…
33-Percentage of US
women who do not identify as feminists.
17-Number who identify ass
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2 jokes for the
day
The Right Filling
A little boy called Ben was taken to the dentist. Examination
revealed that Ben had a cavity, which needed filling. "Now, young
man," asked the dentist, "what kind of filling would you like for
that tooth, amalgam or composite?"
"I would prefer chocolate, please," replied Ben.
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Just How Serious?
A distraught senior citizen phoned her doctor's office. "Is it
true," she wanted to know, "that the medication you prescribed has to
be taken for the rest of my life?"
"Yes, I'm afraid so," the doctor told her.
There was a moment of silence before the senior lady replied, "I'm
wondering then, just how serious is my condition because this prescription is
marked 'NO REFILLS'?"
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Yep, It Really
Happened
*--------------- More Australia ---------------*
An 8-pound gold nugget valued at about $190,000 was discovered by a
seasoned prospector in Australia. According to metal detector manufacturing
company Minelab, the anonymous prospector found the nugget while using his
metal detector in a worked-over area in the far southern edge of Central
Victoria's Golden Triangle. "I thought it was rubbish at first, maybe an
old horseshoe," the prospector said. "About 12 inches below the
ground, I could just barely make out the top of something. As I began to scrape
away the clay and dig deeper, I really couldn't believe my eyes - this wasn't
an old piece of steel in front of me. I had just unearthed a colossal gold
nugget - a once in a lifetime find! I was in total disbelief as I didn't think
nuggets of this size were still around" The man had previously made a
promise to split any large finds with his prospecting friends and plans to buy
a van to travel across Australia with his share of the proceeds. The nugget
dubbed "Friday's Joy" was sent to a bank vault where plans to have a
replica have been made as the original is prepared for auction.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
In the 100 years since its creation in 1916, the National park Service
has been the steward of an ongoing story that every American continues to
write.
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In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill that established
more than two million acres as Yellowstone National Park, the first national
park in the world. By the early years of the 20th century, the West was dotted
with new national parks.
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In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the "Organic Act"
that created the National Park Service. The act integrated all parks and
monuments into a single federal system.
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Today the grand and scenic parks of the American West remain iconic and
important sites, but the definition of a park has expanded, with the National
Park Service now overseeing historical parks and sites, national monuments,
battlefields and military parks, recreation areas, seashores, parkways,
lakeshores, and more.
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Several former prisons are under the management of the National Park
Service, including Alcatraz, Andersonville, Fort McHenry and Dry Tortugas. The
president even lives on land managed by the National Park Service. The White
House is part of President's Park.
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The smallest national park is Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas
coming in at about 5,500 acres. The biggest? Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
in Alaska has an area of over 8.3 million acres and is larger than each of the
nine smallest states.
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Birthdays Today
“[ ]” indicates age at death
[82] Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe,
German social philosopher (Faust), born in
Frankfurt (d. 1832)
[81] Ben Gazzara,
actor (Run for Your Life, QB VII), born in NYC, New
York (d. 2012)
[78] Charles Boyer,
France, actor (Algiers, Fanny, Barefoot in the
Park)
[d-1978]
[76] Jack
Kirby,
American cartoonist (X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, Capt
America), born in New York City (d. 1994)
73- David Soul, [Solberg]
actor (Starsky & Hutch), born in Chicago,
Illinois
[69] Nancy Kulp,
Harrisburg PA, actress (Miss Hathaway-Beverly
Hillbillies) [d-1991]
[66] Rokie Roker,
actress (Helen-Jeffersons), born in Miami, Florida [d-1995]
58- Scott Scovell Hamilton,
ice skater (Olympic-gold-1984), born in Toledo,
Ohio
[57] Lucy Ware Webb Hayes,
1st lady (1877-81) [d-1889]
51- Shania
Twain,
Canadian singer (You're Still the One), born in
Windsor Ontario
47- Jack Black,
American actor
47- Sheryl Sandberg,
American technology executive (COO Facebook) and
author (Lean In), born in Washington, D.C.
[46] Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton,
1st American Catholic saint (1975), born in New
York City (d. 1821)
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Historical Obits
Today
@88-1985 Ruth Gordon,
actress (Big Bus)
@81-1987 John Huston,
US/Irish actor/director (Maltese Falcon)
@81-1903 Frederick Law Olmsted,
American writer and landscape architect (designed
Central Park)
@80-683 K'inich Janaab' Pakal
[Sun Shield],
Ajaw of the Maya city-state of Palenque
@78-1967 Charles Darrow,
US inventor of Monopoly
@70-1784 Junípero Serra,
Spanish missionary, founded 1st missions in
California
@69-1964 Gracie Allen, Mrs
George Burns
comedian (Burns & Allen), heart attack
@14-1955 Emmett Till,
kidnapped & lynched in Money Mississippi
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Brain Teasers
Answers
Look at it upside down.
16 = 8 + 8.
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Trivia Hive Answers
2
The first Olympic Games in which golf was listed as one of the
participating events was the 1900 Paris Olympics. The first American woman to
ever win an Olympic gold medal, in any sport, was Margaret Abbott who took home
the gold with a 47 over nine holes and looked amazing doing so. Four years
later, golf came back but it wasn't as big of a hit as it had been in the
previous Olympics. After that, golf did not return. Until this summer! (Gasp!)
Be prepared for golf's big comeback at the Rio Games with some big players like
Bubba Watson and Rickie Fowler. Time to start practicing that two-finger clap!
Source: Golf Digest
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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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