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June 13, 2017 Week: 24 \
Day: 164
86004 Today: H 72° \ L 31°
Average
Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 12mph\Gusts:
35mph
Visibility:
10 mi red flag
warning!
June Averages: 79°\41°
June Records: H: 96° (1970) L: 22 (1955)
Record High: 92°[1974]
Record Low: 30°[1976]
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╬Quote
of the Day╬
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
M. C. Escher
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╬Observances
Today╬
Call Your Doctor Day Link
International Albinism Awareness Day
World Pet Memorial Day
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╬Observances
This Week╬
Ramadan-→6/25
11-17 National
Automotive Service Professionals Week
National Body Piercing Week Link
National Flag Week
12-18 Men's Health Week Link
13-20 National Hermit Week
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╬Today’s
Significant US Historical Events╬
★ Today’s
Significant International Historical Events
░░░<§>00’s<§>░░░
1774 Rhode
Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1789 Mrs
Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington
★1828 Simon
Bolívar proclaimed dictator
★1837 1st
Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
1865 President Andrew
Johnson proclaims reconstruction of confederate states
1866 US
House of Representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights)
1888 US
Congress creates Department of Labor
★1933 German
Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann
Goering
1942 FDR creates
Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
1942 The
United States opens its Office of War Information.
★1951 UN
arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
1953 KOAA
TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast
1967 Thurgood
Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice
★1970 Beatles'
"Let It Be" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1979 Sioux
nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills SD
★1980 UN
Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
1985 "Prizzi's
Honor", starring Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, and Anjelica
Huston, is released
1986 Pres Reagan criticizes
South African state of emergency
★1990 Nelson
& Winnie Mandela welcomed in NYC
1994 A
jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph
Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to
seek $15 billion in damages.
★2000 President
Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for
the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of
Pyongyang.
★2007 First
large scale exhibition of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's work in Mexico opens at
Palacio de Bellas Artes on the 100th anniversary of her birth
★2015 Philae,
1st spacecraft to land on a comet in European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission
re-awakes after 7 months
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╬My
Rambling Thoughts╬
Monday…better in
retirement…
Had an early morning blood
draw. Happy to say I had plenty of blood for the lady. Not happy that she used
a stick on tape, rather than the usual wrap around tape. Now I have a small
bruise. Oh well. Since I was out and
about early, I did some shopping before coming home.
Watched CNN Parts Unknown
with Anthony Bordain. He as visiting Oman. Very cool. Seems like it would be a
nice and safe place to visit. Their leader has done cool things with education
and women’s rights. Not a lot of tourist attractions, but beautiful scenery and
friendly people. Someday…
THIS IS NOT NORMAL:
Tired of the rabbit hole we have fallen down. One minute it is ‘tweets
are policy’, then ‘tweets should not be used in a court case’. Really?!?
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╬Today’s
Trivia Hive╬
(answers
at the end of post)
What four National
Football League teams have never made it to the Super Bowl as of 2017?
Browns,
Cardinals, Chiefs and Jaguars
Browns,
Jaguars, Lions and Texans
Bills,
Chargers, Eagles and Vikings
Bills,
Cardinals, Chiefs and Jaguars
68.6%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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╬Harper’s
Index╬
47→Percentage of German garbage that is recycled
0→Of Turkish garbage
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╬Yep,
It Really Happened╬
*-- Peacock Goes on
Bender in CA Liquor Store --*
A peacock wreaked havoc on a Southern California liquor store by destroying
hundreds of dollars worth of alcohol. Royal Oaks Liquors manager Rani Ghanem
said a customer tipped him off to the presence of the large peafowl that had
perched itself on a shelf beneath a neon Pabst Blue Ribbon beer sign. Ghanem
was overwhelmed as the peacock flapped its wings around the store and even flew
toward him. "It flew towards me. I didn't know they could actually fly
high but it flew up above the counter and it landed here on top of the ice
cream freezer. This was really out of my comfort zone, I was kind of scared I
didn't know what to do." The manager eventually called animal control, who
quickly arrived to capture the large bird. In its attempts to evade the
officer, the bird sent liquor bottles crashing to the floor, destroying $500 in
wine and champagne. After struggling with the peafowl for a short while, the
officer managed to sneak up behind the bird and capture it while it rested on a
high shelf.
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╬Somewhat
Useless Information╬
Color in dreams is a
constant source of speculation. Some monochrome dreams can have a single image
that's in color, such as a bright pink poodle. Other dreams seem to speak a
language of colors (e.g., red or blue lights) and shapes (repeated circles or squares).
Sometimes, natural colors pervade the dream, as in waking life.
***
In the late 1950s, scientists proved that external stimuli can be incorporated
into dreams. When researchers sprinkled water on sleeping volunteers and woke
them up seconds later, 14 out of 33 subjects said they had dreamed of water.
***
It is believed that we rarely feel pain in dreams. When we do, though, our
bodies perceive it as a signal that something is wrong and we react by waking
up.
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╬Birthdays
Today╬
@ indicates age at death
░░░<§>90’s<§>░░░
@92- Ralph
Edwards,
American
TV host (This is Your Life), born in Merino, Colorado
(d.
2005)
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
@87- Harold
"Red" Grange,
American
"Galloping Ghost" of football (University of Illinois, Chicago
Bears),
born in Forksville, Pennsylvania
(d.
1991)
@86- John
Nash,
American
mathematician (subject of movie "A Beautiful Mind") and
Nobel
laureate, born in Bluefield, WV
(d.
2015)
@85- Mary
Wickes,
American
actress (Dennis the Menace, Sister Act), born in St. Louis,
(d.
1995)
82- Christo
[Javacheff],
Bulgaria,
artist, wrapper (Running Fence)
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
@75- Dwight
B. Waldo,
American
educator and historian
(d.
1939)
@75- Basil
Rathbone,
South
African born British actor (Sherlock Holmes),
born
in Johannesburg
(d.
1967)
@73- William
Butler Yeats,
Ireland,
poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923)
(d.
1939)
73- Ban
Ki-moon,
South
Korean politician and 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
(2007-16),
born in Injō, Japanese Korea
@70- Martha
Washington,
1st
US First Lady (1789-97), born in Kent County, Virginia
(d.
1802)
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
66- Richard
Thomas,
American
actor (John Boy-Waltons, Last Summer, Johnny Belinda),
born
in New York City
64- Tim
Allen,
comedian
(Tim-Home Improvement, Jungle2Jungle),
born
in Denver, Colorado
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@55- Paul
Lynde,
American
comedian and actor (The Hollywood Squares, Uncle Arthur-
Bewitched),
born in Mt Vernon, Ohio
(d.
1982)
░░░<§>30’s<§>░░░
36-
Chris Evans,
movie
actor (Capt. America)
30- Ashley
Olsen,
American
actress (Michelle in Full House), fashion designer and twin
30- Mary
Kate Olsen,
American
actress (Michelle in Full House), fashion designer and twin
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╬Historical
Obits Today╬
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
@82-2014 Chuck
Noll,
NFL
head coach (Pittsburgh Steelers)
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
@65-1861 Jean
Eugène Robert-Houdin,
French
magician and father of modern magic, pneumonia
@62-1987 Geraldine
Page,
American
actress (Blue & Gray, Trip to Bountiful), heart attack
░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░
@58-2008 Tim
Russert,
American
television host, NBC News Meet the Press moderator,
heart
attack
░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░
@47-1976 Don
Bolles,
US
journalist (Arizona), car bomb (mob?)
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╬Trivia
Hive Answers╬
Browns, Jaguars, Lions and
Texans
The Cleveland Browns,
Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions and Houston Texans have never competed for
the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The Browns came closest in 1986, losing in overtime
to the Denver Broncos in the American Football Conference Championship game.
Jacksonville reached the AFC Championship game in 1996 and 1999 but lost both
times. The Lions got to the National Football Conference Championship Game
during 1991 season but fell to the Washington Redskins 41 to 10. The Texans
have never made it past the divisional round. Sources: CBS Sports and Pro
Football Reference.
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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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