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June 21, 2017 Week: 25 \
Day: 172
86004 Today: H 95° \ L 52°
Excessive heat
Warning
Average
Sky Cover: 50%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
-mph
Visibility:
10 mi
June Averages: 79°\41°
June Records: H: 96° (1970) L: 22 (1955)
Record High: 93°[1936]
Record Low: 28°[1975]
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╬Quote
of the Day╬
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
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╬Observances
Today╬
Ann & Samantha Day (Summer& Winter
Solstices.) Link
Atheists Solidarity Day Link
Cuckoo Warning Day
Global Orgasm Day Link
Go Skateboarding Day Link
Litha
National Daylight Appreciation Day
Summer Solstice
Tall Girl Appreciation Day
World Handshake Day Link
World Humanist Day
World Music Day
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╬Observances
This Week╬
Ramadan-→6/25
15-22 Nursing Assistants Week
17-23 National Week of Making Link
Carpenter
Ant Awareness Week
Lightning
Safety Awareness Week Link
Meet
A Mate Week
Universal
Father's Week
19-24 Old Time Fiddlers Week
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╬Today’s
Significant US Historical Events╬
★ Today’s
Significant International Historical Events
░░░<§>1500’s<§>░░░
★1547 Great
fire in Moscow, 2-3,000 killed
░░░<§>1700’s<§>░░░
★1734 In
Montreal, New France (Quebec), black slave Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been
convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged
by the French authorities in a public ceremony
1788 US
Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it
░░░<§>1800’s<§>░░░
1834 American
inventor and businessman Cyrus Hall McCormick patents the reaping
machine
★1877 The
Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and
Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
1879 Frank
W. Woolworth opens his 1st successful "F. W. Woolworth Great Five Cent
Store" on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
★1887 Britain
celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
1893 1st
Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
★1898 Guam
becomes a territory of US
░░░<§>1900’s<§>░░░
★1900 In
the Philippines, General Arthur McArthur, US military governor of the
Philippines, issues an amnesty proclamation to those Filipinos who will
renounce the insurgent movement and accept US sovereignty
1907 E
W Scripps founded United Press
1915 The
U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347
1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1933 1st
Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans
★1940 The
first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at
Vancouver, British Columbia.
1948 1st
stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I
1948 33
1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's planned to be phased out (Dr Peter
Goldmark-Columbia Records)
1963 Pope
Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
1968 Supreme
Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
★1969 John
Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m)
1969 Zager
& Evans release "In the Year 2525"
★1971 Intl
Court of Justice asks South-Africa to pull out of Namibia
★1978 Andrew
Lloyd Webber & Rice's musical "Evita" premieres in London
1982 John
Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President
Reagan by reason of insanity
★1985 American,
Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains
exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
1989 Supreme
Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression
1990 US
House of Representatives votes 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass
★1994 Steffi
Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major
tournament (Wimbledon to Lorrie McNeal)
░░░<§>2000’s<§>░░░
★2000 Section
28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is
repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
★2001 Total
solar eclipse in Madagascar-Indian Ocean (4m56s)
★2001 Mexican
artist Frida Kahlo is the 1st Hispanic woman to be honored on a US
postage stamp
★2003 "Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" the 5th book of the series by J.
K. Rowling is published worldwide in English
★2006 Pluto's
newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
★2015 Hackers
ground 1400 passengers by attacking IT system at Warsaw Chopin airport in
Poland
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╬My
Rambling Thoughts╬
Heat wave continues at
7000’. Late yesterday afternoon we got a brief respite from the heat as a small
thunderstorm moved in. Cloudy today and maybe some rain will cool us off. Very
unusual for our town to have an ‘excessive heat warning’ so everyone is
drinking lots of water and checking on the sick and elderly. Since this is so
uncommon, most residents don’t have air conditioning of any kind. I have
several fans that are working well, but anymore days like this and I’ll pull
out the old portable swamp cooler. For those not in AZ, we know it is a dry
heat (humidity is about 5%), but damn, it is still hot.
Glad there was a press
briefing with cameras and audio at the White House. Guess the ‘no audio, no
cameras’ didn’t work out so well. Actually feel sorry for Sean, I would have
found a new job months ago.
Another terrorist attack,
this time in Brussels. On my trip in Spain and France last year, I saw so many
armed police around all the tourist sites. It was reassuring, once I got used
to it. Many allowed pictures with them, but some would not allow it for fear of
being identified…but they all kept doing their jobs. Becoming harder and harder
to ‘stay calm and move on’.
I am not happy about the
Georgia election for a replacement in Congress. I have been getting emails for
weeks, asking, begging, and pleading with me to donate to one of the candidates.
Nope, it is important for the district people to vote and they don’t need my $$
to do that. I also don’t get how a guy who lives outside the district can even run.
His story seems to be that he grew up in the district and as soon as his girlfriend
graduates, he will return. And $50million on the election. Crazy.
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╬Today’s
Trivia Hive╬
(answers
at the end of post)
As of June 2016,
approximately what percentage of the U.S. adult population identifies as
transgender?
0.1
Percent
0.2
percent
0.5
percent
0.6
percent
21.5%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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╬Harper’s
Index╬
5→Number of federal agencies that conducted experiments
on dogs during the 20156 fiscal year
1/4→Portion of those experiments that involved ‘significant
pain and distress’
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╬Yep,
It Really Happened╬
*------- 'She's a
ballerina in the air.' -------*
Aerialist Erendira Wallenda performed a series of acrobatic acts while hanging
by her teeth and toes from a helicopter hundreds of feet above the Niagara
Falls. Wallenda bit into a customized mouthpiece on a hoop fastened to the
bottom of a helicopter that hovered above the falls. During the approximately
20-minute flight she used her teeth to grip on to the mouth piece for 10
seconds on her first attempt and then again for five seconds. "That's
where I feel alive," Wallenda told the CBC. "This is what I was meant
to do. You just get lost in the moment." Wallenda performed the daring
stunt on the fifth anniversary of the day her husband and fellow acrobat Nik
Wallenda walked across a high wire from the American side of the Falls to the
Canadian side. "She's a ballerina in the air," he said.
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╬Somewhat
Useless Information╬
Famed Mexican
cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa once told of a legendary humanoid creature
that supposedly lived in South America. Producer William Alland overheard the
story, and it became the inspiration for The Creature From the Black Lagoon
(1954). The Creature is considered by many critics to be Universal's last great
classic monster, and it spawned several sequels including Revenge of the
Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956).
***
The Dracula legend is generally
believed to have evolved from the life of Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler, a
Prince of Wallachia (in Romania) who lived from 1431 to 1476. Best known for
the cruelty of his reign, he was greatly disliked, but he served as a sort of
buffer between Europe and the Ottoman invaders, and this made him key to the
European defense. He fulfilled this purpose well, killing so many Turks that
the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II laid siege on Vlad's castle himself.
***
In Greek mythology, the story of Lycaon serves as one of the earliest examples
of the werewolf legend. According to one version of the story, Lycaon was
transformed into a wolf as punishment for eating human flesh. According to
another version, he served up his own son Nyctimus, offered the dish of human
flesh to Zeus on the altar of mount Lycaeus, and was immediately turned into a
wolf by the disgusted god. This gave rise to the legend that a man was turned
into a wolf at each annual sacrifice to Zeus Lycaeus, but if he refrained from
eating human flesh for ten years he would regain his human form.
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╬Birthdays
Today╬
@ indicates age at death
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
@89- Jane
Russell,
Bemidji
MN, full-figured actress (Outlaw)
(d.
2011)
@84- Increase
Mather,
New
England Puritan minister
(d.
1723)
84- Bernie
Kopell,
American
actor (Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl), born in NYC, New York
@80- Maureen
Stapleton,
Troy
NY, actress (Airport, Coccoon, Plaza Suite)
(d.
2006)
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
79- Ron
Ely,
Hereford,
Texas, American actor (Tarzan, Doc Savage)
@78- Reinhold
Niebuhr,
American
theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man), born in Wright City, Missouri
(d.
1971)
77- Mariette
Hartley,
American
actress (Poloroid spokesperson, Marooned), born in NYC
@74- Jean-Paul
Sartre,
French
existentialist philosopher and writer (Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined),
born in
Paris
(d.
1980)
70- Meredith
Baxter-Birney,
Ca,
actress (Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie)
70- Michael
Gross,
actor
(Family Ties, FBI murders), born in Chicago
░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░
@56- Judith
Raskin,
American
soprano (Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro), born in NYC,
(d.
1984)
@54- Benazir
Bhutto,
11th
Prime Minister of Pakistan and 1st female leader of a Muslim nation, born in
Karachi, Pakistan
(d.
2007)
52- Lana
[formally Larry] Wachowski,
American
film director (Matrix trilogy), born in Chicago
░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░
@43- Judy
Holliday,
American
comedienne/actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib), born in NYC
(d.
1965)
░░░<§>30’s<§>░░░
38- Chris
Pratt,
American
actor (Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic World,), born in Virginia, Minnesota
35- Prince
William,
Duke
of Cambridge, son of Prince Charles & Lady Diana, born in London, England
34- Edward
Snowden,
American
NSA contractor who leaked classified information, born in Elizabeth City, North
Carolina
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╬Historical
Obits Today╬
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
@89-2007 Bob
Evans,
American
restaurateur
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
@78-2003 Leon
Uris,
American
writer (Exodus), renal failure
@76-2001 Carroll
O'Connor,
American
actor (Archie Bunker), heart attack
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
@68-1970 Sukarno,
1st
President of Indonesia (1945-67), kidney failure
░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░
@57-1527 Niccolo
Machiavelli,
Florentine
statesman/author
@51-1631 John
Smith,
English
explorer (Chesapeake Bay, New England) and leader of the Virginia Colony
(Jamestown)
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╬Trivia
Hive Answers╬
0.6 percent
A study by the UCLA School
of Law Williams Institute, published in June 2016, found that an estimated 1.4
million adults in the U.S. - about 0.6 percent of the adult population -
identify as transgender. The states with the highest percentage of adults who
identify as transgender, according to the study, are Hawaii, California,
Georgia and New Mexico. All four states have nearly 0.8 percent. The District
of Columbia, however, surpasses all states with a rate of about 2.8 percent.
Source: UCLA School of Law Williams Institute
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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
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