FYI: Any blue
text is a link. Click to check it out!
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June 8, 2017 Week: 23 \ Day: 159
86004 Today: H 83° \
L 48°
Average Sky
Cover: 15%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts: 21mph
Visibility: 10 mi
June Averages: 79°\41°
June Records: H: 96° (1970)
L: 22 (1955)
Record High: 89°[1985] Record Low: 24°[1950]
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╬Quote of the Day╬
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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╬Observances Today╬
National Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
Upsy Daisy Day
World Oceans Day Link
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╬Observances This Week╬
May 26-6/12 Louis
Vuitton Cup (America's Cup)
-→6/25 Ramadan
3-11 International
Clothesline Week
National Lemonade Days Link
4-10 Bed Bug Awareness Week
Black
Single Parents Week
End
Mountain Top Removal Week: 4-10 Link
National
Business Etiquette Week: 4-10
National
Headache Awareness Week Link
National
Sun Safety Week Link
Pet
Appreciation Week Link
7-10 International Listening Week
8-11 Superman Days Link
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╬Today’s Significant US Historical
Events╬
★ Today’s
Significant International Historical Events
░░░<§>400’s<§>░░░
★452 Italy
invaded by Attila the Hun
░░░<§>1700’s<§>░░░
1786 Commercially
made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr Hall, NYC)
1789 James
Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of
Representatives.
░░░<§>1800’s<§>░░░
★1824 Washing
machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
★1829 1st
UK municipal swimming pool outside of London opens in Liverpool
1861 American
Civil War: Tennessee votes to secede from the Union.
1872 Congress
endorses penny post card
★1896 First
car thief; Baron de Zuylen’s Peugeot is stolen by his mechanic in Paris
░░░<§>1900’s<§>░░░
1905 US
President Theodore Roosevelt sends identical notes to Japan and
Russia urging them to negotiate and end hostilities, offering his personal
services
1936 1st
parking meters are invented
1937 World's
largest flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily
★1938 Gert
Terblanche, a local school boy, discovers fossils of an unknown 'robust-type'
human ancestor, later named Paranthropus robustus by Robert Broom, at
Kromdraai, Blaauwbank River Valley in South Africa
★1949 Siam
changes name to Thailand
1953 Cluster
of 6 tornadoes touches down in Flint Michigan killing 113
1953 Segregated
lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court
1956 Richard
B. Fitzgibbon, Jr. killed by another USAF airman in Vietnam, becoming the first
American killed in the Vietnam War
1965 US troops ordered to fight offensively
in Vietnam
1966 NFL
& AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
1966 Topeka,
Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the
Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are
killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
★1968 Rolling
Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
1968 The
body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest
at Arlington National Cemetery.
1969 "Smothers
Brothers comedy Hour" last airs on CBS-TV
1978 Nevada
jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon Will" is a forgery
★1984 Homosexuality
is declared legal in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
★1986 Alleged
Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria
★1988 Nippon
Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
░░░<§>2000’s<§>░░░
2014 Couple
ambush a restaurant in Las Vegas killing 2 police officers, a civilian and
themselves░░<§>00’s<§>░░░
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╬My Rambling Thoughts╬
Checking my mail yesterday
I got two unexpected bills. The first was from the local hospital for $1250,
with basically no explanation except the date of service was 5/23/2016-8/20/2016.
That is a pretty long hospital stay that I think I would probably remember. I
called the number and the customer service rep was very little help. She couldn’t
tell me what it was for, but she said the claim was denied because it wasn’t
medically necessary. What service…no idea. Then she starts reading off $
amounts that don’t match the bill. She said she would contact her supervisor
and ‘her’ numbers weren’t adding up. I asked when I would be contacted. She
said in about an hour. So two hours later I call back. The lady I talked to isn’t
there. So I give the new lady the exact time the call was made and tell her to
listen to my call, since both ladies had said that my call would be recorded. She
did, came back and said she was contacting her supervisor and for me to just
hang on. After about 30 minutes total time, she said ‘the billing error has
been corrected and you have a zero balance’. Can you send me a copy of the
billing and a bill that shows zero balance? She says yes, in a month or two. So
I’ll wait.
The second bill was from
my dentist. I called several times only to get a recording. Finally this
morning I got to a human…note: the office is one dentist, one hygienist, one
assistant, and a front office lady. The front office lady looked on two
different computers at her desk. She couldn’t figure it out. I know the sending
of bills comes from a local firm that does many physicians. She said she would
call me back when she figured it out. Still waiting. What a pain.
Did my weekly shopping,
and today is old people’s discount day, so I got week’s groceries and month’s
staples and saved 10% on everything. Nice.
Warm weather for our area…nice
slight breeze blowing through the house with all the windows and doors open. I
love this weather.
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╬Today’s Trivia Hive╬
(answers
at the end of post)
How do male platypuses
deliver venom?
Teeth Tongue
Fur Feet
48.3%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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╬Harper’s Index╬
4→Number of men elected to the US presidency
before 2016 despite losing the popular vote
3/4→Portion of those victors who went on to be
one-term presidents
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╬Yep, It Really Happened╬
You've heard of
'dine-and-dash' when you run out on a bill at a restaurant. Well, this man took
the idea a little too far.
A man committed suicide by jumping into a river after running up a bill at a
restaurant, according to police in Illinois.
The Algonquin Police Department said that the body of 29-year-old Ernest
Prentic, was recovered in the Fox River, after a long and exhausting search.
According to the police investigation, Prentic went to the Nero's Pizza and
Pub, where he had a meal. When it came time to pay, he ran out of the
restaurant.
Employees of the restaurant called police at around 9:30 p.m., to report a
theft. Police officers who arrived at the scene, learned that Prentic ran out
of the restaurant and jumped into the Fox River.
Witnesses saw Prentic trying to swim across the river. Prentic failed to make
it across the river and went over the dam. His body was recovered by a team of
divers who responded to the scene.
Police said that the incident remains under investigation.
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╬Somewhat Useless Information╬
In 1375, the Bethlem Royal
Hospital in London became one of the first mental hospitals to take in
"lunatics." The asylum was so chaotic that Bethlem became the origin
of the word "bedlam."
***
Medical care of the mentally ill became more humane after the publication of
Darwin's Origin of the Species in 1859, when people realized that insanity was
hereditary. Previously, it had been seen as demonic possession, loss of a soul,
weakness of character, or a feminine trait.
***
The disorder known as Alice-in-Wonderland Syndrome causes body-image
distortion, making people feel they are extremely tiny or gigantic.
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╬Birthdays Today╬
@ indicates age at death
░░░<§>90’s<§>░░░
92- Barbara
Bush,
US
First Lady (1989-93), born in NYC
@91- Frank
Lloyd Wright,
American
architect (Guggenheim) recognized as "the greatest American
architect
of all time", born in Richland Center, Wisconsin
(d.
1959)
90- Jerry
Stiller,
American
comedian (Frank Constanza-Seinfeld), born in Brooklyn
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
@88- Francis
Crick,
English
molecular biologist who co-discovered DNA's structure and 1962
Nobel
laureate, born in Northampton, England
(d.
2004)
@84- Byron
R ‘Whizzer’ White,
Ft
Collins, NFLer/Supreme Court Just
(d.
2002)
@81- Joan
Rivers,
American
comedian and actress (Late Show, Hollywood Squares), born in Brooklyn, New York
(d.
2014)
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
77- Nancy
Sinatra,
Jersey
City, singer (Boots are Made for Walkin') and daughter of Frank
Sinatra
73- Boz
Scaggs, [William Royce],
rocker
(Steve Miller Band), born in Dallas, Texas
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
@68- Don
Grady, [Agrati],
actor
(Robbie Douglas-My Three Sons), (d. 2012)
66- Bonnie
Tyler, [Gaynor Hopkins],
rocker
(Total Eclipse of the Heart)
62- Tim
Berners-Lee,
English
inventor of the World Wide Web, born in London
░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░
59- Keenan
Ivory Wayans,
American
comedian (In Living Color), born in NYC, New York
51- Julianna
Margulies,
American
actress (ER, The Good Wife), born in Spring Valley NY
░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░
40- Kanye
West,
American
rapper and record producer, born in Atlanta, Georgia
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╬Historical Obits Today╬
░░░<§>90’s<§>░░░
@96-2012 Frank
Cady,
American
actor, (Petticoat Junction, Green Acres)
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
@78-1845 Andrew
Jackson,
(D)
7th US President (1828-37), TB/dropsy
@75-1982 [Leroy]
Satchel Paige,
US
baseball pitcher, heart attack
@72-1809 Thomas
Paine,
English/American
writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense)
@70-1874 Cochise,
Apache
leader, cancer?
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
@66-1695 Christian
Huygens,
inventor/astronomer
(ring of Saturn)
░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░
@57-1969 Robert
Taylor,
actor
(Death Valley Days), lung cancer
░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░
@45-1966 Joseph
A. Walker,
WWII
and NASA test pilot (1st spaceplane flights to edge of outerspace),
aircraft
collision
░░░<§>30’s<§>░░░
@37-1924 George
Mallory,
English
mountain climber ("because it is there"), climbing accident
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╬Trivia Hive Answers╬
Feet
Ah, the majestic platypus:
An animal one could believe to be only the musings of a child asked to create a
new creature, having a duck"s bill and feet, a beaver"s tail and an
otter"s body. Not to mention, these mammals are the only ones that lay
eggs. But despite their funny looks, male platypuses can be dangerous.
That"s because they have sharp stingers on the heels of their rear feet.
These stingers deliver venom to take down foes, making platypuses strange but
scrappy creatures. Source: National Geographic
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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
That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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