Jun 15

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6.15.16 Week: 24 \ Day: 167

June Averages: 79°\41°

86004 Today: H 79° \ L 40° Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  19mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1974]   Record Low: 28°[2001]

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Quote of the Day

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. ~Khalil Gibran
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Observances Today                             

Global Wind Day Link
Magna Carta Day
Native American Citizenship Day
Nature Photography Day Link
National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement Officers
Ramadan: -7/5

Smile Power Day

UN World Ocean Day

Upsy Daisy Day
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day Link
Worldwide Day of Giving Link
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Observances This Week

○ 11-19

Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in Public Week Link
○ 12-18

National Flag Week
Nursing Assistants Week
○ 12-19

Men's Health Week Link 
○ 13-20

National Hermit Week

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US Historical Highlights for Today

1664 New Jersey established

1775 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army

1804 12th amendment to the US constitution ratified; deals with regulating judicial power

1836 Arkansas becomes 25th state of the Union

1844 Charles Goodyear patents the vulcanization of rubber

1846 Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49°N

1851 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory

1869 Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY

1871 Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school

1876 Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential convention

1877 Henry Ossian Flipper becomes 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy

1907 Researcher George Soper publishes the results of his investigation into recent typhoid outbreaks in the New York area and announces that Mary Mallon [Typhoid Mary] is the likely source of the outbreak

1911 Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.

1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile

1924 J. Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI

1924 Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens

1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated

1943 Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms

1953 NYC Transit Authority forms

1955 The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack.

1960 "The Apartment" directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLainepremieres in New York (Best Picture 1961)

1963 "Sound of Music" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 1443 performances

1963 \"Sukiyaki\" sung by Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto, hits #1

1967 Governor Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill

1982 Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education

1994 Disney's animated musical  "The Lion King" opens in theaters with $42 million

1994 Ruth Bader Ginsburg sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice

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World Historical Highlights for Today

763 BC Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history

1215 King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, near Windsor, England

1940 World War II: France surrenders to NAZI Germany, German troops occupy Paris

2003 - According to a new international survey, Irish women are far more likely to be better educated than their male counterparts. The study based on joint UNESCO, OECD and EU data shows over 93% of 18-year-old females in Ireland are in continuing education, while only 66% of males are still in school or college.

2015 Remains of a 2,000 year old women dubbed "the sleeping beauty" are announced discovered in Northern Ethiopia from ancient kingdom of Aksum

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My Rambling Thoughts

Good checkup and cleaning at the Dentist. The Series 7 Sonicare toothbrush is doing a great job.

Listening to NPR this morning, I learned something…again. They were interviewing a psychotherapist and asked if the guy in Orlando was mentally ill. She said that without interviewing him, she couldn’t say, but that hearing the news coverage he seemed to have planned and carried out the act…suggesting that he was not mentally ill, but a fanatic [a person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause.]. She talked about how fanatics are able to hold down jobs, go about their daily business, many times without alerting others. It becomes more easily identified when the discussion moves to their ‘cause’.  Interesting and informative.

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Brain Teasers

(answers at the end of post)

Two Part Challenge

Series teasers are where you try to complete the sequence of a series of letters, numbers or objects.

Difficulty: 3.08

I had a lot of fun putting together the following list of words. Can you figure out the rule I used to develop the list? Once you do, have fun creating your own list!

mount, right, left, roll, mote, lick,
lass, over, rate, aunt, rill, arch,
oral, ever, pine, rice, tip, each,
team, rash, sage, ouch, edge, ray,
earn, any

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…Harper’s Index…

$12,000,000-Amount of government of New Zealand plans to spend on referenda to choose a new flag

60-Percentage of New Zealanders who are content with the current flag

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2 jokes for the day

Modern Day Medical Terms

Two young girls were reading when one girl said to the other, "I'm never having kids."

"Why?" said the other.

And the girl replied, "Because I heard they take 9 months to download."

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Spraying the Vegetables

My wife asked me to buy ORGANIC vegetables from the market. I went and looked around and couldn't find any. So I grabbed an old, tired looking employee and said, "These vegetables are for my wife. Have they been sprayed with any poisonous chemicals?"

The produce guy looked at me and said, "No. You'll have to do that yourself."

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Somewhat Useless Information

Dietary fiber (roughage) is an essential nutrient required for proper digestion of foods, proper functioning of the digestive tract at large, and for helping you feel full. A deficiency of fiber can lead to constipation, hemorrhoids, and elevated levels of cholesterol and sugar in the blood. Conversely, an excess of fiber can lead to a bowel obstruction, diarrhea, or even dehydration. Individuals who increase their intake of fiber should also increase their intake of water.

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Ten common, extremely high fiber foods include; Bran, Cauliflower & Broccoli, Cabbage, Berries, Leafy Greens, Celery, Squash, Beans, Mushrooms and Oranges!

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Birthdays Today

“( )” indicates age at death

[91] Erik Erikson,

Frankfurt Germany, American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst who coined the phrase "identity crisis" [d.1994]

[82] Mario Cuomo,

(Gov-D-NY, 1983-95), born in NYC, [d.2015]

73- Xaveria Hollander, [DeVries], Surabaya Indonesia, auth (Happy Hooker)

[67] Sam Giancana,

American mafioso, born in Chicago, [d.1975]

[64] Waylon Jennings, country singer/guitarist (Ramblin' Man) [d.2002]

63- Xi Jinping,

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (2012-) and President of the People's Republic of China (2013-), born in Beijing

62- James Belushi,

comedian (Sat Night Live, Trading Places), born in Chicago, Illinois

[61] Rachel Donelson Jackson,

wife of President Andrew Jackson (1828-37), (d. 1828)

53- Helen Hunt,

actress (Jamie-Mad About You, Twister), born in Los Angeles, California

[52] Harry Nilsson,

American singer/guitarist (Midnight Cowboy), born in Brooklyn, [d.1994]

52- Courteney Cox,

American actress (Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom Friends), born in Birmingham, Alabama

[50] Jim Varney,

American actor (Ernest Goes to Jail, Hey Vern), born in Lexington, Kentucky [d.2000]

47- Ice Cube [O'Shea Jackson],

American rapper and actor (Boyz in the Hood, Anaconda), born in Los Angeles, California

43- Neil Patrick Harris,

actor (Doogie Howser MD), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Historical Obits Today

@98-2015 Kirk Kerkorian,

American CEO and "father of the mega-resort" (MGM, UA)

@91-2003 Hume Cronyn,

Canadian actor

@86-2014 Daniel Keyes,

American author (Flowers for Algernon)

@82-2014 Casey Kasem,

creator of American Top 40 and the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo

@79-1996 Ella Fitzgerald,

singer

@76-1993 John Connally,

(Gov-D/R-Texas), pulmonary fibrosis

@54-1989 Victor French,

actor (#44-Get Smart, Highway to Heaven), lung cancer

@53-1849 James Knox Polk,

11th US President (1845-1849), cholera

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Brain Teasers Answers

Each 3 to 5 letter word, when preceded by sequential letters of the alphabet, will form new words:

amount, bright, cleft, droll, emote, flick,
glass, hover, irate, jaunt, krill, larch,
moral, never, opine, price, q-tip, reach,
steam, trash, usage, vouch, wedge, x-ray,
yearn,                zany

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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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