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6.16.16 Week: 24 \ Day: 168
Red Flag Warning
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 79° \ L 41°
Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts:
33mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 92°[1940]
Record Low: 28°[2001]
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Quote of the Day
In the end, we will not remember the words of
our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ~Martin Luther King
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Observances Today
Bloomsday Link
Dump The Pump Day Link
Fudge
Day Link
Ladies' Day (Baseball)
Ramadan: -7/5
Recess at Work Day
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Youth
Day (South Africa)
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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
○ 16-19
Nat’l
Nursing Assistants Week
US
Open Golf Championship
Duct Tape Days Link
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US Historical Highlights
for Today
1779 Spain
declares war on Great Britain in support of the US, and the siege of Gibraltar
begins.
1805: Sacajawea drinks mineral water today to
treat an illness.
1858 Abraham
Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate
1873 Pres
Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians
1879 Gilbert
& Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC
1882 17"
hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
1884 1st
roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
1903 Ford
Motors under Henry Ford incorporates
1903 Pepsi
Cola company forms
1909 Jim
Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with
4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals
1935 US
Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal"1941 1st US
federally owned airport opened Wash DC
1946 "Annie
Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1147 performances
1960 "Psycho",
starring Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, and Vera Miles, opens in
NYC
1987 New
York City subway gunman Bernhard Getz acquitted on all but gun possession
charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
632 Origin
of Persian [Yezdegird] Era
1567 Mary,
Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland
1871 The
University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford,
Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
1880 Salvation
Army forms in London
1907 Tsar Nicolas
II of Russia dissolves the Second Duma (parliament) and issues an edict
that will increase representation of propertied classes while reducing that of
peasants, workers and national minorities
1959 In
South Africa, Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato
Manor close to the Durban city center to Kwa Mashu, a newly established black
township on the outskirts, is met with violent resistance.
1963 Valentina
Tereshkova (USSR) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6
1976 Students
in Soweto, South Africa, march against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of
instruction in Black secondary schools.
1977 Leonid
Brezhnev named Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the
Soviet Union
2012 Coca-Cola
begins business in Myanmar after 60 years
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My Rambling Thoughts
Saw
the blood doc today. Looks like I do have sleep apnea and will be doing some
more tests with the mask to see what that does. Not the best news but could
have been so much worse.
Very
windy today and add the Red Flag warning and not a good day to be outside. Did
some shopping and had the car washed today.
Thanks
to President Obama on a great speech yesterday. Boo to all the fear mongering
naysayers who are condemning him and screaming the 2nd amendment.
Some idiot in Orlando did a diatribe about how it wouldn’t have happened if the
people in the bar drinking alcohol had been carrying. Really?
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Anagram Plus IV
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English
language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Difficulty 2.83
Find
the names of ten fish by adding one of the given letters to each word and
rearranging the letters. Each letter will be used only once.
A A E H L N N P T T
1. Nut + ? =
2. Tour + ? =
3. Prickle + ? =
4. Floured + ? =
5. Mason + ? =
6. Ringer + ? =
7. Papers + ? =
8. Gyro + ? =
9. Apron + ? =
10. Pompon + ? =
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…Harper’s Index…
2/3-
Portion of Americans who believe that their ‘side’ has been losing on important
political issues.
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
earthpix Exploring
cave waters where Istria meets the Adriatic Sea | Photo by@jordanherschel featuring @erubes1
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2 jokes for the day
A
husband walks into the bedroom holding two aspirin and a glass of water.
His wife asks, "What's that for?"
"It's for your headache."
"I don't have a headache."
He replies, "Gotcha!"
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A gentleman enters a restaurant and
asks the waitress what was on special.
She replied, "Today we have
lobster tales for 50 cents."
He said, "I'll take a dozen!"
She told him since it was a special he would have to pay in advance which he
did. Then she said, "Are you ready for your first tale?"
He assured her he couldn't wait. Then she began... "Once upon a time there
was this little lobster....."
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Yep, It Really Happened
*--
More Than One Way to Earn Your Allowance --*
A
woman was arrested on a charge of child neglect after allegedly forcing her
children to blow into an anti-drunk driving device in her car so she would be
able to drive while under the influence of alcohol, according to police in
Oklahoma. Police said that they have arrested 36-year-old Kayla Kathleen
Martin-Weliwita, after being accused of being drunk in public and asking others
to unlock her car by blowing into the ignition interlock system outside the
Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant. According to the police investigation,
Martin-Weliwita forced her 13-year-old and 9-year-old daughters to blow into
the ignition-interlock system because she was too intoxicated to override the
device and start her car. Employees of the Buffalo Wild Wings called police
after seeing the woman fighting with her daughter in the parking lot.
Martin-Weliwita was charged with child neglect, child abuse and public
intoxication. She was booked into the Tulsa Jail, and her bail was set at
$100,100.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
The
Romans made their coins in the temple of Juno Moneta, the goddess of marriage
and women. From the name Moneta, we get our words "mint" and
"money."
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The
Romans were the first to stamp the image of a living person on a coin. After
winning in war, Julius Caesar featured his portrait on a coin in 44 B.C.
***
The
Chinese invented paper money in the 9th century A.D. Its original name was
"flying money" because it could easily blow away in the wind. However
they used it just briefly. The first time paper currency was consistently used
was in the 18th century by the French.
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The
U.S. Secret Service was originally created on July 5, 1865, during the Civil
War to fight counterfeiting, which was a huge problem. By the end of the war,
between 1/3 and 1/2 of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit.
***
Most
of the money in the world today is fiat money, or money that is not backed by
gold or other metals. The term fiat comes from the Latin for "let it be
done." It is money that is accepted simply because a government declares
it official money.
***
Credit
cards were first used in the 1920s. Hotels were the first to offer cards to their
customers to pay for their hotel stays. Soon department stores and gas
companies offered their own cards. All these cards, however, could be used only
at the business that issued them. Then Diner Card arrived in 1950s and could be
used at different restaurants and hotels. In 1951, some banks began issuing
credit cards that could be used at different places.
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Birthdays Today
“(
)” indicates age at death
[79] Geronimo,
Apache leader and resistance
fighter, born in No-doyohn Canon, Mexico (d. 1909)
78- Joyce Carol
Oates,
NY, novelist (Garden of Earthly
Delights)
[74] Stan Laurel,
[Arthur S Jefferson],
England, comedian (Laurel &
Hardy)
[d1965]
[74] Jack
Albertson,
Malden Mass, actor (Thin Man)
[d1981]
73- Joan Van Ark,
American actress and director
(Valene-Dallas, Knots Landing), born in NYC, New York
[72] Erich Segal,
author (Love Story, Oliver's
Story), born in Brooklyn, New York [d2010]
[67] Adam Smith,
Scottish economist (Wealth of
Nations) and moral philosopher (date of baptism), born in Kirkaldy, Fife,
Scotland (d. 1790)
[60] John Howard
Griffin,
US, photographer/author (Black Like
Me)
[d1980]
[59] Nelson
Doubleday,
US, publisher (Doubleday)
[d1949]
46- Phil Mickelson,
PGA golfer (five-time major
winner), born in San Diego, Ca
43- Eddie Cibrian
[Edward Carl],
American actor (Sunset Beach, Third
Watch), born in Burbank, Ca
[25] Tupac Shakur,
American rapper and actor (Juice,
Bullet), born in East Harlem, New York (d. 1996)
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Historical Obits Today
@86-1881 Marie Laveau,
American Voodoo practitioner
@65-1977 Wernher von Braun,
rocket scientist (V1/V2), cancer
@45-1959 George Reeves,
actor (Superman, Gone with the
Wind), suicide
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
Tuna
2. Trout
3. Pickerel
4. Flounder
5. Salmon
6. Herring
7. Snapper
8. Porgy
9. Tarpon
10. Pompano
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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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