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6.22.16
Week: 25 \ Day: 174
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 94° \ L 62°
Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 19mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 94°[1954]
Record Low: 31°[1947]
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Quote
of the Day
Adventure is worthwhile. ~Aesop
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Observances
Today
Baby Boomer's
Recognition Day
Global Smurfs
Day Link
Ramadan: -7/5
Stupid Guy Thing Day
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Antifascist Struggle
Day (Croatia)
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Observances
This Week
○ 19-25
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week Link
Old Time Fiddlers Week
○ 20-26
Meet A Mate Week
○ 23-26
Watermelon Seed Spitting
Week
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1775 1st
Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)
1847 First
ring doughnut supposedly created by Hanson Gregory
1868 Arkansas
re-joins the US
1870 US
Congress creates Department of Justice
1874 Dr
Andrew T Still, discovers the science of osteopathy
1934 John
Dillinger is informally named America's first Public Enemy Number One
1938 Joe
Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium
1943 W.E.B.
Du Bois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters
1944 US
President Franklin Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights"
(Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
1970 President
Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)
1970 Supreme
Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional
1992 Supreme
Court rules "hate crime" laws violated free-speech rights
2011 After
hiding for 16 years, Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is arrested
outside an apartment in Santa Monica, California
2015 South
Carolina Governor Nikki Haley calls for the removal of the Confederate flag
from statehouse grounds in wake of killings in a Charleston church
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1611 Henry
Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery &
never seen again
1633 Galileo
Galilei forced to recant his Copernican views that the Earth orbits the
Sun by the Pope (Oct 31 1992 Vatican admits it was wrong)
1675 Royal
Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
1745 Bonnie
Prince Charles sails to Scotland
1874 Game
of lawn tennis introduced
1911 King George
V crowned king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada,
Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and all his realms and territories beyond
the sea.
1966 South
African Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, is refused a passport and thus
permission to attend an international church conference by the South African
government
1992 2
skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg identified as Tsar Nicholas II &
Tsarina Alexandra
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Yet another
hot day. Setting records here at 7000’. At least the new fan kept the bedroom
sleep-able.
Too hot to
get involved in any political discourse.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at
the end of post)
Three
Letters
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
Difficulty:
2.31
Can you take
three letters away from a four-letter word and manage to have it mean the same
thing?
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…Harper’s
Index…
86-Percentage
of refugees resettled in 2014 who were taken in by developing countries
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2
jokes for the day
The
Forgotten Scissors
After
surgery, the doctor said to the patient, "I am sorry, but I forgot a pair
of scissors inside you. I need to..."
The patient quickly responded, "Oh don't bother doctor! If it is because
of that, just tell me how much it cost and I will pay you back."
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That's A Good Thing
The young boy was spending a Sunday afternoon with his
grandpa. Looking at pictures of his grandpa in his military uniform, the boy
asked, "Grandpa, did you ever kill anyone in the war?"
"No champ, I never did."
"That's a good thing."
"You're telling me," began grandpa, "I was the cook!"
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Somewhat
Useless Information
July, the
hottest summer month in the Northern Hemisphere, is National Ice Cream Month,
not surprisingly. Americans eat an average 20 quarts of ice cream a year.
Vanilla is the most popular flavor, with chocolate coming in a distant second.
In southern England, over 37,000 people gather at Stonehenge to see the summer
solstice. Druids and pagans are among those who celebrate the longest day of
the year at this notable place.
The most
dangerous time to go to the hospital is during the summer, especially July. The
most experienced medical residents graduate and leave hospitals in July, just
as new physicians (or last year's medical students) arrive. Death rates
increase between 8%-24% in July.
According to Rolling Stone, the top 10 best summer songs of all time are 1)
"Dancing in the Street," Martha & The Vandellas; 2)
"Summertime Blues," Eddie Cochran; 3) "School's Out," Alice
Cooper; 4) "California Girls," The Beach Boys; 5) "Rockaway
Beach," The Ramones; 6) "Hot Fun in the Summertime," Sly &
the Family Stone; 7) "Summer in the City," Lovin' Spoonful; 8)
"Vacation," The Go-Gos; 9) "Summertime," DJ Jazzy Jeff
& The Fresh Prince; and 10) "Cruel Summer," Bananarama.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )”
indicates age at death
[95] Billy
Wilder,
Austrian-born
American filmmakerr (Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17), born in Vienna,
Austria [d2002]
[94] Anne
Morrow Lindbergh,
American
author and aviator (Gift from the Sea), born in Englewood, New Jersey
[d2001]
[87] Cicely Saunders,
English
nurse, physician and writer who founded the first modern hospice, born in
Barnet, England (d. 2005)
[85] Ralph
Waite,
White
Plains New York, American actor, director and political candidate (Cool Hand
Luke, The Waltons) [d2014]
83- Dianne
Feinstein,
1st
female mayor of SF/(Sen-D-Ca)
80- Kris
Kristofferson,
Brownsville
TX, singer/actor (Amerika, Millenium)
[79] Bill
Blass,
Ft
Wayne Ind, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan) [d2002]
68- Todd
Rundgren,
Upper
Darby PA, singer/guitarist (Hello it's Me)
67- Meryl
Streep,
American
actress (French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice), born in Summit, New Jersey
67- Elizabeth
Warren,
American
academic and US Senator (D-Massachusetts), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
64- Graham
Greene,
Canadian
actor- Oneida tribe
63- Cyndi
Lauper,
American
singer (Girls Just want to have Fun, Time after Time)
54- Clyde
"Glide" Drexler,
NBA
Guard (Houston Rockets, Port Trailblazers), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
52- Dan
Brown,
American
author of thriller fiction (The Da Vinci Code), born in Exeter, New Hampshire
[47] Paul
Morphy,
greatest
chess player of all time (1857-61), born in New Orleans, Louisiana [d1884]
[40] "Pistol" Pete
Maravich,
American
NBA star (Atlanta Hawks), born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania (d. 1988)
[31] John
Dillinger,
notorious
bank robber , born in Indianapolis, Indiana [d1934]
[22] Freddie
Prinze,
comedian/actor
(Chico & the Man), born in NYC, [1977]
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Historical
Obits Today
@93-2008 Dody
Goodman,
American
comedienne (b. 1914)
@93-1940 Wladimir
Köppen [Vladimir Köppen],
German
Meteorologist and Climatologist who developed the Köppen climate classification
system for the regions of the world
@88-1987 Fred
Astaire,
actor/dancer
(Royal Wedding, Let's Dance)
@83-2002 Ann
Landers [Esther Pauline Friedman],
American
columnist
@81-1993 Pat
Nixon,
1st
lady (1969-75)
@63-1965 David
O Selznick,
producer
(Gone With the Wind), heart attack
@47-1969 Judy
Garland,
American
singer and actress (Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade), overdose
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Five, if you
take away F, I, and E, it leaves V which is the Roman numeral for five.
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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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