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6.4.16
Week: 22 \ Day: 156
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 85° \ L 47°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 3mph\Gusts: 15mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 89°[1990]
Record Low: 23°[1908]
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Quote
of the Day
If you have only one smile in you, give it to
the people you love
~Maya Angelou
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Observances
Today
Audacity To Hope Day
Do-Dah Parade Day (Kalamazo,Mi)
Drawing Day or Pencil Day
Horseradish Days Link
International Day of
Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
Mike, The Headless
Chicken Day Link
National Prairie Day
Positive Power of
Humor and Creativity Days Link
The Wicket World of Croquet Day Link
Turtle Races Day
UN International Day of Innocent Children Victims of
Aggression
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Flag Day (Finland)
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Observances
This Week
○ 1-5
Great American Brass
Band Week
○ 4-11
International
Clothesline Week
Bed Bug Awareness Week
Black Single Parents Week
End Mountain Top Removal Week Link
National Business Etiquette Week
National Headache Awareness Week Link
National Sun Safety Week Link
Pet Appreciation Week
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1812 Louisiana Territory
officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
1825 Unseasonable
hurricane hits NYC
1871 General George Crook
takes command of the Department of Arizona, today. He believes the Indians should
be treated fairly, but kept under control.
1896 Henry
Ford takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit
1917 1st Pulitzer Prize
awarded to Richards & Elliott (Julia Ward Howe)
1917 American men begin
registering for the draft
1929 George Eastman demonstrates
1st technicolor movie (Rochester NY) 1942 Capitol
Record Co opens for business
1942 Battle of Midway
begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
1942 "Mrs
Miniver" based on the novel by Jan Struther, directed by William Wyler and
starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon is released in the US (Best Picture
1943)
1974 Never repeated 10
cent Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field & cause
Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th
1984 Bruce Springsteen
releases "Born in the USA"
1984 DNA is successfully
cloned from an extinct animal
1989 Largest parade in
Bronx history honors 350th anniversary
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
781
BC Oldest
Chinese recording of a solar eclipse
1070 Roquefort cheese
created in a cave near Roquefort, France
1769 A transit of Venus
is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such
interval in history.
1783 Montgolfier brothers
launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)
1913 Suffragette Emily
Davison steps in front of King George V's horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby
1940 Winston Churchill says
"We shall fight on the seas & oceans"
1970 Tonga (formerly
Friendly Islands) declares independence from UK
1989 Tiananmen Square
Massacre: Chinese troops clear the square of student protesters, unofficial
figures place death toll near 1,000.
1991 Pope John Paul
II compares abortion with Nazi murders
1997 UN Security renews its
"oilforfood" initiative whereby Iraq may sell $2 billion worth of oil
to buy food, medicine and other necessities to alleviate civilian suffering
under the sanctions imposed when it invaded Kuwait in 1990
1998 A collection of 15
documents, one from George Yeats, the other 14 hand-written missives signed by
WB Yeats is sold by fine art auctioneers Christie's for over £5,500; a second
collection of 12 letters, including eight signed by WB Yeats, and one by Ezra
Pound sells for £5,585
2001 It is announced that a
previously unknown and heavily re-worked draft of one of the closing chapters
of James Joyce's epic novel, Ulysses, is set to fetch up to £1.2 million at
auction in London next month.
2014 10 Nigerian generals
and five other senior military officers have been courts-martialed for
providing arms and information to Boko Haram
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My
Rambling Thoughts
So, even at
7000’ there can be a heat wave. Today is the second day of very warm temps for
us…nowhere near Phx’s temps, but it all has to do with what one is used to. I
woke up about midnight, very warm. I had not opened the window in the bedroom
before hitting the hay. I opened the window, walked around a little, and went
back to bed. Still too hot to sleep. Finally fell asleep around 2am. All
windows are now open so I can sleep tonight. A little early for any heatwave
here.
I’m still
waiting for Donald to make the announcement that he has always been a Democrat
and this was just an exercise to show how gullible the Republican voters really
are.
My
sister-in-law is in China on a business trip to promote here latest designs.
Very cool.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at
the end of post)
A Baked
Treat
Riddles
are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles
frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
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Difficulty:
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 (2.46) |
(Thing 1)
I, at the start, am old
Many centuries I've been told
Used by the Greeks
For counting techniques
After things were bought and sold
Later is when I became known
As an infinite figure, when shown
You've counted my spaces
Over two billion places
And still, my amount is unknown
(Thing 2)
I, too, am not young
I'm almost as old as Thing 1
I'm just a frog
On the natural log
But I can make counting fun
(Thing 1 and Thing 2)
When you combine us two
In the order of Thing 1 and Thing 2
We'll be a baked treat
That's painful to beat
Whether cherry, peach, or aloo
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…Harper’s
Index…
6-Minimum number of people providing tech support for the
Islamic Sate
20-Estimated number of White House aides who manage President
Obama’s social-media account
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhotograph by Michael Yamashita - Torii gate
welcomes visitors to Itsukushima Shrine, considered to be one of the 3 best
landscape views in Japan. It's about an hour southwest of Hiroshima where
President Obama made his historic visit to the Peace Park last week. #unesco #worldheritage #nationalpark #miyajima#Hiroshima @thephotosociety @natgeocreative For
more on Japan check out@yamashitaphoto
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2
jokes for the day
A little old
lady was driving the wrong way down a one-way street and was stopped by a cop.
“Didn’t you see the arrows?” he asked.
“Arrows? I didn’t even see the Indians!” she exclaimed.
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A chemical engineer, electrical engineer, and a Microsoft
engineer are on a road trip. The car breaks down.
The electrical engineer looks under the hood and can't find anything wrong.
The chemical engineer checks the oil and fuel and can't find anything wrong.
The Microsoft engineer says, "Close all the windows, and try again."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Dr. Tony
Fallone noted in 1997 that hair color is the root of a person's personality.
Blondes are typically more outgoing and lively and are perceived as more
feminine than women with other hair colors. According to Fallone, being blonde
is not a hair color, but a state of mind.
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Nearly 2,000
years before Homer, during the time of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, blonde hair
was connected to the worship of the sun and fire and to the adoration of a yellow
dawn goddess.
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During the
Roman era German blondes were taken captive and had their hair cut off to be
made into wigs for fashionable ladies.
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But by the
Middle Ages, blonde women were held with suspicion, and by the mid-14th
century, depictions of Eve were consistently giving her free-flowing locks of
golden blonde hair that marked her as an evil temptress.
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In Ancient
Rome, women tried to dye their hair blonde with pigeon dung. In Renaissance
Venice, they used horse urine.
***
Hydrogen peroxide
was discovered in 1818, but there was little application for it until 1867 when
it was found that it could bleach hair. It quickly became popular throughout
Europe and America, superseding everything else that had been used as bleach
before then.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )”
indicates age at death
[87] Robert
Merrill,
American
baritone (NY Metropolitan Opera), born in Brooklyn, New York [d2004]
[81] Dennis
Weaver,
Joplin
Mo, actor (Chester-Gunsmoke, Duel, Battered) [d2006]
80- Bruce
Dern,
Winnetka
Ill, actor (Coming Home, Silent Running, Tatoo)
73- Joyce
Meyer,
American
religious leader
72- Michelle
Phillips,
singer/actress
(Mamas & Papas), born in Long Beach, California
[69] Rosalind
Russell,
Waterbury
CT, actress (Mame, Take a Letter Darling) [d1976]
[68] Charles
Collingwood,
Mich,
news commentator (CBS, Chronicles) [d1985]
44- Noah
Wyle,
actor
(Dr John Carter-ER), born in Hollywood, California
42- Russell
Brand,
English
comedian and television personality, born in Grays, Essex
41- Angelina
Jolie,
American
actress (Girl, Interrupted, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), born in Los Angeles,
California
[37] Jacques
Roumain,
Haitian
writer (d. 1944)
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Historical
Obits Today
@96-2015 Hermann
Zapf,
German
typeface designer (Palatino and Optima)
@88ish-1647 Chief
Canonicus,
Chief
of the NARRAGANSETSs when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock
@82-1992 Carl
Stotz,
founder
(baseball's little league)
@73-1798 Giacomo
Casanova,
Italian
adventurer/writer/librarian and womanizer
@72-1973 Arna
Bontemps,
American
poet (Harlem Renaissance), heart attack
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Thing 1 is
"Pi."
Thing 2 is "e," the base of the natural logarithm.
Thing 1 and 2 are, together, "Pie."
(an aloo pie is a potato pie)
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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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