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6.5.16 Week: 23 \ Day: 157
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 87° \ L 46°
Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts:
16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 87°[2006]
Record Low: 25°[1943]
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Quote of the Day
Good friends, good books and a sleepy
conscience: this is the ideal life. ~Mark Twain
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Observances Today
Horseradish
Days Link
Positive Power of Humor and Creativity
Days Link
Children's Awareness Memorial Day
Festival of Popular Delusions Day Link
Hot Air Balloon Day
National Cancer Survivors Day
National
Moonshine Day
National Cancer Survivors Day Link
Apple II Day
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Constitution
Day (Denmark)
Day of the Rice God (Japan)
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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
Rip Current Awareness
Week Link
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US Historical Highlights
for Today
1794 US Congress
prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces
1866 Start of the formal
treaty conference at Fort Laramie in southeastern Wyoming. Leaders from many
tribes and bands will be present. The purpose of the treaty will be to allow
passageway for trails, roads, and railroad lines across indian lands. The
meeting will be postponed for almost a week, at Red Cloud's request, to allow
for the arrival of additional Indians.
1876 Bananas become
popular in US, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
1912 US marines invade
Cuba (3nd time)
1917 10 million US men
begin registering for draft in WW I
1933 Gold standard abolished
1947 US Secretary of
State George Marshall outlines "Marshall Plan"
1981 AIDS Epidemic
officially begins when US Centers of Disease Control reports on pneumonia
affecting 5 homosexual men in Los Angeles
1998 A strike begins at
the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to
five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
2001 Tropical Storm
Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm
and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in
damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
1963 State
of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested
1964 Davie
Jones & King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me"; group
disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie
1970 The
Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching
for IRA weapons, is lifted after a march by women breaches the British Army
cordon
1990 South
African troops plunder Nelson Mandela's home
1991 Mikhail
Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
2003 A
severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures
exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
2013 The
first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are
published by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another
hot one here…no rain in site. Yeah…it’s a dry heat.
Did
a little walking around this morning, but it is way too hot to be doing much
more than relaxing. Several garage sales in the area…don’t need anybody else’s junk.
RIP
Mohammad Ali. Back in the day the Frazier/Ali fights were one more ‘old
establishment v young up and comer’. I had watched him box in the Olympics, watched
him change his name and religion. I drove from Boulder to Downtown Denver with
some friends to watch the 1st Frazier/Ali fight on a big screen that
was set up at the Denver Auditorium in Black and White. That really began my following
his long career. Always made sure I watched his fights. It was very sad when he
announced he had Parkinson’s, probably from all the head blows he had taken. He did so much for this country, by standing
up for what he believed in. He was not always an American hero, but he always
did what he believed was right. RIP.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Letter
Juggle 7
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
Take
the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make
a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the
's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. Open - Cop
2. Cave - Curt
3. Cares - Pest
4. Salve - Savage
5. Whiled - Spurn
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…Harper’s Index…
$53,000,000-Amount the Defense
Dept. has paid US sports franchises for advertising and marketing since 2012
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
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2 jokes for the day
Teacher:
Johnny what do you want to be when you grow up?
Johnny: Either an animal Vet or a Taxidermist.
Teacher: Why did you choose such different careers?
Johnny: Well, either way you get your dog back.
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A family enters a large store. After
browsing for several moments they purchase some goods and head for the large
counter at the front of the store.
They notice a robotic seal standing in a corner situated near the counter. It
is dressed in a tuxedo and each time goods are packaged the seal nods as if in
agreement.
After the third purchase is made the father asks the counter assistant why the
robot nods each time.
The assistant replies, "Isn't it obvious? It's our seal of approval."
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-----
Beer: Is There Anything It Can't Do? -----*
A
can of beer helped a Seattle camper extinguish a tent fire that local police
believe may have been the result of arson. According to the Seattle Police
Department, a man called 911 to report that his tent had been set on fire while
he and another person were inside sleeping. The man awoke to find his tent on
fire and quickly reached for a can of beer that he had nearby to extinguish the
flames. He told police that he had been playing cards with a group of men
nearby when one of them accused the man of cheating and threatened to burn down
his tent. Neither victim was injured in the fire and officers were unable to
identify any witnesses of arson.
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Birthdays Today
“(
)” indicates age at death
(77) William Boyd,
Ohio, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy)
(d.1972)
67- Ken Follett,
Welsh spy author (Eye of the Needle,
Lie Down with Lions), born in Cardiff, Wales
(62) John Maynard
Keynes,
English economist whose ideas
changed the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, born in Cambridge,
England (d. 1946)
(60) Thomas
Chippendale,
England, furniture maker (baptized) (d1779)
(49) Christy Brown,
novelist (My Left Foot, Down All
the Days), born in Dublin, Ireland (d.1981)
(45) [Francisco]
Pancho Villa,
Mexico, revolutionary/guerrilla
leader
(d.1923)
45- Mark Wahlberg,
rap singer (Marky Mark and the
Funky Bunch) and actor (Boogie Nights, The Departed), born in Boston,
Massachusetts
37- Pete Wentz,
American musician (Fall Out Boy)
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Historical Obits Today
@93-2004 Ronald Reagan,
40th US President, Governor of
California and radio and film actor
@91-2012 Ray Bradbury,
American author (Fahrenheit 451)
@86-1984 Frederick Russell,
English Marine Biologist (plankton
life history and long-term changes in marine ecosystems)
@73-1999 Mel Tormé,
American singer ("The Velvet
Fog"), composer, and actor, stroke
@59-1993 Conway Twitty,
country star (Linda on My Mind), in
surgery
@47-1910 O. Henry[William
Sydney Porter],
American author, cirrhosis
@28-1900 Stephen Crane,
author (Red Badge of Courage), lung
disease
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
Pen - Coop
2. Carve - Cut
3. Caress - Pet
4. Save - Salvage
5. Whirled - Spun
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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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