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6.8.16 Week: 23 \ Day: 160
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 83° \ L 45°
Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts:
20mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 89°[1985]
Record Low: 24°[1960]
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Quote of the Day
Every good painter paints what he is. ~Jackson Pollock
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Observances Today
National
Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
Ramadan: -7/5
Upsy
Daisy Day
World Oceans Day Link
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Observances This 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
○ 6-12
National
Automotive Service Professionals Week
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US Historical Highlights
for Today
1789 James
Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
1892 Homer A Plessy
refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy v Ferguson)
1937 World's largest
flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily
1948 John Rudder becomes
1st Negro commissioned officer in US marines
1966 Topeka, Kansas is
devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita
Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are
killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
1968 James Earl Ray,
alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., captured
1969 "Smothers
Brothers comedy Hour" last airs on CBS-TV
1974 US & Saudi
Arabia sign military-economic contract
1979 "The
Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
1982 US
President Ronald Reagan addresses the British Parliament in his
"ash heap of history" speech
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
452 Italy
invaded by Attila the Hun
1779 Admiral Horatio
Nelson and Captain Thomas Hardy on HMS Foudroyant set sail against Spanish
fleet
1783 Laki
Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
1938 Gert
Terblanche, a local school boy, discovers fossils of an unknown 'robust-type'
human ancestor, later named Paranthropus robustus by Robert Broom, at
Kromdraai, Blaauwbank River Valley in South Africa
1960 Argentine
government demands release of Adolf Eichmann
1984 Homosexuality
is declared legal in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
2004 - Catholic Primate
Archbishop Sean Brady makes history by being the first Roman Catholic leader to
attend the opening of the Presbyterian General Assembly in Belfast.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great
news for me today. My red blood cell count is back within range and I didn’t
need another ‘bleeding’ today. Still don’t know why it happened, or if it will
happen again, but for sure I will stay on top of it. It was not painful, just
an inconvenience. After I found the right guy to do it, I got no bruises. So
now I am ‘normal’…at least according to my red blood cell count.
Can’t
wait for this election season to end. Hoping for a constitutional change that says
campaigning and donations can only take place within 3 weeks of any election.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
The
Last Stand
|
Difficulty:
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 (2.23) |
General
Custer is surrounded by Indians and he's the only cowboy left.
He finds an old lamp in front of him and rubs it. Out pops a genie. The genie
grants Custer one wish, with a catch. He says, "Whatever you wish for,
each Indian will get two of the same thing."
Custer ponders a while and thinks: "If I get a bow and arrow they get two.
If I get a rifle they get two!" He then rubs the bottle again and out pops
the genie. "Well," the genie asks "have you made up your
mind?"
What did Custer ask for to help him get away?
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…Harper’s Index…
24-Number of years that
a British couple kept a Nigerian man as a salve before he escaped in 2013
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
discoverychannel The Hoh rainforest is part of the only
temperate rainforest system in North America.
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2 jokes for the day
When
I went to the automobile dealership to pick up my car, I was told the keys had
been locked in it. I went to the service department and found a mechanic
working feverishly to unlock the driver's side door.
As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and
discovered that it was unlocked. "Hey," I said to the technician,
"this side is open!"
He replied, "I know. I already did that side."
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A couple were on vacation in Colorado. They flew to Denver
and rented a car to sight see. One of the sights was a bridge that was more
than 1,000 feet above the river. Walking out onto the bridge, they noticed it swaying
in the wind.
"I don't think I want to drive the car across this bridge," one said
to the other.
"What are you worried about?" the second replied. "It's a
rental."
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Somewhat Useless
Information
The
two circular drawings on the reverse of the bill are actually parts of the
two-sided Great Seal of the United States. Although we don't see the entire
seal outside of our wallets too often, the notion of having a great seal is
actually as old as the country itself. The Continental Congress passed a resolution
on July 4, 1776, to create a committee to design a great seal for the fledgling
nation.
The obverse picturing the eagle is a bit easier to explain. The bird holds 13
arrows to show the nation's strength in war, but it also grasps an olive branch
with 13 leaves and 13 olives that symbolize the importance of peace. (The
recurring number 13, which also appears in the stripes on the eagle's shield
and the constellation of stars over its head, is a nod to the original 13
states.)
The
symbolism of the pyramid on the seal's reverse is trickier. The pyramid has 13
steps the designers apparently never got tired of the 13 motif and the Roman
numeral for 1776 is emblazoned across the bottom. The all-seeing Eye of
Providence at the top of the pyramid symbolizes the divine help the early
Americans needed in establishing the new country. The pyramid itself symbolizes
strength and durability.
The Latin motto Annuit Ceptis appears over the pyramid; it translates into
"He [God] has favored our undertaking." The scroll underneath the
pyramid reads Novus Ordo Seclorum, or "A new order of the ages," which
was meant to signify the dawn of the new American era.
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Birthdays Today
“(
)” indicates age at death
[91] Frank Lloyd
Wright,
American architect (Guggenheim)
recognized as "the greatest American architect of all time", born in
Richland Center, Wisconsin (d. 1959)
[88] Francis Crick,
English molecular biologist who
co-discovered DNA's structure and 1962 Nobel laureate, born in Northampton,
England (d. 2004)
91- Barbara Bush,
US First Lady (1989-93), born in
NYC
89- Jerry Stiller,
American comedian (Frank
Constanza-Seinfeld), born in Brooklyn, New York
[87] Giovanni D
Cassini,
Perinaldo, France, discoverer (4
moons of Saturn) [d1712]
[81] Joan Rivers,
American comedian and actress (Late
Show, Hollywood Squares), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2014) [78] Robert
Stevenson,
civil engineer
[lighthouses],
born in Glasgow, Scotland [d1850]
76- Nancy Sinatra,
Jersey City, singer (Boots are Made
for Walkin') and daughter of Frank Sinatra
72- Boz Scaggs,
[William Royce],
rocker (Steve Miller Band), born in
Dallas, Texas
[68] Robert
Preston,
Newton MA, actor (Music Man, Mame,
Last Starfighter) [d.1987]
[68] Don Grady,
[Agrati],
actor (Robbie Douglas-My Three
Sons), (d. 2012)
65- Bonnie Tyler,
[Gaynor Hopkins],
rocker (Total Eclipse of the Heart)
61- Tim
Berners-Lee,
English inventor of the World Wide
Web, born in London
58- Keenan Ivory
Wayans,
comedian (In Living Color), born in
NYC, New York
50- Julianna
Margulies,
American actress (ER, The Good
Wife), born in Spring Valley NY
39- Kanye West,
American rapper and record
producer, born in Atlanta, Georgia
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Historical Obits Today
@72-1809 Thomas Paine,
English/American writer (Age of
Reason, Common Sense)
@78-1845 Andrew Jackson,
(D) 7th US President (1828-37), TB
@70ish1871 Satank [Sitting
Bear],
Kiowa chief, shot
@70-1874 Cochise,
Apache leader
@57-1969 Robert Taylor,
actor (Death Valley Days), lung
cancer
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Brain Teasers Answers
One
Glass Eye
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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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