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6.9.16
Week: 23 \ Day: 161
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 87° \ L 47°
Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 88°[1902]
Record Low: 24°[1950]
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Quote
of the Day
If you want to kill any idea in the world,
get a committee working on it. ~Charles
Kettering
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Observances
Today
International Archives Day
Ramadan: -7/5
Toy Industry Day
World APS 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
○ 9-12
Superman
Days Link
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1647 New England synod
clergy meet at Cambridge today. A large number of Indians attend the meeting to
hear Roxbury minister John Eliot deliver a sermon in their own language.
1650 The Harvard
Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is
established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
1732 Royal charter for
Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe
1772 1st Protestant
church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion
1790 1st book copyrighted
under constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book"
1802 US Academy at West
Point founded
1856 500 Mormons leave
Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their
possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1860 1st US "dime
novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White
Hunter," by Mrs Ann Stevens
1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey,
a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the
first woman to drive across the USA, driving a Maxwell automobile 3,800 miles
from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days with three non-driving female
companions.
1915 William Jennings
Bryan quits as US Secretary of State1931 1st rocket-powered
aircraft design patented (Robert Goddard)
1934 1st Donald Duck
cartoon, Wise Little Hen, released
1943 "Pay-as-you-go"
(withholding) US income tax deductions authorized
1969 Warren Burger
confirmed as US Chief Justice
1970 Bob Dylan given
honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton University
1974 Supergroup Blind
Faith's (Eric Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert
1978 Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding
black men from priesthood
1980 Comedian Richard
Pryor suffers burns from free basing cocaine
1991 Jack La Lanne, 76,
arrested for suspicion of DWI
2013 Edward
Snowden publically makes his identity known as the leaker of NSA documents
2014 Laverne Cox becomes
the first transgender person to appear on the cover of "Time"
Magazione
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
68 Roman Emperor Nero commits
suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a
Senate-imposed death by flogging.
1534 Jacques Cartier 1st
sails into mouth of St Lawrence River
1549 Book of Common
Prayer is adopted by the Church of England
1953 - Cinema owners in Dublin
unanimously decide not to show the film of Queen Elizabeth's coronation in
London. There are real fears that any such screening would lead to widespread
damage to the cinemas
1999 Kosovo War: the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a
peace treaty.
2004 The replica famine ship
Jeanie Johnston begins a four-month voyage around Ireland.
2012 Burma (Myanmar)
riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses
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My
Rambling Thoughts
I bought an
iPhone6+ about 6 months ago. I was not happy with the Verizon sales pitches but
was talked into a case. It was huge, heavy, and a pain in the…you know. Today I
stopped by the Verizon score and got a case I am much happier with. As seems to
be the policy of these stores, the door greeter took me to the case area and
suggested a case, even showing it to me, saying that he was very happy with
his. Me too. Then he takes me to the second guy who rings up the sale. After he
has taken off the old bulky case and putting on the new case, he still has the
phone in his hand, says let me show you something. He heads for the cases and
says, if you aren’t happy with this one, I would suggest this one. I asked if
he was using that one…his answer, no. I HATE the Verizon store, but like their
network, so I guess I’ll just bite my tongue and visit as little as possible.
Nice warm
day with clouds, but no rain expected.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at
the end of post)
Please Stand Up
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in
interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
D
N
A
T
S , D
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…Harper’s
Index…
18-Years in prison to which a NM man was sentenced last year
for shooting children with a semen-filled squirt gun
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
discovery.hd. Photography
by @ (Christopher Whittier). A young silverback mountain gorilla pauses as the
clouds lift to reveal Mt Sabinyo, one of the extinct Virunga volcanoes. It was
on the slopes of Sabinyo that von Beringe, who eastern gorillas and many other
species are named after, first "collected"/shot two gorillas in 1902
and scientifically documented them. The Virunga range and nearby Bwindi forest
hold the 4 national parks (3 continuous) of Rwanda, Uganda, and DR Congo that
are the last refuge for the two mountain gorilla populations.
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2
jokes for the day
Little Hope
was practicing the violin in the living room while her father was trying to
read in the den.
The family dog was lying in the den, and as the screeching sounds of little
Hope's violin reached his ears, he began to howl loudly.
The father listened to the dog and the violin as long as he could. Then he
jumped up and yelled above the noise, "Can't you play something the dog
doesn't know?!"
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When I went to get my driver's license renewed, our local
motor-vehicle bureau was packed. The line inched along for almost an hour until
the man ahead of me finally got his license.
He inspected his photo for a moment and commented to the clerk, "I was
standing in line so long, I ended up looking pretty grouchy in this
picture."
The clerk looked at his picture closely. "It's okay," he reassured
the man, "that's how you're going to look when the cops pull you over
anyway."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*------------
It's Not Always Gators ------------*
A Florida
woman captured video of a pair of unusual backyard visitors brought on by high
tide water -- hungry manatees. Nancy Smith said in an Instagram post the two
manatees first visited her St. Petersburg back yard Sunday after rain waters
caused the tide to extend about a foot over the seawall, allowing the aquatic
mammals to swim right up to her freshly mowed grass for a snack. Smith, who
lives in the Riviera Bay area, said the manatees were "munching" for
about 30 minutes. One of the visitors returned the following day for another
snack of grass. "It happened again! Rain made the water rise over the
seawall even more than yesterday, and a manatee just climbed up to munch on our
grass! Another awesome experience. Wish you could be here to see it, too!"
Smith wrote on Instagram.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Sugar is
everywhere. It is the building blocks of carbohydrates, the most abundant type
of organic molecules in living things. Researchers note that sugar is not
necessarily a health problem, but the amount of sugar we consume is.
***
Sugar
threatens more than thin waistlines. It has also been associated with several
conditions and diseases, including type 2 diabetes, arthritis, acne, heart
disease, depression, thrush/yeast infections, and cancer.
***
Worldwide,
people consume 500 extra calories a day from sugar, which is roughly the amount
of calories needed to gain a pound a week.
***
A 15.2 oz.
bottle of Minute Maid 100 percent Apple Juice contains 49 grams of sugar. This
is about the same amount of sugar in 10 Oreos. While sugar occurs naturally in
fruit, the body processes both types of sugar in the same way. One benefit of
eating whole fruit is eating fiber, which is generally lost in the process of
making juice.
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According to
brain scans, sugar is as addictive as cocaine.
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Two hundred
years ago, the average American ate only 2 pounds of sugar a year. In 1970,
Americans ate 123 pounds of sugar per year. Today the average American consumes
almost 152 pounds of sugar in one year. This is equal to 3 pounds (or 6 cups)
of sugar consumed in one week.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )”
indicates age at death
[94] Les
Paul,
Waukesha
Wi, guitarist/inventor (Les Paul guitar) [2009]
[93] Robert
S McNamara,
US
Sec of Defense (1961-68)/head (World Bank) [d2009]
85- Jackie
Mason,
Wisc,
comedian (World According to Me, Chicken Soup)
[84] Joe
Santos, American actor (Rockford Files), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2016)
[81] Elizabeth
Garrett Anderson,
1st
qualified woman physician in Britain, first woman mayor (Aldeburgh), born in
London (d. 1917)
[80] Robert
Cummings,
Joplin
Mo, actor (Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder) [d1990]
[73] Cole
Porter,
Indiana,
composer/lyricist (Anything
Goes, Kiss Me Kate) [d1964]
55- Michael
J. Fox,
Canadian
actor (Family Ties, Back to the Future, Teen Wolf), born in Edmonton, Alberta
53- Johnny
Depp,
American
actor (21 Jump Street, Pirates of the Caribbean), born in Owensboro, Kentucky
[52] Peter
the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov],
Tsar
of Russia (1682-1725), born in Moscow (d. 1725)
[49] Jackie
Wilson,
singer
(Lonely
Teardrops, Night), born in Detroit, Michigan [d1984]
35- Natalie
Portman [Neta-Lee Hershlag],
Israeli/American
actress (Professional, Padmé Amidala-Star Wars), born in Jerusalem, Israel
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Historical
Obits Today
@72-1871 Anna
Atkins,
English
botanist, photographer and the 1st person to publish a book illustrated with
photographic images, paralysis, rheumatism, and exhaustion
@63-1981 Allen
Ludden,
game
show host (Password), stomach cancer
@58-1870 Charles
Dickens,
English
writer (David Copperfield, Oliver Twist), strokes
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Stand up
comedy (stand up comma D)
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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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