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7.16.16
Week: 28 \ Day: 198
July
Averages: 81°\51°
86004
Today: H 89° \ L 53°
Average Sky Cover: 8%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 19mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 92°[1961]
Record Low: 37°[2001]
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Quote
of the Day
We have two ears and
one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ~Epictetus
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Observances
Today
Celebration
of The Horse Day-17 (3rd Weekend)
Hot Dog
Night
National Woodie Wagon Day
Toss Away the "Could Haves"
and "Should Haves" Day
Woodie Wagon Day
♥♥♥
La
Paz Day (Bolivia-founded 1548)
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Observances
This Week
National
Farriers Week: 10-16
Sports Cliché Week: 10-16
National Ventriloquism Week: 13-16 Link
Rabbit Week: 15-21
(Re: Magician Rabbits The sponsor is
Melvin Rabbit up in Canada. No website. )
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1585 After
yesterday's first encounter between the Roanoke colony and Algonquain Indians in the village
of Aquascogoc, in Hyde County North Carolina, colonists discover one of their
silver cups is missing. Today, led by colony Governor Ralph Lane, the colonists
return to the village, and demand the return of the cup. When the cup is not
returned, "we burned and spoiled all their corn'" according to the
Governor's journal.
1755 John
Adams graduates Harvard
1769 Father
Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in California
1790 US
Congress establishes District of Columbia
1798 US
Public Health Service forms & US Marine Hospital authorized
1861 Battle
of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought
1926 National
Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
1935 1st
automatic parking meter in US installed (Oklahoma City, Ok)
1945 1st
test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part
of the US Manhattan Project
1951 Novel
"Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published by Little
Brown and Company
1956 Last
Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
1969 Apollo
11 launched, carrying 1st men to land on Moon 1988 Carl
Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec
1988 Florence
Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds
1990 NYC's
Empire State Building catches fire-no fatalities
1994 Comet
Shoemaker-Levy 1st collides with Jupiter (collisions continue until 22 July)
1999 John
F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren
Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
2004 Millennium
Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the
early 21st century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M.
Daley.
2014 Hamas
and Islamic Jihad offer Israel a 10-year truce with 10 conditions, which include
lifting the blockade and the release of prisoners; it is rejected
2015 Shootings
in Chattanooga at a US military recruitment center and a naval reserve training
center kill 5 and injure others
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
622 Muslim Era begins - Muhammad begins
flight from Mecca to Medina (Hijra)
1054 Three
Roman legates fracture relations between Western and Eastern Christian churches
by placing invalid Papal Bull of Excommunication on altar of Hagia Sophia
during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Often dated as start of the East-West
Schism.
1099 Crusaders
herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire
1212 Battle
of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Muslim power in Spain
1429 Joan
of Arc and the French army enter the city of Rheims
1439 Kissing
is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)
1809 La
Paz, Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the
Junta Tuitiva. The first independent government in Spanish America, led by
Pedro Domingo Murillo
1901 The
Fawcett Commission headed by Millicent Fawcett is established as a result of an
outcry against the treatment of Afrikaners in concentration camps during the
South African War
1918 A
Bolshevik firing squad at Ekaterinburg, Siberia, executes Tsar Nicholas II of
Russia and his family
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Dealing with idiots has
never been one of my strong points. The billing dept. from the place I had my 2
sleep studies called yesterday. She said BC had refused payment and I needed to
call them. I said that Medicare was my primary and BC was secondary. She said I
should call BC and tell them that. I told her I had been on Medicare for
2+years and BC already knows. Her snarky attitude continues. She finally tells
me that my PCP should also be notified. I gave her my Medicare number,
realizing the call was going nowhere. I called my PCP and they said they had
sent all my insurance information along with my medical records needed for the
tests. She also said I wasn’t the first or even the 10th person to
complain about the sleep center billing. I called back the sleep study and
spoke to the manager. She apologized for the mess and said she would speak with
the employee. She also checked my information and quickly found my Medicare
information that was sent with the first referral. What a waste of everyone’s
time.
Another hot/dry day. Bring
back the monsoon, soon!
Saddened by the mess in
Nice, France. I checked the upcoming itinerary and our group does not go to
Nice…we go to Paris…some 8 hour drive away. We have 3 days in Paris so will all
be on heightened alert, but no need to change any plans. Can’t let the terrorists
win. All will be fine.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of
post)
Close Shave
Science brain teasers require understanding of
the physical or biological world and the laws that govern it.
Homer had suffered a
bizarre accident that affected his eyesight. The doctor said it would be
temporary, but for the next 4 weeks, he had to adjust how he did some things.
The accident had affected his focal length. He was only able to focus on
objects that were 6 or more feet away from him, anything closer than 6 feet was
just a blur.
Homer was used to shaving up close in front of his bathroom mirror. Now after
the accident, how close could Homer get to the mirror to see his face clearly
enough to shave?
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Today’s
Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of
post)
Who founded the American
Red Cross?
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…Harper’s
Index…
-81 – Percentage change since 1993 in the
annual number of US babies names Hillary
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeo The
year 1924: Men climb the mast of a fishing boat to furl the sail in Port Said,
Egypt,
Flashback 128 years into photographic history as we bring you images from the
NatGeo archives. See more at natgeofound.tumblr.com. @natgeocreative #tbt
Photo by Maynard Owen Williams
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2
jokes for the day
Creeping Inflation
Son: "Dad, what is
'creeping inflation'?"
Father: "It's when your mother starts out asking for new shoes and ends up
with a complete new outfit."
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Show Must Go On
The circus was in town
and Stanislaus and Oleg were the featured act. While Oleg walked across the
high wire without a net, Stanislaus would balance on Oleg's shoulders, all the
while juggling 5 balls at once. A few minutes before they were to go on, Oleg
called for the ringmaster. It seems Oleg had become deathly ill by eating some
bad sushi and would have to cancel tonight's performance.
"You'd better tell Stanislaus," Oleg said. Walking into Stanislaus'
dressing room, the ringmaster got right to the point. "Stanislaus, I have
some bad news. You won't be doing your act tonight."
"Why not?"
"You don't have Oleg to stand on!"
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The theory of evolution
suggests that ultimately every living thing can trace its ancestry to a
bacterium that lived billions of years ago.
***
Charles Darwin did not
come up with his theory of evolution while at the Galapagos Islands. His ideas
came later, after his return from the voyage.
***
Bears, seals, and dogs are
closely related carnivores but are on a different branch of the evolutionary
tree than cats and hyenas.
***
Some snakes have hipbones,
which shows they once had four legs like lizards, their close cousins.
***
Inside some whales and
dolphins are small bones that show they once had back legs and that their
ancestors walked on land. These occasionally reappear as tiny rear flippers.
***
Darwin did not argue that
humans came from monkeys. Rather he wrote only that monkeys, apes, and humans
have a common ancestor.
***
A hobbit-like species of
human lived about 18,000 years ago. About the size of a 3-year-old, they lived
with pygmy elephants and 10-foot-long lizards.
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Birthdays
Today
“[ ]” indicates age at
death
[89] Mary Baker Eddy,
American founder
of Christian Science (Science & Health), born in Bow, New Hampshire (d.
1910)
[55] Roald Amundsen,
Norwegian polar
explorer who led the 1st expedition to the South Pole, born in Borge, Østfold,
Norway (d. 1928)
49- Will Ferrell,
American comedian
45- Corey Feldman,
Encino
California, actor (License to Drive, Stand by Me)
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Historical
Obits Today
@92-2012 Kitty Wells,
American country
singer
@87-1915 ellen white,
American
co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church,
@63-1882 Mary Todd
Lincoln,
First Lady, long
illness
@41-1557 Anne
of Cleves,
queen of
England/4th wife of Henry VIII, cancer <?>
@38-1999 John F. Kennedy
Jr.,
American
publisher (George) and lawyer, plane crash
@33-1999 Carolyn Bessette
Kennedy,
wife
of John F. Kennedy, Jr. plane crash
@18-1871 Tad Lincoln,
son of U.S.
president Abraham Lincoln, TB
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Trivia
Hive Answers
Clara Barton
Clara Barton was nothing short of
hardcore. She became a teacher at a time when women in teaching were greatly
frowned upon. She was one of the first women to gain employment in the federal
government. At age 60, when the rest of us are thinking retirement and 11 a.m.
naps, Barton founded the American Red Cross and led it for the next
twenty-three years. And you thought Florida sounded like a good idea. Source:
The American Red Cross
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Brain
Teasers Answers
3 feet
Your focal length in a mirror is your
distance away from the mirror, plus the distance of the object away from the
mirror. When you look at an object in a mirror, you are seeing a virtual image
the exact distance it is away from the mirror. So, if you are standing 3 feet
away from a mirror, and focus on your face, you are actually focusing at 6
feet.
To try this out, put a piece of tape on a mirror, about eye level. Standing in
front of the mirror, focus your eyes on the tape, now your face is out of focus.
Focus now on your face, and the tape is out of focus.
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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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