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7.4.16
Week: 27 \ Day: 186
July
Averages: 81°\51°
86004
Today: H 82° \ L 50°
Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 20mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 96°[2007]
Record Low: 34°[1997]
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Quote
of the Day
Patriotism is
supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
~Mark Twain
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Observances
Today
Boom Box
Parade Day
Caribbean or Caricom Day
Earth at
Aphelion
Indivisible Day
Independence
From Meat Day
Indivisible Day Link
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Fil-American
Friendship Day (Philippines)
Heroes Day (Zambia)
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Observances
This Week
Beans and
Bacon Days: 6/30-7/4 Link (Around first Wed. in July)
National Tom Sawyer Days: 1-4 (aka Fence Painting Days)
Ramadan -7/5
Rosewell
UFO Days: 1-4 Link
National Unassisted Homebirth Week: 1-7
Be Nice To New Jersey Week: 3-9 (First Full Week)
Freedom Week: 4-10
Nude Recreation Weekend: 4-10 (First Week)
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1636 City
of Providence, Rhode Island form
1776 According
to popular legend the Liberty Bell rings for the Second Continental Congress
1776 US
Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from
Britain
1789 1st
US tariff act signed by President Washington
1796 1st
Independence Day celebration is held
1802 US
Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
1803 The
Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people
1817 Construction
on Erie Canal begins at Rome, NY…one of the first great engineering works in
North America
1819 William
Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
1829 Cornerstone
laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
1836 Wisconsin
Territory forms
1845 Henry
David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
1845 Texas
Congress votes for annexation to US
1855 In
Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems,
titled Leaves of Grass, is published.
1863 Boise,
Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
1876- ‘2nd
Boston Party’ puts a flagpole to celebrate the centennial. This happened in
current Flagstaff, AZ...thus our name
1881 Booker
T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
1883 Buffalo
Bill Cody presents 1st Wild West show, North Platte, Nebraska
1884 Statue
of Liberty presented to US in Paris
1888 1st
organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz
1895 Katherine
Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
1901 William
Howard Taft, a former Federal judge, is installed as first governor-general of
the Philippines and declares amnesty for all insurgents who take an oath of
allegiance
1941 Howard
Florey & Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they
successfully recreate penicillin
1944 1,100
US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy
1950 The
first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
1933 Work
begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
1956 US
most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland
1966 LBJ signs
Freedom of Information Act
1970 Casey
Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1054 Brightest
known supernova SN
1054
(creates the Crab Nebula) 1st reported by Chinese astronomers
1634 The
city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France, later to become the Canadian
province of Quebec.
1862 Charles
Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice Liddell on
a family boat trip on the river Isis (Thames) in Oxford
1865 First
edition of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is published
1906 Great
Britain, France, and Italy declare independence of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), but
all lay claim to their own 'spheres of influence' in that land
1976 Operation
Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France hostage passengers In Uganda (3
hostages die along with Ugandan soldiers and Israeli soldier)
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice Sunday here. Not too
hot, not too windy, just about right. Headed over to a local park to see some
artwork. Nice stuff.
Enjoying the long weekend
for those who still work. A couple of different friends stopped by on their way
to other places. Nice to have visitors. One group was headed to Sedona’s creek,
the other headed to CA.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of
post)
Animal Course
Series
teasers are where you try to complete the sequence of a series of letters,
numbers or objects.
What animal completes this
series?
fly, spider, bird, cat, dog, goat, cow, ?
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Today’s
Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of
post)
Who was the #1 pick of
this year's NBA draft?
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…Harper’s
Index…
$54,200,000,000
–Total value of assets
taken from US citizens by federal law-enforcement officers in 2014
$3,900,000,000 – By burglers
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*-- Police Break Down
Door to Rescue Sex Doll --*
Police in Amsterdam said
they kicked down the door to an apartment to rescue a woman who turned out to
be an inflatable sex doll. Amsterdam police said officers were called to the
apartment by neighbors who reported looking into the apartment's window and
seeing a woman standing motionless for a long period of time. Officers spotted
the woman, dressed only in her underwear, standing at the window and not moving
despite them ringing the doorbell and knocking on the door. The officers broke
through the door to the apartment and "indeed found a lifeless
woman," but she was "made of plastic and filled with air," the
report said. Officers moved the blow-up doll away from the window to prevent
further confusion from onlookers.
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Birthdays
Today
“[ ]” indicates age at
death
[100] Gloria Stuart,
actress
(Rose-Titanic)/founder (Screen Actors Guild), born in Santa Monica, California
(d. 2010) [99] Mitch Miller,
sing
along with Mitch (Yellow Rose of Tx), born in Rochester, New York [d2010]
[94] Abigail Van
Buren, [Mrs Morton Phillips],
Sioux
City Iowa, columnist [d2013]
92- Eva Marie Saint,
actress
(On the Waterfront, North by Northwest), born in Newark, New Jersey
89- Gina
Lollobrigida,
Subiaco
Italy, actress (Trapeze, Falcon Crest)
88- Neil
Simon,
playwright
(Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues), born in The Bronx, New York
[87] Rube Goldberg,
cartoonist
(who made the easy outrageously difficult) Pulitzer Prize 1948, born in San
Francisco, Ca [d1970]
[87] Leona Helmsley,
(wife of Harry),
real
estate billionaire/tax cheat [-d2007]
[86] Virginia Graham,
TV
personality (Girl Talk, Where Was I), born in Chicago [d.1998]
[83] Ann Landers,
Sioux
City Iowa, twin sister/advice columnist [d2002]
[82] Hiram Walker,
American
grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
73-
Geraldo Rivera, news correspondent
[60] Calvin Coolidge [Silent Cal],
30th
US President (R), born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont (d. 1933)
[59] Nathaniel Hawthorne,
author
(House of 7 Gables, The Scarlet Letter), born in Salem Massachusetts (d. 1864)
[56] James Anthony
Bailey,
circus
impresario (Barnum & Bailey), born in Detroit, Michigan [d1906]
[37] Stephen Foster,
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Historical
Obits Today
@90-1826 John Adams,
2nd
US President (1797-1801)
@83-1826 Thomas Jefferson,
3rd
US President (1801-09)
@8/1-1891 Hannibal Hamlin,
U.S.
Vice President
@76-1995 Eva Gabor,
actress
(Green Acres), pneumonia
@73-1831 James Monroe,
5th
US president (1817-25), heart failure and tuberculosis
@67-1995 Richard
"Pancho" Gonzalez,
tennis
great, stomach cancer
@66-1934 Marie
Skłodowska-Curie,
French-Polish
Physicist/Chemist, 1st woman to win Nobel Prize (1903, 1911), radiation
poisoning
@62-1997 Charles Kuralt,
news
anchor (CBS Sunday Morning), lupus
@58-2003 Barry White,
American
singer, stroke
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Trivia
Hive Answers
A couple of weeks ago, the
Philadelphia 76ers decided to invite Ben Simmons to work out with the
team. Simmons declined the invitation and yet, somehow, he was still numero uno
in the eyes of the Sixers. He's expected to make $12 mill. That's a lot of
LeBron Zoom Soldiers. Source: The National Basketball Association
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Brain
Teasers Answers
horse
These are all the animals swallowed by the old lady in the nursery rhyme:
- There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a
fly. Perhaps she'll die!
The rhyme continues with the following animals:
- She swallowed a spider to catch the fly.
- She swallowed a bird to catch the spider.
- She swallowed a cat to catch the bird.
- She swallowed a dog to catch the cat.
- She swallowed a goat to catch the dog.
- She swallowed a cow to catch the goat.
The rhyme concludes with:
- There was an old lady who swallowed a horse. She's dead, of course.
As for the title, a course is part of a meal, which hints at the old lady's
eight-course meal of animals.
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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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