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7.7.16
Week: 27 \ Day: 189
July
Averages: 81°\51°
86004
Today: H 82° \ L 51°
Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind
ave: 9mph\Gusts: 27mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 92°[1905]
Record Low: 32°[1955]
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Quote
of the Day
You can't depend on
your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ~Mark Twain
Observances Today
Father & Daughter Take a Walk Day
Global
Forgiveness Day Link
Tell The
Truth Day
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Independence
Day (Solomon Islands-1978-from UK)
Running of the Bulls (Spain)
Saba Saba Day (Tanzania)
Tanabata/Star Festival (Japan)
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Observances
This Week
National
Unassisted Homebirth Week: 1-7
Be Nice To New Jersey Week: 3-9
Freedom Week: 4-10
Nude Recreation Weekend: 4-10
*Creative Maladjustment Week:
7-14 Link
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1534 European
colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and
natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
1540 Coronado
attacks the Zuni village of Hawikuh in what becomes New
Mexico. 1598 Oñate’s expedition is at the village of the San Domingo Pueblos. According to
their journals, leaders from seven different Pueblo groups meet in a council
with Oñate. The journals also says the tribal leaders pledge allegiance to
Spain.
1802 1st
comic book "The Wasp" is published
1846 US
annexs California
1862 Land
Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
1863 Orders
barring Jews from serving under US General Ulysses S. Grant are
revoked 1891 Travelers checks patents
1905 127°F
(53°C), Parker Ariz (state record)
1908 The
Democratic Party meets in Denver at the start of their convention; William
Jennings Bryan is nominated as presidential nominee
1946 Mother
Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
1958 President Eisenhower signed
a bill approving Alaskan statehood
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1456 A
retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
1520 Battle
of Otumba Mexico: Hernán Cortés and the Tlaxcalans defeat a
numerically superior Aztec force
1550 Traditional
date Chocolate thought to have been introduced to Europe
1753 British
Museum founded by an Act of Parliament (opens in 1759)
1754 Kings
College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College)
1850 Scottish
explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia
1953 Che
Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa
Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1969 Canada's
House of Commons approves equality of French-English language
1972 Secret
Talks Between IRA and British Government: Gerry Adams is part of a delegation
to London for talks with the British Government
1980 Institution
of sharia in Iran.
1996 Nelson
Mandela steps down as President of South Africa
2014 Israel
launches a "counter-terrorist operation" dubbed Operation Protective
Edge against Hamas in Gaza
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Wednesday became a busy
day…first to Sam’s for weekly shopping, then over to Fry’s Grocery for ‘old
people’s day’ where, because I am old, I get 10% off everything. Time to stock
up of essential food. Then off for a haircut. That became a ‘don’t judge a book by
its cover’ day. This young kid (20 something) was cutting hair. He was wearing
a baseball cap with hair sticking out of the cap all over and he was covered
with arm and neck tattoos. Best haircut in a long time.
NPR ran a story earlier in
the week about Socialism in sports. For all the socialism haters, turns out the
NBA and NFL are socialistic. Teams that have bad records get the first drafts;
Salary caps stop wealthy teams from dominating; teams with bad records are not
kicked out or allowed to drop out. If it was democratic, teams would draw for
all draft positions, salary caps would not exist; poorly performing teams would
simply disappear. Interesting.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of
post)
Letter Juggle 12
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. Rode - Can
2. Font - Farce
3. Tory - Stale
4. Dire - Cash
5. Self - Shill
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Today’s
Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of
post)
Who was the only Founding
Father who didn't want to celebrate American Independence on July 4th?
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…Harper’s
Index…
1/2
–Portion of Americans
in 1997 who thought that the American people have a ‘good deal’ of political
wisdom
1/4
– Portion who think so
today
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
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2
jokes for the day
Enough Money to Buy an
Elephant
"Mom, I wish I had the enough money to buy an elephant."
The mother asked, "Why do you want an elephant?"
The boy replied, "I never said I wanted an elephant, I just wish I had
that much money."
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Colonial Break
A company offered tours
through the historic district, led by guides dressed in Colonial clothing.
While leading a group, one of the guides, tripped and fell, breaking his wrist.
He went to the hospital, and as he sat waiting in the emergency room, a
policeman walked by. Doing a double take at him in his 18th-century garb he
asked, "Just how long have you been waiting?"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*---------- At Least It
Wasn't a Cannon ----------*
A 21-year-old Ohio man is
recovering after a bullet from celebratory gunfire grazed his skull and came
dangerously close to his brain. Amanda McGarran says she and her boyfriend
Mario Jovanovski were in Whitehall, OH for the city's 4th of July fireworks
when suddenly it was chaos. Amanda says a swarm of people who were gathered
there just scattered. "Like a few hundred. They were just running like
down the middle of the park," she said. But just as things calmed down,
she says the fireworks started up and masked the sound of a single gunshot
fired in the air by someone in the crowd. When the bullet came down it grazed
the side of Mario's head. "Right when the fireworks started he grabbed his
head and was like 'I've just been shot.'" she said. Although he is
expected to fully recover, his family says they will never attend fireworks in
Whitehall again. No arrests have been made in the incident.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The air wing of one
Nimitz-class carrier is more powerful than the entire air force of more than
half the world's nations. A Nimitz carrier can carry up to 90 combat aircraft.
During World War II two aircraft carriers were stationed on the Great Lakes as
training ships. Originally built as commercial paddle steamers, both ships were
purchased by the navy in 1942 and converted into carriers. They trained over
17,800 pilots. One of them was future president George H. W. Bush.
USS Theodore Roosevelt was
the first aircraft carrier to be assembled using modular construction. Having
the modules pre-built and welded together saved an amazing 16 months on the
construction.
During World War II there were five pairs of U.S. carriers with the same name.
All five ships had been sunk, and rebuilt to carry the same name. The Langley,
The Lexington, The Yorktown, The Wasp, and The Hornet.
America's aircraft carriers are the largest in the world. The Nimitz class
carriers have an overall length of 1,092 feet. The newest super carriers, the
Gerald R. Ford class, have the same length, but carry about a 3,000 ton greater
displacement than the Nimitz class.
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Birthdays
Today
“[ ]” indicates age at
death
[95] Gian-Carlo
Menotti,
Italy,
composer (Amahl & Night Visitors) [d2007]
95- Pierre Cardin,
fashion
designer (Unisex), born in Paris, France
88- Doc Severinson,
[Carl],
Arlington
Oregon, bandleader/trumpeter on the Tonight Show
[81] Robert McNeill
Alexander,
British
zoologist (estimated speed of dinosaurs, born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland (d.
2016)
76- Ringo Starr, [Richard
Starkey],
Beatles
drummer (Magic Christian), born in Liverpool, England
[75] Harry Von Zell,
sidekick (George Burns Show)
[d1981]
[75] [Leroy] Satchel
Paige,
baseball pitcher, never look
back [d1982]
67- Shelley Duvall,
actress
(Popeye, Faery Tale Theater), born in Houston, Texas
57- Jessica Hahn,
evangelist
rape victim/model (playboy)/actress
[50] Gustav
Mahler,
Kalischat
Bohemia Austria, composer/conductor (Titan) [d1911]
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Historical
Obits Today
@75-1890 Henri Nestlé,
Founder
of Nestlé S.A.
@71-1930 Arthur Conan
Doyle,
British
writer (Sherlock Holmes), heart attack
@70-1990 Bill Cullen,
game
show host (Price is Right), cancer
@60-2006 Syd Barrett,
original
guitarist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd, cancer
@53-1967 Vivian Leigh,
actress
(Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), TB
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Trivia
Hive Answers
John Adams
On July 2, 1776, the
Second Continental Congress approved a motion for independence, which dissolved
the connection between the 13 American colonies and the British crown. And John
Adams just could not let it go. On July 4th of the same year, Congress approved
the Declaration of Independence but fo' realz, most of the signers didn't even
sign their John Hancock until August 2nd, aside from John Hancock, he signed
first and then Josiah Bartlett. Anyway, Adams was so distraught about it that
he wrote his wife a letter saying "The Second Day of July 1776, will be
the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America" but whatevs I'm the
only one who wants to celebrate it! Although, to be honest, we're really glad
it was changed to the Fourth- now we have a three day weekend! Source: PBS
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Rod - Cane
2. Front - Face
3. Story - Tale
4. Die - Crash
5. Shelf - Sill
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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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