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8.18.16
Week: 33 \ Day: 231
July
Averages: 80°\49°
86004
Today: H 80° \ L 52°
Average Sky Cover: 85%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 10mph Visibility: 8 mi
Record
High: 87°[2002]
Record Low: 36°[1975]
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Quote
of the Day
Success is the
result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and
persistence. Colin Powell
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Observances
Today
Birth Control Pills Day
Mail Order Catalog Day
National Badge Ribbon Day
Serendipity Day
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Observances
This Week
National
Motorcycle Week: 14-20 Link
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week: 14-20 Link
National Resurrect Romance Week:14-20
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National Aviation Week: 15-21 (Always week
of Orville Wright's Birthday on 19th)
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Minority Enterprise Development Week: 18-24
North American Organic Brewers Week: 18-21
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1817 Gloucester,
Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
1835 Last
Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
1838 1st
US marine expedition
1862 Sioux
Indians begin uprising in Minnesota (it is later crushed)
1872 1st
mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward
1909 Mayor
of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which
President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
1920 US
ratifies the 19th Amendment to the constitution bringing in women's suffrage
1926 Weather
map televised for 1st time
1937 1st
FM radio construction permit issued (W1X0J (WGTR) in Boston MA)
1956 Elvis
Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1
1969 Woodstock
Music & Art Fair closes with Jimi Hendrix / Band of Gypsys as the
final act
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
293 BC The
oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded, starting the institution of
Vinalia Rustica (grape harvest festival)
1686 Cassini
reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
1940 Battle
of Britain - 'The hardest day": Luftwaffe attacks the RAF in largest ever
air battle
1943 Final
convoy of Jews from Salonika, Greece, arrives at Auschwitz
1958 Fidel
Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde
1964 South
Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies
2005 Massive
power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million
people.
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Good report from the blood
doc…no need for any more phlebotomies in the near future. Bad news the sleep
people screwed up my sleep test and didn’t meet Medicare requirements for the
Oxygen supplement. Have to retest. Said I could do it today, but I said I would
call. Waiting to see if there is a co-pay from BC. Somehow the excuse of ‘we
didn’t know Medicare had changed its rules’ doesn’t fly with me. Kinda their
job.
After a great river cruise
we debarked at Lyon and do a tour of the city then head for Dijon—year the
mustard place. Turns out Unilever bought out the company that made real Dijon
mustard, what can you say…Globalization?
Both Lyon and Dijon were
nice to visit. Again, great architecture, wonderful people, wine, outstanding
cuisine, and really nice people. Again used my ‘translate’ app to get some
information from locals. Romans were very present in Lyon back in the day. And
none us will forget the Châteaux Chailly, where we stayed for two nights.
Ancient, beautiful, very impressive private dinner…and as our great guide told
us…we eat when the chef says we eat and we eat what the chef prepares, no need
for a menu cause what you get is what you get.’ We did get a nice copy of the
menu after the meal, and the chef graciously signed it for those who asked.
One of the surprises on
this trip, both throughout the parts of Spain and France we visited, there was
an huge amount of tagging graffiti on buildings in towns, on bridges, on walls…just
about everywhere. We were told if one got caught, they had to do public service.
Even so, tagging was everywhere.
A highlight for me on the
river cruise was passing under the bridges. As we headed for Paris, the bridges
got lower and lower. All the sundeck chairs and umbrellas had to be lowered,
but we could still sit on the front deck. Enjoyed passing under them. Then near
the end, I was on the front deck and we passed under a bridge that was inches
from my head. Very interesting. A little later the a crew member came up to
this deck and told us we all had to sit down and possibly duck as we went under
the next bridge. I did do a reflexive duck on that one. A little later the crew
member came back up and told us we all had to leave this deck as the bridge was
very low. After that bridge, I went back up and the chairs and couches were
still there, but my guess is that the top of the chairs was just inches from
the bridge.
Not to forget our 2nd
Captain. He was only 21 years old and when he was not doing this job he did
boat races on the Mediterranean. Cool
kid and very friendly, even with his limited English.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of
post)
Ghostly
Riddles
are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles
frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
I creep in with feline
grace -
Stealthy, silent, gliding -
Adding beauty, mystery, and stillness to all in my path.
My shape is ever-changing:
Pausing and moving, here and there,
A cool caress across your cheek as I slip quietly by.
But my looks are deceiving -
Peril may lurk behind my misty veil.
Slow down, be cautious, or you may abruptly meet with danger there.
What am I?
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Today’s
Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of
post)
What was Hillary Clinton’s
maiden name?
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…Harper’s
Index…
30-Percentage of US science teachers who ‘emphasize’
that global warming is likely to due to natural causes.
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…My
Holiday Photo of the Day…
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2
jokes for the day
Little Amy
Little Amy confided to her
uncle, “When I grow up I’m going to marry the boy next door.”
“Why is that?”
“Cause I’m not allowed to cross the road.”
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The Greatest Golf Ball
First golfer: “I have the
greatest golf ball in the world. You can’t lose it.”
Second golfer: “How so?”
First golfer: “If you hit it into the sand, it beeps. You hit it into the
water, it floats. If you want to play golf at night it glows.”
Second golfer: “Hey, sounds good. Where did you get it?”
First golfer: “I found it in the woods.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*---------- Monkey See,
Monkey Fight ----------*
An Ohio shopper captured video of an escaped monkey scuffling with a Walmart
employee before being reclaimed by an owner in the store's parking lot. A video
posted to Facebook shows the monkey struggling with a Walmart employee by the
cart return station in the Lancaster store's parking lot. A woman, apparently
the monkey's owner, runs up and pulls the two apart. "Let him go, let him
go, let him go! If he bites you, they will put him down," the woman says.
The woman and monkey then return to a nearby camper, which the primate
apparently escaped from earlier. A Walmart representative said the monkey did
not bite the employee and the woman was "grateful" to the worker for
catching her unusual pet. The Ohio Department of Agriculture said it is working
to identify the woman to determine whether she is an Ohio resident and, if so,
whether her monkey is properly registered.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Legend has it that hot
dogs or frankfurters originated in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany around 1484.
***
Hot Dog season lasts from
the unofficial start of summer, Memorial Day, until the unofficial end of
summer, Labor Day. During this time about 20 billion hot dogs are consumed,
which means more than 800 hot dogs per second are eaten in the U.S.
***
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt served frankfurters to King George VI of England when he visited the
United States in 1939.
***
Nearly 90 percent of hot
dog eaters choose mustard as their go-to topping, but get ready to cringe if you're
not from one of these regions. In Chicago, they like to use cucumber, tomato,
pickle, onion and pickle relish and in Los Angeles they use mayonnaise and
cheese. New Yorkers, however, prefer mustard.
***
The famous Nathan's hot
dog began when Nathan Handwerker created a business on the Coney Island
boardwalk in 1916. Back then, you could buy a Nathan's hot dog for a nickel!
***
The annual Coney Island
eating contest on the Fourth of July supposedly started after four immigrants
agreed to determine who was most patriotic by eating the most Nathan's hot
dogs.
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Birthdays
Today
“[ ]” indicates age at
death
1587 1st English child
born in New World (Virginia Dare)
[91] [Francis] Max
Factor,
cosmetics
manufacturer (Max Factor) [d-1996]
[85] Shelley Winters,
actress
(A Place in the Sun, A Patch of Blue & Poseidon Adventure), born in St.
Louis, Missouri (d. 2006) 83- Roman Polanski,
Poland,
director (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates)
81- Rafer Johnson,
Hillsboro
Texas, decathlete (Olympics-gold-60)
80- Robert Redford,
American
actor (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby), born in Santa Monica,
California
73- Martin Mull,
actor/comedian
(Bad Manners, Flick, Serial), born in Chicago, Illinois
[71] Marshall Field,
Conway
Massachusetts, owner (Field Dept Store) [d-1906]
59- Dennis Leary,
actor/comic
(MTV)
[57] Patrick Swayze,
actor/dancer
(Dirty Dancing, Ghost), born in Houston, Texas [d-2009]
55- Bob Woodruff,
American journalist, anchor
47- Christian Slater,
actor
(Robin Hood, Untamed Heart, Heathers)
47- Edward Norton,
American
actor
46- Malcolm Jamal
Warner,
actor
(Theodore-Cosby Show), born in Jersey City, New Jersey
[38] Roberto Clemente,
Puerto
Rican baseball outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Carolina, Puerto Rico
(d. 1972)
38- Andy Samberg,
American
comedian
[35] Meriwether Lewis,
American
solider and public administrator (Lewis & Clark Expedition), born in Ivy,
Virginia (d. 1809)
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Historical
Obits Today
@96-2014 Don Pardo,
TV
announcer (Jeopardy, Saturday Night Live)
@86-1990 B F Skinner,
psychologist
(Skinner Box)
@78--1919 Joseph E.
Seagram,
Canadian
distillery founder
@65-1940 Walter P.
Chrysler,
American
automobile executive, stroke
@65-1227 Genghis Khan,
Mongol
conqueror,
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Trivia
Hive Answers
Rodham
Hillary Clinton? Hillary
Rodham Clinton? Hillary Rodham? Hillary? Maybe that is why her slogan is
"I'm with her" because literally, no one knows what to call her. In
fact, after Bill proposed to the Mrs. (three times!) she agreed under the
impression that she would keep her last name. It wasn't until Bill decided to
run a second time for governor in 1982, did Hillary decide adopting his last
name would help his campaign. Whatever the outcome, we are interested to see
what happens in the next chapter of The Hillz. Source: The Atlantic
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Fog.
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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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