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8.19.16
Week: 33 \ Day: 232
July
Averages: 80°\49°
86004
Today: H 78° \ L 52°
Average Sky Cover: 60%
Wind
ave: 2mph\Gusts: 10mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 88°[1973]
Record Low: 36°[1975]
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Quote
of the Day
We can never obtain
peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. Dali Lama
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Observances
Today
"Black Cow" Root Beer Float Day
(8/19/1893 by Frank J. Wisner, Cripple
Creek Brewing Co., CO. )
International Orangutan Day Link
Men's Grooming Day Link
World
Humanitarian Day Link
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Independence
Day (Afghanistan-1919-from Britain)
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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
National Aviation Week: 15-21 (Always week
of Orville Wright's Birthday on 19th)
Minority Enterprise Development Week: 18-24
North American Organic Brewers Week: 18-21
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1692 Five more people
hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts
1791 Benjamin
Banneker sends a copy of his Almanac and writes a letter to Thomas
Jefferson criticizing his pro-slavery stance and requesting justice for African
Americans using language from the Declaration of Independence
1849 NY Herald reports
gold discovery in California
1909 Indianapolis 500
race track opens
1953 The democratically
elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh is overthrown in a coup
orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name 'Operation Boot') and the
United States (under the name TPAJAX Project)
1960 Francis Gary Powers
convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1561 Mary Queen of Scots
arrives in Leith, Scotland to assume throne after spending 13 years in France
1897 1st electric taxis
drive in London
1960 Sputnik 5 carries 2
dogs, 3 mice into orbit as the first animals launched on a round trip into
space (later recovered alive)
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Great lunch with our
retirement group. Caught up on all the things that have happened.
After our time in Dijon,
it is off to Paris. City tour was very good. Our hotel was within two blocks of
the Eifel Tower. We couldn’t see it from our rooms, but a short walk out of the
hotel and there it was in all its glory. Walked over there three different
times. Awesome during the day, spectacular at night. We spent time at the Louvre and could have
spent days. Our guide had an amazing knowledge of the paintings…who, what,
where, and why. Learned about and saw the Mona Lisa. As many know it is much
smaller than first expected. The reason…it was a private home painting and was
therefore the size of portraits one would place in their home. The stories of
the paintings really brought them to life. Our trip is ending and we head out
to the De Gaulle airport…talk about a huge airport. We made it through
unscathed. I have to say there were 11 of us and 5 got wheelchairs, due to the
long walks and to get someone to take us to our gate. I walked with at 83 year
old great woman. When we got to customs, the lady pushing her asked for her
passport and her husband’s passport. Little did we know that somewhere along
the line we had gotten married. Good laugh for all of us, and worth it at both
De Gaulle and JFK. We ended our ‘marriage’ at DIA baggage claim and headed to
our respective homes.
Tumlare and Focus did
another great job.
I have had my CPAP machine
for two nights. I seem to be sleeping fine, but wake up about 5:30a and am
still tired. I take off the headgear and sleep to about 7a. The machine guy
called and said that this is normal and should end in a couple more days. Sure
hope so. I hate waking up groggy.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of
post)
Name That: 70's TV Show
Language brain teasers are those that involve
the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Each of the clues below
describe a 70's American TV show. Can you name each show?
1. Ruffles, Pringles, Frito-Lays
2. 911 !
3. The aeronautically capable, habit wearing female (3)
4. A four wheeled vehicle, driven by a person whose job it is to take passengers
and their luggage where they want to go in exchange for a fee
5. More than seven, nine is too much (3)
6. Small abode on the treeless tract of land (5)
7. Mixture of the sodium salts of various fatty acids of natural oils and fats
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Today’s
Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of
post)
Who won the UEFA 2016 Euro
Final?
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…Harper’s
Index…
7/10-Minimum portion of US teachers who
assign homework that requires Internet accesss
2/5-Portion of US students from low-income
households who do not have broadband internet access
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2
jokes for the day
You Can't Make This Up
I was watching the London
Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as
an egg...
I thought, "This could be interesting."
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A Tired Hunter
A tired hunter out in the
wilds stumbled into a camp. “Am I glad to see you!” he said. “I’ve been lost
for three days.”
“Don’t get too excited, friend,” the other hunter replied. “I’ve been lost for
three weeks.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*-- Daredevils Get an
Eiffel of the Parasites --*
A pair of daredevils skipped the elevators at the Eiffel Tower in Paris and
climbed to the top of the structure while filming their ascent. The video,
posted to YouTube, shows the two men purchase tickets to visit the Eiffel Tower
at night while it is illuminated and sneak away from the other tourists to
climb the structure's stairs. The men dodge CCTV cameras and security officers
before moving from the stairs to the steel girders to make their way to near
the top of the tower. A drone helped film the men as they approached the
dizzying heights of the tower's summit. The uploader said the video was filmed
in June amid high winds that made piloting the drone difficult. "The poor
drone operator not only crashed the drone but also received a pretty big
fine," the post said. British daredevil James Kingston climbed the Eiffel
Tower in November of last year and were arrested when they were discovered by
security. Kingston said he was released without charges when he promised not to
try to climb the tower again for at least three years.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Between 10-12 percent of
people on earth are "lefties." Women are more likely to be
right-handed than men by about 4 percentage points.
Tests conducted by St. Lawrence University in New York found that there were
more left-handed people with IQs over 140 than right-handed people. Famous
left-handed intellectuals include Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Charles
Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin.
The word left in English
comes from the Anglo-Saxon word lyft, which means weak or broken. The Oxford
English Dictionary defines left-handed as meaning crippled, defective, awkward,
clumsy, inapt, characterized by underhanded dealings, ambiguous, doubtful,
questionable, ill-omened, inauspicious, and illegitimate.
Even the word "dexterity" shows a right-handed bias. The term dexter
means "right" and refers to being "right-handed" on both sides.
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Birthdays
Today
“[ ]” indicates age at
death
[87] Gabrielle
"Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (Chanel)[d-1971]
82- Renee Richards,
[Richard Rankind], trans-sexual tennis player
[79] Charles Hires,
American Inventor and Manufacturer of the Hires Root Beer beverage, born in
Philadelphia, Pa [d-1937]
78- Diana Muldaur,
actress (McCloud, Star Trek Next Gen, LA Law), born in NYC, New York
77- Ginger [Peter]
Baker, England, drummer (Cream-White Room)
[76] Orville Wright, aviator (Wright
Brothers), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1912)
76- Jill St John,
[Oppenheim], actress (Diamonds are Forever), born in Los Angeles, California
[74] Seth Thomas,
American pioneer in mass production of clocks [d-1859]
74- Fred Thompson, US
senator (R-Tenn)/actor (In the Line of Fire), born in Sheffield, Alabama (d. 2015)
[72] Willie Shoemaker,
jockey (won 8,833 of 40,350 starts)[d-2003]
[70] Malcolm Forbes, publisher
(Forbes Magazine), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1990)
[70] Gene Roddenberry, executive producer
(Star Trek), born in El Paso, Texas [d-1991]
70- Bill Clinton [William
Jefferson], 42nd US President (Democrat, 1993-2001), born in Hope, Arkansas
[68] Ogden Nash, Rye
NY, humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself) [d-1971]
69- Gerald McRaney,
American actor (Simon & Simon, Major Dad), born in Collins, Mississippi
68- Tipper Gore, wife
of vice president Al Gore (1993-01)
[65] Edith Nesbit,
England, children books author (Railway Children) [d-1924]
[62] Edward John Dent,
British Clockmaker to Queen Victoria and commissioned to make Big Ben, London
(completed after his death by his son Frederick Dent), born in London, England
[d-1853]
53- John Stamos,
Cypress California, actor (General Hospital, Full House)
51- Kyra Sedgwick,
actress (Phenomenon, Singles, Julia-Another World)
47- Matthew Perry,
Canadian/American actor (Chandler Bing on Friends), born in Williamstown,
Massachusetts
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Historical
Obits Today
@93-1994 Linus Pauling, Nobel prize
scientist (Vitamin C advocate)
@86-2009 Don Hewitt,
television news producer & director; creator of 60 Minutes
@86-1977 Groucho Marx, NYC, comedian
(Marx Bros)
@75-14 Augustus
Caesar, first Roman Emperor
@39-1662 Blaise Pascal, French
mathematician, physicist, and philosopher, convulsions
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Trivia
Hive Answers
Portugal
The French had to hang up
their berets when they lost at the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to Portugal. Even more
embarrassing: Portugal was sans Ronaldo after a knee injury in the first half.
Portugal's 1-0 win was nothing short of a miracle given that in their previous
10 meetings -- France had won all of them. Trés Bummer! Source: CNN
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. CHiPs
2. Emergency!
3. The Flying Nun
4. Taxi
5. Eight is Enough
6. Little House on the Prairie
7. Soap
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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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