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8.22.16
Week: 34 \ Day: 235
July
Averages: 80°\49°
86004
Today: H 76° \ L 49°
Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind
ave: 2mph\Gusts: 10mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 88°[1938]
Record Low: 32°[1968]
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Quote
of the Day
Crave for a thing,
you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
~Swami Sivananda
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Observances
Today
Southern
Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
Take Your Cat To The Vet Day
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Observances
This Week
Minority
Enterprise Development Week: 18-24
National Safe at Home Week:
22-25
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1762 1st
female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1848 The
United States annexes New Mexico
1851 Yacht
"America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup)
1865 William
Sheppard is issued the first US patent for liquid soap
1867 Fisk
University forms, 1867
1877 Nez
Perce flee into Yellowstone National Park
1901 Cadillac
Motor Company is founded.
1902 US
President Theodore Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in
a car 1906 1st
Victor Victrola manufactured
1921 J.
Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of the FBI
1963 The
X-15 rocket plane achieves a world record altitude of 354,200 feet (107,960 m,
67 miles)
2003 Alabama
Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal
court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby
of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
565 St
Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
1485 Battle
of Bosworth Field - Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during
last battle in the Wars of the Roses
1791
- Theobald Wolfe Tone publishes "An argument on behalf of the Catholics of
Ireland"
1894 Mahatma
Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight
discrimination against Indian traders in Natal
1922
- Michael Collins is assassinated.
1926 Gold
discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
1944 Adolf
Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed
1952 The
penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
1968 1st
papal visit to Latin America, Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota to open a
Eucharistic congress.
1984 Last
Volkswagen Rabbit produced
2004 "The
Scream" (1910 painted version) and "Madonna", two
paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in
Oslo, Norway.
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My
Rambling Thoughts
We had a great discussion
on the Kurds last night. So much to learn about their current situation. This
plays a big role in Turkey. The Kurds are the largest ethnic group—42+million—that
do not have a country to call their own.
Went to get some dry
laundry last night and found a small puddle of water in the laundry room. It
was dripping from the vent in the ceiling. Headed upstairs to find out where it
was coming from. Turns out there was a small puddle in the small, mostly unused
bathroom. Turned off the water to the toilet and mopped up the puddle. All is
dry today, so tomorrow I get a plumber to see WTF is going on.
Four nights with my CPAP
and I guess I’m getting used to it. Don’t notice any change, but hopefully it
is giving me enough air so my brain doesn’t tell my body to make more Red Blood
Cells.
Transferred some money
today so I can pay off my Singapore/Thailand/Vietnam trip in February. I have
to wait 24 hours for the money to get from my savings account to my checking
account. I guess the little man who picks up the cash at the savings account window
and walks to the checking account window at the same bank is getting old and
tired. He rests on Sunday so it might really be Tuesday before the money gets
where it now belongs. As a teenager I would take my check to the bank, deposit
most of it in my checking account and drive a mile or two to the Savings and
Loan to deposit some cash into my savings account. Sure didn’t take me 24 hours
to do that. And sometimes I would get a
free gift from the Savings and Loan. The only gift I get today is the ability
to spend my own money.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of
post)
Draw Me
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a
question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a
requirement.
I've been drawn by the
artists these days, and of old;
Yet I'm seen only when all around me is cold.
For most of the time you just live and ignore me;
Then you gasp for me, stop for me, mutter below me.
You might say, in surprise, I've been taken away,
But it's true I've been with you, at least 'til today.
When I leave you, you leave too!
Who am I?
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Today’s
Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of
post)
What do you call a group
of kangaroos?
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…Harper’s
Index…
126,000-Average number of trophy animals
imported to the US each year
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2
jokes for the day
Encouraging Billboards
A fantastic new series of
billboard ads are now displaying along several highways, encouraging drivers to
slow down. The billboards read:
Being "Mister Late" is always better than being the "Late
Mister".
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Bad Baby
Due to a power outage, the
house was very dark. The paramedic asked Kathleen, a 3-yr old girl, to hold a
flashlight high over her Mommy so he could see while he helped deliver the
baby.
After little Connor was born, the paramedic lifted him by his feet and spanked
him on the bottom. He began to cry.
The paramedic then asked the wide-eyed 3-yr old what she thought about what she
had just witnessed. She quickly responded, "He shouldn't have crawled in
there in the first place, spank him again!"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*- There Are A Lot of
Pantsless Women This Week -*
Passengers and flight attendants of a Virgin America flight were surprised to
see a woman show up without pants. Passengers took photos of the woman, who was
not identified, as she stood at the ticket counter to collect her boarding
pass. The photos show the woman dressed in a beige jacket, leaning against the
counter as a staff member is seen talking on the phone with a manager. She did
not wear any pants and her black underpants was visible, exposing most of her
behind. Virgin America encourages all passengers to relax and unwind when
flying, and this woman clearly took their advice. A photo of the woman was
uploaded on Reddit, where it went viral.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The early Olympic Games
were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D., when the
games were banned for being a pagan festival (the Olympics celebrated the Greek
god Zeus). In 1894, a French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin, proposed a
revival of the ancient tradition, and thus the modern-day Olympic Summer Games
were born.
***
Host Greece won the most medals (47) at the first Olympic Summer Games in 1896.
***
The United States has won more medals (2,189) at the Summer Games than any
other country.
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The five Olympic rings
represent the five major regions of the world – Africa, the Americas, Asia,
Europe and Oceana, and every national flag in the world includes one of the
five colors, which are (from left to right) blue, yellow, black, green, and
red.
***
Only four athletes have
ever won medals at both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games: Eddie Eagan
(United States), Jacob Tullin Thams (Norway), Christa Luding-Rothenburger (East
Germany), and Clara Hughes (Canada).
***
The two new sports for
2016 Olympic Games are golf and rugby sevens. There were two open spots for
sports and initially seven sports began the bidding for inclusion in the 2016
program. Baseball and softball, which were dropped from the program in 2005,
karate, squash, golf, roller sports, and rugby union all applied to be
included.
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Birthdays
Today
“[ ]” indicates age at
death
[92] Deng Xiaoping,
Chinese
revolutionary and paramount leader of China (1978-92), born in Guang'an,
Sichuan (d. 1997)
[91] Ray[mond Douglas]
Bradbury,
Ill, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451), (d. 2012)
91- Honor Blackman,
Plaistow, London, English actress (Goldfinger, The Avengers)
[83] John Lee Hooker,
Clarksdale Mississippi, blues guitarist (Boogie Chillen) [d-2001]
81- Morton Dean,
Fall
River Mass, TV newscaster (CBS, ABC)
[78] H Norman
Schwarzkopf,
4-star Army general (Gulf War), born in Trenton, New Jersey (d.
2012)
77- Carl Yastrzemski, American Boston
Red Sox great (1967 AL MVP, Hall of Fame), born in Southampton, New York
77- Valerie Harper,
Suffern,
New York, American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda)
75- Bill Parcells, NFL coach (NY
Giants, NY Jets, NE Patriots), born in Englewood, New Jersey
[73] Dorothy Parker,
American short
story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), born in Long Branch, New Jersey (d.
1967)
71- Steve Kroft,
American journalist and longtime correspondent for 60 Minutes, born in Kokomo
Indiana
69- Cindy Williams,
Van Nuys California, actress (Shirley- Laverne & Shirley)
[66] Charles Francis
Jenkins,
American Inventor (altimeter, automobile self-starter, and early
television pioneer), born in Dayton, Ohio [d-1934]
[55] Claude Debussy,
French composer
(La Mer, Clair de lune), born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France (d. 1918)
49- Ty Burrell,
American actor (Modern Family)
46- Giada De
Laurentiis,
Italian/American chef and television host
38- James Corden,
comedian, tv host
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Historical
Obits Today
@83-1822 William Herschel,
German/British
astronomer (discovered Uranus)
@70-2011 Nick Ashford,
American songwriter
@59-1977 Sebastian Cabot,
actor (Mr French-Family Affair), stroke
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Trivia
Hive Answers
A Mob
In New York, there's the
Italian mob and in Australia, there's the Kangaroo mob. Let's get our kangaroo
lingo in line, mate. A male kangaroo is called a buck or jack and a female;
either a doe, a flyer or a jill and baby kangaroos are called joeys. If you
want to get real outback savvy, a casual name for kangaroos and wallabies is
"a roo". Source: PBS
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Breath
Everyone draws breath, and it is seen on icy days.
We breathe subconsciously, but might gasp or stop for breath. We mutter
"under our breath" at times.
We might say our breath is "taken away" but we have it as long as we
live - until we "leave" this world!
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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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