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8.24.16 Week: 34 \ Day: 237
July Averages: 80°\49°
86004 Today: H 70°
\ L 49° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
21mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 91°[1985] Record Low: 30°[1968]
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Quote of the Day
Men can
starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of
bread. ~Richard Wright
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Observances Today
Knife
Day Link
Pluto Demoted Day
Wayzgoose Day Link
William Wilberforce Day
National Waffle Iron Day Link
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Flag Day (Liberia)
Independence Day (Ukraine-1991-from former Soviet Union)
Vesuvius Day (Italy-79AD)
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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
1853 1st potato chips prepared
by chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY)
1891 Thomas
Edison patents motion picture camera
1912 NYC ticker tape
parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US Olympians
1912 District of Alaska
becomes an organized incorporated territory of the United States
1932 1st transcontinental
non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
1936 FDR gives FBI
authority to pursuit fascists & communists
1949 North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect
1969 Peru nationalizes US
oil interests
1981 American Charles
Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
1995 Microsoft debuts
Windows 95
2015 Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces that for the 1st time 1 billion people
logged into Facebook
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World Historical Highlights for Today
79 Mt
Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die
1215 Pope
Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid 1349 6,000 Jews, blamed
for the Plague, are killed in Mainz
1456 The
printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed
1572 St.
Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris
and later spreads to the French provinces
1662 Act
of Uniformity requires English to accept Book of Common Prayer
1682 Duke
James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1847 Charlotte
Brontë finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre"
1909 Workers
start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
1999
- Waterford Crystal is chosen to usher in the millennium in the city of New
York with a gigantic cut glass Star of Hope ball. The component parts of the
six foot diameter sphere, made of 572 crystal panels each consisting of five
diamond shapes, will be assembled in New York. It is planned to hang 22 stories
high over Manhattan and be lowered down a 77ft high flagpole in time for the
stroke of midnight
2006 The
International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet"
such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet.
2008 29th
Olympic Games closes at Beijing, China
becomes
the most watched event on TV ever - 5 million, 70% of world's population
2015 Physicist Stephen
Hawking presents a new theory on black holes at a lecture at the KTH Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm
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My Rambling Thoughts
Overcast
morning, cool-er nights…hmmm too early for fall.
Did some
running around on the West side today…Students will be returning soon and
traffic will be a mess. Found some great stuff…so I’m set until the students
settle in.
Wish I could
get used to this CPAP machine soon. This morning woke up all stuffed up…very
unusual for me.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the
end of post)
Two Brothers
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that
needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
I lie down
there as you watch me
stick a sword into my head.
You never notice, never see
the description I have said.
My brother who is a twin,
as some people may say,
has an axe behind him
and tries to run away.
We both lie still, the same
beside a pool of red.
We may participate in your game
or amaze people instead.
Who are we?
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
What is the
minimum age set by the International Olympic Committee to compete in the
Olympic Games?
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…Harper’s Index…
+178-Percentage change since 2000 in the Chinese divorce rate
-20-In the US divorce rate
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2 jokes for the day
He Doesn't
Know the Meaning
A football
coached was asked about his star lineman.
The coach replied, "He doesn't know the
meaning of the word fear. In fact, I have seen his grades and there are a lot
of words he doesn't know the meaning of!"
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When Diane
found out she was pregnant, she told the good news to anyone who would listen.
Her 4-year-old son overheard some of his parent’s private conversations.
One day, when Diane and her 4-year-old were shopping, a woman asked the little
boy if he was excited about the new baby.
"Yes!" the 4-year-old said, "and I know what we are going to
name it, too. If it's a girl we're going to call her Christina, and if it's
another boy we're going to call it quits!"
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Somewhat Useless Information
There are as
many as 100,000 active missing person cases in the U.S. at any given time.
The FBI designates severe, urgent missing person cases as "endangered or
involuntary." Approximately 15 percent of missing person cases are given
that classification each year; most of them are applied to children.
In the mid-1980s, milk cartons with photos of missing children on them made
their debut. The first child to appear on one of those milk cartons was Etan
Patz, a 6-year-old from New York who disappeared walking to the bus stop in May
1975. Never found, declared dead-2001
According to
the U.S. Department of State, there are no statistics that track the number of
Americans who go missing in a foreign country in a given year. The United
Kingdom does, however. In 2008, 481 British disappeared abroad, an increase
from 401 the previous year and 336 in 2006.
In 2008, there were 30 officially documented disappearances on cruise ships in
the preceding five years.
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Birthdays Today
“[ ]” indicates
age at death
[86] Jorge Luis Borges,
Argentine writer of fiction and essays
(Labyrinths), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1986)
[83] Louis
Teicher,
pianist (Ferante & Teicher-Exodus) [d-2008]
[81] William
Francis Gibbs,
naval architect, designed Liberty ships [d-1967]
[77] Duke
Kahanamoku,
Hawaii, swimmer (Olympics-3 gold/2 silver-12, 20,
24)
[d-1968]78- Mason
Williams, Abilene Tx, writer (Smother Brothers Hour)
[75] Yasser Arafat,
Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation
Organization, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
and 1994 Nobel peace prize winner, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 2004)
[73] William Wilberforce,
British politician, philanthropist and leader of
the movement to abolish the slave trade, born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire,
England (d. 1833)
71- Vince
McMahon,
American professional wrestling promoter
67- Joe
Regalbuto,
American actor (Knots Landing, Frank-Murphy Brown),
born in Brooklyn, New York
64- Mike Shanahan,
American football coach (Denver Broncos), born in Oak Park, Illinois
61- Mike
Huckabee,
US politician (Governor of Arkansas (R) 1996-2007),
Presidential candidate, born in Hope Arkansas
58- Steve
Guttenberg,
American actor (Police Academy, Short Circuit),
born in Brooklyn, New York
56- Cal Ripken,
American baseball shortstop (Baltimore Orioles,
consecutive game streak), born in Havre de Grace, Maryland
51- Marlee Matlin,
American actress and the only deaf performer to win
an Academy Award (Children of Lesser God), born in Morton Grove, Illinois
43- Dave
Chappelle,
American actor and Comedian
28- Rupert Grint,
English actor (Harry Potter), born in Harlow,
Essex, England
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Historical Obits Today
@90-2014 Richard
Attenborough,
English actor/director (Gandhi, Young Winston)
@88-1998 E.G. Marshall,
American actor (The Defenders)
@85-1967 Henry
J. Kaiser,
ndustrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship)
@66-1923 Kate
Douglas Wiggin,
author (US kindergarten movement), pneumonia
@61ish-1680 Thomas Blood,
Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels, coma
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Trivia Hive Answers
No Age Minimum
The Olympic
committee puts no regulation on an age limit for the Olympic Games but that's
like saying your kid's school puts no regulation on how much candy they can eat
in a day. It doesn't mean you don't have a limit. Each International Sports
Federation has its own ruleset in place for the Olympics. The age limit for
gymnasts set by the International Federation of Gymnastics sits at 18 for Men
and 16 for the Women Artistic and Rhythmic Gymnastics, 17 for Trampoline (18
for the Olympic Games), 18 for Aerobic, and 15 for Acrobatic Gymnastics (the
minimum age for flier). So yes, your kid still has to go to junior high.
Source: The Olympic Official Website
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Brain Teasers Answers
The Red Kings
The King of Hearts has a sword sticking into his head.
The King of Diamonds has an axe behind his head.
Both lie still because they're cards...
The pools of red refer to the large pips beside the kings.
Kings are cards that can be used to play games or do card tricks.
Cards have faces and backs.
Pips on cards come in two colours red & black.
52 cards in a deck.
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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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