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8.25.16
Week: 34 \ Day: 238
July
Averages: 80°\49°
86004
Today: H 75° \ L 48°
Average Sky Cover: 55%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 88°[1985]
Record Low: 36°[2002]
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Quote
of the Day
You can’t blame
gravity for falling in love. ~Albert Einstein
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Observances
Today
National Park Service Day
National Second-hand Wardrobe Day
National Whiskey Sour Day
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Independence
Day (Uruguay-1825-from Brazil)
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Observances
This Week
Minority
Enterprise Development Week: 18-24
National Safe at Home Week:
22-25
Be Kind To Humankind Week: 25-31
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1540 Explorer
Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River
1718 Hundreds
of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans founded
1814 British forces
destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books (War of 1812)
1829 President
Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses
1910 Yellow
Cab is founded.
1916 US
Department of Interior forms National Park Service
1920 1st
US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey)
1950 US
President Harry Truman orders army to take control of railroad to avert a
strike
1952 Puerto Rico becomes
a US commonwealth
1968 Arthur
Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship
1970 Elton
John's 1st US appearance (Los Angeles)
1980 Gower
Champion's musical "42nd Street" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC
for 3486 performances
1991 Linux
was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to
create a new operating system.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
325 Council
of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of
the Holy Trinity
1537 The
Honorable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army,
and the second most senior, is formed.
1609 Galileo demonstrates
his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers
1689 Montreal
taken by Iroquois
1898 700 Greeks and 15
Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Greece.
1919 1st scheduled
passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
1924 International
maritime treaty drawn
1944 General De Gaulle
walks the Champs Elysees in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi
occupation
1958 Momofuku
Ando markets the first package of precooked instant noodles (Chikin Ramen)
1960 17th
summer Olympics opens in Rome
1967 The
Beatles go to Wales to study transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi
1986
‘Hurricane Charlie’ hits Ireland and the heaviest rain-fall over a 24 hour
period is recorded — 10.63 inches at Kippure Mountain, Co. Wicklow
2003 The
Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and
the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Weatherman says the
monsoon will be ending soon. Still cloudy today and smells like rain. Sure hope
we get more rain.
Good night’s sleep with
the CPAP. Guess I’m getting used to it.
Already bored with
politics after only a little over a week after my 3 week break. Guess this is
the new place we live in. So sad.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of
post)
Missing Letters 7
Language brain teasers are those that involve
the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Below are incomplete
words. Place three (3) letters in each bracket so that you can complete the
word on the left and begin the word on the right. Good luck.
unf (_ _ _ ) est
to (_ _ _) tures
hic (_ _ _) ful
eit (_ _ _) etic
fee (_ _ _) eder
he (_ _ _) ful
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Today’s
Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of
post)
What famous soccer star
was named after a U.S. President?
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…Harper’s
Index…
+451-percentage change from 1900 to 2000 in
the portion of women over the age of 65 who live alone.
-21-since 2000
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2
jokes for the day
Jamaica?
I told my friend that my
wife and I had a huge argument and she left for the Caribbean.
"Jamaica?" he asked.
"No," I replied, "she went of her own accord."
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Hitting All the Notes
A wannabe singer was
auditioning for a part in a musical, in which she had to sing a song. She gave
it her best shot and when she was done, asked the producer if she hit all the
right notes.
"You certainly did," the producer replied. "You packaged them
quite conveniently around all the wrong ones."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*----- The DMV Makes Me
Want to Do This Too -----*
An "erratic" Ohio man who was "acting like a gorilla" and
"masturbating on the sidewalk" is facing a disorderly conduct charge,
according to police. Responding to 911 calls about a pair of "white males
running around the lot taking off their clothes," Warren City Police
Department officers encountered Timothy Cook, 32, who reportedly had been
"growling and punching the cement." A witness told officers Cook had
entered a state motor vehicles office and began waving his arms around. He then
exited the building and "began masturbating on the sidewalk,"
according to a police report. When an officer subsequently approached Cook, the
suspect was sweating profusely and "acting like a gorilla." An
officer noted Cook was "squatting on all fours, punching the blacktop and
jumping up and down screaming noncoherently." Cook was detained without
incident and placed into an ambulance. Paramedics treated Cook for an apparent
overdose, though police records do not indicate what drug (or drugs) he may
have used.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Jerry Seinfeld Never
Started A Joke With "What's The Deal With ___?" Seinfeld has never started a joke with
"What's the deal with ___?" So why can you picture it so clearly?
There's good reason for the confusion. Seinfeld did say those
words, but as a parody of bad observational comedy. He first uttered the
infamous phrase on Saturday Night Live in 1992. In the sketch,
Seinfeld hosts a game show, and contestants are asked to explain "the deal
with" various comedy cliches, such as airline food, 7-11 employees, and Gilligan's
Island
Lassie Never Once
Rescued Timmy From A Well In all 571 episodes of Lassie, Timmy never, ever fell in a well. Don't get us wrong;
that idiot tripped into literally everything else -- abandoned mines, a badger
hole, quicksand, love -- but never a well. The whole bit, as well as the
concerned authority figures who could suddenly interpret dog, all came from
later parodies.
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Birthdays
Today
“[ ]” indicates age at
death
[92] Van Johnson,
Newport RI, actor (Brigadoon) always wore red socks [d-2008]
86- Sean Connery,
actor (James
Bond films), born in Edinburgh, Scotland
85- Regis Philbin,
American talk & game show host (Joey Bishop Show, Live with Regis &
Kathie Lee), born in The Bronx, New York
[80] Don Defore,
actor
(George-Hazel, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
[d-1993]
[79] George Wallace,
American politician (Gov-D-Ala) and presidential candidate, born in Clio,
Alabama (d. 1998)
[72] Leonard
Bernstein,
Lawrence MA, conductor/composer (West Side Story) [d-1990]
67- Gene Simmons,
[Chaim Witz],
Haifa Israel, rock guitarist (KISS-Beth)
[66] Richard Greene,
Plymouth England, composer/actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood) [d-1985]
62- Elvis Costello,
[Declan Patrick McManus],
London, rock vocalist (Allison)
[61] Michael Rennie,
England, actor (Robe, Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still) [d-1971]
[60] Walt Kelly,
cartoonist, creator (Pogo) [d-1973]
58- Tim Burton,
American film
director (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands), born in Burbank, California
55- Billy Ray Cyrus,
Flatwoods Ky, country singer (Achy Breaky Heart)
[53] Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible],
1st tsar of
Russia (1533-84), born in Kolomenskoye, Russia (d. 1584)
52- Blair Underwood,
Tacomma Wash, actor (Jonathan-LA Law, High Incident)
48- Rachael Ray,
TV food host
40- Alexander
Skarsgård,
Swedish actor [True Blood]
29- Blake Lively,
American actress
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Historical
Obits Today
@82-2012 Neil Armstrong,
American
astronaut
@77-2009 Edward [Ted] M.
Kennedy,
United States Senator from Massachusetts, brain cancer
@65-1776 David Hume,
Scottish philosopher and historian (A Treatise of Human Nature), abdominal
cancer
@65-1227 Ghengis Khan,
[Temudjin],
founded Mongolia
@59-1984 Truman Capote,
American author
(In Cold Blood), liver cancer
@55-1900 Friedrich
Nietzsche,
German Philosopher, stroke
@49-1967 George Lincoln
Rockwell,
head of American Nazi Party, assassinated
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Trivia
Hive Answers
Cristiano Ronaldo
José Dinis Aveiro named
his son Cristiano Ronaldo, after his favorite movie actor and president at the
time of Ronaldo's birth, Ronald Reagan. What we didn't know was that the 'Cristiano'
meant that he would one day be the bearer of the Euro 2016 metaphorical cross.
According to his sister's Instagram post in regards to the game “...as our
savior Jesus Christ suffered on the cross for a better world for us, Cristiano
cried in the pain of not being able to help his teammates and his beloved
people." Oh, we are just as shocked as you that the man who built himself
a museum also has a god complex. Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
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Brain
Teasers Answers
unfold - oldest
topic - pictures
hiccup - cupful
either - heretic
feeble - bleeder
heart - artful
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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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