Aug 14

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8.14.16 Week: 33 \ Day: 227

July Averages: 80°\49°

86004 Today: H 83° \ L 55° Average Sky Cover: % 

Wind ave:   14mph\Gusts:  16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 90°[2002]   Record Low: 33°[1976]

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Quote of the Day

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde

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Observances Today                                    

Chef Appreciation Day Link  (Sunday of Chef's Appreciation Week)
International Rose' Day Link
National Creamsicle Day

National Navajo Code Talkers Day
V-J Day

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Festival of Hungry Ghosts (China)
Independence Day (Pakistan)

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Observances This Week

Elvis Week: 8-16  Link
Sturgis Rally: 8-14 Link
Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow: 10-14 Link
National Hobo Week: 10-14 Link
National Motorcycle Week: 14-20  Link (2nd Week)
National Chef's Appreciation Week: 14-20  Link  Link
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week: 14-20  Link  

National Resurrect Romance Week:14-20 

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US Historical Highlights for Today

1765 Massachusetts colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)

1806 Lewis & Clark expedition reaches Manda village

1820 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC

1842 Second Seminole War declared over by Colonel Worth; Indians go on to be removed from Florida to Oklahoma

1846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for refusing to pay taxes

1848 Oregon Territory created

1861 Martial Law is declared at St Louis, Missouri, due to pro-secession sentiment which surged throughout Missouri after the Battle of Wilson's Creek

1862 Abraham Lincoln receives the first group of African Americans to confer with a US president

1873 "Field & Stream" begins publishing

1911 United States Senate leaders begin to rotate the office of President pro tempore (for the time being) of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.

1912 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925

1925 Mount Rushmore Monument first proposed

1932 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes

1935 Social Security Act becomes law

1945 V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II (also August 15 depending on time zone)

1965 Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1

1994 Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings

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World Historical Highlights for Today

1281 During Kublai Khan's 2nd Invasion of Japan his invading Chinese fleet of 3,500 vessels disappears in a typhoon near Japan

1585 Queen Elizabeth I of England refuses sovereignty of Netherlands

1882 Queen Victoria recieves Zulu chief Cetewayo

1893 France introduces motor vehicle registration, includes a driving test

1920 Olympic Games open in Antwerp

1936 1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin)

1943 1st allied air raid on Borneo

1947 Pakistan gains independence from Great Britain

1948 14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain

1960 UN peace-keeping troops deployed to the Republic of Congo

1969 British troops deployed for first time to Northern Ireland

1969 In response to events in Derry, Irish nationalists hold protests throughout Northern Ireland, some of these became violent

1976 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast

1986 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested 1990 Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise

2010 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games, first ever Youth Olympics, officially starts in Singapore.

2013 638 people are killed in violent clashes between police and protesters across Egypt

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My Rambling Thoughts

A great time on holiday with Tumlare/Focus Travel Club. We were a small group of 11. Barcelona was amazing. Enjoyed the food, the beach, the architecture, the people, and so much more. And found out how amazing my translator app works. My broken Spanish wasn’t working and the person I was talking to pulled out their phone and we had a good conversation, a bit slow but it worked. Used it several more times in France…as I can’t even pretend to speak broken French. The 8 hour flight from Atlanta + the 3+ hour flight from Denver to Atlanta had us tired, but 2-1/2 days in Barcelona was well worth it. More later on the River Cruise and France.

Lots of pictures on my Facebook page. Almost every day of the trip, FB would make a slide show of that days photos…sure made it easy to post.

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Brain Teasers

(answers at the end of post)

Rock Group

Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.

I am a rock group that has 4 members, all of whom are dead, one of which was assassinated. What am I?

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Today’s Trivia Hive

(answers at the end of post)

Who won the women's 2016 U.S. Open?

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…Harper’s Index…

13-Factor by which the yearly revenue of the global private space industry exceeds NASA’s Yearly budget

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2 jokes for the day

Heavy Lifting
While taking the garbage out the other day, I lifted up a pretty heavy bag of trash and threw my back out.

I had to drive all the way to the dump to retrieve it.

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Daughter's Big News

The Phone Rings….

(Mother) Hello
(Daughter) Hi Mom!

(Mother) Honey, I haven’t heard from you in months, is everything OK?
(Daughter) I just wanted to let you know I’m in my 3rd trimester.

(Mother) You’re PREGNANT?!?!
(Daughter) Nooooo! I went off to college remember?

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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

Female elephants undergo a 22 month pregnancy, which is the longest gestation period of any mammal.

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The closest living, land-based relative to the elephant is the rock hyrax. These small, furry mammals can be found in sub-Saharan Africa and along the Arabian peninsula.

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Elephants can get sunburned and throw sand on their backs and head to protect themselves.

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One study found that elephants avoided eating a certain tree that's home to ants. The study suggests that elephants want to avoid getting ants inside their trunks.

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Asian elephants don't run. It doesn't mean they're lazy - running requires lifting all four feet at once, and Asian elephants were found to keep at least two feet on the ground at all times.

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Contrary to your favorite elephant cartoon character, these animals aren't fond of peanuts. They don't eat them in the wild and aren't fed them in captivity.

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Birthdays Today

“[ ]” indicates age at death

90- Buddy Greco,

jazz singer (Away We Go, Broadway Open House), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

[84] Alice Ghostley,

Eve Montana, actress (Bewitched, Designing Women) [d2007]

[77] Ernest Thayer,

American poet who wrote the famous baseball poem "Casey", born in Lawrence, Massachusetts (d. 1940)

76- Dash Crofts,

Cisco Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)

75- David Crosby,

rocker (Crosby, Stills & Nash-Southern Cross), born in Los Angeles, California

[73] Hans Christian Oersted,

Danish physicist and chemist (View of Chemical Law), born in Rudkøbing, Denmark (d. 1851)

71- Steve Martin,

American comedian and actor (Parenthood, Jerk, Roxanne), born in Waco, Texas

70- Antonio Fargas,

actor (Huggy Bear-Starsky & Hutch), born in The Bronx, New York

70- Susan Saint James, [Miller],

actress (Kate & Allie), born in Los Angeles, California

66- Gary Larson,

cartoonist (Far Side), born in Tacoma, Washington

60- Jackee [Harry],

Winston-Salem NC, actress (Sandra-227)

57- Earvin "Magic" Johnson,

American NBA Forward (LA Lakers/Olympic-gold-92), born in Lansing, Michigan

50- Halle Berry,

American actress (Monsters Ball), born in Cleveland, Ohio

[36] Doc Holliday,

American gambler, dentist and gunfighter (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral), born in Griffin, Georgia (d. 1887)

33- Mila Kunis,

Ukrainian/American actress

29- Tim Tebow,

American football player

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Historical Obits Today

@88-1951 William Randolph Hearst, 

American newspaper publisher (San Francisco Examiner, Seattle P-I)

@81-1999 Pee Wee [Harold] Reese, 

American baseball player (Dodgers)

@69-1870 David Farragut, 

American Admiral ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"), heart attack

@69-1858 George Combe, 

phrenologist (measurements of the skull)

@63-2012 Ron Palillo, 

American actor, heart attack

@59-1971 Georg von Opel, 

German auto manufacturer

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Trivia Hive  Answers

Brittany Lang

Close call there, Brittany Lang! After Anna Nordqvist took a two-stroke penalty, Lang went home the winner of the three-hole playoff. Both had parred in the 16th (the first playoff hole). Nordqvist was hitting out of a bunker on the 17th but videos showed that her club (meh, kind of) contacted the sand before starting her backswing. Unfortunately, that whoopsy cost Nordquvist the championship but we think both ladies deserve some hardcore kudos! Source: Fox Sports News

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Brain Teasers Answers

Mt. Rushmore

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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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