Jun 1

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June 1, 2017 Week: 22 \ Day: 152

86004 Today: H 79° \ L 39°

Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Wind ave:   7mph\Gusts:  -mph

Visibility: 10 mi

June Averages: 79°\41°

June Records: H: 96° (1970) L: 22 (1955)

Record High: 88°[1977]   Record Low: 24°[1973]

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╬Quote of the Day╬

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

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╬Observances Today╬

Flip a Coin Day

Global Day of Parents Link

Heimlich Maneuver Day

National Dare Day  Link  (Note: Different than one in April for Drugs)

National Nailpolish Day  Link

National Go Barefoot Day

National Olive Day  Link

Oscar The Grouch Day Link

Ramadan-→6/25Say Something Nice Day Link

Stand For Children Day Link

Superman's Birthday

Treaty Day (Navajo)

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╬Observances This Week╬

May 26-6/12    Louis Vuitton Cup (America's Cup)

May 28-6/3      Black Single Parents Week

                         National Tire Safety Week

June 1-4         Milk Week

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╬Today’s Significant US Historical Events╬

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

░░░<§>BC’s<§>░░░

★4000 BC Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central Ukraine (hypothesis only)

░░░<§>1200’s<§>░░░

★1215 Beijing, under control of Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing

░░░<§>1400’s<§>░░░

★1495 First written record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller

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1638 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass

1657 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)

1660 Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

░░░<§>1700’s<§>░░░

1789 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)

1792 Kentucky admitted as 15th US state

1796 Tennessee admitted as 16th US state

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1813 Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"

1843 It snows in Buffalo & Rochester, NY, & Cleveland, Ohio

1843 Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist

1861 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va

★1866 Renegade Irish Fenians from US invade Fort Erie, Ontario

1868 Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.

1869 Thomas Edison granted his first patent for an electric vote machine (U.S. Patent 90,646)

1880 1st pay telephone installed

1886 The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31.

1888 California gets its 1st seismograph

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★1900 British army occupies Pretoria, South Africa

★1927 Peace Bridge between US & Canada opens

★1940 Coffee & tea rationed in Holland

1941 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, in Burlington, Kansas (state 24-hr record)

1947 Photosensitive glass developed

1949 Microfilm copies of "Newsweek" magazine 1st offered

1968 Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1

1971 Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS

1974 The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.

★1974 Arab oil ministers decide to end most restrictions on exports of oil to the United States but continue embargo against the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, and Rhodesia

1992 America West Arena opens in Phoenix

1992 E Lamps (20 year lightbulb) introduced

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2008 A fire at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroys several icons from movies, such as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit on the studio tour.░<§>00’s<§>░░░

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╬My Rambling Thoughts╬

Modern medicine can be awesome. Had a laser treatment on my weak eye. All went well. The assistant had a very distinctive accent, so I asked. She is from South Africa and a world traveler. Interesting conversation as we waited for the doctor.  The Doc came in and was setting up as we continued our talk. He looked at us and said, guess I better get busy and start traveling. Told him it was a good idea, but not until he finished my procedure.

Time for some filters on certain political comedians. One has already lost a good gig.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL:

covfefe…Now the guy with the 5^th grade vocabulary is putting letters together and hoping they make a word?

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╬Today’s Trivia Hive╬

(answers at the end of post)

Recent research found which penguin could go extinct in the next 25 years?

Emperor Penguin                 African Penguin

King Penguin                        Yellow-Eyed Penguin

30.8% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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╬Harper’s Index╬

10→Number of members of the Pirate Party elected to Icelandic parliament in October

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╬Yep, It Really Happened╬

Authorities in Florida are asking for the public's help finding a large $25,000 swan sculpture stolen by a naked man. The Polk County Sheriff's Office said surveillance cameras at Lakeland Cold Storage were recording when a naked man carrying a 5-gallon bucket squeezed through a gap in the fence. 

"Do you call that buck naked, or bucket naked?" the sheriff's office quipped in a Facebook post. A Ford pickup truck was seen minutes later driving away with the giant black and white swan sculpture in the back. 

The pickup truck, which was stolen, was later recovered "sans swan" and the man in the security camera footage was arrested Tuesday, but he's been mum as to the swan's location. 

"So, we have a naked man, a bucket, and a very expensive and very large stolen swan. We know who the man is, and we have the truck back. But have you seen the missing swan? Call us," the sheriff's office said.

           

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╬Somewhat Useless Information╬

For a while, each Girl Scout council could choose its own baker, and at one point there were 29 different companies making the cookies. To streamline the process, that number went down to four in the late 1970s, and in the 1990s, it decreased even further to two: ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers.

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The cookies were first sold in 1917. Back then, the scouts baked the cookies themselves and sold them door to door. By the 1920s, they were using a simple sugar cookie recipe, perhaps based on one published in a July 1922 issue of The American Girl magazine. In 1935, the words "Girl Scout Cookies" appeared on the boxes for the first time, and in 1936, the national organization began using commercial bakers.

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Samoas, second in sales only to the iconic Thin Mints, were added to the Little Brownie cookie line in 1975. No one seems sure where the name Samoa comes from. One popular theory is the coconut connection. Of the island Samoa's top exports, number eight is coconut oil while number 15 is coconuts, brazil nuts, and cashews.

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╬Birthdays Today╬

@  indicates age at death

░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░

@86- Andy Griffith,

Mount Airy NC, actor (Andy Griffith Show, Matlock),

(d. 2012)

83- Pat Boone,

Florida, singer/actor (April Love, Cross & Switchblade)

@82- Edmund Ignatius Rice,

Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers

(d. 1844)

80- Morgan Freeman,

Academy award winning actor (Driving Mrs Daisy, Glory), born in Memphis

░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░

@76- Brigham Young,

American religious leader (Mormon church), born in Whitingham, VT

(d. 1877)

░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░

44- Heidi Klum,

German supermodel, born in Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia

░░░<§>30’s<§>░░░

@36- Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortenson],

American actress (Some Like It Hot), born in Los Angeles, California

(d. 1962)

36- Amy Schumer,

American comedian, writer ad producer (Inside Amy Schumer)

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╬Historical Obits Today╬

░░░<§>90’s<§>░░░

@92-1952 John Dewey,

US philosopher (Common Faith),

░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░

@87-1968 Helen Keller,

American blind & deaf author (Let us Have Faith) and lecturer

@81-2001 Hank Ketcham,

American cartoonist (Dennis the Menace)

░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░

@77-1868 James Buchanan,

15th US president (1857-61), respiratory failure

@76-1872 James Gordon Bennett, Sr.,

American newspaper publisher (New York Herald)

@71-2008 Yves Saint Laurent,

French fashion designer, brain cancer

░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░

@67-1965 Curly Lambeau,

First coach of the Green Bay Packers, heart attack

@66-1985 Richard Greene,

actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood), heart attack

@40-1996 Ray Combs,

TV host (Family Feud), suicide

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╬Trivia Hive  Answers╬

Yellow-Eyed Penguin

Who wants to live in a world without penguins? It's a terrible thought but something that could become a reality if we're not careful. New research from the University of Otago found that human factors, including fishing, dog walking and contaminated rivers, all have harmful effects on the New Zealand penguin population. If urgent action isn't taken soon, the researchers say, this particular type of penguin could go extinct locally within 25 years. Source: University of Otago

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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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May 31

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May 31, 2017 Week: 22 \ Day: 151

86004 Today: H 81° \ L 39°

Average Sky Cover: 85% 

Wind ave:   9mph\Gusts:  -mph

Visibility: 10 mi

May Averages: 68°\34°

May Records: H: 89° (2002) L: 7 (1915)

Record High: 89°[2002]   Record Low: 23°[1988]

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╬Quote of the Day╬

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

  Bertrand Russell

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╬Observances Today╬

National Macaroon Day

National Senior Health & Fitness Day Link  

Ramadan-→6/25

Save Your Hearing Day

What You Think Upon Grows Day

World MS Day (Multiple Sclerosis) Link 

World No Tobacco Day

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╬Observances This Week╬

25-31   Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories

26-6/12 Louis Vuitton Cup (America's Cup)

28-6/3  Black Single Parents Week

            National Tire Safety Week

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╬Today’s Significant US Historical Events╬

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

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★1279 BC Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.

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★1621 Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night

1634 The colony of Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony

░░░<§>1700’s<§>░░░

1759 The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.

1790 US copyright law enacted

░░░<§>1800’s<§>░░░

1821 Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore

1868 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio

1870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)

1879 Madison Square Garden opens in New York, named after 4th President James Madison

1884 Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"

★1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begins

░░░<§>1900’s<§>░░░

★1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal

1909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)

★1910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa

1913 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified

★1931 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead.

1941 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale

1943 "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio

★1955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to rail strike

1955 US Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"

1968 Movie star James Stewart retires from the US Air Force after 27 years of service, and is promoted to major general by President Reagan

★1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"

1969 Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore"

★1970 At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die)

1985 Tornadoes in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York State & Canada kill 88 & injured more than 1,000

1985 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.

1990 Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles

░░░<§>2000’s<§>░░░

2008 Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds.

★2012 Egypt formally ends its 31 year state of emergency

★2014 Psy's "Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach 2 billion views on YouTube

2015 Harriette Thompson aged 92 and 65 days becomes the oldest woman to complete a marathon (Suja Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon in San Diego)

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╬My Rambling Thoughts╬

Sure as heck feels like a Monday…one would assume after retirement, it wouldn’t make any difference. But for me it sure seems to.

Weather is nice, but it is very cloudy and looks like rain…doesn’t smell like rain, but looks like rain. Guess I’ll have to wait and see.

I had a great-uncle who lived on a ranch in Montana. I spent 3 summers on the ranch. Learned a lot. He was an early redneck before the term was even coined, I’m sure. Listening to our President whine and moan about NATO reminds of Uncle Larry. Back in the mid-1960’s he whined and moaned about NATO and how we shouldn’t be sending our hard earned money to help them. My uncle has been gone for decades, but sadly, his words still reflect a portion of our country’s population.

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╬Today’s Trivia Hive╬

(answers at the end of post)

How much does the average funeral & burial cost?

$500                $1000

$3,000             $10,000

73.8% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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╬Harper’s Index╬

1/4→Estimated portion of female parliamentarians worldwide who have been subject of physical violence in office

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╬Yep, It Really Happened╬

*-- Music Fest Constructs 4-mile Beer Pipeline --*

A heavy metal music festival in Germany constructed a 4-mile long beer pipeline to more efficiently serve beverages to its guests. The Wacken Open Air music festival began constructing the massive beer pipeline in the fall and announced it was completed on Tuesday. "Until this year, we always had to move dozens of barrels through the infield," the festival's website states. "We had to bring in full barrels before and during the shows and afterwards we had to remove the empty ones. This caused a lot of avoidable traffic. The new pipeline helps us to protect the floor!" Wacken Open Air's beer pipeline will be able to carry about 105,000 gallons of beer throughout the festival grounds and provide enough pressure to pour six beers in six seconds. "In this way, we will no longer have to distribute truck loads of beer kegs across the premises each day," festival spokeswoman Frederike Arns said.

           

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╬Somewhat Useless Information╬

6. The largest invertebrate

The aptly named colossal squid is the world's largest squid species and the largest invertebrate on the planet. They can weigh as much as 1,000 pounds and can grow to 30 feet long. That's a lot of calamari.

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7. The tallest land animal

The title of the world's tallest mammal belongs to the giraffe. The legs of these even-toed ungulates are taller than many people. Giraffes can grow to heights of 19 feet and can weigh as much as 2,800 pounds. They can sprint up to 35 miles-an-hour over short distances.

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8. The largest reptile

As the largest of living reptiles - as well as the largest terrestrial and riparian predator in the world - the saltwater crocodile can reach lengths of 22 feet and can weigh in at 4,400 pounds.

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9. The heaviest bird

The ostrich is the world's heaviest bird, with a weight of 350 pounds and a height of 9 feet. While they cannot fly, they can sprint up to 43 miles an hour and run long distance at 31 miles an hour.

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10. The largest thing of all

In 1998 a single colony of honey fungus was discovered in the Malheur National Forest in east Oregon that covered an area of 3.7 square miles, and occupied some 2,384 acres. 

The discovery was remarkable in that not only would the massive specimen be recognized as the world's largest known organism, but based on its growth rate, the fungus is estimated to be 2,400 years old - and maybe as old as 8,650 years - making it one of the planet's oldest living organisms as well. 

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╬Birthdays Today╬

@  indicates age at death

░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░

87- Clint Eastwood,

actor (Dirty Harry)/mayor (Carmel, California), born in San Francisco

@85- Don Ameche,

actor (Cocoon, Trading Places), born in Kenosha, WI

(d. 1993)

░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░

79- Peter Yarrow,

American (Peter, Paul & Mary-Puff the Magic Dragon), born in NYC

74- Joe Namath,

football

@72- Walt Whitman,

American poet (Leaves of Grass), born in West Hills, New York

(d. 1892)

@71- Henry M "Scoop" Jackson,

(Sen-D-Wash)

(d. 1983)

░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░

@64- Johnny Paycheck,

Greenfield OH, singer (Take This Job & Shove It)

(d. 2003)

@61- Fred Allen,

comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts

(d. 1956)

░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░

56- Lea Thompson,

actress (Back to the Future, Caroline In The City)

52- Brooke Shields,

American model/actress (Blue Lagoon, Suddenly Susan), born in NYC

░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░

41- Colin Farrell,

Irish actor (In Bruges, Minority Report), born in Dublin, Ireland

40-Eric Christian Olsen,

TV actor (NCIS-LA)

░░░<§>30’s<§>░░░

@32-John Bonham,

Led Zeppelin Drummer

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╬Historical Obits Today╬

░░░<§>90’s<§>░░░

@93-2001 Arlene Francis,

American television personality

@90-2013 Jean Stapleton,

American actress, dies at 90

░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░

@89-1910 Elizabeth Blackwell,

English-American physician who was the first woman to receive a

medical degree in the United States

@86-1983 Jack Dempsey,

former heavyweight boxing champ/actor

░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░

@77-1809 Franz Joseph Haydn,

Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten)

░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░

@67-2009 George Tiller,

American abortion doctor, assassinated

░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░

@59-2010 Chris Haney,

Canadian journalist who created the board game "Trivial Pursuit", long

illness

@57-1837 Joseph Grimaldi,

English pantomimist and the "greatest clown in history", visited by God

░░░<§>pre-teen’s<§>░░░

@9-1993 Spuds Mackenzie (Honey Tree Evil Eye),

American advertisement dog, renal failure

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╬Trivia Hive  Answers╬

$10,000

While the total cost of a burial can vary depending on where you live, an average funeral costs about $10,000 in the United States. Some of the costs associated with memorial services include the funeral home's service fee, the transfer of the remains, any embalming or body preparation (hair and makeup for the deceased can run as much as $250!), and of course, the casket. Caskets are often the big-ticket item, and can vary widely in cost depending on the materials used. Metal caskets, a popular variety, can cost $2,400 alone. Source: Huffington Post

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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.

☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼