FYI: Any blue
text is a link. Click to check it out!
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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╬
Global Day of Parents Link
Heimlich Maneuver Day
National Nailpolish Day Link
National Go Barefoot Day
National Olive Day Link
Oscar The Grouch 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
░░░<§>1600’s<§>░░░
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
░░░<§>1800’s<§>░░░
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
░░░<§>1900’s<§>░░░
★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
░░░<§>2000’s<§>░░░
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 5th 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.
***
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.
***
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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