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June 18, 2017 Week: 25 \
Day: 169
86004 Today: H 90° \ L 51°
Average
Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 19mph\Gusts:
5mph
Visibility:
10 mi
June Averages: 79°\41°
June Records: H: 96° (1970) L: 22 (1955)
Record High: 92°[1940]
Record Low: 24°[1995]
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╬Quote
of the Day╬
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali
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╬Observances
Today╬
Autistic Pride Day Link
Dollars Against Diabetes Day(s)→18 Link
Family Awareness Day
Husband Caregiver Day
National
Splurge Day (Since 1994)
Turkey Lovers Day: 18 Link
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╬Observances
This Week╬
Ramadan-→6/25
12-18 Men's Health Week Link
13-20 National Hermit Week
15-18 US Open Golf Championship
15-22 Nursing
Assistants Week
16-18 Duct Tape Days Link
17-23 National Week of Making Link
Carpenter
Ant Awareness Week
Lightning
Safety Awareness Week Link
Meet
A Mate Week
Universal
Father's Week
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╬Today’s
Significant US Historical Events╬
★ Today’s
Significant International Historical Events
░░░<§>600’s<§>░░░
★618 Coronation
of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of
China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty's rule over China
░░░<§>1100’s<§>░░░
★1178 Five
monks at Canterbury report explosion on moon (only known observation)
░░░<§>1500’s<§>░░░
★1583 Richard
Martin of London takes out first life insurance policy, on William Gibbons;
premium was £383
░░░<§>1600’s<§>░░░
1682 William
Penn founds Philadelphia, US
░░░<§>1700’s<§>░░░
★1767 Samuel
Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first
European to reach the island
░░░<§>1800’s<§>░░░
★1812 War
of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
★1815 Battle
of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces under
Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher
1873 Susan
B. Anthony fined $100 for voting for President
★1892 Macadamia
nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
1898 1st
amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ
░░░<§>1900’s<§>░░░
1936 1st
bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI
★1940 Winston
Churchill's "this was their finest hour" speech urging perseverance
during Battle of Britain delivered to British House of Commons
★1945 William
Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with treason
1948 American
Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights
1959 Governor
of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds
by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds
to proclaim him perfectly sane
1973 NCAA
makes urine testing mandatory for participants
1981 Supreme
Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st
woman on US Supreme Court)
1981 Vaccine
to prevent hoof & mouth disease announced
★1981 The
AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco,
California
1982 Voting
Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
1983 7th
Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launches Sally Ride as 1st US woman in
space
1986 US
House of Representatives approves Bill to impose stricter sanctions on
Apartheid South Africa
1996 Ted
Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts
░░░<§>2000’s<§>░░░
★2003 Google
launches AdSense, a program that enables website publishers to serve ads
targeted to the specific content of their individual web pages, many of which
like HistoryOrb.com go on to start their own publishing businesses
★2013 Russia
passes a law banning foreign same-sex couples from adopting children
★2014 Ian
McKellen is awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University, becoming a
Doctor of Letters
★2015 Pope Francis blames
human selfishness for global warming in his encyclical, named "Laudato Si
(Be Praised), On the Care of Our Common Home"░░<§>00’s<§>░░░
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╬My
Rambling Thoughts╬
Happy Father's Day to all the fathers and the mothers who play both roles.
AZ is having a heat wave. Up here at 7000’ it is very warm for us (89°). Glad I’m not down in the Valley. They are under an excessive heat warning for most of the next week.
AZ is having a heat wave. Up here at 7000’ it is very warm for us (89°). Glad I’m not down in the Valley. They are under an excessive heat warning for most of the next week.
Our mountain town is
suffering from smoke. A couple of fairly big fires are around…but not close to
us. Whenever there is smoke, it somehow eventually finds it way here. There
have been community meetings for many area around us, updating them on the
smoke. Tuba (75mi away) has it worse than I do here. We will be fine, but it
does put an odd cast on the sunshine, making it look a lot like a large
eclipse.
Another issue in our town
is camping. We are a town in the middle of the largest pine forest in the US.
At 7000’ we have nice weather and that draws all kinds of campers to the
forest. The vast majority are honorable campers that follow fire restrictions
and clean up after themselves. However, the openness also brings transients to
the forest, and to our town. Many don’t know that camping within city limits is
prohibited and few know about fire restrictions. Already there have been a
couple of fires within the city limits caused by careless transients.
Transients are up for city council discussion twice a year…during the fire
season, and when a transient is found dead due to hypothermia in the winter.
Like any town, there are no easy answers. Shelters cannot take care of all the
transients and the shelters have a hard time with hard core alcoholics, the
mentally unstable, children, women. Providing a safe environment is not an easy
task. The discussions have gone on for decades and our town has few suitable
answers.
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╬Today’s
Trivia Hive╬
(answers
at the end of post)
Which U.S. state
experienced the largest population increase by percentage between 2015 and
2016?
Utah Iowa
Florida North Dakota
21.0%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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╬Harper’s
Index╬
-319,000,000→Net change, in acres, in the world’s
forested land since 1990
+126,500,000→In
China
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╬Yep,
It Really Happened╬
*-- Doctors find
live spider in woman's ear after outside nap --*
A woman who suffered a
headache after an outside nap in India went to a hospital where doctors filmed
a live spider crawling out of her ear.
The woman, identified as Lekshmi L, 49, was brought by her husband to Columbia
Asia Hospital in Hebbal, India, when she suffered a severe headache after
napping on the veranda outside her home.
The woman told doctors the sensation started as a slight discomfort and a
tingling sensation, but the pain became excruciating after her daughter used a
flashlight to look into her ear.
Doctors examined the woman and were filming video when a large and very much
alive spider walked out of her ear.
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╬Somewhat
Useless Information╬
Koalas aren't big
drinkers. They can survive on sufficient water by licking dew from leaves.
***
Due to their low-calories diet, they sleep a lot, between 18 to 22 hours a day.
In the evening, they look for food.
***
They are well suited to sit on trees, as they have extra thick fur on their
bottoms, a cartilaginous pad at the base of their spines and a curved skeletal
structure.
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╬Birthdays
Today╬
@ indicates age at death
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
@84- E
G Marshall,
American
actor (The Defenders), born in Owatonna Minnesota
(d.
1998)
@82- James
Montgomery Flagg,
illustrator
("I want you" Uncle Sam)
(d.
1960)
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
75- Paul
McCartney,
English
musician and member of The Beatles, born in Liverpool, England
@70- Roger
Ebert,
film
critic (Pulitzer Prize 1975), born in Urbana Illnois
(d.
2013)
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
65- Carol
Kane,
actress
(Dog Day Afternoon, Simka-Taxi), born in Cleveland, Ohio
@61- Bud
Collyer,
American
TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), born in NYC,
(d.
1969)
░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░
54- Darren
"Dizzy" Reed,
US
musician (Guns n' Roses-Sweet Girl of Mine)
░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░
41- Blake
Shelton,
American
Country Singer
░░░<§>30’s<§>░░░
@37- George
Mallory,
English
mountain climber ("because it is there"), born in Mobberley, England
(d.
1924)
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╬Historical
Obits Today╬
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
@77-1880 John
Sutter,
US
colonist (gold discovered on his land)
@70-1982 John
Cheever,
Pulitzer
prize winning author, cancer
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
@66-1673 Jeanne
Mance,
French
Canadian settler and founder of the first hospital in North America, long
illness
░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░
@55-1928 Roald
Amundsen,
Norwegian
polar explorer who led the 1st expedition to the South Pole, plane crash while
flying on a rescue mission in the Arctic
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╬Trivia
Hive Answers╬
Utah
According to data from the
U.S. Census Bureau, the population of Utah grew by 2 percent between July 1,
2015, and July 1, 2016, squeaking by Nevada as the fastest-growing state in the
union and defeating other contenders like Florida, Idaho and Washington. During
that time span, the Beehive State also reached another milestone: More than 3
million people officially call Utah home. It still has a long way to go before
becoming the most populated state. That title rightly belongs to California
with its population of 39 million. Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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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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That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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