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June 20, 2017 Week: 25 \
Day: 171
86004 Today: H 91° \ L 53°
Average
Sky Cover: 25%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
16mph
Visibility:
10 mi
June Averages: 79°\41°
June Records: H: 96° (1970) L: 22 (1955)
Record High: 92°[1936]
Record Low: 30°[1979]
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╬Quote
of the Day╬
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan Sontag
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╬Observances
Today╬
American Eagle Day Link
Lambrusco Day Link
National Hike With A Geek Day Link
National Kouign Amann Day Link
World Productivity Day
World Refugee Day
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╬Observances
This Week╬
Ramadan-→6/25
13-20 National Hermit Week
15-22 Nursing Assistants Week
17-23 National Week of Making Link
Carpenter
Ant Awareness Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week Link
Meet
A Mate Week
Universal
Father's Week
19-24 Old Time Fiddlers Week
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╬Today’s
Significant US Historical Events╬
★ Today’s
Significant International Historical Events
░░░<§>1200’s<§>░░░
★1214 The
University of Oxford receives its charter
░░░<§>1600’s<§>░░░
1675 Abenaki,
Massachusetts, Mohegan & Wampanoag form anti-English front under Metacom
░░░<§>1800’s<§>░░░
★1837 Queen Victoria at
18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. She ruled
for 63 years ending in 1901
1840 Samuel
Morse patents his telegraph
1863 1st
bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
1867 US
President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
1893 Lizzie
Borden acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in
Fall River, Massachusetts
1895 1st
female PhD from an American University, earned by Caroline Willard Baldwin (in
Science) at Cornell University
░░░<§>1900’s<§>░░░
1907 1st
Portland Rose festival held in Portland, Oregon
1910 "Krazy
Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
1911 National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) incorporates (NY)
1936 Jesse
Owens of US sets 100 meter record at 10.2
★1943 New
Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3½ km dia)
1944 Congress
charters Central Intelligence Agency
1949 Central
Intelligence Agency Act passes
★1960 Federation
of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France
1967 Muhammad
Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services
★1968 Catholic
Irish Civil rights activists protest against discrimination in the allocation
of housing by illegally occupying a house in Caledon, County Tyrone
1969 150,000
attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear
★1973 Juan
Perón returns from exile to Argentina after 18 years
1975 "Jaws",
based on the book by Peter Benchley, directed by Steven Spielberg and
starring Roy Scheider is released
1988 Supreme
Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate
against women & minorities
★1990 40,000-50,000
die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran
1994 O.J.
Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson & Ronald Goldman
★1996 The
Venezuelan Congress approves deals which allow foreign oil companies to explore
and produce oil in Venezuela for the first time since the country's 1975
nationalization of the oil industry
░░░<§>2000’s<§>░░░
★2015 1000
humanoid robots named "Pepper" sell out in under a minute ($1,600
each) in Japan, according to its creator SoftBank Robotics Corp.
★2016 Rome
elects its first female Mayor Virginia Raggi (Five Star Movement) and its
youngest at 37
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╬My
Rambling Thoughts╬
Another hot day. The great
weather guy sez it will be hot for the rest of the week. And it will remain
dry. A new forest fire on the Peaks, just north of our town. Means more smoke.
And lots of water hydration.
Thank you Medicare. They
pay for an annual exam to update me about what my body is doing as it ages. Got
a good report today. Yes I am getting old-er, but am doing it gracefully with
everything under good control. Even get to decrease my thyroid meds by ½. That’s
nice.
Lots of hype over the
Megan Kelly interview with Crazy Guy Jones on NBC last night. Hate to see crazy
people get a forum, but she did a better than decent job in shutting him down.
Did notice no news on CNN regarding the interview. She made her point.
Awaiting our elected
Congress to open their eyes and ears and find a way to stop the current
President from telling the American people so many lies. I just have a gnawing
feeling in my gut that all the Twitter crap is just to get people to believe
that media is untrustworthy, so when he gives out an executive order to cut off
the press, all his minions will cheer. Maybe that has already started with a
press conference today where no cameras and no audio recordings were allowed.
Now Sean can say anything and if Don doesn’t like the report, he will just
claim fake news and there will no longer be anything to back up the press.
Frightening.
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╬Today’s
Trivia Hive╬
(answers
at the end of post)
James Comey prosecuted
what celebrity in the early 2000s?
Rae
Carruth Michael Jackson
Phil
Spector Martha Stewart
76.5%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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╬Harper’s
Index╬
$100,000→Amount the US will spend to train giant
African rats to detect illegal shipments of plants and wildlife.
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╬Yep,
It Really Happened╬
She Might Have Killed
It, But She Didn't Eat It
A vegetarian had no choice but to kill an animal suffering from rabies with her
bare hands. 21-year-old Rachel Borch from Hope, Maine said that she was jogging
in the woods near her home when a raccoon appeared in front of her. Borch
instantly knew that the raccoon was infected with rabies as it was foaming from
its mouth. After a few moments of growling at her, the raccoon went on the
attack, biting her thumb. Borch began swinging the animal, but it refused to
let go. Luckily, there was a puddle nearby so Borch forced the raccoon’s head
into the puddle of rainwater. After a few seconds, the raccoon lost
consciousness and Borch was able to pull her thumb out of the animal. Borch
quickly ran home, and her mother Elizabeth, drove her to the hospital. Borch
said that despite being vegetarian she had to kill the animal with her bare
hands in self-defense.
LOCAL BONUS
On June 18, 2017, at about
8:17a.m., a trooper responded to the report of a male subject lying down in the
median, northbound along I-17 at milepost 325. The same report advised he had
been involved in a possible domestic violence situation.
When our trooper arrived
on-scene, he stopped behind a black BMW sedan that was blocking traffic lane
#1. A nude man ran towards his patrol vehicle and began striking it with his
fists multiple times. Our trooper drove away from the enraged man and stopped
in front of the sedan; while doing so, be observed a passenger inside of the
BMW. The naked man then entered the BMW and began ramming our trooper’s patrol
vehicle numerous times.
The man then fled from the
scene in the BMW and drove wrong-way, northbound along the southbound lanes of
I-17 for over a mile. The naked driver lost control of the vehicle, traveled
into the shoulder, reentered the southbound lanes and then back into the
northbound lanes.
Since our patrol vehicle
was disabled from the numerous impacts it received from the BMW, our trooper
was unable to keep up with it and lost sight of it around milepost 329,
northbound. The BMW ran into a rock embankment and rolled-over at milepost 331.
The naked male driver was taken into custody without further incident.
Our trooper, a 16-year
veteran, sustained moderate injury and is home recovering.
The naked man and his
four-year-old son [the passenger our trooper observed] were transported to the
Flagstaff Medical Center for minor bruises and abrasions; both were treated and
released.
The Arizona Department of
Child Safety was called to assist us with the investigation. The young boy was
reunited with his mother at the hospital.
The naked man was
identified as Montrais Boyd Sr. of Westminster, California. Boyd was
booked into the Coconino County jail for aggravated assault with a dangerous
instrument, felony endangerment, child abuse and criminal damage charges.
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╬Somewhat
Useless Information╬
In 1832, U.K.
representative B.H. Hodson, while living in Nepal, claimed to have seen the
Abominable Snowman attack his servants. Hodson described the creature as a
"wild man covered in long, dark hair, and had no tail". This is
generally considered the first report of the Abominable Snowman made by a
Westerner.
***
The National Hockey
League's New Jersey Devils are named after The Jersey Devil, a legendary
creature who has reportedly been sighted by numerous New Jersey residents for
almost three centuries, but whose description has changed dramatically over the
years. Originally described as a demonic child with hooves, bat wings, a forked
tail, and the head of a horse, the creature has since been described as a
flying lion, a green alien-like monster, and a faceless hairy creature.
***
In the summer of 1816,
while visiting the poet Lord Byron at his villa near Lake Geneva in Switzerland,
Mary Shelley created the character of the Frankenstein monster. During this
visit, stormy weather forced the party to spend most of their time indoors. To
pass the time, some of Byron's other guests read from a volume of ghost
stories. One evening, Byron issued a challenge - that each of his guests should
write a ghost story of their own. Mary's story, which was inspired by a dream,
eventually became her most famous literary work - the novel Frankenstein.
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╬Birthdays
Today╬
@ indicates age at death
░░░<§>90’s<§>░░░
@94- Bruce
Gordon,
actor
(Frank Nitti-Untouchables), born in London,
(d.
2011)
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
89- Martin
Landau,
American
actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Ed Wood), born in Brooklyn
86- Olympia
Dukakis,
actress
(Moonstruck, Cemetery Club), born in Lowell, Massachusetts
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
77- John
Mahoney,
actor
(Fraiser, Frantic, 8 Men Out), born in Manchester, England
75- Brian
Wilson,
Inglewood
California, vocalist (Beachboys-In My Room)
72- [Morna]
Anne Murray,
Springhill
Nova Scotia Canada, singer (Snow Bird)
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
68- Lionel
Richie,
American
singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover), born in Tuskegee, Alabama
65- John
Goodman,
actor
(Dan Conner-Roseanne, Babe), born in St Louis, Missouri
░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░
@50- Errol
Flynn,
actor
(Captain Blood, Robin Hood), born in Hobart Tasmania
(d.
1959)
50- Nicole
Kidman,
actress
(Dead Calm, Far & Away), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░
@46- Audie
Murphy,
Kingston,
Texas, most decorated American WW II hero/actor (Destry, Joe Butterfly)
(d.
1971)
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╬Historical
Obits Today╬
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
@76-2003 Bob
Stump,
AZ
politician, blood disorder
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@58-1945 Bruno
Frank,
German-born
American writer, heart attack
@55-1920 Dmitry
Ivanovsky,
Russian
Botanist who discovered the organisms that came to be known as viruses
@52-1963 Gordon
Jones,
actor
(Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello), heart attack
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@41-1947 Bugsy
Siegel,
American
gangster who created casinos in Las Vegas, shot
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╬Trivia
Hive Answers╬
Martha Stewart
He may be forever linked
to the 2016 election, but before that, Comey prosecuted Martha Stewart in a
case that eventually led to her conviction in 2004. Found guilty of insider
trading, Stewart served only a few months. Even though it was big news at the
time, her stint in the slammer doesn't seem to have hurt her business empire or
brand name all that much, especially now that she's joined forces with Snoop
Dogg. Sources: Biography, CNN
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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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