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June 30, 2017 Week: 26 \ Day: 181

86004 Today: H 85° \ L 46°

Average Sky Cover: 15% 

Wind ave:   7mph\Gusts:  16mph

Visibility: 10 mi

June Averages: 79°\41°

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

Record High: 92°[1990]   Record Low: 31°[1913]

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Quote of the Day

Love is energy of life.

Robert Browning

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Observances Today

Drive Your Corvette to Work Day Link 

Leap Second Time Adjustment Day

Meteor Day

National Meteor Watch Day  Link

NOW (National Organization For Women) Day

Social Media Day Link

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Observances This Week

27-7/1  Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week Link  

National Mosquito Control Awareness Week Link  

27-7/4  National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness

29-7/2  Rosewell UFO Days Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

<§>1500’s<§>

★1520 Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortéstake gold from Aztecs

<§>1800’s<§>

1834 Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)

★1859 French acrobat Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope

★1860 Famous debate on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution held at the Oxford University Museum and dominated by arguments between Thomas Henry Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce

★1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered

★1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid

★1898 Winton Motor Carriage Company publishes the first known automobile ad in Scientific American using the headline “dispense with a horse.”

<§>1900’s<§>

1906 US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' in particular)

★1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa

1927 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes

★1933 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war

★1934 "Night of Long Knives" - Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party

★1936 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie asks the League of Nations for sanctions against Italy

1936 Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" published

1938 Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1

1940 "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears

1940 US Fish & Wildlife Service forms

1953 1st Chevrolet Corvette manufactured

★1958 Dutch government of Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers

1960 US stops sugar import from Cuba

★1960 Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium

★1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church

★1966 Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa

1967 Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut

★1971 Crew of Russian space mission Soyuz 11 found dead upon arrival on earth (only people to die in space)

1971 Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th amendment

★1981 China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Zedong's policy

★1990 East & West Germany merge their economies

★1991 South Africa's Government repeals the 1913 Native Land Act, an important part of the system of Apartheid (Racially Based Land Measures Act)

★1995 Exxon signs a $15.2-billion deal to develop oil and gas fields near Russia's Sakhalin Island

<§>00’s<§>

★2007 A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist attack.░░<§>00’s<§>░░░

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My Rambling Thoughts

Nice warm day but sadly very dry again. Fire danger is still very high. Not as much smoke from the fire near Prescott, but still some is around. It is 20,000 acre fire and has caused big evacuations from some small towns/villages in the area. Forest Service is saying some of the fire is in an area that hasn’t been cleaned up for over 40 years. This is why we need more $$ for the Forest Service, but seems Congress just wants to cut their funds. Sad.

I normally grocery shop on Wednesday, but somehow I left all my reusable bags at home, so I went shopping this morning. While I was out and about, I let my washing machine clean my towels.

I don’t use my portable cooler until the temp hits 90°…thankfully I haven’t had to use it for two days. But it is ready, just in case we bake again.

So the partial travel ban starts tonight. While the whole idea seems so anti-American, now that we get a list of close relatives it is even crazier. Grandparents are not considered close enough. Neither are cousins.

--I lived and worked on the Navajo Rez for decades. In that culture, a mom’s sisters are called mom. All of grandma’s sisters are called grandma. Cousins are called brothers and sisters. And that doesn’t include ‘clan’ relatives where a young child can be your grandma or grandpa. The belief is that we are all related and in the Navajo culture, one is never an orphan. Nice deal.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL:

For the leader of the free world to tweet about a newscaster’s looks.

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Today’s Trivia Hive

(answers at the end of post)

Where was U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders born?

Brooklyn, New York San Diego, California

Tallahassee, Florida Nashville, Tennessee

80.6% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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Harper’s Index

40→Percentage of college admissions officers who look at applicants’ social media accounts

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Yep, It Really Happened

*------------- 'Balls, Las Vegas' -------------*

Visitors to the Las Vegas strip took note of an unintentionally hilarious sign resulting from Bally's temporarily losing its letter Y. Weekend visitors outside Bally's snapped photos of the sign, which was missing the 10-foot-tall letter Y, causing the sign to read "Balls, Las Vegas." Bally's owner Caesars Entertainment said the 300-pound Y was removed Friday when officials became concerned that it was leaning and could fall over in the wind. The company said it expects the Y to be back in place by Wednesday.

           

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Somewhat Useless Information

A 'clue' originally meant a ball of thread. This is why one is said to 'unravel' the clues of a mystery.

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The act of snapping one's fingers has a name. It is called a 'fillip.'

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Measurements have nothing to do with a Ten-Gallon hat. The name comes from sombrero galon, which means 'braided hat' in Spanish.

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Birthdays Today

@  indicates age at death

<§>90’s<§>

@92- Lena Horne,

American actress, singer (Stormy Weather, Wiz), born in Brooklyn,

(d. 2010)

<§>80’s<§>

@87- Ed Yost,

American inventor (modern hot air balloon)

(d. 2007)

@81- David Wayne,

actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda Strain, 3 Faces of Eve)

(d. 1995)

<§>70’s<§>

79- Billy Mills,

Pine Ridge SD, 10k (Olympics-gold-64)

<§>60’s<§>

@62- Harry Blackstone Jr,

magician (Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion)

(d. 1997)

61- David Alan Grier,

comedian, actor

<§>50’s<§>

58- Vincent D'Onofrio,

American actor

51- "Iron" Mike Tyson,

American boxer and youngest ever heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90), born in Brooklyn

<§>30’s<§>

@32- Florence Ballard,

rocker (Supremes), born in Detroit, (d. 1976)

32- Michael Phelps,

American swimmer (world record 28 Olympic medals), born in Baltimore, Maryland

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Historical Obits Today

<§>80’s<§>

@89-1995 Gale Gordon,

comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)

@88-1785 James Oglethorpe,

English general and founder of the state of Georgia

<§>70’s<§>

@78-2003 Buddy Hackett,

American comic, stroke

@77-2001 Chet Atkins,

American country guitar player & producer, cancer

@76-1919 John William Strutt,

3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and discoverer of argon

(Nobel Prize 1904)

<§>40’s<§>

@41-1996 Margaux Hemingway,

model/actress (Lipstick), suicide

@40-1882 Charles J. Guiteau, 

American assassin of US President James A. Garfield, hanged

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Trivia Hive  Answers

Brooklyn, New York

Can you feel the Bern? Senator Bernie Sanders was born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York. He attended James Madison High School and then went on to attend college at Brooklyn College, followed by the University of Chicago. After graduation, Sanders relocated to Vermont in 1964. Fewer than 20 years later, he was elected mayor of Burlington in 1981. As a politician, Sanders has dedicated himself to finding ways to decrease income and wealth gaps across the U.S. with a focus on the middle class. Source: Senate.gov

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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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