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Week 26 Day 175 Flag Today 88°/56° Wind 5 mph Gusts 12 mph Gentle Breeze Active Fire: 96 miles away Risk of fire: High Nearest Lightning: 15 miles away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Partly Cloudy Red Flag Warning Jun Averages: Temps: 80°\43° Moisture: 1 Day |
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1-30 National
Lemonade Days Link National
Week of Making Link |
23-29 Lightning
Safety Awareness Week Link |
Daily Observations
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America's
Kids Day |
Pecan
Sandy Day Typing Day |
Today’s Quote Today’s Meme
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"Summer has always been my favorite season.
I feel happier." — Zooey
Deschanel |
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Today’s Thoughts
Quite a few rain
clouds, hoping for the monsoon.
Louisiana now
requires an 11”X14” poster of the 10 commandments in every classroom
K-University in the state. I hope the classrooms also post the moral code of
each child’s religion in the classroom. They should be posted in every DC elected
or appointed office and that Congress pass a law saying that anyone breaking
any one of the commandments must resign immediately. That would include elected
and appointed people. It should include the Supreme Court too.
The heat wave is continuing,
and many are in danger of heat related illness. The Hajj pilgrimage is seeing record
numbers of followers becoming ill or dying. It sounds like Muslims should check
history to see if the original happened in these high temperatures.
1963 was 61 years ago…
USSR - The First Woman in Space
The
Soviet Union launches the Vostok 6 spacecraft, carrying Valentina Tereshkova,
the first woman in space.
The
Soviet Union launches the Vostok 6 spacecraft during June . The mission carried
cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova as she became the first woman in space.
During the mission medical experiments were conducted to test the effects of
space travel on a female body and live video of Tereshkova was broadcast on
television in the Soviet Union. The flight also involved the Vostok 5
spacecraft which was also in space at the time. The two crafts flew together
and communicated with each other by using two-way radio throughout the mission.
The Vostok 6 was in space for 3 days, after which it came to an end and
Valentina Tereshkova safely returned to Earth
Origin of common phrases
Hobo
Meaning a vagrant or a wanderer, the word
"hobo" is traced to common usage at the end of the 19th century in
the U.S. West. One origin may be the word hawbuck, meaning country bumpkin, and
another is workers' call to one another of "ho boy" when building the
railroads.
Historic Events
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1926 – The College
Board administered the first SAT exam.
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1960 – “The Pill”
was approved in the US.
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2016 – The United
Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.
Birthdays with some quotes
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88 –
Richard Bach, American novelist, essayist 76 –
Clarence Thomas, American lawyer and judge, United States Supreme Court
Justice “Government
cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal
before the law.” 67 –
Frances McDormand, American actress 52 –
Selma Blair, American actress “I
think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?” 50 –
Joel Edgerton, Australian actor 44 –
Melissa Rauch, American actress “I
love an arcade. I love a boardwalk game. But I also love a rollercoaster.
Though I think the rollercoaster love comes from the fact that it took a
really long time for me to reach the height requirement, so I promised myself
very early on that when I reach that, I will not take it for granted.” 40 –
Duffy (Aimée Anne Duffy), Welsh singer-songwriter “I
do write songs about love but I don’t really know love that well.” |
@101
– Frances Gabe, American artist, inventor (d. 2016) @73
– June Carter-Cash, American singer (d. 2003; leaky heart valve) @60
– Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, director (d. 1987; heart
attack) “Human
beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement.
Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the
beat of his own heart.” @54 –
Wilma Rudolph, Runner (d. 1954; cancers) @41
– Alan Turing, English mathematician, computer scientist (d. 1954; suicide) “Sometimes
it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one
can imagine.” @21
– Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish painter, musician (d. 1962;
stroke) |
…The End for today…
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