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Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness Watermelon
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28-7/4 National
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Today’s Quote Today’s Meme
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"Everything good, everything magical
happens between the months of June and August." — Jenny Han |
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Today’s Thoughts
As June ends I hope the monsoon continues.
Our discussion group meets this afternoon for a discussion on Green
Energy Now and in the Future. It should be a good discussion about all of
our alternatives and their pros and cons.
Biden certainly has looks better since his horrible debate. To be honest
I remain concerned about his health as we move forward. For me, I will decide on
election day who gets my vote. Not only
will I be watching Joe, but also Kamala.
When I was working at Red Lake I had a tough decision. Mrs. K was an excellent
teacher to her 5th grade class. She was an older teacher and was on a new thing
at the time…in-home dialysis. She hooked up to a machine every night. She had
been at our school about 3 years when the machine was not doing its job. She was
hospitalized several times. We were 30 miles from the nearest emergency room.
After one bout, her son brought her back to Red Lake. He was very concerned
about her being so far from a hospital. He had talked to her about disability
retirement but she was worried about the children not having a teacher. He
asked me to talk to her before she came back to the classroom. After a long
talk about her experience as a teacher it moved to her health. I told her the
children where young and they would be fine, but now was the time to look at
her health, since we were so far from facilities if an emergency occurred. I
told her that her health should be her first concern. Her son joined the conversation,
and I stepped out of my office. After about another 30 minutes her son asked me
to come back in. She had decided to retire and asked me to help her with the
paperwork. I agreed. Then next morning she and her son came to the school, she
wanted to say good-by to her class. It all worked out just fine.
1965 was 59 years ago…
1965 Major News Events in History
- Race Riots Break Out In Watts, California leaving large parts of the
city burnt and looted and 34 dead.
- Northeast blackout including Parts of Canada and U.S. North East
- St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot-tall parabolic steel Gateway Arch
is completed ( The St Louis Arch ).
- The Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing African Americans the right to
vote becomes law
- The Gemini Space Program continues into 1965 and lay the groundwork
for an eventual manned mission to the moon.
- The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak on April 13th: An estimated
fifty-one tornadoes (forty-seven confirmed) hit in six Midwestern states
- The popular daytime soap opera "Days of Our Lives" debuted
on NBC
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads civil rights march in Alabama from
Selma to Montgomery.
- Malcolm X shot in New York
- Lyndon B. Johnson
announces his program to create Medicare and to expand his war on poverty
Origin of common phrases
Bootleg
A "bootleg" is an illegal recording
of music, movies, concerts, and other productions. The word stems from
bootleggers, the makers of illicit alcohol during the U.S Prohibition era.
Bootleg, in turn, had its origins in the practice of sneaking a flask of
alcohol into the top of a tall boot.
Historic Events
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1864 – President
Abraham Lincoln granted Yosemite Valley to California for “public use, resort
and recreation”.
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1908 – The Tunguska
Event happened near Lake Baikal, Russia.
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1934 – The Night of
the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler’s violent purge of his political rivals in
Germany, took place.
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1936 – Margaret
Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind was published.
Birthdays with some quotes
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A D Q 68 –
David Alan Grier, American comedic actor 64 –
Vincent D’Onofrio, American character actor “It’s
like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a
distance. They’re scared, but they’re not going to get hurt.”60 –
Mark Waters, American comedy director, producer “A
lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by
saying, ‘well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know’.” 58 –
Mike Tyson, American boxer “Discipline
is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.” 42 –
Lizzy Caplan, American actress 39
-Michael Phelps, Olympic swimmer 37 –
Alicia Fox, American wrestler and model |
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– Lena Horne, American singer (d. 2010) “It’s
not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” @62
– Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician and author (d. 1997; cancer) “Practice
until it becomes boring, then practice until it becomes beautiful.” |
…The End for today…
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