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Monthly Observations
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Child Support Awareness Month Link |
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Month Link Link |
Weekly Observations
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26-8/11 Games of
the XXXIII Olympiad 2024 World Lumberjack Championships Link 1-4 Lollapalooza 1-7 Happiness Happens Week Link |
2-4 Tall Timber Days 2-11 Sturgis Rally Link |
Daily Observations
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Braham Pie Day or Homemade
Pie Day |
National Water Balloon Day |
Today’s Quote
v If you
judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother
Teresa
Today’s Meme
Today’s Thoughts
1974 was 50 years ago…
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 11.3%
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 17.2%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial
Average 616
Average Cost of new house $34,900.00
Average Income per year $13,900.00
Average Monthly Rent $185.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 0.42
Buick Station Wagon$4,371
A Dozen Eggs 45 cents
A few More Examples
Ford Galaxie 500 $3,883
Tomatoes 19 cents per pound
Boneless Hams $2.29 per pound
Portable TV $264.88
Dozen Medium Eggs 28 cents
Cassette Recorder $49.95
Combo Toaster and Mini-Oven $24.99
Men's shirt From $12.99
Country ranch 10 acres 3 bedroom large barn fruit, oak
trees --- Vallejo --- California $59,200
Random Thoughts…
The first airline stewardesses were
all registered nurses, but this requirement disappeared when many nurses left
to enlist during WWII.
Walking around the earth (if it were all land) at average walking speed would
take 3.4 years.
In 1976, the first eight Jelly Belly® flavors were sold: Orange, Green Apple,
Root Beer, Very Cherry, Lemon, Cream Soda, Grape, and Licorice.
American History…
What did Paul Revere
shout on his midnight ride in 1775
Incorrect: "The British are coming!" Correct: "The regulars
are coming!" (If anything!)
Turns out, Paul Revere probably didn't yell anything on his famous
midnight ride, since it was a covert mission. Plus, back then, no one used the
term "British." Had Revere been yelling the phrase he's best known
for, he not only would have attracted a lot of unwanted attention, but no one would
have had any idea of what he was trying to say—or who he was yelling about.
It's more likely that Revere said something along the lines of, "The
regulars are coming," and that he said it just once: When he arrived at
the house where Samuel Adams and John Hancock—fugitives
at the time—were holed up.
Historic Events
- 1776 – The official signing of
The Declaration of Independence took place in Philadelphia.
- 1943 – A Japanese destroyer
sank the US torpedo boat PT 109, Future president John F. Kennedy and
10 other crewmen survived.
- 1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait,
instigating the Gulf War.
Birthdays
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Sam
Worthington, 47 Movie Actor Lily
Gladstone, 37 Movie Actress |
@76 – Carroll O’Connor, American actor (died
in 2001; heart attack)
@76 - Wes
Craven (1939-2015; brain tumor) Director |
…The End for today…
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