Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jun 20, 2014)

Beheading Exercises



Your task is to find words that, after taking their first letters away, have related meanings.



Example: Behead an animal and leave an animal (FOX, OX).



1. Behead a musical instrument and leave a musical instrument.



2. Behead a margin and leave a margin.



3. Behead to liquefy and leave to liquefy.



4. Behead to ascend and leave to ascend.



5. Behead a proper name and leave a proper name.





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Brain Teaser 6/19/2014

I can be any color you can imagine.

You see me in everyday life.

I have been around for many, many years, look around...

You can probably see some of me right now.

What am I?

Solution

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The Art Of Optical Illusions

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Today in History for 19th June 2014

Historical Events

1821 - Battle at Dragetsani: Turkish army beats Greece

1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27

1971 - Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance

1972 - 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer

1984 - "Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair

2011 - 111th US Golf Open: Rory McIlroy shoots a 268 at Congressional GC MD

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Famous Birthdays

1898 - Paul Muller-Zurich, composer

1906 - Walter Rauff, German colonel (d. 1984)

1910 - Frederick Harry Baines, painter

1930 - Gena Rowlands, Madison Wisconsin, American actress

1974 - Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player

1979 - John Duddy, Northern Irish boxer

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Famous Deaths

1608 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)

1932 - Solomon Tshkisho Platje, South African writer, dies

1977 - Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)

1995 - Peter Townsend, RAF officer (b. 1914)

1995 - Murray Dickie, opera singer/director, dies at 71

1996 - Henry Ralph Carr, soldier, dies at 82

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King Otto of Bavaria – who ‘ruled’ from 1886 to 1913, and was quite mad…

King Otto of Bavaria – who ‘ruled’ from 1886 to 1913, and was quite mad – exercised his right to shoot one peasant every day. Luckily for Bavaria’s peasants, his attendants gave him pistols loaded with blanks and dressed up as peasants, playing dead whenever he ‘shot’ them.

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Polish painter, Rafał Bujnowski, painted a photo-realistic self-portrait…

Polish painter, Rafał Bujnowski, painted a photo-realistic self-portrait in black and white, had it photographed and enclosed the picture as his official photo in the U.S.A. visa application form. Eventually, the artist received a passport with a replica of his own painting.

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In ancient Phoenician Sardinia, whenever elderly people were…

In ancient Phoenician Sardinia, whenever elderly people were no longer able to support themselves, they were given a neurotoxic plant called “sardonic herb” and thrown off of a cliff. It is the source of the term “sardonic grin” because of the facial expression the plant caused following death.

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The song “Mambo No. 5″ was initially chosen for 2000′s Democratic…

The song “Mambo No. 5″ was initially chosen for 2000′s Democratic National Convention, but this idea was scrapped due to the line “A little bit of Monica in my life.”

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