Friday, 4 July 2014
Today in History for 4th July 2014
Historical Events
1863 - Skirmish at Smithburg, TN
1941 - Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead
1953 - 60th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (8-6 7-5)
1976 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Bloomington Golf Classic Bicentennial
1977 - Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
1989 - Red's Tom Browning is 3 outs away from his 2nd career perfect game when Phillie Dickie Thon doubles
Famous Birthdays
1841 - Marie von Wied, Princess of Orange Nassau
1911 - Mitch Miller, Rochester NY, sing along with Mitch (Yellow Rose of Tx)
1927 - Gina Lollobrigida, Subiaco Italy, actress (Trapeze, Falcon Crest)
1968 - Derek Loville, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1971 - Brendan Donnelly, American baseball player
1972 - Steve Giles, St Stephens New Brunswick, canoeist (Olympics-6-92, 96)
Famous Deaths
1541 - Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish occupier, dies at about 56
1623 - William Byrd, English composer (Ave verum corpus), dies at 80
1848 - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies
1901 - John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher, dies
1938 - Otto Bauer, Austrian social democrat, dies at 56
1982 - Terry Higgins, early British AIDS death (b. 1945)
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Thursday, 3 July 2014
Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jul 04, 2014)
In this teaser, your job is to try and discover the car model within each sentence.
The model is hiding in the consecutive letters within a sentence.
Example: This recipe calls for only one onion.
Answer: Neon (oNE ONion)
1. The zookeeper gave the chimp a large banana.
2. The police had the home of the pyromaniac cordoned off.
3. There are galactic areas where our starship has not travelled.
4. Do math majors find people with a nice compass attractive?
5. I once saw a gambler from Mexico roll a seven five times in a row.
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From 1964 to 1973 the United States dropped 2 million…
From 1964 to 1973 the United States dropped 2 million tons of bombs on Laos — enough for a full plane load every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 9 years.
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Some penguins get “depressed” and walk away…
Some penguins get “depressed” and walk away from the sea alone, to their deaths. No one knows why.
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Cockroaches can make group decisions…
Cockroaches can make group decisions. When 50 cockroaches are presented with 3 shelters that can only house 40, they’ll split evenly into two groups and leave one shelter empty.
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