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Actress Cheryl Ladd is 59 today.

>>> SOUTH SOUND SPECIFIC

Tacoma's first permanent settler was Job Carr, who built the first house - a log cabin - near the beach between where Carr and McCarver streets are now in Old Tacoma in 1865. The Pioneer Day Festival & Living-History Walking Tour will be held Sunday, July 18, 1-5 p.m. at the Job Carr Museum in Old Town. It's presented by the Tacoma Historical Society.

>>> TODAY'S WORD

celadon \'se-le-'dan\ noun [F celadon] (ca. 1768)

1) A pale grayish yellow green

2) A ceramic glaze originated in China that is greenish in color; also: an article with a celadon glaze

Usage example: "Indeed, Afghanistan's Taliban terrorists have skin that's sallow celadon in color, until they get all excited training monkeys to shoot AK-47s and their skin turns a gleeful brownish-pink."

>>> NEWS TO US

The story of humans turning into goats turned out to be not true. Drats.

The Barefoot Bandit is captured.

It's Richard Simmons' birthday. If he's told you once ...

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