July 25


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Flagstaff Almanac
Week: 30 Day:  207
Today: High  72 °Low 57° Averages: High   81°Low 52°
Records: High   91° (1937)Low 39° (1995)
Wind:  3mphGusts: 12mph
Rain  Today’s humidity:  94%

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights
 2007 - Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president
1997 - QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs
1984 - Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
1972 - US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment1966 - Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River at 73 yrs old
1946 - 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
1944 - US troop march into Guam
1917 - Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%)
1907 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan
1897 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories
1850 - Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
1814 - Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British
1729 - North Carolina becomes a royal colony
1585 - Amsterdam bans 45 Roman Catholics 
Happy Birthday To:  
                   
Free Rambling Thoughts   
A very wet day…morning rain, afternoon rain…so nice. This moisture is really helping our dry forest and land. We did have a little lightning and thunder, but mostly just a nice gentle rain to soak in. There were parts of Flag that had some street flooding this afternoon. Other areas lost power. I guess I’m just lucky to live at the base of the mountain.

I decided it was time for Wi-Fi at my house. Mostly because my phone is always doing updates and some of the bigger ones require a Wi-Fi connection and the open ones around my house aren’t strong enough. So for about $70 bucks and less than 15 minutes on the computer I now have a secure Wi-Fi connection. A couple of years ago, setting up secured Wi-Fi was a daunting task…now it is little more than plugging in a router, putting the installation CD in the computer, connecting a cord and following simple instructions.  Should have done this before. Now wherever my phone is in the house, it can download updates. Even better, the connection of the phone to the internet machine is faster than before. I find myself searching information while watching a TV show downstairs…sometimes about the show, sometimes just to learn something. Very nice.

I am slowly getting my trip photos organized. I put two amazing shots on my FB page. I still have to deal with the videos before I start making anything for publication. My still shots of the balloon ride came out very well. Such a great experience…floating over the Serengeti just after sunrise. I’ve gotten some photos for the contest, but guess everyone is like me, not ready to pick their very best photos. There is still lots of time.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)
What is the answer?
Complete these words by inserting the same three letters in each one.
ANA___Y : CO___NE : PRO___UE : S__AN
5X5 Word Boxes
The answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc. Can you solve these Word Boxes? Each answer is 5 letters.
1.      media anthology
2.      apartment security
3.      dull
4.      treatment
5.      hand-to-hand fight
HINT: Upper Left to lower right letters are: A-E-N-G-E
Lifestyle  Substance     
Do you remember this?

My Latest Adventure—

One Hit Wonders of the 1960’s

Harper’s Index         
Number of new planets discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission since 2009: 61
Number of ‘planetary candidates’ awaiting verification: 2326
Found on You Tube 
This is a long video…over an hour…but worth seeing…again..it’s been viewed over 14 million times
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams        
Joke-of-the-day
A kindergarten pupil told his teacher he’d found a cat, but it was dead. “How do you know that the cat was dead?” she asked her pupil. “Because I pissed in its ear and it didn’t move,” answered the child innocently.
“You did WHAT?! ?” the teacher exclaimed in surprise.
“You know,” explained the boy, “I leaned over and went ‘Pssst!’ and it didn’t move.”
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
Fish have vertical tails. Mammals have horizontal tails.
Yeah, It Really Happened
DETROIT - A Michigan man said he is trying to raise $145,000 to build a zombie apocalypse theme park in Detroit. Marc Siwak, 40, said he is looking to buy or lease abandoned property to host Z World Detroit, a theme park that would be primarily comprised of a paintball-like game where players try to "kill" hoards of actors portraying the undead before they are bitten and join the zombie swarms, the Detroit Free Press reported Monday. Siwak said he hopes his plan will help revitalize the struggling city. "I think we have a great opportunity to do something unique. Can't we do something more creative than just walking away from chunks of the city?" he said. Siwak said his online fundraising efforts at www3.indiegogo.com/zworlddetroit will continue until Aug. 10. "Realistically, it needs to attract a local developer," he said. "We're just some people with an idea." However, mayoral spokeswoman Naomi Patton responded negatively to an e-mailed question about whether the city's Planning and Development Department would consider such a project to be a suitable means of land use. "No. And the city has no additional comment on this proposal," Patton said.                 
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • The dandelion is actually a perennial herb from the sunflower family and can be traced back about 30 million years to Eurasia where it first began. Its official name is 'Taraxacum officinale', the latter meaning 'medicinal'.
  • Dandelions have long been valued as a herbal remedy for various diseases and for being high in vitamins and minerals.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
18-25
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week:

Today Is                                                                      
Carousel Day or Merry-Go-Round Day
Thread The Needle Day  

Puerto Rico: Constitution Day (1898)
Tunisia: Republic Day (1956)

Today’s Events Through History  
2000’s
2000 - Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground
1900’s
1992 - 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain
1983 - 1st non-human primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
1978 - Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
1969 - Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
1966 - Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1965 - Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
1963 - US, Russia & England sign nuclear Test ban treaty
1961 - In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO
1947 - US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense
1944 - -26] Japanse banzai-attack on Guam
1944 - World War II: Operation Spring - one of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed
1800’s
1871 - Carousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
1860 - 1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yales)
1837 - The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone
1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London
1834 - Crows, led by Rotten Belly begin a siege of Fort McKensie, on the Missouri River, which ends in about one week.
1814 - George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive
1700’s
1797 - Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain)
1758 - Seven Years' War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken
1757 - A war party of five dozen Shawnees stages an attack of farms along the James River in Virginia. At one farm they kill a settler and his child. They take his wife, Hannah Dennis prisoner. She is taken to the Shawnee village of Chillicothe. After ingratiating herself to the Shawnees, she is given run of the village. She eventually escapes. Her tale becomes widespread throughout the American colonies.

1500’s
1567 - Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela

1200’s
1261 - The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire

Before 1000CE
306 - Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops


Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 30’s
Louise Brown, Oldham, England, first test tube baby is 34
In their 40’s
Jon Barry, NBA guard (LA Lakers, Golden State Warriors) is 43
Matt LeBlanc, actor (Joey Tribbiani-Friends) will be 45
In their 50’s
Roger Clinton, singer, President Clinton's half-brother is 56
Iman[Abdulmajid], Mogadishu Somalia, model/actress (Star Trek 6) will be 57

Remembered for being born today
Frederick Frost Blackman, English botanist - 1866
Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor - 1658
Francis Garnier, French explorer of SE Asia - 1839
Estelle Getty, NYC, actress (Sophia Petrillo-Golden Girls)  - 1924
Anna Symmes Harrison, Ohio, 9th 1st lady - 1775
Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator - 1870 
Walter Payton, Columbia Mississippi, NFL running back (Chicago Bears) - 1954

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army) dies in 1795 at 66 or 76
Walter Brennan, actor (Real McCoys), dies in 1974 at 80
Montgomery Clift, movie actor (From Here to Eternity), dies of heart disease in 1966 at 45
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, dies after long history of opium use in 1934 at 61
François Coty, French perfume manufacturer dies of pneumoniain 1934 at 60
William Forsyth, English gardening expert (Forsythia), dies in 1804 at 67
Ben Hogan, golfer (Masters, Brit Open, US Open-1953), dies in 1997 at 84
Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (waterproof fabric…) dies in 1843 at 77
Vincente Minnelli, director (Gigi, Goodbye Charlie), dies in LA in 1986 at 83
Harry Patch, the last surviving soldier to have served in the Trenches in World War I, dies in 2009-aged 111
Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his "Last Lecture" dies of pancreatic cancer in 2008 at 47
Charlie Rich, country singer (Lonely Weekends), dies of pulmonary embolism at 62

Answers                                                                                                                                            
What is the answer?
L-O-G: ANALOGY, COLOGNE, PROLOGUE, SLOGAN

5X5 boxes
ALBUM
LEASE
BANAL
USAGE
MELEE
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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