August 11


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Flagstaff Almanac
Week: 32 / Day:  224
Today: High   88°Low 53°
Records: High   89°(202)Low 40°(2009)
 Averages: High   79°Low 51°
Wind:   11mph;  Gusts: 25mph
High clouds, No Rain  Today’s humidity:  20%

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights
2003 - NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, 
            marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history
1999 - Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s)
1988 - Al-Qaeda formed
1984 - During a radio voice test Pres Reagan joked he "signed legislation that 
            would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
1978 - Funeral of Pope Paul VI
1976 - Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die
1965 - 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
1951 - 100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi R in Ks, Oklahoma, Mo & Ill
1948 - Summer Olympics opens in London
1934 - 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay
1924 - 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken
1914 - John Wray patents animation
1860 - Nation's 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev)
1802 - Tecumseh has predicted an earthquake. It happen and becomes known 
            as the "New Madrid Earthquake."

♪Happy Birthday To: ♪  How many can you identify…answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
A nice Friday, but a tad warmer than I like…so glad I live next to the mountain, so we have a breeze most of the time. Not a day to spend much time outside…although I did enjoy a little time on my deck.

I have added some new games to the blog. We all need change and a new way to look at things. I hope you enjoy them. The Scrambled Proverbs will get more difficult than today’s. I started with a really easy one.

The Olympics had some great wrestling, great swimming, and was enjoyable. I can’t believe they are almost over. Time to get ready for Rio in 4 years, and of course Sochi, Russia in two years for the Winter Olympics.

Sadly it looks like Politics and all the lies and semi-untruths will be prevailing themselves on the airways, once the Olympics is over. It I so disturbing to hear all the spin…when the facts are right there in front of us all. Not looking forward to the crap until election day.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)
NEW!  What is the answer?
Answer the following clue in two rhyming words (e.g. an obese feline is a fat cat) If only one number is given, the answer is a word featuring internal rhyme (e.g. voodoo)
Style of car preferred by large families (4-4)
NEW!  Scrambled Proverbs
Can you unscramble the words to make an English proverb? 
A HTICTS IN MITE VASES NEIN
Lifestyle  Substance     
Do you remember this?

Read Carefully!!
Notice in health food shop window:
CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS
Do you know what this word means?
What is this not so common name of a common object?
Phosphenes
London 2012—

Calypso music: Harry Belafonte
Note: Harry Belafonte is 85 years old.

Harper’s Index         
  • Portion of Afghans who believe their national police will be ready to handle security when NATO forces leave: ¾
  • Who believe the national police are ‘somewhat’ or ‘very’ corrupt: ½
Found on You Tube 
Kool-Aid Commercials      
Joke-of-the-day
Once upon a time Dracula decided to carry some sort of a competition to see which is the finest bat to stand on his side. So all the bats were honored to take part. The rules were simple. Whichever bat drinks more blood, will be the winner?
So the first bat goes and comes back after 10 minutes. Her mouth was full of blood. Dracula says: "Congratulations, how did you do that?"
The bat said: "Do you see that tower? Behind it there is a house. I went in and sucked the blood of all the family".
"Very good" said Dracula.
The second bat goes and comes back after 5 minutes all her face covered in blood. Dracula astonished says, "How did you do that?"
The bat replies " Do you see that tower? Behind it there is a school. I went in and drunk the blood of all the children".
"Impressive" said Dracula. Now the third bat goes and comes back after three minutes literally covered in blood from top to toe.
Dracula is stunned. "How on earth did you do that????" he asked.
And the bat replies. "Do you see this tower?" Dracula replies with a yes. And the bat says "Well, I didn't".
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
SPOTTING A SERIOUS ILLNESS
A person who suddenly falls forward without getting their hand up to protect their face is seriously ill or hurt.
Yeah, It Really Happened
 BERLIN - A German animal rights group said it is concerned about the dignity of animals being used as soccer-predicting psychics by media outlets. The Tierschutzbund animal rights group said the Euro 2012 tournament has led TV and radio stations to overuse the psychic animal gimmick, which was inspired by Paul the octopus, a cephalopod that made headlines with a string of successful World Cup predictions in 2010, the BBC reported Wednesday.
"These days, everybody who has an animal seems to put it in front of a camera," said Marius Tunte of Tierschutzbund. "Every station has its own animal." The group said it was particularly upset about an Internet radio station using a python named Aldo to make predictions by choosing between two rats representing different teams. "Unnecessary suffering is being inflicted purely for the sake of enjoyment," the group said.                
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth.
  • When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.
  • The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
  • The leap of an average flea is equivalent to a 100 pound man leaping 1,000’ and enduring a g-force of 20,000 pounds with acceleration greater than that of a space shuttle.
  • When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source.
  • The buzz that you hear when a bee approaches is the sound of its four wings moving at 11,400 strokes per minute. Bees fly an average of 15 miles per hour.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
5-11
Assistance Dog Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Farmers' Market Week
National Resurrect Romance Week
6-12
Exercise with Your Child Week
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
National Fraud Awareness Week
National Hobo Week
Psychic Week
Single Working Women's Week

Sturgis Rally
World Breastfeeding Week
10-18
Elvis Week
11-15
National Scrabble Week

Today Is                                                                      
Kool-Aid Day to celebrate the All American drink
Ingersoll Day to celebrate the life and works of one of the most 
                                 popular freethinkers in US history
National Garage Sale Day
Presidential Joke Day
Chad: Independence Day (1960 from France)Note: Chad means ‘lake’

Today’s Events Through History  
2000’s
2003 - A heat wave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112°F (44° C), 
            leaving about 144 people dead
1900’s
1997 - Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday
1993 - Pope John Paul II visits Mexico
1991 - 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed
1984 - Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform
1984 - Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olympic track golds
1978 - Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta
1975 - US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN
1968 - Beatles launch "Apple Records" label
1962 - Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"
1956 - Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"
1954 - Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between
            French & Communist Vietminh
1951 - 1st color baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC)
1944 - Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz
1936 - Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton
1929 - Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers 
1909 - SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC
1800’s
1885 - $100,000 raised in US for pedestal for Statue of Liberty
1866 - World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport RI)
1863 - Cambodia becomes French protectorate
1700’s
1772 - Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000
1600’s
1695 - English & Dutch fleet capture Dunkirk

Before 1000CE
3114 BC - The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian 
                   Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Under 30
Chris Hemsworth, Australian Actor (Thor) is 29

In their 40’s
Miguel A. Núñez Jr., American actor is 48
Joe Rogan, martial artist, stand-up comedian, actor, writer and color commentator is 45
In their 50’s
Hulk Hogan [Terry Bollea], Augusta Ga, WWF heavyweight champion is 59
In their 60’s
David Horovitch, English Actor (Inspector Slack-Miss Marple) is 67
Marilyn Vos Savant, St Louis Mo, writer/world's highest IQ (228) is 66
Steve Wozniak, co-founder (Apple Computers) is 62

In their 80’s
Arlene Dahl, Minneapolis Minnesota, actress/TV panelist is 87
Claus Von Bulow, accused of murdering his wife is 86

Remembered for being born today
Enid Blyton, children's writer and fifth most popular author in the world 
              (Famous Five, Secret Seven, The Adventure) b. 1897
Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi & Lois, Hagar the Horrible) b. 1917
Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis b. 1667
Mike Douglas, Chicago Ill, talk show host (Mike Douglas Show) b. 1925
Jerry Falwell, US, TV evangelist (Moral Majority) b. 1933
Alex Haley, Ithaca New York, writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots) b. 1921
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of turnverein (gymnastics) movement b. 1778
Lloyd Nolan, SF California, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place) b. 1902
Charles William Paddock, Texas, American athlete and 100m record breaker 
            (Olympic-2 gold-1920) b. 1900
Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Andrew Carnegie, US steel industrialist/philanthropist, dies in 1919 at 83
Peter Cushing, actor (Star Wars, Dr Who), dies of cancer in 1994 at 81
Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host dies in 2006 on 81st birthday
Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople, saint in Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic 
         churches dies in 449
Hans Memling, [John Memlinc], Flemish painter (Passietaferelen), dies in 1494 at 64
Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident in 1956 at 44
Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare dies of unknown cause 
        in 1596 at 11
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics, sister of JFK, dies in 2009
        at 88
Thaddeus Stevens, architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies in 1868 at 76
Edith Wharton [-Jones], US Pulitzer prize-winning author (House of Mirth), dies 
        in 1937  at 75

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Do you know what this word means?
The lights you see when you close your eyes and press your hands to them.
What is the answer?
Four door
Scrambled Proverbs
A stitch in time saves nine
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.
    And That Is All for Now 

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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.