August 14


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Flagstaff Almanac
Week: 33 / Day:    Today: High  84 °Low 52°
Records: High   90°(2002)Low 39°(1999)
Averages: High   79°…Low 51°
Wind:  7 mph;  Gusts: 20mph
Afternoon Rain  Today’s humidity:  29%

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights
2010 - Summer Youth Olympic Games, first ever Youth Olympics, officially starts 
            in Singapore
1997 - Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced 
            to death
1994 - Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
1979 - Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration
1976 - 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast
1973 - US ends secret bombing of Cambodia
1966 - 1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting Moon
1948 - 14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain
1942 - Dwight D Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa
1936 - 1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin)
1935 - Social Security Act becomes law
1932 - 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes
1925 - Mount Rushmore 1st proposed
1885 - Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint
1873 - "Field & Stream" begins publishing
1848 - Oregon Territory created
1281 - Kublai Khans invading fleet disappears in typhoon near Japan

   Happy Birthday To: ♪ 
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
I was very disappointed with my cable service. Last night, just as the Closing Ceremonies were about to start, everything went off…HD, basic, everything. I tried calling but got nothing but a busy signal. Finally went on line for a ‘live chat’. That was less than acceptable…I was on line about an hour before the chat started…I did keep getting the message ‘Our technicians will be with you in a moment.’ That message posted at least 30 times. Seems that almost all of AZ was out with no idea when it would be on, and the chat person had no information except that ‘I am sorry for the inconvenience.’ Oh well, I saw the highlights on the internet machine today…and the TV was back on when I turned it on about 10am.

We had our afternoon rain that dropped the temperature from 84 to 68 in about 10 minutes. Not a lot of rain, but what came soaked in.

I got a great email from Focus on our trip to Uganda in January. All is well. The Ebola outbreak that has been reported is now contained and was nowhere near where we were going. It sounds good and nice to know Hamdy is on top of everything. It sounded a little like someone traveling to America to see the Grand Canyon and hearing that there was some outbreak in Maine and deciding to cancel the trip. Well, maybe not that far away, but none of the parks are being closed. I’m ready for a great trip to see the gorillas.

It sure was a quiet day around my place today. School started today. I did see parents hauling their kids to school and bringing them home this afternoon, but alas, the kids are all still inside. Don’t know if it homework, being tired from that first day, or something else. I’m sure some will be out on their bikes, scooters, or just chasing each other before dark.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)
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)
set fire to the front enclosure (5,5)
Scrambled Proverbs
Can you unscramble the words to make an English proverb? Each puzzle has an easy version (above the black square), in which each word is scrambled individually and the spaces appear in their proper place, and a more challenging version, where the entire phrase is scrambled and spaces appear at random.
AEI MFE TDUOO TRHEFED R LTO (7 WORDS)
Lifestyle  Substance     
Do you remember this?

Read Carefully!!
Notice in a farmer's field:
THE FARMER ALLOWS WALKERS TO CROSS THE FIELD FOR FREE,
BUT THE BULL CHARGES.
Do you know what this word means?
What is this not so common name of a common object?
Feat
Olympic Logos —

Bebop music:

Harper’s Index         
Percentage of private-sector workers in Saudi Arabia who are Saudi: 10
Unusal Fact of the Day
In 1944, as a WWII war correspondent, Ernest Hemingway led Free French resistance fighters in the defense of the town of Rambouillet, an act for which he was almost tried under the Geneva Conventions.
Found on You Tube 
Starsky and Hutch - Original Intro
Joke-of-the-day
Five doctors went on a duck hunt: a GP, a pediatrician, a psychiatrist, a surgeon, and a pathologist.
After a while a bird came winging overhead, the GP raised his shogun but didn’t shoot because he wasn’t sure if it was a duck or not. The pediatrician also raised his gun, but then he wasn’t sure if it was a male or female duck, so he didn’t shoot. The psychiatrist raised his gun and then thought, I know that’s a duck, but does the duck know it’s a duck?”
The surgeon was the only one who shot. Boom!! He blew it away.
Then he turned to the pathologist and said, “Go see if that was a duck.”
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
PLANNING A WEDDING
You need 2 ushers for every 50 wedding guests.
Yeah, It Really Happened
NEW YORK - Almost two-thirds of Americans said President Obama can better deal with an alien invasion from space than presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney, a poll found.
The "Aliens Among Us" survey -- released Wednesday by the National Geographic Channel as part of its promotion for a new series on UFOs -- found more than 80 million Americans [36 percent] are sure UFOs exist and 11 percent are pretty sure they've seen one.
Sixty-five percent said if there is an invasion from outer space, Obama would be better suited than Romney to deal with it, with 68 percent of women vs. 61 percent of men agreeing with the proposition.
Seventy-one percent said they think it is more likely aliens exist than it is that there are superheroes, vampires and zombies. But if there are such things as real superheroes, 21 percent said they would want the Hulk to deal with an ET invasion, while 12 percent would put their fate in Batman's hands and just 8 percent would call Spider-Man.
Tech Supervisor Erin Ryder and UFOlogist James Fox -- who worked on the National Geographic Channel series "Chasing UFOs" -- said the survey results reflect what they have learned in their research for the show, NGC said in a release. The eight-part series is scheduled to premiere Friday. Kelton Research conducted the survey of a random nationwide sample of 1,114 people May 21-29, using e-mail invitations and online surveys. The margin of sampling error is 2.9 percentage points.              
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • The longest alphabet is Cambodian. It has 74 letters.
  • About 100 languages rely on the Roman alphabet (or a variation of it). Used by roughly two billion people, it's the world's most popular script.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
10-18
Elvis Week
11-15
National Scrabble Week
12-18
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week
Weird Contest Week

Today Is                                                                      
National Navajo Code Talkers Day (since 1982)
V-J Day (1945 Victory over Japan)
Pakistan: Independence Day (1947 from British Raj)  

Today’s Events Through History  
2000’s
2007 - The 2007 Qahtaniya, Iraq bombings kills at least 400 people
2003 – Wide-scale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada
1900’s
1995 - Shannon Faulkner becomes 1st woman to attend the Citadel
1990 - Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise
1980 - Democratic Convention in NYC nominates Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale
1974 - Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
1969 - British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland
1967 - Radio Scotland & Radio Swinging Holland go off the air
1962 - US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
1953 - KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1947 - India granted independence within British Commonwealth
1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston 
            Churchill issue the joint declaration that later becomes known as the Atlantic
            Charter
1920 - Olympic Games open in Antwerp
1912 - 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
1900 - 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion
1800’s
1893 - France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test introduces 
            motor vehicle registration
1882 - Queen Victoria receives Zulu chief Cetewayo
1862 - Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president
1861 - Martial Law is declared at St Louis, Missouri due to pro-secession sentiment
            which surged throughout Missouri after the Battle of Wilson's Creek
1846 - Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
1842 - Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
1820 - 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC
1806 - Lewis and Clark first reach a Minnetaree and Mandan village.

1500’s
1559 - Spanish explorer de Luna with thirteen ships, several priests, 500 soldiers, and
           1000 settlers lands in Pensacola Bay, FL Much of the expedition is killed or
           starves because of a hurricane which strikes the area a few days later.

1300’s
1385 - Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence
1200’s
1248 - Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun: 1880 - Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed  

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Under 30
Tim Tebow, American football player is 25

In their 40’s
Catherine Bell, TV actress (JAG, Army Wives) is 44
Halle Berry, actress, former fashion model is 46
In their 50’s
Jackee [Harry], Winston-Salem NC, actress (Sandra-227) is 56
Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Mich, NBA Forward (LA Lakers/Olympic-gold-92) is 53
In their 60’s
Antonio Fargas, actor (Huggy Bear-Starsky & Hutch) is 66
Susan Saint James, [Miller], LA CA, actress (McMillian & Wife) is 66
Gary Larson, Tacoma, Washington, cartoonist (Far Side) is 62
Steve Martin, comedian (Parenthood, Jerk, Roxanne) is 67
Daniele Steel, NYC, author (Remembrance, Zoya, Star, Daddy) is 65
In their 70’s
Dash Crofts, Cisco Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze) is 72
David Crosby, LA California, rocker (Crosby, Stills & Nash-Southern Cross) is 71

Remembered for being born today
Marie Allard, French ballerina (Auguste Vestris) b. 1742 or 1738
Alice Ghostley, Eve Montana, actress (Bewitched, Designing Women) b. 1926
John Henry “Doc” Holliday, American gambler and dentist b. 1851
John Ringling North, circus director (Ringling Bros) b. 1903
Hans Christian Oersted, Rudkøbing, Denmark, physicist/chemist (View of 
      Chemical Law) b. 1777

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
David [James] Glasgow Farragut, admiral, dies of heart attack in 1870 at 69
Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari), dies in 1988 at 90
William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in 1951 at 88
Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born miniature painter, founder of National Academy  
      dies in 1784 at 66
Patrick Magee, Irish actor (Clockwork Orange, King Lear), dies of heart attack 
      in 1982 at 58
Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player dies in 1999 at 81
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel, Jacobite, dies of apoplexy
      in 1573 at 61
Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord dies in 1573 at 14

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Do you know what this word means?
A dangling piece of curly hair.
What is the answer?
Torch porch
Scrambled Proverbs
To add more fuel to the fire
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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