August 17


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Flagstaff Almanac
Week: 33 / Day:    Today: High   79°Low 60°
Records: High   89°(1939)Low 37°(1968)
Averages: High   78°…Low 50°
Wind:   4mph;  Gusts: 25mph
Afternoon Rain  Today’s humidity: 65%

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1988 - Republicans nominate George Bush for president
1982 - The first Compact Discs (CDs) were released to the public in Germany
1979 - Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres
1978 - 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1976 - An earthquake & tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
1961 - Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
1959 - 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
1953 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California
1952 - "Fallout" 1st used (NY Times)
1945 - Koreas divided on 38th parallel with US occupying the southern area
1933 - Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game
1903 - Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U & begins Pulitzer Prizes
1891 - 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath)
1891 - Electric self-starter for automobile patented
1870 - 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
1869 - 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard)
1787 - Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
1590 - John White returns to Roanoke, Virginia to find no trace of colonist's he 
            had left there 3 yrs earlier

   Happy Birthday To: ♪ 
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
Lots of clouds, then out of nowhere, hail. My deck had almost 2” of hail on it…tiny little beads—thank goodness. Then hard and heavy rain. Pictures on FB from around town show lots of flooding in all the streets around town. Some parking lots a few miles from my place looked more like mid-January with 3”-4” of hail covering their lots. Our parking lot is full of pine cones and pine needles from the gushes of water that were heading down the road. Then there was the lightning. I saw a big hit on the hill just east of my place, and read that the Circle K about a half of a mile away also got a direct hit. No injuries, and haven’t heard of any fires but it was quite a storm. Just another reminder that Mother Nature does as she pleases, when she pleases.

The evening news from Phoenix had lots about our storm, but more importantly, news about the backlash from Governor Brewer’s Executive Order. Many legislators are saying that she has overstepped her authority and needs to rescind her order. Thank goodness, some people in AZ are still awake. She is out of the state right now but that didn’t stop several demonstrations at the state capital and at her office. A Presidential Executive Order is for all the US...I’ll see how this plays out. So interesting to live in AZ.

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)
a hiding place for window frameworks (4,5)
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.
ITBRI DN ON TDHT BHAWSSWAOE TIUE NHHHR (11 words)
Lifestyle  Substance     
Do you remember this?

Read Carefully!!
Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter
Do you know what this word means?
What is this not so common name of a common object?
Dysania
London 2012—

Bebop music:

Harper’s Index         
Percentage of African countries in which it is illegal to practice homosexuality: 69
Unusal Fact of the Day
The University of Wyoming opened its doors before Wyoming became a state.
Found on You Tube 

Joke-of-the-day
Two classmates were chatting in their lunch break..."I know how to get money real quick" says one,” How?""Go to your dad and say, "I know the truth" and he'll give you money"So the young boy went home and said "Dad, I know the truth" and  his dad gave him ten dollars and told him not to tell anyone 'the truth'.He then went to his mother, " Mom, I know the truth” he said."Please don't tell your dad" she said and gave him twenty dollars.Content with thirty dollars he went outside to go to the arcade and saw the milkman. "I know the truth,” he shouted out.The milkman replied "Well come and hug your real father then"
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
FEEDING KIDS: Children don't need huge servings of food. Start with one tablespoon of each item per year of age.
Yeah, It Really Happened
NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A Florida teenager told police he couldn't help himself when he allegedly groped a woman while shopping at Walmart.
Aaron Morris, 18, North Lauderdale, allegedly told officers following his arrest Thursday he could not help reaching out and touching the woman's bottom as she shopped. "Her booty looked so good, I just couldn't resist touching it," Morris said in a report filed by Broward County sheriff's deputies.
Morris was picked up a short time later at a gas station when the woman pointed him out to deputies. He was jailed on a battery charge, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported.                 
Somewhat Useless Information   
According to 'The History of Science and Technology', by Bryan Bunch and Alexander Hellemans, in 610 AD "...an Italian monk invents pretzels as a reward to children who learn their prayers. He calls the strips of baked dough, folded to resemble arms crossing the chest, 'pretiola' ("little rewards")".
Pretzel baking has most firmly taken root in southern Germany and adjoining Upper German - speaking areas, and pretzels have been an integral part of German baking traditions for centuries.
Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
10-18
Elvis Week
12-18
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week
Weird Contest Week
15-21
National Aviation Week
17-26
Little League Baseball World Series

Today Is                                                                      
Hug Your Boss Day
Meaning of "Is" Day: Spend today trying to define ‘is’ 
                                                    in your words without using the word ‘be’
Men's Grooming Day
National Thrift Shop Day
Gabon: Independence Day (1960 from France)
Indonesia: Independence Day
(1945 from Netherlands)  

Today’s Events Through History  
2000’s
2005 - The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral 
            disengagement plan, starts
2004 - The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for 
            Serbia: Boze Pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is
            adopted for the whole country.
1900’s
1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an 
           "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and
            he "misled people" about his relationship.
1988 - Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold 
            Raphel are killed in a plane crash
1985 - 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel & Co plant
1960 - Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
1957 - Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks
            her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher
1948 - Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
1947 - The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion 
            of Pakistan is revealed
1943 - Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies
1938 - 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland)
1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated
1915 - Hurricane strikes Galveston, TX (275 killed)
1800’s
1883 - The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, 
             Himno Nacional
1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
1870 - Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
1859 - 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind
1835 - Solymon Merrick patents wrench
1807 - Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
1700’s
1788 - Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded
1765 - Pontiac and the British sign a treaty
1755 - Almost 400 Indians attack John Kilburn’s stockade at Walpole, Connecticut. 
            Some sources say the Indians are led by King Philip. After a day of fighting, 
            the Indians withdraw

1500’s
1577 - Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 50’s
Belinda Carlisle, Hollywood Ca, (GoGos lead singer, Heaven on Earth) is 54
Sean Penn, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) is 52
In their 60’s
Robert De Niro, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Taxi Driver) is 69

In their 90’s
Maureen O'Hara, [Fitzsimmons], Dublin, actress (Miracle on 34th St) is 92

Remembered for being born today
Davy Crockett, Greene County, Tennessee, frontiersman/adventurer/politician
       (Alamo) b. 1786
Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist b. 1851
Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks b. 1887
Francis Gary Powers, US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident) b. 1929
Mae West, New York, actress (She Dine him Wrong) b. 1893
Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Native American musician-actor b. 1936
Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Pearl Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, dies of heart attack in 1990 at 72
Ira Gershwin, lyricist ("I Got Rhythm", "Embraceable You"), dies in 1983 at 86
Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93
Tommy Nutter, fashion designer (bell bottom pants), dies of AIDs in 1992 at 49
Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies of lung cancer in 1988 
     on 74th birthday
Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies of cancer in 1979 at 70

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Do you know what this word means?
The state of finding it hard to get out of the bed in the morning.
What is the answer?
Sash stash
Scrambled Proverbs
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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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