Feb 3

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1870 - 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed

1913 - 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified

1941 - Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets min wages & max hrs

1993 - Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins

♪Happy Birthday To: ♪                     

Free Rambling Thoughts   

A very strange weather day. Early this morning it was chilly but OK. Headed out and about around 10:30 and dark clouds from the west were heading for Flagstaff. As we left our lunch, it was really snowing hard on the west side of town. Got home to light snow but none sticking. The rest of the afternoon and early evening it was on and off with light snow. Still none sticking. At sunset, the sun was shining for about 10 minutes, then it was snowing again, then it became overcast again. StRaNgE indeed.

 We had a good lunch at a local Greek place. The menu has a flaming cheese appetizer. We have seen it several times…the waitress and an assistant come to the table, pour something on the plate, light it, big flames—about 18” high, then after the fire goes out and they put the hot cheese plate on your table with some Greek bread. It was really good, and I’ll be having it again. For lunch we had a Greek salad, chicken on a skewer, and oven roasted potatoes in a lemon oil and herb topping…excellent. Cheryl is headed for CA on Saturday…her grandson is having his pacemaker moved to its permanent position. She’ll be babysitting her granddaughter. A little scary for the family, but the doctors say it is not a big deal. Mary is headed for Phx tomorrow for some pre-Super Bowl parties, but will be back in Flg for the big game. I’ll be in Flg for the game. Bob called and we are still working on the Ireland trip…I still won’t pay the single price, so we’ll see. Since FB made it so easy to post pictures, lots of my ‘friends’ are posting cute messages about life. I really enjoy them.  For example: “It’s OK not to agree with me…I can’t force you to be right”, or “Learn from the past, then get the hell out of there” or “Smile and let everyone know you are stronger today than you were yesterday.” I could go on, but won’t.

Today's links include some great vintage clips  hope you enjoy them. 

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

For each category given, name things that fall under it that begin with the letters in "G.I. Joe." For example, given the category "large," the answers could be "gigantic," "immense," "jumbo," "oversized" and "enormous."

1. Books of the bible:
2. Animals in a zoo:
3. Spaces in monopoly:
4. Islands:
5. Characters in Shakespeare:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     

AZ Centennial – Feb 14:  Did you know?…

How these towns got their name?Globe: the fact seems to be that the name came from the Globe Mine. The Maricopa Book of Mines shows that the Globe Ledge was recorded on September 19, 1873. The first settlement in the newly opened mining area was at the Ramboz Mine. Here the Globe Mining District was organized in November 1875 in the Globe Hills.
Snowflake: Snowflake is a town in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. It was founded in 1878 by Erastus Snow and William Jordan Flake, Mormon pioneers and colonizers
Tuba City: The name of the town honors Tuuvi, a Hopi headman from Oraibi who converted to Mormonism. The Navajo name for? Tuba City, Tó Naneesdizí translates as "tangled waters", which probably refers to the many springs below the surface of the ground which are the source of several reservoirs.

New:  Daffynitions: :-)

SECRET — News you tell to one person at a time

SKELETON: A bunch of bones with the person scraped off

POLITICS — Where truth lies

Found on You Tube         

The Day The Music Died

Harper’s Index         

Percentage of American who believe China has passed or will pass the US as the world’s leading superpower: 46

Percentage of Chinese who do: 63

Joke-of-the-day

The manager of a large office asked a new employee to come into his office. "What is your name?," was the first thing the manager asked.
"John," the new guy replied.
The manager scowled. "Look, I don't know what kind of a namby-pamby place you worked at before, but I don't call anyone by their first name! It breeds familiarity and that leads to a breakdown in authority," he said. "I refer to my employees by their last name only - Smith, Jones, Baker - that's all. Now that we got that straight, what is your last name?"
The new guy sighed and said, "Darling. My name is John Darling."
The manager said, "Okay, John, the next thing I want to tell you..." 

Planet Earth

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

Children don't need huge servings of food. Start with one tablespoon of each item per year of age.

Somewhat Useless Information   

The Conquistadors that conquered South America and Mexico during the 1500's came from Spain bringing horses and early guns known as Arquebus'; neither of which had yet reached the Americas.

Before they were demolished, the Incas of South America made the grave mistake of underestimating the Conquistadors, who's 150 or so explorers were dwarfed by 80,000 Inca warriors. The Inca chief considered them fools for wearing cooking pots on their heads (actually steel helmets).

Yeah, It Really Happened                 

SEATLE - An Occupy Seattle protester who held a ceremony to wed a 107-year-old building said she was protesting the gentrification of the neighborhood. Babylonia Aivaz said she donned a puffy dress and married the abandoned building at 10th and Union Sunday as a protest against gentrification in the area, Seattlepi.com reported Tuesday. However, gay-themed magazine Instinct took issue with Aivaz characterizing the wedding as a "gay marriage." "Okay, we gotta ask: Why is this like 'gay marriage' (as she likes to call it)? Because, we'll marry horses and dogs and oxen next? Why didn't she take her loony idea about marrying a building and just call it marriage?" the magazine's editors wrote.

Calendar Information        

…Happening This Week:

1-5

Catholic Schools Week

Meat WeekIntimate Apparel Week

National Cowboy Poetry Gathering WeekInternational Hoof Care Week

1-7

International Snow Sculpting Week

Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend 

Women's Heart Week

Today Is                                                                      

Bubble Gum Day
Cordova Ice Worm Day: An Alaska thing

Four Chaplains Memorial Day : died during WWII after giving life jackets to others

Give Kids A Smile Day

The Day The Music Died :1959, a small-plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, killed three American rock and roll pioneers: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson

Wear Red Day: to fight heart disease 

Japan: Bean Throwing Festival (in the city of Setsubun)

Mozambique: Heroes' Day

Today’s Other Events                                                             

1300’s

1377 - Mass execution of population of Cesena Italy

1600’s

1690 - 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)

1700’s

1743 - Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants

1800’s

1834 - Wake Forest University is established

1847 - General Sterling Price reaches the fortified Taos Pueblo. Cannonade proves unfruitful, so Price retreats to the city of Taos

1882 - Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo

1900’s

1908 - Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act

1919 - League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)

1930 - William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons

1945 - Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released

1948 - Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US

1951 - "Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV

1964 - Black & Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools

1966 - 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US

1966 - 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)

1971 - KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast

1972 - 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)

1973 - President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law

1990 - Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race

1998 - Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain

1998 - US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20

2000’s

2002 - Super Bowl XXXVI: New England Patriots beat St. Louis Rams, 20-17 MVP: Tom Brady

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 90’s

Henry Heimlich, doctor/inventor (Heimlich maneuver) is 92

In their 80’s

Shelley Berman, comedian (Son of Blob, Love American Style) is 86

In their 70’s

Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer is 74

Fran Tarkenton, Richmond Va, NFL QB (NY Giants, Minnesota Vikings) is 72

In their 60’s

Blythe Danner, actor is 69

Morgan Fairchild, actor is 62

Bob Griese, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins, 1971 Player of Year) is 67

In their 50’s

Nathan Lane, actor (One of the Boys, Frankie & Johnnie) is 56

In their 40’s

Vlade Divac, Yugoslavian NBA center (Charlotte Hornets, LA Lakers) is 44

Remembered for being born on this day

Joey Bishop, [Gottlieb], Bronx, talk show host (Joey Bishop Show) in 1918

Charlie "Pretty Boy" Floyd, FBI Most Wanted criminal in 1904

Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man") in 1811

James A Michener, writer (South Pacific, Hawaii, Space) in 1907

Norman Rockwell, US, artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers) in 1894

Mr [Fred] Rogers, kid host (Mr Roger's Neighorhood) in 1928

Today’s Obits                                                            

Big Bopper, rocker, (Chantilly Lace) dies in plane crash at 28 in 1959

Buddy Holly, rocker (That'll be the Day), dies in a plane crash at 22 in 1959

Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), dies of cancer at 69 in 1991

Al Lewis, American actor, Grandpa Munster dies at 82 in 2006

Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist of Manhattan Project—brother of Robert dies at 73  in 1985

Belle Starr, US female gangster, murdered at 40 in 1889

Richie Valens, rock vocalist (Donna), killed in plane crash at 17 in 1959

Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president (1913-21), dies after long illness at 67 in 1924

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game

Meg, assess a gem

NPR Sunday Puzzle

These are examples—certainly there are others:

1. Books of the bible: Genesis, Isaiah, Job, Obadiah, Exodus
2. Animals in a zoo: gorilla, iguana,  jaguar, orangutan, elephant
3. Spaces in monopoly: Go, Income Tax, jail, Oriental Place, Electric Company
4. Islands: Greenland, Iceland, Java, Orkney, Easter
5. Characters in Shakespeare: Guildenstern, Iago, Juliette, Othello, Edgar

Wuzzle

• A small fortune
• Split personality
• Inch by in c

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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