July 19

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Flagstaff Almanac

Week: 29 Day:  201

Today: High   80°…Low 49°

Records: High   93°(2005)…Low 42°(1940)

Averages: High   81°…Low 52°

Few clouds around horizon /  Today’s humidity:  20%

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1996 - XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta Georgia

1982 - David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon

1979 - 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill

1961 - 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA)

1956 - US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam

1928 - King Fuad of Egypt grabs power/disbands parliament

1912 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town

1877 - 1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64)

1860 - 1st railroad reaches Kansas

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Free Rambling Thoughts   

A nice day in Flag, but alas no rain. Guess we just have to live with great weather.

Started going through the vacation mail today…too much junk mail for sure. Strange that bills keep coming even when you are out of the country.

Conspiracy theories are alive and well in AZ and the US. I must admit, in my youth, I was horrified by the assassination of JFK when I was in 9^th grade. When I was in college the many conspiracy theories were alive and well on the incident. Then the ‘We never went to the moon’ conspiracy theories caught my attention. Now that I am older, I think that it was just a way to wrap around something—either bad or good—that seemed impossible to believe. The current conspiracy theory about Obama’s birth or religion seems for some just impossible to believe that America could legitimately elect a biracial or Black president who had a Muslim father. Sheriff Joe announced that he believes that he has the evidence to prove that Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud. He made national news, but thankfully, most news organizations also mentioned that his ‘facts’ really don’t fit together. Then there is Michelle Bachman, a Representative from MN, who is now claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood have infiltrated the government through Secretary Clinton’s office. Even John McCain has condemned her statement. I understand that in the US everyone can say and believe just about anything. What many of the conspiracy theorists don’t realize is that it is 2012, not 1950 with McCarthyism. What they say is heard around the world in seconds. Our allies basically understand our Freedom of Speech and deal with diplomats. The everyday citizen of our allies may not understand the intricacies of our government anymore than our everyday citizen understands the intricacies of their government. Our enemies love this stuff…and freely share it with their citizens. As shown in Mrs. Clinton’s recent visit to Egypt and the crowd’s tomatoes and shoes, these conspiracy theories are head by everyday people who believe them. Egypt is our friend but doesn’t like hearing that we are involved in their politics. Decades ago the phrase ‘loose lips sink ships’ warned everyone. It’s time to rethink what ‘news’ we are sending around the world…I still have lots of places to visit.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)

What is the answer?

Rearrange the following letters to give two different 9-letter words.

A  C  C  E  H  I  M  N  S

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.     unpopular poker play
2.     board game with 16 X 16 grid
3.     the previous generation
4.     fix
5.     late
HINT: upper left to lower right letters are: C A N D Y

Lifestyle  Substance     

My Latest Adventure—

One Hit Wonders of the 1960’s

• Baby, the Rain Must Fall
…Glenn Yarbourgh…1965

• Everyone’s Gone to the Moon
…Jonathan King…1965

• They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Haha
…Napoleon XIV…1966

• Psychotic Reaction
…Count Five…1966

Harper’s Index         

Amount Miami’s Miller School of Medicine pays female ‘professional patients’ for each student breast or pelvic exam: $40

Found on You Tube 

Classic Commercial Jingles 50's 60's       

Joke-of-the-day

 1. Another flight attendant's comment on a less than perfect landing: "We ask you to please remain seated as Captain Kangaroo bounces us to the terminal." 2. After a real crusher of a landing in Phoenix, the Flight Attendant came on with, "Ladies and Gentlemen, please remain in your seats until Capt. Crash and the Crew have brought the aircraft to a screeching halt against the gate. And, once the tire smoke has cleared and the warning bells are silenced, we'll open the door and you can pick your way through the wreckage to the terminal." 3. Part of a flight attendant's arrival announcement: "We'd like to thank you folks for flying with us today. And, the next time you get the insane urge to go blasting through the skies in a pressurized metal tube, we hope you'll think of US Airways."

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

When sleeping on long airplane rides, always tuck your blanket under your seatbelt, this will prevent the flight attendants from waking you up to check.

Yeah, It Really Happened

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. - Police in Florida said a man who broke into a Pizza Hut store took two cases of mozzarella cheese when he was unable to open the cash register. Altamonte Springs police said the shoeless bandit was recorded on surveillance video at 2 a.m. June 9 breaking into the store by smashing the glass of the front door with a crowbar and attempting to open a cash register by slamming it on the ground, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported Tuesday. Police said the man was unable to open the register and then proceeded to the kitchen, where he took two cases of mozzarella cheese before leaving the store. Police said they are attempting to identify the burglar.               

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The Coca-Cola jingle "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" was reworked into a proper song and released in 1971. But it wasn't until the release of the accompanying TV commercial, featuring a crowd of young people singing the tune on a hilltop, that the jingle got any real airplay. Two versions of the song ended up hitting the Top 20.

• The voices who sing radio station IDs belong to the Johnny Mann Singers. The vocal group records jingles for stations across the country from a studio in Dallas, Texas.

• The deep voice that says, "Ho, ho, ho," in the Green Giant jingle belongs to singer Elmer "Leon" Dresslar Jr. The baritone first recorded those three syllables in 1959 and continued to receive checks for his effort up until his death in 2005.

• In order for a sound to be trademarked, it must be inherently distinctive and unique and must also indicate to the consumer the source of the product. NBC's three-tone station-ID jingle was trademarked in 1950, the first sound to be so patented.

• For the Meow Mix commercial jingle, Ralston Purina's ad agency used some film footage of a mewing cat, which they proceeded to loop backward, forward, and backward again in order to stretch it out to 30 seconds.

• Barry Manilow wrote commercial jingles to pay the bills before his recording career took off. Some of his best-known compositions include "I am stuck on Band-Aid, 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me" and "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there."

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

15-21

Captive Nations Week
Rabbit Week
National Independent Retailers Week

National Parenting Gifted Children Week
National Zoo Keeper Week

18-21

Baby Food Festival
National Ventriloquism Week

18-25

Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week:

Today Is                                                                      

Flitch Day: Beginning in 15th century, the monks offered a "flitch" of bacon as prize for any married couple who could prove to a jury of bachelors and maidens that they had lived together in harmony and fidelity for the past year

Get to Know Your Customers Day

New Moon

Nicaragua: National Liberation Day (marks the day that the National Liberation Army defeated the Somoza dictatorships in the Nicaraguan Revolution; 1979)  

Today’s Events Through History  

1900’s

1991 - Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game

1990 - Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, CA

1980 - 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott

1976 - Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created

1969 - Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit

1957 - Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)

1952 - 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland

1949 - Laos becomes associated state within French Union

1941 - 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee Ala)

1941 - British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign

1939 - 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R P Scholz, St Louis, Mo

1927 - Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit

1800’s

1899 - National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms

1879 - Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon

1867 - Reconstruction enacted

1866 - Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights

1848 - 1st US women's rights convention (Seneca Falls NY)

1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension

1820 - The Kickapoo sign a treaty (7 Stat., 208.) at St. Louis. Auguste Chouteau and Benjamin Stephenson represent the United States of America. Twenty-eight Kickapoo make their marks on the document.

1700’s

1799 - A group of Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers discover what is now known as The Rosetta Stone, enabling the translation of hieroglyphics for the first time

1600’s

1674 - Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer

1500’s

1553 - 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days

1510 - 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin Prussia

Before 1000CE

695: Maya King Waxaklahun Ubah K’awil ascends to the throne at Copán, Honduras

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 50’s

Anthony Edwards, actor (It Takes Two, Dr Greene-ER) is 50

In their 60’s

Beverly Archer, Oak Park Ill, actress (Iola-Mama's Family) is 64

Commander Cody (George Frayne), singer/pianist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen) is 68

In their 70’s

Vikki Carr [Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)], El Paso Texas, singer (Let it Be Him) is 72

Remembered

Lizzie Borden, Fall River Massachusetts, accused murderer  - 1860

Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit missionary to China - 1688

Samuel Colt, Hartford Connecticut, US inventor/industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver)  - 1814

A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (Hatter's Castle, The Stars Look Down, The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Green Years)  - 1896

Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye…)  - 1883

Juan José Flores, military and first president of Ecuador in 1800

Pat Hingle, Denver Colo, actor (Baby Boom, Norma Rae, Bloody Mama)  - 1924

Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic)  - 1865

George McGovern, (Sen-D-SD)/pres candidate (D-1972)  - 1922

Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist  - 1846

Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint  - 1759

Today’s Obits                                                           

Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies in 1895 at 67

Joe Flynn, actor (McHale's Navy), dies of accidental drowning in 1974 at 49

Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter dies of stroke in 1975 at 47

Alan Lomax, American folksong collector dies in 2002 at 87

Frank McCourt, Irish-American author dies in 2009 at 78

Aung San, Burmese nationalist, father of current Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San, assassinated in 1947 at 32

William Somervile, English poet dies in 1742 at 67

Jack Warden, American TV and movie actor dies in 2006 at 85

Earl Warren, gov of Calif/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies in 1974 at 83

Answers                                                                                                                                            

What is the answer?

mechanics, mischance

5X5 boxes

CHEAT

HALMA

ELDEN

AMEND

TARDY

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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