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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:
Elvis Week
11-15
National Scrabble Week
12-18
Today Is
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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