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Flagstaff Almanac
Week: 33 / Day: 228 Today: High 85°…Low 54°
Records: High 89°(2002) …Low 33°(1976)
Averages: High 79 °…Low 51°
Wind: 4mph; Gusts: 24mph
Afternoon Rain
Today’s humidity: 21%
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1994 - Terrorist
Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan
1991 - 750,000
attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park
1971 - Pres Nixon
announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
1969 - Woodstock
Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
1950 - Pres Sukarno
proclaims unity of Indonesia
1939 - "Wizard
of Oz" premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
1914 - Panama Canal
opens (under cost)
1911 - Procter
& Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening
1891 - San
Sebastian Church in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia,
is officially
inaugurated and blessed
1870 - Transcontinental
Railway actually completed in Colorado
1635 - 1st
recorded US hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony
1620 - Mayflower
sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
♪ Happy Birthday To:
♪
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s
Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts
It clouded
up late this morning and I had to wonder if we would ever get rain…but about
4pm it came with a big gust of wind..and quite a hard storm for about 15
minutes. Then the sky cleared and it was much cooler and much nicer.
I was busy
this morning getting the ballots ready for the Best of Pictures from our last
HLO/Focus trip. Some people sent some great shots, others didn’t participate.
That’s fine, I’m sure that everyone will enjoy voting at the photo party next
month.
Another
day, another outage of our cable system. The Sunday one was due to a lightning
strike…but we had to wait until Tuesday to find out in the local paper. We will
know in a couple of days why we had a 3 hour+ shortage today. Their ‘customer support’ is worthless…all
they type is ‘our technicians are working on it. We apologize for the
inconvenience.’ That’s from the chat line…the phone lines are constantly busy
during outages. They have an exclusive contract with the city for service. It
looks like they have a friend with the local paper, as the article talked about
the lighting strike, then talked about how there are lots of free services for
the customers…like watching replays of the closing ceremony. They don’t mention
that the On Demand thing is a whole lot of short quips…most less than three minutes.
With all the modern technology they have, it’s surprising to me that can’t post
any messages or email everyone when an outage occurs. I certainly understand
how a lightning strike can cut off service…just disappointed they don’t tell
the customers in a timely manner.
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)
one who taunts a Dickensian miser (8,6)
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.
UE S WHTHHEKNEMASE AI LINHSY (6 words)
Lifestyle
Substance
Do you remember this?
Read Carefully!!
Message
on a leaflet:
IF YOU CANNOT READ, THIS LEAFLET WILL TELL YOU HOW TO GET LESSONS
Do you know what this word means?
What
is this not so common name of a common object?
Peen
London 2012—
Bebop music:
Harper’s Index
Date by which Iran plans to send a monkey into space, according to state-run media: 8/31/2012
Unusal Fact of the Day
The first U.S. dog guide was a German Shepherd named “Buddy.”
He was presented to Morris Frank in 1927.
Found on You Tube
Sinking of the Lusitania 1918 Animation
Joke-of-the-day
A man was walking down the street when he came across a body lying on the sidewalk. He ran to a phone and called 911. The operator asked him where he was and the man replied, “I’m on Sycamore Drive.” “How do you spell that?” the operator asked. “S-i-c-k…” the man began. “No, s-i-c-a…..” no, s-i-k-a…. oh heck, let me drag him over to Lake street and I’ll call you back.”
Rules of Thumb
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
STALKING DEER
When you are stalking deer (or "still-hunting" as the experts call it), patience and an extremely slow pace are essential. If you travel more than a quarter of a mile in an hour, you are traveling too fast.
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 FOs" -- 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
- Adding sugar to coffee is believed to have started in 1715, in the court of King Louis XIV, the French monarch.
- Advertisements for coffee in London in 1657 claimed that the beverage was a cure for scurvy, gout and other ills.
- After they are roasted, and when the coffee beans begin to cool, they release about 700 chemical substances that make up the vaporizing aromas.
- In 1727, as a result of seedlings smuggled from Paris, coffee plants first were cultivated in Brazil. Brazil is presently by far the world's largest producer of coffee.
- The coffee filter was invented in 1908 by a German homemaker, Melitta Benz, when she lined a tin cup with blotter paper to filter the coffee grinds.
- The heavy tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773, which caused the "Boston Tea Party," resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. Drinking coffee was an expression of freedom.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
Elvis Week
11-15
National Scrabble Week
12-18
15-21
National Aviation Week
Today Is
Best Friends Day
Chauvin Day: named
for Norman Chauvin;
blind loyalty to Napoleon; chauvinism
National Failures Day
National Medical
Dosimetrist Day
National Relaxation Day
Congo: National Day (1960
from France)
Equatorial Guinea: Constitution
Day
(1982; revision of 1968 constitution)
India: Independence Day (1947 from UK)
Korea: Liberation Day (1945 from Japan)
Liechtenstein: National Day (2004)
India: Independence Day (1947 from UK)
Korea: Liberation Day (1945 from Japan)
Liechtenstein: National Day (2004)
Today’s Events Through History
2000’s
2007 - An
8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and
various
regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
1900’s
1993 - Nolan Ryan,
324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1
1989 - US Venus
probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle
1979 - Andrew
Young resigns as UN ambassador
1960 - UFO is
sighted by 3 California patrolmen
1945 - US wartime
rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends
1940 - Heavy
dogfights above England: 75 German aircrafts damaged
1931 - Ernest
Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi)
1918 - 1st
full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania)
1914 - A male
servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living
quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people
and
burns the living quarters to the ground
1800’s
1876 - US
law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find
1858 - Regular
mail to Pacific coast begins
1848 - M
Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair
1700’s
1749 -
Maliseet chiefs ratify and agree to the treaty of December 15, 1725
1748 - United
Lutheran Church of US organized
1500’s
1549 - Jesuit priest
Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima Japan
1534 - Ignatius
of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits
1519 - Panama
City founded
1514 -
Spanish Bishop Bartoleme de las Casas releases the Indians he holds
as serfs in
Hispaniola
1000’s
1040 - King
Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth.
The
latter succeeds him as King of Scotland
Today’s Birthdays
Under 30
Joe Jonas,
Disney Musician (Jonas Brothers) is 23
In their 40’s
Ben
Affleck (Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt), actor (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) is 40
Debra
Messing, actor (Will & Grace) will be 44
In their 60’s
Linda
Ellerbee, Bryan Texas, newscaster (Weekend, NBC Overnight) is 68
Jimmy
Webb, Elk City Oklahoma, songwriter (MacArthur Park, Up Up & Away) is 66
In their 70’s
Abby
Dalton, Las Vegas NV, actress (Joey Bishop Show) is 77
In their 80’s
Mike
Connors, [Krekor Ohanian], Fresno, California, actor (Mannix) is 87
Rose
Marie, actress/comedienne (Sally Rogers-Dick Van Dyke Show) is 89
Remembered for
being born today
Ethel
Barrymore, Phila, actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green) b. 1879
Napoleon
Bonaparte, Corsica, resident of Elba (emperor of France) b. 1769
Lillian
Carter, Pres Carter's mom b. 1898
Julia
Child, Pasadena California, chef (French Chef) b. 1912
Walter
Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake) b. 1771
Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast) b. 1875
Today’s Historical Obits
Macbeth,
King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan in 1057 at about 52
Wiley
Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska in 1935 at 36
Will
Rogers, humorist, killed in plane crash in Alaska in 1935 at 55
Jerry
Wexler, music producer and coiner of the term "Rhythm & Blues" dies
in 2008 at 91
Answers
Do you know what this
word means?
The side opposite the hammer's striking side.
What is the answer?
Ebenezer teaser
Scrambled
Proverbs
Make hay while the sun shines
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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