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Flagstaff
Almanac…
Week: 34 / Day: Today:
High 80°…Low 57°
Records: High 90°(2009) …Low 35°(1979)
Averages: High 78°…Low 50°
Wind: 9mph; Gusts: 20mph
Today’s humidity: 63%
Quote of the Day…
Today’s Historical
Highlights…
2001 - The Red Cross
announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and
calls for international
financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
1987 - Clayton
Lonetree, 1st marine court-martialed for spying, convicted
1985 - Mary
Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71
1972 - 1st
hot air balloon flight over Alps
1968 - Marine James
Anderson Jr is 1st black Medal of Honor winner
1959 - Hawaii
becomes 50th US state
1938 - Italy
bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School
1897 - Oldsmobile
begins operation as a General Motors Corp division
1878 - American
Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY
1680 - Pueblo
Indians takes possession of Santa Fé from Spanish
♪ Happy Birthday To: ♪..
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s
Birthdays
Free Rambling
Thoughts…
My week
started out well. Got the pictures printed at the local Office Max and sent
them to Denver. I hope everyone is happy with the results. Then I got a
haircut. The lady who does it has been on vacation and just got back. She
really wanted to talk about my pictures, and I could tell she enjoyed them, as
she talked about her family enjoying specific pictures. Made me feel good.
I waited
for the rain, but it hasn’t come…still cloudy and maybe later tonight. Still a
nice day. I also called my rental people about my new lease. They forgot to
send it, but thankfully the rent is not changing. The strange part is that my
lease actually ended in July, according to my records, and looking at my bank
statement the last payment was made in June. The guy says my rent always comes
early via electronic check, and I am paid up. Hmmm. I’m sure they will find
their mistake eventually, but until then, I’ll just set up another year of
monthly payments. Can’t argue with The Man. I also can’t believe my rent has
changed since my second lease…5 years ago. Can’t complain about that, especially
in Flagstaff.
There is a
very interesting video that went viral…showing a herd of elephants that are
chasing a vehicle filled with tourists. I can certainly understand that this
can happen. On both my safaris, we had a young bull give us ‘the look’. Neither
time did we experience any fear, but we did pull out quickly and neither young
bull followed us. Both drivers did tell us that it was time to leave. The
reason I’m not posting this in my blog in found on YouTube, is that it doesn’t
say where it happened. I have a feeling that it might have happened at a wild
animal park here in the US. It is something about the flora in the area, but
not being a botanist, I can’t say for sure. It seems to me, if it happened on
an African Safari, the person who posted it would have said where they were.
Also, all the safari experiences I’ve seen on YouTube have told where they
were, usually the lodge, but always the word Africa is somewhere on the video.
Wherever it happened, it certainly was exciting and frightening, I’m sure for
the riders.
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)
smelled the British elevator (7,4)
Scrambled
Proverbs…
Last Day
for this puzzle, new on tomorrow!
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.
AE IEKDCL EA NEA IHYSANLTK (6 words)
Lifestyle Substance…
Do you remember
this?
Read Carefully!!
Miners Refuse to Work after Death
Do you know what
this word means?
What
is this not so common name of a common object?
Purlicue
Historic
Flagstaff, AZ—…
60’s music…:
- My Girl- Temptations
- Light My Fire- Doors
- She Loves You- Beatles
- You Really Got Me- Kinks
Harper’s Index…
Date on which Wyoming introduced a bill to create a ‘continuity’ plan in the event of a Federal collapse: 2/16/2012
Unusal Fact of
the Day…
A gun with a silencer attached sounds about as loud as a car door being slammed. It’s much quieter than the usual “bang!” but it’s not as subtle as the little “whoosh” heard in James Bond films.
Found on You
Tube…
Reclassify the objects of the Solar System (English Subtitles)
Joke-of-the-day…
A mother mouse and a baby mouse were walking along, when all of a sudden, a cat attacked them. The mother mouse goes, "BARK!" and the cat runs away. "See?" says the mother mouse to her baby. "Now do you see why it's important to learn a foreign language?"
Rules of Thumb…
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
LIFE LESSONS When it hurts the most, you're learning the most.
Yeah, It Really
Happened…
Portland OR - Police in Oregon are trying to sting a man who robbed a local restaurant using bug spray as his weapon of choice.The thief came into a place called Elmer's on Monday wearing a blonde wig, a white beanie and a green sweatshirt with gloves just before midnight, and sprayed bug repellant in a bartender's face, the Associated Press reported.The bartender tried to bat away the can of insect repellent, but got a direct spray to the face. That enabled the thief to get away with an undisclosed amount of cash from the register of the Roseburg restaurant.Sgt. Aaron Dunbar of the Roseburg police said that bug spray isn't usually used by criminals."This is an extremely unusual case. We've had robberies in the past, but the idea of using bug spray as a weapon is a first," he told KPIC-TV.
Somewhat Useless
Information…
Americans' drinking habits held steady in the past year, with 66% saying they consume alcohol and drinkers consuming just over four alcoholic drinks per week, on average. Beer continues to be Americans' preferred drink, although wine remains a close second, with liquor favored by 22%.While only 12% of drinkers report consuming eight or more drinks in the past week -- averaging more than one per day -- Gallup finds 22% of drinkers saying they sometimes drink too much. This is up from 17% last year, but similar to the percentages in most other years over the past decade.
Calendar Information…
Happening This Week:
15-21
National Aviation Week
17-26
Little League Baseball World Series
19-25
Minority Enterprise Development Week
Today Is…
Earth Over Shoot Day or Ecological Debt Day
Poet's Day
Senior Citizen's Day
National Spumoni Day
Today’s Events
Through History…
2000’s
2001 - NATO
decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav
Republic of
Macedonia
2000 - Tiger
Woods wins golf's PGA Championship to become the first golfer
since Ben Hogan
in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year.
1900’s
1997 - US government
forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E Coli break out
1995 - US
marshals move in on Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho
1982 - Rollie
Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
1975 - US lightens
trade embargo against Cuba
1972 - US orbiting
astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
1945 - Pres
Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program
1944 - Grieg/Work/Forest's
musical "Song of Norway," premieres in NYC
1915 - Italy
declares war on Turkey in World War One
1800’s
1879 - The
Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist,
reportedly
appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland
1858 - 1st
Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
1856 - America's
first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda
1847 - The
Pillager Band of Chippewa sign a treaty (9 stat. 908) at Leech Lake.
1831 - Nat
Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)
1700’s
1760 - The
church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez
(Puerto
Rico)" is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city
1600’s
1689 -
Frenchmen convince local Indians to attack British Fort Charles in Maine.
Several settlers are killed in the fighting.
1300’s
1321 - 160
Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake
Today’s
Birthdays…
Under 30
Usain
Bolt, Trelawny Jamaica, sprinter (Olympic Gold 2008/2012) is 26
Brody Jenner,
son of Bruce is 29
In their 30’s
Amy
Fisher, Long Island NY, shot Mary Jo Buttafucco is 38
In their 50’s
Kim
Cattrall, actor (Sex in the City) is 56
Jim
McMahon, NFL QB (Chicago Bears, San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles)
is 53
In their 60’s
Jackie
DeShannon, Hazel Kentucky, singer (What the World Needs Now) is 68
Harry
Smith, Hammond Ind, TV co-anchor (CBS Morning Show) is 61
In their 70’s
Kenny
Rogers, Houston Texas, singer (Through the Years) is 72
Clarence
Williams III, NYC, actor (Mod Squad, 52 Pick Up, Purple Rain) is 73
Remembered for
being born today
[William]
Count Basie, Red Bank NJ, jazz musician (Blazing Saddles) b. 1904
Wilt
Chamberlain, NBA great center (LA Laker, 5 time MVP) b. 1936
Giacomo F.
Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer b. 1665
Blossom
Rock, actress, (Grandmamma-Addams Family) b. 1895
Jack
Weston, American actor b. 1924
Today’s Historical
Obits…
Bernice
Alexandra ‘Ray’ Eames, American designer, artist and architect
dies in
1988 at 76
Robert
Moog, American pioneer of electronic music dies of brain tumor in 2005at
71
Benjamin
Thompson, American physicist and inventor dies in 1814 at 61
Leon
Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Ramón Mercader in 1940 at 62
Answers…
Do you know what
this word means?
The space between the thumb and the forefingers.
What is the answer?
Sniffed lift
Scrambled
Proverbs
Like a needle in a haystack
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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