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Flagstaff
Almanac…
Week: 39/
Day: Today: High 72°…Low 37°
Records: High
83°(2010)…Low 21°(1900)
Averages: High
69°…Low 37°
Wind: average: 2mph; Gusts: 15mph
Today’s average
humidity:
50%
Quote
of the Day…
Today’s Historical
Highlights…
1988
- UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
2009 - An
8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami
1988
- UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
1988 - Florence
Griffith Joyner of USA sets 200m woman's record (21.34)
1979
- Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland
1962
- JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate U of Mississippi
1946
- Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA
1916 - John
D Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire
1904 - 1st
monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio)
1829 - London's
Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard)
1789
- US War Dept established a regular army
♪ Happy Birthday To: ♪..
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free
Rambling Thoughts…
I had another angioedema attack early this morning. This time it was my upper lip so didn’t interfere with my sleep, but when I woke up about 6am it was full blown. Took my pills and it was back to normal by 10am. What a mess.I should have stayed inside and done laundry today, but it was just too nice a day not to be outside. A nice long walk, time on my deck, lots of fresh air. A good way to spend a Friday and Saturday will be a good day to do laundry.Faux news made national news in a bad way. And it happened right here in AZ. Faux was following a car chase live…with a 5 second delay during a national broadcast. The viewers saw the man shoot and kill himself in the chest. The anchor apologized, but it was too late. I have to admit that I did watch the OJ ‘chase’ back in the day. It was the last time I watched one. This kind of sensational news is a mainstay of Faux, both locally and nationally. I just change the channel, if somehow I am watching a Faux show. I wonder if the tech that didn’t use the 5 second delay still has a job?
Game Center: (answers at the end of post)
What
is the rhyming 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)
complaint by a Toronto hockey player (4,4)
Rebus…
Can you figure
out what this means?
Lifestyle Substance…
Do
you remember these?
Read
This Headline Carefully!!
Poverty Meeting Attracts Poor Turnout
Do
you know what this word means?
What
is this not so common name of a common object?
glossophilia
Gorilla:
Great
Melodies…:
Ride of the Valkyries…Richard Wagner
It’s the most famous, and some say the greatest of the Warner Brothers cartoon shorts ever made. And that cartoon makes use of quite a bit of Wagner’s best known melodies (Merrie Melodies, indeed). The cartoon is also called “Kill the Wabbit,” thanks to Elmer Fudd, who chases Bugs Bunny through operatic sets of particular opulence.
Harper’s
Index…
Portion of Sudan’s oil exports bought by China last year: 2/3
Unusal
Fact of the Day…
William Shatner (Captain Kirk from Stak Trek) could never spread his fingers for the Vulcan greeting unless the studio crew taped or tied fishing line around his fingers.Found on You Tube…
Joke-of-the-day…
A vertically challenged psychic was arrested one day. He escaped from jail and the newspaper headline read, "SMALL MEDIUM AT-LARGE."
Rules
of Thumb…
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
DIRECTION CONVEYS TIME AND EMOTION…In advertising, art and photography, the direction the subject is looking or the flow of the composition can affect the tone of the image. Left is the past, right is the future, up is positive, down is negative. For example: a subject looking up and to the right is looking positively into the future.
Yeah,
It Really Happened…
20-year-old Alexander Broughton who was admitted to UT Medical Center unconscious and unresponsive. He had a blood alcohol content level greater than 0.4, which is considered toxic and potentially deadly. Legal intoxication is 0.08. He had taken an alcohol enema.Investigators determined the incident happened at Phi Kappa Alpha's house on campus where they found several other people, including three men, still passed out the next morning.Investigators are working to determine if Broughton was assaulted or made the decision to engage in the behavior himself. UT suspended the Phi Kappa Alpha chapter for 30 days or until a decision is made about the chapter's future.
Somewhat
Useless Information…
- Due to the similarity between his last name and that of canine PSA character McGruff, who urges everyone to "take a bite out of crime," baseball slugger Fred McGriff became popularly known as "The Crime Dog."
- Woodsy Owl debuted in 1970 as an environmental representative who chastised us "Give a hoot, don't pollute," a slogan coined by U.S. Forest Ranger Chuck Williams. During the 1990s, Woodsy's message was changed to be a bit more all encompassing: "Lend a hand, care for the land!"
- Dick Van Dyke starred in a series of Public Service Announcements from 1975 to 1984 for the National Fire Protection Agency's "Learn Not to Burn" campaign. After he lost his Malibu home to a wildfire, he agreed to become the voice of Sparky, the Fire Dog.
- Before there was a rock band of the same name, there were the original Crash Test Dummies. Named Larry and Vince, these two characters spent 15 years reminding Americans what could happen to them if they forgot to buckle their seat belts when riding in an automobile. Their motto: "You could learn a lot from a dummy."
- There's an old children's joke about Smokey the Bear's middle name being "The". Not only is the joke bad, but the information is as well. The character's full name is really just Smokey Bear.
- During the 1980s, a large number of American cartoon shows contained PSA's at the end of their shows. Three of the most widely known are the closing moral segments at the end of He Man and the Masters of the Universe, the "Knowing is Half the Battle" epilogues in GI Joe: A Real American Hero and the "Sonic Sez" segments from Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog.
Calendar
Information…
Happening This Week:
22-29: Banned Books Week / National Dog Week / National Keep Kids Creative Week / Remember to Register to Vote Week / International Women's E-Commerce Days
Today
Is…
Family Health and Fitness Day USA
National Attend Your Grandchild's Birth Day
National Coffee Day
National Museum Day : Thanks SmithsonianNational Public Lands Day
Poisoned Blackberries Day: Legend has it that on this day the Devil poisoned all of the blackberries in Scotland
VFW Day: Veterans of Foreign Wars--Thanks
World Heart Day
Today’s
Events Through History…
TV shows that premired this date
1993 - "Grace
Under Fire," starring Brett Butler debuts on ABC-TV
1986 - "Designing
Women," TV Comedy, debuts on CBS
1985 - "MacGyver,"
starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV
1971 - "McMillan
& Wife," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - "Love
American Style," premieres on ABC-TV
1963 - "My
Favorite Martian," starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV
1962 - "Roy
Rogers & Dale Evans Show," debuts on ABC-TV
1959 - "Many
Loves Of Dobie Gillis," debuts on CBS-TV
1956 - "Oh!
Susanna," debuts on CBS-TV 1955 - "Sergeant Preston," debuts on CBS
1953 - Milton Berle
Show premieres
1953 - "Make
Room for Daddy," starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV
2000’s
2008 - Following
the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The
Dow Jones
Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point
loss in
its history
2006 - US
Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails
to
house pages were introduced
1900’s
1963
- Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros)
1962
- "Green Onions" by Booker T & MG's peaks at #3
1959
- Little Anthony & the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Koko
Bop"
1951 - 1st
color telecast of football game on network, Phila (CBS)
1950
- Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories
1946 - "Adventures
of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS Radio
1944
- Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
1936 - Radio
used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
1930
- Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio
1927
- Telephone service begins between US & Mexico
1915 - 1st
transcontinental radio telephone message is sent
1907 - Construction
begins on Washington National Cathedral
1800’s
1885 - The
first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool,
England
1872
- Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree
1806 -
Zebulon Pike holds a grand council with the Pawnee. Pike estimates 400
Pawnee
warriors attend. He hopes to win their allegiance to the United States,
rather
than Spain.
1700’s
1789 - 1st
congress adjourns
1769 - The
expedition to explore the central California coast led by Gaspar de Portolá
has
camped near modern Monterey. Along the Salina River, members of the
expedition
encounter a small Indian hunting party
1600’s
1650 - Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage
bureau (England)
1300’s
1349 - People of Krems Austria
accuse Jews of poisoning wells
Before 1000CE
219 - Batavian
soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome
Today’s
Birthdays…
In their 30’s
Zachary Levi, actor, director is 32
In their 40’s
Jill
Whelan, actress [Love Boat] will be 46
In their 50’s
Sebastian
Coe, British athlete, 8 world running records, 4 Olympic medals is 56
Andrew
"Dice" Clay, [Silverstien], comedian (Adv of Ford Fairlane) is 55
Ken
Weatherwax, actor (Pugsley-Addams Family) is 57
In their 60’s
Bryant Gumbel, New Orleans La, sportscaster/TV
host (Today Show) is 64
In their 70’s
Silvio
Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy is 76
Jerry Lee
Lewis, Feriday La, country singer (Whole Lotta Shakin') is 77
Ian
McShane, Blackburn England, actor (Roots, Bare Essence) is 70
In their 80’s
Anita Ekberg, actress (La Dolce Vita)/Miss
Sweden (1950 will be 81
Steve
Forrest, Huntsville Tx, actor (Ben-Dallas, SWAT) is 88
O A
"Bum" Phillips, football coach (Houston Oilers/New Orlean Saints) is
89
Remembered for being born today
Herbert
Agar, American journalist and historian b. 1897
Michelangelo
Antonioni, Ferrara Italy, director (Blow-up, Red Desert) b. 1912
Joseph
Banks Rhine, Penn, parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception) b. 1895
Enrico
Fermi, Rome, US physicist, gone fission/fermium (Nobel-1938) b. 1901
Greer
Garson, British WWII actress b. 1904
Madeline
Kahn, Boston Mass, actress (Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety) b. 1942
Larry
Linville, Ojai California, actor (Frank Burns-M*A*S*H, Blue Movie) b. 1939
Billy
Strange [William], singer-songwriter (A Little Less Conversation) b. 1930
Today’s
Historical Obits…
Anwar
al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and Islamist militant —2011—at 40
John
Billington, murderer, 1st American execution—hanged—1630—around 40
James
Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause)—car crash—1955—at 24
Saint
Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible—420—at 73
Simone
Signoret, German/French actress (Room at Top, Gina)— pancreatic
cancer—1985—at
64
Toohoolhoolzote,
prophet of Nez Perce—in battle—1877—in his 50’s
Answers…
Do you know what
this word means?
Love of language and the study of languages; glossophiles are often polyglots (from the Greek glossa = tongue, language)
What is the
rhyming answer?
Leaf beef
Rebus
Your time is up
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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