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Flagstaff
Almanac:
Week: 41/
Day: 281 Today: High 69°…Low 39°
Records: High
81°(1987)…Low 18°(1912) Averages: High 66°…Low 35°
Wind: average: 10mph; Gusts: 25mph
Today’s average
humidity:
44%
Quote
of the Day:
Today’s Historical
Highlights:
2001 - The U.S. invasion of
Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert
operations on the ground
1993 - Nobel prize for literature awarded
to Toni Morrison
1991 - Law Professor Anita Hill accuses
Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas
of making sexually inappropriate comments to
her
1982 - Cats opens on Broadway and runs
for nearly 18 years before closing
on September 10, 2000
1981 - Hosni Mubarak became
acting-president of Egypt
1968 - Motion Picture Association of
America adopts film rating system
1951 - David Ben-Gurion forms
Israeli government
1806 - Carbon paper patented in
London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
1520 - 1st public burning of books
in Netherlands, in Louvain
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free
Rambling Thoughts:
Our morning started out very cloudy and it looked like rain or snow was on the way. Alas, the clouds blew out and it was just another nice fall day here in town.
Israel shot down a drone today. I am really behind the times. I knew that the US has been using drones in many hot spots, sometimes just for surveillance, sometimes to destroy targets. These unmanned machines have killed many. The military says it kills the enemy. Around the world we know that they also kill innocents. But who would have a surveillance drone flying over Israel. So I went to the internet machine and discovered that these countries have drones: US, France, Germany, Italy, UK, Russia, China, India, Iran [maybe], and Israel. So which of these countries is spying on Israel? Can’t wait to find out. The Israelis are working on finding the demolished drone to see if they can figure out who owned it.
Game Center: (answers at the end of post)
Rebus:
Can you figure
out what this means?
Lifestyle Substance:
Dedication:
Guinness World Records:
The world's longest documented hair belongs to Xie Qiuping (China) at 5.627 m (18 ft 5.54 in) when measured on 8 May 2004. She has been growing her hair since 1973 from the age of 13.
Ok,
then?
Commercial
Jingles you may remember:
You Deserve a Break Today
Read
This Sign Carefully!!
On a butcher's window, "Let me meat your needs."
Do
you know what this word means?
What
is this not so common name of a common object?
Pteronophobia
Iconic
Photographs:
Great
Melodies:
Pipeline / Chantay's 1963
Harper’s
Index:
Percentage of students from families making more than $100,000 annually who attended a community college last year: 22
Unusual
Fact of the Day:
The first TV show to use “open captions,” or captioning for the hearing-impaired available on all television sets, was The French Chef on PBS.Found on You Tube:
Joke-of-the-day:
Cannibals capture three men. The men are told that they will be skinned and eaten and then their skin will be used to make canoes. Then they are each given a final request. The first man asks to be killed as quickly and painlessly as possible. His request is granted, and they poison him. The second man asks for paper and a pen so that he can write a farewell letter to his family. This request is granted, and after he writes his letter, they kill him saving his skin for their canoes. Now it is the third man's turn. He asks for a fork. The cannibals are confused, but it is his final request, so they give him a fork. As soon as he has the fork he begins stabbing himself all over and shouts, "To hell with your canoes!"
Rules
of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
USING DOGS TO CARRY PACKS…A dog can comfortably carry half his weight in a backpack. Working dogs can carry up to twice their body weight for short periods.
Yeah,
It Really Happened
- Property developer Cecil Chao has offered $65 million to any man who can woo his 33-year-old daughter. This may sound extravagant, especially for an attractive, affluent woman who could have anyone she wanted on her own, but Chao is hoping the money will motivate a suitor who will drive a wedge between his daughter Gigi and the lesbian partner she just eloped with.
- She and her girlfriend of several years just ran away to Paris to have their partnership blessed in a church.
- "What this whole episode really highlights is that perhaps still, the Chinese -- or in fact the Hong Kong mentality -- can perhaps tolerate the 'don't ask, don't tell' view of sexuality," she said. "But as a social statement, it's still very much a sensitive issue."
- Chao said he's offering the money because he wants to make sure his daughter has a comfortable life in Hong Kong.
- When asked whether she would accept an eligible suitor, Gigi laughed off the question, saying, "We'll just worry about that when the time comes."
Somewhat
Useless Information
- A googol is 1 with 100 zeros; Google made a play on the word.
- The founders started Google in the garage of a friend.
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google together as a solution to the problem of retrieving relevant information from a massive set of data.
- In July of 2006, Google bought YouTube and added it to their growing company.
- It was named one of the top 100 places to work for the year 2007 because of the great corporate culture.
- For a previous April Fool's prank Google made a joke service that was published on the internet as a new service for the public.
Calendar
Information
Happening
This Week:
1-7
Customer Service Week
Financial Planning Week
National Newspaper Week
Spinning & Weaving Week
Universal Children's Week
World Dairy Expo
3-10
No Salt Week
World Space Week
5-7
Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend
National Storytelling Weekend
7-14
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
Emergency Nurses Week
Fire Prevention Week
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week National Metric Week
National Physicians Assistant Week
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine Week
Today
Is
- Lee National Denim Day
- Change A Light Day to energy saving bulbs
- National Diversity Day
- National Frappe Day
- World Smile Day
- You Matter To Me Day
Today’s
Events through History
2000’s
2003 - Gray Davis is recalled as
Governor of California, three years before the
official end of his office term.
Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected
Governor.
1900’s
1971 - Disney World opens in Orlando
1960 - "Route 66"
premieres
1957 - "American
Bandstand" premieres
1955 - Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his
poem "Howl" for the first time at a
poetry reading in San Francisco
1919 - KLM, Netherlands Airlines,
established (oldest existing airline)
1913 - Henry Ford institutes moving
assembly line
1800’s
1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in
Cuba
1868 - Cornell University (Ithaca
NY) opens
1700’s
1737 - 40 foot waves sink 20,000
small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
1701 - In a farewell address to William Penn,
Susquehanna Chief Oretyagh, along
with other Shawnee leaders, request, again,
that traders be prevented from
selling alcohol to the local Indians. Penn
assures them that the Pennsylvania
assembly is do just that.
1600’s
1672 - White Mountain Apache raid the ZUNI
pueblo of Hawikum, and kill a priest
named Pedro de Abila y Ayala
1500’s
1542 - Explorer Cabrillo discovered
Catalina Island off California coast
Before 1000CE
3761 BC - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew
calendar (Proleptic Julian
calendar)
Today’s
Birthdays
In their 40’s
Toni Braxton, singer will be 44
In their 50’s
Simon
Cowell, London, recording executive and TV producer (X-Factor,
American Idol)is
53
Yo-Yo Ma [馬友友], French-born
American cellist is 57
In their 60’s
Joy Behar, TV personality (The View) stand up
comedian is 69
John Cougar Mellencamp, Seymour Indiana,
rocker (Jack & Diane) is 61
In their 80’s
Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of S Afr
(Nobel Peace Prize 1982) is 81
Remembered for being born today
June Allyson, Bronx, actress (Till the Clouds
Roll By, Vegas) b. 1917
Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded
quantum physics (Nobel 1922) b. 1885
Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], Flagstaff
Az, actor (Andy's Gang) b. 1905
Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer
(IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr b. 1879
R. D. Laing, Scottish psychologist (psychois)
b. 1927
Al Martino, Phila, singer (Here in My
Heart)/actor (Godfather) b. 1927
Elijah Muhammad [Elijah Robert Poole], US,
leader of Nation of Islam b. 1896
Henry A Wallace, (D/P) 33rd VP
(1941-45)/founder Progressive Party b. 1888
Today’s
Historical Obits
Clarence Birdseye, American inventor, frozen
food—heart attack—1956—at 69
Agnes de Mille, choreographer (Oklahoma!,
Rodeo)—1993—at 88
Simon Fraser, English general—in battle
during War for Independence
—1777—at 47
Irving Penn, American photographer—2009—at
92
Edgar Allen Poe, poet (Raven)—alcoholism—1849—
at 40
Answers
Do you know what
this word means?
The fear of being tickled by feathers
Rebus
Over and over again
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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