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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 46/ Day:
Today: High 37°…Low
10°
Records: High
73°(1973)…Low 7°(1950)
Averages: High
52° Low
24°
Wind: average: 2mph; Gusts: 8mph
Today’s average humidity: 63%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
1st known
photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken—1933
1st underwater
tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens—1927
Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, author expelled from Soviet Writers Union—1969
Battle of
Guadalcanal began—1942
Ellis
Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed—1954
General Washington
forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks—1775
Hermann
Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland—1938
Largest
observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted—1956
Pres
Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil & freezes
Iranian assets—1979
Space
shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage—1984
US army
announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of
civilians at
Vietnamese village of My Lai—1969
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts:
What a shock…waking up to 10° this morning. Hard to call this ‘fall weather’. We did finally warm up to a blistering 37°…where’s my swimming trunks and beach towel?I couldn’t believe it when Candy Crowley began talking about the 2016 election on her program this morning. Depressing. Let’s get this country moving forward, but not that far forward. Fareed also had some great ideas for our election system. Update it to make it easier for citizens to vote. Surprised to hear that international poll watchers at some sites in our country were told to leave, or threatened with arrest. Geez…I remember when Carter, Ford, and Clinton were part of international teams in Iraq, and other countries making sure the elections were following the rules. What has our country come to?
Game
Center: (answers at the end of post)
Anagram Sentences: 6 letter anagrams
What are
the missing words?
The ______ had to ______ behind to help secure their position, while the ______ were conducting further bombing runs.
Lifestyle
Substance:
Unusual Uses for Everyday Things: LEMONS
You can remove mold by rubbing lemon juice where you see it. Mold should dissipate soon after!You can make your own secret spy invisible ink with lemon juice.Take a q-tip and soak it in lemon juice. Use the Q-tip to write on the paper. Once the lemon juice is dry you can use heat from a lamp to reveal a secret message!Use 1 cup of lemon juice in your wash to boost the effectiveness of your laundry detergent.Use lemon juice to get blond highlights, just apply and then sit out side. Repeat the process over a weeks time for best results.Lemons can give you electricity!1. roll the lemon to get the juices
2. Cut 2 slits in the lemon
3. in one slit place a dime, the other use a penny.
4. Now you have electricity from a lemon, you can test how much with a multimeter.
Old Saying Explained:
COPPER…The old word cop meant grab or capture so in the 19th century policemen were called coppers because they grabbed or caught criminals.
Ok, then?
TV Theme Songs you may remember:
Night Court - Jack Elliott
Read This Headline Carefully!!
Prostitutes Appeal to Pope
Sacred Mountains Around the World:
Celtic Music:
Celtic music and King of Dance
Harper’s Index:
Number of hours worked annually by the average Greek worker: 2032 (US: 1797)Rank of this number among the highest in the Eurozone: 1
Ruminations:
It looks like some of our employees are finally taking their health seriously. A few of them were outside drinking Diet Coke during their smoke break.
Unusual Fact of the Day:
The U.S. hockey team did not defeat the USSR in the gold medal game of the 1980 Olympics. The so-called "Miracle on Ice" was actually a semi-final game, and the Americans had to go on to play Finland for the gold.Found on You Tube:
Joke-of-the-day:
Q: How many politicians does it take to change a light bulb?A: Two. One to assure the public that everything possible is being done while the other screws it into a water faucet.
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
SWARMING BEES…Honeybees will start to congregate in a horseshoe-shaped pattern on the front of the hive three days before they start to swarm.
Yeah, It Really Happened
MINNEAPOLIS - Police in Minnesota said a suspected gang member was arrested over tattoo of a pig in a police uniform being shot. Hennepin County prosecutors said Antonio Jenkins Jr. posted a picture on Facebook of a tattoo on his right bicep depicting a pig in the uniform of Minneapolis police Officer Jeffrey Seidel being shot through the head by a person, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported Friday. Jenkins, a suspected member of the Bloods street gang currently on probation for armed robbery, was arrested Thursday and charged with making a terroristic threat for the benefit of a gang. "It's pretty crude and pretty direct. The officer works in the area. [Jenkins] sent it out on Facebook. That's a lot," Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said. Jenkins allegedly told police the pig was wearing Seidel's uniform because he was angry at the officer over an August 2011 event. The criminal complaint does not describe the incident.
Somewhat Useless Information
- If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
- The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
- President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
- Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
- In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
- Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
7-13
Dear Santa Letter Week ►Pursuit
of Happiness Week
11-17
American Education Week ►Geography
Awareness Week ►National
Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week
12-18
National Global Entrepreneurship Week ►World
Kindness Week ►National
Young Reader's Week
Today Is
National Pizza With The Works Except Anchovies Day
Veteran's Day (Observed)
World Orphans Day
Mexico: Postman Day's
Today’s Events through History
1st
Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal) —1933
Adolf
Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power Nov 8—1923
American
Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican
Republic,
crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International
Airport,
killing all 260 on board and five on the ground—2001
Branch of
the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first
ten drive-up
teller windows—1946
Colonel
Henry Bouquet calls upon the Shawnee, at his camp on the Muskingum
River, to
deliver all of their remaining prisoners. He asks the Shawnees to
treat them
gently—1764
Election
to establish constitution for the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wok Indians
of the
Tuolumne Rancheria is authorized by the Secretary of the Interior—1935
English
Parliament re-establishes Catholicism—1555
Ferdinand
Marcos elected president of Philippines—1965
Heavy
snow closes schools from DC to Maine—1987
Jules
Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed
garment
that bears his name—1859
Nazis
receive 92% of vote in Germany—1933
Nobel for
literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill—1936
Nobel
Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) —1945
Plymouth,
England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament—1439
Scientists
perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell—1970
Silvio
Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the
European sovereign debt crisis—2011
Sir James
Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform
as an anesthetic—1847
South
Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies—1974
Supreme
Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public
schools
unconstitutional—1968
Theodore
W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry—1915
Tibetan
troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty,
for fifteen
days—764
World's
Fair in Paris opens (50 million visitors) —1900
Today’s Birthdays
In their 70’s
Charles
Manson, Cin Oh, criminal (Tate-Labianco) is 78
In their 60’s
Brian Hyland,
Queens NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy ... Bikini) is 69
Al
Michaels, Bkln, sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Baseball/Football) is 68
Neil
Young, Toronto, singer/songwriter (Cosby, Sills & Young) is 67
In their 50’s
Nadia
Comaneci, [Gheorghe], Romania, gymnist (1st 10/Olymp-gold-1976) is 51
Megan
Mullally, actress (Will & Grace) is 54
In their 40’s
Sammy
Sosa, baseball outfielder (Chicago Cubs) is 44
In their 30’s
Anne
Hathaway, American actress is 30
Ryan
Gosling, Canadian actor is 32
Remembered for being born today
Bahá'u'lláh,
Prophet Founder of the Bahá'à Faith (1817-1892)
Joseph
Coors, CEO (Adolph Coors Co Brewery) (1917-2003)
Grace
Kelly, Philadelphia Pa, actress (Rear Window)/Princess (Monaco), (1929-1982)
Jo
Stafford, Coalinga California, singer (You Belong to me, Never Smile Again)
(1917-2008)
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Johnstown NY, suffragist (1815-1902)
Today’s Historical Obits
Eve
Arden, actress (Our Miss Brooks)—1990—at 82
Percival
Lowell, amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff,
Arizona—stroke—1916—at
61
St.
Nicholas Owen (martyr), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and
Wales—1606—at
56ish
Penny
Singleton, American actress (Blondie)—2003—at 95
Answer: Anagram sentence
The Marine had to remain behind to help secure their position, while the airmen were conducting further bombing runs.
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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