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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 48/ Day: 334
Today: H 57°…L 23°
Averages: H 46° L 19°
Records: H
68°(1980)…L -3°(1905, 1902)
Wind: ave: 12mph; Gusts: 22mph Today’s ave. humidity: 44%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
1st
Italian opera in US, "Barber of Seville" premieres (NYC) —1825
1st state
liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania) —1933
American
Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service—1953
Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army moves into Manchester & occupy
Carlisle—1745
Crew of
the slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea in
order
to claim insurance—1781
Jews of
Augsburg Germany massacred—1349
KOB TV channel
4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting—1948
Sand
Creek Massacre, Colorado militia kills about 150 peaceful Cheyenne
and Arapaho
Indians including Cheyenne chief One-Eye—1864
Seoul,
Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding—1994
Sir James
Jay invents invisible ink—1775
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♪ Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Returns tomorrow
Free Rambling Thoughts:
And the income drama continues. My tax guy has
the stuff ready to fax tomorrow when he goes to work. He is calling before,
faxing, calling to insure delivery. I am then calling to get a written document
stating that the damn thing has been resolved in full with me owing no tax.
What a bureaucratic nightmare. I can also guarantee the head of the Dept of
Colorado Revenue and the Governor will be hearing from me in written form.
Powerball fever even struck me today…I bought
2 tickets. I seldom buy them…like once in the last 5 years, but decided to give
it a try. As they say, can’t win if you don’t play. This should do me for about
another 5 years or so.
I finally got some new neighbors. The unit has
been empty about 2 months. Don’t know how many people will live there as many
pickups made several trips, so they must be local. I did hear that tensions
were high, as one lady was cussing out one of the guys carrying in furniture.
Should be interesting. Just now the Rent-A-Center truck pulled up with even
more. Just hope they are quiet. Not looking for friends, just nice neighbors.
Game
Center: (answers at the end of post)
Duplicate Letter Puzzles
Find
common words with certain letters duplicated in the given
positions. V stands for a duplicated vowel, L stands for
any duplicated letter, and _ stands for any letter
L _ V V L (2 solutions)
Lifestyle
Substance:
Old Saying Explained:
GILD THE LILY…This phrase is from King John by William Shakespeare. 'To gild refined gold, to paint the lily is wasteful and ridiculous excess'.
Ok, then?
TV Theme Songs you may remember:
Gilligan's Isle - "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle" by Sherwood Schwartz and George Wyle
Read This Headline Carefully!!
Drunk Drivers Paid $1,000 in 1984
Beautiful Scotland:
Bet You Didn’t Know…from History Channel
Livestock was one of the most valuable commodities in the ancient world. In fact, the word cattle comes from the Latin “caput,” or capital, meaning property or funds.
Harper’s Index:
Chances a Republican believes today that Irqaq had weapons of mass destruction at the time of the 2003 invasion: 2 in 3
Ruminations:
No matter how nice it is outside, I’ve never felt like I’ve wasted part of the day by taking a nap.
Unusual Fact of the Day:
Scottish band The Bay City Rollers earned their name after sticking a pin in a map of America, which landed on the Michigan city.Found on You Tube:
Joke-of-the-day:
A couple was having a party at their house. An hour before the party the woman found out that she still needed escargots. So she sent her husband out to get it. He was walking to the supermarket and he figured he had lots of time. So he stopped at the bar on the way. An hour and a half later he looked at his watch and realized that the party had already started. He quickly ran to the market, bought the snails and ran home. He tried to sneak into the kitchen without his wife seeing him. But at that moment his wife came out. He quickly threw the snails on the floor and said, "Come on guys, we're almost there."
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
SADDLING A HORSE…Check your stirrup length from a mounted, standing position. Stirrups are properly adjusted if you can just fit the palm of your hand between your crotch and the saddle.
Yeah, It Really Happened
EL PASO, Texas - A U.S. Army lieutenant performed 49 back flips at halftime of a University of Texas-El Paso football game to set a Guinness world record. Second Lt. Jalyessa Walker, 23, a former cheerleader at the school, performed the feat Saturday during halftime of UTEP's game against Rice University to break the record of 35 back flips set by Miranda Ferguson, 16, a Texas high school cheerleader, the El Paso Times reported Monday. Walker said the total, which will be a world record if approved by Guinness, was one flip short of her goal. "I wish I didn't run out of room so I could have done 50," Walker said. "As soon as I hit the concrete, I was starting to get tired and scared because I didn't want to fall."
Somewhat Useless Information
- The National Weather Service only classifies a snowstorm as a blizzard if it meets certain requirements. The blowing snow must reduce visibility to one quarter mile or less for at least three hours.
- At any given time, snow covers approximately one quarter of the surface of the earth.
- Snow actually helps the weather stay chilly. When the white stuff covers the ground, warming rays from the sun are reflected out into space, and heat has difficulty penetrating the ground, keeping temperatures lower.
- In centuries past, tales of snow during warm weather have most commonly been attributed to nearby volcanic eruptions, after which white pieces of ash may float from the sky looking like snow.
- Snowflakes take various shapes, but all are based on a hexagonal (six-sided) pattern inherent to the crystals in ice. The "arms" of a snowflake are technically known as dendrites.
- Despite the regular heat, it does snow near the equator, but only in the very highest elevations, like 19,340-foot-tall Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
21-28
National Deal Week
22-26
Church/State Separation Week
Today Is
Electronic Greetings Day
International Day of Solidarity With The Palestinian People
Square Dance Day
Today’s Events through History
1st
motorcycle race (Surrey England) —1897
7.4
magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This
affected
the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as south
as Trinidad—2007
"Kukla,
Fran, & Ollie" debuted on NBC—1948
Battle is
fought between Upper Town "Red Stick" Creeks, and the American
forces in the village of Autossee, in
modern Macon County, Alabama. A
force of almost 1000 Georgia militia, and 400
pro-American Creeks
led
by Efau Haujo), led by General John Floyd, attack the Red Stick Creek
stronghold. —1813
Cole
Porter’s musical "Gay Divorcee," premieres in NYC—1932
Indians
kill 2 Washington state pioneers and 12
others in Walla Walla Ore—1847
Kilauea
Volcano erupts in Hawaii—1975
Modoc War
begins with the Battle of Lost River—1872
Thomas
Edison demonstrates hand-cranked phonograph—1877
US
rations coffee—1942
US
receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii—1887
W
Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife," premieres in NYC—1926
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Jacques
Chirac, French politician is 80
Vin[ce]
Scully, sportscaster (NBC Baseball Game of the Week) is 85
In their 70’s
Diane Ladd,
Meridian Miss, actress (Wild Angels, Wild at Heart) is 77
Chuck
Mangione, Rochester NY, jazz hornist (Chasing the Clouds Away) is 72
In their 60’s
Garry
Shandling, AZ, comedian (Garry Shandling, Larry Sanders Show) is 63
In their 50’s
Kim
Delaney, actress (Tour of Duty, NYPD Blue) is 51
Howie
Mandel, Canadian comedian, actor, television host will be 57
In their 40’s
Don
Cheadle, film actor and producer is 48
Remembered for being born today
Louisa
May Alcott, Germantown Pa, author (Little Women) (1832-1888)
Christian
Doppler, Salzburg, Austria, physicist (Doppler effect), (1803-1853)
Madeleine
L'Engle, [Franklin], US, sci-fi author (Ilsa, Love Letters) (1918-2007)
C S Lewis
[Clive Staples], Belfast, sci-fi author (Silver Chair), (1898-1963)
Adam
Clayton Powell Jr, (Rep-D-NY)/minister (1908-1972)
Frank
Reynolds, news anchor (ABC Evening News) (1923-1983)
Merle
Travis, American singer (1917-1983)
Today’s Historical Obits
Ralph
Bellamy, actor (Rosemary's Baby, His Girl Friday)—1991—at 87
Cary
Grant [Archibald Alexander Leach], actor (Charades)—1986—at 82
Horace
Greeley, US founder/publisher (NY Tribune)—‘breakdown of mind and
body’—1872—at
61
George
Harrison, Beatles singer, guitarist and songwriter—lung cancer—2001—at 58
Emilio
Pucci, Italian fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy)—1992—at 78
Giacomo
Puccini, Ital composer (Mme Butterfly)—heart attack—1924—at 65
Howard
Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55)—1987—at 81
Natalie
Wood [Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko], actress (West Side Story)
—drowns—1981—at
43
Coleman
Young, 1st black mayor of a major city—1997—at 79
Answer: Duplicate Letter Puzzles
SHOOS, TWEET
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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