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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 50/ Day:
Today: H 49°…L 21°
Averages: H 43° L 17°
Records: H
64°(1921)…L -16°(1961, 1931)
Wind: ave: 3mph; Gusts: 21mph Today’s ave. humidity: 51%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
"A
Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold—1843
1st
incident of American Revolution - 400 attack Ft William and Mary,NH—1774
1st US
bombing of Hanoi—1966
9,655 see
highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT) —1983
Avalanche
kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol—1916
Dartmouth
College in New Hampshire received its charter—1769
James
Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial—1950
KOA-AM in
Denver CO begins radio transmissions—1924
Kofi
Annan is elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations—1996
LBJ &
Mexican Pres Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting
Rio Grande, to
reshape US-Mexico border—1964
Susan B
Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued—1978
Wright
Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk—1903
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♪ Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts:
Nice cool day. Went to see Lincoln and then to lunch with Cheryl. Mary is still in Chicago. The movie is well worth seeing. We did a light lunch after way too much popcorn at the movie.The weatherman says snow tomorrow night…now only 6” instead of the predicted 10”. But still saying another storm is right behind this one. Winter at 7000’ is always a little unpredictable, so I’m in wait and see mode.Sure hope the world is ready for N. Korea’s rockets and Syria’s poisoned gas, and everybody else who seems to want the Mayan calendar to be for real. There are real crazies out there.
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, C stands for a
duplicated consonant, L stands for any duplicated letter, and _
stands for any letter
_ _ V V _ V V
Lifestyle
Substance:
Old Saying Explained:
A
LEOPARD CANNOT CHANGE HIS SPOTS
This
is another old saying from the Bible. This one comes from Jeremiah 13:23 'Can an
Ethiopian change his skin or a leopard his spots?'.
Ok, then?
Movie Theme Songs you may remember:
Dirty Dancing ''(I've Had) The Time of My Life''
Read This Headline Carefully!!
On
a poster at Kencom:
ARE YOU AN ADULT THAT CANNOT READ? IF SO WE CAN HELP
Coptic Christian Art:
Bet You Didn’t Know…from History Channel
Returns tomorrow
Harper’s Index:
- Amount ING paid to settle federal charges is moved funds through the US for Cuba and Iranian customers: $619,000,000
- Estimated portion of Columbian cocain revenue that is laundered through banks in First World countries: 9/10
Ruminations:
Returns tomorrow
Unusual Fact of the Day:
The poinsettia is named after former congressman and ambassador Joel Poinsett, who introduced the plant to the United States in the 1800s.Found on You Tube:
Joke-of-the-day:
“What did your mother do yesterday morning. Vicky?” “She done her shopping, ma’am.” “Done her shopping, Vicky? Where’s your grammar?” “She done her shopping as well, ma’am.”
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
FLYING PAST A THUNDERSTORM
If you're flying towards a stationary thunderstorm, pass it on the right - you'll get a tailwind.
Yeah, It Really Happened
LYKENS, Pa. - Pennsylvania State Police said they arrested a man accused of breaking into his ex-girlfriend's home and using glue on her refrigerator and computer. Police said Dennis Homberg, 42, of Elizabethville entered his ex-girlfriend's Lykens apartment when she was away Nov. 12 and glued shut the refrigerator door and a utensil drawer, and poured glue on the woman's computer keyboard, The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News reported Monday. Homberg was charged with burglary, criminal trespass, stalking and criminal mischief.
Somewhat Useless Information
- During World War II, "special edition" Monopoly games were used to help POWs escape by including hidden maps, compasses and other tools within the game.
- Yahtzee is the classic game of dice and poker-themed combinations. It was originally called "The Yacht Game" because it was played by a Canadian couple aboard their yacht and was invented in 1954. It was later patented by a toy entrepreneur for commercial use in 1956.
- Sorry is also known as The Game of Sweet Revenge. It is similar to the Indian game Pachisi or Parcheesi, and was first introduced in the US by Parker Brothers in 1934.
- Risk is the classic game of world domination. It was originally created in France in 1957 and was known as La Conquete du Monde (The Conquest of the World). An American version was then introduced by Parker Brothers in 1959. There are 19 different versions of the Risk game, including Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Narnia and Transformers editions.
- Battleship is the strategic guessing game of sinking enemy ships and conquering the seas. It was originally a pad-and-pencil game introduced in 1943 and known as Broadsides, The Game of Navel Strategies. It was then converted to the board game in 1967.
- Checkers is the classic board game of strategy using a checkered board and tokens which are usually colored red and black. Known in some parts of the world as International Draughts, Checkers is one of the oldest known board games. One of the earliest versions of the game was discovered in Ur, Iraq and dated back to 3000 BC.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
10-17>
Human Rights Week
Today Is
Ice Cream and Violins Day
Pick A Pathologist Pal Day
~Malta: Republic Day (1974)
~Sweden: Santa Lucia Day
Today’s Events through History
1st music
store in America opens (Phila) —1759
1st time
Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts) —1975
Al Gore
delivers his concession speech—2000
Japanese
kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138—1944
Jimmy
Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller—1961
League of
nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague—1920
Massachusetts
Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the
colony against the
Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today
as the founding of the
United States National Guard—1636
Mitchell
Report is publicly released listing the names of 89 Major League
Baseball
players that have presumably used anabolic steroids and
human growth hormones—2007
Sir
Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world—1577
W. Wilson,
becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France) —1918
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Dick Van
Dyke, actor (Rob Petrie-Dick Van Dyke Show) is 87
In their 70’s
John
Davidson, singer, actor is 71
In their 60’s
Wendie
Malick, actress (Hot in Cleveland) will be 62
In their 50’s
Steve
Buscemi, actor (Fargo, Boardwalk Empire) is 55
Billy Van
Zandt, actor, director is 55
In their 40’s
Jamie
Foxx, comedian (In Living Color) is 45
Under 30
Taylor
Swift, singer-songwriter is 23
Remembered for being born today
Phillips
Brooks, Episcopal bishop/composer (Little Town of Bethlehem) (1835-1893)
Van
Heflin, Walters Oklahoma, actor (Great Adventure, Madame Bovary)
(1910-heart
attack-1971)
Heinrich
Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist (Schubert, Liszt) (1797-1856)
Mary Todd
Lincoln, 1st lady (1818-1882)
Carlos
Montoya, Madrid Spain, guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966) (1903-1993)
Archie
Moore, Benoit, Mississippi, light-heavyweight boxing champ (1913-1998)
Richard
Darryl Zanuck, film producer/executive, (1934-2012)
Today’s Historical Obits
Samuel
Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor)—heart failure—1924—at 74
Samuel
Johnson, English writer and lexicographer—heart failure—1784—at 75
Grandma
Moses [Anna Mary Robertson Moses] , painter—1961—at 101
Thomas A.
Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell—1934—at 80
Floyd Red
Crow Westerman, American actor— leukemia—2007—at 71
Stanley
Tookie Williams, co-founder of the Crips—executed——2005—at 51
Answer: Duplicate Letter Puzzles
FREEBEE
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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