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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 51/ Day: 356
Today: H 31°…L -9°
Averages: H ° L °
Records: H
61°(1917)…L -12°(1924)
Wind: ave: 9mph; Gusts: 10mph Today’s ave. humidity: 61%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
103
Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock—1620
1st
crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World—1913
1st
feature-length color & sound cartoon premieres (Snow White) —1937
1st feature-length
silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released—1914
1st
junior high school established (Berkeley California) —1909
3 white
NY teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man—1987
City of
Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control—1995
Fox signs
Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract—1933
Fred
Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio) —1932
Geneva
Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens—1973
John Jay
becomes 1st US secretary of state—1784
NY bound
Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all
258 aboard die-Lockerbie
bombing—1988
State of
Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence—1948
Tom
Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys—1959
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Returns after break
Free Rambling Thoughts:
Sure was cold this morning…stayed inside all day and got ready for my trip…paper stopped, check…mail hold, check…plants watered, check…tickets, check, packed, check. I’ll be leaving about 6am tomorrow and won’t return until the 27th. Blog will probably start up again on the 28th. Ready for a great week with my brother and the Chicago in-law family.I hope everyone has a good holiday, with friends and family. I am hoping for more sanity in 2013, less political hoopla, more people caring about people, less hatred, more compromise, and a whole lot more peace in this world.I was in the education field for my whole career. I started teaching when we taught 3R’s, science and social studies. As the years progressed more and more was added to the classroom teacher’s assignments…lessons in character building, lessons in sex education, lessons on family responsibility, drug-free education, counselor and family arbitrator, social service reporter of abuse and family violence, and mountains or paperwork to the front office that show they are teaching and the list just kept growing. Now people who haven’t been in a classroom as anything but a student back in the day are trying to change their responsibility again…by adding being trained in shooting a gun and having one in the classroom to make the children safe. Others are suggesting that administrators receive the training and have them at the ready. At the same time, some of these ‘gun in every classroom’ people were out there just a few weeks ago degrading teacher’s unions and saying that teachers need to be in the classroom teaching and not picketing for better working conditions and better pay packages. From my point of view, teachers and administrators of schools did not go into education to be armed protectors of their students. While not every teacher who enters their first classroom will make it a career, and not every teacher goes into education to be the best teacher in the school, those who stay work long hours and try very hard to help kids prepare for the world out there. One final thought…if the first responders who are called to a school incident do not need to be concerned that any of the staff is carrying a loaded weapon. Their job is difficult enough without adding the scenario that some of the people with guns are also good guys. I sure hope this insanity is stopped in its tracks.
Game
Center: (answers at the end of post)
Duplicate Letter Puzzles New Puzzle when blog
returns
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
L _ V C V C L
Lifestyle
Substance:
Old Saying Explained:
LONG
IN THE TOOTH
When a horse grows old its gums recede and if you examine its mouth it looks 'long in the tooth'.
Ok, then?
Movie Theme Songs you may remember:
The Lion King ''Circle of Life''
Read This Headline Carefully!!
In
the lobby of a Moscow Hotel, across from a Russian Orthodox Monastery:
YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT THE CEMETERY, WHERE FAMOUS RUSSIAN AND SOVIET COMPOSERS, ARTISTS AND WRITERS ARE BURIED DAILY, EXCEPT THURSDAY.
Winter-ish cartoons:
Harper’s Index:
- Ratio of the value of Obama contributions to Rmoney contributions among education workers: 6 to 1
- Among for-profit education workers: 1 to 4
Unusual Fact of the Day:
Andre Agassi's father represented Iran in boxing in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics.Found on You Tube:
- Littlest Angel
I listened to this as a child many, many, many times
Joke-of-the-day:
There once was an old man who was about to die. He told his wife to put a bag of money in the attic "When I die I'll get it on my way up." chuckled the old man. Well when the old man died the wife went up to the attic and found that the bag of money was still there. "I knew I should have put that money in the cellar!" said the old woman.
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
MARKETING A NEW PRODUCT
Americans will not buy something they cannot pronounce.
Yeah, It Really Happened
CHICAGO - Officials at the University of Chicago said an apparent Indiana Jones fan sent a replica movie prop to the school addressed to "Henry Walton Jones Jr." Admissions counselor Grace Chapin said workers were left scratching their heads when no "Henry Walton Jones" could be found in the school directory, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday. "We gave it to a student worker, and the kid came back laughing once he Googled it," Chapin said."Some of us are in a haze with finals, you know, so he said it was Indiana Jones' name. Then we opened it, and it was very bizarre. There was no explanation as to why it was with us, so we talked about it and decided to put it online."Workers said they opened the package and discovered an elaborate replica of fictional professor Abner Ravenwood's journal from the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" film. Chapin said Lucasfilm, the studio that made the Indiana Jones films, said it does not know where the journal came from. She said some have theorized the faux postmark on the journal itself may have confused the U.S. Postal Service if it fell out of its original packaging. Chapin said the journal may also be part of an unusual admissions project. "I don't want to get everyone sending us elaborate Indiana Jones creations, though," she said.
Somewhat Useless Information
- Approximately 800 tornadoes are reported in the United States each year, causing eighty fatalities and 1,500 injuries. A tornado can happen in any season and at any hour, from mountains to urban areas.
- Lightning is a leading cause of weather-related injury and even death in the United States. Lightning strikes the Earth more than 5,000 times every minute. Your odds of being struck by lightning in America are 1 in 700,000 in any given year. About 10 percent of lightning-strike victims are killed.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
16-1/5>
Christmas Bird Count Week
16-24>
Gluten-free Baking Week; Posadas
17-23>
Saturnalia
Today Is
Crossword Puzzle Day
Forefathers Day
Hamburger Day
Humbug Day
Look At The Bright Side Day
National French Fried Shrimp Day
National Flashlight Day
National Homeless Persons' Remembrance Day
Phileas Fogg Win A Wager Day
Underdog Day
World Peace Day/Winter Solstice
Today’s Events through History
1st stone
arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore—1829
1st US
skating club formed—1849
2
treaties the Cherokee signed with Return Meigs are sent to the Senate
today for
consideration. The Cherokee will give up over four million
acres for almost
$20,000—1804
Cheyennes,
Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre—1866
Conference
covering peace and the resumption of trade is held for the
next 8 days between
representatives of the British in North Carolina
and the Cherokee—1759
Flanders
adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is Jan 1 1583—1582
Nepal
changes from British protectorate to independent nation—1923
Scientists
Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium—1898
UN
General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child—1976
Vince
Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing—1969
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Ed
Nelson, New Orleans La, actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider) is 84
In their 70’s
Phil
Donahue, talk show host (Phil Donahue Show) is 77
Jane
Fonda, actress (Barbarella, Klute), physically fit is 75
In their 60’s
Samuel L
Jackson, Washington DC, actor (Pulp Fiction) is 64
In their 50’s
Jane
Kaczmarek, actress: Malcolm in the Middle is 57
Ray
Romano , actor (Ray Barone-Everybody Loves Raymond) is 55
In their 40’s
Andy
Dick, actor (Matthew-Newsradio) is 47
Remembered for being born today
Florence
Griffith Joyner, LA California, runner (Olympic-3 gold-1988)
(1959-
severe
epileptic seizure-1998)
Hermann A
J Kees, German Egyptologist (Problems of Egyptology) (1886-1964)
Joe
Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986) (1924-2012)
Donald
Regan, White House staffer/US Secretary of Treasury (1918-2003)
Paul
Winchell, NYC, ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith) (1922-2005)
Frank
Zappa, Baltimore, rocker (Mothers of Invention, Catholic Girls) (1940-1993)
Today’s Historical Obits
Rod
Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede)—1983—at 73
F Scott
Fitzgerald, author (Zelda)—heart attack—1940—at 44
Frank
Kellogg, US Secretary of State and Nobel laureate—1937—at 80
Richard
Long, actor (Nanny & Professor)— several heart
attacks—1974—at 47
James
Parkinson, English physician, geologist, paleontologist, political
activist— severe
stroke—1824—at 67
George S
Patton, US General (Sicily/Normandy)—car crash—1945—at 60
Dick
Schaap, American sports journalist—surgery complications—2001—at 67
Answer: Duplicate Letter Puzzles
GAINING
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.
§ And That Is All for Now §
