1-1-14


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 01 / Day: 1   
Today: L 17°…H 54°… Ave. humidity: 46%
Wind: ave:   mph; Gusts:  mph  
Average Low: 16° Record Low:  -21° (1919)
Average High: 42° Record High:  61° (1981)

Quote of the Day


Today’s Historical Highlights
   45 BC - The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time.
404 - Last gladiator competition in Rome
630 - The Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that captures it bloodlessly.
1502 - Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro
1600 - Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of 25 March.
1651 - Charles II Stuart crowned king of Scotland
1805: Lewis & Clark attend a party with the local Indians.
1788 - Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves
1801 - Irish Parliament votes to join the Kingdom of Great Britain
1818 - Official reopening of the White House
1846 - Yucatan declares independence from Mexico
1874 - New York City annexes the Bronx
1898 - Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY1962 - United States Navy SEALs established.
♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts  
A really nice day to end 2013. So Sunny, so warm. Couldn’t ask for anything more.  Did some end of the year cleaning, getting everything put away or thrown away. I really can’t believe how much ‘stuff’ one accumulates without even trying. I am always surprised when I finally get pumped to clean up and what I find.   I have a beautiful new Mandela Calendar and have decided to mark each day with a set of rooms to straighten up and clean up…I’ll see how well that works out. Listening to NPR this morning they had a story from Florida where the state has been issuing lots of Public Service Announcements reminding their residents that celebrating by shooting a gun into the air is very dangerous…since the bullets have to come back down to earth and every year at least one person is injured or killed.  Duh…It made me wonder where is the NRA on this issue? It would seem to me that they too should be doing a PSA reminding all gun owners not to be celebrating by shooting off a gun. Are they afraid that such a PSA would be seen by their members of ‘caving to gun control’ or that none of their members would be so irresponsible, it is not their problem? If it is the former, they should be able to come up with something about the dangers. If the later is the problem, they are admitting that there are irresponsible gun owners out there and they don’t want to talk about them. Either way, their inaction says a lot about their mission. I sure hope the New Year brings some sanity to the gun debate.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
In this teaser, you will be given rows, each with three clues. The answer to the second clue of any row will consist of the letters -- usually rearranged -- of the answer to the first clue in that row, minus one letter. The answer to the third clue, likewise, will consist of the letters from the second answer, minus one. If you put each dropped letter into the box following the word from which it was dropped, reading down the two columns of boxes will give a phrase, or two terms that are somehow related.
1. Domestic rodent [_] 2. Lovely suit? [_] 3. Look, intently 4. Booths, chairs, and stools [_] 5. Secret and real-estate [_] 6. Dread 7. Alter orientation [_] 8. Straight [_] 9. Internal covering 10. Dresser compartment [_] 11. Shallow pool's occupant [_] 12. Erode, through use 13. Weakness; lack of vigor [_] 14. Northeastern U.S. state [_] 15. Explosive device 16. Follower; student [_] 17. Joined; bound [_] 18. Drive away, as a feeling 19. French/Swiss river [_] 20. Savior [_] 21. Metal, prior to extraction 22. Get away from [_] 23. Word separator [_] 24. Baseball hats

Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Odd Lawsuits…
Leg Cramps Slide
In 2004, Jerome and Judith O'Callaghan sued American Airlines for $100,000 because there wasn't enough leg room on their flight.
  • New Years Eve Drops
  • McClure, Pennsylvania: A kettle is dropped in honor of McClure Bean Soup Festival
  • Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: A wrench is dropped
  • Memphis, Tennessee: A guitar is dropped
  • Mobile, Alabama: A 600-pound electric Moon Pie is dropped 
  • Mount Olive, North Carolina: The New Year's Eve Pickle is lowered
  • Niagara Falls, New York: A ten-foot Gibson Guitar is dropped
  • Passamaquoddy Bay: A red maple leaf is dropped in Eastport, Maine
  • Pensacola, Florida: A pelican is dropped
  • Plymouth, Wisconsin: Plymouth drops an 80-pound decorated cheese wedge
  • Port Clinton, Ohio: A walleye fish named "Captain Wylie Walleye"
  • Princess Anne, Maryland: A stuffed muskrat in a top hat and bow tie named Marshall P. Muskrat 

OK Then…


Harper’s Index 
  • Bald eagle population of the continental United States in 1979: 9,815
  • In 1982: 13,825

Unusual Fact of the Day
Fifty years ago, the average man first married at 23, and the woman at 20. Today, those ages have increased to 27 and 25, respectively.


Joke-of-the-day
A New Yorker was forced to take a day off from work to appear for a minor traffic summons. He grew increasingly restless as he waited hour after endless hour for his case to be heard.
When his name was called late in the afternoon, he stood before the judge, only to hear that court would be adjourned for the rest of the afternoon and he would have to return the next day.
"What for?!?!?" he snapped at the judge.
His honor, equally irked by a tedious day and sharp query, roared out loud: "Twenty dollars contempt of court! That's why!"
Then, noticing the man checking his wallet, the judge relented:
"That's all right. You don't have to pay now."
The young man replied, "I know. But I'm just seeing if I have enough for two more words."  
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
FINDING WHERE TO PUT YOUR MOUTH ON A CLARINET
To find the correct place to put your mouth on a clarinet reed, put a piece of paper between the reed and the mouthpiece. Where the paper stops is the correct place for your mouth.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
In Wisconsin a postal carrier said he simply wanted to cheer up a woman on his rounds who seemed "stressed out" so he decided to deliver her mail naked.
He even told her he was going to do it. As a prank, I suppose. But whether she took him seriously or not, there was no doubting his sincerity when he showed up at her office wearing only a smile and his mail bag.
Those wacky letter carriers.
The 52-year-old was arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior several days later.  
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • The famous dance ‘Samba’ was originated in Brazil during the 70s, being a favorite for competitions throughout the world because of its lively and upbeat rhythm. The word “Samba” has African roots as it comes from the word “Semba,” meaning naval bump, an indication to the intimacy of the dance.
  • Between 1971 and 1972 Germany lifted the restriction on haircuts for soldiers and as photos of that period show, soldiers used to have long hair in the army at that time! However, this restriction was active only for one year, as later on the defense minister decided a soldier’s hair could not touch his uniform or collar and that hair could not cover a person’s eyes or ears.
  • Did you know that eating meat is crucial for humans’ evolution according to two recent independent studies? What has been demonstrated in these studies, is that meat contributed to human’s big brain and mentally advanced system. It is also said that if gorillas used to eat meat, in the long term they could be mentally as advanced as humans were in primitive times.
  • The prime minister of New Zealand appointed an Official Wizard in 1990 and it was the first country of the modern world to have done so. “I have spent the past 40 years of my life in a largely solo attempt to re-enchant the world, making use of my training as an academic sociologist and psychologist”, says the 80 years – old Ian Brackenbury Channell.
  • The public broadcasting system of the United Kingdom, BBC, was founded in October of 1922 by John Reith and George Villiers. BBC, which is headquartered at the Broadcasting House in London, is the largest broadcaster in the world numbering 23, 000 employees.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Month:
Apple and Apricots Month 
Artichoke and Asparagus Month 

Bath Safety Month 
Be Kind to Food Servers Month
Birth Defects Month 
Book Blitz Month

California Dried Plum Digestive Month
Carnival Season
Celebration of Life Month
Cervical Health Awareness Month 

Financial Wellness Month

Get A Balanced Life Month
Get Organized Month

International Brain Teaser Month
International Change Your Stars Month
International Child-Centered Divorce Awareness Month
International Creativity Month
International New Years Resolutions Month for Businesses
International Quality of Life Month
International Wayfinding Month
International Wealth Mentality Month

Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month 

National Be On-Purpose Month
National Braille Literacy Month 
National Clean Up Your Computer Month
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
National Hot Tea Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Mentoring Month  
National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month 
National Stalking Awareness Month 
National Polka Music Month 
National Poverty in America Awareness Month
National Radon Action Month
National Skating Month
National Soup Month 
National Volunteer Blood Donor Month 

Oatmeal Month

Rising Star Month 

Self-help Group Awareness Month
Self-Love Month
Shape Up US Month

Teen Driving Awareness Month
Tubers and Dried Fruit Month 
Thyroid Awareness Month 

Worldwide Rising Star Month

Happening This Week:
1-7
New Year's Resolutions Week
Celebration of Life Week
Diet Resolution Week
Silent Record Week
Someday We'll Laugh About This Week

Today Is                                                                      
·        Copyright Law Day
·        Commitment Day
·        Ellis Island Day 1892
·        Euro Day
·        First Foot Day
·        Global Family Day
·        Mummer's Parade
·        New Years Day Polar Bear Plunge or Swim Day
·        Rose Bowl Game
·        Tournament of Roses Parade Day since 1886
·        Z Day
^^^^^^^^^^
·        Liberation Day
o   Cuba-1959
·        Independence Day
o   Cameroon-1960 from France
o   Haiti-1803 from France
o   Sudan-1956 from UK and Egypt

Today’s Events through History  
1975 - International Women's Year begins
1979 - International Year of the Child begins
1983 - World Communications Year begins
1985 - International Youth Year begins
1986 - International Peace Year begins
1987 - International Year of Shelter for Homeless begins
1988 - Year of the Reader begins
1989 - Year of the Young Reader begins
1992 - International Space Year begins
1994 - International Year of Family
1999 - International Year of Elderly         
2014- International Year of Family Farming
^^^^^
1502 - Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro
1600 - Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of 25 March.
1673 - Regular mail delivery begins between NY & Boston
1801 - Irish Parliament votes to join the Kingdom of Great Britain
1808 - Congress prohibits importation of slaves
1818 - Official reopening of the White House
1842 - 1st illustrated weekly magazine in US publishes 1st issue, NYC
1852 - 1st US public bath opens, in NYC
1863 - Emancipation Proclamation (ending slavery) issued by Lincoln


1934 - Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison
1948 - 1st color newsreel filmed (Pasadena, California)
1948 - Britain nationalizes its railways
1957 - Benjamin Britten's ballet "Prince & the Pauper," premieres in London
1962 - United States Navy SEALs established.


1968 - Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain
st mandatory seat belt law goes into effect (NY)

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Ty Hardin, actor (Riptide, Bronco) is 84
Country Joe McDonald, rock guitarist/vocalist (& the Fish) is 72

Remembered for being born today
1735 - Paul Revere, silversmith/US patriot
1752 - Betsy Ross [Elizabeth Griscom], seamstress widely credited with making the first American flag
1895 - J. Edgar Hoover, 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1900 - Xavier Cugat, Barcelona Spain, bandleader (married Abbe Lane, Charo)
1909 - Dana Andrews, actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura)
1919 - J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, novelist (Catcher in the Rye)
1919 - Rocky Graziano, boxer (Middleweight champ) and entertainer

Today’s Historical Obits 
1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), typhus @65
1896 - Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (NYC subway system), pneumonia @69
1972 - Maurice A Chevalier, French actor (Can Can, Gigi), @83
1982 - Victor Buono, TV actor (King Tut-Batman), heart attack @43
1994 - Cesar Romero, US actor (Joker-Batman) @86
2005 - Shirley Chisholm, 1st American black congresswoman/pres candidate @80
2013 - Patti Page [Clara Ann Fowler], American pop singer @ 85

Brain Teasers
1.      hamster [M] 2. hearts [H] 3. stare
4. seating [I] 5. agents [E] 6. angst
7. realign [G] 8. linear [A] 9. liner
10. drawer [R] 11. wader [D] 12. wear
13. anemia [A] 14. Maine [A] 15. mine
16. disciple [I] 17. spliced [C] 18. dispel
19. Rhone [N] 20. hero [H] 21. ore
22. escape [E] 23. space [E] 24. Caps
 4. seating [I] 5. agents [E] 6. angst 7. realign [G] 8. linear [A] 9. liner 10. drawer [R] 11. wader [D] 12. wear 13. anemia [A] 14. Maine [A] 15. mine 16. disciple [I] 17. spliced [C] 18. dispel 19. Rhone [N] 20. hero [H] 21. ore 22. escape [E] 23. space [E] 24. Caps"Migraine headache"
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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13-31-13


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 01 / Day: 365   
Today: L 46°…H 11°… Ave. humidity: 61%
Wind: ave:   8mph; Gusts:  12mph  
Average Low: 16° Record Low:  -16° (1911)
Average High: 42° Record High:  62° (1945)

Quote of the Day
 
Today’s Historical Highlights
1492 - 100,000 Jews expelled from Sicily
1600 - British East India Company chartered
1695 - Window tax imposed in England, shopkeepers brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
1783 - Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern states
1831 - Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
1857 - Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
1890 - Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot
1897 - Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898)
1904 – 1st New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square, (Longacre Square) 
1907 - For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year
1911 - Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize
1953 - Willie Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year
1955 - General Motors becomes the 1st U.S. corporation to make over $1 billion in a year.
1961 - 1st performance of Beach Boys
1962 - "Match Game" debuts on NBC with host Gene Rayburn
1970 - Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin
1991 - USSR, last day of existence
1999 - Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
2004 - The official opening of Taipei 101, standing at a height of 509 meters (1,670 feet).

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts   
Did some major shopping for food today, cupboards were bare. Nice day and was able to spend some time outside. I was also able to finally pick up my new glasses. So much easier to read the newspaper. Also stopped by the PO to pick up my held mail. I was not the only one to do so today. The line went way out into the lobby. They were helping those with non-monetary requests but that line had 6 people ahead of me. Guess I wasn’t the only one holding mail over the holidays as all those in front of me were picking up held mail. One lady who lives in Doney Park outside of town had to remind the guy that there are two streets in Flagstaff with the same name, hers and one inside the city limits. Her search took a lot longer than mine.
 
Had a nice talk with my travel friend and former neighbor Bob this afternoon. I had tried calling him since Christmas Eve, since we had spent over 50 years of Christmas Eve’s together. He and his two daughters and son-in-law just got back from a trip to Reno to see his great grandbaby girl, who is 9 months old. They drove and had some dicey weather in Wyoming, but otherwise an easy trip. He had a great time, everyone in his family are doing well. We are both getting excited about our upcoming trip to Cuba.
 
Before my trip I will be glued to the TV for the Olympics. Sad to see the terrorists are alive and well in a little over 3 hours from the Olympic Games in Sochi.  I sure hope the games go off without any terrorist attacks. This should be a time to see the world’s best athletes.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Find all ten words described below.
-------------------
The first word you'll need
is a tool used to snare.
Reverse and add one:
a dwelling filled with fresh air.

Append the letter H
to find a metric sort of part.
Now change N to E to get
a smile, at its heart.

Tack on an 'I N G'
to make a baby's cross to bear.
Remove the center two
and find a golfer's action there.

Add an S and drop the E's:
A painful bite you'll see.
Add one to the end: you will make
penny-pinching, miserly.

Put first 2 and last 2 out the door,
What's left is really cool.
Only keep the first half of that
And now you find the fool.

Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Odd Lawsuits…
Crazy Neighbor
In the summer of 2005, two teenage girls appeared on their neighbor's doorstep with freshly baked cookies. It seems innocent enough, but the neighbor was so shocked to see people at her door, that she had an anxiety attack and sued for the medical damages. She won $930 for her trip to the emergency room.
New Years Eve Drops
  • Eastport, Maine: A sardine is dropped in a nod to the area’s history in the herring fishing and canning industry
  • Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania: A giant M&M is dropped at midnight
  • Elmore, Ohio: A sausage is dropped
  • Flagstaff, Arizona: A pine cone is dropped 
  • Frogtown, Pennsylvania: A frog is dropped
  • Gainesville, Georgia: The "Chuck the Chicken" Drop 
  • Hershey, Pennsylvania: A Hershey Kiss replica is raised
  • Hilton Head Island, South Carolina: A giant, lighted golf ball is lowered
  • Ickesburg, Pennsylvania: A french fry is dropped
  • Key West, Florida (801 Saloon): drops a ruby slipper with drag queen Gary "Sushi" Marion
  • Marion, Ohio: A ball of popcorn 

OK Then… 
Harper’s Index 
  • Dollars spent on health care in the United States in 1983: $354,600,000,000
  • Percentage of that amount paid by the government: 43
  • Number of abortions per every 100 live births in the United States: 42.6
  • In Japan: 155

Unusual Fact of the Day
Crayola means "oily chalk." The name is derived from the French words craie, or "chalk," and ola, an abbreviation for "oleaginous," or "oily."
Joke-of-the-day
A Cajun named, Jean Paul, moved to Texas and bought a donkey from an old farmer named Ben for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.
The next day, Ben drove up and said, "Sorry, but I have some bad news. The donkey died."
"Well, then, just give me the money back," said Jean Paul
"Can't do that. I went and spent it already." Replied Ben
"OK, then. Just unload the donkey," said Jean Paul.
"What ya going to do with him?" asked Ben.
"I'm going to raffle him off," said Jean Paul.
"You can't raffle off a dead donkey!" uttered Ben.
"Sure can. Watch me. I just won't tell that he's dead," said Jean Paul.
A month later Ben met up with the Cajun and asked, "What happened with that dead donkey?"
"I raffled him off, I did. I sold 500-hunderd tickets at two dollars apiece and made a profit of $898," said Jean Paul.
"Didn't anyone complain?" inquired Ben.
"Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back,” said Jean Paul.
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
OVERCOME JETLAG
On average, it will take one day per hour difference to get over your jetlag    
Yeah, It Really Happened
MIAMI - A Florida man who tried to trade a live alligator for beer at a convenience store said he didn't know trapping the gator was illegal. Police said Fernando Caignet Aguilera, 64, brought the 4-foot alligator in a cardboard box to the Santa Ana Market in Miami's Allapattah neighborhood Dec. 10 and asked clerk Javier Herrera to accept the reptile in exchange for a 12-pack of beer, CNN reported Wednesday. Herrera told WFOR-TV, Miami, he told Aguilera to leave, and the man attempted to make the same trade with a customer. Aguilera said he found the alligator shortly before the incident and didn't know it was illegal to trap the animal. "I just picked it up here," Aguilera said. "I seen it here in the grass and I tied it up." He said he wasn't going to accept just any beer in exchange for the gator. "I wanted a Corona, because if he brings me a Natural Light or something like that I don't want it. I want a Corona, because the alligator is so beautiful," he said. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission cited Aguilera for three charges related to the illegal capture of the alligator. He faces as much as six months in jail or a $500 fine if convicted. The FWC said the alligator was released into the wild.  
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • Spiderwort flowers have a very short life - only a single morning - after which the petals wilt and turn to a jelly-like fluid. However, each plant will produce 20 or more flowers per stem.
  • The False Hallebore or Indian Poke is a plant which grows in eastern and western America but not central. Native American tribes used it to determine their chiefs. If one was able to survive eating the very toxic plant (the roots and foliage are poisonous), they were worthy. 
  • Low-pollen sunflowers have been developed in recent years which not only help asthma sufferers, but also extend the flower's life. Before the advent of modern materials, sunflower stems were used to fill life-jackets.
  • Pliny the Elder, a Roman scientist of the first century AD named the Gladioli flower. Struck by the resemblance between the sheath of the flower and the weapon that was carried by Roman soldiers, he called the flower "gladiolus" from the Latin word "gladius" which means sword.
  • The Rafflesia arnoldii, which can be found in the rainforests of Indonesia, is the flower with the world's largest bloom; it can grow three feet across and can weigh up to 15 pounds.
  • The Amorphophallus titanium has also been called the "corpse flower" for its unpleasant odor, which smells of rotting flesh to attract pollinators. The "corpse flower" is not a single flower but a cluster of many tiny flowers, called an inflorescence. The plant can reach heights of seven to 12 ft and can weigh as much as 170 lbs.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
25-31 It's About Time Week
26-1/1: Kwanzaa

Today Is                                                                      
·        First Night Celebrations
·        Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
·        Make Up Your Mind Day
·        New Years Eve
·        No Interruptions Day
·        Universal Hour of Peace Day
·        World Peace Meditation Day
·        Unlucky Day

Today’s Events through History  
  406 - Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia.
1744 - James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's nutation motion (wobble)
1781 - Bank of North America, 1st US bank opens
1935 - Charles Darrow patents Monopoly
1990 - Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
1995 - Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip
1997 - Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Anthony Hopkins, actor (Elephant Man, QB VII, Magic, Bounty) ia 76
Ben Kingsley, Scarborough England, actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice) is 70
Tim Matheson, actor (Animal House, Fletch, Up the Creek) is 66
Bebe Neuwirth, actress (Lilith-Cheers, Damn Yankees) is 55
Val Kilmer, actor (Top Secret, Top Gun, Willow) is 54

Remembered for being born today
Jacques Cartier, French explorer b. 1491
[Bonnie Prince] Charles Edward Stuart, English pretender to throne b. 1720
Henri Matisse, impressionist painter (Odalisque) b. 1869
George Marshall, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953) b. 1880  
Simon Wiesenthal, Polish/Austrian nazi hunter (Wiesenthal Center) b. 1908
Pat Brady, actor (Roy Rodgers Show) b. 1914
Rex Allen, American actor, singer, and songwriter b. 1920
Odetta, [Holmes], Birmingham Ala, folk singer (Sanctuary) b.1930
Donna Summer, singer (Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio) b.1948
John Denver, NM, singer (Rocky Mt High), thank God he's a country boy b. 1943
Rosalind Cash, actress (Omega Man, Wrong is Right) b. 1938

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
José Greco, Italian-born American flamenco dancer and choreographer in 2000 @82           
Woody Strode, actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante) in 1994 @80
Chief Nipo Strongheart, Yakima actor (Pony Soldier) in 1966 @75
Floyd Cramer, pianist (Nashville Sound) of cancer in 1997 @64
Rick Nelson, singer/actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet) in plane crash in 1985 @45
Roberto Clemente, slugger (Pitts Pirate)in a plane crash in 1972 @38

Brain Teasers
NET (a tool used to snare) TENT (a dwelling filled with fresh air) TENTH (a metric sort of part) TEETH (a smile, at its heart) TEETHING (what a baby suffers from -- its "cross to bear") TEEING (a golfer's action) STING (A painful bite) STINGY (penny-pinching, miserly) IN (really cool -- i.e. the "in" thing) I (I am the fool, after all. Or does it refer to you? :D )
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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