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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 01/ Day: 8
Today: H 36°…L 12°
Averages: H ° L ° Records: H 65°(1914)…L -17°(1913)
Wind: ave: 9mph; Gusts: 23mph ave. humidity: 54%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed—1798
Attempted assassination of Arizona
congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords—2001
Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy
Stirling—1764
Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by
fire—1894
Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last
battle with the US Cavalry at
Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory) —1877
Gen George Marshall becomes Sect of State—1947
Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on US
network—1968
Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue
whale in Oregon—1806
Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th
amendment (prohibition) —1918
President George W. Bush signs into law the No
Child Left Behind Act—2002
President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War
on Poverty"—1964
Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is
rediscovered in Bermuda—1951
United States national debt is 0 for the first
and only time—1835
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts:
Last blog for a few weeks. Tomorrow I will be busy packing and doing last minute things for my trip to Uganda. I head for Houston on Thursday…then to Dubai…then to Uganda for gorillas and chimpanzees. It will be a very exciting trip. I’ll be back near the end of January and will start the blog again.
Game
Center: (answers at the end of post)
Hidden Countries
Find the hidden word in the sentence
Ricky passes a ladder on the street.
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today:
Ok, then?
Read This Carefully!!
On another Plumber's truck: "Don't sleep with a drip. Call your plumber."
Picture of the Day: 1960’s TV
Bet You Didn’t Know…from History Channel
Maize is the world's leading crop. Of the 45,000 products on the shelves of an average supermarket, one-third are derived from it.
Harper’s Index:
Chances that a child lives in a US household headed by a single mother: 1 in 4
Unusual Fact of the Day:
The purpose of gasoline rationing during the Second World War was not to conserve gas, but to conserve TIRES. The primary source for natural rubber at the time was Southeast Asia, much of which was under Japanese control.Joke-of-the-day:
Teacher: Why are you late? Student: Because, of the sign! Teacher: What sign? Student: The one that says, "School Ahead, Go Slow."
*****BONUS*****
A rooster was strutting around the henhouse one Easter morning and came across a nest of eggs dyed every color of the rainbow. The rooster took one look at the colorful display, ran outside and beat the heck out of the resident peacock.
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
PIZZA FOR A CROWD
Half a typical medium pizza per person for lunch, half a large pizza per person for supper. Use this ratio of toppings: 1/2 veggie, 1/2 plain cheese, 1 all the way, 1 pepperoni, 1 pepperoni and mushroom.
Yeah, It Really Happened
DALY CITY, Calif. - California police said they are trying to find the owner of a 1938 telegram found in the back seat of a mail carrier accused of stealing credit and gift cards. Daly City police said Romeo Natan, 38, was busted on charges of stealing credit and gift cards from mail he was supposed to be delivering to San Carlos homes and investigating detectives discovered a telegram from Christmas Day 1938 among the thousands of letters allegedly stolen by Natan, the San Mateo County (Calif.) Times reported Thursday. Senior Detective Joe Bocci said the telegram must have been dropped into the mail prior to the holidays. "I think someone was passing down some family history," he said. "It means something to somebody." The telegram is from a couple named Minnie and Fred and addressed to a woman named Emma Gonzales in San Francisco. The text wishes Gonzalez a happy holiday and informs her the couple arrived safe in Reno. Natan and two alleged accomplices are facing numerous felony charges.
Somewhat Useless Information
- Oscar the Grouch used to be orange. Jim Henson decided to make him green before the second season of Sesame Street. How did Oscar explain the color change? He said he went on vacation to the very damp Swamp Mushy Muddy and turned green overnight.
- The 3 Musketeers bar was originally split into three pieces with three different flavors: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. When the other flavors became harder to come by during World War II, Mars decided to go all chocolate.
- Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.
- There really was a Captain Morgan. He was a Welsh pirate who later became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica.
- In 1907, an ad campaign for Kellogg's Corn Flakes offered a free box of cereal to any woman who would wink at her grocer.
- Editor Bennett Cerf challenged Dr. Seuss to write a book using no more than 50 different words. The result? Green Eggs and Ham.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
2-8
Someday We'll Laugh About This Week
3-7
Women's Self Empowerment Week
5-8
Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week
6-12
Home Office Safety and Security Week
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
8-14
Universal Letter Writing Week
National No-Tillage Week Conference
Today Is
Argyle Day
Bubble Bath Day
Earth's Rotation Day
Man Watcher's Day
Midwife's Day or
Women's Day
National English
Toffee Day
National Joy Germ
Day
Show and Tell Day at
Work
War on Poverty Day
Today’s Events through History
1st American commercial corporation chartered
(NY Fishing Co) —1675
Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended
12/24/1814 but nobody knew—1815
Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter
& sugar) —1940
Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio
& records his 1st two songs—1954
George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese
prime minister's lapv1992
Jews are expelled from Genoa, Italy—1598
Loch Ness Monster photographed—1974
NCAA announces that basketball tournament will
have 64 teams—1984
Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy—1935
Star of India returned to American Museum of
Natural History—1965
Who & the Kinks perform on the last
"Shindig" TV show—1966
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
Larry Storch, NYC, comedian (F Troop, Larry
Storch Show) is 90
In their 80’s
Charles Osgood, NYC, news anchor (CBS Weekend
News) is 80
In their 70’s
Shirley Bassey, Cardiff Wales, singer
(Goldfinger, Moonraker) is 76
Little Anthony [Gourdine], rocker (&
Imperials) is 73
Stephen Hawking, English physicist (Black
Holes & Baby Universes) is 71
Yvette Mimieux, actress (Time Machine, Where
the Boys Are) is 71
In their 60’s
David Bowie, English musician, actor, record
producer is 66
In their 40’s
R Kelly [Robert Sylvester Kelly], American
R&B singer (I Wish I Could Fly) is 46
Remembered for being born today
Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder
(Doubleday & Co) (1862-1934)
José Ferrer, San Juan Puerto Rico,
actor/director (Blood Tide, Dune) (1912-1992)
Elvis Aaron Presley, singer (Blue Suede Shoes,
Hounddog) (1935-1977)
Soupy Sales, [Milton Hines], NC, comedian
(Soupy Sales Show) (1926-2008)
Evelyn Wood, American educator (1809-1995)
Today’s Historical Obits
Chou En-lai [Zhou Enlai], China's PM—cancer—1976—at
78
Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer—1642—at
77
Marco Polo, Venetian explorer—1324—at 69
Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur—cancer—2002—at
69
Michel Thomas [Moniek ("Moshe")
Kroskof], Polish linguist—2005—at 90
Terry Thomas, Engl comic (Heroes)—Parkinson's
disease—1990—at 78
Eli Whitney, American inventor— prostate cancer—1825—at 59
Answer: Hidden Countries
Ricky passeS A LADder on the street.
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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