Feb 13, 2013

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 07/ Day: 44   

Today: H   31°…L -8° Averages: H  44° L 19° Records: H   58°(2002)…L -16°(1965)

Wind: ave:   1mph; Gusts:  11mph  Ave. humidity:  78%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

"Grease" opens on Broadway—1972

11th Winter Olympic games close at Sapporo, Japan—1972

15th Winter Olympic games open at Calgary, Canada—1988

1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina—1795

American Temperance Society, forms in Boston—1826

Barbie doll goes on sale—1959

Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh's infant—1935

Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope—1997

Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR—1974

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition

     for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun—1633

Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna—1867

King Tut's tomb opened—1924

Peggy Fleming, 16, wins ladies senior figure skating title—1965

Victoria, and twenty-two Warm Springs Apache Indians surrender to

     Lieutenant Charles Merritt, of the Ninth Cavalry,

    at Ojo Caliente, New Mexico—1879

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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Sunshine all day…finally. Even though it is cold, the snow is melting quickly.  Looks like it will be nice, but chilly until the weekend. Glad to see that.

 

So tonight we hear the State of the Union speech. I used to enjoy watching the Pres and the Congress in the same room, standing, applauding or sitting and looking disgusted…depending on which side of the aisle people were sitting on. I will watch, but not with the enthusiasm of years past…since I realize that with all the sides seem to care about is talking about Bipartisanship when in fact they only want their side to win and the other side to lose. I said of the 112^th, and now afraid the 113^th Congress is no different. What we need in DC are well educated, statesmen and stateswomen; people who truly have an understanding of what our country stands for and will work to find a way to make that happen. Politics has always been a dirty business and has gotten worse with all the media coverage of the inner workings. Congressional hearings are out of hand. The nominee says “I am a true American” and someone on the other side will say “I find that statement disturbing at the least and certainly a reason that I will not vote for conformation.” One congress person holds hearings on a bill and the other side says that this bill will lead to the ruination of the way of life we know in America. I will watch the President, and will probably agree with many of his proposals, but I will hold out very little hope that any successes will arise from this congress or this administration.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Hidden Word

Hidden in each of the sentences below are the numbers 1 to 10 in words.

Having salmon every day for lunch gets a little boring after a while.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today:

• What's My Line? Colonel Chuck Yeager

• Waylon Jennings - Good Hearted Woman

• Tennessee Ernie Ford: 900 Pages of 66 Books

 Ok, then?

Read This Carefully!!

Miracle Cure Kills 5^th Patient

Picture of the Day: Uganda

Lots of bananas....seen throughout Uganda

Harper’s Index:         

• Average salary subjects in a September study offered a fictional woman applying for a US Univeristy laboratory position: $26,508

• Average salary offered a fictional man with identical credentials: $30,238

Unusual Fact of the Day:

Milton Bradley introduced the memory game Simon at Studio 54 in 1978

Joke-of-the-day:

Our staff has completed the 18 months of work on time and on budget. We have gone through every line of code in every program in every system. We have analyzed all databases, all data files, including backups and historic archives, and modified all data to reflect the change. We are proud to report that we have completed the "Y-to-K" date change mission, and have now implemented all changes to all programs and all data to reflect your new standards:

Januark, Februark, March, April, Mak, June, Julk, August, September, October, November, December

As well as:

Sundak, Mondak, Tuesdak, Wednesdak, Thursdak, Fridak, Saturdak

I trust that this is satisfactory, because to be honest, none of this Y to K problem has made any sense to me. But I understand it is a globalproblem, and our team is glad to help in any way possible. And what does the year 2000 have to do with it? Speaking of which, what do you think We ought to do next year when the two digit year rolls over from 99 to 00? We'll await your direction.  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

RIDING A MOTORCYCLE

New motorcyclists get cocky and reckless when they've put 3,000 miles--or the equivalent of one trip across the United States--on their bikes.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

  returns tomorrow

Somewhat Useless Information   

• In the United States, approximately 7 percent of households are millionaires.

• According to the book The Millionaire Next Door, only 20 percent of millionaires inherited their wealth. The other 80 percent earned their cash on their own.

• Half of all millionaires are self employed or own their own business Half of all millionaires are self-employed or own a business.

• Around 80 percent of millionaires are college graduates. Only 18 percent of millionaires have Master's degrees. Eight percent have law degrees, 6 percent have medical degrees, and 6 percent have PhDs.

• The average millionaire goes bankrupt at least 3.5 times.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

7-14
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week
Risk Awareness Week
Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week

10-16
Celebration of Love Week
Children of Alcoholics Week
Jell-O Week
Love a Mench Week
National Pancake Week
Random Acts of Kindness Week
International Flirting Week
National Green Week

12-14
World AG Expo: 12-14

13-19
World Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week

Today Is                                                                      

Ash Wednesday

Dream Your Sweet Day

Employee Legal Awareness Day

Get a Different Name Day

Madly In Love With Me Day

Today’s Events through History  

1st appearance of cholera at London—1832

College of William & Mary opens —1693

Disfida di Barletta - Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French 

     knights near Barletta—1503

Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria—1976

Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship—1977

Feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist 

     Hubertine Auclert—1881

Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls—1955

Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri—1866 

Last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after 

     Charles M Schulz dies—2000

Longest sentence published by NY Times-1286 words—1981

National Negro Baseball League organizes—1920

St Augustine, Florida founded—1566

US air raid on the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad kills more than 408 civilians—1991

Women's Marine Corps created—1943  

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 90’s

Chuck Yeagar, US test pilot (1st man to break sound barrier) is 90

In their 80’s

Kim Novak , actress (Vertigo, Of Human Bondage) is 80

In their 70’s

George Segal, actor/banjo player (Carbon Copy, Fun with Dick & Jane) is 79

Peter Tork, American musician and actor (The Monkees) is 71

In their 60’s

Stockard Channing, NYC, actress (Grease, Big Bus, Without a Trace) is 69

Jerry Springer, London England, talk show host (Jerry Springer Show) is 69

Remembered for being born today

Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist (1743-1820)

Tennessee Ernie Ford, Bristol Tn, country vocalist/actor (pea picker) (1919-1991)

Elizabeth Virginia [Bess] Truman, US 1st lady (1885-1982)

Grant Wood, US, painter (American Gothic) (1891-1942)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Catharine Howard, queen of England/5th wife of Henry VIII, beheaded—1542—17-24

David Janssen, [Meyer], actor (Fugitive, Harry O)—heart attack—1980—at 48

Waylon Jennings, American musician— diabetic complications—2002—at 64

Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister—1728—at 65

Answer: Hidden Word

Having salmON Every day for lunch gets a little boring after a while.

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  §