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Flagstaff
Almanac: Week: 11/ Day: 74 Today: H 66°…L 28°
Averages: H
50° L 23°
Records: H 69°(2007)…L -4°(1990)
Wind: ave: 6mph; Gusts: 17mph Ave. humidity: 57%
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W
Reno►1892
1st Internet domain name is
registered (symbolics.com) ►1985
1st salaried fish & game warden (William
Alden Smith in Michigan) ►1887
1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested►1875
Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after
1st new world voyage►1493
Dept of Veterans Affairs officially
established as a Cabinet position►1989
Finland is 1st European country to give women
the right to vote►1907
LBJ asks for a War on Poverty►1964
Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to
support a university►1867
National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona
dedicated►1960
Pluto again becomes outermost planet►1999
Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes
her vows, N Orleans►1729
♪ ♪ Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free
Rambling Thoughts
Another great spring day here in Flagstaff. While I know it is too good to last, I’m enjoying every minute of it. Almost all the latest snow has soaked in. I’ve been using a cheap plastic feeder tube as one of my bird feeders. I have purchased several over the past few years. The newest one lasted three days…think a squirrel got to the plastic hanger and chewed through it. So today I broke down and bought a metal feeder tube. I figure that it will last longer than three of the cheap ones…making it a sensible purchase. Should have done it a few years ago.Eyes stay on Rome…to learn more about the Pope. Some of the information coming out is not good, other is very good. He is certainly a humble man who cares for the poor. Still seems to hold many archaic beliefs on women and gays. Time will tell if that ever changes.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
What 5 chemical elements make chocolate?
*****
Hint
The title is helpful if you know your
elements.
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
from
Cracked.com
Things It Turns Out You Were Right to Hate
About School
- Huge Final Exams Are Bad for Learning
- Kids Don't Get Enough Recess
- Algebra Before High School Is a Recipe for Disaster
- Competition in School Hinders Learning
- Middle School Is a Horrible Idea
Ok, then?
Harper’s
Index
Increase since 2009 in the number of people over the age of 55 who are working: 3.710.000
Picture
of the Day: Mammals of the Sea
Unusual
Fact of the Day
The hole in your shirt that you put your arm through is called an "armsaye."Joke-of-the-day
A man moved to a mountain top to get rid of the hustle and be alone. One day he heard a knock at the door and no one was there but then he looked down and there sat a snail and it said "it is quite cold out here can I come in?"The man shouted "NO why don’t you all understand I want to be alone!" and he kicked the snail down the mountain.One year later there was a knock at the door and no one was there and then he looked down and there again sat a snail and it said, "What did you do that for?"
*****
Bonus:
Man: Is this seat empty? Woman: Yes, and this one will be if you sit down.
Rules of
Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
REACHING THE HORIZON
The distance to the horizon, in miles, is the square root of half again your height, in feet. If you're 6 feet tall, you can see 3 miles. From 600 feet, you can see 30 miles (sq. rt. of 900). Conversely, you can see a 150-foot building from 15 miles away (sq. rt. of 225).
Yeah, It
Really Happened
SWEETWATER, Texas - Participants in the annual, three-day Sweetwater Rattlesnake Round Up in Texas caught more than a ton of snakes, organizers said. More than 30,000 people attended the event, they said, with visitors including people from as far away as China, Israel, Germany, England and Australia. The roundup paid $13-per-pound for captured rattlers, featured about 2,160 pounds of rattlesnakes being weighed, the most since the 2,168-pound total in 2010, the Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News reported Monday. "The importance of this is to control the snake population and to inform the public," Texas Game Warden George Pasley said. "You see all these snakes here and you think there can't be many left in the wild, but there's plenty. We see rattlesnakes all the time. I have seen no shortage of rattlesnakes." Kathleen and Darrell McIntyre of Childress won a $400 prize for capturing the longest snake. It measured 78 inches.
Somewhat
Useless Information
- Men commit suicide three times more frequently than women do. But women attempt suicide two to three times more often than men.
- Women shoplift more often than men; the statistics are 4 to 1.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
Girl Scout Week
National Agriculture Week
Teen Tech Week
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
Flood Safety Awareness Week
International Brain Awareness Week
15-17
National Agriculture Week
Teen Tech Week
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
Flood Safety Awareness Week
International Brain Awareness Week
15-17
Today Is
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
Brutus Day : Ides of March: 44 BC - Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by
Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several
others
Buzzards Day
Freedom of Information Day
True Confessions Day
World Consumer Rights Day
Maine: Admission Day (1920-23rd state)
Belarus: Constitution Day (1994)
Belarus: Constitution Day (1994)
Today’s Events
through History
"Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV►1977
1st presidential press conference (Woodrow
Wilson) ►1913
Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna,
the farthest natural object in
the Solar system so far observed►2004
Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King
Cole Trio is #1) ►1945
Chat rooms make their debut on the Internet►1971
Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper,
publishes►1827
One of the last of the SEMINOLE leaders, Billy Bowlegs, fter
fighting the
Americans for almost 25 years will be surrender with 163 of his
followers.
They will be shipped west►1858
University of Toronto is chartered►1827
US Air Force unveils self-guided missile►1955
Today’s
Birthdays
In their 70’s
Judd Hirsch, Bronx, actor (Alex-Taxi) is 78
Sly Stone, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday
People) is 70
In their 50’s
Fabio [Lanzoni], Italy, romance novels model
is 54
Bret Michaels, guitarist (Poison-Talk Dirty to
Me) is 50
Park Overall, actress (Laverne-Empty Nest,
Mississippi Burning) is 56
In their 30’s
Will.i.am [William James Adams ],
musician: Black Eyed Peas is 38
Eva Longoria, actress (Gabrielle
Solis-Desperate Housewives) is 38
Remembered
for being born today
MacDonald Carey, actor (Days of Our LIves)
[1913-1994]
Andrew Jackson, General/(D) 7th pres [1767-1845]
Harry James, trumpeter (married to Betty
Grable) [1916-1983]
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who
mapped the So Hemisphere [1713-1762]
Joe E Ross, comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54,
Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show) [1914-1982]
Today’s Historical
Obits
Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist-1898-at
85
Julius Caesar, Roman military and political
figure-stabbed-44BC-at 55
Gail Davis [Betty Jeanne Grayson], TV-Annie
Oakley-cancer-1997-at 72
Tom Harmon, American football player and
broadcaster –heart attack-1990-at 70
Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball-2007-at
80
Aristotle S Onassis, Greek shipping magnate-
myasthenia gravis-1975-at 69
Ann Sothern, actress-2001-at 92
Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and
writer-1998-at 94
Answer: Brain
Teasers
Carbon (C)
Holmium (Ho)
Cobalt (Co)
Lanthanum (La)
Tellurium (Te)
Together they make chocolate
(C Ho Co La Te)
Holmium (Ho)
Cobalt (Co)
Lanthanum (La)
Tellurium (Te)
Together they make chocolate
(C Ho Co La Te)
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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