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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 16/ Day: 106 Today: H 57°…L 40°
Wind: ave: 10mph; Gusts: 34mph Ave. humidity: 34%
*Averages: H
58° L 28°
Records: H 76°(1948)…L 11°(1965)
Quote of the Day
Today’s Historical Highlights
1st Easter observed…1724
1st solar powered radios go on sale…1956
83rd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of
Mass in 2:09:27…1979
8th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit
Samuelson in 2:35:15…1979
Annie Oakley sets women's record by breaking
100 clay targets in a row…1922
Charles V orders a stop to Indian land
conquests…1550
Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic
effects of LSD…1943
NY Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard…1959
Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for
"Buried child"…1979
Solar eclipse may have marked the return of
Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca,
to his kingdom after the Trojan War…1178BC
US Post Office issues 1st books of postage
stamps…1900
Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass
shooting in modern American history.
The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32
people to death and injures 23 others
before committing suicide…2007
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts
I went to a friend’s funeral today. A very nice service that reminded me how much I do miss the rez. The service was in Navajo and English, the local church from Hard Rock had the music. Navajo jokes, and the beautiful Navajo people. I saw lots of people I haven’t seen since leaving the rez. Such a sad time, but at the same time, such a nice time to see so many wonderful people. Then I went to a late lunch with some of them. Caught up on some Tuba staff and the day ended with smiles from all.Still trying to understand Boston today. I have a friend who ran that marathon years ago. The news hit the TV about an hour before the funeral and I was riveted to the TV. As someone on the news said, this looks more like the daily life in the Middle East rather than in the US. Sadly the numbers of innocent dead and injured keeps rising. We will have to wait months or more to find out exactly what happened and who is to blame. Someone who is very mentally unbalanced for sure. Prayers to all who are involved in this tragic event in one of our cities.
Game
Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
Jon and Bob were betting on a baseball game and Bob lost. To get back at him he bets Jon.Bob says, "I bet you I can do two to three thousand push-ups in 10 minutes."Jon says, "Fine, let's see it. You couldn't possibly win that bet."Bob won the bet. How is that possible?
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Origins of Phrases
A rolling stone gathers no moss
Meaning: Someone who does not settle in one place rarely prospers.
Origin
This proverb refers to what is well known about mosses and lichens - that they are slow-growing organisms that don't thrive on disturbance. A sure way to prevent a colony of moss from growing on a stone is to move it about. As with all proverbs, it isn't the literal meaning that conveys the sense but the metaphor. A 'rolling stone' refers to a wanderer, unable to settle to any job or lifestyle and therefore characterized as unreliable and unproductive.That notion was known to the ancient world and Greek and Latin versions of the phrase are cited by Erasmus in the third volume of his collection of Latin proverbs - Adagia, 1508.The proverb may have come into colloquial English before then, although early records are incomplete. We do know that it was in use by 1546, when John Heywood published A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue:The rollyng stone neuer gatherth mosse.Heywood's claim in the title to include all the proverbs in English is a little overstated, but Dialogue is the most comprehensive early collection and the source of many previously unrecorded proverbs. They were assembled from various sources, including Erasmus' Adages and from his own collecting amongst the Tudor populace.By the early 17th century, a 'rolling stone' was referred to as a type of wastrel - one who would amount to nothing. In A dictionarie of the French and English tongues, 1611, Randle Cotgrave listed the French word 'rodeur' and gave it this definition in English:Rodeur: A vagabond, roamer, wanderer, street-walker, highway-beater; a rolling stone, one that does nought but runne here and there, trot up and downe, rogue all the country over.Quite a good name for a rock band you might think and Brian Jones thought just that when he formed the eponymous blues/rock band in 1962. Despite what appears to be Mick Jagger's impressively dogged attempt to sleep with most of the models in London and despite his long-standing friendship with Kate Moss, journalists have not yet had occasion to wheel out the inevitable headline 'Rolling Stone gathers Moss'.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
- Rank of China among global beer producers by volume: 1
- Rank of the US: 2
Ruminations:
Some people just lack the ability to laugh at themselves. That’s where I come in.
Picture of the Day: North Korea
Unusual Fact of the Day
Cruise control and automatic transmissions were invented by a blind engineer named Ralph Teetor.Joke-of-the-day
A man walked into a doctor's office and the receptionist asked him what he had. He replied, "I got shingles."She said, "Fill out this form and supply your name, address, medical insurance number. When you're done, please take a seat."Fifteen minutes later a nurse's aide came out and asked him what he had. He said, "I got shingles."So she took down his height, weight, and complete medical history, then said, "Change into this gown and wait in the examining room."A half hour later a nurse came in and asked him what he had. He said, "I got shingles."So she gave him a blood test, a blood pressure test, an electrocardiogram, and told him to wait for the doctor.An hour later the doctor came in and asked him what he had. He said, "Shingles."The doctor gave him a full-cavity examination, and then said, "I just checked you out thoroughly, and I can't find shingles anywhere. " The man replied, "They're outside in the truck. Where do you want them?"
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
FINDING ROMANCE
Finding a good romantic relationship is like finding a quarter on the sidewalk - you're as likely to find one by not looking for it as you are by looking. And you spare yourself neck problems, strained eyes, and a lot of anxiety.
Yeah, It Really Happened
A California man was found in a pool of blood at a home improvement store in West Covina after he purposefully attempted to cut his arms with handsaws, authorities said.Pasadena Fire Captain Art Hurtado was among the horrified shoppers. He was shopping with his wife on his day off when he jumped in to help the victim.Without gloves or any equipment, the 21-year fire department veteran began working on the victim."I barely had a pulse and he was just barely breathing," Hurtado said. But Hurtado kept trying, using what was on the stores shelves around him."People just couldn't believe it," added Cpl. Rudy Lopez, with West Covina Police Department. "He walked into the saw area, picked up a couple of saws in the saw area and started cutting both of his arms."Lopez said the victim used several handsaws - including one that is used to cut drywall - to cut "all the way down to the bone."
Somewhat Useless Information
- The federal form 1040 was introduced in 1913 and was required of US citizens and residents with a net income of $3,000 or over for the taxable year; nonresident aliens with income were also required to file.
- The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935, and Social Security numbers were made available the next year, 1936. However, taxpayers weren't required to use their Social Security number as a means of tax form identification until 1961.
- The cost of war has often driven the push for taxes. The first United States income tax was imposed in July 1861 to help pay for the Civil War; the rate was just three percent of income over $800. That tax was eventually repealed and replaced by a tiered income tax in 1862. The income tax system we use today was made law in 1913, just before the start of World War I.
- Federal income tax withholding as we know it today was made permanent in 1943 as part of the Current Tax Payment Act. The move was seen as a means of making tax payments and filings more convenient for taxpayers.
- The "Presidential Campaign Fund" check-box was created in the 1970s in order to fund presidential elections. Since the inception of the check-off, over a billion dollars has been distributed to about a hundred primary election presidential candidates.
- Regarded by some as the smartest man who ever lived, even Albert Einstein was no fan of figuring out his taxes, once remarking, "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
Health
Information Privacy and Security Week
National Crime
Victims Rights Week
National Environmental Education Week
National Robotics Week
National Library Week
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week
National Environmental Education Week
National Robotics Week
National Library Week
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week
Pan American Week
(Spring) Astronomy Week
(Spring) Astronomy Week
Week of The Young
Child
Today Is
Returns tomorrow
Today’s Events through History
George Washington heads for 1st presidential
inauguration…1789
Michael Jordon, becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000
points in a season…1987
Panfilo de Narvaez sights Indian houses near
Tampa Bay, Florida. He will anchor
his boats in the area…1528
San Salvador destroyed by earthquake…1854
Start of Papal Journey of Pope Benedict XVI to
the United States…2008
US president Lincoln outlaws business with
confederate states…1861
Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening
News…1962
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Pope Benedict XVI [Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger],
Marktl, Bavaria, Germany is 86
In their 70’s
Bobby Vinton, Pitts Pa, singer (Roses are Red,
Blue on Blue) is 78
In their 40’s
Jon Cryer, actor (Pretty in Pink, Superman IV)
is 48
Martin Lawrence, actor, director, producer,
screenwriter is 48
Remembered
for being born today
Edie Adams, Kingston Pa, Mrs Ernie Kovacs
(Murial Cigar), actress…1925
Charlie Chaplin, (Tramp), comedian (City
Lights)/IBM salesman…1889
John Hadley, mathematician/inventor (1st
reflecting telescope)…1682
Henry Mancini, Cleveland, composer/conductor
(Pink Panther)…1924
Barry Nelson, American actor…1917
Gerry Rafferty, Paisley Scotland,
guitarist/vocalist (Baker Street)…1947
Dusty Springfield, [Mary O'Brien], London,
vocalist (Growing Pains)…1939
Selena [Quintanilla], tejano vocalist…1971
Peter Ustinov, London, actor (Death on Nile,
Logan's Run, Billy Budd) …1921
Today’s Historical Obits
Neville Brand, actor (Stalag
17)…emphysema…1992…at 71
Jacques Cassini, Fr astronomer (Discover rings
of Saturn)…1756…at 79
Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian…TB…1859…at
53
Marie [Gresholtz] Tussaud, maker of wax
figures…1850…at 88
Robert Urich, TV actor {Spencer for
Hire]…cancer…2002,,,at 55
Answer: Brain Teasers
He did two push-ups, since it is worded that he can do 2 - 3000, but Jon thought it was 2000 - 3000.
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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