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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 27/ Day: 181 Today: H 91°…L 58°
Wind: ave: 15mph; Gusts: 24mph Ave. humidity: 27%
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31° (1913)
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Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
"Gone With the Wind" by Margaret
Mitchell, published…1936
1st Corvette manufactured…1953
Car crashes into Glasgow International Airport
in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist
attack…2007
Congress creates Indian Territory (now
Oklahoma)…1834
East & West Germany merge their
economies…1990
Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats)
discovered…1893
Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states
short of ratification…1982
Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa…1966
Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for
Indian rights in South Africa…1914
Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of
Egypt…2012
Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese
restaurants…1755
Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action
Comics Series issue #1…1938
Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes
announced (Bell Labs)…1948
US Fish & Wildlife Service forms…1940
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
A little breeze and some cloud cover made today a little more bearable. Still H*O*T but not as bad as other parts of the state. It was still not a great idea to spend much time outside.Our president’s trip to Africa is giving me so many memories of my trips over there. As I read of their various visits, I am returned to the areas I have visited. Great memories. Sad to see the problems in Egypt are on the rise, again. Difficult to hear that a young American ESL teacher was stabbed to death at a protest over there. So hard to understand.The 100th Tour De France has started and many of the athletes are claiming that this generation of riders is drug free. Watching the race is exciting, but the damage to the reputation has been done and it will take more than the 100th race milestone to convince the world that they have fixed their issues. I certainly hope they are correct.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Can you decipher this phrase:
friends standing miss friends
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Oxymorons
Peace offensive Peacekeeper missile Plastic wood Positively cynical Press releaseOk, then?
Harper’s Index
- Percentage of Americans under the age of 30 who can identify Roe V Wade as a decision about abortion: 44
- Number of India’s state legislators charged with ‘crimes against women’: 43
Picture of the Day: Flagstaff…long ago
Unusual Fact of the Day
In Paris, there are more dogs than there are children, and they seem to be treated with equal amounts of pampering. Collectively, Parisians spend nearly $500,000 every day on health and grooming for their pets.Joke-of-the-day
A police man pulls over a drunk driver for not stopping at a stop sign and asks the driver if he saw the stop sign.The driver replies "I did but it turned red too fast for me to stop."
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
CELLARING WINE
When cellaring a wine, add about 1 year of aging time for every 2 degrees the cellar averages below 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
Yeah, It Really Happened
AUSTIN, Texas - An invasion of "crazy" ants in areas of the U.S. Gulf Coast has wreaked havoc on electronic devices, especially air conditioning units, experts say. Tawny crazy ants, named for their color and their "herky-jerky" pattern of foraging, first showed up near Houston in 2002. Hailing from northern Argentina and southern Brazil, they seek out cavities to nest in, like walls, basements -- or air conditioning units. Less than 1/8 inch long, their small size allows them to crawl inside cellphones, computers and appliances, where protected cavities are "just great" for them, Edward LeBrun, a researcher at the University of Texas, told LiveScience. Reproducing in large numbers, sometimes outnumbering local species of ants 100-to-1, they've developed a preference for swarming into electronics devices like air conditioners and farm equipment like pumps, experts said. In one case, the ants quickly spread to 90 out of 150 air-conditioning units in an apartment building in Waco, Texas, said Mike Matthews, who works for Austin-area pest control business The Bug Master. "When you open these things up, you see thousands of the ants, just completely filling them up," he said. That infestation took about two months to control, he said.
Somewhat Useless Information
- Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
- Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid
- airborne particles resulting from the flush.
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
23-30
Carpenter Ant
Awareness Week
Fish Are Friends,
Not Food! Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week
National Mosquito
Control Awareness Week
27-7/4
*National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness
27-30
*National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness
27-30
Today Is
·
Descendants
Day
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Leap
Second Time Adjustment Day
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Meteor
Day
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National
Handshake Day
·
NOW (National
Organization For Women) Day
^^
·
Congo: Independence
Day (1960 from Belgium)
·
Guatemala:
Armed Forces Day
·
Sudan: Revolution
Day (1989 coup)
Today’s Events through History
"Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by
Dale Messick, 1st appears…1940
17-day newspaper strike in NY begins…1945
Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for
sanctions against Italy…1936
London Tower Bridge opens 1906 - Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat
Inspection
Act adopted…1894
Spanish conquerors under Cortes take gold from
Aztecs…1520
Treaty with the SENECA Indians is concluded today on Buffalo Creek, in
Ontario
County, New York. All SENECA lands
in Ontario County are ceded to the "Holland
Land Company", and they
will be given new lands on Lake Erie…1802
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Dorothy Malone, actress (Peyton Place) is 89
In their 60’s
Billy Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10k
(Olympics-gold-64) is 75
In their 50’s
Vincent D'Onofrio, actor [Law and Order] is 54
David Alan Grier, comedian (In Living Color,
Boomerang) is 57
Ken Olin, actor (Thirtysomething, Det Quinn-EZ
Street) is 59
In their 40’s
"Iron" Mike Tyson, youngest
heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90) is 47
Under 30
Michael
Phelps, swimmer (16 Olympic medals) is 28
Remembered
for being born today
Harry Blackstone Jr, magician (Blackstone Book
of Magic & Illusion) [1934-1997]
Georges Duhamel, French author [1884-1966]
Susan Hayward, actress (I Want to Live, Tulsa)
[1917-1975]
Lena Horne, actress/singer (Stormy Weather,
Wiz) [1917-2010]
David Wayne, actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda
Strain, 3 Faces of Eve) [1914-1995]
William A Wheeler, (R) 19th VP [1819-1887]
Today’s Historical Obits
Chet Atkins, American country guitar player
and producer…cancer…2001…at 77
Gale Gordon, comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Here's
Lucy)…1995…at 89
Buddy Hackett, comic , actor…stroke…2003…at 78
Margaux Hemingway, model/actress (Lipstick)…suicide…1996…at
41
Mary Livingstone, [Sadye Marks] Comedienne,
(Jack Benny)…heart disease…1983…at 77
James Oglethorpe, English general and founder
of the state of Georgia…1785…at 88
Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister…Alzheimer's
disease…2012…at 96
Answer: Brain
Teasers
Misunderstanding between friends
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
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