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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 32/ Day: 220
Today: H 72°…L 53°
Wind: ave: 3mph;
Gusts: 16mph Ave. humidity: 71%
Average Low Average High
51°
81°
Record Low Record High
39° (1991) 92° (1978)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1,000,000 patent is filed in the US Patent Office for a tubeless vehicle tire…1911
1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, DC…1925
6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command
& shoots 20 Germans & captures 132 more…1918
Carl Lewis wins 3rd (200m) of 4 gold medals in Summer…1984
Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie," radio stations label it obscene…1963
Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St Helena…1815
Pres Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9…1974
Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC…1860
Red Cross forms in Geneva…1864
Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges…1854
Thomas Edison patents mimeograph…1876
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
I turned on the ever faithful internet machine, and quickly saw the headline that the Nairobi, Kenya airport terminal had a bad fire. I recognized the terminal from my trip to Kenya, Tanzania last year. It was not a real fancy airport but certainly good one. Certainly makes tourist travel difficult as I think it is the only airport in the country that accepts international travel. I read later today that the airport terminal is open, but had extensive damage.While I was listening to my daily dose of NPR I discovered that Flagstaff set two weather records yesterday….get ready…the highest low and the lowest high on record for August 6th. What a strange thing to happen.I have to admit I have been a ‘spy’ fan for years. I enjoyed all the early Bond movies, I like watching the current spy stories on TV like Burn Notice. Part of my enjoyment is all the techie stuff that spies use. As a spy fan, I am now really confused with the real life, real time spying that is taking place. A story today says that the many Embassy closings were prompted by an intercepted conference type call in the Middle East. That is good because those terrorists are agin us. We also know that this whole mega data collection within our borders is taking place, because there are so many bad people here. It seems to be that the internal spying is ‘one bad apple ruins the barrel’ philosophy is a little farfetched. I guess I just have to live with it and wait for a story that shows how this mega data collection saves our country from some horrific event.Our afternoon rain today was about 30 minutes of hard rain. So much water that we haven’t seen in years.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Find an anagram for each word in Group A. Each
anagram will answer one of the clues in Group B.
Group A 1. Sharp 2. Snaky 3. Toner 4. Agree 5. Optic 6. Neigh 7. Rosin
Group B 1. Singing voice 2. Golf clubs 3. Subject 4. Stringed instruments 5. Jointed device 6. Type of beaver 7. Americans overseas
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Tongue
Twisters
G
Gertie's great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie's
grammar.
^^
Girl gargoyle, guy gargoyle.
^^
Give me the gift of a griptop sock: a
drip-drape, ship-shape, tip-top sock.
^^
Give Mr. Snipe's wife's knife a swipe.
^^
Good blood, bad blood.
^^
Greek grapes.
Ever wonder where the name came from?
Apple
When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak launched Apple Computer in 1976, its choice of name was obvious - Jobs was a massive Beatles fan, and so he named the company after the Beatles-owned record label Apple Records. That decision quickly backfired when The Beatles’ holding company Apple Corps took Apple Computer to court over the use of the name - the beginning of a 30-year battle that ended with Apple Computer buying the Apple brand from The Beatles in 2007.Mac OS 7 famously featured a system sound whose name arose as a result of a 1991 legal battle that forbade Apple Computer from having anything to do with music. Apple’s legal department decided that the name of one OS 7 sound ‘chimes’ was too musical-sounding. Apple engineer Jim Reekes tried to change the name to Let It Beep, but eventually settled on Sosumi (‘so sue me’), explaining to Apple’s lawyers that it was a Japanese word and had nothing to do with music at all.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
Value of the Girl Scout cookies a SC man stole from a warehouse last spring: $18,900
Songs with Double Meanings:
Daniel - Elton John Key Double Lyric of song:"Daniel my brother, you are older than me, do you still feel the pain, of the scars that won't heal" (1) About two gay lovers who have broken up. Note: Some people figured it was about this since it was sung by a gay man. However, the song's lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin, who isn't gay, and he has said that the song isn't about that; so this isn't a true double lyric; (2) Main/real meaning: Written about a wounded Viet Nam vet who is missed by his brother and is leaving the US after his return from the war to go live in Spain, the reason his brother is still missing him.
Eight Miles High - The Byrds Key Double Lyric of song: "Eight vmiles high and when you touch down, you'll find that it's stranger than known" (1) Flying in an airplane to a place the writer never been before; (2) Flying high (being stoned) on marijuana and then coming down from the drug.
Unusual Fact of the Day
When three-letter airport codes became standard in the mid-1930s, airports that had been using a two-letter identifier simply added an X to their code, which is why Los Angeles International Airport is known as LAX.Joke-of-the-day
A family of skunks was trapped in a thicket, surrounded by a pack of hungry wolves that were edging even closer. The Mother skunk calmly instructed her young: "Quickly children, let's put our heads together!" After they obeyed, forming a circle, she continued, "Now—Let us spray!"
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
COMPARING MEN AND WOMEN
For every hour married women spend in paid employment each week, their husbands spend five more minutes working around the home.
Yeah, It Really Happened
KRAKOW, Poland - Prosecutors in Poland said a man who used an ax to threaten tourists on the grounds of a castle has been declared legally insane. Boguslawa Marcinkowska, a spokeswoman for the district prosecutor's office, said the man, Gzegorz S., has been declared criminally insane after he threatened visitors to Wawel Castle in Krakow with an ax, the Polish Press Agency reported Monday. "The prosecution service has made an application to place the suspect in a closed medical establishment because of the finding of criminal insanity," Marcinkowska said. Police said Grzegorz threatened tourists with an ax and attempted to run over visitors with a vehicle at Wawel Castle May 10. Police said the defendant told them he is a descendant of King John III Sobieski and therefore has a right to protect the castle from intruders.
Somewhat Useless Information
- The word "smurf" was created when the creator, Pierre Culliford (Peyo), couldn't remember the word for salt. Instead of asking 'Passez-moi le sel', he asked 'Passez-moi le schtroumpf', and the name was born! Schtroumpf became "smurf" in English.
- The Smurfs are Belgian. They became very popular worldwide after Hanna-Barbera featured them in the 1980s.
- The Smurfs are specifically "three apples" tall.
- Karenna Gore's Secret Service code name was Smurfette, which she has apparently regretted ever since. In 1997, she said, "Ever since I was put on the spot and told 'two syllables' and 'It has to start with an S,' I have been cringing in the back seat when identified as 'Smurfette'."
- The cartoon series was created when an NBC executive spied his daughter playing with a plush Smurf doll. After observing how much she loved the doll, he decided that the Schtroumpfs might be a good fit for his Saturday morning cartoon-fest. It was; it aired for nine seasons.
- The white hat the Smurfs all wear have been around for ages and are called Phrygian caps. They're often considered symbols of liberty and were once found on the tops of Liberty Poles. You can see one on the seal of the United States Senate as well.
Calendar Information
National Farmers'
Market Week
Old Fiddler's Week
Rock for Life Week
Assistance Dog Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Resurrect Romance Week
Old Fiddler's Week
Rock for Life Week
Assistance Dog Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Resurrect Romance Week
Exercise With
Your Child Week
National Fraud Awareness Week
(This is sponsored by the FCC and has to do with phone & mail fraud.)
Single Working Women's Week (Week always has the 4th in it)
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
Intimate Apparel Week
National Bargain Hunting Week
Psychic Week
National Fraud Awareness Week
(This is sponsored by the FCC and has to do with phone & mail fraud.)
Single Working Women's Week (Week always has the 4th in it)
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
Intimate Apparel Week
National Bargain Hunting Week
Psychic Week
Sturgis Rally
8-11
8-11
National Hobo
Week
Today Is
·
Dalek Day for Dr. Who fans
·
Date to Create Happiness Happens Day
·
Night
Happiness Happens
·
Odie Day (Garfield's pal)
·
Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's
Porch
^^
·
Islam: Eid-Al Fitr Feast
of Breaking the Fast-end of Ramadan
·
Tanzania:
Farmers Day
·
US: Rhode
Island: Victory Day (also VJ Day to mark the surrender of Japan)
Today’s Events through History
"Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot
Bikini" hits #1…1960
Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head
following Joseph Smith death…1844
France declares war on England…1549
Pakistan's National Flag is approved…1947
Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4
years…1988
Tohome Indians live along the Gulf Coast, formally establish
peaceful relations
with the French…1699
Vegetables & fruit rationed in Holland…1943
Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's
telescope…1609
Today’s Birthdays
Richard Anderson, actor (Oscar Goldman-6
Million $ Man) is 87
Patricia Arquette, NYC actress (Ed Wood,
Pretty Smart) is 46
Roger Federer, Basel Switzerland, tennis
player (16 grand slams) is 32
Dustin Hoffman, actor (Graduate, Tootsie,
Kramer vs Kramer) is 76
Deborah Norville, news anchor (Today Show,
Inside Edition) is 55
Robin Quivers, radio/TV personality (Howard
Stern's sidekick) is 61
Connie Stevens, singer/actress (Hawaiian Eye,
Back to Beach) is 75
Mel Tillis, country singer (Who's Julie,
M-M-Mel) is 81
Larry Wilcox, actor (Lassie, Officer Jon
Baker-CHiPs) is 66
Remembered
for being born today
Charles Bulfinch, 1st US pro architect (Mass
State House) [1763-1844]
Rory Calhoun, actor (Blue & Gray, Judson
Tyler-Capitol) [1922-1999]
Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher [1694-1746]
Dino de Laurentiis, Torre Annunziata Italy,
producer (King Kong) [1919-2010]
Bob Smith, American founder of Alcoholics
Anonymous [1879-1950]
Sara Teasdale, US, poet (1st Pulitzer
Prize-1918-"Love Songs") [1884-1933]
Esther Williams, actress/swimmer (Dangerous
when Wet) [1921-2013]
Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary,
peasant leader [1879-1919]
Today’s Historical Obits
Julian "Cannonball" Alderly,
saxophonist/bandleader…stroke…1975…at 46
Barbara Bel Geddes, actress (Dallas)…2005…at
82
Jacqueline Cochrane, US pilot/1st female
faster than sound…1980…at 74
Shirley Jackson, US author (Road Through the
Wall)d…heart failure…1965…at 45
Alan Napier, actor (Alfred-Batman)…1988…at 85
Patricia Neal, actress…2010…at 84
Sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in
Yamaguchi Japan…1506…at 86
Fay Wray, actress (King Kong)…2004…at
96
Brain
Teasers
1. Harps (4) 2. Yanks (7) 3. Tenor (1) 4. Eager (6) 5. Topic (3) 6. Hinge (5) 7. Irons (2)
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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