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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 33/ Day: 228
Today: H 79°…L 57°
Wind: ave: 4mph;
Gusts: 11mph Ave. humidity: 43%
Average Low Average High
49° 80°
Record Low Record High
33°
(1968) 88° (1962)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
"Sports Illustrated" magazine begins
publishing…1954
11th Olympic games closes in Berlin…1936
1st color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks,
is made by Ub Iwerks…1930
Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England
(Jack Broughton)…1743
Emancipation Proclamation signed…1863
Gold discovered in Klondike…1896
Great Calcutta blood bath - Moslem/Hindu riot
(3-4,000 die)…1946
Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is granted
political asylum by Ecuador…2012
Yorktown Va founded…1691
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
A great Greek lunch with our retirement group. Cheryl had a great visit with her sister and then they both had a great visit with Cheryl’s son and family in CA. Mary has been taking of her cousin-in-law in Phoenix who had breast cancer surgery and is now starting radiation. Mary will be taking her to the treatments whenever she can. Mary’s daughter is planning a visit next month with her two toddlers. Should be fun for all of us…as we will hopefully have lunch with them while they are here. Mike ran his half marathon last Saturday and did well. He has really moved forward in the past few years and hopefully he will continue on that path.An unusually cloudy day here with three different drizzling rain storms that each lasted about an hour. Hard to believe how much rain there has been this monsoon season…so nice…and even better when it comes as a drizzle.Egypt’s military sure is testing the relations with the US. The killing of citizens keeps increasing with no end in sight. Our National Security, the regional stability, the difficult path to democracy and other factors keep our government from dropping aid to the country, but with each passing day it sounds like words are not stopping anything.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Listo, the leader of a band of assassins, was taken captive by an opposing kingdom."Give your daggers," said one of the generals, "Or you are to be executed. But since you killed so many of our knights, we shall give you a small test. You must say a statement. If the statement is true, we burn you on a stake. If the sentence is false, we stab you through the heart. If you do not say anything, you are thrown to the lions. If you say something we can't verify, you will be forced to drink a cup of hemlock. If it is not a statement or if it is a paradox, we simply toss you into the nearby volcano. We shall give you one hour to ponder."What should Listo say?
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Tongue
Twisters
Pacific Lithograph. ^^^ Peggy Babcock. ^^^ Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? ^^^ Pick a partner and practice passing, for if you pass proficiently, perhaps you'll play professionally. ^^^ Plague-bearing prairie dogs. ^^^ A pleasant place to place a plaice is a place where a plaice is pleased to be placed. ^^^ Please pay promptly. ^^^ Pope Sixtus VI's six texts. ^^^ Preshrunk silk shirts. ^^^ Pretty Kitty Creighton had a cotton batten cat. The cotton batten cat was bitten by a rat. The kitten that was bitten had a button for an eye, And biting off the button made the cotton batten fly. ^^^ A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot.Not a Fan of Faux News, but this is crazy.
Harper’s Index
Amount awarded to a paraplegic man trapped for 30 minutes in Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World: ride: $8000
Ok, then?
Songs with Misheard Lyrics:
SONG
& ARTIST MISHEARD LYRICS CORRECT LYRICS
Poor man dig my herb Plowmen dig my earth
There's a bathroom on the right There’s
a bad moon on the rise
Unusual Fact of the Day
Kentucky Derby fans may notice that race horses never walk to the starting gate alone. Horses are social animals, and thoroughbreds spend a lot of lonely time on the road. Therefore, it is traditional to bring their stable mate, or “companion pony” along to keep them soothed.Joke-of-the-day
Little Jonny was assigned a job for the choir on Christmas. His job was when the choir sang ‘and the Angel lit the candle’ he was to come out and light the candle. So before the service on Christmas Eve they had a practice. So the choir got to the part and sang ‘and the Angel lit the candle’ and there was no Jonny so they sang it a bit louder thinking he didn't hear them and still no Jonny so they sang it even louder and finally Jonny came out and sang; And the cat peed on the matches!
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
FINDING MR. RIGHT REQUIRES TALKING
Love at first sight? Only with a lot of luck. You can't really know whether you even like someone until you've had 30 hours of productive conversation. Be wary of the one who only invites you to places where you can't chat, like movies, plays and concerts.
Yeah, It Really Happened
LONDON - A poll of the United Kingdom's "crappiest towns" has identified Hemel Hempstead as the crappiest of them all. More than 3,000 people voted in the survey posted by the website Crap Towns Returns and Hemel garnered 785 votes, about 200 more than the next closest crap town, Luton, which received 592 votes. Rounding out the top tier were Slough (352) Bracknell (338) and Birmingham (312), The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday. Sam Jordinson of Crap Towns Returns said he was hardly shocked when Hemel earned the dubious honor. "I know exactly why Hemel did so well in the poll. I've been there once. And once was more than enough," Jordinson said. "Although I am surprised that Coventry didn't do better: worse, following the number of people writing in to say it looked better just after it was bombed than it does now." The first edition of "Crap Towns" was published to great outrage in 2003 with residents from those towns dubbed the crappiest expressing displeasure and even some members of Parliament condemning it while scoring some points sticking up for their constituencies. Jordinson joked "Crap Towns Returns" is back -- by unpopular demand.
Somewhat Useless Information
- Sugar makes kids go crazy. The Journal of the American Medical Association published a review of 23 studies on the subject of kids and sugar, the conclusion: Sugar doesn't affect behavior. And it's possible that it is the idea itself that is so ingrained as fact that it affects our perception.
- Cholesterol in eggs is bad for the heart. The perceived association between dietary cholesterol and risk for coronary heart disease stems from dietary recommendations proposed in the 1960s that had little scientific evidence, other than the known association between saturated fat and cholesterol and animal studies where cholesterol was fed in amounts far exceeding normal intakes. Since then, study after study has found that dietary cholesterol (the cholesterol found in food) does not negatively raise your body's cholesterol. It is the consumption of saturated fat that is the demon here. So eat eggs, don't eat steak.
Calendar Information
10-16
Elvis Week
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week
Weird Contest
Week
15-21
15-21
National Aviation
Week
Today Is
·
Hug Your Boss Day
·
Joe Miller's Joke Day in honor of the English comic actor Joseph
(or Josias) Miller, who was born in 1684
·
Men's Grooming Day
·
National Airborne Day
Today’s Events through History
Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President
James Buchanan…1858
Diego de Vargas campaign to reconquer New
Mexico takes place…1692
Israeli pound becomes legal tender…1948
Peter Gabriel quits Genesis…1975
Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle
drummer…1962
Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in
Boston to be exhibited…1829
Sioux & Onondaga chiefs met to urge their
people to renounce Christianity & return
to their old Indian faith…1894
Solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic
storm affects micro chips, leading
to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock
market…1989
Today’s Birthdays
Angela Bassett, actress is 55
James Cameron, writer/director (True Lies,
Titanic) is 59
Steve Carell, actor and comedian is 51
Kathie Lee Gifford, hostess (Live with Regis
& Kathie Lee) is 60
Madonna, [Ciccone], Bay City Michigan,
singer/actress (Like a Virgin) is 55
Julie Newmar, Hollywood California, actress
(Catwoman-Batman, Living Doll) is 80
Remembered
for being born today
Menachem Begin, Brest Russian Empire, Israeli PM
(1977-83, Nobel 1978), [1913-1992]
Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and
encylopedist [1650-1718]
Robert Culp, actor (I Spy, Bob & Carol
& Ted & Alice) [1930-2010]
Eydie Gorme, [Edithe Gormezano], Bronx NY,
singer (Bossa Nova) [1928-2013]
Otto Messmer, cartoonist (Felix the Cat) [1892-1983]
Fess Parker, actor (Davy Crockett, Old Yeller)
[1925-2010]
Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor
(tackling dummy) [1862-1965]
Wendell Stanley, biochemist, 1st to
crystallize a virus (Nobel 1946) [1904-1971]
Today’s Historical Obits
Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke)…AIDS…1989…at
58
Stewart Granger, actor (Scaramouche)…1980…at 80
Herman Harrell Horne, philosopher (idealism)…1946…at
72
John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher
Man)…1986…at 45
Bela Lugosi, actor (Dracula)…heart attack…1956…at
73
Margaret of Scotland (Dauphine of France),
wife of the future King Louis XI…1445…at 49
Margaret Mitchell, writer (Gone With the Wind)…hit
by drunk driver…1949…at 48
Elvis Presley, musician…cardiac arrest…1977…at
42
Babe Ruth, Baseball legend (NY Yankees)…cancer…1948…at
53
William Windom, actor (Dr. Seth Hazlitt-Murder
She Wrote)…2012…at 88
Brain
Teasers
"Here are my daggers!"
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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