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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 34/ Day: 230
Today: H 80°…L 55°
Wind: ave: 8mph; Gusts: 22mph Ave. humidity: 54%
Average Low Average High Record Low Record High
49° 80° 38° (1979) 88° (2002)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
"Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov,
published…1958
19th Amendment on women's suffrage ratified…1920
1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10
debuts in Skokie Ill…1960
1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward…1872
Congress creates Bureau of Immigration…1894
FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss
treatment…1988
Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago…1835
Oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded,
starting the institution of
Vinalia Rustica…293BC
South Africa banned from Olympic Games because
of apartheid policies…1964
TV game show scandal investigation starts…1958
Weather map televised for 1st time…1926
Woodstock Music & Art Fair closes with
Jimi Hendrix / Band of Gypsys as the final act…1969
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
A very lazy wet and rainy day. Clouds came in early, brought lightning, then rain, stayed cloudy and several rain storms came through. And then the big rain hit. While it has been a very wet monsoon season, we are reminded that lightning caused fires in our forest can happen at any time. There were at least 5 small lightning caused fires just outside the city limits. All appear to have been contained to a few acres thanks to the Forest Service first responders.I stayed up way too late last night watching some good movies. Good ol’ action/spy/kidnapping/save the earth movies. Well worth the time I spent, but woke up at the regular time…about 6am…then took a nice long afternoon nap. Didn’t miss out on much around town due to the rain.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
I creep in with feline grace - Stealthy, silent, gliding - Adding beauty, mystery, and stillness to all in my path.
My shape is ever-changing: Pausing and moving, here and there, A cool caress across your cheek as I slip quietly by.
But my looks are deceiving - Peril may lurk behind my misty veil. Slow down, be cautious, or you may abruptly meet with danger there.
What am I?
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Tongue
Twisters
S
Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.
~~~
Sarah saw a shot-silk sash shop full of
shot-silk sashes as the sunshine shone on the side of the shot-silk sash shop.
~~~
The sawingest saw I ever saw saw was the saw I
saw saw in Arkansas.
~~~
Say this sharply, say this sweetly;
Say this shortly, say this softly;
Say this sixteen times in succession.
~~~
Selfish shellfish.
~~~
Shelter for six sick scenic sightseers.
~~~
She sells seashells on the seashore.
The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure.
~~~
She stood on the balcony inexplicably
mimicking him hiccuping, and amicably welcoming him home.
~~~
She was a thistle sifter and sifted thistles
through a thistle sieve.
~~~
Shredded Swiss cheese.
~~~
Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.
~~~
Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed
Shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
Sheep should sleep in a shed.
~~~
Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter, seized his
knees, and sneezed.
~~~
The sinking steamer sank.
~~~
Sixish. Sixish. Sixish.
~~~
Six sharp smart sharks.
~~~
Six shimmering sharks sharply striking shins.
~~~
Six short slow shepherds.
~~~
Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.
~~~
Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward.
~~~
Six sticky sucker sticks.
~~~
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
~~~
Six twin-screwed steel steam cruisers.
~~~
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump
stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
~~~
Sly Sam slurps Sally's soup.
~~~
The soldiers should have shooters on their
shoulders. Some shun sunshine.
~~~
Strange strategic statistics.
~~~
Strict strong stringy Stephen Stretch slickly
snared six sickly silky snakes.
~~~
"Surely Sylvia swims!" shrieked
Sammy, surprised.
"Someone should show Sylvia some strokes
so she shall not sink."
~~~
Sure the ship's shipshape, sir.
~~~
Susan shineth shoes and socks;
Socks and shoes shines Susan.
She ceases shining shoes and socks,
For shoes and socks shock Susan.
~~~
Swan swam over the sea.
Swim, swan, swim!
Swan swam back again.
Well swum, swan!
Not a Fan of Faux News, but this is crazy.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
Percentage change since Obama took office in the number of veterans waiting more than a year for Federal benefits: +2,231
Unusual Fact of the Day
Invented in the 1940s in Tennessee, Mountain Dew was meant to be mixed with whisky. In fact, its bottles were designed to look like moonshine, and the original Mountain Dew labels featured outhouses, stills, and hay-chewing yokels.Joke-of-the-day
A bar owner locked up his place at 2 AM and went home to sleep. He had been in bed only a few minutes when the phone rang. “What time do you open up in the morning?” he heard an obviously inebriated man inquire.The owner was so furious he slammed down the receiver and went back to bed. A few minutes later there was another call and he heard the same voice ask the same question. “Listen, the owner shouted, “there’s no sense in asking me what time I open because I wouldn’t let a person in your condition in—““I don’t want to get in,” the caller interjected. “I want to get out.”
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
BUYING A USED JETLINER
Never expect to pay less for a used jet than it cost new.
Yeah, It Really Happened
JENSEN BEACH, Fla. - Authorities in Florida said a "suspicious package" received by a woman turned out to be a "battery powered sex toy." The recently released report from the Martin County Sheriff's Office said a Jensen Beach woman called deputies July 31 and reported she had received a "suspicious package" the previous day, TCPalm.com reported Thursday. The package had arrived at the woman's home in a U.S. Postal Service Priority Mail envelope. The woman's name was listed as both sender and recipient on the envelope. A sheriff's office spokeswoman said a bomb tech specialist examined the package and determined it to be a "battery operated sex toy." "It was a pink plastic adult novelty item, with some type of a plastic rabbit attached to it," a sheriff's spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail. "The recipient says she did not order it."
Somewhat Useless Information
- Cocaine was the first local anesthetic; being used as such from about 1884 onwards.
- Cocaine works in a totally different way from narcotics such as morphine or heroin. Heroin works on receptor sites in the brain which are stimulated by the drug to produce pain-relieving and mood-enhancing chemicals. Cocaine on the other hand works by stimulating the central nervous system, and like alcohol, is processed through the liver.
- 'Crack' is the street name given to cocaine that has been processed from cocaine hydrochloride to a free base for smoking. Rather than requiring the more volatile method of processing cocaine using ether, crack cocaine is processed with ammonia or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and water and heated to remove the hydrochloride, thus producing a form of cocaine that can be smoked. The term 'crack' refers to the crackling sound heard when the mixture is smoked (heated), presumably from the sodium bicarbonate. 'Crack Cocaine' is still cocaine. It is simply a different chemical process applied to cocaine powder that allows cocaine to be smokeable. This means that the 'high' from Crack Cocaine is much stronger and more immediate (taking about 8 seconds to reach the brain); and also shorter lived then from the powder.
- Despite the fact that federal spending on the drug war increased from $1.65 billion in 1982 to $17.7 billion in 1999, more than half of the students in the United States in 1999 tried an illegal drug before they graduated from high school. Additionally, 65% have tried cigarettes by 12th grade and 35% are current smokers, and 62% of twelfth graders and 25% of 8th graders in 1999 report having been drunk at least once.
Calendar Information
15-21
National Aviation
Week
18-24
18-24
Little League
Baseball World Series
Minority Enterprise Development Week
Minority Enterprise Development Week
Today Is
·
Bad Poetry Day
·
Birth Control Pills Day
·
Mail Order Catalog Day
·
Serendipity Day
·
(World) Daffodil Day
Today’s Events through History
Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting
Venus…1686
Governor of Roanoke Island colony returns from
England & found everyone in the
colony had disappeared…1591
Lewis and Clark meet with the Ottos to discuss the war with the
Maha…1804
Republican Convention in New Orleans select
Bush-Quayle ticket…1988
Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota (it
is later crushed)…1862
Today’s Birthdays
Rosalynn Smith Carter, 1st lady is 86
Rafer Johnson, decathlete (Olympics-gold-60)
is 78
Dennis Leary, actor/comic (MTV) is 56
Martin Mull, actor/comedian (Bad Manners,
Flick, Serial) is 70
Edward Norton, actor, screenwriter, film
director is 44
Roman Polanski, Polish director (Rosemary's
Baby, Chinatown, Pirates) is 80
Robert Redford, actor (Sting, Candidate,
Natural, Great Gatsby) is 77
Christian Slater, actor (Robin Hood, Untamed
Heart, Heathers) is 44
Malcolm Jamal Warner, actor (Theodore-Cosby
Show) is 43
Bob Woodruff, American journalist, anchor
is 52
Remembered
for being born today
Virginia Dare, 1st English child born in New
World [1587-??]
Max Factor Jr, CEO (Max Factor Cosmetics) [1904-1996]
Marshall Field, owner (Field Dept Store) [1834-1906]
Gail Fisher, actress (Peggy-Mannix) [1935-2000]
Walter J Hickel, (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary
of Interior [1919-2010]
Meriwether Lewis, solider, public
administrator (Lewis & Clark Expedition) [1774-1809]
Casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense [1917-2006]
Grant Williams, NYC, actor (Hawaiian Eye,
Incredible Shrinking Man) [1931-1985]
Shelley Winters, actress (A Place in the Sun,
A Patch of Blue, Poseidon Adventure)[1920-2006]
Today’s Historical Obits
Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile
executive…stroke…1940…at 65
Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror…fall or
pnonemia…1227…at 65
Scott McKenzie, Pop singer… Guillain–Barré syndrome…2012…at 73
Robert Novak, journalist and commentator…brain
tumor…2009…at 78
Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder…1919…at
78
B F Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box)…Leukemia…1990…at
86
Brain
Teasers
Fog
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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