10/10/13

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Flagstaff Almanac:

Week: 41/ Day: 283    

Today: L 43°…H 59°… Ave. humidity: 40%

Wind: ave:   25mph; Gusts:  49mph  

Average Low: 33° Record Low:  20° (1973)

Average High: 66° Record High:  81° (1996)

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

"Porgy & Bess," by George Gershwin, NY premiere…1935

18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo…1964

1st dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY…1886 

1st non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma…1802

1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale…1933

Alexis de Tocqueville writes about "Algerian problem"…1846

AZ Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie…1920

Congress approves Susan B Anthony Dollar…1978

Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in NYC…1996

Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean…1780

Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St NYC…1904

Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis…1945

Pan Am begins regular flights around World…1959

Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St NYC…1917

VP Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns…1973

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

 

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

The forecasted wind arrived and blew hard all day. Not a day to spend much time outside. Probably should have spent the day doing laundry, but alas, not today. Baked some cookies instead. Just waiting for the snow. First they said 1-3", now it is 3-5"...tomorrow will tell.

 

That bizarre motorcycle incident in NY still has me scratching my head. As many as 5 off duty cops are with the bikers and does nothing to stop it. An undercover cop is there and doesn’t do anything as he might blow his cover and then he broke one of the SUV windows. A guy in an SUV is terrified when bikers are on all sides of his vehicle so he runs over a biker and bike to get away. The bikers chase him and break windows. Insanity reigns.

 

As a Downton Abbey fan, I was a little surprised that in today’s dollars, it would have cost over $8 million a year to keep everything running like it does on the TV show.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

Yes, I've Had Lasix Surgery

These brain teasers rely on your ability to recognize groups of common attributes. For each of these puzzles you'll need to figure out why the words or letters are grouped as they are. Sometimes you will be asked to pick the odd-one-out or to place a new word into the correct group. Which phrase from group B belongs with the words in group A?

Group A Lonely Patent Canines Freighter Artwork

Group B Local Election News Event Tax Return Brainy Teaser Play Date

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• What's my Line? Helen Hayes

• Mario Lopez's Wedding Photos!

• Tanya Tucker - Delta Dawn

• Van Halen – Jump

• Nora Roberts Author Talk Interview

• Life Is Just A Bowl of Cherries (Reprise)

Hmmmm…Fearsome Phobias

If you have an irrational fear of... Flogging
You're suffering from... Mastigophobia: Greek mastigo ‘whip or flog’

If you have an irrational fear of... Floods
You're suffering from... Antlophobia: Greek antlia, "pump, device for removing water"

OK Then…

Harper’s Index 

Portion of people killed by Australian police since 1989 who were mentally ill: 1/2

Darwin Awards 2013  

Fourth Place 

Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.

Unusual Fact of the Day

The longest continuous sidewalk in the world is along Bay Shore Boulevard in Tampa, Florida.

Joke-of-the-day

A distraught older woman is looking at herself in the mirror and crying. Her voice shakes as she says to her husband, "I'm so old. I'm so fat. I look horrible. I really need a compliment."

Her husband, determined to quickly give his beloved the comfort she needs, exclaims, "Damn, do you have good eyesight!"  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

RATIONING HOT WATER

If showers five to seven minutes apart are taken in rapid succession, a 50-gallon natural gas hot-water heater will begin to run out of hot water during the fourth shower.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A Michigan woman who passed off two cans of spaghetti sauce as an explosive device during a bank robbery pleaded guilty to the crime. Ophelia Neal, 53, pleaded guilty in Oakland County Circuit Court to bank robbery and explosive charges following the April 6 crime in Macomb County, The Detroit News reported Tuesday. Neal pleaded guilty in Oakland County because she had been wanted there for violating her parole. Police said Neal went into the Fifth Third Bank in Clinton Township April 6 and told a clerk she was carrying a bomb in her cloth bag. Neal fled with an undisclosed amount of cash in a car driven by a man. She was later arrested and police discovered her cloth bag contained two cans of spaghetti sauce. Neal, who has previous convictions for fraud, marijuana possession and assault, is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 9 before Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Faunce.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

In the United States, over 50 percent of first marriages end in divorce, 67 percent of second marriages end in divorce, and nearly 74 percent of third marriages end in divorce.

Birth order can influence whether a marriage succeeds or fails. The most successful marriages are those where the oldest sister of brothers marries the youngest brother of sisters. Two firstborns, however, tend to be more aggressive and can create higher levels of tension. The highest divorce rates are when an only child marries another only child.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

3-10

No Salt Week
4-10

World Space Week
6-12

National Physicians Assistant Week
Emergency Nurses Week

Fire Prevention Week
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week
National Metric Week
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine Week 
Customer Service Week
Fall Astronomy Week
Financial Planning Week
Kids' Goal Setting Week
Spinning & Weaving Week
World Rainforest Week
10-16

Take Your Medicine Americans Week
10-12

Great American Beer Festival 

Today Is                                                                       

·        International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction

·        International Newspaper Carrier Day

·        National Depression Screening Day

·        Naval Academy Day

·        Tuxedo Day

·        World Mental Health Day

·        World Porridge Day

·        World Sight Day

·        UN World Mental Health Day

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·        Canada: Thanksgiving (since 1957)

·        Fiji: Independence Day (1970 from UK)

Today’s Events through History  

Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China…1943

Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy…1991

IR Johnson patents bicycle frame…1899

John Hyatts patents billiard ball…1865

Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell…1846

Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands…1375

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Peter Coyote [Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon], actor (ET, Raiders of the Lost Ark) is 72

Ben Vereen, actor/dancer (Pippin, Roots, Webster) is 67

Nora Roberts, bestselling author of more than 209 romance novels is 63

David Lee Roth, rock singer (Van Halen-Jump) is 58

Tanya Tucker, country singer/actress (Follow that Car) is 55

Bradley Whitford. Actor [The West Wing] is 54

Brett Favre, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31) is 44

Mario Lopez, actor/ TV host is 40

Dale Earnhardt Jr, NASCAR Sprint Cup series driver is 39

Remembered for being born today

John Abercrombie, Scottish—1st consulting physician [1780-1844]

Abu Jihad, Founder of the Palestinian group Fatah [1935-1988]

Helen Hayes, actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday) [1900-1993]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Alex Karras, American NFL player…kidney failure…2012…@77

William H. Seward,US Secretary of State (Alaska purchase)…1872…@71

Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane)…heart attack…1985…@70

Redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford & Sons)…heart attack…1991…@68

Yul Brynner, [Taidje Khan], actor (King & I)…cancer…1985…@65

Christopher Reeve, actor, activist…cardiac arrest…2004…@52

David Gregory, Scottish astronomer/mathematician…1708…@49

William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascal)…heart attack…1980…@49

Brain Teasers

"News Event": it also contains number:

lONEly paTENt caNINEs frEIGHTer arTWOrk newSEVENt ... not to mention laSIX in the title 8-)

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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