11/2

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Flagstaff Almanac:

Week: 44/ Day: 306 

Today: L 19°…H 57°… Ave. humidity: 55%

Wind: ave:   6mph; Gusts:  27mph  

Average Low: 26° Record Low:  10° (1956)

Average High: 56° Record High:  73° (1977)

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Andrew Jackson beats J Q Adams…1824

Franklin Pierce elected as president of US…1852

James A Garfield (R) elected 20th American President…1880

Warren G Harding elected 29th president…1920

Pres Harry Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey…1948

Jimmy Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for president…1976

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1st crew arrives at the International Space Station…2000

Charles Van Doren confesses, TV quiz show-"21," was fixed…1959

English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trading post…1749

Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flies for 1st (& last) time…1947

Penguin Books publishes "Lady Chatterley's Lover"…1960

President Reagan signs bill establishing Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday…1983

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays

 

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

Halloween was a busy night here…based on previous years here. I had about 70 costumed kids between 6p and 9p…and only a few ‘over-aged’ ones. Nothing like the times in Tuba where it was not uncommon to see well over 150 kids in one night. For the first year in decades, I didn’t costume out. I did have some decorations outside along with some sound effects, but not like in years past. Don’t want those closed minded HOA cameraman sending me another letter. It was cool outside, but not the bitter cold we have had in years past, so the really little kids to enjoy the evening.

 

I have been to LAX Terminal 3 several times over the years. Shocking to see the terror that a gunman brought to that area today. I guess everyone has to be vigilant…airline security checks have lots of people crowded in a very small area all holding tickets, ID, and carry on as they prepare to take off their shoes and load everything onto the belt. Hearing and/or seeing those numerous gunshots and having TSA yelling RUN while others are yelling GET ON THE GROUND. The media is also reporting that at one airport, in Texas, in one week confiscated 39 guns at the security check with 33 of them loaded. I believe that these stats need to be published monthly for all airports in the US. It will show our citizens exactly what happens at TSA screening. I find it hard to believe that passengers really think they can carry a weapon on to a plane in this day and age. It is also hard for me to believe that there are that many ‘oops I forgot’ it was in my carryon luggage.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

In this teaser, your job is form eight (8) complete words from list A, B, & C. In each list, there are parts of words. Choose one word part from each list (A, B, C) to form the new word.
Example:
CORN + ERST + ONE = CORNERSTONE

List A:                   List B:                   List C: FOR                     CUB                     COPE ANT                      IS                           THY EM                        ME                        DAY BOO                      ON                        SIC PER                       IT                          ATE

IN                          EN                         RUST

MAT                      AD                         RANG NO                        PA                         OR

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Creative Quotations from James Thurber

• Burt Lancaster profile on TCM

• K.D. Lang sings Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah

• Jay & The Americans - Cara Mia

Very Strange Laws…AZ

• It is unlawful to refuse a person a glass of water.

• You may not have more than two dildos in a house.

• Hunting camels is prohibited.

• Any misdemeanor committed while wearing a red mask is considered a felony.

• There is a possible 25 years in prison for cutting down a cactus.

• Donkeys cannot sleep in bathtubs.

• It is illegal to manufacture imitation cocaine.

• When being attacked by a criminal or burglar, you may only protect yourself with the same weapon that the other person possesses.

• Globe: Cards may not be played in the street with a Native American.

• Hayden: If you bother the cottontails or bullfrogs, you will be fined.

• Maricopa County:
No more than six girls may live in any house.

• Nogales: An ordinance prohibits the wearing of suspenders.

• Prescott: No one is permitted to ride their horse up the stairs of the county court house.

OK Then…

Harper’s Index 

Tons of military equipemtn the US has destroyed in anticipation of its withdrawal from Afghanistan: 85,350

Unusual Fact of the Day

At more than 3.3 million square miles, the Sahara Desert is as large as the world's next 20 largest hot deserts combined.

Joke-of-the-day

Three vampires walk into a bar. The bartender looks at him suspiciously, but decides to serve them anyway. "What’ll be, boys?"

The first vampire says "Blood. Give me blood."

The second vampire says "I too wish for blood!"

The third vampire says "Give me plasma."

The Bartender smiles and says "Got it. Two bloods, and a blood-light."

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

SELLING SOFTWARE

A new hardware product will start to sell two to three months sooner than a new software product. That's because hardware is built to solve obvious needs, like lack of memory. Software is designed to solve less obvious needs. No one believes software will work until they read a product review.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

WASHINGTON - A mother in the U.S. capital posted a message outside her home addressed to the thief who stole her 2-year-old son's pumpkin. Becky Reina said her family carved four Halloween pumpkins, including one for 2-year-old Tommy, and the toddler's pumpkin turned up missing from outside their home last week, WTOP-TV, Washington, reported Tuesday. "To the person who stole my son's pumpkin: Thank you for the life lesson. This will help teach him that sometimes people are mean for no reason, and you have to just brush it off. Because my son is 2 years old and cannot read the sign, I will add, you are an [expletive]," Reina wrote on a poster board she put outside the home. Reina said pumpkins in the area are often stolen and smashed, but Tommy's pumpkin was the only one of the four outside her home to be targeted. She said the pumpkin was likely among those found destroyed by neighbors.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The Columbian Exposition, or Chicago World's Fair of 1893, was conducted to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' landing in the New World.

• Forty thousand workers labored to construct the fair's buildings around the man-made lagoons by landscape designer Fredrick Law Olmsted.

• More than 50,000 objects displayed at the fair in the Anthropology Building, the Horticulture Building and the Mines, Mineralogy and Metallurgy Building as well as the cultural villages along the fair's Midway became part of the Anthropology collections at the Field Columbian Museum, which was later renamed the Field Museum.

• A 250-foot Ferris wheel (100 feet taller than the one currently at Navy Pier) featured 36 cars that could each accommodate 60 people (2,160 people when fully loaded).

• A ticket to the fair cost 50 cents for adults; 25 cents for ages younger than 12 and free for ages younger than 6.

• The fair covered 630 acres in Jackson Park, and was the first to feature a Midway Plaisance amusement area.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-3: Sherlock Holmes Weekend
1-7: National Fig Week / National Patient Accessibility Week / World Communication Week

Today Is                                                                      

·        All Souls Day

·        Cookie Monster Day

·        Day(s) of the Dead/Dia(s) De Los Muertos

·        International Games Day 

·        National Traffic Directors Day

·        Plan Your Epitaph Day

·        Sadie Hawkins Day

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·        US: North Dakota Admission Day (1889-39th)

·        US: South Dakota Admission Day (1889-40th)

Today’s Events through History  

2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola…1835

500 Indians conclude the "Trail of Broken Treaties" march to Washington, D.C.; seize part 

     of the BIA building until the 8th…1972

Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota…1898 

Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally…1868

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans) is 75

Stefanie Powers, actress (Girl From UNCLE, Hart to Hart) is 71

K.D. Lang [Kathy Dawn], Canadian country singer is 52

Remembered for being born today

Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans [1696-1760]

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, "let them eat cake" [1755-1793]

Daniel Boone, frontiersman/explorer [1734-1820]

James Knox Polk, 11th US President [1795-1849]

Burt Lancaster, actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry) [1913-1994]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Hal Roach, producer (Keystone Kops)…1992…@100

George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion)…1950…@94

Richard Cushing, US cardinal to Boston…cancer…1970…@75

Jenny Lind, [Swedish Nightingale], soprano…1887…@67

James Thurber, humorist (The Male Animal)…stroke…1961…@66

Arthur James Cook, British union leader (coal miners)…cancer…1931…@47

David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author…AIDS…1994…@37

Brain Teasers

1. FORENSIC 2. ANTITRUST 3. EMPATHY 4. BOOMERANG 5. PERISCOPE 6. INCUBATE 7. MATADOR 8. NOONDAY

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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