Veterans Day 11/11/13

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Flagstaff Almanac:

Week: 46/ Day: 315   

Today: L 23°…H 60°… Ave. humidity: 49%

Wind: ave:   5mph; Gusts:  21mph  

Average Low: 23° Record Low:  7° (1950)

Average High: 52° Record High:  73° (1973)

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

1st American amateur track & field meet (NYC)…1868

1st episode of "Rocky & His Friends" airs…1959

Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect, WW I hostilities 

     end at 11.00 am…1918

Chrysanthemums are introduced to England from China…1790

Highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street…1714

 Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of 

   Buggery" (Sodomy)…1624

Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre…1778

Massachusetts passes 1st US compulsory school attendance law…1647

U.S. Route 66 is established…1926

Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction…1987

Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle ("Jeep")…1940

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

 

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

A good Sunday. High clouds in a few places in a blue sky, just a little breeze. Warm…who could ask for anything more?

 

Veterans Day is honor all who served in the military to fight for America. Thanks to my dad for all he did in WWII, and to the many other vets who helped keep us free.

 

Watching the pictures from the Philippines are frightening. The President of the Philippines says that many first responders couldn’t respond because they were themselves in severe danger. Scary.

 

Cardinals and Broncos both won…of course the Broncos game was not televised in our little mountain town, but internet machine came through for watching the game.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

Diagramless is a special form of crossword puzzle. It is the same, just you have no idea where the black squares are, you have to use the answers to the clues and the numbers of them to figure that out.
Can you figure this diagramless out?
It is just a small, 4x4 grid, and there are two black squares.

Across Clues: 1. Water Sport 5. Best Grade 6. __ top of; above 7. Place of relaxation 9. Water Level

Down Clues:

1. Opposite of future 2. Oxygen 3. Fill by putting on 4. Opposite of off 8. 3.14 10. Vowel between C and H

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Jonathan Winters on The Jack Paar Show

• Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories

• George S. Patton - Top 10 Quotes

• Adam Beach - In your eyes

Very Strange Laws…Texas

• One must acknowledge a supreme being before being able to hold public office.
• The Bluebonnet is the official song staof beer at a time while standing.
• Up to a felony charge can be levied for promoting the use of, or owning more than six dildos.
• It is illegal for one to shoot a buffalo  of the state flower.
• It is illegal to sell one’s eye.
• A program has been created in thefrom the second story of a hotel.
• It is illegal to milk another person’s cow.
• A recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed.
• Homosexual behavior is a misdemeanor offense.
• The entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned in Texas because it contains a formula for making beer at home.
• Abilene--It is illegal to idle or loiter anyplate that attempts to control the weather.
• When two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
• It is illegal to take more than three sips ce within the corporate limits of the city for the purpose of flirting or mashing.
• Austin--Wire cutters cannot be carried in your pocket.
• Beaumont--Collegiate football is banned at Lamar University.
• Borger--It is against the law to throw confetti, rubber balls, feather dusters, whips or quirts (riding crop), and explosive firecrackers of any kind.
• Clarendon--It is illegal to dust any public building with a feather duster.
• Dallas--It’s illegal to possess realistic dildos.
• El Paso--Urinating on the streets is illegal. /Appearing in public places wearing a “lewd dress” is prohibited.

OK Then…

 

Harper’s Index 

• Percentage change since 1996 in the number of US children living in poverty: +12

• In the number receiving cash aid from the US government: -60

Unusual Fact of the Day

Thought to be the original fast-food, Genghis Khan and his hordes carried around flat patties of ground up mutton under their saddles to eat on the go.

Joke-of-the-day

Two Cows are talking through a fence.

One cow says to the other, "You know, I'm really worried about this Mad Cow Disease."

The other cow says to him, "I wouldn't be too worried about it. It can't affect us chickens."  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

MAIL-ORDER SALES

The best months to sell something by mail are September, November, and January. Of those, September and January are best.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

TRELLEBORG, Sweden - Workers at a Swedish school said officials gave them approval to switch from traditional round meatballs to meat cubes. Cafeteria workers at Soderslstt High School in Trelleborg said constantly rolling thousands of meatballs by hand was both time-consuming and potentially injury-causing due to the strain it put on their wrists, The Local.se reported Thursday. Kitchen staff chief Anna Malmberg said workers were given the go-ahead to cut the mince into small cubes instead of having to roll it into balls. "One of the students told us they were the ugliest meatballs he'd ever seen, but the tastiest ones," Malmberg told the Trelleborgs Allehanda newspaper.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

How heavy is information and what is the weight of all the electrons in motion that make up the internet? All digits like e-mails, documents, video clips or webpages are not only mathematical entities, but also tangible ones and are embodied and manipulated as voltages in electronic circuits. The Internet weighs 50 grams, which is equivalent to the weight of a strawberry!

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

7-13: Dear Santa Letter Week / Pursuit of Happiness Week
10-16:   Geography Awareness Week / National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week
11-15:  National Young Reader's Week

11-17: National Global Entrepreneurship Week /  World Kindness Week

Today Is                                                                      

·        Death/Duty Day

·        World Orphans Day

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·        Angola: Independence Day (1975 from Portugal)

·        Canada: Remembrance Day

·        Japan: Origami Day

·        Poland: Independence Day (1918 from Russia, Prussia, Austria)

·        US: Veterans Day

·        US: Washington Admission Day (1889; 42^nd state)

Today’s Events through History  

Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triumph…1923

Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie ever to win a Cy Young Award…1981

Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of 

     unidentified causes…2004

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Stanley Tucci, American actor and director is 53

Demi Moore, [Guynes], Roswell NM, actress (Ghost, GI Jane) is 51

Peta Gia Wilson, Australian actress and model is 43 

Adam Beach, Canadian Saulteaux, actor is 41

Leonardo DiCaprio, actor (Luke-Growing Pains, Romeo & Juliet) is 39

Remembered for being born today

Abigail Smith Adams, 2nd 1st lady [1744-1818]

Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist [1743-1828]

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russia, novelist (Crime & Punishment) 1821-1881]

George S Patton, US general (Sicily/Italy/Normandy) "Old Blood & Guts" [1845-1945]

Pat O'Brien, Milwaukee, actor (Knute Rockne, Angels with Dirty Faces) [1899-1983]

Alger Hiss, State Department official hid papers in a pumpkin [1904-1996]

Kurt Vonnegut Jr, author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan) [1922-2007]

Jonathan Winters, comedian (J Winters Show, Mork & Mindy) [1925-2013]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Yasser Arafat, co-founder Palestine Liberation Organization, revolutionary 

     and Nobel…??...2004…@75

Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease…pneumonia…1938…@69

H. R. Haldeman, White House chief of staff (Nixon)…cancer…1993…@67

Jerome Kern, US composer (Sally, Leave it to Jane)…stroke…1945…@60

Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher…fall…1855…@42

Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection…hanged…1831…@31

Brain Teasers

Here are the answers to the rows.

Row 1 - POLO, Row 2 - A-ON, Row 3 - SPA-, Row 4 - TIDE

Here are the answers to the columns:

Column 1 - PAST, Column 2 - O-PI, Column 3 - LOAD, Column 4 - ON-E

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 Now  §