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Flagstaff
Almanac:
Week: 46/
Day: 320
Today: L 34°…H 50°… Ave. humidity: 52%
Wind: ave: 12mph; Gusts: 37mph
Average Low: 22° Record
Low: -1° (1964)
Average High: 50° Record High: 70° (1981)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1st colonial prison organized, Nantucket Mass…1676
1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford
Conn…1920
Australia's Qantas airways founded in Winton,
Queensland…1920
Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President
to visit Vietnam since the end of the
Vietnam War…2000
Celtic Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49
rebounds beat Phila 111-89…1957
Federal Reserve System formally opens…1914
Francisco Pizarro captures Incan emperor
Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca…1532
Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government
activities, later commuted to hard
labor…1849
LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr.
Albert Hofmann in Switzerland…1938
Life preservers made of cork are patented by
Napoleon Guerin (NYC)…1841
NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business…1824
Touch-tone telephone introduced…1963
UNESCO is founded…1945
Walt Disney launches Epcot Center:
Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow…1965
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Windy, few clouds in the am but overcast by late afternoon, little rain, and a whole lot cooler. Not a great day to spend much time outside, so I did a bunch of laundry. We might even get some light snow tonight or tomorrow. I guess I’m ready.Of course we want people to have a choice…just not Obamacare. No we don’t have another idea, but we don’t like this one. Give me a break. Lead or get out of the way.Only in Flagstaff, a little mountain town. Police are looking for two people, one male and one female who have been passing counterfeit money around town. The criminals are hoping they would be caught because they are passing $20. The cops have videotape, so it’s just a matter of time, I’m sure.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Five words that contain LO as a letter pair
have had all of their other letters removed and placed into a pool. Put those
letters back in their proper places.
What are the words?
**LO*, *LO***, **LO**, ***LO*, LO***** Pool: A, A, A, B, E, E, E, F, G, H, M, N, N, P, R, R, S, T, W, Z
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
Very
Strange Laws…Michigan
- Persons may not be drunk on trains.
- Adultery is illegal, but can only be punished upon a
complaint by the affected husband or wife.
- No man may seduce and corrupt an unmarried girl, or else he risks five years in prison.
- Cars may not be sold on Sunday.
- It is illegal to kill a dog using a decompression chamber.
- There is a 3 cent bounty for each starling and 10 cent bounty for each crow killed in any village, township, or city in the state. (Repealed, 2006)
- It is legal for a robber to file a law suit, if he or she got hurt in your house.
- You may not swear in front of women and children. (Repealed, 2002)
- Any person over the age of 12 may have a license for a handgun as long as he/she has not been convicted of a felony.
- Clawson--There is a law that makes it legal for a farmer to sleepwith his pigs, cows, horses, goats, and chickens.
- Detroit--Putt-putt golf courses must close by 1:00 AM. /Security guards at Joe Louis Arena will confiscate any item they feel might be thrown onto the ice. /Couples are banned from making love in an automobile unless the act takes place while the vehicle is parked on the couple’s own property. /Willfully destroying your old radio is prohibited./ It is illegal for a man to scowl at his wife on Sunday. /It is illegal to let your pig run free in Detroit unless it has a ring in its nose. Grand Haven--No person shall throw an abandoned hoop skirt into any street or on any sidewalk, under penalty of a five- dollar fine for each offense.
- Harper Woods--It is illegal to paint sparrows to sell them as parakeets. KalamazooIt is against the law to serenade your girlfriend.
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
- Portion of Britons born before 1944 who consider the welfare state ‘one of Britain’s proudest achievements: 3/4
- Of Brits born after 1979 who do: 1/4
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Emperor Hirohito was more than a political power; he was also well respected in the field of marine biology.
Joke-of-the-day
Two coworkers were talking by the water fountain one guy said, "Today I got through the first step of getting divorced."The second guy replies, "Oh, did you go to Mr. Guggenheim? Everyone goes to him for divorces." CThe first man replies, "No, I just got married".
Rules of
Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
RUNNING A RESTAURANT
When they're unhappy at a restaurant, the French call the headwaiter and abuse him in front of everyone. The English call the manager and abuse him quietly and with dignity. The Americans don't say a thing. They just never come back, nor do their friends.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
LOGANVILLE, Ga. - Police in Georgia allege a woman caught having drunken sex with a man in a parked vehicle "attempted to put a cheeseburger on her foot as if it were a sandal." The Loganville Police Department said an officer allegedly spotted Rachel Gossett, 25, and Frank Lucas, 27, having sex in the front seat of a Dodge truck parked outside the Waffle House eatery in Loganville about 1 a.m. Sunday and interrupted the amorous couple, The Smoking Gun reported Monday. Gossett, who had been straddling Lucas without any pants on, "jumped into the passenger seat and just sat there" while Lucas pulled up his pants, the officer wrote in the arrest report. "I had to tell the female numerous times to get dressed before she finally did," officer Joshua Brickle said. "When the female finally got dressed she attempted to put a cheeseburger on her foot as if it were a sandal." Gossett and Lucas were both arrested on charges of loitering and public drunkenness.
- Somewhat Useless Information
- Caffeine has been scientifically proven to temporarily increase alertness, comprehension, memory, reflexes, and even the rate of learning. It also helps increase clarity of thought.
- The average American drinks 210 milligrams of caffeine a day. That's equal to two or three cups of coffee, depending on how strong it is.
- Instant coffee contains 65 milligrams of caffeine per serving; coffee brewed in a percolator has 80 milligrams; and coffee made using the drip method has 155 milligrams.
- Top four sources of caffeine in the American diet: coffee, soft drinks, tea and chocolate, in that order. The average American gets 75 percent of their caffeine from coffee.
- Pound for pound, kids often get as much caffeine from chocolate and soft drinks as their parents get from coffee, tea and other sources.
- Widely varying the amount of caffeine you ingest can put a strain on your liver, pancreas, heart and nervous system.
Calendar Information
10-16: Geography Awareness Week
/ National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week
11-15: National Young Reader's Week
11-15: National Young Reader's Week
Today Is
·
Guinness World Record Day
·
International Day for Tolerance
·
National Button Day
·
National Day of Play
·
National
Educational Support Professionals Day
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·
Estonia: Day
of National Rebirth (1988)
·
US: Oklahoma:
Admission Day (1907-46th state)
Today’s Events
through History
"Sound of Music" opens at Lunt
Fontanne Theater NYC for 1443 perfs…1959
Native Americans surrender to British in
Indian War of Chief Pontiac…1764
Rick Barry (SF), ends then longest NBA free
throw streak of 60…1976
Tecumseh predicts a "light across the
sky" tonight. It is supposed to have appeared…1811
Johnny Cash made his 1st chart appearance with
"Cry Cry Cry"…1955
William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to
impact gold into cavities…1875
Today’s
Birthdays
Clu Gulager, Holdenville Oklahoma, actor
(Virginian, Survivors, Tall Man) is 85
David Leisure, actor (Joe Isuzu, Airplane,
Charley-Empty Nest) is 63
Marg Helgenberger, actress (China Beach, CSI)
is 55
Dean McDermott, actor is 47
Lisa Bonet, actress (Cosby Show, Different
World, Angel Heart) is 46
Maggie Gyllenhaal, actress (Donnie Darko, The
Dark Knight) is 36
Remembered
for being born today
Tiberius, Roman Emperor [42BC-37 AD]
David Kalakaua of Hawaii, Hawaiian king [1836-1891]
Burgess Meredith, actor (Mr Novak, The Penguin
in Batman, Rocky) []1907-1997]
Guy Stockwell, NYC, actor (Chris-Adventures in
Paradise) [1933-2002]
Today’s Historical
Obits
Donald Watson, English founder of the Vegan
Society…2005…@95
Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel
Prize laureate…2006…@94
Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House for 17 years…cancer…1961…@79
Bob Smith, American doctor, co-founder of the
Alcoholics Anonymous…cancer…1950…@71
Clark Gable, actor (Gone With the Wind)…heart
attack…1960…@59
Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio…1806…@52
Brain
Teasers
SALON, FLOWER, APLOMB, HARLOT, LOZENGE
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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