4-23-14


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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 113  / Week: 17 
Today: L 38°H 66° Ave. humidity: 50%
     Wind: ave:   28mph; Gusts:  49mph  Red Flag
     Average Low: 29° Record Low:  14° (1963)
    Average High: 61° Record High:  77° (1949)
     

Quote of the Day
 
Today’s Historical Highlights

1348 - 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter)

1597 - William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed

1635 - Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded

1851 - Canada issues its 1st postage stamps

1900 - 1st know occurrence of word "hillbillie" (NY Journal)

1953 - KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting

1962 - 1st US satellite to reach the moon launched Ranger 4

1968 - 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 new pence, replacing shilling and two-shilling pieces)

1972 - Betty Burfeind wins LPGA Birmingham Centennital Golf Classic

1984 - AIDS-virus identified (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)

1991 - USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions

2003 - Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.

2013 - The French National Assembly passes an amended bill legalizing same-sex marriage

  Today’s Birthdays:   

How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts   

A windy day here in our little mountain town. I went to lunch with a former colleague from Tuba. Interesting catch up. His wife is retiring from TC and he retired about 4 years ago. They are having a retirement bash here in Flag at the end of the month. He has been doing taxes for some tax preparing company for the past few tax seasons and sure had some great stories about clients. Guess I’m not as bad as I thought I was. I caught up on some Tuba gossip and while it was interesting to learn who may be retiring, I’ve been gone so long, it really doesn’t mean that much. I caught him up on my latest trip to Cuba.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers

Boudreaux, a master dartsman, was bragging to his bar mates that he was such a consummate player, he could hit the dartboard in any location at will.

"I'll wager a hundred dollars that, no matter what position you name on the board, I'll be able to hit it."

Thibedeaux, tired of Boudreaux's windbaggery, shouted out an answer.

Boudreaux stammered for a few moments and at first refused to pay. The other bar patrons, however, made sure he held up his end of the wager. Boudreaux slammed a hundred dollar bill on the counter and stormed out.

Where on the dartboard did Thibedeaux suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today





OK Then…

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West

Harper’s Index 

Nuber of times in the past five years that an annual prize for good governance in Africa was not given out: 4

Unusual Fact of the Day

The consistency of your ear wax is genetic.                 

Joke-of-the-day

Once there was an Antartian that was down on his luck. In order to get some money he decided to kidnap a kid and hold him for ransom.

He went to the playground, grabbed a kid, took him behind a tree and told him "I've kidnapped you."

The Antartian wrote a note saying "I've kidnapped your kid. Tomorrow morning put $10,000 in a paper bag and put it beneath the pecan tree next to the slide on the north side of the city playground. Signed, An Antartian."

The Antartian then pinned the note to the kid's shirt and sent him home to show it to his parents.

The next morning the Antartian checked, and sure enough a paper bag was sitting beneath that pecan tree. The Antartian opened up the bag and found the $10,000 with a note. The note said, "How could one Antartian do this to another Antartian?!"  

Rules of Thumb:   

Avoiding Faulty Food

At a grocery store, never take the last of anything, there may be a reason.

Yeah, It Really Happened

A man fooled a town in England into thinking he was their mayor by setting up a fake Twitter account. A man going by James Billington created the Twitter handle @mayorofStafford with a bio saying he's, "delighted to be representing the town of Stafford & surrounding areas." He sent his first tweet on March 8 and the people of Stafford quickly bought into it. Billington staged a ribbon-cutting at a local theme park and even passed around, "I'm the mayor of Stafford!" buttons. The Stafford town council caught on to the hoax and asked Twitter to shut the account down. Honored to open @altontowers for their 2014 season today! #OpeningWeekend #staffordshirehour #Staffordshire pic.twitter.com/0kMNExRRpr- Mayor of Stafford (@mayorofstafford) March 22, 2014. The real mayor is Angela Loughran and people were feeling a bit foolish for being duped. "I feel so stupid, I believed [James Billington was mayor.] How many people know the name of their town mayor? There was no reason to disbelieve him," said Stafford resident Bal Singh. The Twitter account is still active and tweeting his imaginary mayoral duties.

Somewhat Useless Information   

Alzheimer’s patients use to recall the past quite often, which is dangerous in case they decide to leave the nursing house they’ re hosted in and go away without warning.

For this reason, nursing houses in Germany have come up with a smart idea that prevent Alzheimer’s  patients from wandering around. They have put fake bus stations outside the nursing houses!

Once the urge passes, and the patient can’t recall why they’re waiting, caregivers can redirect the patient to another activity.

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Have you ever experienced a strange light, an unpleasant smell, confusing thoughts or experiences before a migraine?

If yes, then you may have experienced ‘aura’. An aura is a perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache.

‘Aura’ can occur from a few seconds up to an hour before the migraine and it can stay with a migraine sufferer for the duration of the migraine; depending on the type of aura, this can leave the person disoriented and confused.

 

Calendar Information        

Today Is  

Administrative Professionals Day or Secretary's Day

English Language Day

Impossible Astronaut Day  (Dr. Who)

National Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day

National Lost Dog Awareness Day   

Movie Theatre Day

Talk Like Shakespeare Day

World Book & Copyright Day 

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Book Day and Lover's Day (Spain)

Children's Day/ National Sovereignty Day (Turkey)                                                                  
    

Today’s Events through History  

1795 - William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason

1904 - American Academy of Arts & Letters forms

1965 - Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite

1969 - Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy

 
Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Estelle Harris, actress (Estelle Castanza-Seinfeld) is 87

Lee Majors, [Harvey Lee Yeary], actor ($6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy) is 75

Joyce DeWitt, actress (Janet -Three's Company) is 65

Michael Moore, filmmaker is 60

Jan Hooks, comedienne actress (SNL, Designing Women) is 57

Valerie Bertinelli, actress (1 Day at a Time) is 54

George Lopez, American actor and comedian is 53

 

Remembered for being born today

1564-1616? - William Shakespeare, Poet and playwright

1728-1795 - Samuel Wallis, explorer (Wallis Island)

1791-1868 - James Buchanan, 15th US president  

1904-1980 - Duncan Renaldo, Spain, actor (Cisco Kid)

1907-1977 - Lee (Elizabeth) Miller, American photographer

1916-1994 - Bud Wilkinson, college football coach (Oklahoma)

1918-2012 - Gordon Hirabayshi, civil rights activist and WWII internment opponent

1928-2014 - Shirley Temple, child star in the 1930s \ diplomat

1942-2005 - Sandra Dee, [Zuck], Bayonne NJ, actress (Gidget, Imitation of Life)

1936-1988 - Roy Orbison, Vernon Tx, rocker (Pretty Woman)

 

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Charles G. Dawes, US VP, Nobel Peace Prize, 1951, @85 

Otto Preminger, dir (Advise & Consent, Anatomy of Murder), 1986, @80

William Wordsworth, poet, 1850, @80

Howard Cosell, sportscaster (Monday Night Football), embolism, 1995, @77

Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of the Russian Federation, heart failure, 2007, @76

William Tubman, President of Liberia (1944-71), 1971, @76

James Earl Ray, assassin, in prison, kidney failure, 1998, @70 

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), 1616, @69

Alfred Packer, American Cannibal, senility, 1907, @65 

Christ, crucified, according to Isaac Newton

Saint George, Greek officer in the Roman army, beheaded, 303, @23

 

Brain Teasers                                         

The back of the board.

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  §

 

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