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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 165 / Week: 24 
June Averages: 78° \ 42°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 0% RED FLAG
    H 79° L 48° Ave. humidity: 24%
    Wind: ave:   3mph; Gusts:  35mph  
    Average High: 79° Record High:  92° (1974)
    Average Low: 41° Record Low:  25° (2001)
        
Quote of the Day
Today’s Historical Highlights

1642 - 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
1777 - Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag
1834 - Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
1846 - California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed independence from Mexico
1850 - Fire destroys part of San Francisco
1881 - Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass)
1907 - Norway adopts female suffrage for middle class women only
1938 - Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
1940 - Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there)
1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released Thumper's 1st job
1954 - Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge
2013 - Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran

  Today’s Birthdays:   

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

Windy, windy day. Couldn’t keep the front door open in the afternoon, as the wind kept slamming it shut. My wrist is much better today…and only one pain pill.

FB had a post from a HS class member that they are making a full length movie about Freddie Stienmark, another of my classmates. Freddie was an incredible athlete who passed during his senior year at Texas of bone marrow cancer. There has been a book out about him for over a decade. Now another classmate has written a screen play that will be out in the future. Should be quite a movie. I must say I was a little shocked when I read that the classmate writing the screen play lives in Phoenix and is a big Tea Party leader down there. Guess I won’t be contacting him in the near future.

My brother and his wife sent me a nice package with gifts from their trip to Russia. A CD, some Russian Tea, a beautiful Christmas decoration—a painted egg, some chocolate, and a Russian collapsible silver shot glass in a case. Very cool. Everything will be enjoyed. They always find unique stuff.

 

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

If
PACK + KNIT + STAY + ELMO = KITE
Then
THAW + FLIT + GNAT+ DIET = ?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today





OK Then…
Harper’s Index 

Percentage of Chinese millionaires who plan to emigrate or have already emigrated: 64

Minimum amount that Chinese citizens have moved in offshore bank accounts since 2002: $1,000,000,000,000

Unusual Fact of the Day

Until coffee gained popularity, beer was the breakfast beverage of choice in most urban areas of the United States.

Presidential Fun Facts…

James Knox Polk: Graduated University of North Carolina (1818). Greatly expanded the western U.S. in 1848 through a treaty with Mexico ending a two year war and giving the U.S. control over most of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Before the advent of anesthetics and antiseptic practices, Polk survived a gallstone operation at age 17.

Ben Franklin on Character…

Sincerity. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

Common misused words...

They're and their--Same with these; they're is the contraction for they are. Again, the apostrophe doesn't own anything. We're going to their house, and I sure hope they're home.

Pen Names of famous authors…

Stephen King--Pen name: Richard Bachman
Even Stephen King has written under a nom de plume. The king of horror published seven novels under his pen name, the first one published in 1977. He says, “I did that because back in the early days of my career there was a feeling in the publishing business that one book a year was all the public would accept.” King explains that he came up with his pseudonym on the fly while on the phone with his publisher. He had a Richard Stark book on his desk, and a Bachman Turner Overdrive song was playing. He combined the two names and Richard Bachman was born. The move allowed King to publish several novels a year. In 1985, a bookstore clerk named Steve Brown noticed the similarities between the two author’s styles and, after some snooping, determined that they were the same person. Stephen King soon confirmed this, and announced that Bachman had died of “Cancer of the Pseudonym.”

The World as 100 people…

Nutrition:
Overweight--21
Adequate--63
Undernourished--15
Starving --1

Joke-of-the-day

A tour bus driver drives with a bus full of seniors down a highway, when a little old lady taps him on his shoulder. She offers him a handful of almonds, which he gratefully munches up.

After approx.15 minutes, she taps him on his shoulder again and she hands him another handful of almonds. She repeats this gesture about eight times.

At the ninth time he asks the little old lady why they don't eat the almonds themselves, whereupon she replies that it is not possible because of their old teeth, they are not able to chew them. "Why do you buy them then?" he asks puzzled. Whereupon the old lady Answers, "We just love the chocolate around them."

Rules of Thumb:   

THE RULE OF CLOSED-TOE SHOES
The louder the noise a pair of closed-toe women's shoes makes on a hard floor, the less comfortable the shoes.

Yeah, It Really Happened

The Washington state Medical Quality Assurance Commission says it has suspended the license of a Seattle anesthesiologist accused of frequently exchanging sexually explicit texts during surgeries.
A statement issued by the state Health Department says Dr. Arthur K. Zilberstein is accused by the commission of compromising patient safety by his "preoccupation with sexual matters" while he was on hospital duty.
In addition to the allegation of sexting during surgeries when he was the responsible anesthesiologist, the commission has accused Zilberstein of improperly accessing medical-record imaging for sexual gratification and having sexual encounters at his workplace.
Because what is sexier than an x-ray picture of your johnson.

Somewhat Useless Information   

Food and sex have been linked throughout history. Some foods are thought to have sexual powers because they resemble human genitals. Casanova was said to offer oysters to his potential partners to whet their sexual appetite.

Several ancient cultures viewed the apple as a feminine symbol and found a resemblance between the two halves of a vertically cut apple to the female genital system. Alternatively, an apple cut horizontally resembled a pentagram, which was considered key in revealing knowledge of good and evil.

Ancient Egyptian priests would eat figs at the moment of their consecration ceremonies. The Indians consecrated the fig tree to Vishnu, and the fig tree sheltered Romulus and Remus (the traditional founders of Rome) at their birth. The fig is also a fertility symbol and the Arab association with male genitals is so strong that the original word "fig" is considered improper.

Calendar Information        

This Week’s Observances:

8-14
International Clothesline Week
National Body Piercing Week
National Flag Week
Jim Thorpe Native American Games

Men's Health Week
National Automotive Service Professionals Week


12-19
Nursing Assistants Week

12-15
Superman Days
US Open Golf Championship
Duct Tape Days


13-20
National Hermit Week

14-22
Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in Public Week

Today Is  

Army's Birthday—1775 founded
Dollars Against Diabetes Day(s): 14-15 
 
Family History Day
Flag Day
--1777
International Young Eagles Day
Magic Circles Day 
Missing Mutts Awareness Day 
National Bourbon Day  
Pause for the Pledge Day
Pop Goes The Weasel Day Banana Split Days: 13-14  
Poultry Festival 13-14  
Queen's Official Birthday
(World) Blood Donor Day 
World Juggling Day  
Worldwide Knit 
(and crotchet) in Public Day  
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Rice Planting Festival (Japan)

Today’s Events through History  

1923 - Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
1962 - The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris - later becoming the European Space Agency.
1989 - Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
1989 - Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slapping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Marla Gibbs, actress (Florence-Jeffersons) is 83
Joe Arpaio, still sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona is 82
Donald Trump, billionaire/master builder (Trump Towers) is 68
Eric Heiden, US speed skater (5 Olympic gold medals 1980) is 56
"Boy George" O'Dowd, androgynous vocalist (Culture Club) is 53
Yasmine Bleeth, actress (Baywatch) is 46
Chris Onstad, American cartoonist is 39

Remembered for being born today

1811-1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1864 -1915 - Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist (Alzheimer Disease)
1909-1995 - Burl Ives, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1919-2009 - Gene Barry [Eugene Klass], actor (Bat Masterson)
1925-2004 - Pierre Salinger, newsman (ABC)/press secretary (John Kennedy)
1928-1967 - Ernesto "Che" Guevara, revolutionary and physician

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician and statesman, 2007, @88
Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist artist, 1926, @82
Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), 1986, @81
Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway librettist, cancer, 1986, @ 67
Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), stroke, 1968, @66
Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, Spanish Flu, 1920, @56

Brain Teasers                                         

WIND.
Take the last letter of the first word, second to last letter of the second word, etc.
PacK + knIt + sTay + Elmo = KITE
ThaW + flIt + gNat + Diet = WIND.

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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