6-16-14


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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 167 / Week: 25 
June Averages: 78° \ 42°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 30% RED FLAG
    H 73° L 48° Ave. humidity: 18%
    Wind: ave:   16mph; Gusts:  32mph  
    Average High: 79° Record High:  92° (1940)
    Average Low: 41° Record Low:  24° (1907)
        
Quote of the Day
Today’s Historical Highlights

  632 - Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era
1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland
1755 - British capture Fort Beauséjour, expel Acadians
1794 - 1st stone laid at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch)
1805 - Sacajawea drinks mineral water today to treat an illness.
1858 - Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate
1871 - The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology
1879 - Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC
1880 - Salvation Army forms in London
1884 - 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
1903 - Ford Motors under Henry Ford incorporates

1903 - Pepsi Cola company forms
1913 - South- African parliament forbids blacks owning land
1932 - President Hoover & VP Charles Curtis re-nominated by Rep Convention
1933 - US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
1935 - US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal"
1960 - "Psycho" opens in NY
1961 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris
1963 - Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6
1976 - Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa (Soweto Day)
1980 - "Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago
1992 - Caspar Weinberger (Sec of Def 1981-87), indicted on Iran-contra charge

  Today’s Birthdays:   

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

Had a very windy Father’s Day here in our little mountain town. Still a lazy Sunday here at my place. Wrist continues to heal, but much slower than I had hoped. It’s only been 4 days but seems a whole lot longer. I’m left handed and it is my right wrist…and can’t believe how much one does with the non-dominant wrist.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

What is represented below?
OdOoOmO

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today






OK Then…
Harper’s Index 

Factor by which black applicants for NJ hurricane relief funds are more likely to be rejected than white applicants: 2.5

Unusual Fact of the Day

Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, recognized as being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's confederation as a nation.

Presidential Fun Facts…

Millard Fillmore: No formal education. Vice President under Taylor. Fillmore did not meet Taylor until after they were elected. When he moved into the White House, it didn't have a Bible. He and his wife, Abigail, installed the first library. He installed the first bathtub and kitchen stove in the White House. Fillmore couldn't read Latin and refused an honorary degree from Oxford University, saying a person shouldn't accept a degree he couldn't read.

Ben Franklin on Character…

Moderation. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

Common misused words...

You're and your
One more. You're is the contraction for you are. Your means you own it; the apostrophe in you're doesn't own anything. For a long time a local non-profit had a huge sign that said "You're Community Place."

Pen Names of famous authors…

Anne Rice Pen names: Anne Rampling, A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rice, perhaps best known for her series The Vampire Chronicles, is yet another popular writer whose released work under pen names. Her 1985 Exit to Eden and 1986 Belinda were published under the Rampling pen name. Both are erotic novels, the former exploring the subject of BDSM. In the 80s, Rice also published the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy under the Roquelaure byline. The series included The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty’s Punishment, and Beauty’s Release. These were also erotic BDSM novels that explicitly outlined pornographic tales and fantasies — which could explain why Rice opted for the pseudonym. In an interview with the Telegraph, Rice dismissed those books as “an obsession of youth – or something.” But as the Guardian points out, those novels continue to earn her around $50,000 in royalties each year.

The World as 100 people…

AREA: 51 live in Urban areas; 49 live in rural areas

Facts about SPACE…

Movement
Every single human is moving in space every single second. You might not be aware of it, but we are all travelling at the speed of more than 500 KMPH. There are a number of reasons for which we fail to realize this fact. The same holds true for the Milky Way which is also in the state of constant movement.

 

Joke-of-the-day

“Now, that looks like a happily married couple.” Remarks the husband.

“Don’t be too sure, my Dear. They are probable saying the same thing about us.” Replied his wife.

Rules of Thumb:   

STACKING MAGAZINES
To prevent a stack of magazines from falling over, change the direction of the binding every sixth issue.

Yeah, It Really Happened

QUANZHOU, China (UPI) - Excuses, excuses, excuses... A Chinese man who got his penis stuck in an air-conditioning pipe waited two days before seeking medical attention because he was embarrassed. Lian Tien told doctors that he slipped and got himself stuck in the pipe while painting in the nude in Quanzhou. The 61-year-old "did not think people would believe him" and only went to the hospital after he experienced swelling and developed a fever. "I thought that no-one would believe me and I tried everything I could think of to get the damned thing off once it got stuck," Tien said, according to India Today. "I cut it from the wall and tried pouring oil and liquid soap down the sides but my manhood was so tightly wedged that nothing dripped down. I went to sleep thinking that if I relaxed it would slide off. But it didn't. It began to get red and inflamed. I was worried that I would get a terrible infection." Doctors were unable to treat Tien so they called in the fire brigade. It took firefighters four hours remove the pipe from around Tien's genitals.

Somewhat Useless Information   

At 2,565 miles (4,130), the Missouri River is the longest river in the United States and drains approximately one sixth of the North American continent. It serves as a tributary of the Mississippi River. The combined Missouri-Mississippi river system is the fourth longest river in the world.

Colorado is bordered by Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Colorado means "colored red" and is known as the "Centennial State".

Given its name during the 1849 gold rush by emigrants looking to cross it, Death Valley is located in the northern Mojave Desert of southern California. Famous for its brutal heat, on July 10, 1913, it became the location of the hottest temperature ever recorded in the United States (and the second hottest ever recorded in the world) with a scalding temperature of 134°F (56.6°C). The valley usually receives less than 2 inches (5 cm) of rain each year. Ironically, during the late Pleistocene period, Death Valley was submerged beneath a prehistoric lake!

Texas boasts the Guadalupe, Trinity, Rio Grande, Brazos, and Colorado rivers. It contains many other rivers as well, including the Pecos, Red, Sabine, and San Antonio rivers. Most of these rivers eventually flow into the Gulf of Mexico.

Calendar Information        

This Week’s Observances:

12-19
Nursing Assistants Week

13-20
National Hermit Week

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

15-21
Animal Rights Awareness Week
Universal Father's Week
Meet A Mate Week
Old Time Fiddlers Week

Today Is  

Bloomsday—commemoration; celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce 
Fudge Day 
Ladies' Day (Baseball)
National Hollerin' Contest Day
National Nursing Assistants Day and Week
Recess at Work Day
Ride To Work Day (Motorcycles)
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Youth Day (South Africa)


Today’s Events through History  

1909 - Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut 
1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
1946 - "Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1147 perfs
1966 - "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in"" debuts on NBC-TV
1977 - Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
1983 - Pope John Paul II visits Poland
1991 - Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Joan Van Ark, actress and director (Valene-Dallas, Knots Landing) is 71
Laurie Metcalf, actress (Jackie-Roseanne) is 59
John Cho, Korean-American actor is 42
Eddie Cibrian [Edward Carl], actor (Sunset Beach) is 41

Remembered for being born today

1806-1885 - Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor  
1829-1909 – Geronimo (Goyaałé "one who yawns"), Apache leader
1890-1965 - Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], England, comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
1896-1966 - Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer (Peugeot)
1889-1969 - Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday)
1971-1996 - Tupac Shakur, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet)  

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, 1st to map the entire San Andreas Fault, 1952, @90
George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), suicide, 1959, @ 45

Brain Teasers                                         

 Dominoes--  ‘dom’ in O’s

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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