6-18-14


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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 168  / Week: 25 
June Averages: 78° \ 42°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 30% RED FLAG
    H 73° L 38° Ave. humidity: 16%
    Wind: ave:   23mph; Gusts:  56mph  
    Average High: 80° Record High:  92° (1940)
    Average Low: 42° Record Low:  24° (1995)
        
Quote of the Day
Today’s Historical Highlights

  860 - Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople
1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
1541 - Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland
1730 - 7 CHEROKEE representatives will meet with King George II of England at Windsor Castle - acknowledge him as the sovereign of the CHEROKEE people.
1873 - Susan B Anthony fined $100 for voting for President
1948 - American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights
1981 - The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals 

  Today’s Birthdays:   

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

Getting so tired of these strong winds…and the attached fires. There is another fire in Oak Creek that seems to be under control. Then there was a downed power line on the mountain near my place that started a small fire that was quickly under control. It was on another part of the mountain, but still very frightening.

I did a bunch of laundry today, so I again have clean clothes to wear. It was a little harder to carry the laundry with my wrist brace, but the wrist seems to be getting better.

I watched most of the Ghana/US soccer game yesterday…so nice to see USA win. Then today Mexico beat Brazil. Another good game.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers
Monday--100 Pennies
Tuesday--4 quarters
Wednesday--10 dimes
Thursday--20 nickels

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today





OK Then…
Harper’s Index 

Amount a Texas safari club raised for the protection of black rhinos by selling a permit to hunt a black rhino: $350,000

Unusual Fact of the Day

The term "paparazzi" comes from Paparazzo, a fictional freelance photographer in the 1960 Fellini film La Dolce Vita.

Presidential Fun Facts…

James Buchanan: Graduated Dickinson College (1809). Secretary of State under Polk. In 1857 Buchanan recommended a pro-slavery Kansas constitution. The constitution was rejected and Buchanan lost northern support. 1858 northern candidates opposing Buchanan won a majority in both houses of Congress. 1859 John Brown was seized at Harpers Ferry and hanged for his attempt to start a slave revolt. February 4, 1861 seven southern states formed the Confederacy. By the time Buchanan was 30 years old, he had amassed a fortune of $ 300,000. He was never married, so the duties of White House hostess were performed by his niece, Harriet Lane. One of his eyes was nearsighted and the other farsighted. As a result he always cocked his head to the left. Buchanan tired of being president and refused to run for reelection.

Ben Franklin on Character…

Tranquillity. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

Pen Names of famous authors…

Nora Roberts Pen name: J.D. Robb
Best-selling author Nora Roberts already had years of success under her belt before she began churning out books under a pen name. As explained on the author’s website, using the pseudonym offered a new writing challenge, and an opportunity to delve into a genre outside Roberts’ wheelhouse. While she’d previously focused on romance novels, after taking up the pseudonym, Roberts began publishing futuristic science fiction books, all part of the In Death series, beginning in 1995. After the twelfth book of the series hit shelves in 2001, Roberts finally revealed that it had been her all along. The series is still going strong — and the books continue to publish under the name J.D Robb, despite the fact that everyone now knows J.D. Robb is really Nora Roberts.

Facts about SPACE…

The Ancient Light
According to an estimate that the light we see on earth is millions of years old. It has always been falling on the earth since the start and will continue to fall till the end. Who is behind this light? Or what made this light? Well, it is a question that is best left for you to answer.

Joke-of-the-day

A man started a new job at a zoo. He was given his first job by the zoo owner – to clean out the large tropical fish tank, which contained many exotic species.
While removing some gravel from the tank with his spade, he accidently hit one of the fish and killed it. Worried about losing his job for this mistake, he decided to hide the evidence. He took the fish and fed it to the lions because lions eat anything.
The zoo owner did not notice the missing fish and gave the man a new job – to muck out the chimps. He was in the middle of mucking out when two of the chimps became a bit over familiar and, in an attempt to get them away the man lashed out with his spade, killing two chimps. In his panic he decided to hide the evidence and fed the unfortunate chimpanzees to the lions because lions eat anything.
The zoo owner was pleased with the man’s work and as his final task for the day he asked him to collect honey from the zoo’s beehives. The man tried hard to do this without upsetting the bees, but some got angry and stung him. He grabbed his spade and whirled it above his head, squashing and killing several dozen bees. Plagued with guilt, he fed these to the lions as well because lions eat anything.
The next day, a new lion arrived at the zoo. He enquired of the existing residents “what’s the food like here?” One of the zoo’s resident lions said, “Oh, it’s great. Only yesterday we had fish, chimps and mushy bees.”

Rules of Thumb:   

RAISING YOUR CHILDREN
Parents teach more by example than by words. Reading parents have reading children; achieving parents have achieving children.

Yeah, It Really Happened

AUSTIN, Texas (UPI) - The list of things that don't contribute to glacier melting keeps getting shorter. Now, the list-keeper can cross off "underground volcanoes."
According to a new study by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), the Thwaites Glacier of Western Antarctica -- which recently made the news headlines for its accelerated melting and structural vulnerabilities -- is also being eroded from beneath by geothermal heat released by underground volcanoes.
Ice-penetrating airborne radar clued the researchers from UT's Institute for Geophysics into the fact that geothermal heat sources are more extensively distributed beneath Antarctica than previously thought. They also learned that Antarctica's hotspots put out a much larger amount of heat than expected.
Beneath the Thwaites Glacier, geothermal sources give off an average of 114 milliwatts per square meter, with 200 milliwatts per square meter emanating for the most concentrated hotspots. (A square meter is roughly the equivalent of ten square feet.) Similar underground volcanoes in North America give off only around 65 milliwatts per square meter.
"It's pretty hot by continental standards," said researcher Don Schroeder, speaking of Antarctica. Schroeder helped author the new study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
But Schroeder and co-author Don Blankenship say more research is needed to accurately predict how and at what rate geothermal warming will contribute to the predicted collapse of the Thawites Glacier -- as well as the rest of the West Antarctic ice sheet.
"It's the most complex thermal environment you might imagine," said Blankenship. "And then you plop the most critical dynamically unstable ice sheet on planet Earth in the middle of this thing, and then you try to model it. It's virtually impossible."

Somewhat Useless Information   

Asia is Earth's largest continent at approximately 17,300,000 square miles (44,806,812 sq km). Africa comes in second at about 11,700,000 square miles (30,300,000 sq km). However, Continental Drift Theory suggests that the continents have moved over the years through the process of plate tectonics. Many geologists believe that, during the Mesozoic era, all of the continents combined to form a supercontinent known as Pangaea which would have dwarfed the largest continent today. It is believed that Pangaea began to break up about 200 million years ago.
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With a toothy coastline of 2,650 miles (4,265 km), Chile accounts for more than half of the western coastline of South America. This razor-thin country is wedged between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes, the Earth's longest mountain range.
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The Tigris river runs through Baghdad. It is about 1,150 miles (1,800 km) long. The name "Tigris" comes from Old Persian and translates as "the fast one".
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Brazil is the largest and most populous country in South America. It is so large, in fact, that it borders every South American country except for Ecuador and Chile. Brazil covers nearly half of South America and is larger in area than the continental United States of America.

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  

International Panic Day
International Sushi Day
World Juggling Day
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Evacuation Day (Egypt- 1956 the last major contingency of British troops left Suez)
                                                        
Today’s Events through History  

1928 - Amelia Earhart becomes 1st female to fly across Atlantic Ocean
1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with treason
1967 - Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California
1979 - US Pres Carter & Soviet Pres Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty limiting nuclear weapons

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Lou Brock, one-time baseball stolen base leader (St Louis Cards) is 75
Paul McCartney, musician and member of The Beatles is 72
Carol Kane, actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Simka-Taxi) is 62
Blake Shelton, Country Singer is 38

Remembered for being born today

1799-1880 - William Lassell, discoverer (satellites of Uranus & Neptune)
1854-1926 - Edward Wyllis Scripps, publisher/journalist
1877-1960 - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator ("I want you" Uncle Sam)
1903-1965 - Jeanette MacDonald, actress and singer (When I'm Calling You)
1906-1985 - Kay Kyser, orchestra leader (Kay Kyser's Kollege)
1910-1998 - E G Marshall, actor (Playhouse 90, Chicago Hope)
1915-2004 - Red Adair, oilman (fought oil fires in Kuwait)
1917-1981 - Richard Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel)
1942-2013 - Roger Ebert, film critic (Siskel & Ebert at the Movies)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel Prize laureate, 2010, @87
Ethel Barrymore, [Blythe], actress (None but the lonely), heart attack, 1959, @79
Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom), 1902, @66

Brain Teasers                                         

Another day, another dollar.

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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