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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 155  / Week: 23 
June Averages: 78° \ 42°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 45%
    H 82° L 46° Ave. humidity: 21%
    Wind: ave:   11mph; Gusts:  28mph  
    Average High: 75° Record High:  89° (1990)
    Average Low: 38° Record Low:  23° (1908)
         
Quote of the Day
Today’s Historical Highlights

   781 BC - Oldest Chinese recording of a solar eclipse
1070 - Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France
1783 - Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)
1784 - Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female balloonist.
1789 - US constitution goes into effect
1892 - Sierra Club forms in SF
1871 - General George Crook takes command of the Department of Arizona, believes the Indians should be treated fairly, but kept under control.
1912 - Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law
1919 - Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill
1942 - Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
1944 - 1st British gliders touch down on French soil for D-Day
1965 - Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
1984 - Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA"

  Today’s Birthdays:   

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

Quite the nice day here. Took a walk and enjoyed the beauty of our little mountain town.

Still have a little cough, but getting better by the hour. My primary care guy charges $125/visit…paid by insurance. He is an MD. The Urgent Care place charges $200/visit and I was seen by a PA. Insurance pays for me. While I was there yesterday a young man, about 25, came in and said he had no insurance. He wondered how much to get some antibiotics. He was told $200 for the visit and whatever the pharmacy would charge for the meds. He said he only had $100. The lady repeated that is was $200 and he left. I followed him outside and told him about a free clinic in town. He thanked me and headed off. Sad that the Urgent Care place didn’t tell him where he could get care.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

What is strange about the words in the group below, apart from the fact that they are all four letters long?
NEAR
LAME
ARMS
CAME
DEAL
GAIN
WINE
SCAR
HIND

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today





OK Then…
Harper’s Index 

Factor by which the length of the average US job interview process  has increased since 2000: 2

Unusual Fact of the Day

Carter Lake, a unique Iowa town bound by the Nebraska state line, is nestled among land legally within city limits of Omaha, Nebraska.

Heard by Flight Attendants…

“Have we landed yet?”
“Do you have a writing pen?”

Presidential Fun Facts…

George Washington: No formal education. The only president elected unanimously. He received all 69 electoral votes. At his inauguration, Washington had only one tooth. At various times he wore dentures made of human teeth, animal teeth, ivory or even lead. Never wood. In addition to the nation's capital and the state, 31 counties and 17 towns are named in his honor. He stood 6 feet and 2 inches tall, weighed 200 pounds and wore size 13 shoes. He is the only president who didn't live in Washington, D.C. during his presidency. During his presidency the Judiciary Act of 1789 established the federal court system, the Bank Act of 1791 established a nation wide banking system, the Bill of Rights became law on December 15, 1791.

Common misused words...

Criteria and criterion
"We made the decision based on one overriding criteria," sounds pretty impressive but is wrong.
Remember: one criterion, two or more criteria. Although you could always use "reason" or "factors" and not worry about getting it wrong.

Things you might not know about games…

They forgot the potato!
What we now know as the beloved Mr Potato Head used to be a vegetable dress-up toy. The original version consisted only of legs, arms, a few sets of eyes, a moustache (of course), and a pipe. A player, however, had to provide the potato, or, as the box said, “any fruit or vegetable.”

 

Joke-of-the-day

Little Johnny's class were on an outing to their local police station where they saw pictures, of the ten most wanted men, tacked to a bulletin board. On the way out of the police station Little Johnny said to the officer, "it was so nice of you to put my daddy's picture up there." 

Rules of Thumb:   

CHECKING AN EGG
When placed in a bowl of water, a fresh egg will sink and lie on its side. An egg that's not fresh but still edible will sink and stand partially erect on its tapered end. A rotten egg will float.

Yeah, It Really Happened

Only in Florida: (1) Calvin Rodriguez was arrested in Port St.. Lucie, Fla., in May as the man who had been using a shaved key to steal a series of cars from parking lots. His spree came to an abrupt halt as he sped away from police in a stolen Honda Civic only to crash into a huge alligator in the road. (2) On May 1st, trappers called to Pine View School in Osprey, Fla., south of Sarasota, removed four alligators (one, eight feet long) from the campus while classes were in session (but without disruption). (3) Beachcombers in the Gulf of Mexico town of Redington Beach, Fla., were treated on May 17th to the sight of a full-grown elephant treading water about 20 yards offshore. (The animal had momentarily gotten free after being unloaded for a commercial birthday party appearance.)

Somewhat Useless Information   

The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.

You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening! The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law.

In 2007, an unmanned yacht was discovered drifting off the coast of Australia. The engine was running, a laptop was running, the radio and GPS were working and a meal was set to eat, but the three-man crew were not on board.

In 2008, a Japanese man noticed his food going missing, so he set up a webcam and found that a woman had been living in his closet for a year

The widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead-end staircases to confuse the ghosts of the people who were killed by her husband's rifles.

A surprise inspection of a men’s prison in Acapulco unearthed 100 plasma TVs, 2 sacks of marijuana, 2 peacocks, 100 cockerels… and 25 women.

 

Calendar Information        

This Week’s Observances:

1-7
Black Single Parents Week
End Mountain Top Removal Week
National Business Etiquette Week
National Headache Awareness Week
National Sun Safety Week
National Tire Safety Week

Pet Appreciation Week
Rip Current Awareness Week


Today Is  

Audacity To Hope Day
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
National Tailors Day
Old Maid's Day
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Flag Day (Finland)
                                                        
Today’s Events through History  

1812 - Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
1825 - Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC
1907 - Automatic washer & dryer introduced
1929 - George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester NY)
1956 - Speech by Khrushchev criticizing Stalin made public
1967 - Monkees take home an Emmy for their Outstanding comedy Series

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Ruth Westheimer, Germany, sex therapist is 86
Bruce Dern, actor (Nebraska, Silent Running) is 78
Robert Fulghum, American author is 77
Parker Stevenson, actor (Falcon Crest, Stroker Ace) is 62
Noah Wyle, actor (Dr John Carter-ER) is 43
Russell Brand, actor is 39
Angelina Jolie, actress (Girl, Interrupted) is 39

Remembered for being born today

1906-1966 - Richard Whorf, actor/director (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1908-1976 - Rosalind Russell, actress (Mame, Take a Letter Darling)
1917-1985 - Charles Collingwood, news commentator (CBS, Chronicles)
1917-2004 - Robert Merrill, Brooklyn, baritone (NY Metropolitan Opera)
1924-2006 - Dennis Weaver, actor (Chester-Gunsmoke, Duel, Battered)
1937-2006 - Freddie Fender, Mexico, country singer (Feelings)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

John Wooden, basketball player and coach, 2010, @99
Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi & Lois, Hagar the Horrible), 1989, @71

 

Brain Teasers                                         

The words are made up entirely of abbreviations for states in the United States of America.

NE  AR
LA  ME
AR  MS
CA  ME
DE  AL
GA  IN
WI  NE
SC  AR
HI  ND

AL = Alabama
AR = Arkansas
CA = California
DE = Delaware
GA = Georgia
HI = Hawaii
IN = Indiana
LA = Louisiana
ME = Maine
MS = Mississippi
ND = North Dakota
NE = Nebraska
SC = South Carolina
WI = Wisconsin

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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