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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 158 / Week: 23 
June Averages: 78° \ 42°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 10%
    H 83° L 45° Ave. humidity: 14%
    Wind: ave:   2mph; Gusts:  9mph  
    Average High: 76° Record High:  89° (1985)
    Average Low: 39° Record Low:  24° (1954)
      
Quote of the Day
Today’s Historical Highlights

1099 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem
1494 - The "new world" is divided by the Catholic church.
1654 - Louis XIV crowned King of France
1769 - Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass State of Kentucky
1832 - Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1863 - Mexico City captured by French troops
1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
1930 - NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"
1942 - Battle of Midway ends: Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of Japan
1965 - Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995
1969 - "Johnny Cash Show" debuts on ABC-TV
1972 - "Grease" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 3,388 performances
1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
2012 - 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays were first performed, were found under a pub in London

  Today’s Birthdays:   

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

Summer weather has certainly arrived. Now we wait for the monsoons. Right now the low humidity is really disturbing for our forest. It is in Stage 2 restrictions which means that no open flame anywhere in the forest. Guess we will see.

VA doctors were so afraid of retaliation regarding the secret waiting list that any emails had to have a code word so the government wouldn’t know what the doctor was telling the media. Really? Guess the NSA thing isn’t all it is cracked up to be.

Watched the NBA game last night…the San Antonio air conditioning went off and the court side thermometer read over 90°. LeBron had severe cramping and limped off court and had to be ‘carried’ by 2 on the team. Very bothersome for sure. But then this morning Gatorade put up a picture on FB that the players who drank Gatorade had no problems…since LeBron took his name to another drink company…Cheap shot.   

Thank you NPR…again. I was wondering about the prisoner exchange when McCain was released. He was released as part of the negotiations in Paris to end the war. Both the US and VietNam agreed to ‘release’ prisoners from the war. It is not technically a prisoner exchange. Also McCain refused to be released several times in a prisoner exchange, fearing that it would be used as propaganda. Interesting.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

Always old, sometimes new. Never sad, sometimes blue. Never empty, sometimes full. Never pushing, always pulling. What am I?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today





OK Then…
Harper’s Index 

Percentage of Americans who want the government to provide a job to any citizen who cannot find work in the private sector: 47

Unusual Fact of the Day

12+1 = 11+2, and "twelve plus one" is an anagram of "eleven plus two."

Heard by Flight Attendants…

“How do I move my seat  forward?”

Presidential Fun Facts…

James Madison: Graduated College of New Jersey (now Princeton University; 1771) Secretary of State under Jefferson. Citing continued attacks on its ships, the United States declared war on Britain in June 1812. British troops burned the White House 1814. First president who had prior service as a congressman. First president to wear trousers rather than knee breeches. He stood 5 feet 4 inches, the shortest president.

Common misused words...

Farther and further
Farther involves a physical distance; "Florida is farther from New York than Tennessee."
Further involves a figurative distance; "We can take our business plan no further." 
So, as they say in the South, "I don't trust you any farther than I can throw you." Or, "I ain't gonna trust you no further."

Things you might not know about games…

They are drawn from nature
When Satoshi Tajiri was growing up in a rustic Western Tokyo suburb in the 1960s and ’70s, he spent many hours outdoors. Young Satoshi grew fascinated with insects and bugs and collected as many as he could, earning him the nickname Mr Bug. This childhood hobby later became the inspiration for the hugely popular Nintendo Game Boy game, Pokémon, where you have to collect and train species of these Pocket Monsters to pit them against those of other players.

The World as 100 people…

Literacy:
83 can read and write; 17 unable to read and write

Joke-of-the-day

Three leaders of the big beer companies meet for a drink. The president of Budweiser orders a Bud. Miller's president orders a Millers and the president of Coors orders a Coors. When it is Guinness turn to order he orders a soda. Why didn't you order a Guinness everyone asks? Nah Guinness replies. If you guys aren't having a beer neither will I. 

Rules of Thumb:   

MOVING TO A NEW PLACE
The urge to fix up a house you've just moved into is strongest during the first 30 days. To save money, wait for a month before you do any repairs.

Yeah, It Really Happened

SHANGHAI (UPI) - You don't need be a scientist to see that it's the brain that sets humans apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Humans may not be the fastest or biggest, but they're the smartest, clever enough to populate the globe.
But just as there's no such thing as a free lunch, bigger brains don't come on the house. According to a new study, human intelligence came an evolutionary price. Modern humans sacrificed brawn for brains.
In analyzing more than 10,000 different metabolites -- intermediates and products of metabolism -- in tissue samples from humans, chimpanzees, macaques and mice, researchers found that the human brain evolved up to four times faster than that of chimps. Muscle evolved eight times more quickly.
But whereas the human brain became bigger and more capable, human muscle became less efficient.
"It's a rather drastic change in both brain and muscle," said Philipp Khaitovich, a researcher at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences. "Of course, muscle was the most surprising. It was the control tissue; [we thought] muscle should be the same. But it turned out to be even more dramatic."
"Even after so many years studying evolution, here's something that's still completely new, something that people didn't know about and something that's very fundamental," Khaitovich said.
The study helps explain why humans, even in peak physical shape, aren't nearly as strong as chimps and other monkeys of similar size.
"Amazingly, untrained chimps and macaques outperformed university-level basketball players and professional mountain climbers," Rolad Roberts, a scientist with the Public Library of Science, told National Geographic. "Weak muscles may be the price we pay for the metabolic demands of our amazing cognitive powers."
The study was published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Biology.

Somewhat Useless Information   

The mathematical model of the 20th century space-time continuum theory combines space and time into a single idea, where space is three-dimensional and time has the role of the fourth dimension.
The American author, poet and editor Edgar Allan Poe was one of the first to suggest that space and time were one.
In 1848 he wrote an  essay of 90 pages on cosmology called “Eureka” in which he stated that time and space were one using no mathematics.
Apart from Poe, after some years H.G. Wells, Albert Einstein,  as well as Hermann Minkowski dealt scientifically with this issue.
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Did you know that in the Parliament of Rwanda 57 percent of the MPs are women?
It is the only Parliament in the world where women represent a majority in government.
Voter Anne Kayitesi told the BBC’s Focus on Africa: “You see men, especially in our culture, men used to think that women are there to be in the house, cook food, look after the children… but the real problems of a family are known by a woman and when they do it, they help a country to get much better.”
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Did you know that the Taj Mahal in India is made entirely out of marble integrating a complex of structures?
Its construction started in the 17th century and it was completed in about 20 years by thousands of artisans and craftsmen.
The supervisors during the construction of Taj Mahal were Abd ul-Karim Ma’mur Khan, Makramat Khan, and Ustad Ahmad Lahauri.

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

6-8
Great American Brass Band Week

Today Is  

Belmont Stakes 
(Daniel) Boone Day
Do-Dah Parade Day
Drawing Day or Pencil Day
Horseradish Days: 6-8 
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
National Lemonade Days: 6-8 
National Trails Day
National YoYo Day
Positive Power of Humor and Creativity Days: 6-8  
Turtle Races Day
Xterra Off-Road Triathalon
VCR Day

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Boone Day (Ky)
National Day (Malta-1964 from UK)

Today’s Events through History  

1692 - Earthquake in Porte Royale, Jamaica, kills 3,000
1866 - Irish Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Quebec
1946 - US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel
1954 - 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)
1955 - 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
1970 - The Who's "Tommy" is performed at NY's Lincoln Center
1975 - "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" by John Denver hits #1

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Tom Jones [Sir Thomas John Woodward], Welsh singer (What's New Pussycat) is 74
Ken Osmond, actor (Eddie Haskel-Leave it To Beaver) is 70
Liam Neeson, N Ireland, actor (Schindler's List, Les Miserables) is 62
Prince, [Rogers Nelson], , rocker/actor (Purple Rain) is 56
Bear Grylls, British survivor is 40
Michael Cera, Canadian actor (Arrested Development, Superbad) is 26

Remembered for being born today

1778-1840 - George Bryan "Beau" Brummel, English dandy
1811-1870 - James Young Simpson, Scotland, obstetrician (used chloroform)
1843-1916 - Susan Elizabeth Blow, US, pioneered kindergarten education
1909-1994 - Jessica Tandy, London, actress (Birds, Cocoon)
1917-1995 - Dean Martin, singer/actor (with Jerry Lewis)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

[Francis] Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, 1996, @91
Jim McKay, American sportscaster, 2008, @86
Chief Seattle, Suquamish tribe leader, 1866, @86ish
Zasu Pitts, actress (Life With Father), cancer, 1963, @65
Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), cancer, 1968, @61
Robert Bruce, King of Scots, TB-stroke(?), 1329, @53
Judy Holliday, comedienne (Adam's Rib), cancer, 1965, @42

Brain Teasers                                         

The Moon

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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