7-11-14

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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 192 / Week: 28 
July Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 40%
    H 75° L 54° Ave. humidity: 67%
    Wind: ave:   13mph; Gusts:  19mph  
    Average High: 82° Record High:  92° (2003)
    Average Low: 50° Record Low:  40° (1979)
     
Quote of the Day
Historical Highlights for Today
1405 - Chinese fleet commander Zheng sail to explore the world 1st time.
1616 - Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec
1750 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, is almost completely destroyed by fire
1798 - US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress
1804 - VP Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Alexander Hamilton in duel.
1889 – Tijuana, Mexico becomes a city
1934 - FDR became 1st US president to travel through Panama Canal
1944 - Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term
1955 - Congress authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust"
1977 - US Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Martin Luther King Jr
1984 - Government orders air bags or seat belts required in cars by 1989
  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today below
 
My Rambling Thoughts   
Just a sprinkle today, but still good. We had Mary’s b-day lunch at our favorite Bistro here in town. She got some beautiful plants from Cheryl and a garden gnome and garden ornament from me. We shared 4th of July stories since Mary had her kids and grandkids at her house and Cheryl had her son and his family at her house. Both enjoyed the visit…during the visit and when it ended. Cheryl lives alone and having 5 extra loving people keeps on running. Mary lives with her husband and adding 7 loving people to the mix certainly adds stress. Both visits were about 5 days and they are now still recovering. The great lunch certainly helped.
I was also excited because I could walk with no limp and am not wearing the wrist brace anymore. Glad that is over. The worst part is that I had never had it before and being a little paranoid, was afraid that it might go on forever. Especially since the medical profession spent a lot of time shaking their heads. From beginning to end was about a month, but sure felt like a lifetime as I was living through it. Onward and upward.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
These seemingly "nonsense" words have pairs of opposites in them. For example:
lshoorntg would be "Long /Short" (LshOorNtG). If you've noticed, the letters in the words are always in the same order. Get the idea? Great! Now try these!
1) Wfateirer
2) Grsokuynd
3) Rpoiocrh
4) Frbeoiezle
5) Ppenecinl
6) Wmaomnan
7) Ldaigrhkt
8) Ounvderer
9) Cdilreatny
10) Riwrgohngt
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s Index 
Estimated number of doctors working in and around Aleppo at the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011: 5000
Number working there today: 36
Unusual Fact of the Day
Only about one-fifth of the world's largest desert, the Sahara, is covered with sand; the remainder is made up of rock formations.
Trivia about AZ…
Rising to a height of 12,643 feet, Mount Humphreys north of Flagstaff is the state's highest mountain.
Interesting facts about Islam…
Islam was not spread by the sword. It was spread by the word (Islamic teachings) and the example of its followers. Islam teaches that there is no compulsion in religion (the Holy Qur'an 2:256 and 10:99).
Weather Facts…
Rain contains vitamin B12.
People Facts…
In Bulgaria, people shake their heads to indicate yes and nod for no.
Historical Facts…
Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
Joke-of-the-day
A bicycle can’t stand on its own because it’s two tired. 
Rules of Thumb:   
PLANNING FLOOR JOISTS
Divide the span (in feet) by two. The result plus one (in inches) is the depth of the joist.
Yeah, It Really Happened
WABASSO, Fla. (UPI) - "Ouch." That's what a Florida woman who allegedly had crack cocaine crammed in her vagina said during a traffic stop on June 24 in Wabasso. Indian River County Sheriff's Office investigators pulled over Robert William King and Jennifer Crosby because it appeared that their vehicle had a window tint violation. When King was asked for his license, the 47-year-old responded, "I don't have a license! I'm habitual." Crosby, 42, supposedly seemed skittish and a female deputy was summoned to the scene to look for drugs, TC Palm reported. After she arrived, Crosby allegedly confessed to having drugs in her vagina. "Ouch," she said. "The foil is hurting the inside of my vagina." King was arrested on a habitual traffic offender charge. Crosby was arrested on possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia charges.
Somewhat Useless Information   
There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
The most expensive Monopoly set ever created is worth $2 million. The board is made of gold and the pieces are jewel-encrusted. Monopoly is the best-selling board game in the world. It is produced in 26 different languages.
Scrabble inventor Alfred Mosher Butts originally named his game "Criss Cross", and sold a few hundred sets under that name. Only later did the name get changed to Scrabble.
Many re-publishes in the history of Milton Bradley's Life board game have taken place since its creation in 1860. The years for these updates include 1866, 1959, 1961, 1978, 1985, 1992, and 2005. As times have changed, so has the game!
Dominoes were first played in the courts of Venice and Naples in Italy. The tiles were originally constructed by gluing and pinning two sheets of ebony on either side of the bone tile. This prevented cheating by being able to see the pip value from the back of the tile in certain lights.
A board game that appeared very similar to checkers (called "Draughts" in Great Britain} was discovered in the ruins of the ancient city of Ur in modern day Iraq. This board game dates to about 3000 B.C.
 Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
6-12
Be Nice To New Jersey Week; National Farriers Week
7-14
Creative Maladjustment Week; Nude Recreation Weekend
11-13
World Future 2014
Today Is  
Bowdler's Day—the doctor who gave up the practice of medicine and undertook the cleansing of the works of Shakespeare by removing all the words and expressions he considered to be indecent or impious.
Cheer Up The Lonely Day
Chick-fil-A's Cow Appreciation Day 
Day of The Five Billion 
International Town Criers Day
National Rainier Cherries Day 
Slurpee Day or 7-11's Birthday
  
World Population Day

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Independence Day (Mongolia)-1921 from China
                                                       
Today’s Events through History  
1892 - US Patent Office says J W Swan, not Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp
1922 - The Hollywood Bowl opens
1967 - Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition
1971 - Chilean parliament nationalizes US copper mines
1995 - 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men are massacred when Bosnian Serbs overrun the UN 'safe haven' of Srebrenica.
Birthday’s Today                                                        
Tab Hunter, actor (Damn Yankees, Lust in the Dust) is 83
Giorgio Armani, fashion designer (American Gigolo) is 80
Adrienne Barbeau, actress (Maude) is 70
Bonnie Pointer, singer (Pointer Sisters-Jump, I'm So Excited) is 64
Leon Spinks, heavyweight boxing champ\Olympic-gold-1976 is 61
Richie Sambora, guitarist, (Bon Jovi) is 55
Jeff Corwin, American naturalist and TV personality is 47
Lil' Kim (Kimberly Denise Jones), American rapper is 40
Remembered for being born today
1274-1329 - Robert Bruce, King of Scots (1306-29)
1754-1825 - Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare
1767-1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th Pres
1899-1985 - E. B. White, writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style)
1920-1985 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor
1922-1998 - Gene Evans, Hollbrook Az, actor (My Friend Flicka, Matt Helm)
1929-2012 - David Kelly, Dublin, actor (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Fawlty Towers)
Historical Obits Today                                                           
Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States, 2007, @94
Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer, 2009, @93 
Isabel Randolph, actress (Mrs Nester-Our Miss Brooks), 1973, @83
Thomas F Waddell, founder (Gay Olympics), AIDS, 1987, @49
Brain Teasers                         
1) Water/Fire: WfATEireR
2) Ground/Sky: GRsOkUyND
3) Rich/Poor: RpoIoCrH
4) Freeze/Boil: FRbEoiEZlE
5) Pen/Pencil: PpENeCInL
6) Woman/Man: WmaOMnAN
7) Light/Dark: LdaIGrHkT
8) Over/Under: OunVdERer
9) Clean/Dirty: CdiLrEAtNy
10) Right/Wrong: RIwrGoHngT
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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