7-13-14


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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 194 / Week: 29
July Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 30%
    H 84° L 50° Ave. humidity: 59%
    Wind: ave:   2mph; Gusts:  20mph  
    Average High: 83° Record High:  94° (1972)
    Average Low: 50° Record Low:  35° (1904)
      
Quote of the Day
Historical Highlights for Today
1772 - Capt James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas
1787 - Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)
1832 - Source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft)
1837 - Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
1854 - US forces shell & burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
1865 - Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man"
1917 - Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal
1930 - Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
1960 - US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate
1977 - NYC experiences 25 hr black-out
  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today below
 
My Rambling Thoughts   
A really warm day here in our high mountain town. Still nice. Washed my front windows inside and out. Suddenly the living room is much brighter…
I can’t believe how dumb I can be. I have a bird feeder on the back deck. I have a plastic tub with a click lid. Sometime earlier this week I filled the bird feeder, but forgot to put the lid back on. This afternoon I went out to check the bird feeder, only to discover about 8 pounds of bird seed floating in a tub of very dirty water. I had no idea we had gotten that much rain, but then remembered our gulley washer earlier and that has to be when it happened. Dumped all the birdseed onto the ground, cleaned the tub and left it to dry. What a disappointing waste of good birdseed. To add injury to insult, last month I bought a 20lb bag of birdseed and put it on the porch, unopened. It was in those fairly strong plastic/paper bags that are hard to tear. I went out one morning and a squirrel had chewed through the paper and dumped about half the seed onto the patio. Guess I have lots to learn.
No rain today, as predicted, but a few big fluffy clouds with dark bottoms, so maybe later.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Which letter comes next in the series?
S, M, H, D, W, M, ?
Pick from:
L   V   Y   T   D
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s Index 
Maximum daily compensation a Chinese travel agency offers tourists who sign up for ‘smog insurance’: $8
Unusual Fact of the Day
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s wife died when a dropped match ignited her enormous hoop skirt.
Trivia about AZ…
Oraibi is the oldest Indian settlement in the United States. The Hopis Indians founded it.
Grand Canyon's Flaming Gorge got its name for its blazing red and orange colored, twelve-hundred-foot-high walls.
Interesting facts about Islam…
The word "jihad" does not mean "holy war". Instead, it means the inner struggle that one endures in trying to submit their will to the will of God. Some Muslims may say they are going for "jihad" when fighting in a war to defend themselves or their fellow Muslims, but they only say this because they are conceding that it will be a tremendous struggle. But there are many other forms of jihad which are more relevant to the everyday life of a Muslim such as the struggles against laziness, arrogance, stinginess, or the struggle against a tyrant ruler or against the temptation of Satan, or against one's own ego, etc.
Weather Facts…
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
People Facts…
Men fall in love faster than women do.
Historical Facts…
Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.
Retro Native Humor…
An evil Atheist explorer in the deepest Amazon suddenly finds himself surrounded by a bloodthirsty group of natives. Upon surveying the situation, he says quietly to himself "Oh God, I'm screwed!!!!!."
There is a ray of light from heaven and a voice booms out: "No, you are NOT screwed. Pick up that stone at your feet and bash in the head of the chief standing in front of you."
So the explorer picks up the stone and proceeds to bash the living heck out of the chief.
As he stands above the lifeless body, breathing heavily and surrounded by 100 natives with a look of shock on their faces, Gods voice booms out again: "Okay ..... NOW you're screwed." 
Common Phrase Origins…
Blood is Thicker than Water
Meaning: Family comes before everything else
History: In ancient Middle Eastern culture, blood rituals between men symbolized bonds that were far greater than those of family. The saying also has to do with “blood brothers,” because warriors who symbolically shared the blood they shed in battle together were said to have stronger bonds than biological brothers.
Joke-of-the-day
A mother carefully explained to her young daughter how children were created. She used the expression “carrying a child” instead of “pregnant,” but the girl seemed satisfied.
Sometime later, a terrible fire broke out in the neighborhood, and the girl stood by watching. Here is how she described the scene to her parents: “There was this big fire, and a fireman ran into the house, and when he came out, he was pregnant.”
Rules of Thumb:   
BLOWING YOUR NOSE
To get a good "blow" out of a stuffed-up nose, always blow the clearer nostril first.
Yeah, It Really Happened
KNOX COUNTY , Tenn., July 10 (UPI) --A Tennessee woman opened her closet and instead of finding her usual array of clothes and shoes, she discovered a drunken teenager she didn't know.
It's unclear exactly how he got in there, but apparently 18-year-old Andrew Davison drank a fifth of vodka and somehow managed to find his way into Tonya Palmer's closet.
Palmer was picking up clothes near her closet early Wednesday morning when she noticed something peculiar.
"I went to pick up some of the clothes and they were warm, so that kind of startled me and I bent over and I could hear breathing," she told WKRN.
She woke up her husband and they discovered Davison passed out drunk. While Palmer's husband held the sleeping suspect at gunpoint, she called 911.
"I know that every time I open a closet door there's going to be that instant of is it okay to open the closet door," she said.
When Knox County Sheriff's deputies arrived, "Davison appeared extremely intoxicated and was unaware of his location."
Davison has been charged with aggravated criminal trespass and underage consumption.
Somewhat Useless Information   
Many babies in Germany were killed by diarrhea in 1908 due to acute gastrointestinal infections.
An Austrian Professor Ernst Moro, found out an experiment that a simple carrot soup decreased the death rate of babies suffering from diarrhea by nearly 50%.
Indeed, a German study published in 2002 showed that acidic oligosaccharides formed in aqueous extracts from carrots may lead to less adherence of bacterial agents to the mucosal wall of the bowel, so it is a more effective treatment for acute gastrointestinal infections of children than glucose-electrolyte-solution oral rehydration.
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Sigmund Freud, the famous Austrian neurologist, carried out several self-experiments with cocaine, in which he had swallowed various quantities of it, finding it useful in reducing levels of depression and anxiety.
“A small dose lifted me to the heights in a wonderful fashion. I am just now busy collecting the literature” — in German, French and English — “for a song of praise to this magical substance”, he said.
Freud liked Cocaine so much that he would offer it as a gift to family and friends!
Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
7-14
Creative Maladjustment Week; Nude Recreation Weekend
11-13
World Future 2014
13-19
Sports Cliché Week
Today Is  
Anne Hutchinson Memorial Day
Embrace Your Geekness Day
Gruntled Workers Day
National French Fries Day 
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Feast of Lanterns (Japan)
                                                     
Today’s Events through History  
1657 - Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
1863 - Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die
1923 - The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland" but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
1943 - Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany
1966 - Richard Speck murders 8 nurses in Chicago
2011 - Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour
Birthday’s Today                                                        
Patrick Stewart, film, TV, stage actor is 74
Harrison Ford, actor (Star Wars, Indiana Jones) is 72
Cheech Marin, [Richard], comedian (Cheech & Chong) is 68
Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic of China is 64
Remembered for being born today
100 BC-45BC - Julius Caesar, Rome, Roman military and political leader
1864-1912 - John Jacob Astor IV, American entrepreneur (d. 1912)
1913-1982 - Dave Garroway, TV host (Today Show)
1921-1995 - Charles Scribner Jr, music publisher (Scribner)
1928-1978 - Bob Crane, actor (Col Hogan-Hogan's Heroes)
1935-2009 - Jack F Kemp, (Rep-NY)/Secretary of HUD
Historical Obits Today                                                           
Red Buttons (Aaron Chwatt), comedian, 2006, @87
George Steinbrenner, owner -Yankees, 2010, @80
John C. Frémont, army officer, explorer, peritonitis, 1890, @77
Richard Darryl Zanuck, Academy Award-film producer, heart attack, 2012, @77
Johnny Ringo, American Gunfighter, many stories of death, 1882, @32
Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and musician, OD, 2013, @31
Brain Teasers                         
 
 
 
Y
Second; Minute
; Hour; Day; Week; Month; Year

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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