7-15-14

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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 196 / Week: 29 
July Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 80%
    H 79° L 57° Ave. humidity: 60%
    Wind: ave:   9mph; Gusts:  24mph  
    Average High: 83° Record High:  92° (1970)
    Average Low: 50° Record Low:  38° (1905)
     
Quote of the Day
 
Historical Highlights for Today
1099 - 1st Crusaders capture, plunder Jerusalem
1741 - Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
1795 - "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
1799 - The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1806 - Zebulon Pike began journey to explore SW with Pawnee & Osage
1823 - A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul in Rome.
1830 - Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, sign fourth Treaty of Prairie du Chien giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa & Missouri
1869 - Margarine is patented for use by French Navy
1904 - 1st Buddhist temple in US forms, Los Angeles
1932 - President Hoover cuts own salary 15%
1948 - Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain
1964 - Barry M Goldwater (Sen-R-Az) nominated for president by Republicans
2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy
  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today below
 
My Rambling Thoughts   
We don’t often have a day of rain, but today was pretty close. Woke up about 6a to overcast sky and drizzle. The sun did come out for a couple of hours, but the clouds returned. This weather is really good for our forest and I ain’t complaining about it. Decided it was a good day to do laundry and change the sheets and towels. Everything is clean, and put away, smelling very fresh.
Gaza Strip and Israel need to learn to get along.  Death and destruction does nothing but hurt innocents.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
What Phrase do this suggest?
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Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
 
Harper’s Index 
Average portion of the Great Lakes that has iced over during the winter in the past 40 years: 1/2
Portion that iced over this winter: 9/10
Unusual Fact of the Day
Your foot is the same size as the distance between your wrist and elbow.
Trivia about AZ…
Arizona became the 48th state on February 14, 1912
Interesting facts about Islam…
Islam grants women numerous rights in the home and in society. Among them are the right to earn money, to financial support, to an education, to an inheritance, to being treated kindly, to vote, to a dowry, to keep their maiden name, to worship in a mosque, etc., etc.
Weather Facts…
It is possible to see a rainbow at night!
People Facts…
Yu Youzhen, a Chinese millionaire, works as a street sweeper for the sanitation department to set an example for her children.
Historical Facts…
During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach American soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
Retro Native Humor…
A Cheyenne guy went to Chinatown in San Francisco. While there he found a bronze rat at a thrift store. "How much do you want for the rat" he asked.  "$3 for the rat and $1000 for the story that goes with it" said the shopkeeper. "Just give me the rat," the Cheyenne said, and then he left with it.   As he walked down the street he noticed a couple of rats following him. As he walked further, more and more rats started chasing him. By the time he got to the bay, there were thousands of rats chasing him. So he climbed up a pole and threw the bronze rat into the water. To his amazement, all the rats jumped into the water.
The Cheyenne then returned to the thrift store.  "Ahh" the China man said. "Now you would like to hear the story?"
"No" said the Cheyenne, "I just came back to see if you had any bronze white men!"
Common Phrase Origins…
Butter Someone Up
Meaning: To flatter someone
History: An ancient Indian custom involved throwing balls of clarified butter at statues of the gods to seek favor.
Joke-of-the-day
A Sunday school teacher asked her little children, as they were on the way to church service, "And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?"
One bright little girl replied, "Because people are sleeping." 
Rules of Thumb:   
CHOOSING A BICYCLE FRAME
The crossbar on your bicycle frame should come just to your crotch when you straddle the bike with your shoes off and your feet flat on the ground.
Yeah, It Really Happened
SANTA FE, N.M. (UPI) -- A New Mexico man claims a Santa Fe police officer pulled a rifle on him during a really crappy case of mistaken identity. Artist Mateo Romero was cleaning dog poop out of the back of his SUV in a stranger's driveway and the homeowner got spooked. Maria Markus, 60, called police and reported a burglary in progress after blocking Romero in with her vehicle. "I tried to talk to her to explain that I was cleaning up dog poop," Romero told the Albuquerque Journal. "But she got all hysterical and I just backed away. I couldn't leave. It was crazy." According to a police report, the responding officer pulled out a rifle and detained Romero. After he was searched and it was determined that Romero didn't have any of Markus' property, he was released. "It appeared to be a misunderstanding," the police report said. "Mr. Romero was understanding and polite." "It's kind of embarrassing, but that's what happened," Romero told the Santa Fe New Mexican. Romero's paintings have been exhibited in Canada and throughout the United States.
Somewhat Useless Information   
Eyes are among the most significant organs of a human being, extremely necessary for our daily lives and experiencing things. However, there are several things we may ignore about them…
~The eye muscles are most active muscles in the whole body.
~Eyes are composed of more than two million working parts.
~The eye can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
~A normal lifespan will bring you almost 24 millions images of the world around you.
~Eyes can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles & organs in our body.
~A blink of an eye lasts about one tenth of a second.
~The average persons blink their eyes about 11,500 times per day and about 4.2 million times per years.
~Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you away from crying.
~Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear well.
~You can’t sneeze with your eyes open
Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
13-19
Sports Cliché Week
15-21
Rabbit Week; National Baby Food Week; National Ventriloquism Week
Today Is  
Be A Dork Day 
Cow Appreciation Day
Gummi Worms Day
National Ice Cream Day
National Pet Fire Safety Day 
England: Saint Swithin's Day-- tradition says that whatever the weather is like on St. Swithin's Day, it will continue so for the next forty days 
                                                         
Today’s Events through History  
1958 - Pres Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months
1968 - "One Life to Live" premieres on TV
1987 - Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence
Birthday’s Today                                                        
Ken Kercheval, actor (Cliff Barnes-Dallas) is 79
Jan-Michael Vincent, Denver, actor is 70
Linda Ronstadt, Tucson Az, singer/actress is 68
Arianna Huffington, Athens, columnist; The Huffington Post is 64
Jesse "The Body" Ventura, wrestler/actor/Governor is 63
Forest Whitaker, actor (Bloodsport, Platoon, Stakeout) is 53
Brigitte Nielsen, Denmark, actress (Red Sonja, Rocky IV) is 51
Brian Austin Green, actor (David-Beverly Hills 90210) is 41
Remembered for being born today
1273-1352 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader
1573-1652 - Inigo Jones, London, architect (Coven Garden)
1606-1669 - Rembrandt van Rijn, Netherlands, painter (Night Watch)
1779-1863 - Clement Clarke Moore, US, author ('Twas the Night Before Xmas)
1850-1917 - Francesca Xavier Cabrini, [Mother Cabrini], 1st US saint
1905-1974 - Dorothy Fields, lyricist (I'm in the Mood for Love)
1935-2012 - Alex Karras, NFLer (Lions)/actor (George-Webster)
Historical Obits Today                                                           
Celeste Holm, American actress, 2012, @95
John J. Pershing, [Black Jack], US general (Mexico, WW I), 1948, @87
Eddie Foy Jr, actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange), cancer, 1983, @78
Bert Convy, game show host, brain tumor, 1991, @57
William Thomas Morton, dentist (1st to use ether), 1868, @48
Juan Ponce de León, Spanish Explorer, injuries, 1521, @47
Gen. Tom Thumb, famous small person (40"), stroke, 1883, @44
Brain Teasers                         
Rising to the occasion
(Rising two 'the occasion')

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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