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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 210/ Week: 31 
July Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 65%
    H 73° L 55 ° Ave. humidity: 59%
    Wind: ave:   4mph; Gusts:  15mph 
    Average High: 82° Record High:  92° (2002)
    Average Low: 51° Record Low:  37° (1913)
        
Quote of the Day

 
Historical Highlights for Today
1567 - James VI is crowned King of Scots at Stirling.
1676 - Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
1773 - 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
1786 - 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette
1836 - Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
1899 - 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY
1920 - Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
1927 - 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)
1928 - Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
1938 - Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears
1938 - Olympic National Park forms
1948 - King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
1957 - International Atomic Energy Agency forms by UN
1958 -  Eisenhower signs into law National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
1970 - 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct
1974 - Episcopal Church ordained female priests
1984 - 23rd Summer Olympics opens in LA
1995 - Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis
1996 - The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.
  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today below
My Rambling Thoughts   
A little cloudy today, but stayed nice most of the day. Not too hot, which is nice for a change. We had rain last night and it looks like more will be coming in this afternoon or tomorrow. We are under a flash flood watch all day and into the night….9pm. Sure glad I don’t live in the path of most runoff from the mountain.
A little tit for tat with my insurance carrier. My Dr. increased one of my meds to prevent another attack of gout. After being on a low dose for a couple of weeks, with no side effects he raised the script to 2 pills a day. Even gave me a new script. So today I took it in to get it filled. BC said I couldn’t renew it until Friday. Yes it was the same med and the same 100mg, but changed to 2 pills/day. I called them from the pharmacy…that goodness for cell phones. First call got transferred to another person, Vicky, who had me on the phone for about 5 minutes then disconnected me. Called back and the idiot listened to my story after reading him all my personal information, and said the computer refused it because it was the same script. I told him it was for a different amount and he says the pharmacy has to call BC to get it worked out. I asked to speak to his supervisor. Retold my story, in a rather frustrated manner. He said the guy was wrong, BC would call the pharmacy and he would it while I am on hold. He did, the pharmacy tech saw me sitting in the waiting area on the phone, smiled and said, ‘hmmm, your script was approved and will be ready in 5 minutes.’ Turned out good, but no one should have to deal with computer hassles like this.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
What different species of one animal is represented in the following phrases? 
Source of paper
A male cow
A short African.
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
 
Harper’s Index 
Portion of poor and affluent men, respectively, who favor raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour: 72, 35
Of poor and affluent women: 69, 67
Unusual Fact of the Day
Sorry, guys. While females are the ones who carry the gene for Hemophilia (a disease where the blood doesn't clot), except in the rarest of cases, only males manifest the disease.
Earth Facts…
The Earth’s atmosphere is composed mainly of nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%), argon (.93%), and carbon dioxide (0.03%).
Common Sayings from the Bible…
The writing on the wall
In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace
Daniel 5:5-6
World Heritage Sites…
Argentina-Iguazu National Park
The semicircular waterfall at the heart of this site is some 80 m high and 2,700 m in diameter and is situated on a basaltic line spanning the border between Argentina and Brazil. Made up of many cascades producing vast sprays of water, it is one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world. The surrounding subtropical rainforest has over 2,000 species of vascular plants and is home to the typical wildlife of the region: tapirs, giant anteaters, howler monkeys, ocelots, jaguars and caymans.
People Facts…
A man is more likely to get a woman's phone number if he is accompanied by a dog.
Historical Facts…
There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
Retro Native Humor…
The cowboy was trying to buy a health insurance policy. The insurance agent was going down the list of standard questions.
"Ever have an accident?"
"Nope, nary a one."
"None? You've never had any accidents."
"Nope. Ain't never had one. Never."
"Well, you said on this form you were bit by a snake once. Wouldn't you consider that an accident?"
"Heck, no. That dang varmint bit me on purpose."
Common Phrase Origins…
Rub the Wrong Way
Meaning: To irritate, bother, or annoy someone
History: In colonial America, servants were required to wet-rub and dry-rub the oak-board floors each week. Doing it against the grain caused streaks to form, making the wood look awful and irritating the homeowner.
Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 years ago
The remodeling at the Monte Vista is complete.  The corner room formerly occupied by the Chamber of Commerce is now an enlarged buffet and bar with new leather-and-chrome booth seats and tables. The barbershop has moved to the former buffet room and the Chamber of Commerce is now located on the mezzanine.
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Our continuing drought shows our need for additional water storage.  A report by Councilman John Babbitt gives consumption at almost 2 million gallons per day.
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Pearson & Dickerson Inc. of Prescott and Tucson have finished laying 86 blocks of paving. Only a few odds and ends work of remain undone.
Joke-of-the-day
A doctor worked on the tenth floor of an office building. In the building was a pub, where the doctor had a lemon daiquiri, every day at quitting time. The bartender's name was Dick.
One dyadic found out he didn't have any lemons and no time to get any. So he thought he would make up a hickory daiquiri instead and at the end of the day, the doctor would be too tired to notice.
The doctor sat down, took a sip and said "This isn't a lemon daiquiri, Dick!"...To which Dick replied, "No, it’s a hickory daiquiri, Doc!"
Rules of Thumb:   
EDITING A MAGAZINE
Three pages of manuscript can be edited into one magazine column without anyone, not even the author, noticing that 20 percent of the words are gone.
Yeah, It Really Happened
MYRTLE BEACH, Fla. (UPI) - In order to help promote cancer awareness, a minor league general manager has agreed to get a prostate exam during the seventh-inning stretch of an upcoming game. To make things even more interesting, Andy Milovich will have the exam performed while he is singing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game." Milovich, the GM of the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, will undergo the examination during the Pelicans game on Thursday on one condition. He wants the Facebook page of 10-year-old Fallon Emery, a local girl who has brain cancer, to get 10,000 "likes" before the game. The page had over 8,800 likes as of Monday morning. The Pelicans are the Single-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers. "If what we do saves a kid from having to lose his or her father because they get checked out, this will be worth it," Milovich told ESPN. In addition to the stunt, the club will also be handing out 1,000 foam fingers with blue ribbons on them. "It's not like I would be getting it at home plate," Milovich said. "I'll likely do it from our radio booth and the fans will see me from the shoulder up." 
Somewhat Useless Information   
Did you know that the first lip balms were introduced in the 1880s by Charles Browne Fleet?
The purpose of lip balm is to provide layer on the lip surface and protect from external exposure.
However, the origins of lip balm are traced to earwax, which was used as lip balm prior to that!
Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
30-8/3
AFRMA Fancy Rat & Mouse Week
Today Is  
Lasagna Day 
National Chicken Wing Day  
Rain Day 
                                                       
Today’s Events through History  
1609 - Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York setting the stage for French-Iroquois conflicts for the next 150 years
1920 - 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
1956 - 11th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius
1978 - 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, NY
Birthday’s Today                                                        
"Professor" Irwin Corey, comedian (Car Wash) is 99
Robert Horton, actor (Wagon Train) is 90
Robert Fuller, actor (Laramie, Wagon Train) is 80
Elizabeth Hanford Dole, US Secretary of Transportation is 78
Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of VP Dan Quayle is 65
Ken Burns [Kenneth Lauren], director\producer (The Civil War, Baseball) is 61
Tim Gunn, American television personality is 61
Wil Wheaton, actor (Star Trek Next Generation-Wesley, Stand By Me) is 42
Remembered for being born today
Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (1805-1859)
Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt (1861-1884)
Benito Mussolini, [Il Duce], Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43), (1883-1945)
Clara Bow, silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid), (1905-1965)
Dag Hammarskjoeld, Sweden, 2nd UN Sect-General (Nobel) (1905-1961)
Melvin Mouron Belli, lawyer (SF's "King of Torts") (1907-1996)
Peter Jennings, Toronto, news anchor (ABC Evening News) (1938-2005)
Elizabeth Short, victim in the Black Dahlia case (1924-1947)
Historical Obits Today                                                           
Raymond Massey, actor (Dr Kildare), 1983, @86
Edward Gailliard, Flemish language/archaeologist, 1922, @81
David Niven, actor (Rugues), digestive problem, 1983, @73
Vincent van Gogh, painter, suicide?, 1890, @37
Cass Elliot, singer (Mamas & Papas), heart attack, 1974, @32
Brain Teasers                                         
Frogs.
Tree frog. Bull frog, and African dwarf frog.
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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