8-10-14

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Flagstaff Almanac: Day:  / Week: 33 
August Averages: 78° \ 50°
Today:
    Average Sky Cover: 80%
    H 75° L 55° Ave. humidity: 41%
    Wind: ave:   1mph; Gusts:  9mph 
    Average High: 81° Record High:  89° (2002)
    Average Low: 50° Record Low:  40° (1900)
         
Quote of the Day
Historical Highlights for Today
  610 - In Islam, traditional date when Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an.
1675 - King Charles II lays foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich
1680 - In New Mexico, Popé leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniards
1793 - Louvre palace officially opens in Paris as The Museum Central des Arts
1833 - Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
1846 - Congress establishes Smithsonian Institution, now world's largest museum and research complex
1889 - Dan Rylands patents screw cap
1921 - FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello
1943 - Gen Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"
1944 - US recaptures Guam from Japanese
1948 - Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
1974 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open
1975 - David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
1994 - Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today below
 
My Rambling Thoughts   
An interesting weather day. Started out clear, thunder, then clouds, but alas no rain yet. Still hoping for some.
It was a lazy Saturday, after staying up past 2a watching TV, sleeping in until 7:30, then just taking it easy. Pain pills are certainly helping my foot pain, but I still have a little limp. Foot is still a little swollen. Sure hope they figure out what this really is.
OMG, the free world will be in great peril over the next 2 weeks as Obama goes on vacation…so say the Republicans. I was a low level bureaucrat for the Feds. When I was an acting principal and took time off during the summer, I still had daily conversations with the school personnel. I still had to solve problems and set up strategies. It’s not like Obama is the wilderness somewhere with no contact with the outside world. His office and the aides basically travel with him, and the aides are NOT on vacation…just at a different place. For the fact freaks out there, Obama has taken fewer vacation days than any of the previous 5 presidents.  
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Find a rhyme for each word below so you end up with a familiar three-word phrase in the form "__, __, and __".
Example:
Clue = "Cook, Wine, Drinker"
Answer = "Hook, Line, and Sinker"

1. Shop, Swap, Dole
2. Mop, Slip, Thump
3. Mud, Wet, Smears
4. Sock, Rock, Carol
5. Claim, Debt, Scratch
6. Steady, Filling, Label
7. Warning, Soon, Flight
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain :     
**NEW**Brief History…
On July 24, 1814, British forces under Phineas Riall march to the Niagara River to halt an American force from invading Canada.  The War of 1812 is misunderstood by many Americans, with most Americans assuming the US won the war, when the truth is much more like a tie at best.  The British never intended to conquer the US, as they were busy with Napoleon and bigger issues than the US.  The war was more about a punitive expedition by the British.  The final battle, after the war was over, in New Orleans was an American victory which gives the impression we won.  History is misunderstood by many people, sometimes by the masses and sometimes even by the people that write the school books. So here are some truths:
Rosa Parks Was Tired and Did not Give Up Her Seat.
Parks’s actions by refusing to move to the back of the bus was not some sort of spontaneous last straw type action because she was tired that day.  She was a civil rights activist and the event was staged to make it a cause celebre, deliberately provoking a federal lawsuit and national attention to racial segregation in the South.
Common Sayings from the Bible…
Spare the rod, spoil the child
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him. Prov 13:24
Computer Facts…
Mathway.com solves all kinds of math homework problems with step by step explanations.
Earth Facts…
The Earth is not perfectly round, rather it is an oblate spheroid. This is due to the planet’s equatorial bulge.
Flagstaff, AZ History…
From 1889: On Wednesday while crossing the Santa Fe tracks in their auto J. C. Dolan, general manager of the Flagstaff Lumber Manufacturing Co., and John Lind barely escaped a serious accident when they collided with a freight train switching within the yards at San Francisco Street. The car was badly damaged.
The SUN recently added a power stapling machine with many new faces of type. Consequently, with printers who are artists in their line we feel amply able to turn out work no one should be ashamed of.
Harper’s Index
Years by which the life expectancy of an American with homophobic views is shorter than that of the average American: 2.5
By which the life expectancy of a gay person living in a homophobic community: 12 
Language Facts…
The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
Rules of Thumb…   
WHERE TO STORE SPARE PARTS
Store spare parts for an item as close as possible to the item.
Superstitions…
It's bad luck to leave a house through a different door than the one used to come into it.
Unusual Fact of the Day…
In 1986, Ted Nugent made a $10 million bid to buy Muzak so he could close down the company. His offer was rejected.
World Heritage Sites…Hallstaff-Duchstein--Austria
Human activity in the magnificent natural landscape of the Salzkammergut began in prehistoric times, with the salt deposits being exploited as early as the 2nd millennium BC. This resource formed the basis of the area’s prosperity up to the middle of the 20th century, a prosperity that is reflected in the fine architecture of the town of Hallstatt.
Joke-of-the-day
The Teacher had asked the class to write an essay about an unusual event that happened during the past week.
Little Johnny got up to read his. It began, "My daddy fell in well last week."
"Good Lord!" the teacher exclaimed. "Is he OK?"
"He must be," said Little Johnny. "He stopped calling for help yesterday."
Yeah, It Really Happened
MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (UPI) - A woman who allegedly swiped a bag of Raisinets from a Cumberland Farms store in Florida felt that the candy caper was justified because she is a "God." Nancy Mullis was allegedly seen taking a $2.99 bag of Raisinets and then leaving the store. Once she was outside, the suspect "flaunted the stolen property at the store clerk." The 52-year-old was given a trespass warning and a court summons for theft. The candies made their way back onto the shelves at the store. Later on in the day, Mullis went to a Discount Family Dollar and caused a scene. "Mullis was waving her arms wildly and cursing," TC Palm reported a court affidavit as saying. "Mullis was stating that she was a god and could do what she wanted." Apparently what Mullis wanted to do was flip over a newspaper stand and knock items off of shelves at the store. The "sacred" suspect was arrested on a disorderly conducted charge and given another trespass warning.
Somewhat Useless Information   
In July 1981 Japanese factory worker Kenji Uraba became "the first known fatality caused by a robot."
Grace Hopper coined the term computer bug when a moth shorted out her computer.
The distress signal before SOS was CQD, which meant "come quick danger."
The first email was sent over the Internet in 1972.
In 1995, personal computers outsold televisions in the United States, and the number of e-mail messages exceeded stamped letters.
In 1997 about one third of American homes had computers. In 2005 the number was two thirds.
Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
8-11
National Hobo Week 
9-16
Gay Games
National Scrabble Week
10-16
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week  
National Resurrect Romance Week 
Elvis Week  
Weird Contest Week 
Today Is  
Kool-Aid Day: 8-10  
Lazy Day
National Duran Duran Appreciation Day
National S'mores Day
Paul Bunyan Day
Skyscraper Appreciation Day  

Smithsonian Day
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Admission Day (Missouri-1821-24th)
Independence Day (Ecuador-1809-from Spain)
                                                        
Today’s Events through History  
1500 - Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight Madagascar
1743 - Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
1835 - Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
1904 - Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest
Birthday’s Today                                                        
Rhonda Fleming, [Marilyn Louis], actress (Spellbound) is 91
Ian Anderson, Scotland, rocker (Jethro Tull-Bungle in the Jungle) is 67
Rosanna Arquette, actress (Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hour) is 55
Riddick Bowe, Brooklyn, HW boxing champ (Olympic-silver-1988) is 47
Angie Harmon, tv actress, is 42
Remembered for being born today
Henri Nestlé, Swiss confectioner (1814-1890)
Herbert Hoover, 31st US President (1874-1964)
Jack Haley, actor (The Wizard of Oz, Ford Star Revue) (1898-1979)
Leo Fender, rocker (Fender guitars) (1909-1991)
Noah Beery Jr, actor (Rockford Files, Quest) (1913-1994)
Jeff Corey, actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men) (1914-2002)
Eddie Fisher, singer (Oh My Papa, Lady of Spain) (1928-2010)
Jimmy Dean, actor/singer (Jimmy Dean Show) (1928-2010)
Historical Obits Today                                                           
Eydie Gorme, American singer, 2013, @84
Isaac Hayes, musician and actor, stroke, 2008, @65
Robert H. Goddard, American rocket pioneer, cancer, 1945. @62
Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog, WWI rescue dog, 1932, @14
Brain Teasers                                         
1. Stop, Drop, and Roll
2. Hop, Skip, and Jump
3. Blood, Sweat, and Tears
4. Lock, Stock, and Barrel
5. Game, Set, and Match
6. Ready, Willing, and Able
7. Morning, Noon, and Night

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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