8-12-14


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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 224 / Week: 33 
August Averages: 78° \ 50°
Today:
    Average Sky Cover: 50%
    H 72° L 55° Ave. humidity: 44%
    Wind: ave:   8mph; Gusts:  15mph 
    Average High: 79° Record High:  92° (1944)
    Average Low: 51° Record Low:  36° (1999)
       
Quote of the Day
Historical Highlights for Today

       3 - Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem
1658 - 1st American police corps forms (New Amsterdam)
1851 - 1st America's Cup-US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora
1865 - Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery
1879 - 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)
1908 - Henry Ford's company builds the first Model T car
1915 - "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published
1922 - Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Wash DC as national shrine
1928 - 9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam
1935 - Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand
1936 - Demo baseball game at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, world beats US, 6-5
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1955 - Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour
1972 - Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
1978 - ICE is launched
1984 - 23rd Olympic games close at Los Angeles, CA
1992 - Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

  Birthdays Today:   

How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today below

My Rambling Thoughts   

Nice Monday that looked like it was going to be a hot one, but early this afternoon the clouds rushed in, temps cooled down quickly, and there was even a brief shower. It looks and feels like more rain is on the way.

I cleaned up my back room a lot today, still have some more work to do. The room looks much better. The closet in that room has turned into a ‘junk’ closet and I really need to empty it, throw stuff away and put a few things back in there. But that is for another day.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

Each group of three definitions describes three words that are spelled the same, except for one letter (each group describes a different set of words). Example: king, ring, wing.

1a) to wriggle
1b) a member of the British gentry
1c) a small forcible stream of liquid

2a) this color is a blend of red and yellow darkened by black
2b) the top of the head
2c) to cover with water

3a) more recent
3b) rubbish
3c) a written communication

4a) free from color
4b) a high-pitched plaintive cry
4c) although

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today




Robert F. Kennedy Interview- Civil Unrest, Vietnam (Merv Griffin)


OK Then…
Paraphernalia 4 the Brain :     

Brief History…

Otis Invented the Elevator.

Elisha Otis, inventor of a safety device in 1854 to keep elevator cars from free falling if the cable broke, was the founder of Otis Elevator Company.  He did not, however, invent the elevator.  Forms of the elevator were around for hundreds if not thousands of years.  The Otis “Safety Elevator” was the ticket for steel framed buildings that were reaching multi-story heights in the 1800’s and were a big success.

Common Sayings from the Bible…

Pride comes before a fall
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18

Computer Facts…

The longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to be the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued People Eating Tasty Animals to obtain the name – the case spanned from 1995 to 2001.

Earth Facts…

The deepest spot on Earth is under the ocean in the Mariana Trench at 35,813 feet below sea level.

Flagstaff, AZ History…

100 YEARS AGO

Lightning cracked the crossing signal system at noon on Tuesday. The ”Train” sign is stuck up the stick until it is repaired.

Harper’s Index

Portion of college students with symptoms of clinical depression who are not receiving mental health services: 1/2 

Language Facts…

The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!

Rules of Thumb…   

ATTENDING A MEETING

A meeting is not worth the trip if it will take you longer to get there than the meeting itself will last.

Superstitions…

Amber beads, worn as a necklace, can protect against illness or cure colds.

Unusual Fact of the Day…

Between 1912 and 1948, art competitions were a part of the Olympics. Medals were awarded for architecture, music, painting, and sculpture.

World Heritage Sites…


The coastal area of Belize is an outstanding natural system consisting of the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, offshore atolls, several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons and estuaries. The system’s seven sites illustrate the evolutionary history of reef development and are a significant habitat for threatened species, including marine turtles, manatees and the American marine crocodile.

 

Joke-of-the-day

Q: What did the windmill say when she met her favorite movie star?

A: "Nice to meet you. I'm a BIG FAN!"

Yeah, It Really Happened

North Carolina police have apparently arrested a man for beating them in a donut-eating contest.
The Elizabeth City man celebrated out-eating the police officers, only to find out that he couldn't outrun them.
24-year-old Bradley Herbert Hardison was arrested one day after he won the adult division of a doughnut-eating contest at the Elizabeth City Police Department's National Night Out Against Crime. Hardison ate eight doughnuts in 2 minutes, beating a group that included local police officers and firefighters.
Oh, the Camden County Sheriff's Office SAID they had been looking for Hardison in connection with two break-ins, but Sheriff Tony Perry admitted that nothing was taken during these "break-ins". And, of course, couldn't explain why a man would show up at a Police donut-eating contest the day after committing so-called crimes in that very same neighborhood.
In addition to the Camden County charges, Hardison is charged with felony larceny and breaking and entering, because humiliating cops at the one thing they do best (other than setting up speed traps) isn't a crime.

Somewhat Useless Information   

Sweating from stress and sweating to cool down are chemically different. When you sweat because you're hot, it comes from your eccrine glands, but when you sweat because you're stressed, it comes from your apocrine glands.
You have between 2 and 4 million sweat glands in your body. Your feet alone have about 250,000 sweat glands between them.
The name for absent sweating (or not sweating at all) is anhidrosis, which is dangerous because your body can overheat.
The more in shape you are, the more quickly and profusely your body will sweat. It does this to cool itself down so you can work out at a greater intensity for a longer period of time.
Sweat has a stinky reputation, but sweat itself doesn't actually smell. The odor comes from the bacteria on your skin instead.
Hippos' sweat is red. The colored pigment both acts a sunscreen and kills bacteria.

 

Check Your Calendar

Observances This 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  

IBM PC Day
International Youth Day
Middle Child Day
Sewing Machine Day-1851-patent by Singer
Vinyl Record Day
World Elephant Day 
                                                         
 Today’s Events through History  

1508 - Juan Ponce de Leon arrives in Puerto Rico
1769 -  Kumeyaay Indians fight with the Spaniards who have established the Mission San Diego de Alcala, now San Diego, CA
1877 - Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device
1960 - Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
1962 - 1st time 2 people in space
2012 - The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony completes the games

Birthday’s Today                                                        

George Hamilton, (Love at 1st Bite, Where the Boys Are) is 75
Willie Horton, American murderer and rapist is 63
Peter Krause, actor (Six Feet Under) is 49
Pete Sampras, tennis champ (14 grand slam titles) is 43
Casey Affleck, American actor is 39

Remembered for being born today

"Diamond Jim" Brady, American financier (1856-1917)
Katharine Lee Bates, US, author (America the Beautiful) (1859-1929)
Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer (Miss Pinkerton) (1876-1958)
Cecil B deMille, director (10 Commandments, Cleopatra) (1881-1959)
Marion Lorne, actress (Bewitched) (1883-1968)
Jane Wyatt, actress (Father Knows Best, Star Trek), (1910-2006)
Cantinflas, [Mario Moreno], Mexico, actor (Around World in 80 Days) (1911-1993)
Marjorie Reynolds, [Goodspeed], actress (Peggy-Life of Riley) (1917-1997)
John Derek, actor/director (10, Annapolis Story) (1926-1998)
Porter Wagoner, country singer (Y'All Come), (1927-2007)
Buck Owens, [Alvis Edgar], country singer (Hee Haw) (1929-2006)

Historical Obits Today                                                           

Les Paul (Lester William Polsfuss) musician and inventor, 2009, @94
Merv Griffin, American television host and game show creator, 2007, @82
Henry Fonda, actor (On Golden Pond), heart disease, 1982, @77
William Blake, English poet/painter, 1827, @69
Eliphalet Remington, inventor, designer of the Remington rifle, 1861, @67
Ian L Fleming, British journalist/writer (James Bond), heart disease, 1964, @56
Cleopatra VII Philopator, suicide by inducing an asp (Egyptian cobra), 30BC, @39
King Philip, [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot, 1676, @36

Brain Teasers                                         

1) squirm, squire, squirt
2) brown, crown, drown
3) latter, litter, letter
4) white, whine, while

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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