8-21-14

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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 233 / Week: 34 
August Averages: 78° \ 50°
Today:
    Average Sky Cover: 60%
    H 70° L 52° Ave. humidity: 87%
    Wind: ave:   2mph; Gusts:  23mph 
    Average High: 78° Record High:  90° (2009)
    Average Low: 49° Record Low:  33° (1979)
         
Quote of the Day
 
Historical Highlights for Today
1321 - 160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake
1680 - Pueblo Indians takes possession of Santa Fé from Spanish
1831 - Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)
1852 - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory
1858 - 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
1878 - American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY
1929 - Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
1943 - Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington
1968 - Warsaw Pact forces invade Czechoslovakia to end Prague Spring
1975 - US lightens trade embargo against Cuba
1985 - Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71
1987 - Clayton Lonetree, 1st US marine court-martialed for spying, convicted
  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today below
My Rambling Thoughts   
Yesterday’s rain bought a really nice day to our little mountain town. A little cooler than I like, and a little humid, but still a nice day. Ireland is just a little cooler and a whole lot wetter. Getting excited.
So the Attorney General went to MO to meet with locals. I sure hope this calms things down. No city or town in this country should have to live so long under these circumstances. The local police certainly have a lot to learn. They seem to find new ways to intimidate local Blacks, even entering a ‘safe haven’ church to look for weapons and to shine bright lights into the church at night.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Use synonyms of the following phrases to decode popular movie titles.
1.) Arachnid Boy
2.) Melody and Words
3.) Parade of the Flightless Birds
4.) Has to Like Canines
5.) Male of the 12 Months
6.) Swashbucklers of the Tropical Sea
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain :     
Africa Facts…
The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
Brain Facts…
Daydreamers are better at solving complex problems.
Computer Facts…
You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.
Flagstaff, AZ History…
From 1889: Not fewer than four head of cattle were killed this week by freight trains coming down the grade from Old Town. This matter should be looked into. People cannot afford to lose their stock by the needless speeding of the A. & P. Railroad.
Harper’s Index
Amount in royalties the band Skinny Puppy is seeking for the use of its music during US Military interrogations: $666,000 
Language Facts…
The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
Rules of Thumb…   
A MATTER OF BALANCE
Always let an attractive woman know that you think she's smart and let a smart woman know that you think she's attractive.
Superstitions…
When you speak of bad luck, it is said that one should always knock on wood. Also knocking when speaking of good luck apparently helps with having good luck. This is an old Celtic tradition related to belief of wood spirits.
Unusual Fact of the Day…
The fortune cookie was invented in the early 20th century by Makato Hagiwara, who designed the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. He intended the cookie to be a snack for people walking through the garden.
Joke-of-the-day
A little boy knocks at the door and tells the owner that something of his had found its way into her garage, and he wanted it back. The homeowner opened the garage and noticed two additions; a baseball and broken window sporting a baseball-sized hole.
“How do you suppose this ball got in here?” she asked the child. Taking one look at the ball, one look at the window, and one look at the homeowner, the little boy exclaimed, “Wow lady! I must have thrown it right through that hole!”
Yeah, It Really Happened
STAMFORD, Conn. (UPI) - An English woman who was expecting to be on her honeymoon is instead enjoying an impromptu American vacation after her former fiance attempted to fake his own suicide to get out of marrying her. "'I'm a terrible, awful person," Tucker Blandford, the 23-year-old former groom to be, admitted to the Daily Mail. Blandford met his former fiancee, Alex Lanchester, also 23, in 2012 when Lanchester was studying abroad as a film student visiting the University of Connecticut. The two quickly became close and started dating. "Tucker was such a gentleman and was always buying me dinner and beautiful vintage jewelry," Lanchester recalled. "I'd never been in love like that before. Every Sunday he would take me out for pancakes, it was so sweet." When Lenchester's time in the U.S. ended, Blandford proposed to her. As Lenchester planned for their wedding, set for August 15, Blandford grew increasingly uncomfortable with the long-distance relationship. Unable to face the pressure of committing to Lenchester or breaking up with her, Blandford concocted a plan to fake his own suicide. Pretending to be his father, Blandford called Lenchester and delivered the news that he suffered from depression and had jumped into the path of a moving car. The grim ruse quickly unraveled when Lenchester phoned Blandford's mother to offer her condolences. "He has shattered my trust and I'm not sure I'll ever be in a relationship again," Lanchester said. "All I ever did was love him ... I've cried until I felt numb but now I'm just really angry. I'll be spending our would-be wedding day making new memories without him. He's a liar and a coward."
Somewhat Useless Information   
For a product to be labeled "Made in the USA" the Federal Trace Commission requires that at least 70 % of the parts and labor come from the United States.
The FBI's fingerprint database is the largest in the world. It receives 34,000 new fingerprint cards a day.
On its first night of operation in 1982, the UPS Worldport facility processed 2,000 packages. It now handles that number in 30 seconds.
On June 19th, 1885, the French frigate "Isere" delivered the Statue of Liberty to the United States. For transit, it was broken down into 350 pieces and packed into 214 crates.
In the 1960 Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley, California, officials were unsure if a skier had missed a gate in the men's slalom. They asked a broadcaster if they could review the videotape and the "instant replay" was born.
The tuna's ultra efficient swimming ability has inspired the U.S. Navy to commission construction of a robotic tuna for surveillance missions.
Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
14-24
Little League Baseball World Series
15-21
National Aviation Week 
18-24
Minority Enterprise Development Week
Today Is  
National Spumoni Day
Poet's Day
Senior Citizen's Day 
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Admission Day (Hawaii-1959-50th)
                                                         
Today’s Events through History  
1856 - America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda
1897 - Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division
1945 - US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program
1968 - After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio
Birthday’s Today                                                        
Robert Stone, US writer (Who'll Stop the Rain, WUSA) is 77
Kenny Rogers, Singer is 76,
Kenny Rogers  Clarence Williams III, actor (Mod Squad) is 75
Jackie DeShannon, singer (What the World Needs Now) is 70
Harry Smith, TV co-anchor (CBS Morning Show) is 63
Kim Cattrall, actress (Mannequin, Star Trek VI) is 58
Jim McMahon, NFL QB (Bears, Chargers, Eagles) is 55
Brody Jenner, American actor is 31
Usain Bolt, Trelawny Jamaica, sprinter (6xOlympic Gold) is 28
Remembered for being born today
Blossom Rock, actress, (Grandmamma-Addams Family) (1895-1978)
[William] Count Basie, jazz musician (Blazing Saddles) (1904-1984)
Jack Weston, [Morris Weinstein], actor (4 Seasons, Rad) (1924-1996)
Wilt Chamberlain, NBA Legend (LA Laker, 5 time MVP) (1936-1999)
Historical Obits Today                                                           
Lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang), 1992, @74
Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor, 1814, @61
Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, assassinated, 1940, @60
William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier, killed by Jaboites, 1689, @28
Brain Teasers                                         
1.) Spider Man
2.) Music and Lyrics
3.) March of the Penguins
4.) Must Love Dogs
5.) Man of the Year
6.) Pirates of the Caribbean

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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