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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 215 / Week: 32 
August Averages: 78° \ 50°
Today:
    Average Sky Cover: 70%
    H 73° L 54° Ave. humidity: 71%
    Wind: ave:   4mph; Gusts:  19mph 
    Average High: 81° Record High:  91° (1994)
    Average Low: 51° Record Low:  37° (1956)
        
Quote of the Day
Historical Highlights for Today

  881 - Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings
1492 - All Jews are expelled from Spain
1492 - Columbus sails for the "New World" from Palos, Spain.
1527 – 1st known letter was sent from North America--Newfoundland.
1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded
1914 - 1st seaworthy ship through Panama Canal
1921 - 1st aerial crop dusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars)
1923 - VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th US President upon death of Harding
1934 - Hitler merges the offices of chancellor and president, is 'Führer ' (leader)
1944 - Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies
1952 - 15th Olympic Games close in Helsinki Finland
1967 - 45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam
1975 - Louisiana Superdome is dedicated
1980 - 22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, USSR

  Birthdays Today:   

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

Another monsoon shower this afternoon. Kept things cool. Looks like another one is on the way. Strangely, a very cool breeze came through my bedroom about 3a and I had to pull up a comforter that was beside the bed. Haven’t had to use one for a couple of month.
Today was ‘fix-it’ day. I cleaned up the deck and got rid of all the pine needles and small branches that have fallen on the deck in the past week. Then I repaired my front window screen. Then I finally found a way to attach the outside temperature monitor so I will know the outside temperature without having to walk to the back room. I attached it to the front window and await the HOA to tell me I have to take it down. They can be so picky.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

In each sentence below, two words are incomplete. The two words end in the same three letters, so they look like they should rhyme, but they don't. See if you can figure out the missing letters in each sentence.
Example: One symptom of bronchitis is a ro___ co___. (The two words are: rough & cough.)

1. Now that I can fly a kite, I don't m___ the w___.
2. Children in Alabama could be called the Deep So___ yo___.
3. That bully must ce___ to te___ his fellow students.
4. By his 18th birthday, the prince had gr___ into his cr___.

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today


The Freedom of Evil in America.- Solzhenitsyn

The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - Leon Uris

Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart in San Francisco

OK Then…
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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain :     

Common Sayings from the Bible…

Powers that Be
The powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisted power resist the ordinances of God.  Romans 13:2

Common Phrase Origins…

Sleep Tight
Meaning: Sleep well
History: During Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. In order to make the bed firmer, one had to pull the ropes to tighten the mattress.

Earth Facts…

Earth has only one satellite, the Moon. The Moon is the second brightest object in the sky from Earth.

Flagstaff, AZ History…

100 YEARS AGO
Housekeepers, don’t waste your time on a hot day. Light cooking can be done electrically with an El Perco at $7.50, or an American Toaster at $4 or a 6-inch Hot Plate for $5.50 All three can be had together for a mere $12 on an easy payment plan with Flagstaff Electric Co.
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Motorists, take note: A new stock of Columbia Dry Cells are just in. Replace those old, worn-out batteries in your car. You will find them at the Flagstaff Electric Light Co.
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Railroad Avenue East is being put in fine shape by Road Superintendent Moritz.

Harper’s Index

Percentage change since 2000 in the average cost of food worldwide: +123 

Historical Facts…

There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.

Language Facts…

The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".

People Facts…

Valentine Tapley, a Missouri Democrat, promised to never shave again if Abraham Lincoln was elected president. He died in 1910 with a 12-foot-long beard.

Rules of Thumb:   

SWARMING BEES
Honeybees will start to congregate in a horseshoe-shaped pattern on the front of the hive three days before they start to swarm. 

Unusual Fact of the Day…

Trees do not grow higher than 130m (426-1/2 feet) as it is physically impossible for the water to rise higher.

World Heritage Sites…


The three main prehistoric sites of the Brú na Bóinne Complex, Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, are situated on the north bank of the River Boyne 50 km north of Dublin. This is Europe's largest and most important concentration of prehistoric megalithic art. The monuments there had social, economic, religious and funerary functions.

Joke-of-the-day

An elderly woman called 911 on her cell phone to report that her car had been broken in to.
She is hysterical as she explains her situation to the dispatcher: "They've stolen the stereo, the steering wheel, the brake pedal and even the accelerator!" she cried.
The dispatcher said, "Stay calm. An officer is on the way."
A few minutes later, the officer radios in. "Disregard." He says. "She got in the back-seat by mistake."

Yeah, It Really Happened

EDINBURGH, Scotland -- A Thomson Airways flight from Tunisia to Edinburgh was diverted to London after a drunken passenger allegedly attacked crew members with her prosthetic leg. The woman told the flight crew that she wanted "cigarettes and a parachute." When they asked her to hush up, she allegedly slapped a little girl and then started swinging with her leg. "We were coming back from Tunisia when this lady kicked off. She was off her face on drink," said witness John Smith. "She slapped a young girl and then assaulted the cabin crew with her prosthetic leg. They took it off her, but she started kicking them with her good leg." The 48-year-old was subdued and the pilot made an emergency landing in London. The woman was removed by police for questioning. "It sounds funny, but it was not a laughing matter at the time. It was serious. She was totally drunk. It was pretty shocking," Smith said.

Somewhat Useless Information   

You'll hear the term "The Dog Days of summer" very often, but the real "dog days" refers to the weeks between July 3 and August 11. They are named after the Dog Star (Sirius) in the constellation of Canis Major.
France's Eiffel Tower grows by more than six inches in summer due to the expansion of the iron on hot days.
The frequency of a cricket's chirps fluctuates with the temperature, so if you count a cricket's chirps for 15 seconds and add 37, you will have the approximate outdoor temperature (in Fahrenheit).
The first day of summer is called the summer solstice. The term solstice is Latin for sun stand still. The sun is higher in the sky throughout the day, and its rays beam on the Earth at a more direct angle, causing the hotter temperatures we associate with summer.
Frisbees were invented by accident. This toy was first created in the 1870s as a pie plate. Students started throwing them around in the 1940s, changing their use to a form of entertainment.
An educator named Horace Mann invented summer vacation. In 1837, he was elected as Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Mann used this platform to reform the school system from adding a break and developing uniform training for teachers.

Check Your Calendar

Observances This Week:

1-7
International Tree Climbing Days  
International Clown Week 
Simplify Your Life Week 
World Breastfeeding Week 

3-9
Assistance Dog Week   
Exercise With Your Child Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week

National Farmers' Market Week 
National Fraud Awareness Week 
Old Fiddler's Week
Single Working Women's Week
Stop on Red Week 


Today Is  

Friendship Day
International Forgiveness Day
National Doll Day
National Kids' Day  

National Watermelon Day
Sisters Day
Stop on Red Week 
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Independence Day (Niger-1960-from France)
                                                        
Today’s Events through History  

1676 - Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia"
1860 - American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY
1958 - The Billboard Hot 100 is founded
1963 - Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda"

Birthday’s Today                                                        

Tony Bennett, singer (Left a body part in SF) is 88
Richard D Lamm, (Gov-D-Colo) is 79
Martin Sheen, [Ramon Estevez], actor (Subject Was Roses, Wall St) is 74
Martha Stewart, business magnate and TV personality, is 73
Jay North, actor (Dennis the Menace) is 63
Tom Brady, Patriots football player is 37

Remembered for being born today

Joseph Paxton, English landscape architect (Crystal Palace) (1801-1865)
Ernie Pyle, England, correspondent during WW II (1900-1945)
Maggie Kuhn, activist/co-founder (Gray Panthers) (1905-1995)
Dolores del Rio, silent screen actress (Deseada, Bugambilia) (1908-1983)
Anne Klein, fashion designer (Anne Klein II) (1923-1974)
Leon Uris, Baltimore, novelist (Exodus, QB VII, Battle Cry) (1924-2003)
Gordon Scott, actor (Tarzan & the Trappers) (1927-2007)

Historical Obits Today                                                           

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, 2008, @89
Ida Lupino, actress/director (Hard Way, High Sierra), cancer, 1995, @77
Charles ‘Bubba’ Smith, American football player and actor, heart disease, 2011, @66
Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), heart attack, 1924, @66
Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), cancer, 1983, @53
Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), lupus, 1964, @39
King James II of Scotland, exploding cannon he was testing, 1460, @29

Brain Teasers                                         

1. mind wind
2. south youth
3. cease tease
4. grown crown

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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