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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 245 / Week: 36 
September Averages: 73° \ 42°
Today:
    Average Sky Cover: 0%
    H 80° L 52° Ave. humidity: 49%
    Wind: ave:   11mph; Gusts:  20mph 
    Average High: 76° Record High:  91° (1948)
    Average Low: 46° Record Low:  34° (1973)
           
Quote of the Day

Historical Highlights for Today
1650 - Battle of Dunbar: England vs Scotland
1752 - Britain and the British Empire (including American colonies) adopt the Gregorian calendar, losing 11 days
1783 - Treaty of Paris signed (ending US Revolutionary War)
1833 - NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
1838 - Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor
1881 - 1st US Men's Tennis: Richard D Sears beats William E Glyn (6-0 6-3 6-2)
1900 - Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa
1917 - 1st night bombing of London by German planes
1935 - 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph)
1940 - First showing of high definition color TV
1964 - Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson
1965 - Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to CA
1995 - eBay founded.
2013 - Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 Billion
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  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today below

My Rambling Thoughts   
A beautiful day for a walk around the neighborhood. Then over to the mall for my trip’s pedicure. Oddly, I had a local hospital nurse sitting next to me. She said that she wished more elder men would get pedicures as they are good for the overall health. Interesting. I told her I had my first one at about 62 and realized it was so much easier than trying to trim my toenails myself.  They have 6 chairs and after I arrived, they were all filled. And there was one younger man, with his wife, doing the same thing I was.
ISIS/ISIL are certainly barbarians. Two beheadings, videotaped and put on the internet machine. The Muslim world needs to step up and stop this. The world needs to step up and stop this. I have to wonder what the next generations are going to say about both ISIS and the world’s reaction.
NPR had a great program on the state of Education. Dana Goldstein wrote The Teacher Wars-A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession. She did a great interview explaining the various reform movements in American Education. Sure glad I happened to be listening.
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Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
What phrase is this? 


Left Side...1st Floor...Right Side 
Left Side...2nd Floor...Right Side 
Left Side...3rd Floor...Right Side

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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OK Then…


Paraphernalia 4 the Brain :     
Brain Facts…
The human brain is more active during sleep than during the day.
Computer Facts…
28% of IT Professionals hide their career from family or friends out of fear of being asked to provide free tech support.
Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO
A broken gasoline torch at Babbitt’s Garage burned Joe Walthaus, Tom Rickle and Roy Cummings last Saturday. Now a week later, their burns remain painful but they were not dangerously hurt.
Fun Facts…
There's a wife-carrying championship that takes place in Finland every year where the winner receives his wife's weight in beer.
Harper’s Index
Portion of Americans who live in areas with harmful levels of air pollution: 1/3
Number of the top five most polluted cities in the country that are in CA: 5 
Language Facts…
The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
Rules of Thumb…   
TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
You need a minimum of 8 to 10 students in a class to make it economically viable to hire a teacher. However, a teacher can teach a foreign language to a maximum of 4 to 6 students at one time. Therefore, a foreign language class cannot be both economically viable and effective.
Superstitions…
In some parts of England, rum is used to wash a baby's head for good luck.
Unusual Fact of the Day…
In the Disney version of The Little Mermaid, Ariel and her sassy crab friend, Sebastian, overcome the wicked sea witch, and Ariel then swims off to marry the man of her dreams. However, in the original tale, the mermaid’s fins-for-feet exchange comes at a price—namely, that every step on her new legs causes her excruciating pain. And that’s not even the worst part—in the end, the prince marries someone else!

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Joke-of-the-day
Guy: Is you dad still in jail?

Girl: For what?
Guy: For stealing all the stars in the sky and putting them in your eyes!

Yeah, It Really Happened
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) - Four seconds into the test launch of an experimental hypersonic weapon, on Monday, U.S. military officials were forced to abandon the mission and cue the weapon to self-destruct. 
The so-called Advanced Hypersonic Weapon is part of the Defense Department's Conventional Prompt Global Strike technology development program. The program's objective is to construct a missile that can wipe out a target anywhere on Earth in less than 60 minutes after receiving bulls eye data and permission to launch. 
The weapon was launched from the U.S. Army's Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska, but the test flight was short-lived. An "anomaly" forced officials to quickly abandon the test "to ensure public safety," according to a press release from the Pentagon. There were no injuries. 
China tested a hypersonic missile system last year, but most defense experts in the U.S. believe the Pentagon had the growing threat of Iran and North Korea in mind when they green-lighted the program. 
Craig Campbell, president of Alaska Aerospace Corp., said the rocket's aborted flight ended in a "gigantic explosion" that lit up the sky. 
"I watched it, I saw it, I knew it was happening, and I was feeling sorry for the launch team because their rocket wasn't going to be able to accomplish what they were trying to get done, and knew we were going to have a day like today," he told the Alaska Dispatch News. "We're going to have to assess damages and figure out what the future is." 
The Pentagon said its weapons scientists were working to ascertain the exact cause of the anomaly. 



Somewhat Useless Information   
Have you ever thought that people in modern societies spend more hours working rather than sleeping, although sleeping is vital for our good health?
In which profession do people sleep the most and in which the less?
According to a UK Sleep Council survey, lawyers sleep for 7,8 hours in average and architects sleep for 7,5 hours.
Social workers sleep for 6,9 hours, teachers for 6, politicians for 5,2 and hospital doctors for 4,5 hours, which is the least.
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Sleepwalkers can perform simple as well as complex activities, however, there are several things that you many have not heard about them!
A sleepwalker can drive a car while he is asleep.
It is not easy to know if someone is sleepwalking or not as sleepwalkers usually have their eyes open so they look awake.
18% of the population have a tendency to sleepwalk.
Sleepwalking is most common among boys.
Stress can cause people to sleepwalk.
You can wake up a sleepwalker without any problem, although they may be confused and not know where they are.
They can trip over chairs, fall down stairs, even fall out of a window.
People usually sleepwalk for a short time.
Sleepwalkers don’t remember anything afterwards.
A man in Canada was found not guilty of killing his mother-in-law because he was asleep at the time.
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Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
1-7
International Enthusiasm Week

National Nutrition Week

National Payroll Week

National Waffle Week
Self-University Week 
2-6

Play Days

Today Is  
National Wildlife Day

Newspaper Carrier Day

Skyscraper Day
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National Day (San Marino-301-from Roman Empire)
                                                            
            Today’s Events through History  
1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1974 - NBA guard Oscar Robertson retires
1988 - Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War
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Birthday’s Today                                                        
Irene Papas, Corinth Greece, Greek actress (Zorba the Greek) is 88
Whitey Bulger [James Joseph Bulger Jr.], gangster is 84
Al Jardine, guitarist/singer (Beach Boys-In My Room) is 72
Valerie Perrine, actress and model (Superman) is 71
Costas Mandylor, Australian-born actor is 49
Charlie Sheen, [Carlos Estavez], NYC, actor (2 and ½ Men) is 49
Shaun White, snowboarder (Olympic gold - 2006, 2010) is 27

Remembered for being born today
Maya King Ahkal Mo' Naab' II, rules over Palenque, Mexico (523-570)
Louis Sullivan, architect (father of skyscrapers) (1856-1924)
Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche, Volkswagen) (1875-1951)
Kitty Carlisle, actress and television personality (1910-2007)
Alan Ladd, actor (Shane, Carpetbaggers) (1913-1964)
Bill Fleming, sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports) (1926-2007)
Eileen Brennan, actress (Pvt Benjamin), (1932-2013)
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Historical Obits Today                                                           
Frank Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life), 1991, @94
Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist, 2012, @92
James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (refrigeration), 1893, @77
Duncan Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid, Guns of Fury), cancer, 1980 @76
Barbara O'Neil, actress (Tower of London), heart attack, 1980, @70
e[dward] e cummings, US poet (Tulips & Chimneys), stroke, 1962, @67
Oliver Cromwell, British general\Lord Protector, septicaemia, 1658, @59
Vince Lombardi, football coach (Packers), cancer, 1970, @57
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Brain Teasers                                         
There are always two sides to every story (storey).
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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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