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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: / Week: 16
Today: L 36°…H 69°… Ave. humidity: 24%
Wind: ave: 9mph; Gusts:
12mph
Average Low: 29°
Record Low: 16° (1978)
Average High: 59° Record
High: 79° (1989)
Quote of the Day
Today’s Historical Highlights
1506 - The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's
Basilica is laid.
1775 - Paul Revere & William Dawes ride warning
the "regulars are coming!"
1783 - Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, 8
yrs to the day since it began.
1853 - 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
1861 - Battle of Harpers Ferry, VA
1879 - Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on Indians citizen
rights begins
1902 - Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting
to identify criminals
1924 - 1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon
& Schuster)
1925 - World's Fair opens in Chicago
1949 - Republic of Ireland withdraws from British
Commonwealth
1958 - A US federal court
rules poet Ezra Pound released from an insane asylum.
1968 - 178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System
go on strike
1968 - London Bridge
is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona)
2013 - Two earth-like planets are discovered orbiting the
star Kepler-62
♫ Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s
Birthdays
My Free Rambling Thoughts
Figuring out Windows 8.1…made some big breakthroughs
this morning and am much more comfortable with the show thing.
Our group got together for a good lunch at Red
Lobster. Mary is expecting her sister and her high school boyfriend this next
week in Phoenix. Should be a good weekend for her. Cheryl is also having
visitors—her grandson, his girlfriend, her parents and a couple of her
brothers. They are only visiting Cheryl and her grandson will stay with her
next week while the other family stays at a motel. They are planning on doing
Bearizona, Grand Canyon, and other local sites. Cheryl has been busy preparing
her house for visitors. It is always clean, but she wants it sparkling for the
visitors. I shared my Cuba pics and they
seemed to enjoy them…iPad was great for that.
I returned home to see that HOA group with their
little notepad standing in front of my house writing away. I asked what the
problem was…the bitchy lady asked why I had tape on an upstairs window that is
a tall, narrow window in the stairwell. I explained that the tape was put there
by the fix it man about 6 years ago because the window won’t
close properly. I also mentioned that I was tired of their inspections, since
the pine needles keep piling up in their big rock solution in our front areas
and they are doing nothing about that mess. She made some silly statement that
she had written up the tape before. I said she hadn’t. Then the guy said, I
think we wrote it up for the next unit, because we didn’t know that the window
was for your unit. Idiots never looked at a drawing of the building to see who
had what window. Since the same guy owns my unit and the one next door, I know
they didn’t write it up in the past, or the window would have a better solution.
Oh well, small minds love to deal with this kinda stuff.
Game Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Decipher
this phrase:
FAIRY
WOLF
DUCKLING
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that
need the advice.
Bill Cosby
Harper’s Index
Number of the 17 people bitten my LA Sheriff’s Dept. dogs in the
first half of 2013 who were Black or Hispanic: 17
Unusual Fact of the Day
The tallest giraffe of
today is less than one-third the height of the tallest dinosaur from the past.
Joke-of-the-day
A sweet little boy surprised his
grandmother one morning and brought her a cup of coffee. He made it himself and
was so proud. He anxiously waited to hear the verdict on the quality of the
coffee. The grandmother had never in her life had such a bad cup of coffee, and
as she forced down the last sip she noticed three of those little green army
guys in the bottom of the cup.
She asked, "Honey, why
would three little green army guys be in the bottom of my cup?"
Her grandson replied, "You
know grandma, it's like on TV, 'The best part of waking up is soldiers in your
cup.'"
Rules of Thumb:
SAFE FOLLOWING DISTANCE
Leave three 'Mississippis' of space between
your car and the car in front of you. It works at any speed. They pass a fixed
object, e.g. telephone pole. You count 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, 3
Mississippi. Adjust distance accordingly.
Yeah, It Really Happened
DAVIS, Calif. (UPI) - If CO2 levels continue to rise
as expected, staple crops like wheat, barley and potatoes could become less
nutritious. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, conducted a
field study showing wheat crops were less efficient at converting nitrates into
proteins under conditions of heightened CO2 levels. Previous studies have shown
that CO2 inhibits the assimilation of nitrates in plants, but this is the first
time the phenomenon has been demonstrated in field-planted crops. "Food
quality is declining under the rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide that
we are experiencing," said Arnold Bloom, lead author of the new study and
a professor in UC-Davis's Department of Plant Sciences. "Several
explanations for this decline have been put forward, but this is the first
study to demonstrate that elevated carbon dioxide inhibits the conversion of
nitrate into protein in a field-grown crop," he added. Bloom and his
fellow researchers -- including two scientists from the USDA's Arid-Land
Agricultural Research Center in Arizona -- estimate that in the coming decades
the proteins available for human consumption in wheat, rice, tubers and other
grains will decline by roughly 3 percent. This latest study, published in the
online journal Nature Climate Change, arrives only a few weeks after a group of
international scientists estimated crop yields will decline by 2 percent each
decade as the planet continues to warm.
Somewhat Useless Information
A nap is known to be a short period of sleep, usually after
lunch or during working hours. Napping was found to be both physiologically and
psychologically beneficial. But what’s the duration of the ideal nap? Well, according to NASA the perfect nap should last
26 minutes!
God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses, also known as the
Decalogue, which are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and
worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity. The Ten
Commandments include instructions related to morality, as well as prohibitions
against idolatry, blasphemy, murder, theft, dishonesty, and adultery, which all
of them make in total 297 words!
Calendar Information
Today Is
Adult Autism Awareness Day
International Amateur Radio Day
National Stress Awareness Day
National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day
Passover (Jewish - begins at sundown)
Pet Owner's Independence Day
Third World Day
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Patriot's Day (Mass. and Maine)
Independence Day (Zimbabwe-1980 from Rhodesia)
Today’s Events through History
1521 - Diet of Worms: Cardinal Alexander questions
Maarten Luther
1676 - Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians
1934 - 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens
(Fort Worth, Tx)
1983 - 12th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit
Samuelson in 2:22:43
1983 - A lone
suicide bomber kills 63, at US Embassy in Lebanon
1994 - 23rd Boston
Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45
Today’s Birthdays
Barbara Hale, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason) is
92
Hayley Mills, London, actress (Parent Trap,
Pollyanna) is 68
James Woods, actor (Salvador, Against All Odds)
is 67
Jane Leeves, actress (Murphy Brown, Daphne
Moon-Fraiser) is 53
Conan Chris O'Brien, TV host (Late Night) is 51
Eric McCormack, Canadian-American actor (Will and
Grace) is 51
Melissa Joan Hart, Sayville NY, actress (Clarissa,
Sabrina) is 38
America Ferrera, American actress is 30
Remembered for being born today
1480-1519 - Lucretia Borgia, murderess
(poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI)
1857-1938 - Clarence S Darrow, defense
attorney at Scopes monkey trial
Today’s Historical Obits
Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, 2002, @87
Dick Clark, radio and television personality, 2012, @ 82
Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate, aneurysm, 1955, @76
William King, US VP, TB, 1853, @67
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite, 1942, @67
Ernie Pyle, American journalist, Japanese machine-gun fire,
1945, @45
Brain Teasers
The good, the bad, and the ugly
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.
§ And That Is All for
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