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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 118 / Week: 18
Today: L 30°…H 52°… Ave. humidity: 69%Wind: ave: 9mph; Gusts: 24mph
Average High: 62° Record High: 80° (1982)
Average Low: 31° Record Low: 10° (1984)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1253 - Nichiren, a
Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and
declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1932 - Yellow fever
vaccine for humans announced1937 - 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl & "Kon-Tiki" sail from Peru to Polynesia
1967 - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title
♫ Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Our quickie snowstorm is all gone. Beautiful day with a few clouds
melted all the snow by noon. Thankfully, we needed the moisture and a whole lot
more. Hopefully next time even more moisture will come from the sky.
Racism certainly is alive and well in the world, even if the
Supreme Court believes it is gone in the US. We are in the middle of the NBA
playoffs, and now all the attention is turned to the LA Clippers owner who made
some very bad comments about Blacks and how he doesn’t want them at his games.
Then today more tapes were released where he is talking about Black Jews. So we
have learned that a crazy man can own an NBA team. Then on VICE, the HBO
series, they were looking at N. Koreans (mostly women) who have escaped to S.
Korea. A few weeks ago they ran a story on an actual escape, with some very
scary footage. This week, it turns out, many S. Koreans are not happy about the
N. Koreans who are entering their country. The N. Koreans are having trouble
assimilating into the S. Korean culture. They speak a slightly different
dialect and because of years of malnutrition are physically shorter. Because of
their isolation, they are not familiar with any of the changes that have taken
place of the past half plus century. Many N. Korean women become prostitutes because
they can’t get any jobs. Sad commentary
on what goes on around the world.
Game Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Fill
in the words that are empty by using words that will connect with the previous
one.
EXAMPLE:
Towel, Rack. (You have the words Towel and Rack, but when put together it
becomes "Towel rack".)
Try
to connect candy to washer.
Candy
B_
_S _ _ _
D_ _ _
Washer
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
In Loving Memory of "Reverend Alden"
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Percentage
of American Jews who believe that following Jewish law is essential to Jewish
identity: 19
Who
believe that having a sense of humor is: 42
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Nintendo,
the popular video game company, was actually founded in 1889 as a playing card
company.
Number
One Country in the world…
Afghanistan: Drugs-- Anyone
who’s seen the Rambo movies think Afghanistan is full of nothing but people
playing sheep ball. However, the country is actually one of the drug capitals
of the world. Cannabis, hashish, opium and heroin are all shipped by the metric
ton from a place that 30% of the people in the world can’t locate on a map.
Joke-of-the-day
Joe had asked Bob
to help him out with the deck after work, so Bob just went straight over to
Joe's place. When they got to the door, Joe went straight to his wife, gave her
a hug and told her how beautiful she was and how much he had missed her at
work. When it was time for supper, he complimented his wife on her cooking,
kissed her and told her how much he loved her.
Once they were
working on the deck, Bob told Joe that he was surprised that he fussed so much
over his wife. Joe said that he'd started this about six months ago, it had
revived their marriage, and things couldn't be better. Bob thought he'd give it
a go. When he got home, he gave his wife a massive hug, kissed her and told her
that he loved her. His wife burst into tears.
Bob was confused
and asked why she was crying. She said, "This is the worst day of my life.
First, little Billy fell off his bike and twisted his ankle. Then, the washing
machine broke and flooded the basement. And now, you come home
drunk!"
Rules of
Thumb:
MANUFACTURING OXYGEN
A lawn 50 by 50 feet
in size supplies the complete oxygen needs of a family of four.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
FORISTELL, Mo. (UPI) - A Missouri dad is facing charges after
police pulled over his 13-year-old son on Saturday night after they observed a
pickup truck swerving on Interstate 70 eastbound. David Mooneyham, who was in
the passenger seat, had asked the boy to act as his designated driver because
he was drunk. It was the teen's first time driving. "He thought he had a
drunk driver," Police Chief Douglas G. Johnson told the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. "When the officer asked the driver for his license, he
said, 'I don't have one.' Instead the passenger handed over his license and
registration." The 46-year-old drank too much at his son's baseball game,
so he asked him to drive. Mooneyham refused to do field sobriety tests, but he
did register a BAC of 0.139 percent during a breath sample, nearly double the
legal limit. He was charged with misdemeanor child endangerment and permitting
an underage person to drive. "His closing comment was: 'I guess this makes
me a bad father,'" Johnson said.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Since
1898 there was a numbering error on the front page of the New York Times every
day and it was discovered by a news assistant named Aaron Donovan in 1999.
The
New York Times published in January of
2000:“On Feb. 6, 1898, it seems, someone preparing the next day’s front page tried to add 1 to the issue number in the upper left corner (14,499) and came up with 15,000. Apparently no one noticed, because the 500-issue error persisted until yesterday (No. 51,753). Today The Times turns back the clock to correct the sequence: this issue is No. 51,254. Thus an article on March 14, 1995, celebrating the arrival of No. 50,000 was 500 days premature. It should have appeared on July 26, 1996.”
Bermuda
Triangle or the “The Triangle of Death”, as it is known, is an area of the western north Atlantic
approximately bounded by imaginary lines drawn between Bermuda, Puerto Rico,
and the tip of Florida.
Several
disappearances have been reported in this area including airplanes and ships,
as well as two nuclear submarines, achieving legendary status.However, there is nothing mysterious in this particular section of the ocean, as many researchers point out and many disappearances have been caused by weather conditions, equipment failure, and human error.
Lawrence David Kusche, a research librarian from Arizona State University and author of The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved (1975), said that the number of ships and aircraft reported missing in the area was not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than in any other part of the ocean.
Moreover, he said that in an area frequented by tropical storms, the number of disappearances that did occur were, for the most part, neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious.
There’
s a state in the world where bartenders prepare customers’ drinks behind
partitions made out of frosted glass, called ‘Zion curtains’.
This
state is Utah and customers cannot see the making of process of the cocktail
they order.This rule was derived from hopes of combating excessive drinking by keeping alcohol out of sight of restaurant patrons who choose not to consume alcohol.
Calendar
Information
Today Is
Biological
Clock Day
Poem in Your Pocket Day
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
Workers
Memorial DayPoem in Your Pocket Day
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
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National Day of Mourning (Canada)
Today’s Events through History
1611 - Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal
University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the
oldest existing university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in the
world.
1686 - 1st volume of Isaac Newton's
"Principia" published 1892 - 1st performance of Antonin Dvorák's overture "Carneval"
1965 - US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
Today’s
Birthdays
Harper
Lee, author (To Kill a Mockingbird) is 88
Ann-Margret,
Swedish actress (Bye Bye Birdie, Tommy) is 73Jay Leno, comedian/talk show host (Tonight Show) is 64
Penélope Cruz, actress (Vanilla Sky) is 40
Jessica Alba, American actress/ model is 33
Remembered
for being born today
1758-1831 - James
Monroe, 5th president
1874-1947
- Sidney Toler, actor (Madame X, Charlie Chan)1878-1954 - Lionel Barrymore, [Blythe], actor (Free Soul)
1908-1974 - Oskar Schindler, Zwittau, , Austrian businessman; film Schindler's List.
1916-1993 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer
1917-2009 - Robert Woodruff Anderson, writer (Tea & Sympathy)
1928-1997 - Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist
1930-1983 - Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family)
1937-2006 - Saddam Hussein, [At-Takriti], Al-Awja, President of Iraq
Today’s
Historical Obits
Dabbs Greer, actor (Little House), 2007, @90
Rory Calhoun, American actor, emphysema, 1999, @76 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), 1843, @74
Benito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), shot after trial, 1945, @61
Jim Valvano, basketball coach (NC State), cancer, 1993, @47
Brain
Teasers
Candy, Bar, Soap, Dish, Washer.
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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