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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 153 / Week: 23
June Averages: 78° \ 42°Today: Average Sky Cover: 0%
H 81°… L 45°… Ave. humidity: 36%
Wind: ave: 22mph; Gusts: 30mph
Average High: 74° Record High: 86° (1977)
Average Low: 39° Record Low: 22° (1945)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1615 –1st
Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1835 - P
T Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US 1883 - 1st night baseball under lights, Fort Wayne Indiana
1886 - Grover Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom)
1910 - Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
1919 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
1920 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
1924 -If they were not already based on treaty provisions, all American Indians become U.S. citizens
1928 - Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft
1935 - Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player
1957 - US TV interviews Nikita Khrushchev
1979 - John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland)
1981 - Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be
1989 - 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
♫
Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful Sunday. Got to read the paper on the deck and watch all
my Sunday morning news shows…good day.
Tough call for Obama on release of POW in Afghanistan. Story has
been around for 5 years that the POW may have been defecting. Now Obama has
released 5 POW’s from Gitmo in exchange. Right is saying that these are high
level dangerous detainees…sounds more like these right wingers just want to
keep Gitmo open.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
What is this suggesting?
Cluck Cluck Quack Quack
Gobble Gobble
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
Rex Harrison sings
OK Then…Seen in Flagstaff
Harper’s
Index
Percentage
of white live-in fathers who help their children with their homework daily: 28
Of
Black live-in fathers: 41
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Created in 1994, the Comic Sans font
was inspired by Batman and Watchmen comic books.
Heard by
Flight Attendants…
We ask, “would you like cream and sugar in your coffee?” and they
hesitate like it’s a difficult ‘Jeopardy’ question.
It takes years before you realize you can answer people’s
questions with the wrong answer and they never know the difference. When they
ask what river they are looking at, I always say Mississippi—no matter where we
are in the country. Same thing with the circular irrigation circles you see in
farm areas. “What are those circles out there?” Private helicopter landing
pads.
Presidential
Fun Facts…
EIGHT PRESIDENTS died in office: W. Harrison (after having served
only one month), Taylor, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Harding, F. Roosevelt,
and Kennedy.
PRESIDENTS Adams, Jefferson, and Monroe all died on the 4th of
July; Coolidge was born on that day.
Kennedy and Taft are the only presidents buried in Arlington
National Cemetery
What
happens every minute on the internet machine…
FLICKER: 20
million photo views
TWITTER: 278,000
tweets
Common
misused words...
Affect
and effect
Verbs first. Affect means
to influence; "Impatient investors affected our roll-out date." Effect
means to accomplish something; "The board effected a sweeping policy
change." How you use effect or affect can be tricky. For example, a
board can affect changes by influencing them, or can effect changes by
implementing them. Use effect if you're making it happen, and affect if you're
having an impact on something someone else is trying to make happen.
As for nouns, effect is
almost always correct; "Once he was fired he was given twenty minutes to
gather his personal effects." Affect refers to emotional states so unless
you're a psychologist, you're probably not using it.
Things
you might not know about games…
They helped POWs Escape
During World War II, the Nazis did something un-Nazi-like: they
let Allied prisoners of war play board games. The British government was even
allowed to send its incarcerated soldiers a game or two. One of the games it
sent? Monopoly. Inside the box? Tools for escape. Specifically, the British
government, with the cooperation of the game’s publisher, hid real bank notes
among the Monopoly money. Compasses, metal files and a folded silk map – which
was more durable than a paper one – were also concealed inside the box to help
the POWs flee their captors. It worked; and POWs were able to escape.
Joke-of-the-day
An obnoxious
drunk stumbles into the front door of a bar and orders a drink, the bartender
says,
"No way,
buddy, you're too drunk."A few minutes later, the drunk comes in though the bathroom. Again he slurs, "Give me a drink," and the bartender says, "No, man, I told you last time -- you're too drunk"
Five minutes later the guy comes in though the back door and orders a drink, again the bartender says, "You're too drunk"
The drunk scratches his head and says "Dang, I must be. The last two places said the same thing."
Rules of
Thumb:
WINNING MONOPOLY
The person who makes
the most deals wins.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
MANCHESTER, England (UPI) - Greater Manchester Police arrested a
man who put on a pig mask, toy helmet and reflective jacket in order to perform
"comical parodies" about the behavior of law enforcement officials.
New Moston man Steven Peers was arrested on suspicion of impersonating a police
officer after he put on the costume to call attention to how GMP officers
conducted themselves during anti-fracking protests. The 46-year-old was
arrested after being stopped by an officer outside a police station. "My
reaction to being arrested was total disbelief. I was wearing a toy hat and a
pig mask and was arrested for impersonating a police officer. It's
ridiculous," Peers told the Manchester Evening News. "If they want to
take it to court they will be a laughingstock because there is no substance to
it whatsoever." The father-of-four also had his "Officer 666"
outfit confiscated. "I don't think it's antagonistic. It's just a parody
making fun of GMP," Peers said. "I've dressed like this at Barton
Moss, in front of Swinton police station and in front of the force HQ in Newton
Heath. Other officers have laughed it off."
Somewhat
Useless Information
I feel that I have forgotten something…” Does this phrase remind you of yourself when leaving your home for holidays?
There are ten things that people tend to forget when they go on holidays and we have gathered them to the list below:
Toothbrush; toothpaste; mobile phone charger; mobile phone; flip flops; shoes; glasses; book; passport; sun screen
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It was back in 1878 when the first telephone book was published in New Haven, by the New Haven District Telephone Company.
The first telephone book contained 50 names and was one page long. No numbers were listed as the operator would connect you.
**
The page was divided into four heading residential, professional, miscellaneous, and essential service listings.
**
According to an East African legend, coffee was discovered when a 9th-century goat herder named Kaldi saw his goats become strangely energetic after eating the berries of a certain bush.
News spread, and soon monks at a nearby monastery began boiling the berries to produce a drink that helped them stay alert during long nights of prayer.
Eventually, it was found that roasting and crushing the berries before boiling them produced a more flavorful drink. After that, coffee’s popularity quickly spread.
Calendar
Information
This
Week’s Observances:
1-7
Black Single Parents WeekEnd Mountain Top Removal Week
National Business Etiquette Week
National Headache Awareness Week
National Sun Safety Week
National Tire Safety Week
Pet Appreciation Week
Rip Current Awareness Week
Today Is
National Bubba Day—know anybody
named Bubba?
National Leave the Office Early Day National Rocky Road Day
National Thank God It's Monday Day
Yell "Fudge" at the Cobras in North America Day-keeps them S of Panama Canal
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Coronation Day (Bhutan-to honor King)
Coronation Day (UK-1953)
Republic Day (Italy-1946-aboishhment of monarchy)
Today’s Events through History
1851 - 1st
US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
1857 - James
Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine 1968 - Canadians must get government permission to export silver
2004 - Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on Jeopardy!
Today’s
Birthdays
Sally
Kellerman, actress (M*A*S*H, Back to School) is 77
Stacy
Keach, Savannah Ga, actor (Mike Hammer) is 73Jerry Mathers, actor (Beaver-Leave It To Beaver) is 66
Dennis Haysbert, actor (24, The Unit) is 60
Dana Carvey, comedian (SNL, Garth-Wayne's World) is 59
Wayne Brady, actor and comedian is 42
Remembered
for being born today
1732-1802 - Martha
Washington, 1st, 1st lady
1904-1984 - Johnny
Weissmuller, actor (Tarzan)/100m swimmer (5 gold) 1927-2013 - W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator-(Underdog),
1944-2012 - Marvin Hamlisch, composer/pianist (Sting, Chorus Line)
Today’s
Historical Obits
Imogene Coca, American actress, 2001, @92
Mel Ferrer, actor, film director and film producer, 2008, @90 Rex Harrison, actor (My Fair Lady), 1990, @82
Richard Dawson, actor, cancer, 2012, @79
Bo Diddley, American musician, heart failure, 2008, @79
Sammy Kaye, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show), 1987, @77
George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, 1961, @72
John E Feisser, founder (1st Dutch baptist church), 1865, @59
Jim Hutton, actor (Ellery Queen), cancer, 1979, @45
Lou Gehrig, 1st baseman (Yankee), ALS, 1941, @37
Brain
Teasers
Foul (Fowl) Language
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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