FYI: Any blue text is a link. Click to check it out!
Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 170
/ Week: 25
June Averages: 78° \ 42°Today: Average Sky Cover: 5%
H 73°… L 45°… Ave. humidity: 23%
Wind: ave: 15mph; Gusts: 32mph
Average High: 80° Record High: 92° (1936)
Average Low: 42° Record Low: 24° (1995)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1269 - King
Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame
1778 - Washington's
troops finally leave Valley Forge 1862 - Slavery outlawed in US territories
1893 - Lizzie Borden acquitted
1910 - Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)
1934 - Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
1936 - German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis
1940 - "Brenda Starr", 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago
1941 - Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal
1956 - Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films
1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27
1978 - Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip
1987 - Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation
1991 - Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders to police
♫
Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Finally, a day with a lot less wind. Still not calm, but so much
better.
Still having the pain in my wrist…my primary care guy called and
suggested that I go to another doctor to get it checked…that guy isn’t
available until July 15, so I’ll call my primary care guy to see what to do. The
primary guy doesn’t think I got a good diagnosis from the urgent care place.
Getting old-er is a pain.
Oops. Brazil and Mexico had a draw yesterday.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
We've
all seen a rebus like "midstuckdle" (stuck in the middle). The
following clues are "revrebuseserse" (rebuses in reverse). That is,
the clues below are answers to rebuses which all use the "in"
construction. However, the original rebus from the clues below will actually form a word. For example, "Not old in actually existing" would be "renewal" (new in real). Can you solve the rest?
1.
A short poem in scarlet
2.
A room-dividing structure in a female pig. 3. A joining word in a close friend
4. A head of corn in grasping tightly
5. Nothing in what your eyes do
6. A wild beast's shelter in stinking decay
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Chance
that an Air Force officer responsible for launching nuclear missiles has been
accused of cheating on a proficiency exam: 1 in 5
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Although better known for its food items, Sara Lee introduced the
Wonderbra to the United States in 1994.
Presidential
Fun Facts…
Abraham Lincoln: No formal education. On April 12, 1861
Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina setting
off the Civil War. Lincoln quickly mobilized the Union by executive order.
January 1, 1863 he formally issued the Emancipation Proclamation. On November
19, of that same year he delivered the Gettysburg Address. On April 9, 1865
Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant signed term of Confederate
surrender at Appomattox, Virginia. Five days later, on April 14, 1865 Lincoln
went to Ford's Theater to watch "Our American Cousin" and was shot by
actor John Wilkes Booth. He died the next morning at Petersen's Boarding House.
Lincoln was the first president to die by assassination. At 6 feet 4 inches he
was the tallest president. Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd, had a brother,
half-brothers and brothers-in-law who fought in the Confederate Army. Lincoln
was the only president to receive a patent, for a device for lifting boats over
shoals. He was the first president to wear a beard. His son Robert Todd
Lincoln, was in Washington, D.C. when Lincoln was killed, was also on the scene
when President Garfield was shot in 1881, and President McKinley was
assassinated in 1901. A poll of historians named Lincoln the nation's greatest
president. Washington was second.
Ben
Franklin on Character…
Chastity. Rarely
use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the
injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
Pen Names
of famous authors…
Joe Klein
Pen name: Anonymous
Joe Klein doesn’t just write political commentary for TIME. In
1996, he also penned a novel called Primary Colors under his pen name. The book
is a roman à clef about Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign in 1992.
Klein publicly denied several times that he was the author, but eventually came
forward at a news conference. The New York Times reported that Klein protected
his identity in the same way a journalist protects his or her sources. “It
wasn’t easy. But I felt that there are times when I’ve had to lie to protect a
source, and I put this in that category,” he said at the conference.
Facts
about SPACE…
Losses to
the Sun
It has been estimated that the sun is always in state of losing
billions of Kgs. The cause behind these losses are the solar winds which always
haunt the sun. It might sound weird, but the sun is also vulnerable to a number
of things just like the earth.
Joke-of-the-day
A vertically
challenged psychic was arrested one day. He escaped from jail and the newspaper
headline read, "SMALL MEDIUM AT-LARGE."
Rules of
Thumb:
CHECKING AN EGG
When placed in a
bowl of water, a fresh egg will sink and lie on its side. An egg that's not
fresh but still edible will sink and stand partially erect on its tapered end.
A rotten egg will float.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
PAPATOETOE, New Zealand (UPI) - A 25-year-old New Zealand woman in
the hospital to have her ovaries removed due to pain and cramps was instead
found to be pregnant. Rebecca Oldham had already been put under anesthesia in
November when surgeons discovered she was 32 weeks pregnant with a 9-pound
baby. "I was facing not being able to have any more children because they
thought there were problems with my ovaries and all of a sudden we had a
son," she said, adding that she and husband James Tipene have a
20-month-old daughter, Hayley. Doctors woke Oldham up from anesthesia to tell
her they would perform a caesarian section to deliver her baby instead of
remove her ovaries. "I am so glad they woke me and told me I was going to
have another baby," she said. "Even though it was short notice it was
better than waking up and being handed a baby." Oldham told the New
Zealand Herald she had had blood tests and other tests after she started
complaining of pain in her abdomen, but doctors never discovered her pregnancy.
Oldham and Tipene named the surprise baby James. One Serbian study suggests up
to one in 7,225 women don't realize they're pregnant until delivery.
Somewhat
Useless Information
This
will be the first ever World Cup to use goal-line technology. There has been so
much controversy surrounding World Cup goals in past years that the referee
will now have the benefit of 14 camera and a mainframe computer to help him
make calls. If a goal is scored, a special watch the ref will be wearing will
display the word 'goal.'
The
2014 World Cup will see matches take place in 12 different cities, more than
any other finals on record. There will be games in Manaus, Fortaleza, Natal,
Recife, Salvador, Cuiaba, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo,
and Porto Alegre.
FIFA
announced that the total Gross Capacity for the 2014 World Cup is estimated at
3,720,225 fans. Tickets were sold through a random selection draw for the first
two phases, and the last minute sales phase was first come, first served.
Brazil
has won the World Cup a record of five times, the last of which came in 2002.
Eight previous World Cup winners are set to take part in Brazil 2014 - Italy,
Germany, Uruguay, Argentina, England, France, and Spain.
This
year's FIFA World Cup mascot is Fuleco the Armadillo, as voted on by the
Brazilian public.
The
caxirola, a maraca-like instrument, has been named the official noisemaker of
the 2014 FIFA World Cup. However, federal officials have banned it from all 12
soccer grounds for safety reasons. That hasn't stopped the caxirola (pronounced
ka-shee-role-ah) from making noise outside of the matches.
Calendar
Information
This
Week’s Observances:
12-19
Nursing Assistants Week
13-20
National Hermit Week
14-22
Worldwide Knit (and
crotchet) in Public Week
15-21
Animal Rights Awareness Week
Universal Father's Week
Meet A Mate Week
Old Time Fiddlers Week
Animal Rights Awareness Week
Universal Father's Week
Meet A Mate Week
Old Time Fiddlers Week
Today
Is
Dump The Pump Day
Family Awareness Day
Garfield the Cat DayFamily Awareness Day
Husband Caregiver Day
Juneteenth-1865- African American Emancipation Day
Recess At Work Day
World Sickle Cell Day
"War is Hell" Day
World Sauntering Day
Today’s Events through History
1931 - 1st
photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct
1968 - 50,000
participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign
Today’s
Birthdays
Aung
San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician (Nobel) is 69
Phylicia
Rashad, actress and singer (The Cosby Show) is 66Kathleen Turner, actress (Accidental Tourist, Jewel of Nile) is 60
Paula Julie Abdul, singer/choreographer is 52
Remembered
for being born today
1566-1625 - James I
Stuart, king of Scotland (James VI)/England
1623-1662 - Blaise
Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal) 1834-1917 - Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina)
1896-1986 - Wallis Simpson [Duchess of Windsor], divorcee and wife of Edward VIII
1897-1975 - Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], Brooklyn , The 3 Stooges
1902-1977 - Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne)
1903-1941 - Lou Gehrig [Henry Louis Gehrig], 1st baseman for NY Yankees
1916-1994 - Pat Buttram, actor (Mr Haney-Green Acres)
Today’s
Historical Obits
Slim Whitman, country singer, 2013, @90
Ed Wynn, comedian (Ed Wynn Show), cancer, 1966, @79 James M Barrie, Scottish writer (Peter Pan), pneumonia, 1937, @77
James Gandolfini, actor (Sopranos), heart attack, 2013, @51
Ethel Rosenberg, executed for espionage, 1953, @37
Julius Rosenberg, 1st US civilian executed for espionage, 1953, @35
Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire, executed 1867, @34
Brain
Teasers
1. Reversed (verse in red)
2. Swallow (wall in sow)3. Mandate (and in mate)
4. Clearing (ear in cling)
5. Senile (nil in see)
6. Rodent (den in rot)
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
Now §
