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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 180
/ Week: 27
June Averages: 78° \ 42°
Today: Average
Sky Cover: 10%
H 84°… L 54°… Ave. humidity: 38%
Wind: ave: 6mph; Gusts:
20mph
Average High: 82° Record High: 93° (1990)
Average Low: 45°
Record Low: 30° (1913)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1534 - Jacques
Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada
1613 - Shakespeare's
Globe Theatre burns down
1891 - US National Forest Service organized
1949 - South
Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1969 - 1st
Jewish worship service at White House
1972 - Supreme
Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel & unusual
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My
Rambling Thoughts
Flagstaff is truly a very interesting town. Today, as summer
really takes off, there are three big crowd drawers happening here in the
little mountain town. There is a pro-rodeo, returning after several years of
not happening here. There is the annual gay pride festival, and a folk
festival. I realize that the US is changing its views of gays, but what other
city would put a Pro rodeo and a Gay Pride Festival in the same town at the
same time? Things seem to be going well at all three events. Our local
Flagscanner on FB has not reported any incidents at any of the venues. I’ll
really be impressed if we make it through Saturday night with no issues. The
gay bars are downtown along with the college bars while the Cowboy bars on far
from downtown. The bars that have folk music are also downtown.
Had a long talk with Martha this morning. For some unknown reason
we have been playing word games on FB but haven’t really talked for a long
time. She has been in this log cabin home about 25 years out in the forest.
Beautiful setting, beautiful house. Sadly, some of the appliances aren’t
holding up that well. Her fridge/freezer and dishwasher are not working right.
The leak from the ice-maker has warped some of the kitchen and guest bath
floor. She is a little overwhelmed right now, but is working on figuring it all
out. Hard to find repair services in Flagstaff and she lives way out of town,
making it even harder.
Not a lot of breeze today and it was hot for Flagstaff. Anxious
for the sun to set and the cool breezes to begin.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
I
can be cracked, I can be made.
I
can be told, I can be played.
What
am I?
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Percentage
of single people who say they cannot define a ‘date’: 69
Unusual
Fact of the Day
After losing the White House, John Quincy Adams was elected to
Congress in 1830. He served until his death in 1848.
Trivia
about AZ…
The battleship USS Arizona was named in honor of the state. It was
commissioned in 1913 and launched in 1915 from the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It was
sunk at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941
World War II brought many military personnel to train at Luke and
Thunderbird fields in Glendale.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
"Allah" is an Arabic word that means "God".
Muslims also believe that "Allah" is the personal name of God.
**NEW**Weather
Facts…
In 1859, the largest known geomagnetic storm struck the Caribbean,
causing an aurora and telegraphs could even operate without a power source.
**NEW**People
Facts…
Karl Pillemer, a professor, performed a study on thousands of
elderly people and what advice they had about life. On happiness, there was a
consensus: “the elders viewed happiness as a choice, not the result of how life
treats you.”
**NEW**Historical
Facts…
The original Cinderella was
Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
Joke-of-the-day
Ladies and
gentlemen, hobos and tramps,
Bug-eyed
mosquitoes and bowlegged ants!
I'm about to tell
you a story I've never heard before,
So pull up a
chair and sit on the floor.
Admission is
free, so pay at the door.
One fine day, in
the middle of the night,
two, dead boys
got up to fight.
Back to back,
they faced each other,
drew their swords
and shot each other.
A deaf policeman
heard the noise,
and saved the
lives of the two dead boys.
If you don't
believe my lies are true,
ask the blind
man, he saw it too!
Rules of
Thumb:
TRANSLATING GREEK
If you can't
identify a word in a Greek sentence, it is a verb with a prefix. To figure it
out, go through the lexicon chopping off one letter from the front at a time.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
LONDON (UPI) - The Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting
southward towards Siberia, according to researchers at the European Space
Agency (ESA).
As part of ESA's Swarm mission, scientists have been mapping the
planet's magnetic field with the help three satellites. Each satellite is
equipped with several Earth-studying tools -- including magnetometers, which
measure the magnetic field's strength and direction.
"I started my career in magnetometry and the accuracy we had
then in the laboratories was less than what we can fly in space now,"
Volker Liebig, the director of Earth observation at ESA, recently told BBC
News. "So what we have on Swarm is fantastic, but we need long time series
to understand fully the Earth's magnetic field, and we will get that from this
mission."
Results from the Swarm mission suggest that not only is magnetic
north on the move, but the entire magnet field is weakening, leaving Earth
potentially exposed to additional cosmic radiation. This, however, is
considered normal, with the magnet cloak likely to regain its strength in the
near future.
Analysis of ancient rocks buried deep in the Earth lead scientists
to believe Earth's magnetic north and south poles switch every few million
years. The latest from Swam suggests the poles may once again be preparing to
trade sides; though the flip-flop itself takes several thousand years.
A study published in 2011 surmised that the shifting magnetic
poles are affected by the movement of Earth's tectonic plates.
Currently, Swarm satellites have only honed in on the general
magnetic field generated by Earth's molten core. But scientists expect to study
more delicate magnetic fields in the future, such as the field generated by the
movement of the world's oceans.
"These initial results demonstrate the excellent performance
of Swarm," said Rune Floberghagen, ESA's Swarm Mission Manager. "With
unprecedented resolution, the data also exhibit Swarm's capability to map
fine-scale features of the magnetic field."
Somewhat
Useless Information
Popcorn
has an exceptionally interesting history dated back in the 16th century and the
Aztec Indians.
Aztecs
were the first to eat popcorn and they also used it as decoration for
ceremonial headdresses, necklaces and ornaments on statues of their gods,
including Tlaloc, the god of rain and fertility.
“And also a number of young women danced,
having so vowed, a popcorn dance. As thick as tassels of maize were their
popcorn garlands. And these they placed upon (the girls’) heads”, Bernardino de
Sahagun says.
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
27 -7/4
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness Week
28-29
Water Ski Days
Today
Is
America's Kids Day
ARRL (American Radio Relay League) Field Day
Camera Day
Log Cabin Day
~~
Independence Day (Seychelles-1976—from UK)
Independence Day (Seychelles-1976—from UK)
Isra Al
Mi'Raj (Ascent of the Prophet Muhammad - Islam)
Today’s
Events through History
1540 - English
ex-chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic
1858 - Great
fire in London docks
1888 – 1st
(known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax
cylinder.
1916 - Boeing
aircraft flies for 1st time
2007 - Two
car bombs are found in the heart of London at Piccadilly Circus.
Birthday’s
Today
Robert
Evans, director/actor (Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown) is 84
Gary
Busey, actor (Buddy Holly Story, Star in Born) is 70
Richard
Lewis, comedian (Marty Gold-Anything But Love) is 67
Fred
Grandy, (Rep-R-Iowa, 1986- )/actor (Love Boat) is 66
Remembered
for being born today
1803-1868 - John
Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
1886-1983 - James Van Der Zee, African American
photographer
1901-1967 - Nelson Eddy, baritone (Duets with Jeanette
MacDonald)
1907-1961 - Joan
Davis, actress (I Married Joan)
1919-1983 - Slim
Pickens, actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles)
1941-1998 - Stokeley Carmichael, [Kwame Toure], US,
Black Power-activist
1943-2003 - Little Eva (Eva Boyd), pop singer
(Locomotion)
Historical
Obits’ Today
Katharine Hepburn, actress (African Queen), 2003, @96
Cameron Mitchell, actor (Man on Tightrope), lung cancer, 1994, @76
Lana Turner, actress (Madame X), cancer, 1995, @75
Rosemary Clooney, singer and actress, cancer, 2002, @74
Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Monus), 1977, @70
Joel Siegel, film critic, cancer, 2007, @63
Bob Crane, actor (Hogan-Hogan's Heroes), murdered in Phx, 1978,
@49
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, actor (Keystone comedies), heart
attack, 1933, @ 46
Jayne Mansfield, actress (Female Jungle), car crash, 1967, @34
Brain
Teasers
A Joke!
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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