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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 181
/ Week: 27
June Averages: 78° \ 42°
Today: Average
Sky Cover: 15%
H 84°… L 54°… Ave. humidity: 34%
Wind: ave: 6mph; Gusts:
21mph
Average High: 82° Record High: 92° (1990)
Average Low: 46°
Record Low: 31° (1913)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1520 - The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan.
1755 - Philippines
close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants
1834 - Congress
creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1865 - 8
alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty
1894 - Korea
declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1894 - London's Tower Bridge opens
1906 - Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat
Inspection Act adopted
1910 - Russia
absorbs Finland
1914 - Mahatma
Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
1936 - Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with
the Wind" published
1938 - Superman
1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1
1940 - "Brenda
Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
1940 - US Fish & Wildlife Service forms
1953 - 1st
Chevrolet Corvette manufactured
1960 - US
stops sugar import from Cuba
1971 - 26th
amendment-18 is voting age
1974 - Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to
west
1981 - China's
Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy
1988 - Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring
Jackie Gleason
1990 - East
& West Germany merge their economies
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My
Rambling Thoughts
Another nice warm day here. Spent a little time outside, caught up
on the news, enjoyed some good soccer matches.
OMG…our ice cream man has a new song…today it is ‘It’s a Small
World’. Back in the 80’s we took 8th graders to Disneyland. On one
of the trips I was in the Small World ride with a bunch of students. The ride
got stuck, but the music played on, and on, and on for about 40 minutes.
Hearing it always brings back memories of those great trips, and my hatred of
that song.
Federal Law, passed and signed in 1988 by GW Bush states that unaccompanied
children who cross the border must be
cared for in the US until their parents are located. The current crisis
is because of the horrific conditions in Central America. Why the US didn’t see
this coming is still beyond my comprehension.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
Mischievous
Casey is delighted when people write her name incorrectly. She sounds so
sincere as she very carefully spells it out: "C for chaos, A for arpeggio,
S for scenery, E for empty, Y for ____."
Which
of the following words is she most likely to select to help with 'Y'?
Young
Youth
Yacht
Yikes!
Yahoo!
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Number
of states that have passed stricter drunk driving laws since 1982: 44
Unusual
Fact of the Day
A National Weather Service study indicated that more than eight
out of every ten people injured or killed by lightning were men.
Trivia
about AZ…
The Castilian and Burgundian flags of Spain, the Mexican flag, the
Confederate flag, and the flag of the United States have all flown over the
land area that has become Arizona.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
Allah is not the God of Muslims only. He is the God of all people
and all creation. Just because people refer to God using different terms does
not mean that they are different gods. Spanish people refer to God as
"Dios" and French people refer to God as "Dieu", yet they
are all the same God. Interestingly, most Arab Jews and Arab Christians refer
to God as "Allah". And the word Allah in Arabic appears on the walls
of many Arab churches.
Weather
Facts…
Circumhorizontal arcs (loosely
known as fire rainbows) are the rarest of all naturally occurring atmospheric
phenomena.
People
Facts…
There are 189 people named 'Lol'
in the U.S.
Historical
Facts…
There’s a Swedish power metal
band called “Sabaton” who teach history through their music, including an album
devoted to teaching about World War Two.
Joke-of-the-day
We spend the
first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk, and
the next Twenty-four years telling them to sit down and shut up!
Rules of
Thumb:
EXHALING
A healthy adult
should be able to completely exhale a deep breath in three seconds.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Apparently, some turtle species breathe out of
their butts. Talk about bad breath.
Until recently, however, scientists didn't really know why some
turtles -- most notably Australian Fitzroy river turtle and the North American
eastern painted turtle -- took in air through the back end. Chalk it up to
another one of nature's cruel but hilarious jokes.
But now, scientists have an explanation. As always, the answer is
evolutionary problem solving.
The turtles in question hibernate for an extended part of the
winter in frigid waters, sometimes for as long as five months. That requires a
lot of breathing underwater. Unfortunately, a turtle's shell -- the product of
ribs and vertebrae that slowly flattened out and fused together over time -- is
built for protection, not to support the muscle system that enables the robust
pulmonary setup gifted to so many mammals.
A turtle's muscles are built to help it emerge from the gaps in
its shell, not to contract and expand lungs, inhaling and exhaling oxygen.
Thus, breathing in and out in the normal fashion requires a lot of work for the
turtle -- muscle exertion that causes a buildup of acid. And too much acid in
the body is a bad thing.
Luckily, the turtle's cloaca -- the rear end hole (not an anus)
that allows the reptile to excrete, urinate, and lay its eggs -- features two
sacs, or bursa, which more efficiently absorb oxygen. Though the Australian
Fitzroy river turtle, North American eastern painted turtle, and other
rear-breathing turtles can breathe through their mouths if they feel so
inclined, the bursa help them take in oxygen without expending as much energy
and producing as much acid byproduct.
In related news, other turtles pee through their mouths.
Somewhat
Useless Information
When
being at a public place like a restaurants or a shop you’d better wash your
hands quite regularly, if possible, as there are several extremely dirty
objects!
The
five dirtiest things when you are at a public place, are the following:
- A restaurant menu
- The handle of a toilet door
- The ‘push’ button on a soap device
- A supermarket trolley
- Ketchup and mustard plastic bottles in restaurants
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
27 -7/4
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness Week
Today
Is
Descendants Day
Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
Meteor Day
National
Bomp Pop Day-1953
National Handshake Day
NOW (National
Organization For Women) Day
Please Take My Children To Work Day
~~
Armed Forces Day (Guatemala)
Independence Day (Congo-1960-from
Belgium)
Revolution Day (Sudan)
Today’s
Events through History
1893 - Excelsior
diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
1945 - 17-day
newspaper strike in NY begins
1966 - Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa
2012 - Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of
Egypt
Birthday’s
Today
Billy
Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10k (Olympics-gold-64) is 76
David
Alan Grier, comedian (In Living Color, Boomerang) is 58
Vincent
D'Onofrio, character actor is 55
"Iron"
Mike Tyson, youngest heavyweight boxing champ is 48
Michael
Phelps, American swimmer (16 Olympic medals) is 29
Remembered
for being born today
1768-1830 - Elizabeth
Kortright Monroe, 1st lady (1817-25)
1914-1995 - David
Wayne, actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda Strain, 3 Faces of Eve)
1917-2010 - Lena
Horne, Brooklyn actress/singer (Stormy Weather, Wiz)
1917-1975 - Susan Hayward, Bkln, actress (I Want to
Live, Tulsa)
1934-1997 - Harry
Blackstone Jr, magician (Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion)
1943-1976 - Florence
Ballard, Detroit, rocker (Supremes)
Historical Obits’
Today
Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister, 2012, @96
Gale Gordon, comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy), 1995, @89
Robert McCloskey, children's book writer and illustrator, 2003,
@88
James Oglethorpe, founder of the state of Georgia, 1785, @88
Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), heart attack, 1984,
@79
Buddy Hackett, American comic, stroke, 2003, @78
Chet Atkins, country guitar player and producer, 2001, @77
Mary Livingstone, [Sadye Marks] Comedienne, (Jack Benny), 1983,
@77
Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, 1973 @70
George "Spanky" McFarland, child actor (Our Gang), heart
attack, 1993, @65
Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded , 1685, @55ish
Brain
Teasers
Youth
All her choices of "helpful" words sound as if they
begin with another letter - K-os, R-peggio, C-nery, M-pty ... and so, U-th!
Although technically correct, it confuses people, and they often
make mistakes!
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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