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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 187 / Week: 28
July Averages: 82° \ 50°Today: Average Sky Cover: 60%
H 77°… L 54°… Ave. humidity: 62%
Wind: ave: 4mph; Gusts: 12mph
Average High: 82° Record High: 96° (1989)
Average Low: 48° Record Low: 36° (1978)
Quote of the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1189 - Richard
the Lionheart is crowned King of England.
1776 - Declaration
of Independence announced on front page of "PA Evening Gazette" 1785 - Congress unanimously resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage
1848 - Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine
1917 - T E Lawrence captures port of Aqaba from Turks
1928 - 1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY)
1971 - White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
1979 - IRA bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp
1983 - Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
1986 - 100th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Becker beats Lendl (64 63 75)
2013 - 120th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Bartoli beats Lisicki (6-1 6-4)
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
Great Saturday here in our little mountain town. Just awaiting the
daily rain, and it is cloudy enough and cool enough to get it later. Nice rain
put me to sleep last night.
Foot pain is bearable, but certainly not gone. Two pain pills upon
awaking and only one during the day. Caught up on some DVRed shows.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
I
am not a king, I am not a queenBut most of you will bow when I'm seen
Currently I am resting on my side
But soon I will continue my stride
I can't walk, run, fly or crawl
Yet I am the greatest traveler of all
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Ratio
of seriously mentally ill people held in US prisons and jails to those held in
state psychiatric hospitals: 10:1
Unusual
Fact of the Day
The Bee Gees never liked their name. In fact, after Robert
Stigwood signed on as the band’s producer in 1967, the group lobbied to change
it. But what could possibly be better than The Bee Gees? The band suggested
Rupert’s World. Luckily, their manager nixed the notion.
Trivia
about AZ…
The state's precipitation varies. At Flagstaff the annual average
is 18.31 inches; Phoenix averages 7.64 inches; and Yuma's annual average is
3.27 inches.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
The Holy Qur'an was not authored by Muhammad. It was authored by
God, revealed to Muhammad, and written into physical form by his companions.
Weather
Facts…
Carbon dioxide is a trace gas and by itself will produce little
warming. Also, as CO2 increases, the incremental warming is less, as the effect
is logarithmic so the more CO2, the less warming it produces.
People
Facts…
Only 10-20% of the population can
wiggle their ears and raise one eyebrow.
Historical
Facts…
Scientists are excavating the
ruins of a major civilization which pre-dates both the pyramids and Stonehenge
by over 7,000 years. In 15 years, they have uncovered only about 5% of the
site. Göbekli Tepe (Turkish: [ɡøbe̞kli te̞pɛ], "Potbelly
Hill"is an archaeological site at the top of a mountain ridge in the Southeastern
Anatolia Region of Turkey
Joke-of-the-day
Two snails went
to an auto race. There were twenty six cars, so instead of numbers the cars
were identified by letters from A to Z. As the race started, the S car quickly
sped away from the trailing pack of cars. Seeing this, the one snail said to
the other, "Hey, look at that S car go!"
Rules of
Thumb:
SHEARING A SHEEP
You can plan on
making one sweater for every two pounds of wool you shear from a sheep.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
A Finnish couple has narrowly won the 19th World Wife Carrying
Championships — a quirky competition in which men race to be the fastest while
carrying a female teammate.
Ville Parviainen and Janette Oksman cleared the grueling 253.5
meter (278-yard) obstacle course in 63.75 seconds on Saturday, less than a
second ahead of Britain's Rich Blake Smith and Anna Marguerite Smith.Thirty-six couples from a dozen countries including Australia, Japan, and the United States took part in the race, which was held in the central Finnish municipality of Sonkajarvi, north of the capital, Helsinki.
The rules stipulate that the woman must be over 17 years of age and weigh at least 49 kilograms (108 lb). Despite the event's name couples don't have to be married, and organizers say male contestants could "borrow a neighbor's wife" if they didn't have a female companion.
The men can carry their teammate in various ways, though a popular method is for the woman to hang upside-down with her legs around the male contestant's shoulders.
Finland has established itself as a prime venue for unusual events including international air guitar, swamp soccer and mobile phone throwing competitions.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Since
European settlement no active volcanoes have erupted on the Australian
mainland, however there are some volcanoes in its territories that are likely
to have been active thousands or even million years ago.
For
example, in South Australia the Mounts Burr, Gambier and Shank erupted around
5,000 years ago.Moreover, the Aberfeldy Volcano in Victoria erupted 27 million years ago and the Flinders Volcano erupted 40-48 million years ago, whereas the Mawson Peak on the Heard and McDonald islands erupted in 2004.
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
1-7
National Unassisted Homebirth Week3-6
Beans and Bacon Days; International Gay Square Dancing Week
4-10
Freedom Week
6-12
Be Nice To New Jersey Week; National Farriers Week
Today
Is
International Kissing Day or World Kiss Day
Take Your Webmaster to Lunch Day
/\Take Your Webmaster to Lunch Day
Day of Statehood (Lithuania-1253)
Independence Day (Comoros-1975-from France)
Republic Day (Malawi-1966-from Britain)
Statehood Day (Alaska-1958-49th)
Today’s Events through History
1652 - Fire on Dutch Dam (Amsterdam's city hall burns)
1825 - Cheyenne sign a "friendship" treaty (7 stat.
255) with the US1965 - Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms
1993 - John F. Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan
Birthday’s
Today
Nancy Davis Reagan, [Anne Francis
Robbins], US First Lady is 94
Della Reese, singer/actress
(Della Reese Show) is 8414th Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists is 79
Burt Ward, [Gervis], Los Angeles California, actor (Robin-Batman) is 69
Fred Dryer, NFLer (Giants, Rams)/actor (Hunter) is 68
George W. Bush Jr, 43rd US President\46th Governor of Texas is 68
Sylvester Stallone, actor/director (Rocky, Rambo, Cobra) is 68
Shelley Hack, actress (Tiffany Welles-Charlie's Angel) is 67
Grant Goodeve, actor (Northern Exposure) is 62
Allyce Beasley, actress (Agnes Dipesto-Moonlighting) is 60
Glenn Scarpelli, actor (Alex-One Day At a Time, Fantasy) is 48
50 Cent, American rapper is 39
Tamera Mowry, twin actress (Sisters) is 36
Tia Mowry, twin actress (Sisters) is 36
Remembered
for being born today
1747-1792
- John
Paul Jones, naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight")
1785-1865 - William J Hooker, English
botanist/director (Kew Gardens) 1918-1977 - Sebastian Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair)
1925-1981 - Bill Haley, rock vocalist (Rock Around the Clock)
1925-2007 - Merv Griffin, TV host (Merv Griffin Show)
1927-2004 - Janet Leigh, [Jeanetta Morrison], actress (Psycho), (d. 2004)
1927-1997 - Pat Paulsen, comedian/pres candidate (Smothers Bros Show)
Historical
Obits Today
Buddy
Ebsen, American actor; 2003; @95
Robert
McNamara, US Secretary of Defense; 2009; @93 Roy Rogers (Leonard Franklin Slye), actor; 1998; @86
Joe E Brown, comedian; 1973; @81
John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States; 1835, @79
Louis Armstrong, jazz trumpeter\singer; heart attack; 1971; @69
William Faulkner, US author (Nobel 1949), heart attack; 1962; @64
Sir Thomas More, author (Utopia)\statesman, beheaded 1535 @57
Brain
Teasers
A coin on the floor.
(bow when I am seen=to pick me up, resting on my side=on the
floor, continue my stride and greatest traveler of all=moving between people as
I am exchanged).
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 §
