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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 195 / Week: 29
July Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average
Sky Cover: 35%
H 82°… L 57°… Ave. humidity: 58%
Wind:
ave: 5mph; Gusts:
18mph
Average High: 83° Record
High: 92° (1902)
Average Low: 50°
Record Low: 38° (1962)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1771 - Mission
San Antonio de Padua founded in California
1789 - Bastille
Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille
1798 - 1st
direct US federal tax on states-on dwellings, land & slaves
1832 - Opium
exempted from federal tariff duty
1837
- Francis Chardon records the 1st death of a Mandan from smallpox.
1850 - 1st
public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
1853 - 1st
US World's fair opens at New York's Crystal Palace
1864 - Gold
is discovered in Helena, Montana
1921 - Sacco
& Vanzetti convicted of killing their shoe company's paymaster
1927 - 1st
commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
1951 - 1st color telecast of a sporting event
(CBS-horse race)
1976 - Jimmy
Carter wins Democratic pres nomination in NYC
1977 - North
Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3
1987 - Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
A very nice Sunday. I did get a nice little rain shower, about 30
minutes, just before sunset. Cooled things off quite nicely.
Watched the Final FIFA game. Quite good, but I was pushing for Argentina.
A friend from Tuba was on FB and pushing for Germany. FB-IM makes it real nice.
Watched the Sunday news programs…so tired of listening to the
immigration reform debate. The current crisis is KIDS, not drug runners, not
terrorists, just KIDS, looking for a better life. I did hear an interesting
comment…While the Statue of Liberty sez ‘bring your huddled masses…’, the US
has never really welcomed huge immigrant migrations…the Irish, the Chinese a
century + ago, the Vietnamese more recently. It is a nice story and makes us
feel good, but in reality, at the time of the immigration, there has always been
fear tactics, kicking and screaming. So sad. My brother and his wife are in
Sicily---where her family immigrated in the 1800s. She commented on how they
came, suffered, learned English, got jobs, and raised families. It took several
generations before they were ‘accepted’ by the locals.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
In
this teaser, you are given odd definitions of terms. The terms must be found,
and they sound approximately like the names of U.S. states. Can you get all
five?
1.
What a certain spectator sport's spectators do
2.
Doing 2,000 pounds of laundry
3.
What to buy if you're only slightly thirsty
4.
Mindful of a wooded valley
5.
Bauxite that is missing
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Minimum
acres of US grassland that have converted to soy and corn fields since 2006:
1,300,000
Unusual
Fact of the Day
More than 300 million Cadbury Creme Eggs are produced each year.
Trivia
about AZ…
Grand Canyon's Disaster Falls was named to commemorate the site of
a previous explorer's wreck.
Grand Canyon's Marble Canyon got its name from its
thousand-foot-thick seam of marble and for its walls eroded to a polished glass
finish.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
Women are not oppressed in Islam. Any Muslim man that oppresses a
woman is not following Islam. Among the many teachings of Prophet Muhammad that
protected the rights and dignity of women is his saying, "...the best
among you are those who treat their wives well." (Tirmidhi)
Weather
Facts…
It snows more in the Grand Canyon
than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
People
Facts…
‘Old people smell’ is actually
caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
Historical
Facts…
In Ancient Greece, small penises
were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
Retro
Native Humor…
The Blackfeet asked their Chief in autumn, if the
winter was going to be cold or not. Not really knowing the answer, the chief
replies that the winter was going to be cold and that the members of the
village were to collect wood to be prepared.
Being a good leader, he then went to the nearest phone booth and called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is this winter to be cold?" The man on the phone responded, "This winter was going to be quite cold indeed."
So the Chief went back to speed up his people to collect even more wood to be prepared. A week later he called the National Weather Service again, "Is it going to be a very cold winter?"
"Yes," the man replied, "its going to be a very cold winter."
So the Chief goes back to his people and orders them to go and find
every scrap of wood they can find. Two weeks later he calls the National Weather Service again and asks "Are you absolutely sure, that the winter is going to be very cold?"
"Absolutely" the man replies, "the Blackfeet are collecting wood like crazy!"
Being a good leader, he then went to the nearest phone booth and called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is this winter to be cold?" The man on the phone responded, "This winter was going to be quite cold indeed."
So the Chief went back to speed up his people to collect even more wood to be prepared. A week later he called the National Weather Service again, "Is it going to be a very cold winter?"
"Yes," the man replied, "its going to be a very cold winter."
So the Chief goes back to his people and orders them to go and find
every scrap of wood they can find. Two weeks later he calls the National Weather Service again and asks "Are you absolutely sure, that the winter is going to be very cold?"
"Absolutely" the man replies, "the Blackfeet are collecting wood like crazy!"
Common
Phrase Origins…
Break the
Ice
Meaning: To
commence a project or initiate a friendship
History: Before
the days of trains or cars, port cities that thrived on trade suffered during
the winter because frozen rivers prevented commercial ships from entering the
city. Small ships known as “icebreakers” would rescue the icebound ships by
breaking the ice and creating a path for them to follow. Before any type of
business arrangement today, it is now customary “break the ice” before
beginning a project.
Joke-of-the-day
After Florida
coach Steve Spurrior passes away and enters the Pearly Gates, God takes him on
a tour. He shows Steve a little 2-bedroom house with a faded UF banner hanging
from the front porch. "This is your home, Coach. Most people don't get
their own house up here," God exclaims.
Little Steve
looks at the house, then turns around and looks at the one sitting on the top
of the hill. It's a huge two-story mansion with white marble columns and little
patios under all of the windows. LSU flags line both sides of the sidewalk with
a huge purple and gold LSU banner hanging between the marble columns.
"Thanks for
the home, God, but let me ask you a question. I get this little 2 bedroom house
with a faded Florida banner, and Nick Saban gets a mansion with new LSU banners
and flags flying all over the place. Why is that?"
God looks at him
seriously for a moment and then replies, "That's not Saban’s house, that's
mine!!!!!"
Rules of
Thumb:
WATCHING YOUR BREATH
When you see your
breath, it is below 45 F.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) - An Oregon man didn't look a police horse in
the mouth; he karate-kicked it in the thigh. Portland Police arrested Joseph
Cruz and charged him with interfering with a law-enforcement animal after he
allegedly attacked a police horse named Olin. Mounted Patrol Unit officers were
patrolling near a Greyhound bus terminal when they stopped to speak to a group
of people. While they were chatting, the 29-year-old allegedly ran up and
attacked Olin, even though the animal outweighs him by about 1,000 pounds.
Police say Cruz "yelled out a battle cry" and hit the horse
"with a jumping, double kick to his right thigh," the Salem News
reported. Neither Olin nor Cruz was hurt by the kick and it was unclear if the
suspect was impaired by drugs or alcohol during the incident. Cruz also had a
warrant out for his arrest.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Men
always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance. ~Oscar
Wilde
Man
becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his
fellow-men. ~Mahatma
Gandhi
I
usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change
it.~Margaret
Thatcher
The
greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. ~Leonardo
da Vinci
Men
rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves
against attack, and then they attack others. ~Niccolo
Machiavelli
Men
are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.~Napoleon
Bonaparte
The
truth is found when men are free to pursue it.~Franklin
D. Roosevelt
Men
are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.~Chuck
Norris
Men
are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.~George
Orwell
/\
Thomas
Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman, who developed many
devices, such as the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting,
practical electric light bulb.
Edison
had been married twice and he taught his second wife Mina Miller Morse code so
that they could communicate in secret by tapping into other’s hands in social
events or when her family was around.
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
7-14
Creative Maladjustment Week; Nude Recreation Weekend
13-19
Sports Cliché Week
Today
Is
/\
Bastille
Day (France-1789)
Today’s
Events through History
1853 - Commodore Perry requests trade relations
with Japan
1967 - The Who begin a US tour opening for Herman's
Hermits
1969 - The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and
$10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
1978 - Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian
Ode" - blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear
bomb trigger factory, Colorado
2002 - French
President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during
Bastille Day celebrations.
Birthday’s
Today
Polly Bergen, actress, singer, TV
host is 84
Joe Keenan, screenwriter,
television producer and novelist is 56
Jane Lynch, actress, game show
host is 54
Remembered
for being born today
1857-1937 – F. L. Maytag, inventor (washing machine)
1862-1945 - Florence Bascom, 1st American woman PhD
1865-1902 - Annie Jones, Virginia, bearded lady
1901-1980 - George Tobias, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched)
1901-1980 - George Tobias, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched)
1906-1990
- Tom
Carvel, ice cream mogul (Carvels)
1910-2001
- William
Hanna, animator (Hanna-Barbera)
1912-1967 - Woodrow
Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie,
folk singer
1913-2006
- Gerald
R Ford, [Leslie King], 41st VP/38th US President
1918-2007
- Ingmar
Bergman, Sweden, director (Cries & Whispers)
1923-2013 - Dale Robertson, actor (Death Valley
Days, Walter-Dynasty)
Historical
Obits Today
Adlai Stevenson II, US amb to UN/Pres candidate, heart attack,
1965, @65
Meredith MacRae, actress, brain cancer, 2000, @56
Billy the Kid (William Bounty), American outlaw killed,1881, @23
Faisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58), assassinated, 1858, @23
Brain Teasers
1. What a certain spectator sport's spectators do:
"tennis-see" (Tennessee)
2. Doing 2,000 pounds of laundry: "washing ton"
(Washington)
3. What to buy if you're only slightly thirsty:
"mini-soda" (Minnesota)
4. Mindful of a wooded valley: "dell-aware" (Delaware)
5. Bauxite that is missing: "ore gone" (Oregon)
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 §
