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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 198 / Week: 29
July Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average
Sky Cover: 85%
H 77°… L 57°… Ave. humidity: 60%
Wind:
ave: 9mph; Gusts:
28mph
Average High: 81° Record
High: 93° (2009)
Average Low: 52°
Record Low: 40° (1904)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1603 - Sir
Walter Raleigh arrested by forces of King James
1841 - British
humor magazine "Punch" 1st published
1861 - Congress
authorizes paper money
1867 - 1st
US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1879 - 1st
railroad opens in Hawaii
1898 - Spanish
American War - Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba
1938 - Douglas
(Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland
1945 - Potsdam
Conference (Truman, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting
1955 - Disneyland televises its grand opening in
Anaheim, California
1962 - Senate rejects medicare for aged
1966 - Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
1974 - 1st
quadrophonic studio in UK is open by Moody Blues
1976 - Opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by
25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
1979 - Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in
Oslo
2004 - Martha
Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
Started out as a beautiful day, and stayed that way, even as the
afternoon clouds, thunder, and possible rain moved in. Keepin it cool here in
our little mountain town.
AZ in the news for a botched protest. The sheriff in one of our
southern counties made a big press conference talking about a bus load of ‘illegal
children’ was coming to a small town in his county. They were going to be
housed at a private facility until someone could figure out what do with them.
So a bunch of far right wingers decided to ‘stop the bus’. Many signs and
people showed up. The problem, the bus they decided to stop was a bus load of
American children on their way to YMCA camp. Big BOO to the sheriff who started
the hysteria.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
Aviva
was planning to take a trip around the world. She liked names that were similar
to hers, so she made a list of places she would like to visit.
However,
one of these places doesn't belong. Which one is it?
Arrawarra,
Australia
Caraparac,
Peru
Daba
Qabad, Somalia
Krape
Park, United States
Nagubugan,
Philippines
Oktahatko,
Florida
Ilokano,
Polynesia
Hint:
Look
at her name closely.
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Factor
by which an Army soldier is more likely than the average American to be diagnosed
with intermittent explosive anger: 5
Unusual
Fact of the Day
The phrase "slipping a Mickey" likely originated with
Mickey Finn, a Chicago saloon owner known for drugging and robbing customers
Trivia
about AZ…
At one time camels were used to transport goods across Arizona.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
Arranged marriages are allowed in Islam but are not required.
Whereas "forced" marriages, usually stemming from cultural practice,
are forbidden. Divorce is permissible, however, reconciliation is what is most
encouraged. But if there are irreconcilable differences then Islam permits a
fair and just divorce.
Weather
Facts…
Dirty
snow melts faster than clean.
People
Facts…
2% of
Europeans lack the genes for smelly armpits.
Historical
Facts…
Early American humans hunted
car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
Retro
Native Humor…
This wagon train is heading across the desert, when
all of a sudden the wagon master notices that on all sides of the valley, there
are Indian guys. He quickly forms the wagons into the "Hollywood"
circle, to protect the families in the train. Nothing happens. Soon, drums are
heard pounding out in the distance, BUM, bum, bum, bum, BUM, bum, bum, bum,
BUM, bum, bum, bum.......(the famous Hollywood drumbeat from the John Ford
movies) The wagon master tells the train, "I don't like the sound of
this...." From out in the distance comes another voice, saying, "We
don't like the sound of it either. He's not our regular drummer!"
Common
Phrase Origins…
Caught Red-Handed
Meaning: To be
caught doing something wrong
History: This saying
originated because of a law. If someone butchered an animal that didn’t belong
to him, he had to be caught with the animal’s blood on his hands to be
convicted. Being caught with freshly cut meat did not make the person guilty.
Joke-of-the-day
Seems an elderly
gentleman had serious hearing problems for a number of years.
He went to the
doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids
that allowed the gentleman to hear 100%. The elderly gentleman went back in a
month to the doctor and the doctor said, "Your hearing is perfect. Your
family must be really pleased you can hear again."
To which the
gentleman said, "Oh, I haven't told my family yet. I just sit around and
listen to the conversations. I've changed my will five times!"
Rules of
Thumb:
PAINTING A HIGHWAY
A road must carry
traffic of at least 400 cars per day for a reflective centerline to be a
cost-effective improvement.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
WASHINGTON (UPI) - NASA satellites are helping scientists
determine exactly how much water was stored in river basins during the fall and
winter seasons.
Making more accurate determinations about which rivers are most
saturated in anticipation of spring's flood season could help meteorologists
better predict which flood plains are most at risk. The techniques for making
these determinations are detailed in a new study, published this week in the
journal Nature Geoscience.
"Just like a bucket can only hold so much water, the same
concept applies to river basins," explained J.T. Reager, the study's lead
author and an earth scientist at the University of California, Irvine.
Reager and his fellow researchers at UC-Irvine picked out major
floods, like the one that devastated Missouri in 2011, and traced back
satellite imagery of the river basins over the months prior. In doing so, they
were able to develop a computer model that predicted -- based on the amount of
water it had become inundated with over time -- future floods up to five months
ahead of time.
"This gives the background on what's on the ground before the
rain even gets there," Reager said.
Specifically, the scientists used NASA's twin GRACE satellites to
see to what extent river basins were affected by (read: filled with) snow melt,
surface water, soil moisture and groundwater.
Reager hopes the techniques revealed in the new study will be
incorporated by weather forecasters moving forward.
"It would be amazing if this could have a positive effect and
potentially save lives," he said.
Somewhat
Useless Information
The
first official volleyball game was played on July 7, 1896, at Springfield
College.
Volleyball
was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan at the Holyoke, Massachusetts YMCA.
Morgan thought that volleyball was less strenuous and violent than basketball.
The
first version of volleyball called "mintonette" was created as a
recreational activity for local businessmen to enjoy during their lunch hours.
The first rules allowed for unlimited players per side and unlimited contacts.
The
first professional beach volleyball tournament was called the Olympia World
Championship of Beach Volleyball. It took place at Will Rogers State Beach
during late summer in 1976.
Volleyball
was first introduced as an Olympic sport in Tokyo in 1964.
Beach
volleyball is the only Olympic sport with a rule prohibiting players from
wearing too much.
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
13-19
Sports Cliché Week
15-21
Rabbit Week; National Baby Food Week; National Ventriloquism Week
Today
Is
Get to Know Your Customers Day
National Ice Cream Day
National Ice Cream Day
Wrong Way Corrigan Day
Yellow Pig Day- unique celebration dates back to the 1960s when two math students at Princeton were given an assignment to analyze the properties of the number 17. Thinking about the number 17 for so long drove them a bit nuts, (as you can imagine), so they came up with the idea of a mythical yellow pig. The yellow pig had seventeen toes, seventeen teeth, seventeen eyelashes, etc. Today, mathematicians in colleges and universities all across the country celebrate Yellow Pig Day by eating Yellow Pig Cake and singing Yellow Pig Carols (seriously, we couldn't make this stuff up). And of course, the festivities always take place on the 17th day of July.
Yellow Pig Day- unique celebration dates back to the 1960s when two math students at Princeton were given an assignment to analyze the properties of the number 17. Thinking about the number 17 for so long drove them a bit nuts, (as you can imagine), so they came up with the idea of a mythical yellow pig. The yellow pig had seventeen toes, seventeen teeth, seventeen eyelashes, etc. Today, mathematicians in colleges and universities all across the country celebrate Yellow Pig Day by eating Yellow Pig Cake and singing Yellow Pig Carols (seriously, we couldn't make this stuff up). And of course, the festivities always take place on the 17th day of July.
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Constitution
Day (South Korea-1948)
Today’s
Events through History
1585 - English
secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against Queen Elizabeth
I
1918 - Longest
errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
1959 - Dr
Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old) ‘Nutcracker Man’
1967 - Monkees
perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act
1968 - Beatle's
animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
Birthday’s
Today
Donald
Sutherland, Canadian actor (M*A*S*H) is 79
Diahann
Carroll, Bronx, actress (Julia, Dynasty) is 79
Spencer
Davis, Wales, vocalist (Spencer Davis Group) is 75
Gale
Garnett, Auckland NZ, singer (We'll Sing in the Sunshine) is 72
David
Hasselhoff, actor (Night Rider, Mitch-Baywatch) is 62
Remembered
for being born today
1487-1524 - Ismail
I, Shah of Persia, converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah
1859-1916 - Luis
Munoz Rivera, journalist (founded Federalist Party)
1889-1970 - Erle
Stanley Gardner, US detective writer (Perry Mason)
1899-1986 - James
Cagney, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1912-2012 - Art
Linkletter, Saskatchewan, TV host (People are Funny)
1917-2012 - Phyllis Diller, comedienne and actress
1952-2011 - Phoebe Snow, singer (Theme from
"It's a Different World")
Historical
Obits Today
Walter
Cronkite, American broadcast journalist. 2009, @92
Mickey
Spillane, American author, 2006, @88
Dorothea
Dix, French social activist, 1887, @85
Ty Cobb,
baseball great (Det Tigers), cancer, 1961, @74
Adam
Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher, 1790, @67
Billie
Holiday, jazz singer, cirrhosis, 19959, @44
John
Coltrane, US jazz sax/composer, cancer, 1957, @40
Brain Teasers
Ilokano, Polynesia. The rest of the places are palindromes, like
her name.
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 §
