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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 210/
Week: 31
July
Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average
Sky Cover: 65%
H 73°… L 55 °… Ave. humidity: 59%
Wind: ave: 4mph;
Gusts: 15mph
Average High: 82° Record High: 92° (2002)
Average Low: 51°
Record Low: 37° (1913)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1567 - James VI is crowned King of Scots at
Stirling.
1676 - Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for
assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
1773 - 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns
completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
1786 - 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies,
Pitts Gazette
1836 - Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - in
Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down
by police.
1899 - 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY
1920 - Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
1927 - 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital,
NY)
1928 - Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie"
is released
1938 - Comic strip "Dennis the Menace,"
1st appears
1938 - Olympic National Park forms
1948 - King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic
games in London
1957 - International Atomic Energy Agency forms by
UN
1958 - Eisenhower signs into law National
Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
1970 - 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct
1974 - Episcopal Church ordained female priests
1984 - 23rd Summer Olympics opens in LA
1995 - Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her
return to tennis
1996 - The controversial child protection portion of
the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a U.S.
federal court.
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
A little cloudy today, but stayed nice most of the day. Not too
hot, which is nice for a change. We had rain last night and it looks like more
will be coming in this afternoon or tomorrow. We are under a flash flood watch
all day and into the night….9pm. Sure glad I don’t live in the path of most
runoff from the mountain.
A little tit for tat with my insurance carrier. My Dr. increased
one of my meds to prevent another attack of gout. After being on a low dose for
a couple of weeks, with no side effects he raised the script to 2 pills a day.
Even gave me a new script. So today I took it in to get it filled. BC said I
couldn’t renew it until Friday. Yes it was the same med and the same 100mg, but
changed to 2 pills/day. I called them from the pharmacy…that goodness for cell
phones. First call got transferred to another person, Vicky, who had me on the
phone for about 5 minutes then disconnected me. Called back and the idiot
listened to my story after reading him all my personal information, and said
the computer refused it because it was the same script. I told him it was for a
different amount and he says the pharmacy has to call BC to get it worked out.
I asked to speak to his supervisor. Retold my story, in a rather frustrated
manner. He said the guy was wrong, BC would call the pharmacy and he would it
while I am on hold. He did, the pharmacy tech saw me sitting in the waiting
area on the phone, smiled and said, ‘hmmm, your script was approved and will be
ready in 5 minutes.’ Turned out good, but no one should have to deal with
computer hassles like this.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
What
different species of one animal is represented in the following phrases?
Source of paper
A male cow
A short African.
A male cow
A short African.
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Portion
of poor and affluent men, respectively, who favor raising the minimum wage to
$15 an hour: 72, 35
Of
poor and affluent women: 69, 67
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Sorry, guys. While females are the ones who carry the gene for
Hemophilia (a disease where the blood doesn't clot), except in the rarest of
cases, only males manifest the disease.
Earth
Facts…
The Earth’s atmosphere is composed mainly of nitrogen (78%),
oxygen (21%), argon (.93%), and carbon dioxide (0.03%).
Common
Sayings from the Bible…
The writing on the wall
In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace
Daniel 5:5-6
In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace
Daniel 5:5-6
World
Heritage Sites…
Argentina-Iguazu National Park
The semicircular waterfall at the heart of this site is some 80 m
high and 2,700 m in diameter and is situated on a basaltic line spanning the
border between Argentina and Brazil. Made up of many cascades producing vast
sprays of water, it is one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world. The
surrounding subtropical rainforest has over 2,000 species of vascular plants
and is home to the typical wildlife of the region: tapirs, giant anteaters,
howler monkeys, ocelots, jaguars and caymans.
People
Facts…
A man is more likely to get a woman's phone number if he is
accompanied by a dog.
Historical
Facts…
There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich
Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
Retro
Native Humor…
The cowboy was trying to buy a health
insurance policy. The insurance agent was going down the list of standard
questions.
"Ever have an accident?"
"Nope, nary a one."
"None? You've never had any accidents."
"Nope. Ain't never had one. Never."
"Well, you said on this form you were bit by a snake once. Wouldn't you consider that an accident?"
"Heck, no. That dang varmint bit me on purpose."
"Ever have an accident?"
"Nope, nary a one."
"None? You've never had any accidents."
"Nope. Ain't never had one. Never."
"Well, you said on this form you were bit by a snake once. Wouldn't you consider that an accident?"
"Heck, no. That dang varmint bit me on purpose."
Common
Phrase Origins…
Rub the
Wrong Way
Meaning: To
irritate, bother, or annoy someone
History: In
colonial America, servants were required to wet-rub and dry-rub the oak-board
floors each week. Doing it against the grain caused streaks to form, making the
wood look awful and irritating the homeowner.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 years ago
The remodeling at the Monte Vista is complete. The corner
room formerly occupied by the Chamber of Commerce is now an enlarged buffet and
bar with new leather-and-chrome booth seats and tables. The barbershop has
moved to the former buffet room and the Chamber of Commerce is now located on
the mezzanine.
**
Our continuing drought shows our need for additional water
storage. A report by Councilman John Babbitt gives consumption at almost
2 million gallons per day.
**
Pearson & Dickerson Inc. of Prescott and Tucson have finished
laying 86 blocks of paving. Only a few odds and ends work of remain undone.
Joke-of-the-day
A doctor worked
on the tenth floor of an office building. In the building was a pub, where the
doctor had a lemon daiquiri, every day at quitting time. The bartender's name
was Dick.
One dyadic found
out he didn't have any lemons and no time to get any. So he thought he would
make up a hickory daiquiri instead and at the end of the day, the doctor would
be too tired to notice.
The doctor sat
down, took a sip and said "This isn't a lemon daiquiri, Dick!"...To
which Dick replied, "No, it’s a hickory daiquiri, Doc!"
Rules of
Thumb:
EDITING A MAGAZINE
Three pages of
manuscript can be edited into one magazine column without anyone, not even the
author, noticing that 20 percent of the words are gone.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
MYRTLE BEACH, Fla. (UPI) - In order to help promote cancer
awareness, a minor league general manager has agreed to get a prostate exam
during the seventh-inning stretch of an upcoming game. To make things even more
interesting, Andy Milovich will have the exam performed while he is singing
"Take Me Out To The Ball Game." Milovich, the GM of the Myrtle Beach
Pelicans, will undergo the examination during the Pelicans game on Thursday on
one condition. He wants the Facebook page of 10-year-old Fallon Emery, a local
girl who has brain cancer, to get 10,000 "likes" before the game. The
page had over 8,800 likes as of Monday morning. The Pelicans are the Single-A
affiliate of the Texas Rangers. "If what we do saves a kid from having to
lose his or her father because they get checked out, this will be worth
it," Milovich told ESPN. In addition to the stunt, the club will also be
handing out 1,000 foam fingers with blue ribbons on them. "It's not like I
would be getting it at home plate," Milovich said. "I'll likely do it
from our radio booth and the fans will see me from the shoulder up."
Somewhat
Useless Information
Did
you know that the first lip balms were introduced in the 1880s
by Charles Browne Fleet?
The
purpose of lip balm is to provide layer on the lip surface and protect from
external exposure.
However,
the origins of lip balm are traced to earwax, which was used as lip
balm prior to that!
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
30-8/3
Today
Is
Today’s
Events through History
1609 - Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills
two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York setting the stage for
French-Iroquois conflicts for the next 150 years
1920 - 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY
to SF
1956 - 11th US Women's Open Golf Championship won
by Kathy Cornelius
1978 - 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock
festival, Watkins Glen, NY
Birthday’s
Today
"Professor"
Irwin Corey, comedian (Car Wash) is 99
Robert
Horton, actor (Wagon Train) is 90
Robert
Fuller, actor (Laramie, Wagon Train) is 80
Elizabeth
Hanford Dole, US Secretary of Transportation is 78
Marilyn
Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of VP Dan Quayle is 65
Ken Burns [Kenneth
Lauren], director\producer (The Civil War, Baseball) is 61
Tim Gunn,
American television personality is 61
Wil
Wheaton, actor (Star Trek Next Generation-Wesley, Stand By Me) is
42
Remembered
for being born today
Alexis de
Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (1805-1859)
Alica
Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt (1861-1884)
Benito
Mussolini, [Il Duce], Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43), (1883-1945)
Clara Bow, silent
screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid), (1905-1965)
Dag
Hammarskjoeld, Sweden, 2nd UN Sect-General (Nobel) (1905-1961)
Melvin
Mouron Belli, lawyer (SF's "King of Torts") (1907-1996)
Peter
Jennings, Toronto, news anchor (ABC Evening News) (1938-2005)
Elizabeth
Short, victim in the Black Dahlia case (1924-1947)
Historical
Obits Today
Raymond
Massey, actor (Dr Kildare), 1983, @86
Edward
Gailliard, Flemish language/archaeologist, 1922, @81
David
Niven, actor (Rugues), digestive problem, 1983, @73
Vincent
van Gogh, painter, suicide?, 1890, @37
Cass
Elliot, singer (Mamas & Papas), heart attack, 1974, @32
Brain
Teasers
Frogs.
Tree frog. Bull frog, and African dwarf frog.
Tree frog. Bull frog, and African dwarf frog.
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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