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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 236 / Week: 35
August Averages: 78° \ 50°
Today:
Average Sky Cover: 30%
H 68°… L 48°… Ave. humidity: 72%
Wind: ave: 7mph; Gusts: 15mph
Average High: 79° Record High: 91° (1985)
Average Low: 48° Record Low: 30° (1968)
Quote of the Day
Historical Highlights for Today
79 - Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die
1215 - Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid
1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed
1847 - Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre"
1853 - 1st potato chips prepared by chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY)
1909 - Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
1912 - NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US Olympians
1932 - 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
1995 - Windows 95 debuts
♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today below
My Rambling Thoughts
As promised by the weather guy, a great day here. Sunny, little wind, nice to sit on the deck and enjoy the day. Doors and windows open all day.
Not sure what is going on with my foot, it is a little sore today, but not the same pain, a new pain. Really boring. Had a good week with no pain, then back to a little limping. I see the Dr. on Thursday to get some damn answers.
Tonight our discussion group meets to talk about the Muslim movement in N. Africa. Some very interesting stuff about how Algeria, Tunisia and a few other countries are dealing with the beliefs, their governments, women’s rights, and democracy…or at least their attempt of at democracy. Should be a good discussion.
James Ray, the ‘guru’ who had a sweat lodge in Sedona that killed several followers back in 2009 has returned to AZ after his prison sentence. A couple of strange things, at least to me. First, he is holding a seminar in Phoenix that was mentioned on all the Phx news channels…with some kind of comment about ‘those who want to attend.’ Sounded like a free commercial. Second it turns out that to go to his seminar you must go on his website and pay some $300. After you pay, they will email you the address. And you have to agree not to divulge the location to anyone else. Only those paying can know where to go. There is a group of survivors and family of those lost who are trying to block him from doing his thing.
Game Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
What is half of 8,
yet isn't 2 x 2,
0 also isn't
what I'm looking for from you.
yet isn't 2 x 2,
0 also isn't
what I'm looking for from you.
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain :
Africa Facts…
The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
Brain Facts…
The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
Computer Facts…
IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of "actresses with beautiful eyes".
Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO
Hubble’s mule dropped a little black mule! Its first, a white one, did not survive. Science says that mules, a cross between horse and a donkey, can never reproduce. Hubble says she is not a jenny but a full-grown mule.
Harper’s Index
Percentage of US married men who say their spouses vote the same way they do: 73
Of US married women who say so: 49
Language Facts…
There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Rules of Thumb…
FEEDING SOLDIERS WITH SNAILS
Napoleon's troops carried canned snails as emergency rations. Their rule was: 1,000 snails per soldier per week.
Superstitions…
Placing keys on a table is considered unlucky. (Sweden)
Unusual Fact of the Day…
The average life span of a Major League Baseball is 7 pitches.
Joke-of-the-day
At a Catholic school, there was a "meet the teacher" open house for the 2nd graders. After the meeting, a Nun announced that there would be a small reception afterwards in the cafeteria. All the children and parents filed in, and saw on a table a plate of apples, a plate of cookies, and some water bottles and juice. As the children went through the line, one boy saw that there was a sign on the plate of apples that said, "Take only one. God is watching." So, the boy took an apple and moved on to the cookies. He helped himself, and then took a small piece of paper, and wrote: "Take all you want”. God is watching the apples."
Yeah, It Really Happened
A Croatian man known as "the Penis Collector" has been arrested for allegedly abusing his position as a hospital nurse to amass a large collection of human organs, taken from the bodies of dead patients.
The unnamed 52-year-old man, who worked as a registered nurse at a city hospital in Slavonski Brod, was arrested last week on charges of disturbing the deceased.
In his apartment, police found "glass jars" full of penises, preserved in formaldehyde. Presumably pickle jars.
"On behalf of all employees of the hospital, I have to say that we are very unpleasantly surprised by an event that threw a shadow over this hospital," a hospital spokesperson said. "Our apologies to families of the deceased."
According to reports, the suspect is "a family man" with no previous criminal record. It's not clear what led police to the man and his morbid collection. S
The unnamed 52-year-old man, who worked as a registered nurse at a city hospital in Slavonski Brod, was arrested last week on charges of disturbing the deceased.
In his apartment, police found "glass jars" full of penises, preserved in formaldehyde. Presumably pickle jars.
"On behalf of all employees of the hospital, I have to say that we are very unpleasantly surprised by an event that threw a shadow over this hospital," a hospital spokesperson said. "Our apologies to families of the deceased."
According to reports, the suspect is "a family man" with no previous criminal record. It's not clear what led police to the man and his morbid collection. S
Somewhat Useless Information
When you assert a truthfully alleged statement, do you articulate the statement itself or you add words like “true” or “fact”?
Well, according to the redundancy theory of truth, asserting that a statement is true is completely equivalent to asserting the statement itself. Truth is a redundant concept, according to rendundancy theorists.
Either you say “This car is red” or “it is true that this car is red” it is the same.
Frank P.Ramsey said that words like “fact” and “truth” are nothing but a roundabout way of asserting a proposition.
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In 1844, while Elias Howe was trying to create the first sewing machine, he forgot to register his own invention – a device for “closing” clothes, so he missed his chance to become the recognized ‘Father of the Zip.’
Many years later, Gideon Sundback, an electrical engineer, was hired to work for the Universal Fastener Company and by December of 1913 he became known as the man who designed the zipper.
Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
14-24
Little League Baseball World Series
18-24
23-31
National Safe at Home Week
Be Kind To Humankind Week
Be Kind To Humankind Week
Today Is
Go Topless Day
Knife Day
Pluto Demoted Day-2006
Vesuvius Day
Wayzgoose Day- traditional end of summer\start of the season of working by candlelight
William Wilberforce Day-Eng Politician, movement to end slavery
National Waffle Iron Day
Knife Day
Pluto Demoted Day-2006
Vesuvius Day
Wayzgoose Day- traditional end of summer\start of the season of working by candlelight
William Wilberforce Day-Eng Politician, movement to end slavery
National Waffle Iron Day
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Flag Day (Liberia-1967)
Independence Day (Ukraine-1991-from USSR)
Independence Day (Ukraine-1991-from USSR)
Today’s Events through History
1891 - Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
1929 - Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
1960 - -127°F (-88°C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
Birthday’s Today
Vince McMahon, professional wrestling promoter is 69
Mike Shanahan, football coach is 62
Mike Huckabee, politician, Governor/Presidential candidate is 59
Steve Guttenberg, Brooklyn, actor (Police Academy, Short Circuit) is 56
Cal Ripken, shortstop (Orioles, consecutive game streak) is 54
Marlee Matlin, deaf actress (Children of Lesser God-Acad Award) is 49
Reggie Miller, NBA guard (Ind Pacers, Oly-gold-96) is 49
Dave Chappelle, actor and Comedian is 41
Remembered for being born today
William Wilberforce, British politician, philanthropist (1759-1833)
Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review) (1872-1956)
Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaii, swimmer (Olympics-3 gold/2 silver) (1890-1968)
Yasser Arafat, Paris France, PLO-leader (Achille Lauro, Nobel 1994) (1929-2004)
Historical Obits Today
Julie Harris, actress, 2013, @87
Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), 1967, @85
E.G. Marshall, American actor, 1998, @84
Getulio D Vargas, President and dictator of Brazil, suicide1954, @71
Gary Crosby, singer/actor (Operation Bikini), cancer, 1995, @61
Brain Teasers
3. If you cut 8 in half down the middle vertically.
