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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 241
/ Week: 35
August
Averages: 78° \ 50°
Today:
Average Sky Cover: 2%
H 73°… L 52°… Ave. humidity: 69%
Wind: ave:
6mph;
Gusts: 17mph
Average High: 78° Record High: 91° (1948)
Average Low: 47°
Record Low: 37° (1956)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first
time
1533 - Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan
King of Peru, Atahualpa
1742 - Edmond Hoyle published his "Short
Treatise" on the card game whist
1758 - 1st State
Indian reservation, in Brotherton New Jersey, is established for the Lenni Lenape
1831 - Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric
transformer
1844 - 1st white-Indian lacrosse game in Montreal,
Indians win
1862 - US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins
operation
1883 - Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa
eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion
1889 - 1st American International professional lawn
tennis contest (Newport RI)
1896 - Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of
visiting Chinese Ambassador
1904 - 1st Olympics in US are held (St Louis)
1911 - Ishi, considered the last Native American to
make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of
northeastern California.
1945 - British liberate Hong Kong from Japan
1957 - Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr
filibuster against civil rights
1964 - Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the
U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than
1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage.
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
Good weather day. Had a nice lunch on a patio at one of our group’s
favorite local restaurants. Mary’s newly painted house looks very nice, good
contrast of colors. I had a new dish—Thai linguini with meatball. Very tasty. She
will enjoy it for years to come. Cheryl’s new roof and siding should start on
Tuesday. She is very excited as she has been waiting most of the summer to get
this scheduled. Williams is a really small town, and lots of people are fixing
up their homes.
This morning I saw the Dr. Good news…I guess. He now doesn’t
believe I have gout, nor have I ever had gout. He and his magic computer have
decided that this is another way angioedema professes itself. Really? Really!
Something about my uric acid is not high enough to be gout. And since there is
no other explanation, it must be the infamous angioedema. Next time I have “an
episode” I get to go back to trying prednisone to see if that fixes it. He also
gave me enough pain meds for the trip to Ireland, just in case. He keeps saying
that the pain meds will not fix the problem, just cover it up…so be careful as
it could be covering up something that needs medical attention. I told him I
just didn’t want to be unable to walk around while in Ireland. He said, well,
as your physician, the pain pills are to help you sleep, not to help you walk.
Fine…whatever floats his boat. I’m ready to head for the Emerald Isle. He also
has me taking Zantac along with the Allegra, saying that one blocks one kind of
histamine and the other blocks a different histamine, either or both of which could
cause the angioedema. As a youngster, I suffered from what was called ‘hay
fever’—itchy eyes, runny nose, headaches. Somehow the histamines that caused
those bothersome symptoms have now grown up and are attacking other parts of
the body…lips, mouth, wrist, and now top of the foot…not the joints, just the
top and side of the right foot…not the left foot, just the right foot. Crazy.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Can
you decipher the following common phrase?
T M C
A U O
H S M
W T E
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain :
Brain
Facts…
Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water
or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the
brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
Computer
Facts…
There's a video game called "Lose/Lose" that deletes a
random file on your computer every time you kill an enemy.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
From 1889: The
national government has this year appropriated $38,150 toward defraying the
expenses of the territorial government, exclusive of the appropriation to the
Marshall’s Office. This represents the amount the Territory would have to pay
if it were a state. We have not the people nor the taxable property to uphold a
state government.
Fun
Facts…
In 2001, the island country of Niue featured Pikachu and other Pokémon
on their currency.
Harper’s
Index
Percentage change since 2004 in the total membership of the World
Clown Association: -30
Language
Facts…
Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from
"God be with you."
Rules of
Thumb…
JOB INTERVIEWING
During a job
interview, never spend more than 60 seconds answering a question.
Superstitions…
The superstitious symbolism of a black cat crossing one's path is
dependent upon culture: some cultures consider this a sign of impending bad
luck, while some cultures consider this a sign of impending good luck.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Why
do angelfish feel safe inside the mouths of hammerhead sharks? They share a
symbiotic relationship as natural toothpicks, picking out parasites from
between the shark's teeth.
Joke-of-the-day
“How are you
getting on with your exams?”
“Not bad. The
questions are easy enough – it’s the answers I have trouble with!”
Yeah, It
Really Happened
PORTSMOUTH, England (UPI) - A horrified woman in England
discovered a dead mouse in a box Kellogg's Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, prompting
her to swear off the brand forever. Fifty-year-old Pauline Henderson was only
trying to serve breakfast to her grandson, Toby, when she noticed something
much different than a prize fall from a freshly-unsealed box of cereal.
"In the morning I poured some into a bowl for him and noticed something
black covered in the cornflakes," Henderson told the Daily Mirror.
"Then I saw the mouse. It was horrible and I felt absolutely sick ...
Goodness knows how long the mouse was in the box or if it was dead or alive
when it went in." Kellogg's in investigating the incident, and says this
is a first for the popular cereal manufacturer. "We are carrying out a
full investigation to identify if and how this occurred as it hasn't happened
before," a spokesperson said, adding, "We take food safety extremely
seriously and carry out regular quality checks in our factories."
Kellogg's offered to replace the box, but Henderson said she'll pass. "I
spoke to Kellogg's and they asked me if I wanted another box and I said 'no I
do not' ... It's put me off buying any Crunchy Nut ever again."
Somewhat
Useless Information
The
smallest dog on record was a matchbox-size Yorkshire Terrier. It was 2.5"
tall at the shoulder, 3.5" from nose tip to tail, and weighed only 4
ounces.
Zorba, an English mastiff, is the biggest dog ever recorded. He weighed 343
pounds and measured 8' 3" from his nose to his tail.
***
Dogs
can smell about 1,000 times better than humans. While humans have 5 million
smell-detecting cells, dogs have more than 220 million. The part of the brain
that interprets smell is also four times larger in dogs than in humans.
Dogs like sweets a lot more than cats do. While cats have around only 473 taste
buds, dogs have about 1,700 taste buds. Humans have approximately 9,000.
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
24-30
National Chuck Wagon Races
National Safe at Home Week
Be Kind To Humankind Week
Today
Is
According to Hoyle Day-1742
Individual Rights Day
International Bat Night:
29-31
More Herbs, Less Salt Day
National College Colors Day
Today’s
Events through History
1708 - Haverhill, Mass, destroyed by French &
Indians
1898 - The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1914 - Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in SF via
Panama Canal
1965 - Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120
Earth orbits in Gemini 5
2012 - The USADA claims to have stripped Lance
Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles
Birthday’s
Today
William Friedkin, director/producer/writer
(The Exorcist, French Connection) is 78
John McCain, Arizona
Senator/presidential candidate is 78
Elliott Gould, Queens, actor
(M*A*S*H, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice) is 75
Robin Leach, London, TV host
(Life Styles of Rich & Famous) is 73
Remembered
for being born today
John Locke, empiricist
philosopher; disproved substance (1632-1704)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician/author
(Old Ironsides) (1908-1894)
Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor
(auto self-starter) (1876-1958)
Barry Sullivan, actor (Man Called X)
(1912-1994)
Ingrid Bergman, Stockholm, actress
(Casablanca) (1915-1982)
George Montgomery, actor (Battle of
Bulge) (1916-2000)
Charlie
"Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist (1920-1955)
Mr. Blackwell, American fashion
critic (1922-2008)
Richard Attenborough, actor/director
(Gandhi, Young Winston) (1923-2014)
Dinah Washington, Chicago, singer
(What a Difference a Day Makes) (1924-1963)
James Brady, press secretary
(wounded) (1940-2014)
Michael Jackson, recording artist\King
of Pop (Thriller, Bad), (1958-2009)
Historical
Obits Today
Edmond
Hoyle, games expert, 1769, @97ish
Lowell
Thomas, newscaster (High Adventure), 1981, @89
Edmund
Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers, 1844, @82
Brigham
Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, peritonitis, 1877, @76
Ingrid
Bergman, Swedish actress, cancer, 1982, on 67th birthday
David
Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder, 1931, @64
Lee
Marvin, actor (Cat Ballou), heart attack, 1987, @63
Richard
Jewell, (1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing), 2007, diabetes, @44
Brain Teasers
What goes up must come down.
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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