July 28

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Flagstaff Almanac

Week: 30 Day:  210

Today: High   77°…Low 57° Averages: High   80°…Low 52°

Records: High   93°(1947)…Low 36°(1913)

Wind:  10 mph;  Gusts: 16mph

Big Afternoon Rain  Today’s humidity:  40%

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights

2005 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed

            campaign in Northern Ireland

1994 - Last steel beam is placed on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

1984 - 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles…and I was there!

1977 - 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska

1965 - LBJ sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam (total of 125,000)

1933 - 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC

1931 - Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem

1928 - 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam

1914 - Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox)

1868 - 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves

1866 - Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US

1858 - 1st use of fingerprints as a means of identification

1858 - Nadar takes 1st airborne photo (in a balloon)

♪Happy Birthday To: ♪ 

                   

 

Free Rambling Thoughts   

The day started out a little cloudy, then about 1pm raindrops started falling. By 1:15 we had a full blown lightning, loud crackling thunder, and rainstorm that lasted about 2 hours. So good for the forest, so nice for Flagstaff. There might have been some street flooding, but that was about it. I’m glad I took my walk in the cloudy morning…otherwise it wouldn’t have gotten done.

I’m all set to watch the opening ceremonies on TV tonight. I probably should have looked for a live feed somewhere on my computer or my phone, but I decided I wanted to watch them after dark. Should be a good show, no matter what Romney says. The march in is always enjoyable, as each country’s athletes carry their flag. After they are all in, the show and lighting of the torch is always exciting. Let the games begin.

I worked on my photos again today…good news, I’m almost ready to make the movies…bad news, I have to find a way to divide them up…right now, at 4 seconds/photo the movie is over 20 minutes. That is way too long for one sitting. So I’m looking at doing a four-parter, which will be better for viewing. The question remains, how to divide it. Since I saw so many animals and have so many shots, I really don’t want to put all the elephant shots together, or all the lion shots together as we saw them at so many different locations. I am also amazed at how patient we all were on the day drives. We might sit in an area for twenty or thirty minutes to see what was going to happen. This led to more shots of animals, especially the cats, who slowly moved and gave some very interesting pictures. Probably will post the animal shots tomorrow.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)

What is the answer?

What do the following words have in common?TO  BACK  OFF  SQUARE  SAIL

5X5 Word Boxes

The answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc. Can you solve these Word Boxes? Each answer is 5 letters.

1.      fumble
2.      of the moon
3.      all-American Sam
4.      lie descriptor
5.      released
Hint:  upper left to lower right letters are F-U-C-S-D

Lifestyle  Substance     

Do you remember this?

Do you know what this word means?

               Tittle

My Latest Adventure—

Folk Rock of the 1960’s

• The Byrds:
"Mr. Tambourine Man." The mid-1965 #1 hit single that truly made folk-rock a phenomenon, socially, artistically, and commercially. The ideal combination of the Beatles and Bob Dylan.

• Bob Dylan:
"Like a Rolling Stone" The biggest and hardest-rocking hit by folk-rock's most noted (and covered) songwriter.

• The Byrds:
"Turn! Turn! Turn!" Another #1 single by the Byrds. A cover of a Pete Seeger song that was the ideal marriage of rock with a progressive social conscience. The song that, as the critical phrase went, rocked the Bible and got away with it.

• Simon & Garfunkel:
"The Sound of Silence" Not just Paul Simon's first great song, but the most canny realization of how a good acoustic folk song could be made over into an electric folk-rock hit, in this case through the literal overdubbing of electric instruments onto an acoustic recording.

Harper’s Index         

Percentage of Black Americans who believe in God: 80Percentage of Jewish Americans: 27

Found on You Tube 

Survival (London Olympics 2012 official song)      

Joke-of-the-day

When Albert Einstein was making the rounds of the speaker's circuit, he usually found himself eagerly longing to get back to his laboratory work. One night as they were driving to yet another rubber-chicken dinner, Einstein mentioned to his chauffeur (a man who somewhat resembled Einstein in looks & manner) that he was tired of speechmaking.
"I have an idea, boss," his chauffeur said. "I've heard you give this speech so many times. I'll bet I could give it for you." Einstein laughed loudly and said, "Why not? Let's do it!" When they arrive at the dinner, Einstein donned the chauffeur's cap and jacket and sat in the back of the room. The chauffeur gave a beautiful rendition of Einstein's speech and even answered a few questions expertly.
Then a supremely pompous professor asked an extremely esoteric question about anti-matter formation, digressing here and there to let everyone in the audience know that he was nobody's fool. Without missing a beat, the chauffeur fixed the professor with a steely stare and said, "Sir, the answer to that question is so simple that I will let my chauffeur, who is sitting in the back, answer it for me."

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

If you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.

Yeah, It Really Happened

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - A Fort Wayne, Ind., father pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated, with four young children strapped to the hood of his car. Aaron Stefanski, 29, pleaded guilty Monday to three counts of neglect of a dependent and one charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, The (Fort Wayne) Journal Gazette reported. A storeowner called 911 earlier this year after seeing Stefanski and Jessica Clark secure their kids to the hood of his car using yellow tow straps. The responding officers caught Stefanski driving with his 4- and 5-year-old sons, his 6-year-old daughter and Clark's 7-year-old daughter strapped to the hood. When they stopped him, officers smelled alcohol on his breath. When asked why he strapped the children to the hood, court documents show Stefanski told officers: "I was only going to drive around the corner. I thought they would like it." Stefanski's blood alcohol content was 0.17, more than twice the legal limit. Clark has been charged with neglect of a dependent and her trial date is scheduled for next month. Stefanski's children were released into the custody of their mother. He will have supervised visitation and will be required to attend parenting classes.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• In September 2006, Chris Carr became "the fastest man on two wheels" when he pushed a specially equipped motorcycle to a record speed of 350.884 mph at the wide-open Bonneville Speedway.

• In 1921, Leslie "Red" Parkhurst steered a Harley-Davidson racing motorcycle to victory in several races, breaking several speed records along the way. He carried the team mascot - a pig - around the track on victory laps, a stunt that led to Harleys being commonly referred to as "Hogs."

• The first working airplane engine wasn't an airplane engine at all but a motorcycle engine. The Flyer I, piloted by the Wright Brothers in their famous 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, was powered by a 12-horsepower, chain-driven bike motor.

• Accounts vary greatly as to the cause of (and severity of) Bob Dylan's famous motorcycle accident on July 29, 1966, but the event undoubtedly had a profound effect on his songwriting and his playing. Some music historians believe that he used the occurrence as an excuse to take a much-needed break from his grueling schedule.

• Though their vulnerability makes them nearly useless today, armed forces made good use of motorcycles during the first half of the twentieth century. Harley-Davidson, Indian, and Triumph combined to produce more than 150,000 cycles for Allied military use during World War II, while BMW and other makers produced a smaller number of bikes for the Axis.

• A national group known as ABATE, American Bikers Aimed Toward Education, have long held the stance that helmet laws should not be made mandatory. Their slogan is: "Let those who ride decide."

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

27-29 

Garlic Days
World Lumberjack Championships

Single Working Women's Week

Today Is                                                                      

Buffalo Soldiers Day

National Chili Dog Day

National Dance Day

National Day of the Cowboy

National Milk Chocolate Day

Paddle for Perthes Disease Awareness Day (the ball of the thighbone in the hip doesn't get enough blood, causing the bone to die)

World Hepatitis Day

Peru: Independence Day (1821-from Spain)  

Today’s Events Through History  

2000’s

2005 - A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, 

            causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people

2002 - Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County,

            Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground

1900’s

1996 - NY Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th HR

1973 - Skylab 3's astronauts (Bean, Garriott & Lousma) launched

1951 - Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released

1933 - Spain recognizes the USSR 1945 - US Senate ratifies UN charter 89-2

1915 - 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting lynchings

1915 - US forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924

1900 - Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut

1800’s

1896 - City of Miami incorporated

1883 - Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 

            houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000

1872 - Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie and twelve officers and 272 enlisted men begin

            an extended patrol of the area surrounding the Texas Panhandle. They include

            twenty Tonkawa scouts. They are looking for renegade Indians.

1862 - Fort Bowie is established in the Apache Pass, in southeastern Arizona, by 

            members of Brigadier General James Charlatan's California volunteers

1851 - Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph

1500’s

1588 - Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I

1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe

1540 - English King Henry VIII marries Catharine Howard, his 5th wife

1100’s

1148 - Crusaders attack Damascus

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 60’s

Vida Blue, major-league pitcher (Cy Young & AL MVP 1971) is 63

Bill Bradley, Crystal City Ms, Basketball (NY Knicks), US Senator (1979-1997) is 69

Georgia Engel, actress (Georgette-Mary Tyler Moore Show) will be 64

Linda Kelsey, Minneapolis, actress (Billie-Lou Grant, Kate-Day by Day) is 66

Sally Struthers, actress (Gloria-All in the Family) is 64

In their 70’s

Phil Proctor, comedian (Firesign Theater) is 72

In their 80’s

Darryl Hickman, actor (Human Comedy, Tea & Sympathy, Dobie Gillis) is 81

Remembered for being born today

Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic/philosopher - 1165

Joe E Brown, Holgate Ohio, comedian (Buck Circus Hour) - 1891

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, NY, 1st lady (1961-63) - 1929

Beatrix Potter, England, children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit) - 1866

Earl S Tupper, inventor (Tupperware) - 1907

Rudy Vallee, Vt, singer (Vagabond Dreams, My Time Is Your Time) - 1901

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue), dies of stroke and 

           pneumonia in 1750 at 65

Ivy Bean, English internet celebrity dies in 2010 at 104

Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed in 1540 at 55

Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies of tertiary syphilis in 1655 at 36

Friedrich Kaiser, astronomer (Kaiser-Compass), dies in 1872 at 64

William J Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder Mayo Clinic, dies  of stomach cancer

           in 1939 at 78

Charles W Mayo, US surgeon, dies in 1968 at 70

Maximilien Robespierre, Fr revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined in 1794 at 36

Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism, dies in 1655 at 76

Grant Williams, actor (Shrinking Man), dies of toxic poisoning, in 1985 at 53

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

A tittle is the dot of the lower case ‘I’ or ‘j’

What is the answer?

Each can be preceded by SET to make a new word or phraseSET TO,  SETBACK,  SET OFF,  SET SQUARE,  SET SAIL

5X5 boxes

FLUFF

LUNAR

UNCLE

FALSE

FREED

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.

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July 27

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Flagstaff Almanac

Week: 30 Day:  209

Today: High   81°…Low 55° Averages: High   81°…Low 52°

Records: High   92 (1935)°…Low 40° (1913)

Wind:  7 mph;  Gusts: 19mph

Afternoon Rain  Today’s humidity: 28%

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights

 2007 - Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix 

1991 - TV Guide publishes its 2000th edition

1986 - Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France

1967 - LBJ sets up commission to study cause of urban violence

1954 - Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries

1931 - Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr & SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops

1865 - Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina

1789 - Congress establishes Dept of Foreign Affairs (State dept)

1689 - Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie

♪Happy Birthday To: ♪ 

                   

 

Free Rambling Thoughts   

Our retirement group met today with a teacher still at TCBS and her daughter who lives in Mexico. They are starting back next week. I heard some of the gossip of TC and the boarding school…so nice to be removed from all that. We also caught up on some former students. Dawn was visiting from Mexico and always nice to hear her stories. Turns out, if I do the Mexico trip with Bob, our train will rumble through and stop in the town where she lives. She was really excited to think that she might be getting American visitors. Maybe it will work out.

I spent more time with my photos today, and got a whole bunch of pictures for the contest. We all took lots of pictures and I’m really glad the contest only has each person sending ONE picture for each of the categories. I’m still looking for my best pictures.

The Indian Child Welfare Act is back in the news. This time a couple from S. Carolina adopted a mixed race child from a white mother and part Cherokee father. The father had not been in the picture, but the adoption needed his consent, which he gave, the rescinded. Because the child is a member of the Cherokee Tribe, the father was given custody. The non-Indian adoptive parents had raised the girl for two years, taking her home from the hospital with the birth mother’s blessing. I’m sure the biological father was prodded by tribal politics to rescind his decision to give up his parental rights. As an adoptee, I feel for the adoptive parents, as my parents spent my first couple of years fearing that my adoption might go through. Paperwork always takes time. After working on the Rez in AZ I also understand a little bit about off reservation adoptions. The CNN story was told from the adoptive parent’s side…but that is their audience. Maybe some Native press will also pick up the other side of the story.

Romney is on his first International visit. He picked London, at the opening of the Olympics. He was after all the head of the SLC Olympic Games. Sadly, he put his foot in his mouth at least three times on his first day there. He wasn’t sure the London team was prepared for the games…ouch! He used the wrong title for the head of the opposition party…ouch! Then he commented on meeting with the head of MI-6 (the UK’s CIA). The problem is, the UK doesn’t talk publically about that group, and certainly not about its head. Ouch! Everyone makes mistakes in foreign countries, but as the potential leader of the free world, it would seem that Romney would have better people telling him what to talk about…like Mr. Romney, no sour grapes on the Olympics.  The US needs to be friendly to our long time friends and not make them upset…wonder what he would say if he was visiting a country that doesn’t speak English?

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)

What is the answer?

Replace the asterisks by the correct mathematical signs to make the expression equal to 99.

16 * 12 * 2 * 3 = 99

5X5 Word Boxes

The answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc. Can you solve these Word Boxes? Each answer is 5 letters.

1.      happiness
2.      solar emission
3.      dome home
4.      assemble
5.      take possession illegally
HINT: upper left to lower right letters are: B-I-L-A-E

Lifestyle  Substance     

Do you remember this?

My Latest Adventure—

One Hit Wonders of the 1960’s

• Keem-O-Sabe
…The Electric Indian…1969

• My Pledge Of Love
…Joe Jeffery Group…1969

• Baby, It’s You
…Smith…1969

• You, I
…The Rugbys…1969

Harper’s Index         

Minimum number of luxury hotels slated to open in Rwanda in the next year: 2

Found on You Tube 

Deep Inside the TITANIC       

Joke-of-the-day

A police officer in a small town stopped a motorist who was speeding down Main Street.
 "But officer." the man began, "I can explain,".
 "Just be quiet," snapped the officer. "I'm going to let you cool your heels in jail until the chief gets back..."
 "But officer, I just wanted to say...."
 "And I said to keep quiet! You're going to jail!"
 A few hours later the officer looked in on his prisoner and said, "Lucky for you that the chief is at his daughter's wedding. He'll be in a good mood when he gets back."
 "Don't count on it," answered the fellow in the cell. "I'm the groom." 

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

Science fiction books with green covers don't sell as well as those with blue covers.

Yeah, It Really Happened

SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah wildlife official said the mysterious "goat man" photographed crawling near some goats was a California hunter testing out a goat stalking disguise. Phil Douglass, conservation outreach manager for the Division of Wildlife Resources, said he was contacted recently by a 57-year-old California man who revealed he had donned a goat suit July 15 and appeared in Coty Creighton's photograph near Ben Lomond Peak just north of Ogden, the Ogden Standard-Examiner reported Tuesday. Douglass said the man, who did not give his name, gave information substantiating his claims and said he was testing out the goat suit for an upcoming hunting trip. "He gave me details that convinced me it was him," Douglass said. "I'm satisfied that this was a person preparing for a hunt and did it with knowledge and experience." Creighton said he had enjoyed the mystery about the goat man's identity. "I thought I wanted answers, but I was naive. I should have left well enough alone. Now I just want the mystery back," he said.                 

Somewhat Useless Information   

• Before McDonald's made him a multimillionaire, Ray Kroc failed selling real estate in Florida in his 20s. Fifty years later, his wealth allowed him to purchase a huge mansion in the state. He topped it off by having electricians install a special doorbell chime that played the jingle "You Deserve a Break Today."

• The Filet-o-Fish was created in 1962 by McDonald's franchiser Lou Groen, who was frustrated with losing Catholic customers to rival Big Boy, whose fish sandwiches sold very well on those days when no meat was eaten.

• McDonald's Corporation founder Ray Kroc didn't think the Filet-o-Fish would be a success, so he came up with his own meatless sandwich called the Hula Burger, which was just a slice of pineapple on a bun. The two sandwiches went head-to-head at a Chicago McDonald's on Good Friday, and the Filet became a regular menu item after winning in a landslide.

• In the 2004 motion picture Super Size Me, a succession of women interviewed for the documentary failed to properly recite the Pledge of Allegiance, but all could remember the Big Mac ingredient jingle, which was "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun."

• Time magazine revealed that McDonald's restaurants stopped updating their "more than XX billions served" signs after they topped the 100 billion mark on April 14, 1994. Many of those signs have since been replaced with static ones reading "billions and billions served."

• Dan Coudreaut became head chef at McDonald's in 2004. He's the man responsible for whittling down several hundred suggestions and ideas into a handful of potential new menu items that are introduced in the chain's restaurants around the world.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

27-29 

Garlic Days
World Lumberjack Championships

Single Working Women's Week

Today Is                                                                      

Barbie-in-a-blender Day

National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day

National Talk in An Elevator Day

System Administrator Appreciation Day

Take Your Houseplant For A Walk Day

Walk on Stilts Day  

Today’s Events Through History  

2000’s

2002 - Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.

1900’s

1993 - NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million

1988 - Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer

1987 - First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreckage begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.

1977 - John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US

1962 - Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia

1960 - VP Nixon nominated for presidential candidate at Republican convention in Chicago

1955 - Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation

1949 - 1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies

1940 - Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts

1940 - Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare"

1935 - Floods at Yangtzee Jiang & Hoangh, kills 200,000

1924 - 8th Olympic games closes in Paris

1919 - Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)

1918 - Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY

1800’s

1880 - A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil

1844 - Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, NC

1837 - US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC

1816 - US troops destroy Ft Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves

1700’s

1757 - Ottawa warriors and a few French soldiers attack a group of twenty-two barges commanded by British Lieutenant Colonel John Parker on Lake George in New York. The British forces have 160 men killed, and almost 150 men captured. Only two of the barges escape the fighting.

1755 - Indians attack the settlers at Fort Sartwell in Vernon, Connecticut.

1600’s

1643 - Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough

1500’s

1586 - Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia

1501 - Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral

1200’s

1280 - Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 40’s

Sasha Mitchell, actor is 45

Maya Rudolph,  American actress and comedian (SNL) is 40

In their 50’s

Daniel C Burbank, Manchester Ct, Lt cmdr USCG/astronaut is 51

Bill Engvall, stand-up comic is 55

In their 60’s

Peggy Fleming Jenkins, San Jose California, figure skater (Olym-gold-1968) is 64

Maureen McGovern, Youngstown Oh, singer (Got To Be a Morning After) is 63

Betty Thomas, St Louis Mo, actress (Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues) is 64

In their 80’s

Jerry Van Dyke, Danville Ill, actor (My Mother the Car, Coach) is 81

In their 90’s

Norman Lear, TV writer/producer (All in The Family) is 90

Remembered for being born today

Thomas George Bonney, English geologist - 1833

Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate - 1835

Donald Crisp, Scotland, actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana) - 1882

Leo Durocher, Mass, baseball manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants) - 1905

Nick Reynolds, rocker (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons) - 1933

Amha Selassie, Crown prince of Ethiopia/son of emperor Haile Selassi - 1916

Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Lombardy, Italian duke of Milan (1494-1508), (commissioned The Last Supper) - 1452

Kennan Wynn, NYC, actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor) - 1916

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Bobby Day, rocker (Rockin' Robin), dies of cancer in 1990 at 58

King James I of Aragon dies in 1276 at 68

Bob Hope, English-born entertainer dies in 2003 at 100

James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer dies in 1962 at 67

James Mason, British actor (Lolita), dies of a heart attack in 1984 at 75

Gertrude Stein, US/Fren author/poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies of cancer in 1946 at 72

Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter (portraitists), dies in 1828 at 72

Answers                                                                                                                                            

What is the answer?

16 x 12 ÷ 2 + 3 = 99

5X5 boxes

BLISS

LIGHT

IGLOO

SHOAL

STOLE

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.

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