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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 06/ Day: 37
Today: H 53°…L 18°
Averages: H 44° L 18° Records: H 67°(1963)…L -21°(1985)
Wind: ave: 11mph; Gusts: 12mph Ave. humidity: 64%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
"Monopoly" board game goes on sale
for 1st time—1935
10th Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoble, France—1968
1st appearance of cholera at Edinburgh,
Scotland—1832
1st old-age home opened in Prescott, Ariz—1911
1st time a golf ball is hit on Moon (by Alan
Shepard) —1971
20th amendment (terms of office) passed—1933
4th Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
Germany—1936
-90°F (-68°C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)
—1933
Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m,
in Pacific hurricane—1933
Queen Elizabeth II marks her 60th anniversary
of becoming Britain's
Monarch becoming only the second to do so—2012
Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald
Reagan National Airport—1998
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♪ Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts:
I good Tuesday. Weather was nice enough for a walk. Did some laundry. Set up some auto pays…when I travel I always seem to mess up some payments so might as well let it become automatic. The good thing is I can put it on a credit card so if there is a dispute, I have a month to fix it. Only the phone company will not accept credit cards on their auto pay. Seems a little strange.Cheryl is ready for her eye surgery tomorrow, and is in good spirits. It’s amazing what can be done in today’s world of medicine, but that doesn’t make one more anxious when it is your body, or a friend’s body going through it. Mary is doing well, and may have found a house in Phx. She put in a bid yesterday but said they really low balled it to see what would happen. She’s OK if they don’t get it, but would really like to get it done.I have seen firsthand how security has changed in airports. Now I hear about the drones that can be used to kill Americans who may be somehow connected to terrorists. The volunteer army, the use of drones being controlled thousands of miles from the target and other investments war technology have made wars seem even more distant. This means that Americans don’t get so upset as they did during Viet Nam because we have an all volunteer military and fewer American soldiers are being killed. We never hear about how many innocent civilians are killed in any of our ‘strikes’. We never see the devastation of war on these foreign countries. A sad state for all Americans, and a sad state for the world.
Game
Center: (answers at the end of post)
Hidden Word
Find a hidden word in the sentence
I'll take the fast route north.
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today:
Ok, then?
Read This Carefully!!
In a Veterinarian's waiting
room:
"Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!"
Picture of the Day: Uganda—Nile River
Harper’s Index:
Percentage increase since 1976 in the portion of Americans living at or below the poverty line: 100
Unusual Fact of the Day:
Printing the phrase "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency was a mandate handed down by Abraham Lincoln's Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase. During his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt attempted to remove the slogan because he, as a devout Christian, felt that putting God on money was a sacrilege.Joke-of-the-day:
The best answer to the question asked in an interview, "Where do you see yourself in 5 years' time?" . . . "In the mirror as always . . "
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
POLITICAL PLANNING
People moving into a new tract development are politically inert for five years.
Yeah, It Really Happened
- One British beachcomber found more than he expected, and he didn't use a metal detector to find it - it was his dog.
- Ken Wilman told British broadcasters that he had been walking along Morecambe beach in northern England when his dog, Madge, discovered a hard, soccer ball-sized piece of smelly rock.
- "She wouldn't leave it alone. I picked it up and it smelt horrible. I put it back on the beach, but something in the back of my mind told me it might be something unusual."
- One Google search later and Wilman realized that Madge had found ambergris, a waxy byproduct of sperm whale digestion that has traditionally been used in perfumes, spices, and medicines - and can fetch large sums of money. He said he immediately drove back to the beach to find the ambergris. He said he has been offered $68,000 for the musky material.
- That's right, $68,000 for whale vomit.
- Callum Roberts, a professor of marine conservation at the University of York, said the find appeared legitimate.
- "It's a waxy, yellow-gray piece of flotsam. I'm sure that 95 percent of people would walk past it without further thought," he said.
- Wilman had a slightly different take on his find, "If your dog pays an interest in something, YOU pay an interest in something," he said. "Because you never know. There's gold out there on that beach - floating gold."
- Somewhat Useless Information
- The earliest hockey games were played with chunks of frozen cow dung. This dates back to the game's outdoor roots. For understandable reasons, modern athletes prefer the vulcanized rubber disc we all know today.
- In space travel, the threat of free-floating equipment drifting off is a very serious one. Houston's Johnson Space Center prepares astronauts for this problem at the Precision Air Bearing Facility (PABF), which works like a gigantic air-hockey table and includes what the Center officially describes as a set of "two-ton hockey pucks" hovering over the floor. These are pushed around by aspiring astronauts.
- The first rubber hockey pucks were made from sliced-up lacrosse balls. When the sport moved indoors, whole balls were originally used, but rink owners soon found it preferable to cut them into thirds and keep the middle section. This basic design was the standard by 1885.
- The word "puck" was first recorded in the February 7th, 1876 edition of the Montreal Gazette, so the NHL regards this date as the hockey puck's birthday-even though they'd already been used for decades by then.
- In 2000, the Canadian Taxpayers' Federation urged the country's citizens to protest their government's $12 million bailout of domestic NHL franchises. How? By mailing oodles of hockey pucks to then-Prime Minister Jean Chretien. According to group president Walter Robinson, "When the rubber hits the Prime Minister's office in a shower of hockey pucks, Mr. Chretien might have some sense knocked into him and respond." The Prime Minister never revealed how many pucks he'd actually received.
- "Smart pucks" were released by Fox television in 1996. Also known as the "FoxTrax," these high-tech gizmos sported a hidden microchip that transmitted an infrared signal to a series of computers which superimposed blue and red halos around the puck on television screens during play, making them easier to see.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
1-7
Solo Diners Eat
Out Weekend
Women's Heart Week
Women's Heart Week
3-9
Boy Scout Anniversary Week
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week
Boy Scout Anniversary Week
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week
Dump Your
Significant Jerk Week
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
International Coaching Week
Just Say No to PowerPoint Week
Publicity for Profit Week
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
International Coaching Week
Just Say No to PowerPoint Week
Publicity for Profit Week
4-8
Intimate Apparel Week
International Networking Week
International Friendship Week
National School Counseling Week
Intimate Apparel Week
International Networking Week
International Friendship Week
National School Counseling Week
Today Is
Digital Learning
Day
National Girls
& Women in Sports Day
~New Zealand: Waitangi Day (to celebrate the signing of the Treaty
of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document: 1840)
Today’s Events through History
"Centerfold" by J Geils Band hit #1
on pop chart—1982
1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, NY—1932
Cochise leaves Lt.George Bascom a note
offering to exchange hostages.
Bascom agrees to the exchange if Cochise will
include the kidnapped boy
Feliz Tellez. Cochise says he never had the boy, and
the exchange does
not take place. Cochise's hostages will be found dead in a
few days—1861
Former Pres Dwight Eisenhower shot a
hole-in-one—1968
Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle
Sam with chin whiskers—1869
James II of England and VII of Scotland
becomes King upon the death of his
brother Charles II—1685
Mass becomes 6th state to ratify constitution—1788
Royal charter granted College of William &
Mary, Williamsburg, Va1693
State of Texas passes a law, today, which
allows the United States to
pick sites for 2 Indian reservations in Texas—1854
The first minstrel show in the United States
The Virginia Minstrels opens
(Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City) —1843
US ship destroys Sumatran village in
retaliation for piracy—1832
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
Zsa Zsa Gabor, [Zsa Sari], Budapest,
actress is 94
In their 80’s
Rip Torn, actor/comedian is 82
In their 70’s
Mamie Van Doren, American actress is 79 or 81
Tom Brokaw, Yankton SD, news anchor is 73
Mike Farrell, actor (BJ Honeycutt-M*A*S*H, Battered)
is74
Fabian Forte, Phila Pa, vocalist (Turn Me
Loose, Tiger) is 70
In their 60’s
Natalie Cole, vocalist (Pink Cadillac, Miss
You Like Crazy) is 63
In their 50’s
Axl Rose, [William Bailey], Lafayette In,
vocalist (Guns & Roses) is 51
Robert Townsend, actor, comedian, film
director is 56
Remembered for being born today
Aaron Burr, Newark NJ, (D-R), 3rd US VP
(1801-05), dueler (1756-1836)
Bob Marley, Jamacian reggae musician and
singer-songwriter (Whalers-No Woman) (1945-1981)
Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist
(Dr Faustus) (1564-1593)
William Parry Murphy, American physician,
Nobel laureate (1892-1987)
Ronald Reagan, IL, actor (Bedtime for
Bonzo)/40th pres (1911-1989)
Anne Stuart, Queen of England (1665-1714)
Today’s Historical Obits
Arthur Ashe, tennis star (Wimbledon 1975)—AIDS—1993—at
49
Peter Breck, American actor—2012—at 82
George VI, King of Britain (1936-52)—heart
attack—1952—at 56
Jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman,
Hulk)—heart failure—1994—at 76
Guy Madison, actor (Wild Bill Hickok)— emphysema—1996—at 74
Danny Thomas, comedian (Jazz Singer)—heart
attack—1991—at 79
Janice Voss, American astronaut—breast cancer—2012—at
55
Carl Wilson, rock vocalist (Beach Boy)—lung
cancer—1998—at 51
Answer: Hidden Word
I'll take the fasT ROUTe north.
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 §
