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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 249
/ Week: 36
September
Averages: 73° \ 42°
Today:
Average Sky Cover: 60%
H 73°… L 52°… Ave. humidity: 73%
Wind: ave:
3mph;
Gusts: 16mph
Average High: 76° Record High: 87° (1977)
Average Low: 45°
Record Low: 33° (1985)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1522 - Magellen
with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip
1716 - 1st
lighthouse built in north America (Boston)
1839 - Cherokee
Nation forms
1839 - Great fire in New York
1866 - Frederick
Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention
1886 - Queen
Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
1899 - Carnation
processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
1901 -
President McKinley shot by an anarchist, in New York
1952 - Canadian
TV begins in Montreal
1989 - Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of
all track records
1991 - USSR recognizes the independence of Latvia,
Estonia and Lithuania
1991 - Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's 2nd
largest city, Leningrad in 1924.
1997 - Funeral
of Diana, Princess of Wales
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
Busy day getting ready for my trip. Made it to the bank between
rain storms to get my cash. Then called the bank to get my credit cards and
debit card ready to work in Ireland. Tomorrow is laundry day and some packing.
Good new is that we fly from Denver to Chicago to Dublin and can check our
luggage through at Denver.
We had lots of rain today, an early afternoon storm, and then a
late afternoon storm. Gotta love the monsoon.
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Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Blade
to blade I always win,
My foe laid low and even.
Yard by yard through thick and thin,
I'm busiest in season.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain :
Brain
Facts…
The human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft
gelatin or firm tofu.
Computer
Facts…
The first webcam was used in 1991 by Cambridge researchers for
checking the coffee pot without leaving their desks.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
At the Town Council meeting, the clerk was instructed to request
the town attorney to draft an ordinance prohibiting spitting on the sidewalks.
Fun
Facts…
Dolly Parton once entered anonymously into a "Dolly Parton
lookalike contest", but lost to a drag queen.
Harper’s
Index
Factor by which a black student is likelier than a white student
to attend a school with a high number of new teachers: 4
Language
Facts…
The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.
Rules of
Thumb…
ESTIMATING CAFFEINE CONTENT
54 M&Ms equal
one Vivarin in terms of caffeine content.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The
urine of patients with diabetes tastes sweet because the extra sugar in a
diabetic's bloodstream overwhelms the kidney's ability to reabsorb it.
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Joke-of-the-day
Computer Problem Report Form
1. Describe your problem: __________________________________________
2. Now, describe the problem accurately: __________________________________________
3. Speculate wildly about the cause of the problem: _______________________
4. Problem Severity:
A. Minor__
B. Minor__
C. Minor__
D. Trivial__
5. Nature of the problem:
A. Locked Up__
B. Frozen__
C. Hung__
D. Shot__
6. Is your computer plugged in? Yes__ No__
7. Is it turned on? Yes__ No__
8. Have you tried to fix it yourself? Yes__ No__
9. Have you made it worse? Yes__
10. Have you read the manual? Yes__ No__
11. Are you sure you've read the manual? Yes__ No__
12. Are you absolutely certain you've read the manual? No__
13. Do you think you understood it? Yes__ No__
14. If `Yes' then why can't you fix the problem yourself?
15. How tall are you? Are you above this line? __________________________________________
16. What were you doing with your computer at the time the problem occurred?
17. If "nothing" explain why you were logged in. _________________________________________
18. Are you sure you aren't imagining the problem? Yes__ No__
19. How does this problem make you feel? __________________________________________
20. Tell me about your childhood. __________________________________________
21. Do you have any independent witnesses of the problem? Yes__ No__
22. Can't you do something else, instead of bothering me? Yes__
Thank you for taking the time to fill out our Computer Problems Form. Please
allow 1-week response time so that the problem will resolve its self or you
will reboot your computer, most likely resolving the issue.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
Have you ever heard someone described as having a pole up their
ass? Usually it means uptight, stuck-up or snobbish, but in the case of this
story it means the woman was a bad driver, because she ended up with a pole
stuck up her ass.
The Colorado woman says she was texting and driving when she hit a pole that
went through her car, piercing her thigh and buttocks.
Elizabeth firefighters had to saw off the front and back end of the pole to get
the woman out.
Christina Jahnz says she was in the parking lot of Elizabeth Middle School to deliver
her daughter's saxophone, which had been left at home. As she was driving away
from the school, Jahnz started texting her friend.
"I was running late for a business meeting, so I did a voice text. I
looked down to make sure it was all right. The next thing I knew, I was looking
up, there was white powder from the air bags deployed," Jahnz said.
Then, Jahnz realized that the guardrail pole went through the front of her
truck, through her buttocks and into the back of her seat. Elizabeth
firefighters rushed to the scene, where she says they used a saw to cut the
front and back end of the pole before rushing her to the hospital.
"I went into surgery and I lost count of the stitches after 40. They
stitched me up inside too. I'm truly a miracle. They said if it gone just a
little bit the other way I would have bled out," Jahnz said.
Jahnz was released after a four-day stay in the hospital. She will be able to
get around with the help of a walker and is expected to make a full recovery.
Jahnz says even though she was going 20 mph and looked down for only a split
second, she has learned a lesson she will never forget.
Somewhat Useless Information
How
many pizzas are sold each year? What’s the origin of the name “Margherita”?
Since when do Europeans have eaten pizza?
- Over five
billion pizzas are sold all over the world each year.
- Though pizza
became a popular food in the U.S. in 1945, after World War II, it was
brought to America by Italian immigrants 50 years earlier.
- Pizza was being
prepared by people of Pompei when the volcano erupted and buried the city.
- Kids aged 3-11
prefer pizza over all foods for lunch and dinner.
- Pizza Margherita
was given its name by a chef who cooked for a 19th century Italian queen.
She ate her pizza with tomatoes and cheese.
- It is estimated
that over three billion pizzas will be eaten next year in the U.S. alone.
- Europeans have
enjoyed eating pizza since the late 18th century.
- Of all the
toppings available, Americans choose pepperoni, a king of salami, as their
favourite.
*****
It
was back in 1986 when Argentina were playing England in the quarter -finals of
the 1986 world cup in Mexico.
The
Argentinian captain, Diego Maradona, scored a goal in the 52nd minute, although
the British players protested that he had cheated.
However,
the referee gave the goal, but TV cameras showed that Maradona had scored
the goal with his hand. “It was partly the hand of Maradona, and partly
the hand of God”, he then said.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
1-7
International Enthusiasm Week
National Nutrition Week
National Payroll Week
National Waffle Week
Self-University Week
2-6
Play Days
4-6
Popcorn Days
Today
Is
Another
Look Unlimited Day
Fight
Procrastination Day
National Writing Date Day
Read a
Book Day
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Unification
Day (Bulgaria-1885)
Defense of Pakistan Day (Pakistan-for 1965 Indo-Pakistani War)
Independence Day (Swaziland-1968-from UK)
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Today’s
Events through History
1819 - Thomas
Blanchard patents lathe
1923 - Queen
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates her silver jubilee
1938 - Queen
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates 40th anniversary
1948 - Juliana becomes queen of Netherlands
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Birthday’s
Today
Jo Anne
Worley, comedienne (Laugh-in) is 77
Swoosie
Kurtz, actress (Slap Shot) is 70
Jane
Curtin, actress (SNL, Allie Lowell-Kate & Allie) is 67
Jeff
Foxworthy, comedian (The Jeff Foxworthy Show) is 56
Elizabeth
Vargas, American journalist is 52
Mark
Chesnutt, country singer (Too Cold at Home) is 51
Rosie
Perez, Bkln, actress (Do the Right Thing) is 50
Pippa
Middleton, English socialite is 31
Remembered
for being born today
John
Dalton, English physicist, developed atomic theory of matter (1766-1844)
Jane
Addams, pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931), (1860-1935)
John J R
Macleod, Scottish/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923) (1876-1935)
Joseph P
Kennedy, Boston Mass, diplomat, father of JFK, RFK & Teddy (1888-1969)
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Historical
Obits Today
Madeleine
L'Engle, American author, 2007, @88
Art
Modell [Arthur], businessman NFL, 2012, @87
Margaret
Sanger, US feminist/birth control pioneer, 1966, @86
Ernest
Tubb, singer (Grand Ole Opry), emphysema, 1984, @70
Tom
Fogerty, rocker (Creedence Clearwater), TB, 1990, @48
Martha
Wayles Skelton Jefferson, 1st Lady-Thomas Jefferson, poor
health, 1782, @33
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Brain
Teasers
A lawn mower.
Explanation: It cuts blades of grass
with its blade, leaving them low and even. It is used in home yards and is
busiest in summer when grass grows fastest.
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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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