Dec 5, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 49/ Day: 340   

Today: H   56°…L 24° Averages: H  44° L 18°

Records: H   67°(1965)…L -4°(1955, 1952)

Wind: ave:   8mph; Gusts:  10mph Today’s ave. humidity:  77%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

"Monty Python's Flying Circus" last shown on BBC—1974

1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges—1893

1st US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, NYC)—1929

500 Jews of Nuremberg massacre during Black Death riots—1349

AFL & CIO merge, with George Meany as president—1955 

Albert Einstein, German physicist granted a visa to enter America—1932

Benjamin Spock & Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war—1967

Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings & Loan fraud), found guilty—1991

Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks—1955

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Nice day for a nice walk…so I took advantage of that. This is certainly what would be called a ‘mild’ winter. We really need some moisture, as we are about ½ of our recent amounts…and we are still in a drought. Maybe some moisture will come soon. I’m ready for a nice wet snow of a couple of inches.

 

Only in AZ…continues…our governor has ‘left the state on official business’ and no one in the government will tell the press or the taxpayers where she is. One rumor has her in DC, meeting with other conservative Republicans on the fiscal cliff. Why in secret? Who knows? On top of that the Sec of State in AZ had to do the official job of making the last election legal. He also has now stated publicly that he doesn’t believe our governor can run for office again due to the term limit in the AZ constitution. She disagrees and says that she is seriously considering a run in 2014.

 

Yesterday was the first day that the local paper didn’t print a Monday edition…to save money. I must admit it was strange not to be able to sit down and read the paper. They are printing some of Monday’s regular columns on Sunday, and others on Tuesday. They print the Monday comics on Tuesday, along with the Tuesday comics. Sure was strange reading the paper today. I get that it is a small town paper and changes will occur.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Duplicate Letter Puzzles

Find common words with certain letters duplicated in the given positions. V stands for a duplicated vowel, C stands for a duplicated consonant, and _ stands for any letter

V C C _ V C

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Old Saying Explained:

HOLIER THAN THOU…This comes from the Bible, Isaiah 65:5, the Old Testament prophet berates people who say 'stand by thyself, come not near me for I am holier than thou'.

Ok, then?

TV Theme Songs you may remember:

Sanford & Son - Quincy Jones

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Child's Death Ruins Couple's Holiday

NPR Hosts:

Bet You Didn’t Know…from History Channel

At a time when most people never traveled more than 20 miles from their homes, Benjamin Franklin crossed the Atlantic eight times and spent a total of 27 years overseas, mostly in England and France.

Harper’s Index:         

Estimated portion of US energy consumption that is attributed to the building sector: ½  

Ruminations:

Whenever I’m looking for an address there is some jerk behind me in a hurry, whenever I’m in a hurry there is some jerk in front of me looking for an address.

Unusual Fact of the Day:

The highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States aren't just in the same state— they're in the same county. The two spots, located in Inyo County, California, are about 100 miles apart.

Found on You Tube: 

• Ferrante & Teicher Exodus

• Krampuslauf

Joke-of-the-day:

A little boy returned from the grocery store with his mom. While his mom put away the groceries, the little boy opened his box of animal crackers and spread them all over the kitchen table.

"What are you doing?" asked his mom.

"The box says you shouldn't eat them if the seal is broken," said the little boy. "I'm looking for the seal."  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

In a public restroom, the middle toilet stalls are used the most.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

A Nebraska teen allegedly celebrated her bank robbery on YouTube, flashing money and what appears to be drugs in a video powered by Green Day music.

Hannah Sabata, 19, was arrested last week after she allegedly stole a car and held up a Waco bank, the York New-Times reports.

In the YouTube video, titled "Chick bank robber," Sabata uses captions and a large notepad to gloat about stealing a "shiny new" Pontiac Grand Am. She states she robbed a bank "with a gun, a pillow case, and a note."

Authorities say that Sabata entered the Cornerstone Bank in Waco on Nov. 29 and handed tellers a slip of paper that read, "You are being robbed! NO ALARMS OR LOCKS OR PHONES or INK BAGS! I have a loaded gun. You have 2 minutes," NTV reports.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• Average number of hummingbirds required to create the weight of 1 ounce: 18.
• Average number of eggs laid by the female American Oyster per year: 500 million. Usually only one oyster out of the bunch reaches maturity.
• Average length of a coat hanger when straightened: 44 inches.
• Average calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race: 10,000.
• An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows.
• An average pig squeals at a range from 100 to 115 decibels.
• An average beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year.
• A hedgehog's heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats per minute during hibernation.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-7> Cookie Cutter Week; Tolerance Week

2-8> Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week; Clerc-Gallaudet Week; National Hand washing Awareness Week

Today Is                                                                      

AFL-CIO Day
Bathtub Party Day
International Ninja Day
International Volunteer Day for Economic & Social Development
National Sachertorte Day: fancy chocolate cake
~Austria- Krampuslauf (The anti-St, Nicholas who tracks down bad boys and girls)
~Hispanola [Haiti and Dominican Republic]- Discovery Day (1492-Columbus)
~Thailand: King's Birthday and National Day

Today’s Events through History  

"Dragnet" premieres—1951   

1st US fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa (William & Mary College), forms—1776

C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive—1846

Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations—63BC

Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench—1876

Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die—1456

George Washington re-elected US pres—1792

Herschel Walker of Georgia wins Heisman Trophy—1982

Indian war party will attack several settlement in western Virginia, along 

     Hacker's Creek. Four settlers will be killed in the fighting—1787

Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post—1847

Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the 

     Democratic Republic of the Congo—2005

Thomas Jefferson re-elected US pres/George Clinton vice-pres—1804

Vietnam War-Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of 

     Honor of the war—1964

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 80’s

Little Richard [Wayne Penniman], Macon Ga, rocker (Tutty Fruity) is 80

In their 40’s

Margaret Cho, actress/comedienne (Face/Off) is 44

In their 30’s

Amy Acker. TV actress is 36

Under 30

Frankie Muniz, TV actor [“Malcolm in the Middle”]  is 27

Remembered for being born today

George Armstrong Custer, New Rumley, Ohio, Mjr General (Union volunteers), (1839-battle-1876)

Walter Elias Disney, Chicago, animator (Mickey Mouse), (1901-lung cancer-1966)

Otto Preminger, Austria, director/producer (Laura, Exodus) (1905-1986)

 [Steve James] Strom Thurmond, (Sen-D/R-SC) (1902-2003)

Martin Van Buren, Kinderhook NY, (D) 8th pres (1782-1862)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Roone Arledge, American sports broadcasting pioneer— prostate cancer—2002—at 71

Alexandre Dumas, French writer—1870—at 68

"Shoeless" Joe Jackson, of baseball's black sox scandal—heart attack—1951—at 64

Don Meredith, American football player and broadcaster— brain 

     hemorrhage—2010—at 72

Claude Monet, French impressionist—1926—at 86

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer— rheumatic fever—1791—at 35

Answer: Duplicate Letter Puzzles

ARREAR

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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Dec 4, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 49/ Day:    

Today: H   51°…L 35° Averages: H  44° L 18°

Records: H   67°(1977)…L -2°(1968, 1931)

Wind: ave:   12mph; Gusts:  16mph Today’s ave. humidity:  69%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

1st edition of the Los Angeles Times is published—1881
Baseball approves a free-agent draft—1964
Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby—1745
Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC—1980
James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres—1816
Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word—1952
Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented—1843
Senate approves US participation in UN—1945

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

 Returns tomorrow

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Nice day. My neighbors have moved in. They have at least 2 dogs, two ladies, and four guys and at least 5 vehicles. I’ve spoken to most of them. A strange group for sure. They are constantly going in and out, slamming the door, and talking very loudly on the sidewalk. They come outside, make a cell phone call, speaking so we can all hear. I’m sure they will calm down once they settle in. All of my neighbors since I moved in have been quiet for the most part. We’ll see how this works out. I also called the HOA’s fit-it guy and he says he has been really busy, but will work on my kitchen outlet sometime this week.

 

All the children in DC are still kindergarten. Somebody needs to put their pay on hold until they reach a compromise, or do like LBJ and call in the leaders, open a bottle, and make them finish the bottle and reach a compromise. Neither option is an adult action, but something has to happen.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Duplicate Letter Puzzles

Find common words with certain letters duplicated in the given positions. V stands for a duplicated vowel, C stands for a duplicated consonant, and _ stands for any letter

C V C V _ V

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Old Saying Explained:

HAT TRICK…This comes from cricket. Once a bowler who took three wickets in successive deliveries was given a new hat by his club.

Ok, then?

TV Theme Songs you may remember:

Peter Gunn - Henry Mancini

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures

NPR Hosts:

Bet You Didn’t Know…from History Channel

Each year in ancient Rome, more than 8,000 gladiators died—most before they turned 23.

Harper’s Index:         

• Percentage of its GDP that the US has spent on transportation infrastructure since 1979: 1.6
• Rank of that percentage among the lowest of any developed country: 1

Ruminations:

It’s only a matter of time before Facebook ruins our social skills to the point that we start saying ‘like’ out loud when we’re not clever enough to think of a comment.

Unusual Fact of the Day:

In early drafts of the Back to the Future script, the time machine was built out of an old refrigerator.

Found on You Tube: 

• Bonnie Prince Charlie

• The Ten Commandments 1923 - Part 1

Joke-of-the-day:

Lying on his deathbed, the wealthy Mr. Sams was instructing his attorney on last-minute changes in his will. “I wish to leave everything I own, all stocks, bonds property, art, and money, to my wife. However, there is one stipulation.” “And that is?” “In order to inherit, she must marry within six months of my death.” The lawyer seemed puzzled. “Why make such an unusual request?” Mr. Sams answered, “Because I want someone to be sorry I died.”

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

TIME TO SEASON FIREWOOD…For hardwoods, season wood for 1 year if split and for 2 years if not split prior to burning.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

Either graphics are getting better, or Canadians are getting drunker. Either way, a bizarre problem has cropped up at Mosaic Stadium in Regina, Saskatchewan.
For weeks, the cheery image of the burning log was displayed on the video scoreboard at the Saskatchewan Roughriders home venue. The flaming log was also shown on banner screens across the stands. The problem was, from a distance some people thought the stadium was on fire - there have been four frantic calls to 911 in the past few weeks.
Deputy fire chief Gerard Kay said callers were very descriptive, reporting "a very bright flame. In some cases even the smell of smoke." Standing in the parking lot at the nearby Regina field house recently, a CBC journalist saw the televised flames apparently looming over neighborhood houses. A fire crew was dispatched to the scene just last week. "It's funny, someone jokingly said, 'Y'know, I don't know about that Yule log. Someone is going to think the stadium is on fire,'" Roughriders CEO Jim Hopson said. "Sure as heck, someone thought the stadium was on fire." Another holiday-themed display will likely go up later, he said.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The reindeer family includes caribou as well as a few smaller subspecies. In fact, reindeer and Caribou are essentially the same animal, although reindeer are domesticated and caribou are wild.

• Reindeer are found in the arctic and subarctic regions of North America, Europe and Asia. Reindeer have thick, multi-layered fur that is specially suited for the harsh arctic climate where they live.

• Reindeer have an excellent sense of smell. Because food is scarce in the Arctic, reindeer use their great sense of smell to detect food buried deep beneath the snow.

• Male reindeer are called bulls and females are called cows. Baby reindeer are called calves. Reindeer typically have a lifespan of around 10 years.

• Reindeer are the only deer species in which both the male and females grow antlers, although the males' antlers are bigger.

• Reindeer shed and regrow their antlers every year. Males usually shed their antlers by early December, while females usually don't shed their antlers until after they give birth, in the spring. 

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-7> Cookie Cutter Week; Tolerance Week

2-8> Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week; Clerc-Gallaudet Week; National Hand washing Awareness Week

Today Is                                                                      

National Cookie Day
National Dice Day
Wear Brown Shoes Day
~~Ashura: Tenth Day (Islamic - begins at sundown)
~~Eastern Orthodox: Saint Barbara's Day

Today’s Events through History 
1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey) —1942
2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up—1980
Cecil B DeMille's 1st version of "Ten Commandments" premieres—1923
FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration—1942
Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the      Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange) —1867
French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp—1832
Judds final concert (Nashville) —1991
King Carloman joint King of the Franks, dies, leaving his older brother      Charlemagne, sole ruler of the Frankish Kingdom—771
Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus—1978
Pres Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief      executive to travel outside US while in office—1918
Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson signed an agreement which returns      to the Northern Ute approximately 85,000 acres of land in Utah. The land     had been appropriated by the U.S. Congress took from them eighty-four     years ago—2000Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call     on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage—2005Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad—1534
William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail—1875

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 70’s

Max Baer Jr, Oakland California, actor (Jethro-Beverly Hillbillies) is 75

Freddy Cannon, [Picariello], Lynn Ma, rocker (Palisades Park) is 72

In their 60’s

Jeff Bridges, actor, musician, producer, photographer is 63

In their 40’s

Jay-Z [Shawn Corey Carter], American rapper is 43

Marisa Tomei, stage, film and television actress is 48

In their 30’s

Tyra Banks, model/actress (Higher Learning, Fresh Prince of Bel Air) is 39

Remembered for being born today

Michael Bates, Jhansi India, actor (Clockwork Orange, Patton) (1920-1978)

Samuel Butler, England, author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh) (1835-1902)

Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution) (1795-1881)

Francisco Franco, Ferrol, Galicia Spanish General/dictator (1936-75), (1892-1975)

Victor French, Santa Barbara California, actor (Highway to Heaven) (1934-1989)

Crazy Horse ["His-Horse-Is-Spirited"], Oglala Sioux chief (1840-stabbed in custody-1877)

Lillian Russell, [Helen Leonard], US, singer/actress (Great Mogul) (1860-1922)

Dennis Wilson, Hawthorne CA, drummer/vocalist (Beach Boys-My Room) (1944-drowned-1983)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Charles Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company - Wall Street Journal)—health problems—1902—at 51

Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher—1679—at 91

Alexander Hume, Scottish poet—1609—at 49

Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic (Wizard of Oz), dies at 72

Itzhak Rabin, PM of Israel (1968-73)—assassinated—1995—at 73

Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of SF Zen Center—1971—at 67

William I [The Lion} of Scotland—1214—at 71

Frank V Zappa, US music/composer (Mothers of Invention)—cancer—1993—at 52

Answer: Duplicate Letter Puzzles

 PAPAYA

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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Dec 3, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 49/ Day: 338   

Today: H   53°…L 25° Averages: H  45° L 18°

Records: H   62°(1946, 1910)…L -5°(1991, 1905)

Wind: ave:   11mph; Gusts:  28mph Today’s ave. humidity:  59%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

1st Covenant of Scottish Protestants form—1557
1st official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred) —1775
2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India—1984
Alka-Seltzer goes on sale—1931
Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford—1678
Galileo invents telescope—1621
Jefferson Davis Trial starts; 1st blacks on US trial jury—1868
Neon lights, 1st publically seen (Paris Auto Show) —1910
Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast—1950
Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia—1586
Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire," premieres in NYC—1947

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Quiet Sunday, started out clear then ended up overcast. No moisture…this is not typical Flagstaff weather. We usually get snow when it clouds up like this. Strange winter for sure.

 

Watching the news on the financial cliff is like watching elementary kids arguing. Their idea was stupid so we aren’t going to listen. No, our idea is great, their idea is stupid. We aren’t going to play, we are taking all our toys back home. This has to be the most messed up Congress in our history. It doesn’t seem that either side is there for the entire nation. Each person seems to have an agenda and claim to be doing it for the voters who put them in office. Where are the statesmen and stateswomen? We would not be the country we are today, had it not been for compromise.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Duplicate Letter Puzzles

Find common words with certain letters duplicated in the given positions. V stands for a duplicated vowel, C stands for a duplicated consonant,  and _ stands for any letter

_ C C V C V

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Old Saying Explained:

GOODBYE///This is a contraction of the words God be with ye (you).

Ok, then?

TV Theme Songs you may remember:

All in the Family - "Those Were the Days" by Lee Adams and Charles Strouse

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Smokers are Productive, But Death Cuts Efficiency

NPR Hosts:

Bet You Didn’t Know…from History Channel

The largest denomination of currency ever printed by the U.S. Treasury was the 1934 $100,000 gold certificate. Used only for transactions between Federal Reserve banks, it was never released to the general public. It has Woodrow Wilson’s picture.

Harper’s Index:         

• Percentage change since 1970 in the share of metropolitan American families residing in affluent neighborhoods: +131
• Residing in poor neighborhoods: +106
• In middle income neighborhoods: -34

Ruminations:

What is going on? Lemon juices are made from artificial flavors, whereas dish wash liquids are made from real lemons.

Unusual Fact of the Day:

While many think Hydrox cookies were an Oreo knock-off, Hydrox actually came first. They were first made in 1908, four years before the Oreo.

Found on You Tube: 

• Virginia Opossum - HD Mini-Documentary

• Ferlin Husky - Wings of a Dove

Joke-of-the-day:

Policeman: "Did you get the license number of the car that knocked you down?" Pedestrian: "No, but I know who it was. My mother-in-law!" Policeman: "How can you be so certain?" Pedestrian: "I’d recognize that laugh anywhere!"

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

BLINK-FREE GROUP PHOTO RULE…You need to take more than one photo of a group to get one without somebody blinking. For calculating the number of photos to take for groups of less than 20: divide the number of people by three if there's good light and two if the light's bad.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

MANILA, Philippines - Guinness World Records confirmed a retired woman in the Philippines collected 1,030 jigsaw puzzles to break the world record. The record keeping organization said Gina Gil Lacuna, 61, of Manila, amassed her collection at her family's bed and breakfast, The Puzzle Mansion, and shattered the record of 238 puzzles set by Luiza Figuereido of Brazil, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported Thursday. Lacuna said she has spent three to four hours per day assembling the puzzles during the past 26 years. She said her collection is still growing and she is planning to donate some of the puzzles to cancer patients.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The only wood used by famed London cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale was mahogany.
• The pecan tree is the only naturally growing nut tree in North American. It is native to the Texas, Mississippi and Mexico River Valleys.
• The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly. It is also the only bird that walks upright.
• The Virginia opossum is the only marsupial (pouched mammal) indigenous to North America.
• There is only one Q in a Scrabble game.
• There's only one city in the United States named merely "Beach." It is found in North Dakota, which is a land-locked state.
• Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.
• When Pierre Trudeau wed Margaret Sinclair in 1971 he became the only Canadian Prime Minister to get married while in office. The couple divorced in 1984.
• Woodrow Wilson was the only US president to earn a doctorate.
• Zsa Zsa Gabor was the first - and only - recipient of a Golden Globe Award for "Most Glamorous Actress." She won the peculiar award in 1958. The category was deleted thereafter.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-7> Cookie Cutter Week; Tolerance Week

2-8> Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week; Clerc-Gallaudet Week; National Hand washing Awareness Week

Today Is                                                                      

Coats and Toys for Kids Day
International Day of Disabled Persons
National Roof-Over-Your-Head Day
~Illinois Admission Day (1818-21^st state)

Today’s Events through History  

1st human heart transplant performed (Dr Christian Barnard, South Africa) —1967

Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US—1828

Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden—1685

Ex-president Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia—1967

Golden State Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, four-year, $32 million, contract 

     terminated for attacking his coach P J Carlesimo—1997

Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens—1833

Police arrests 800 sit-in students at U of Cal at Berkeley—1964

Pres Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term—1971

Zaldivar [Juan de] "discovers" Acoma—1598

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 70’s

Bobby Allison, auto racer (3 time winner of Daytona 500) is 75

In their 60’s

Benny Hinn, televangelist is 60

Ozzy Osbourne, rock vocalist (Black Sabbath-Bark at the Moon) will be 64

In their 50’s

Daryl Hannah, actress (Splash) is 52

Julianne Moore, Fayetteville NC, actress (Magnolia, The Kids are Alright) is 52

In their 40’s

Brendan Fraser, actor (School Ties, 20 Bucks) is 44

Katarina Witt, figure skater (Olympic-Gold-1984, 88)  is 47

In their 30’s

Brian Bonsall, actor (Family Ties, Star Trek Next Generation) is 31

Under 30

Jake T. Austin, Disney actor is 18

Remembered for being born today

Joseph Conrad, Berdychiv, Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness), (1857-1924)

Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny spinning machine) (1753-1827)

Ferlin Husky, American country singer (Born to Lose, Gone) (1925-2011)

Kim Dae Jung, South Korean President, Nobel laureate (1925-2009)

George Brinton McClellan, Major General (Union Army) (1826-1885)

Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (1842-1899)

Gilbert Stuart, US, portrait painter (painted Washington) (1755-1828)

Andy Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show) (1927-2012)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Madeline Kahn, actress [Paper Moon, Blazing Saddles]— ovarian cancer—1999—at 57

Roxie Roker, actress (Claudine)/mother of Lenny Kravitz [Helen-The Jeffersons]—cancer—1995—at 66

Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and hymn writer—1706—at 69

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist— cerebral hemorrhage—1894—at 45

St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the East—fever—1552—at 46

Answer: Duplicate Letter Puzzles

ALLELE [An allele is an alternative form of a gene]

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  §