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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 111 / Week: 17
Today: L 39°…H 63°… Ave. humidity: 63%
Wind: ave: 0mph; Gusts:
3mph
Average Low: 30°
Record Low: 12° (1972)
Average High: 60° Record
High: 78° (1989)
Quote of
the Day
It
is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel
Adams
Today’s
Historical Highlights
753 BC - Romulus and Remus found
Rome (traditional date).
1509 - Henry
VIII becomes King of England
1806: The Department of War establishes
Superintendent of Indian Trade.
1857 - Alexander
Douglas patents the bustle
1862 - Congress
establishes US Mint in Denver, Co
1869: Donehogawa (Ely Samuel Parker) is appointed
as the first Indian to be Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
1878 - First
Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn
1918 - Baron
Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed
1960 - Brasilia
becomes capital of Brazil
1966 - Emperor
Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica
♫ Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
A rather overcast day again, but still not any moisture. The paper
listed all the subdivisions of Flagstaff proper and their fire danger as of
today. My area was listed as HIGH. I guess
that is better than EXTREME but still frightening. There are at least 50 very
tall pine trees in our complex and a fire would be devastating. At least we don’t
have really hot temps to add to our problems.
I had a nice conversation with my brother. He and Laura are headed
to Russia next month on a business trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg…cool.
Later in the summer they are headed to Sicily for a ‘real vacation’, as their
many trips to Mexico are ‘work’ at the hacienda. They are also having their
tiny dog fixed so he can spend some time at day care in NYC. Turns out the
doggie day care places only accept dogs that have been fixed.
Just watched the most recent VICE, a news show about troubled
areas throughout the world. Israel was one of the stories. Certainly I knew
that the Jewish groups in the US were pushing for Israel, both financially and
politically. Little did I know that the most money and most political support
for Israel is coming from the Evangelical Christians, especially in the Bible
Belt of our country. Evangelical churches are sending millions of dollars to
the Israeli groups who want the Arabs out of all of Israel, the West Bank, and
the Gaza Strip. That group is fighting the Obama Administration in finding a
two state solution. These Evangelicals believe that the Rapture will begin in
Israel and that the time of the Rapture is upon us. In their minds the Muslim
prophet came centuries after the Christian prophet and it only makes sense that
the Muslim prophet is wrong. They believe that a United Israel, without any
Muslims or Palestinians will be the next sign of the second coming. Anyone who
wants a Palestinian state is then an anti-Christ. And yet we keep believing that
there is a separation of church and state in our country.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
The phrase "From
the heart" has been known to bring thoughts of love and passion to many.
However, if you rearrange the 12 letters, you can come up with two 6 letter
words that are opposite of each other, but also bring about thoughts of love
and passion to many. What are those two words?
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
People
who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. Isaac
Asimov
Harper’s
Index
Amount
two Somali women raised for the terrorist organization Al Shabab by going
door-to-door in Minnesota: $15,000
Number
of AK 47’s that amount will buy on the Mogadishu black market: 12
Unusual
Fact of the Day
A
person of average size and weight burns about 60 to 70 calories each hour just
by sitting and watching television.
Joke-of-the-day
A man was just waking up from anesthesia after
surgery, and his wife was sitting by his side. His eyes fluttered open and he
said, “You are beautiful.” Then he fell asleep again. His wife had never heard
him say that, so she stayed by his side. A few minutes later, his eyes fluttered
open and he said, “You are cute!” The wife was disappointed because instead of
“beautiful,” it was now “cute.” She said, “What happened to ‘beautiful’?”
Her husband replied, “The drugs are wearing
off!”
Rules of
Thumb:
NO MINOR ACCIDENTS
There is no such thing as a minor accident on
a motorcycle.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
LONDON (UPI) - A High Court judge in England told an
"insensitive" father that he must stop emailing his children in all
capital letters because it looks like he is yelling at them. The Israeli father
is in a custody dispute involving his 13-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter.
During the dispute, the children have been moving back and forth between
England and Israel. The judge ordered that the father's old style of emails,
which were "equivalent to him shouting," needed to be improved upon
with the help of a family assistance officer. "He needs help to make his
messages appropriate and child friendly," the judge said. "There's
nothing worse than an email suggestive that the sender is shouting at
you." Due to the communications problems, the relationship between the
children and their father will be restored "at a distance." The
parents of the children also need to work on their communications skills.
"It is all about respect and a willingness to start again in the process
of trying to interact as parents in a way which will enhance rather than harm
their children," the judge said. "I wish them every success in that
endeavor."
Somewhat
Useless Information
“Mythicism” is not a
religion. It has to do with the idea that many gods, goddesses and other
heroes and legendary figures were not “real people” but are in fact
mythological characters.
According to D.M.
Murdoch, the word “Mythicism” is used these days particularly to define
scholars, researchers and others who investigate whether or not the New
Testament character of Jesus Christ was a real, historical person or a myth
along the lines of the gods, godmen and heroes of other cultures, such as
Hercules, Mithra or Horus.
Did
you know that there is a resort in Finland, where you can sleep and see the
Northern Lights from the ceiling? The Igloo Village
of Hotel Kakslauttanen in Finland is consisted of 20 thermal
glass igloos that allow visitors to enjoy views of the Aurora Borealis
from the warmth and comfort of their own hut. Work is an
undoubtedly important part of our lives and even if we sometimes link it to
routine, we could not enjoy our lives without working at all (at least some of
us!).
Here are five top
quotes about work:
“Television is not
real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to
jobs.” Bill Gates
“Choose a job you
love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Confucius
“By working
faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve
hours a day.” Robert Frost
“The only place
success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Vince Lombardi
“Work is the curse
of the drinking classes.” Oscar Wilde
Nuclear thermal rocket engines by NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application) were considered to be exceptionally reliable and safe for space exploration back to 60s and 70s.
However, although
the latest NERVA engine NRX/XE was tested to be appropriate for a Mars mission
in 1972 and was deemed ready for integration into a spacecraft, the mission was
cancelled.
The program met or
exceeded the expectations for a Mars mission and it is unknown why it was
cancelled by the Nixon Administration.
Calendar
Information
Today
Is Kindergarten Day
National
High Five Day
National
Teach Children to Save Day
San
Jacinto Day (Tx-1836-independence from Mexico)
Today’s
Events through History
1789 - John
Adams sworn in as 1st US VP (9 days before Washington)
1980 - 84th
Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:12:11
1986
- Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV
& finds nothing
Today’s
Birthdays
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, Elizabeth II, Queen, is 88
Iggy Pop, [James Osterberg], rocker (Zombie Birdhouse) is
67
Tony Danza, Brooklyn, (Taxi, Who's the Boss) is 63
Tia Jackson, WNBA forward (Phoenix Mercury) is 42
Tony Romo, NFL quarterback is 34
Remembered
for being born today
1864-1920 - Max Weber, German
sociologist/economist/historian
1905-1996 - Edmund G "Pat" Brown,
(Gov-D-California)
1915-2001 - Anthony
Quinn, Mexico, actor, (Zorba, Lawrence of Arabia)
Today’s
Historical Obits
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, actor and musician, 1999, @90
Gummo [Milton] Marx, US comic (Marx Brothers), 1977, @83
Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, oddsmaker/sportscaster, heart
attack, 1996, @76
Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], author (Huckleberry Finn), heart
attack, 1910, @74
Nina Simone, singer and pianist, cancer, 2003, @70
Francois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti, 1971, @64
"Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down, 1918, @25
Brain
Teasers
FATHER
& MOTHER
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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