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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 280
/ Week: 41
October
Averages: 63° \ 31°
Holiday Observances Today:
Bald and Free Day
National Diversity Day
National Frappe Day
National Lee Denim Day
You Matter To Me Day
World Smile Day
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Yom Kippur (Jewish- Day of Atonement-begins at sundown)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
3761 BC - The
epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar)
1492 - Columbus misses
Florida when he changes course
1520 - 1st
public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain
1672 - White
Mountain APACHEs raid the ZUNI pueblo of Hawikum
1763 - George
III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North
America north & west of Alleghenies to white settlement
1806 - Carbon
paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
1868 - Cornell
University (Ithaca NY) opens
1919 - KLM, Royal Ducth Airlines, established
(oldest existing airline)
1931 - 1st
infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
1950 - US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th
parallel
1957 - "American
Bandstand" premieres
1958
- US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury
1968 - Motion
Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
1990 - Israel begins handing out gas masks to its
citizens
1998 - Matthew
Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence
after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
OMG, it’s
summer again. So nice to have a warm, keep the windows and doors open day.
Our HOA
is busy. On Friday I found a note taped to my door—against HOA rules—telling me
that they are going to reseal our parking lot street. Even had a full color-coded
map telling us to have no vehicles parked in the shaded area on Monday. They
are doing ½ of Monday and ½ on Tuesday. Then on Saturday morning, the same note
on my vehicle. Then on Saturday, another note on my vehicle. Then on Sunday, a
note taped to my door and another note on my vehicle. I got it the first time.
I moved the vehicle when I got up this morning. I went out about 8:30 and as I
am walking, one of the reseal workers said ‘Is that you Mr. Frazier?” Turns out
to be a former student from Tonalea who I haven’t seen for about 20 years. Good
to know he still recognized me. He commutes into town every day (about 100
miles) for his job. Amazing. Then when I return to my place, a lady and a man
are visiting my neighbors who are from Kaibeto. The lady, about 50+, says ‘weren’t
you the Principal at Navajo Mtn?’ Her kids went to school there back in 1984.
WOW. We caught up a little. The Dine’ people are wonderful people….and have
great memories.
The
reseal team finished about noon, but we can’t repark until after 5p. Looks good
though.
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Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
The letter
"o" has been removed from the following words. Can you guess them
all?
1) utdr
2) bnxius
3) drus
4) nlker
5) nmatpeia
6) ppsitin
7) rthdx
8) cckat
9) prtbell
10) vd
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
Age
Facts…
After age
30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
Brain
Facts…
Research
has shown that allowing chocolate to melt in your mouth produced brain and
heart rate activity that was similar to - and even stronger than - that
produced with passionate kissing.
Computer
Facts…
TYPEWRITER
is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the
keyboard.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
From
1889: G. A. Bray is now engaged in shearing about 14,000 head of
sheep at Tunnel Springs 1.5 miles west of town. He expects over 6 pounds to
each fleece.
J. A.
Marshall of the San Francisco Peaks came into town on Friday to dispose of a
fine crop of potatoes at Salzman’s.
Fun
Facts…
In 2001,
the island country of Niue featured Pikachu and other Pokémon on their
currency.
Harper’s
Index…
Percentage
change since 2009 in the number of race-related complaints filed against US
colleges and universities: +55
Portion of
the requests from white male students for meetings with their business-school
professors that receive responses: 4/5
Portion of
requests from male students from India that do: 1/3
Rules of
Thumb…
JUDGING
DESIGN
When simple things need instructions, it is a sign
of poor design.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The Jolly Corks was a
social club formed in New York in 1867. They’re still around, but today they’re
now known as the Benevolent Protective Order of the Elks.
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Joke-of-the-day
While
taxiing at London Gatwick, the crew of a US Air flight departing for Ft.
Lauderdale made a wrong turn and came nose to nose with a United 727. An irate
female ground controller lashed out at the US Air crew, screaming: "US Air
2771, where the hell are you going! I told you to turn right onto Charlie
taxiway! You turned right on Delta! Stop right there. I know it's difficult for
you to tell the difference between 'C' and 'D', but get it right!"
Continuing her rage to the embarrassed crew, she was now shouting hysterically:
"God! Now you've screwed everything up! It'll take forever to sort this
out! You stay right there and don't move till I tell you to! You can expect
progressive taxi instructions in about half an hour, and I want you to go
exactly where I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you! You got that, US
Air 2771?"
"Yes
ma'am," the humbled crew responded.
Naturally,
the ground control communications frequency fell terribly silent after the
verbal bashing of US Air 2771. Nobody wanted to chance engaging the irate
ground controller in her current state of mind. Tension in every cockpit out in
Gatwick was definitely running high. Just then an unknown pilot broke the
silence and keyed his microphone, asking: "Wasn't I married to you
once?"
Yep, It
Really Happened
BISHKEK,
Kyrgyzstan (UPI) - Doctors in Bishkek removed a nine-pound hairball from the
stomach of 18-year-old Ayperi Alekseeva after she could no longer eat or drink.
The ball developed over years as the woman chewed the ends of her hair and ate
hair off the floor. "Her stomach was so badly swollen from hair and bits
of wool from the carpet that it literally just oozed out soon as the wall of
the stomach was cut," Senior professor of surgery at Bishkek hospital
Bahadir Bebezov told The Daily Mail. Aside from the hair eating compulsion that
caused her to become malnourished, Alekseeva was completely healthy. The
compulsion to eat human hair is called Trichophagia, which can result in the
development of Rapunzel syndrome, a condition where the ball develops a "tail"
that clogs the lower intestine. Alekseeva is recovering and promises to refrain
from chewing her hair in the future.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Average wage for the
workmen who dug the Erie canal: $1 and 1 quart of whiskey per day.
The United States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867 for 2 cents an acre.
It cost $3 million to build the Titanic and $100 million to make the movie.
The price of a box of Girl Scout cookies when they debuted in 1936: 25 cents.
Babe Ruth's salary in 1932 was $80,000. In 2005 Sammy Sosa's salary was $17
million.
In 1920 the average check at a diner was 28 cents.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
--- 1-7
National
Walk Your Dog Week
Universal Children's Week
--- 3-11
4-H
Week
No Salt Week
--- 4-12
Albuquerque
International Balloon Fiesta
Fall Astronomy Week
World Space Week
--- 5-11Emergency Nurses Week
Fire Prevention Week
International Post Card Week
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week
National Midwifery Week
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine Week
--- 6-12
Customer
Service Week
Drive Safely Work Week
Financial Planning Week
Kids' Goal Setting Week
National Health Care Food Service Week
National Metric Week
National Physician’s Assistant Week
Spinning & Weaving Week
World Dairy Expo
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Today’s
Events through History
1900 - The
term "orienteering" is first used for an event
1913 - Henry
Ford institutes moving assembly line
1960 - "Route
66" premieres
1971 - Disney
World opens in Orlando, Florida
1993 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni
Morrison
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Birthday’s
Today
Desmond
Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of S Afr (Nobel Peace Prize 1982) is 83
Oliver L
North, US colonel (Irangate) is 71
Joy Behar, television
personality is 71
John
Cougar Mellencamp, rocker (Jack & Diane) is 63
Vladimir
Putin, Russian politician is 62
Yo-Yo Ma, Paris, world
famous cellist is 59
James Van
Patten, Brooklyn, actor (Bo-Chisholms) is 58
Simon
Cowell, London, (X-Factor, American Idol) is 55
Toni
Braxton, American singer is 47
Rachel
McAdams, Canadian actress is 35
Remembered
for being born today
William
Billings, Boston, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon) (1746-1800)
James
Whitcomb Riley, US, poet (Raggedy Man) (1849-1916)
Joe Hill, Sweden,
organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr (1879-1915)
Niels
Bohr, Denmark, physicist, (Nobel 1922) (1885-1962)
Elijah
Muhammad (Elijah Robert
Po), US, leader of Nation of Islam (1897-1975)
Louis S B
Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist (1903-1972)
Andy
Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], Flagstaff, actor (1905-1977)
June
Allyson, Bronx, actress (Till the Clouds Roll By, Vegas) (1917-2006)
Al
Martino, singer (Here in My Heart)/actor (Godfather) (1927-2009)
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Historical
Obits Today
Leo
Durocher, baseball player and manager (Dodgers, Giants), 1991, @86
Clarence
Birdseye, American inventor, heart attack, 1956, @69
Edgar
Allan Poe, American writer, poet and critic, 1849, @40
Mario
Lanza, opera singer, heart attack, @38
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Brain
Teasers
1)
outdoor
2) obnoxious
3) odorous
4) onlooker
5) onomatopoeia
6) opposition
7) orthodox
8) cockatoo
9) portobello
10) voodoo
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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 contains mistakes and sadly once 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…§
