Ø TODAY’s “Geez”:
· 1630 - New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island
· 1817 - 1st flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland)
· 1843 - Mormon leader Joseph Smith say God OKs polygamy
· 1882 - 1st ocean pier in US completed, Washington, DC
· 1917 - The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona
Ø Free Rambling Thoughts…
This blog is going on vacation. It will return in about 2 weeks, after my trip down the Colorado. Bob is arriving sometime tomorrow afternoon, and I decided that I would not be a good host if I spent time doing this blog. Most of my visitors do not appreciate being left sitting in the living room alone, or coming to my office and watching my type. LOL.
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I figure I am ready to go, got everything packed into a small duffle bag today. I will have to repack when we get our dry bags Wednesday. I don’t want to take too much or too little. The info they sent could fit about any trip length down the river. Thirteen days on the river, not knowing if it is going to be hot or raining makes it hard. They say it will be hot, but it hasn’t been that hot yet, what with the daily rains. The hardest part of camping out anywhere is having dry clothes when it is raining. A couple of camping trips, we would run into town—maybe 20+ miles away and dry things at the local Laundromat. Seems the canyon doesn’t have any operating ones so it’s ‘air-dry’ only. I have noticed they never talk about that in their literature.
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About 3:30 this afternoon the cable went out. It was really cloudy and I could barely see Mount Elden, where all the towers are. I’m sure there was a storm up there. After about an hour and a half I tried to call the cable company. Only got a busy signal. After three hours I tried again and got through. The wait time was ‘greater than 20 minutes’. Thank goodness for speaker phones. Anyway the guy finally came on, after about 30 minutes and said they within the last 15 minutes they had gone from 100% outage to 60% outage. He expected it all to be up in a couple of hours. He said they had lost all connectivity to Flagstaff—internet and cable, so the only way they knew what was happening was ‘the old fashioned way’ of land lines. This only happens in the Monsoon time of the year and is usually only off about 20minutes. I’ll be anxious to find out where the lightning hit since it didn’t affect the FM radio station that has a tower close to the cable company.
Ø Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)
1. In Pokemon, what does Charmander become in the third stage?
2. Who wrote the show Company?
3. Which show on skates was the first to play in Las Vegas Hilton, in '93?
4. What was the first Web browser called?
5. Sugar was based on which Marilyn Monroe movie?
6. In Pokemon what does Pikachu develop into?
7. Which Russian city was famous for its State Circus?
8. The company whose full name was Radio Keith Orpheum produced what?
9. Pokemon is an abbreviation of what?
10. In which Austrian city, home of Mozart, has an annual music festival been held since 1920?
11. Who is the Princess in the Super Mario Gang?
12. Where in Japan is the Nintendo company based?
13. Alvin Ailey founded a theater for which branch of hearts?
Ø Zoom-ed in Picture…Can you Identify what this is? (Answer at end of post)
Ø Hmmmmm…
· Percentage of Americans who say they would like cosmetic surgery if they could afford it: 69
· Percentage increase in the number of US ‘buttock-augmentation surgeries’ performed since 2008: 37
Ø Somewhat Useless Information…
· In 2005, a 57 year-old woman gave birth to her own granddaughter, a baby conceived with an egg donated by her 27 year-old daughter.
· In 2006, a 41 year-old British woman married what she called "the love of my life": a male dolphin named Cindy.
Ø Yeah, It Really Happened…
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — An estranged wife attacked her husband with a "basket of pocketknives" inside the home they formerly shared on Roundhouse Road on Sunday, police say.
Kathleen Patricia Shearn, 52, is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and criminal mischief. Police said she was not allowed at the home as a bail condition on charges she assaulted her husband with a fork in May.
Police said that Eric Shearn said his wife and he were arguing in the house when she began destroying things inside the home. Shearn told officers his wife no longer lives in the house, according to court records. Shearn told officers his wife hit him in the head with a basket of pocketknives. According to court records, she then got in her car and drove it onto the lawn, tearing up the turf, and then left.
That's when Shearn reportedly called police. But his wife returned before troopers got there, broke an end table on his head and left again, according to court records. Police said they found the home in disarray and Shearn had cuts and a lump on his head.
After an arraignment before District Judge Kay Dubree, Shearn was sent to county prison and released Tuesday.
She was charged with assault in May after throwing a fork at her husband that cut open his face. Dubree married the couple in 1999, according to court records.
Ø Guffaw…or at least smile…
The economy is so bad that:The Mafia is laying off judges!
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A public school teacher was arrested today at John F Kennedy International airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney General Eric Holder said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction. 'Al-Gebra is a problem for us', the Attorney General said. 'They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values .' They use secret code names like 'X' and 'Y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'There are 3 sides to every triangle'. When asked to comment on the arrest, a legislator who asked to remain anonymous, said, 'If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes.'
Ø Searchin’ “You Tube” I found…
Milton Berle 1951
(Cliburn)Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
BEAH RICHARDS: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS
Ø Daybook Information…
…Happening This Week:
· 1-4 International Chicken Wing Week
· 1-7 National Unassisted Homebirth Week
· 3-9 Be Nice To New Jersey Week
· 4-10 Freedom Week
Nude Recreation Weekend
· 10-16 Sports Cliché Week
National Farriers Week
· 12-18 National Parenting Gifted Children Week
National Ventriloquism Week
Ø TODAY IS
· National Pecan Pie Day
· Kiribati: Independence Day (an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean: 1979 from UK)
Ø Today’s Events:
… IN ARTS
1962 - Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London)
1970 - Blues-Rock singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky
… IN ATHLETICS
1901 - Cy Young wins his 300th game
1928 - 1st televised tennis match
… IN BUSINESS
1785 - 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
1859 - Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, MA
… IN EDUCATION
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… FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1775: A part of a legislative bill allocates $500 to Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, to be dedicated to the education of Indian youth.
1788: A small Ojibwa war party attacks a small army unit thirty miles north of Fort Harmar in Ohio. Two soldiers are killed and three are wounded. This attack hampers plans for a peace conference in Ohio.
… IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
1679 - Britain's King Charles II ratified Habeas Corpus Act
1920 - Panama Canal opens
1990 - Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party
… IN RELIGION
1290 - Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I
1580 - Ostrog Bible, the first printed Bible in a Slavic language, is published
… IN SCIENCE
1878 - Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500
… IN US POLITICS
1909 - 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes)
1933 - Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1951 - Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero Ill
1957 - 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower
1972 - Democrats nominated George McGovern for president in Miami
1984 - Geraldine Ferraro, NY becomes 1st woman major-party VP candidate
… ARTISTS: AUTHORS: COMPOSERS
1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
1884 - Louis B. Mayer, in Ukraine, American film producer and creator of the star system (MGM)
1817 - Henry David Thoreau, naturalist/pacifist (Walden Pond)
Harvey Lavan Van Cliburn Jr, pianist (Tchaikovsky 1958) turns 77
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, English pottery designer/manufacturer (Wedgwood)
…ATHLETES
Travis Best, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers) turns 39
…ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
1908 - Milton Berle, comedian (Uncle Miltie, Mr Television)
Bill Cosby comedian turns 74
1909 - Curly Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (Three Stooges)
Topher Grace, actor (That 70’s Show) turns 33
1952 - Phil Kramer, Youngtown Oh, rocker (Iron Butterfly: In A Gadda Da Vida )
Cheryl Ladd actress (Charlie’s Angels) turns 60
1920 - Beah Richards, American actress
Jay Thomas, actor, comedian turns 63
… ENTREPRENEUR & EDUCATORS
1854 - George Eastman, inventor (Kodak camera)
Richard Simmons, exercise guru (Deal-a-Meal) turns 63
…POLITICIANS
100 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman military and political leader
…SCIENTISTS / THEOLOGISTS
1864 - George Washington Carver, botanist (studied the peanut)
1895 - R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor (geodesic dome)
Ø Today’s Obits:
1973 - Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Wolfman), dies after long illness at 66
1712 - Richard Cromwell, English Lord Protector (1658-59), dies at 85
1804 - Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in pistol duel near Weehawken at 49
1949 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland dies at 89
2005 - John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, Chief executive of British Airways since its privatization dies at 88
1976 - Ted Mack (William Edward Maguiness), TV host (Original Amateur Hour), dies at 72
2004 - Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada dies at 86
2008 - Tony Snow, former speechwriter for Presidents George H.W. Bush and press secretary for George W. Bush dies of colon cancer at 53
Ø ANSWERS:
Ø Trivia Quiz
1. In Pokemon, what does Charmander become in the third stage?
a. Charizard
2. Who wrote the show Company?
a. Stephen Sondheim
3. Which show on skates was the first to play in Las Vegas Hilton, in '93?
a. Starlight Express
4. What was the first Web browser called?
a. Mosaic
5. Sugar was based on which Marilyn Monroe movie?
a. Some Like it Hot
6. In Pokemon what does Pikachu develop into?
a. Raichu
7. Which Russian city was famous for its State Circus?
a. Moscow
8. The company whose full name was Radio Keith Orpheum produced what?
a. Films - as RKO
9. Pokemon is an abbreviation of what?
a. Pocket Monster
10. In which Austrian city, home of Mozart, has an annual music festival been held since 1920?
a. Salzburg
11. Who is the Princess in the Super Mario Gang?
a. Daisy
12. Where in Japan is the Nintendo company based?
a. Kyoto
13. Alvin Ailey founded a theater for which branch of hearts?
a. Dance
Ø Close Up Picture
Alpaca
Ø …AND THAT’S ALL FOR NOW
Ø Blog Returns Jul 29, 2011
