Feb 11

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1790 - Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery

1808 - Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa

1812 - Mass Gov Gerry signs a redistricting bill-1st "gerrymander"

1878 - 1st weekly Weather report published in UK

1935 - -11°F (-24°C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)

1953 - Pres Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple

1978 - China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens

1990 - Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa

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Free Rambling Thoughts   

A busy Friday here in Flag. Laundry day so I could have clean clothes to go out and about. Then out and about with several stops and success at each one. Good day overall. Tuesday is AZ’s 100^th birthday…the Weatherford Hotel, our historic hotel—where Zane Grey and others stayed, will celebrate with a dropping of the famous Pine Cone. It drops every New Year’s Eve, but will drop on our state’s birthday. Cool.
 Flagstaff has closed one of its main downtown streets and turned it into a snowboard competition for the weekend. Some happy snowboarders and a few businesses. Others are not so happy. Traffic, parking, liter, and other concerns. I’ll check it out and see if Mountain Dew paid the city enough for this inconvenience. It should be noted there is no snow on the ground anywhere near Downtown Flagstaff right now, but the planners made huge piles of our last storm in two local downtown parks—causing some other problems—and the  YouTube video  I just saw of the preparation makes the street look like a Vail or Aspen—where they don’t have to truck in the snow. The 9^th Circuit Court says it’s OK to use reclaimed water to make snow so the battle continues. Flag so wants to be the first place in the nation to use this kind of water for snowmaking. A few decades ago they were all for uranium mining. After the lack of clean up after the mining, now they don’t want that kind of mining. Hmm, wonder if the next generation will feel the same way about reclaimed water’s artificial snow.

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

This puzzle involves famous people whose last names are used to finish a sentence — only the names have been turned into anagrams. Take, for example, the sentence "Andre is a gas." Rearrange the letters in the last three words to get the answer: "Agassi."

1.     Angela runs abely:

2.     Barbara inserts ad:

3.     Susan ran no ads:

4.     William shares a peek:

5.     Steven beeps girl:

6.     Bruce sings repent:

7.     John bites neck:

8.     Julie wanders:

9.     Bob coasts:

10.  Sam had reps:

11.  Martin sees orks:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     

AZ Centennial – Feb 14:  Did you know?…

How did Cibeque, AZ get its name?

Captain E.C. Hentig of the 6th Calvary, with six enlisted men of General Carr's Command, were killed here in a fight with Apaches. Nock-aye-de-Klinney, Apache Medicine Man, was killed by the troops. Hurley, interpreter at Apache, shortly after the fight, told the author that when General Carr asked an Apache scout what they called the place, he replied "She-be-Ku," meaning "My house"; (she, "my", becue, "house"). Carr accepted this as a name for the place.

How did Chloride, AZ get its name?

"The name for this former mining community derived from the fact that the exposed ores carried heavy silver chloride. The community was the first Arizona mining village to come into being in the 1860s and it continues to survive. The first mines discovered included those at Silver Hill in 1863 where Hualapai Indians laid their hands on the settlers's guns and used them to kill four miners. One was shot and two others were killed by stones thrown down the mining shaft. It was a mining camp by 1864 and developed into a town so that by 1900 its population was two thousand.

Daffynitions: :-)

CHICKENS: Animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead

INERTIA — Resisting arrest

Found on You Tube         

Erik-Jan Bos: On Rene Descartes

Harper’s Index         

Percentage of Americans who say their household couldn’t come with $2,000 in 30 days: 47

Joke-of-the-day

A married couple, both avid golfers, was discussing the future one night."Honey", the wife said, "if I were to die and you were to remarry, would you two live in this house?""I suppose so - it's paid for.""How about our car? Continued the woman. "Would the two of you keep that?"I suppose so - it's paid for.""What about my golf clubs? Would you let her use them too?"Heck, no," the husband blurted out. "She is left-handed."

Planet Earth

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

If someone you're interviewing makes the same point more than twice, it's the most important thing to him, and a crucial clue to his personality.

Somewhat Useless Information   

An adult has fewer bones than a baby. We begin life with 350 bones, but because bones fuse together during growth, we end up with only 206 as adults.

The largest bone in the human body is the thigh bone, or femur, which grows an average length of 19.88 inches while the smallest is the stapes, the innermost of three tiny bones in the middle ear, sizing at 0.07 inches.

Hitting one's funny bone is the aggravation of the ulnar nerve, which runs near the ulna bone. This name is thought to be a pun, based on the sound resemblance between the words "humerus" and "humorous."\

The 2001 film Bones was a horror film set in 1979 and featured rapper Snoop Doggy Dog as a gangster who comes back from the dead to avenge his murder.A musical folk instrument called the bones was most commonly made up of a pair of animal bones, usually sections of large rib bones and lower leg bones, or a piece of wood.

Males and females have slightly different skeletons, including a different elbow angle. Males have slightly thicker and longer legs and arms; females have a wider pelvis and a larger space within the pelvis, through which babies travel when they are3, and 4 born.

Yeah, It Really Happened                 

A video purporting to be the work of an angry father teaching his daughter a lesson by shooting bullets through her laptop is the viral video of day. The father, who identifies himself as Tommy Jordan, says his daughter broke ground rules when using Facebook, and posted disrespectful remarks about him there. He retaliates by laying out a case against her in an 8-minute video, concluding it with firing 8 bullets through her computer.  The video was posted on YouTube and supposedly on the 15-year-old girl’s Facebook page last night. By mid-morning, it had more than 1 million views, and it sparked debate across the Web – some cheered on the father’s "tough love," while others accused him of abuse. As this video continues to blow up on the Internet, we are investigating whether this is a real parent or some sort of stunt. Experts say "executing" your teen’s laptop might feel good, but it's a bad idea in Friday's Red Tape Chronicles.

Calendar Information        

…Happening This Week:

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Boy Scout Anniversary Week

Children's Authors & Illustrators Week

Jump Your Significant Jerk Week

Freelance Writers Appreciation Week

International Coaching Week

Just Say No to PowerPoint Week

Publicity for Profit Week

World Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week

Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week

International Networking Week

International Friendship Week

National Green Week

National School Counseling Week

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Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week

Risk Awareness Week

Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week

Getting Dizzy Week

Today Is                                                                      

Be Electrific Day

Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day

National Shut-In Visitation Day
White Tee-Shirt Day

Cameroon: Youth Day

Japan: Satisfied Staying Single Day

           National Foundation Day (660 BC)
Vatican City: Independence Anniversary (1929)

Today’s Other Events                                                             

Before 1000CE

660 BC - Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu

1500’s

1531 - Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England

1700’s

1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, opened

1800’s

1809 - Robert Fulton patents steamboat

1852 - 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)

1855 - Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam.

1858 - 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France

1900’s

1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control

1928 - 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland

1937 - 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint Mich ends

1942 - "Archie" comic book debuts

1958 - 1st flight with black stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca NY

1960 - Jack Paar walks off his TV show

1963 - Julia Child's show The French Chef premieres

1970 - Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit

1975 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership

1993 - Janet Reno selected by Clinton as US Attorney General

2000’s

2011 - Egyptian Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 80’s

Conrad Janis, actor (Mork & Mindy, Quark, Bonino) is 84

Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator is 81

In their 70’s

Tina Louise, actor (Ginger-Gilligan’s Island) is 78

Sergio Mendes, jazz/pop musician (Brazil '66/'77/'88) is 71

Burt Reynolds, actor is 76

In their 50’s

Mary Docter, US, 3000m speed skater (Olympics-1980, 84, 88, 92) is 51

In their 40’s

Jennifer Aniston, actor (Friends) is 43

Sheryl Crow, singer is 49

Sarah Palin, politician is 48

Under 30 years old

Taylor Lautner, actor is 20

Remembered for being born on this day
Max Baer, American boxer and actor in 1909

Lloyd Bentsen, Senator-TX/1989 Dem VP nominee ) in 1921

Thomas Alva Edison, held 1200 patents in 1847

Eva Gabor, Hungarian-born actress (Lisa-Green Acres , Gigi) in 1919

Bobby "Boris" Pickett, rocker (Monster Mash) in 1940

Sidney Sheldon, novelist (1947 Academy Award, 1959 Tony, Bloodline) in 1917

Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice Pres (Confederacy) in 1812

William Henry Fox Talbot, Wiltshire England, photographic pioneer in 1800

Today’s Obits                                                           

Peter Benchley, American author (Jaws) dies of pulmonary fibrosis at 66 in 2006

Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am" dies of pneumonia at 53 in 1650

Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru The Tulips), dies of barbiturate poisoning and pneumonia at 53 in 1945

Patrice Lumumba, 1st premier Congo, assassinated at 34 in 1961

Don Porter, actor (Gidget), dies at 84 in 1997

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.     Angela runs abely: Lansbury

2.     Barbara inserts ad: Streisand

3.     Susan ran no ads: Sarandon

4.     William shares a peek: Shakespeare

5.     Steven beeps girl: Spielberg

6.     Bruce sings repent: Springsteen

7.     John bites neck: Steinbeck

8.     Julie wanders: Andrews

9.     Bob coasts: Costas

10.  Sam had reps: Shepherd

11.  Martin sees orks: Scorsese

Wuzzle

• One foot in the grave
• Sees through everything
• Low down payment

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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