July 20

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Flagstaff Almanac

Week: 29 Day: 202

Today: High   80°…Low 57°

Records: High   92° (1989)…Low 34° (1987)

Averages: High   81°…Low 52°

Wind:   8mph;  Gusts: 10mph

Partly Cloudy…rain on the way  Today’s humidity:  25%

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights

2005 - Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent

1998 - Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban

1984 - Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America

1973 - The US Senate passes the War Powers Act

1969 - 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin Jr, Apollo 11

1968 - Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts

1964 - 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City"

1944 - Pres FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention

1933 - Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler

1927 - Lindbergh begins NY flight (Spirit of St Louis)

1926 - A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests

1881 - Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops

1855 - 1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands

1749 - Earl of Chesterfield says "Idleness is only refuge of weak minds"

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 Free Rambling Thoughts   

A great day in Flag, cooler than expected, a little cloudy, looked like rain and even smelled like rain, but none fell on this side of town.

I got a call from Focus Travel today. Ellie and fellow travelers who went to Victoria Falls are safely home…after 42 hours of straight travel without a hotel. So glad I didn’t add Vic Falls to my agenda. Hopefully everyone had as good a time as I did, and I look forward to our next adventure together. I’ll send out my Photo Contest stuff tomorrow, as soon as Ellie sends me the Welcome Home email. Not sure about the Uganda airline trip through Dubai…it may change a little, by adding a night in Dubai for a little sleep before the return to the US. For those who travel the whole trip back to Denver that would certainly help. Time will tell, and I’ll still be spending a night in Houston, no matter what everyone else does. I’m back on a good Flag schedule finally as I didn’t wake up till 6am this morning.

I should mention that the My Latest Adventure are actual pictures I took on my recent HLO Tours/Focus Travel trip to Kenya and Tanzania with a stopover in Dubai. I will also be doing a separate blog and a couple of slide shows that will show up on YouTube sometime in the next few weeks. It was a great trip and couldn’t wait to share them so this is a sneak peak.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)

What is the answer?

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, and the only food she had for her ten children was six potatoes. How did she make sure that each child had an equal share?

5X5 Word Boxes

The answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc. Can you solve these Word Boxes? Each answer is 5 letters.

1.    around

2.    anchorage place

3.    talk pompously

4.    speak

5.    not here

Hint: upper left to lower right is: A-E-A-E-E

Lifestyle  Substance     

My Latest Adventure—

One Hit Wonders of the 1950’s

• Harlem Nocturne…Viscounts…1966

• Elusive Butterfly…Bob Lind…1966

• Cool Jerk…The Capitols…1966

• The Cheater…Bob Kuban and the In-Men…1966

Harper’s Index         

Chances that an employed American works in the service industry: 6 of 7

Found on You Tube 

• The Ice Cream Truck Song

• ICE CREAM SONG
       

Joke-of-the-day

Two Alaskans were walking in the woods when they came upon some tracks.
The first said, "You know, those look like deer tracks."The other said, "No, silly, those are moose tracks." They were still arguing about it when a train hit them.

Bonus

A doctor broke the bad news to a man, that his wife would have to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital. “I’m afraid her mind’s completely gone,” he said. “Makes sense,” mumbled the man. “She’s been giving me a piece of it every day for the last 15 years.”

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

On a cold day, soaking wet blue jeans will draw heat from your lower body twice as fast as wearing no pants at all.

Yeah, It Really Happened

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. - Police in Florida said a man who broke into a Pizza Hut store took two cases of mozzarella cheese when he was unable to open the cash register. Altamonte Springs police said the shoeless bandit was recorded on surveillance video at 2 a.m. June 9 breaking into the store by smashing the glass of the front door with a crowbar and attempting to open a cash register by slamming it on the ground, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported Tuesday. Police said the man was unable to open the register and then proceeded to the kitchen, where he took two cases of mozzarella cheese before leaving the store. Police said they are attempting to identify the burglar.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• America is the ice cream capital of the world, producing more than 1.5 gallons of ice cream per year.

• Vanilla is the most popular flavor in the United States, pulling in 20-29 percent of all ice cream sales.

• Ice cream sandwiches and fudge sticks are the most popular ice cream novelties.

• Pecans are the most popular nut and strawberries are the most popular fruit added to ice cream.

• About 9 percent of all the milk produced in the United States is used to produce ice cream.

• Premium ice cream is the most popular with consumers, but it has a higher fat content than regular ice cream.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

15-21

National Parenting Gifted Children Week
*Rabbit Week
Captive Nations Week
National Independent Retailers Week
National Zoo Keeper Week

18-21

Baby Food Festival
National Ventriloquism Week

18-25

Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week:

Today Is                                                                      

National Lollipop Day

Moon Day (1969…Man's First Lunar Landing)
* Colombia Independence Day (1810 from Spain) 

* Islamic Calendar: Ramadan begins

Today’s Events Through History  

2000’s

2000 - The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are 

             indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering

2000 - In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members

            for the first time in a decade

1900’s

1989 - Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest

1982 - Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks

1977 - The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of 

             Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments

1976 - Hank Aaron hits 755th & last home run off Angels Dick Drago

1976 - Vietnam War: The US military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand

1960 - Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon

1956 - Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam 

1956 - Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs

1954 - Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North & South

1953 - The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF 

             a permanent agency

1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending 

            Friday prayers in Jerusalem

1944 - Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins

1940 - Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart (#1 is "I'll Never Smile Again" by 

            Tommy Dorsey)

1928 - The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their 

             nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the

             same laws and taxes as other Hungarians

1924 - Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, 

             Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned

             a fountain and killed several people

1921 - Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside

            over the US House of Representatives

1917 - WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn

1800’s

1878 - 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii

1876 - 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins

1871 - British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province

1868 - 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes

1861 - Confederate state's congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Va

1808 - Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names

1801 - Elisha Brown Jr pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm

1700’s

1773 - Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)

1738 - North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan

1600’s

1676 - Captain Benjamin Church has been joined by the Sakonett Indians, in the war 

            with King Philip. They attack Philip's main camp, and almost capture Philip. His 

            wife and child are captured. They are sold as slaves. As many as 170 Indians 

            are killed in the fighting.

1654 - Anglo-Portuguese treaty, Portugal comes under English control

1500’s

1528 - After spending almost a month in the Apalachee village of Ivitachuco, the 

            Narvaez expedition leaves. They set out in their quest for gold looking for the

            village of Aute, near present day St. Marks. Accompanying Narvaez is Aztec 

            Prince Tetlahuehuetzquititzin. The Prince, also known as Don Pedro, fought with

            the Spanish against Montezuma. He is killed by Apalachee warriors during this

            search for gold.

1300’s

1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of 

            England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Under 30

Julianne Hough, ballroom dancer (DWTS) is 24

In their 40’s

Josh Holloway, TV Actor (Lost) is 43

Sandra Oh, Korean Canadian actress will be 41

In their 50’s

Donna Dixon, American actress is 55

In their 60’s

Kim Carnes, Pasadena Ca, rock vocalist (Bette Davis Eyes) is 66

John Lodge, Birmingham, bassist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin) is 67

Carlos Santana, Mexico, rock guitarist (Santana-Black Magic Woman) is 65

In their 70’s

Nelson Doubleday, publisher (Doubleday)/owner (NY Mets) is 79

Diana Rigg, actress (Emma Peel-Avengers, Hospital)will be 74

In their 80’s

Thomas Berger, US, novelist (Vital Parts, Little Big Man) is 88

Remembered for being born today

Alexander the Great, Pella Macedon, Macedonian king and military leader - 356BC

Edmund Hillary, Auckland NZ, Explorer and Mountaineer (1st to scale Mt Everest with

        Tenzing Norgay) - 1919

Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter - 1847

Gregor Mendel, Austrian Empire, monk/geneticist (discoverer of laws of heredity) - 

         1822

Natalie Wood, [Natasha Gurdin], SF, (Gypsy, Rebel Without a Cause) - 1938

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Tammy Faye Messner (Bakker), American televangelist dies of cancer at 65 - 2007

Richard Egan, actor (Big Cube, Amsterdam Kill), dies of prostate cancer at 63 - 1987

Jim [James] Fixx, jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running), dies of heart attack at 52 - 1984

Andrew Lang, Scottish author (Blue Book of Fairy Tales) dies of angina pectoris at 68 -

         1912

Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], actor (Enter the Dragon), dies of cerebral edema at 32 -

          1973

Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author, president of the International Olympic Committee 

          dies at 73 - 1908

Pancho Villa, [Doroteo Arango], Mexican rebel, murdered at 45 -1923

Answers                                                                                                                                            

What is the answer?

She made mashed potatoes and served them with a spoon.

5X5 boxes

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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 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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