July 22

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Flagstaff Almanac

Week: 30 Day:  204

Today: High   78°…Low 59° Averages: High  81°…Low 52°

Records: High   92°(1996)…Low 38°(1995)

Wind:   9mph;  Gusts: 36mph

Lots of clouds, light afternoon rain  Today’s humidity:   40%

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights

2003 - Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard

1992 - Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison

1988 - 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research

1982 - Biggest mass wedding, Rev Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in NYC

1963 - Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title1960 - Cuba nationalizes all US owned sugar factories

1955 - 1st VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon

1893 - Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful," in Colorado

1796 - Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleveland

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Free Rambling Thoughts   

Nice cool Saturday. I had visitors from the Rez last night…great to catch up. It also reminds me how grateful I am that I am retired. Trying to fit travel into a couple of weeks in the summer just isn’t for me anymore.

I’m looking forward to the London Olympics. Our local cable has added a few channels that might turn out to be interesting…if not too expensive. I was surprised, and a little naive I guess, when I found out the Team USA uniforms were made in China. I get the global economy thing, and the recession thing. It just seems to be an odd message for the US Olympic honchos to be sending. While in Kenya recently we were talking to our guide about Kenya runners on the world stage. He told us that these world class runners, both male and female were all cousins.  Turns out he meant they were all from one small tribe and related as cousins, much like so many Native tribes in the US name ‘cousins’, not by the direct blood relation so common in Anglo society. It is always enjoyable to watch the top athletes participate in their chosen sport.  I look forward to the back stories of many of the athletes. I will always remember the summer Olympics, as I was traveling in Scotland during much of the games. We didn’t have a lot of time for TV, but were able to catch a lot of highlights before crashing at night or getting up early before we started out. Being in Scotland, the highlights were about Scottish and other UK country athletes with very little on American athletes. It was a good lesson in perspective for all my travels…and my life. The countdown to London Olympics has begun to the Opening Ceremony…one of the few ‘one-upmanship’ events I enjoy…the music, the march in, the lighting of the torch…always awesome, always different, and always the same!

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)

What is the answer?

What do the following words have in common?PIG  PONY  BOB  DOVE  SWALLOW  COTTON

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.      joint
2.      genus of coniferous trees
3.      hold firm
4.      happen
5.      use this word to ask someone's location
HINT: Upper left to lower right: E-A-A-U-E

Lifestyle  Substance     

Do you remember this?

My Latest Adventure—

One Hit Wonders of the 1960’s

• Do It Again A Little Bit Slower
…Jon&Robin&the In Crowd…1967

• Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
…The Casinos…1967

• Let It Out
…The Hombres…1967

• MacArthur Park
…Richard Harris…1967

Harper’s Index         

Rank of Goldman Sach employees among the largest funding sources for Mitt Romney’s campaign: 1

Rank for Obama’s 2008 campaign: 2

Found on You Tube 

MacArthur Park        

Joke-of-the-day

This guy was pulled over for running a stop sign. When the cop checked the man's driver's license, he said, "You're wearing glasses on your ID and you're not now. I'm going to have to give you a ticket."The guy said, "Officer, I have contacts."The cop said, "Look, buddy, I don't care who you know, ... I'm giving you a ticket."

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

Oersted's rule: Hold right hand with the fingertips in the direction of current. The line shall be between the magnet and the palm. Magnet north pole will then turn to the thumb side. Named for Hans Christian Ørsted (often rendered Oersted in English; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851), a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism

Yeah, It Really Happened

TONAWANDA, N.Y. - A battle between neighbors in western New York intensified when one woman put a pair of fake testicles in her back yard. Shirley Draper, of Tonawanda, put the fake testicles in her yard in June, The Tonawanda (N.Y.) News reported Thursday. Her neighbor, Peter Diliberto, called the Tonawanda Police Department June 27 to complain about the lawn ornament, but was told the police could not handle the issue, as displaying fake testicles is not considered illegal.
In response, Diliberto and his wife took a picture of Draper's fake testicles and made a laminated yard sign that points to Draper's yard. Draper tried to rip the picture out of the Dilibertos' yard July 4, police Lt. Nick Bado said. She wasn't arrested at that time, but will be served criminal summons for fourth-degree criminal mischief and trespassing.                 

Somewhat Useless Information   

• In 1994, archaeologists in Zanjan, Iran, discovered a perfectly preserved body of a man who was buried in a salt quarry, 2,600 years prior.

• When examined at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, MI, a 2,700-year-old Egyptian Mummy was found to still have red-painted fingernails.

• Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on Independence Day, July 4, 1826.

• The first public Fourth of July event at the White House occurred in 1804.

 Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

18-25

Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week:

Today Is                                                                      

Casual Pi Day

National Penuche Fudge Day

Parents' Day

Rat-catchers Day

Spooners (Spoonerism) Day  

Today’s Events Through History  

2000’s

2011 - Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya

2002 - Israel assassinates Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, along with 14 civilians

1900’s

1994 - 23rd & last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (since July 16th)

1991 - Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978

1983 - Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world

1975 - House of Reps votes to restore citizenship to Gen Robert E Lee

1971 - Sudan military counter coup under premier Numeiry

1962 - 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off

1942 - Gasoline rationing using coupons begins

1937 - Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court

1933 - Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight

1926 - 105°F (41°C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record); 108°F (42°C), Troy, NY (state record)

1912 - 5th Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden closes

1800’s

1814 - A Treaty (7 Stat., 118.) with the "Wyandot, Delaware, Shawanoese, Seneca, and Miamie" is signed. The United States declares peace. It is signed by dozens of Indians.

1700’s

1793 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada

1790 - The United States enacts a law for the formal regulation of trade with Indians titled "An Act providing for Holding a Treaty or Treaties to Establish Peace with Certain Indian Tribes." It also enacts "An Act to Regulate Trade and Intercourse With the Indian Tribes."

1600’s

1686 - City of Albany, NY chartered

1200’s

1298 - English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk

1000’s

1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Under 30

Selena Gomez, Disney Actress is 20

In their 40’s

Rob Estes, American actor is 49

Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor is 40

John Leguizamo actor (Mambo Mouth, Whispers in the Dark) is 48

Shawn Michaels, [Mike Hickenbottom], San Antonio, wrestler (WWF/AWA) is 47

David Spade, comedian (SNL, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep) is 48

In their 50’s

Willem Dafoe, Wisc, actor (Platoon, Roadhouse 66, Mississippi Burning) is 57

In their 60’s

Albert Brooks, LA California, comedian (Broadcast News, Lost in America) is 65

Danny Glover, actor (Lethal Weapon, Operation Dumbo Drop) is 65

Don Henley, Linden Tx, rock drummer/vocalist (Eagles-Desparado) is 65

Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator from Texas is 69

Bobby Sherman, actor/singer (Seattle) is 65

In their 70’s

George Clinton, Kannapolis NC, rocker (Parliament-Funkadelic) is 71

Alex Trebek, Sudbury Ontario, TV game host (High Rollers, Jeopardy) is 72

In their 80’s

Orson Bean, Burlington VT, actor/comedian (To Tell the Truth) is 84

Robert J Dole, (Sen-R Kansas, 1969-95)/presidential candidate (R-1996) is 89

Remembered for being born today

Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (Pulitzer Prize for John Brown's Body (1928)) - 1898

Doc Cramer, American baseball player - 1905

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Boston Massachusetts, mom of JFK, RFK & Ted - 1890

Emma Lazarus, Jewish poet ("New Colossus"-base of Statue of Liberty) - 1849

Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence - 1510

William Archibald Spooner, London, reverend/inventor (spoonerisms) - 1844

Amy Vanderbilt, authority on etiquette (Complete Book of Etiquette) - 1908

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Francesco Botticini, Italian painter, dies in 1497 at about 52

Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist dies in 1903 at 92

John Dillinger, shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago in 1934, at 31

Estelle Getty, American comedic actress (Sophia-Golden Girls), dies in 2008 at 84Carl Sandburg, poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), dies in 1967 at 89

Answers                                                                                                                                            

What is the answer?

All can be followed by TAIL to make a new word.

5X5 boxes

ELBOW

LARCH

BRACE

OCCUR

WHERE

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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