Sep 20

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Flagstaff Almanac…  

Week: 38 / Day: 264   Today: High   76°…Low 38°

Records: High   84°(1956, 1898)…Low 25°(1971)

Averages: High  72°…Low 41°

Wind: average:   3mph;  Gusts:  18mph

Today’s average humidity:  46%

Quote of the Day…

Today’s  Historical  Highlights…

2001 - In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, 

            U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror"

1985 - Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest

1982 - NFL players begin a 57 day strike

1971—I began my career as a teacher in the BIA—Shonto AZ

1973 - Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match

1961 - James Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi

1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival is held

1927 - NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th HR of season

1859 - George Simpson patents electric range

1519 - Ferdinand Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of world

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪.. 

How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

Free Rambling Thoughts…   

Another nice Fall day in Flagstaff. Didn’t take a long walk, but did get out and walk a little. So nice to live in such nice weather. Nights are too chilly to leave the windows wide open all night, but they sure can be during the day.

Today marks two anniversaries for this writer…in 1971 I started my career with the BIA at Shonto, AZ…in 1994 my father passed away at 80. 

Some cartoonist in France published cartoons about the Prophet Mohammad. Now French Embassies around the Muslim world are receiving protests and are on heightened security. Three things come to mind: first, those who do not live in a free society can’t conceive that the media is not controlled by the government leadership; second, high unemployment in a country (especially for youth) leads to anger and striking out at many things they don’t agree with; third, Islam is a younger religion than Christianity and one only needs to look back at the Christian Crusades to see that Christians had a no tolerance campaign in its younger days. Education is the answer to stop these protests.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

What is the rhyming answer?

Answer the following clue in two rhyming words (e.g. an obese feline is a fat cat) If only one number is given, the answer is a word featuring internal rhyme (e.g. voodoo)

Cetacean 'cells', collectively (5,4)

Rebus…

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance…     

Do you remember this?

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Nicaragua Sets Goal to Wipe Out Literacy

Do you know what this word means?

What is this not so common name of a common object?

Waldo

Gorilla:

Great Scenes in Musical Movie History…:

El Tango De Roxeanne…Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Harper’s Index…       
Amount Mazda will give to the NEA for every child who gets a parent ot take a test drive: $25

Unusal Fact of the Day…

The longest continuous sidewalk [about 4 ½ miles] in the world is along Bay Shore Boulevard in Tampa, Florida.

Found on You Tube… 

Gogi Grant...the wayward wind

Joke-of-the-day…

Note: Antarian is the politically correct term used in jokes of a person with little common sense.

An Antartian decides to try horseback riding, even though she has had no lessons or prior experience. She mounts the horse unassisted and the horse immediately springs into motion. It gallops along at a steady rhythmic pace, but the Antartian begins to slip from the saddle. In terror, she grabs for the horse's mane, but cannot seem to get a firm grip. She tries to throw her arms around the horse's neck, but she slides down the side of the horse anyway. The horse gallops along, seemingly oblivious to its slipping rider. Finally, giving up her frail grip, she leaps away from the horse to try and throw herself to safety. Unfortunately, her foot has become entangled in the stirrup and she is now at the mercy of the horse's pounding hooves as her head is struck against the ground again and again. As her head is battered against the ground, she is mere moments away from unconsciousness when...Stan the Walmart manager runs out to shut the horse off.  

Rules of Thumb…   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

RUNNING AND TALKING…If you can't maintain a comfortable conversation while exercising, you are probably working beyond your aerobic target zone.   

Yeah, It Really Happened…

YORK CITY, Pa. - Police in Pennsylvania said vandalism found spray-painted on a woman's sport utility vehicle included the misspelled word "bicth." York City police said the woman reported Saturday morning someone had used white paint to write the word, as well as the letters "LK," a picture of a crown and an indistinguishable design, on her 2004 Chevrolet Tahoe while it was parked at her home overnight, The York (Pa.) Dispatch reported Monday. Investigators said a motorcycle was also stolen from the woman's home and was later found abandoned in Spring Garden Township.

Somewhat Useless Information…   

• Studies have found napping raises your stamina 11 percent, increases ability to stay asleep all night by 12 percent, and lowers the time required to fall asleep by 14 percent.

• A little group called NASA discovered that just a 26-minute nap increases performance by 34 percent and alertness by 54 percent. Pilots take advantage of NASA naps while planes are on autopilot.

Calendar Information…        

Happening This Week:

15-22: National Singles Week / Pollution Prevention Week / Build A Better Image Week / Deaf Awareness Week / National Clean Hands Week  / National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week / Prostate Cancer Awareness Week / Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week / Tolkien Week / Turn Off Week / Balance Awareness Week / Constitution Week / National Love Your Files Week 

Today Is…                                                                      

National Punch Day

The word “punch” allegedly comes from the Hindustani word “panch,” which means “five.” In the early 1600s, sailors and employees of the British East India Company brought a new exotic drink from India to England. The beverage was made with five ingredients—spirits, lemon, sugar, water, and tea.

UN Opening of General Assembly

Today’s Events Through History…  

2000’s

 2011 - The United States ends its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, allowing gay men 

              and women to serve openly for the first time

1900’s

1990 - Saddam Hussein demands US networks broadcast his message

1988 - Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving

1984 - "Cosby Show" premieres on NBC-TV

1984 - Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23

1976 - Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women

1963 - JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon

1960 - UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations)

1954 - 1st FORTRAN computer program run

1932 - Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables

1800’s

1877 - Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)

1873 - Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) NY 

            shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal

1863 - Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tenn, ends

1848 - The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created

1839 - 1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem)

1805 - Lewis and Clark meet with the Nez Perce in the Weippe prairie, east of 

            Weippe, Idaho through October 9th

1700’s

1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland

1600’s

1664 - Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of 

            English women & black men

1500’s

1596 - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey in New Spain

Before 1000CE

622 - Prophet Mohammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina)

Today’s Birthdays…                                                           

In their 40’s

Kristen Johnston , actress (Sally Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun, The Exes) is 45

Gunnar Nelson, rock vocalist (Nelsons-Love & Affection) is 45

Matthew Nelson, rock vocalist (Nelsons-Love & Affection) is 45

In their 60’s

 James P[aul] Blaylock, US, sci-fi author (Elfin Ship, Homunculus) is 62

George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, US, sci-fi author (Wild Cards) is 64

In their 70’s

Sophia Loren, Rome, actress (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid) is 78

In their 80’s

Gogi Grant, [Audrey Brown], rock vocalist is 88

Anne Meara, comedian/actress (Stiller & Meara, Archie's Place) is 83

Remembered for being born today

Arnold "Red" Auerbach, NBA coach/GM (Boston Celtic) b. 1917

Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-born poet b. 1923

Peg Phillips, actress (Ruth Ann-Northern Exposure) b. 1918

Fernando Rey, [Arambillet], La Coruna Spain, actor (Matter of Time) b. 1917

Upton Beall Sinclair, Baltimore, Maryland, US writer (Jungle) b. 1878

Today’s Historical Obits…                                                           

Archibald Campbell, Scot milt man (blood bath of Glencoe)—1703--at 52

Charles S. Frazier, my father—1994—at 80

Leonard Skinner, American high school gym teacher; namesake of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd—2010— Alzheimer's disease--at 77 

Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter—2005—at 96

Wovoka, Paiute visionary, founded Ghost Dance Movement—1932—at 76

Answers…                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

A mechanical, hand-like device (otherwise known as the 'zapper' or 'thingummy') for manipulating objects by remote control. It was named after the main character in Robert A. Heinlein's novella Waldo (1942), which told the story of Waldo Farthingwaite- Jones, who had been born such a weakling that he couldn't even hold a spoon. Refusing to let this hold him back, he developed a powerful mechanical hand that he operated remotely.

What is the answer?

Whale jail

Rebus

Heart to heart

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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