Sep 30, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 40/ Day   274:   

Today: High   72°…Low 37° Records: High   83°(2010)…Low 22°(1902)
Averages: High  68°…Low 37°
Wind: average:   3mph;  Gusts:  16mph
Today’s average humidity:  49%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s  Historical  Highlights:

1993 - 6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed

1962 - Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers

1960 - Flintstones premieres (1st prime time animation show)

1953 - Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

1934 - FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)

1877 - 1st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)

1864 - Black Soldiers given Medal of Honor

1791 - Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna

1452 - 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

A good Saturday. A little cloudy most of the day, but cleared up in the afternoon. Good day to do laundry…if there is such a thing. Also did some light cleaning while waiting for washer and dryer to do their thing. I also pulled out my great-grandmother’s quilt that she made in the 1920’s. I only use it for a few months each winter…and it’s still in great shape.

I’ve added some new items to this blog. Hope you enjoy them. One is Guinness World Records…never wanted to be on the list, but these people must have a passion. Another is Commercial Jingles You May Remember…as we all get them stuck in our head every now and then. Ok…then? Is just some funny or odd stuff from Facebook.

I did catch some of the NAU game—and they won again…having a good season. CU lost again…not having a good season. I don’t follow sports closely, but have found that there are some good games every now and then to watch.

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)

headache (5,4)

Rebus:

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Dedication: Guinness World Records:

Kevin Fast (Canada) pulled a CC-177 Globemaster III airplane, weighing 188.83 tonnes (416,299 lb), a distance of 8.8 m (28 ft 10.46 in) at Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ontario, Canada, on 17 September 2009. 

Ok, then?

Commercial Jingles you may remember:

"I'd like to teach the world to sing." 1971

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Shoplifters Robbed While Stealing from Grocery Store

Do you know what this word means?

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

Hibernophilia

Iconic Photographs:

Great Melodies:

Hallelujah Chorus…George F. Handel

Handel wrote the entire Messiah oratorio in 24 days. He borrows from his own works quite liberally in it, and some melodies by other composers, but the immortal Hallelujah Chorus is entirely his. He claimed to have not heard it in his head, but in his ears, being played by the angels in Heaven, while he simply took it down on paper. Its text comes from the King James version of the Revelation, 19:6, 11:15, and 19:16. When Haydn heard it once, he said, “Handel is the master of us all.” It is so famous now, that it is usually performed at Christmas even though the chorus comes at the end of the Easter section.

Harper’s Index:         

• Date on which a Slovakian government agency opened online voting to name a bridge over the Morava River: 2/21/2012
• Percentage of voters who sought to name the bridge after Chuck Norris: 75

Unusual Fact of the Day:

The ostrich doesn't stick its head underground to hide from predators. It bends its neck down low and flattens its head against the ground.

Found on You Tube: 

• "Clarabelle Speaks!"

• Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall In Love

Joke-of-the-day:

Now that we are into renaming things like Mount Diablo, President Obama wants to rename the San Andreas Fault. His suggestion, Bush's Fault.  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

SELLING AND TALKING…The sale is made while the customer is talking.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

EBENSBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania municipality is seeking a buyer or tenant for a unique property -- the former county prison. The Ebensburg Borough Council said the back portion of the facility, which is newer than the front, is being used to house county records, but the front portion, which was the original Cambria County Prison, has been vacant for 15 years, WJAC-TV, Johnstown, Pa., reported Thursday.
"If it wasn't the landmark that it is in town, if it wasn't on the national list of historic places, we still couldn't tear it down," Ebensburg Borough Manager Dan Penatzer said. "I think it's probably impossible to tear this building down." He said there are many different potential uses for the building. "A restaurant, a microbrewery, retail, offices, anything," Penatzer said. "There's so much crazy character about this building that could apply it to any business theme like that. I think there's a lot of possibilities."  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• George M. Dallas was the 11th vice president (1845-1849), serving under President James K. Polk. Dallas didn’t hold a very high opinion of the office, saying of the vice president: "Where is he to go? What has he to do? — no where, nothing." He called his wife "Mrs. Vice."

• Millard Fillmore was the 12th vice president (1849-1850), serving under President Zachary Taylor. When Taylor died in office, Fillmore became president, the last member of the Whig Party to do so. Taylor and Fillmore disagreed over extending slavery to territory won in the Mexican-American war. Taylor opposed expanding slavery while Fillmore supported it. Fillmore became president when Taylor died in office.

• William R. King was the 13th vice president (1853), serving under President Franklin Pierce. King was terminally ill with tuberculosis. He had gone to Cuba to help ease his health problems and was too sick to return to Washington, D.C., for the inaugural. Congress passed a special act to allow him to take the oath of office in Cuba, the only time it has been done on foreign soil.

• John C. Breckinridge was the 14th vice president (1857-1861), serving under President James Buchanan. He was the youngest person to hold the office, being elected at 35 (the minimum age under the Constitution) and taking office at 36. He later served as a general in the Confederate States Army.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

Gotta wait for October for any special events

Today Is                                                                      

Blasphemy Day
Gold Star Mother's DayNational Mud Pack Day
~Botswana: Independence Day (1966 from UK)

Today’s Events through History  

2000’s

 2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish 

              newspaper Jyllands-Posten

1900’s

1993 - General Colin Powell retires at 56

1990 - The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in 

            Canada's capital city of Ottawa

1988 - Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal

1980 - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and 

            Digital Equipment Corporation

1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache 

            makes its first flight

1970 - New American Bible published

1960 - On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"

1946 - 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg

1942 - 98 U-boats sunk this month (485,000 tons)

1941 - 53 U-boats sunk this month (202,000 tons)

1940 - 59 U-boats sunk this month (295,000 tons)

1935 - Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" premieres in Boston

1929 - 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)

1920 - Time Square Theater opens at 217 W 42nd St NYC

1800’s

1867 - Midway Islands formally declared a US possession

1865 - Acoording to a report dated today, the following number of Indians were 

            present at the Fort Sumner, New Mexico reservation in September: 

           402 Apache, 7,318 Navajo.

1813 - Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla

1700’s

1787 - 1st US voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston

1730 - In British Court in London, seven Cherokee leaders sign the "Articles of 

            Agreement" with the Lords Commissioners. It is a formal alliance covering 

            allegiance, peace and the return of captives.

1100’s

1199 - Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide

             of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 40’s

Jenna Elfman, actress (Townies, Dharma & Greg) is 41

In their 50’s

 Crystal Bernard, actress (Amy-It's a Living, Helen-Wings) is 51

Fran Drescher, actress (Cadillac Man, Nanny)  is 55

Eric Stoltz, actor: Pulp Fiction, Mask is 51

Barry Williams, Santa Monica California, actor (Greg-Brady Bunch) is 58

In their 60’s

Marilyn McCoo, Jersey City NJ, host/singer (Solid Gold, 5th Dimension) is 69

In their 70’s

Johnny Mathis, SF, voclaist (Chances Are, 12th of Never) is 77

In their 80’s

 Angie Dickinson, actress (Police Woman) is 81

Elie Wiesel, Romania, author (Souls on Fire)/Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986) is 84

Remembered for being born today

Truman Capote, New Orleans LA, author (In Cold Blood) b. 1924

Deborah Kerr, Helensburg Scotland, actress (King & I, Night of Iguana) b. 1921

Frankie Lymon, NYC, rocker (The Teenagers-Why do Fools Fall in Love) b. 1942

José María Morelos, Mexican revolutionary b. 1765

Chung Hee Park, general/pres of S Korea b. 1917

Jody Powell, press mouthpiece (Jimmy Carter) b. 1943

Buddy Rich, New York, American jazz drummer and band leader b. 1917

William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials b. 1631

William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum industrialist b. 1861

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Oops, see yesterday.

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

Love of all things Irish (from the classical Latin Hibernia = Ireland)

What is the rhyming answer?

 Brain pain

Rebus

Broken promise

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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