Oct 21, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 43/ Day: 295   Today: High   65°…Low 34°Records: High   77°(2003)…Low 4°(1949)
Averages: High  61° Low 30°Wind: average:   11mph; Gusts:  17mph
Today’s average humidity:  44%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical  Highlights:

1st black owners (Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team,      Denver Nuggets—1989
1st women in English House of Lords—1958
Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat—1967
Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens      (NYC) —1959
Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow—1976
Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb—1879
UN reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons—1948

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Allergies seemed to be the feeling of the day. Not sure what is causing the running nose, but hope it goes away soon. Eyes are itchy too. NAU’s homecoming and the TC Fair made this side of town nice and quiet. I took a walk and the highway had basically no traffic. Sure hope this nice weather continues.

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)

push the bird of peace (5,4)

Anagram Sentences:

What are the missing words? 4 letter anagrams

A ____ prisoner complained about the ____ ____ at the end of the day.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Guinness World Records:

The most Christmas trees chopped in two minutes is 27 by Erin Lavoie (USA) achieved on the set of Guinness World Records: Die GroBten Weltrekorde in Germany, on 19 December 2008.

Ok, then?

Commercial Jingles you may remember:

Bosco

Read This Headline Carefully!!

County to Pay $250,000 to Advertise Lack of Funds

Do you know what this word means?

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

rowel

Campaign Buttons:

Flash Mobs:

Christmas Food Court Flash Mob, Hallelujah Chorus

Harper’s Index:         

Minimum number of Palestinians being preempltively detained without trial by the Israeli government: 308

Unusual Fact of the Day:

A giraffe has the same number of neck vertebrae as a human (7).

Found on You Tube: 

• Dizzy Gillespie - A Night In Tunisia

• United We Stand Benefit Concert

• Bridge on the River Kwai Theme

Joke-of-the-day:

A Sunday school teacher asked her little children, as they were on the way to church service, "And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?"
One bright little girl replied, "Because people are sleeping."  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

COOKING A STEAK…If you want a medium-rare steak, it should be as firm as the puffy area between your thumb and your index finger. If you want your steak rarer, it should be softer; more done, harder.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

BALTIMORE - A man who completed the Baltimore Marathon in 2 hours, 46 minutes and 58 seconds in flip flops said he will seek to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. Keith Levasseur said he was ecstatic to complete all 26.2 miles of Saturday's race under his goal of three hours, and he is planning to see if his feat qualifies for the Guinness Book of World Records, Boston.com reported Thursday. "I knew it was all about maintaining a very efficient and balanced stride," Levasseur told Runner's World. "There were times when my feet and ankles would get tired from maintaining a more rigid stride than I might otherwise have and I would start landing more on the outside of the my foot and cause my heel to slip off the sandal. It only happened a few times and when it did, it would refocus my concentration on my stride and posture."

Somewhat Useless Information   

• Sinagua, Anasazi and Cohonina Indians were the first to settle in the area of Flagstaff.

• Flagstaff derived its name from a flag-raising ceremony held on the Fourth of July in 1876. Boston travelers chose a tall pine, trimmed its branches from the bottom up and attached a flag to the top in of observance of the nation's centennial.

• Flagstaff's early development was associated with the railroad, lumber and livestock industries.

• Northern Arizona University, which calls Flagstaff home, was founded as the Northern Arizona Normal School at Flagstaff in 1899.

• Flagstaff has an average of 108 inches of snowfall in a year.

• Flagstaff averages 288 days of sunshine per year

• Pluto was discovered at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ.

• The Museum of Northern Arizona houses more than 5 million southwestern artifacts.

• Walnut Canyon was originally home to the Sinagua Indians, who lived in the area in the 1200s before volcanic eruptions drove them out.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

17-24

Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week

21-27

Bullying Bystanders Unite Week
Kids Care Week
National Character Counts Week
National Chemistry Week
National Forest Products Week
National Friends of Libraries Week
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week National Massage Therapy Week
National Respiratory Care Week  National Save For Retirement Week
National School Bus Safety Week Pastoral Care Week
Red Ribbon Week
YWCA Week without Violence 2

Today Is                                                                      

• Babbling Day

• Celebration of The Mind Day 

• Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD) Prevention Day 

• National Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day 

• Reptile Awareness Day  

• World Toy Camera Day
 

Today’s Events through History  

1st Americans to see action on front lines of WW I—1917

1st display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts

      and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America—1774

Catholic uprising in Ulster: 1000s English & Scots killed—1641

Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll—1975

Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges—1988

Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War—1854

Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England) —1824

Pontiac ends the siege of Detroit—1763

Spanish arrive in San Francisco Bay—1769

"United We Stand" benefit concert for 9-11 terrorist attack victims, held at RFK Stadium. 

     Event organized and headlined by Michael Jackson, also featuring pop stars 

     Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, The Backstreet Boys, and others

Willy Brandt elected chancellor of West Germany—1969

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 30’s

Kim Kardashian, TV socialite is 32

In their 50’s

Carrie Fisher, actress (Princess Lelia-Star Wars) is 56

Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor is 53

In their 60’s

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister is 63

In their 70’s

Manfred Mann, [Michael Lubowitz], South Africa, rocker (Mighty Quinn)is 72

Judith Sheindlin, Brooklyn, New York, Jurist and Television personality (Judge Judy) is 70

In their 80’s

Edward "Whitey" Ford, hall of fame pitcher (NY Yankees) is 84

Remembered for being born today

Malcolm Arnold, Northampton Engld, composer (Bridge over River Kwai)      (1921-2006)Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner), (1772-1834)Dizzy Gillespie, [John B], jazz trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz (1917-1993)Natalee Holloway,U.S teen,disappeared in Aruba (1986-2005)Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes,      (1833-1896)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Fred Berry, actor [Re-run]—stroke—2003—at 52Jack Kerouac, US writer (Doctor Sax, On the Road)— cirrhosis —1969—at 47 Horatio Nelson, British Vice Admiral—at Battle of Trafalgar—1805—at 47
John T Scopes, US teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925)—1970—at 70

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur.

What is the rhyming answer?

Shove dove

Anagram sentence

A male prisoner complained about the lame meal at the end of the day.

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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