Nov 14, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 46/ Day: 319   

Today: High   49°…Low 15°

Records: High   72°(1967)…Low -3°(2000)

Averages: High  51° Low 24°

Wind: average:   6mph; Gusts:  23mph

Today’s average humidity:  44%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

"Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published—1851

"National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning—1968

1st US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Phila—1732

Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light—1908

Disney's "Lion King" sets Broadway record of $2,700,000 daily sale—1997

FDR proclaims Philippine Islands a free commonwealth—1935

German planes destroy most of Coventry, England—1940

Maya King K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I (Ruler 1) ascends to the throne in 

     Piedras Negras, Mexico—603

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms—1960

Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation—1896

US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam—1965

Yale University announces it is going co-educational—1968

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Started the day off at the dentist…getting my new crown. Fits fine. I told him my tooth was sore for almost a week after the temporary was put on. He said he wasn’t surprised. I told him I was. He is an experienced dentist, who just bought the practice and I have yet to decide if I will stay with him. Not sure why…just a gut feeling.

 

Gonna buy my Chicago ticket tomorrow morning…when there might be some lower prices. Can’t believe it is $700 as it was about $560 last year. Only good thing is ‘our’ motel is still at $91/night.

 

Got my roommate’s ticket to Uganda…NBD…I talked to him and we will simply trade them at the airport in Houston. I talked to Hamdy and another cool stop will be ‘on the equator’ where there is a stop that has a bucket of water. They put the bucket on the equator and no swirling, put it on either side and the water swirls in opposite directions…should be cool. I’ve been south of the equator before and seen the difference. This will just be cool, right on the equator.

 

I’m am freaking out with my GFI outlets. In this crazy place there are two GFI’s in the kitchen and one in the downstairs bath…however, somehow they are connected to the other two outlets in the kitchen and the two upstairs bathrooms. I have a regular outdoor front outlet that I shorted out on Halloween night. That somehow also shut off all the GFI’s. After resetting the breaker, some of the kitchen GFI’s and outlets work, others don’t. I finally called the maintenance guy and he came right over. He looked, shook his head, tripped all the breakers and turned them back on, shook his head and said that he would have to call an electrician friend to see what was going on. For me to be baffled is understandable. For him to be baffled is a little disconcerting. He’ll be back, hopefully tomorrow with some answers.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Anagram Sentences: 6 letter anagrams

What are the missing words?

It wasn't the ______ thing the entomologist said, but at least we learned sometimes ______ occurred in the ______ world.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Unusual Uses for Everyday Things: TEA BAG

• After staying up all night fighting zombies you'll need to freshen up your eyes. Put a wet tea bag on each eye for 20 minutes to freshen them up!
• If your gums are bleeding, you can press a tea bag onto the bleeding area to stop the bleeding.
• Every day, to prevent foot rot, you should soak your feet everyday in a tea bath to keep the healthy and fresh!
• If your inoculation area hurts too much hold a tea bag there for 20 minutes to soothe the area.
• Help cool down razor burn with a wet tea bag on the affected areas.

Old Saying Explained:

CUT AND RUN…In an emergency rather than haul up an anchor the sailors would cut the anchor cable then run with the wind.

Ok, then?

TV Theme Songs you may remember:

Rawhide - Ned Washington and Dimitri

Read This Headline Carefully!!

NJ Judge To Rule On Nude Beach

 Sacred Mountains Around the World:

Celtic Music:

THE CELTS!

Harper’s Index:         

• Rank of rhinoplasty among the most common cosmetic surgical procedures performed on British men: 1
• Rank of breast reduction: 2

Ruminations:

Why does the waitress expect a bigger tip when the meal was more expensive? Was it more effort to bring me a steak that it was to bring me a hamburger?

Unusual Fact of the Day:

You can actually get nicotine poisoning from absorbing the chemical through your skin (from wet tobacco leaves). The phenomenon is called Green Tobacco Sickness (GTS).

Found on You Tube: 

• Claude Monet Documentary

• P.J. O'Rourke on Gay Marriage, Marijuana Laws

Joke-of-the-day:

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

SPOTTING FOOT PROBLEMS…A sneaker sole worn along the outer edge indicates flat feet. A sole worn along the inner edge indicates a high arch.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

Japanese contemporary artist Tatzu Nishino has transformed a public restroom in Osaka's Nakanoshima Park into a one-room hotel, Rocket News 24 reports. The newly-named "Nakanoshima Hotel" is part of the Osaka Canvas Project, a prefectural art event, and costs 10,000 yen (US $125) per night.

The luxurious-looking 22-square-meter room includes a shower, bed, and its own separate bathroom, according to Hotel Chatter.

The public restroom that surrounds the room is fully functional, and all the corollary sounds are fully audible to guests.

Even so, the one-room hotel is fully booked for the duration of the installation, primarily by hardcore fans of Nishino.

Fear not, though, there are plenty of other bizarre accommodations available worldwide. At the Jailhotel Löwengraben in Switzerland, you can settle in for the night inside a former prison cell.

And in Finland's Hotel Kakslauttanen & Igloo Village, you can put your feet up inside a glass igloo 250 miles inside the Arctic Circle.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• Newer U.S. cities that have had room to "spread out" tend to have fewer (and smaller) skyscrapers. The tallest building in Phoenix, the sixth-most-populous American city with 1.5 million inhabitants, is only 40 stories tall.

• Chinese architects have been reaching for the sky over the last two decades. In 1988, none of the nation's buildings ranked in the top 20 worldwide. Today, China claims 10 of the 20 tallest skyscrapers on the planet.

• Besides the Sears Tower, Chicago is home to three other buildings more than 1,000 feet tall: the Aon Center, the John Hancock Center, and the AT&T Corporate Center. A fourth, Two Prudential Plaza, misses the cut by only 5 feet.

• Laws dictate that no structure in the District of Columbia can stand taller than the 555-foot-tall Washington Monument.

• When viewing a list of the 20 tallest buildings on Earth, the Empire State Building stands out because of its age. The structure was completed in 1931, nearly 40 years before the next-oldest skyscraper on the list.

• The height of the Empire State Building stretches from 1,250 feet to 1,455 feet when you include its antenna. At the very top is a mast that was intended to anchor dirigibles but was never used for that purpose.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

11-17 

American Education Week ►Geography Awareness Week ►National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week

12-18  

National Global Entrepreneurship Week ►World Kindness Week ►National Young Reader's Week

Today Is                                                                      

International Girls Day
Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day
National American Teddy Bear Day
National Educational Support Professionals Day
Operation Room Nurse Day
Spirit of NSA (National Speakers Association) Day
Universal Children's Day
World Diabetes Day
World Orphans Day
~India Children's Day

Today’s Events through History  

1st streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12 cents rode on 

     4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Sts—1832

Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul—2001

Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on its Congo-policy—1960

Communist Party of Spain is founded—1921

Don Shula becomes winningest coach in NFL history—1993

Doubleday Publishing sells NY Mets to Nelson Doubleday & Fred Wilpon—1986

Henry Aaron wins NL MVP—1957

Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane), New York World reporter, began her attempt 

     to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling 

     around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, finishing the trip in 

     January in 72 days and 6 hours—1889

Paul 'Bear' Bryant ties Amos Alonzo Stagg with 314 football wins—1981

Pizarro's begins 1st great expedition, near Colombia—1524

Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs) —1666

The last direct-current distribution by Con Edison was shut down—2007

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 60’s

P J O'Rourke, writer (Easy Money) is 65

In their 50’s

Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State is 58

D B Sweeney, actor (Cutting Edge, Fire in the Sky, Day in October) is 51

Yanni, new age musician (Live at the Acropolis, Sand Dance) is 58

In their 40’s

Josh Duhamel, actor(Transformers)is 40

Curt Schilling, Anchorage AK, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies) is 46

Remembered for being born today

Rosemary DeCamp, Prescott Az, actress (Love That Bob, That Girl) (1910-2001)

Mamie G Doud Eisenhower, 1st lady (1896-1979)

Robert Fulton, Little Britain, Pen., inventor and engineer (1st commercial 

    steamboat), (1765-1815)

Veronica Lake, [Constance Ockleman], actress (I Married a Witch) (1922-1973)

Joseph R McCarthy, (Sen-R-Wisc), anti-communist (1908-1957)

Claude Monet, Paris, impressionist (Water Lilies), (1840-1926)

Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Indian PM (1889-1964)

Dick Powell, Mt View Ark, actor (Cry Danger, Dick Powell Theater) (1904-1963)

Sherwood Schwartz, Passaic NJ, TV creator (Brady Bunch, Gilligan Is) (1916-2011)

Ray Sharkey, Brooklyn NY, actor (Wise Guys, Wired, Caged Fear) (1952-1993)

McLean Stevenson, Normal Ill, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry) (1929-1996)

Adam Walsh, American murder victim (America’s Most Wanted) (1974-1981)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Jacobus Houbraken, engraver/illustrator—1780—at 81

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON—1977—at 81

T'ai tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty—976—at 49

Robert Trout, American journalist—2000—at 91

Booker T Washington, educator/organizer— hypertension—1915—at 59

Answer: Anagram sentence

It wasn't the nicest thing the entomologist said, but at least we learned sometimes incest occurred in the insect world.

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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