Nov 18, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 46/ Day:    

Today: High   53°…Low 27° Averages: High  67° Low °

Records: High   67°(2007)…Low -10°(1964)

Wind: ave:   16mph; Gusts:  34mph Today’s average humidity:  46%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

1st English printed book "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers"—1477

1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World) "Origin 

     of a New Species," by Richard Outcault—1894

1st Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston—1787

Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens—1920

Bkln toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt—1902

College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University 

     when a massive bonfire under construction collapses—1999

J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"—1964

Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"—1865

Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia—1941

Old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated. Stood 4th - 16th century—326

St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated—1626

William Tell shoots apple off his son's head—1307

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Had a great lunch (late birthday) with Martha this afternoon. We had some great conversation and a good meal at the local Sizzler. So nice to have such good friends. Started out as a nice day, then those chilly winds came in…took all the fun out of being outside. 

This Gaza Strip thing seems to be something that will be in the news for quite some time. Looks like Egypt is the answer to creating a cease fire. Whatever it takes, as this centuries old disagreement is not going to go away.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

NEW! Duplicate Letter Puzzles Five letter words

Find common words with certain letters duplicated in the given positions. V stands for a duplicated vowel, C stands for a duplicated consonant, L stands for any duplicated letter, and _ stands for any letter

Example L _ L _ L is Rarer

C _ _ C C

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Unusual Uses for Everyday Things: Lemon Juice

Sanitize a chopping block.Eliminate the browning that occurs when cut fruit sits out too long.Remove tough food stains from plastic and light-colored wooden cutting      boards.
Fade tea stains on cloth.
Decorate on the cheap. Fill a glass bowl with lemons for a sunny      centerpiece. Or display a row of them along a windowsill.Relieve a sore throat. Cut a lemon in half. Skewer one half over a medium flame      on a gas stove or an electric burner set on high and roast until the peel      turns golden brown. Let cool slightly, then mix the juice with 1 teaspoon of honey.      Swallow the mixture.Brighten laundry whites. Add 1/2 cup lemon juice to the wash cycle of a      normal-size load.

Old Saying Explained:

DYED IN THE WOOL…Wool that was dyed before it was woven kept its color better than wool dyed after weaving of 'dyed in the piece'.

Ok, then?

TV Theme Songs you may remember:

The Simpsons - Danny Elfman

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Organ Festival Ends in Smashing Climax

America’s Historical Buildings:

Prairie Home Companion:

Powdermilk Biscuits and more

Harper’s Index:         

Percentage of Russians who say that having a strong leader is more important than democracy: 57

Ruminations:

So a hipster walks into a bar…that I was holding…and swinging

Unusual Fact of the Day:

A sculpture of Darth Vader's head appears on the outside of the Washington National Cathedral as a grotesque (similar to a gargoyle). Click to see it

Found on You Tube: 

• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

• Flowers and Trees (1932)

Joke-of-the-day:

A man was driving along the highway, and saw a rabbit hopping across the middle of the road. He swerved to avoid hitting the rabbit, but unfortunately the rabbit jumped in front of the car and was hit. The driver, being a sensitive man as well as an animal lover, pulled over to the side of the road and got out to see what had become of the rabbit. Much to his dismay, the rabbit was dead.

The driver felt so awful, he began to cry. A woman driving down the highway saw the man crying on the side of the road and pulled over. She stepped out of her car and asked the man what was wrong. "I feel terrible," he explained. "I accidentally hit this rabbit and killed it."

The woman told the man not to worry. She knew what to do. She went to her car trunk, and pulled out a spray can. She walked over to the limp, dead rabbit, and sprayed the contents of the can on to the rabbit.

Miraculously, the rabbit came to life, jumped up, waved it's paw at the two humans and hopped down the road. 50 meters away the rabbit stopped, turned around, waved at the two again, hopped down the road another 50 meters, turned, waved and hopped another 50 meters.

The man was astonished. He couldn't figure out what substance could be in the woman's spray can!! He ran over to the woman and demanded, "What was in your spray can? What did you spray on that rabbit?"

The woman turned the can around so that the man could read the label.

It said: "'Hair spray restores life to dead hair. Adds permanent wave."

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

FITTING A SHOE…You should have a thumb's width of space between the longest toe and the tip of your shoe.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

TIERP, Sweden - A Swedish preschool said a 105-year-old woman received an acceptance letter to its class because she was born in '07 -- but it turned out to be the wrong '07. The Central School in Tierp said Anna Eriksson, 105, received one of the letters that were sent to more than 60 local children who were born in 2007, The Local.se reported Thursday. Marinna Eriksson, principal of the school, said the population registry provided the school with the names and addresses of the children, and no one noticed one of the letters was being sent to Anna Eriksson, who was born in 1907. "Her daughter got in touch and she and I both thought it was pretty funny. The two of them and I could see the humor in what happened," the principal said. The principal said the senior citizen is still welcome to attend a school open house for prospective students. "It would be fun if Anna Eriksson wanted to come here to meet the school's leadership and have coffee," she said.

• Somewhat Useless Information   

• The most played song on American radio during the twentieth century was You've Lost That Loving Feeling which was written by Barry Mann, Phil Spector, and Cynthia Weil.  Although recorded by different artists, the song is the only one in history to be played over 8 million times on the radio. That amounts to about 45 years if the song was played back to back!  Three songs were played 7 million times: Never My Love, Yesterday, and Stand By Me (in that order).

• The Carpenters signature song, We've Only Just Begun, was originally part of a television commercial for a California bank.  The music played in the background of a scene in which a newlywed couple had, of course, just begun their lives together.  Richard Carpenter saw the commercial and sculpted it into the classic song that we know today.

• Why do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?  They actually don't.  In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of eighty years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so). 

• A South Korean movie theater owner decided that the movie The Sound of Music was too long.  His solution?  He shortened the movie by cutting out all of the musical scenes!

• In four separate instances between October 1987 and February 1988, small pink frogs rained down from the sky on to various parts of Great Britain.  Scientists are still uncertain as to where these frogs originated, although some have traced them back to the Sahara desert.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

12-18  

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

16-22

National Farm-City Week

18-24

National Bible Week►National Family Week►National Game & Puzzle Week ►Better Conversation Week

Today Is                                                                      

Married To A Scorpio Support Day
Mickey Mouse Day (1928)
Push-button Phone Day (1963)
Occult Day
Transgender Day of Remembrance
~Latvia: Independence Day (1918)
~Oman: National Holiday (Islamic New Year)

Today’s Events through History  

"Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon—1932
31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station—1987
Ayatollah Khomeini charges US ambassador/embassy espionage—1979
Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Carlisle—1745
Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration—1960
Great Ballcourt at Chichen Itza is dedicated by the Maya—864Members of the Hillabi Clan of the Muskogee Creeks have offered to      surrender to General Andrew Jackson with Scots trader Robert Grierson      acting as intermediary—1813Penn is 1st to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states the      right to do so—1989
Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol—2004Sandy Koufax announces his retirement, due to arthritic left elbow—1966
Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing estimated 10,000 in Netherlands—1421 United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial      anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective—2003
Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope—1497

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 70’s

Linda Evans , actress (Dynasty, Big Valley, Beach Blanket Bingo) will be 70

Brenda Vaccaro, Bkln NY, actress (Cactus Flower, Sara, Paper Dolls) is 73

In their 60’s

Jameson Parker, actor (American Justice, Simon & Simon) will be 65

In their 50’s

Sinbad, [David Adkins], Benton Harbor MI, actor (1st Kid, Vibe) is 56

In their 40’s

Owen Wilson, American actor (Meet the Parents, Zoolander) will be 44

Remembered for being born today

Imogene Coca, Phila, comedienne (Your Show of Shows, Grindl) (1908-2001)

Dorothy Dix, pseudonym of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (1861-1951)

George Gallup, Jefferson Iowa, public opinion pollster (Gallup Poll) (1901-1984)

Eleanor Gonzaga, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (1630-1686)

Asa Gray, Sauquoit NY, botanist (Flora of North America) (1810-1888)

Johnny Mercer, Savannah Ga, lyricist (Moon River, Old Black Magic) (1909-1976)

Alan B Shepard Jr, East Derry NH, Rear Adm USN/astro (Merc 3, Ap 14) (1923-1998)

James E Sullivan, founder (Amateur Athletic Union) (1862-1914)

Sojourner Truth [Isabella Baumfree], abolitionist/feminist (1797-1883)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Chester A Arthur, 21st pres (1881-85)—cerebral hemorrhage—1886—at 56

Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922)—heart failure—1962—at 77

Cab[ell] Calloway, US band leader/actor (Missourians)—1994—at 86

James Coburn, actor (Great Escape)— heart attack—2002—at 74

Jim Jones, US pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult—commits suicide—1978—at 47

Joseph P Kennedy, JFK/RFK/TMK father—1969—at 81

Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu)— pulmonary abscess—1922—at 51

Harold J. Stone [Harold Hochstein], American actor—2005—at 92

George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman—1590—at 62

Answer: Anagram sentence

C _ _ C C is Fluff

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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