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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 48/ Day: 330
Today: H 63°…L 23°
Averages: H 47° L 20°
Records: H
68°(1970)…L -7°(1930)
Wind: ave: 3mph; Gusts: 18mph Today’s ave. humidity: 48%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
"Rudolph,
the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appears on music charts—1949
Battle of
the Little Bighorn retaliation: US Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's
sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of
the Powder River—1876
1st
Thanksgiving Parade (Phila)—1920
Alfred
Nobel patents dynamite—1867
Disneyland
Main Street Electrical Parade, ends after 24
years—1996
Farmer's
Almanac 1st published—1792
JFK laid
to rest at Arlington National Cemetery—1963
Nineteen Hopi "hostiles" are
placed under arrest by the army for interfering
with "friendly" Hopi Indian
activities on their Arizona reservation—1894
Siege of
Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins—1491
Sugar Ray
Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship—1980
Woody
Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"—1940
♪
♪ Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts:
Even being retired, on holiday weeks, my days
still get messed up…This did not feel like a Saturday. I just had a lazy day
catching up on DVR-ed favorite shows from last week I missed.
I have added a new trivia information item in
the blog…Bet you didn’t know…from the history channel. A cool app on my iPad
gives me daily information.
Two icons of our culture passed yesterday…Hector
‘Macho’ Camacho..the bad guy boxer and Larry Hagman…JR Ewing of Dallas. Hagman
was known also from I Dream of Jeannie and Mary Martin’s (Peter Pan)son and
Camacho…gunned down at 50…was a boxing champion from Puerto Rico.
Game
Center: (answers at the end of post)
Duplicate Letter Puzzles
Find
common words with certain letters duplicated in the given positions. V stands for a duplicated
vowel, C stands for a duplicated consonant, and _ stands for any
letter
V _ V C C
Lifestyle
Substance:
Old Saying Explained:
FLYING COLORS…If a fleet won a clear victory the ships would sail back to port with their colors proudly flying from their masts.
Ok, then?
TV Theme Songs you may remember:
Doctor Who - Ron Grainer
Read This Headline Carefully!!
Two
Soviet Ships Collide - One Dies
Beautiful Scotland:
Bet You Didn’t Know…from History Channel
History: By the fifth century B.C., Spartan slaves, or
helots, outnumbered the city's citizens by more than 20 to one.
Harper’s Index:
Percentage
of quotations about birth control in election coverage by major US newspapers
attributed to men: 75
Of
quotations about abortion: 81
Ruminations:
There is just no practical way to explain to
your dog that the doorbell he heard was on the TV
Unusual Fact of the Day:
Not all comets are as "regular" as
Halley's Comet. Astronomers believe that Comet West, which last visited our
neighborhood in 1975-76, won't be seen again for another half-million years.
Found on You Tube:
Joke-of-the-day:
Bob,
a 70-year-old, extremely wealthy widower, shows up at the Country Club with a
breathtakingly beautiful and very sexy 25-year-old blonde-haired woman who
knocks everyone's socks off with her
youthful sex appeal and charm and who hangs over Bob's arm and listens intently to his every word. His buddies at the club are all aghast. At the very first chance, they corner him and ask, 'Bob, how'd you get the
trophy girlfriend?'
youthful sex appeal and charm and who hangs over Bob's arm and listens intently to his every word. His buddies at the club are all aghast. At the very first chance, they corner him and ask, 'Bob, how'd you get the
trophy girlfriend?'
Bob
replies, 'Girlfriend? She's my wife!' They are knocked over, but continue to
ask. 'So, how'd you persuade her to
marry you?'
marry you?'
'I
lied about my age', Bob replies. 'What, did you tell her you were only 50?' Bob
smiles and says, 'No, I told her I was 90.'
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
BUYING A DIGITAL CAMERA…A 6 megapixel digital camera
offers plenty of resolution for snapshots, web publishing, and even 8x10
prints, and is adequate for 16x20 prints. For 20x30 posters, full-page magazine
photography, and the like, 10 megapixels would be a better idea. Generally
speaking, a top-notch 6MP camera takes better pictures than a cheapo 10MP
camera.
Yeah, It Really Happened
READING,
England - Officials at a British mall said a Santa was left dangling by his
false beard when it became stuck while he was rappelling down for his big
entrance. The Broad Street Mall in Reading, England, said the Santa Claus was
rappelling into the mall to entertain the children during Saturday afternoon's
lights switch-on ceremony when his false beard became caught and he was left
dangling 15 feet off the ground for about 30 minutes, the BBC reported Tuesday.
Stephanie Maynard, marketing manager at the mall, said the Santa was uninjured.
"He could have just taken his beard off and let himself down but he was
such a professional and he didn't want to let the children down," she
said. "He lost his footing as he came through the hole in the ceiling and
there was a sudden jolt and he got caught in the clip on the rope. Some people
were absolutely mortified while others thought it was the funniest thing ever.
They had to let another rope down and get him down and there was such a roar
from the crowd. Usually after the lights switch-on the center empties but there
were so many people still there waiting to see if Father Christmas was going to
get down."
Somewhat Useless Information
Superstitions:
If
you cut an apple in half and count how many seeds are inside, you will also
know how many children you will have.
Think
of five or six names of boys or girls you might marry, As you twist the stem of
an apple, recite the names until the stem comes off. You will marry the person
whose name you were saying when the stem fell off.
Seeing
an ambulance is very unlucky unless you pinch your nose or hold your breath
until you see a black or a brown dog.
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An
acorn should be carried to bring luck and ensure a long life.
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An
acorn at the window will keep lightning out of the house.
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Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
21-28
National Deal Week
22-26
Church/State Separation Week
Today Is
Blase´Day
International Day For the Elimination of Violence Against Women Day
National Flossing Day
National Parfait Day
Shopping Reminder Day
UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against
Women Independence Day
Today’s Events through History
1st
English patent granted to an American, for processing corn—1715
3
Palestinians hijack KLM B747 above Iraq, to Dubai—1973
Confederate
plot to burn NYC, fails—1864
Deadly
earthquake rocks Shemakha, in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people—1667
Powerful
storm brings 3 years worth of rain in 4 hours to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sparking
terrible floods—2009
Puerto
Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time—1967
Sri Lanka’s
sudden violent storm strikes, killing 27 people and drowning many fishermen
caught by surprise—2011
Woodrow
Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in White House—1913
Today’s Birthdays
In their 60’s
Bucky
Dent, all star shortstop (Chicago White Sox, NY Yankees) is 61
John
Larroquette, actor (Dan Fielding-Night Court) is 65
In their 50’s
Amy
Grant, American gospel/Christian rock singer is 51
In their 30’s
Christina
Applegate, Hollywood, actress (Kelly-Married With Children) is 39
Jenna
& Barbara Bush, twin daughters of Pres Bush are 31
Remembered for being born today
Andrew
Carnegie, Scottish/US industrialist/philanthropist (1835-1919)
John F
Kennedy Jr, son of JFK/lawyer/magazine publisher (George) (1960-plane
carsh-1999)
Ricardo
Montalban, Mx, actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun)(1919-2009)
Carrie
Nation, American temperance advocate (1846-1911)
John
XXIII, [Angelo Roncalli], 261st pope (1881-1963)
Yi Hwang,
Confucian scholar (1501-1570)
Today’s Historical Obits
Jack
Albertson, actor (Chico & the Man)—1981—at 74
C. Scott
Littleton, American anthropologist and academic—pneumonia—2010—at 77
George
Raft, actor (Scarface)— leukemia—1980—at 85
[Sithu] U Thant, UN Sec-General (1961-72)—cancer—1974—at
65
Isaac
Watts, British hymnwriter—1748—at 74
Flip
Wilson, American actor and comedian—liver cancer—1998—at 64
Answer: Duplicate Letter Puzzles
Amass
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.
§ And That Is All for Now §
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