Nov 27, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 48/ Day:  332 

Today: H   58°…L 25° Averages: H  46° L 20°

Records: H   68°(1949)…L -5°(1984, 1952)

Wind: ave:   1mph; Gusts:  7mph Today’s ave. humidity:  44%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

1st Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City is held—1924

Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US—1911

Earliest photograph of a meteor shower made—1885

First elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster

     by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament"—1295

First partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France—2005

Honda 1st opens in America—1948

NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game"—1870

US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War—1817

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

 Returns tomorrow

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Caught up on mail…already got my first Christmas card. It arrived on Friday. Such a nice way to start the holiday season. Still too early for me for me to decorate…but it’s getting there.

 

Only local news watched today. Interesting, and much more informative than the other channels. Don’t know how long it will last but when I turned it on they were talkin’ about the 2014 election…please not yet.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Duplicate Letter Puzzles

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

C _ L C L

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Old Saying Explained:

FROM THE HORSES'S MOUTH…You can tell a horse’s age by examining its teeth. A horse dealer may lie to you but you can always find out the truth 'from the horse’s mouth'.

Ok, then?

TV Theme Songs you may remember:

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - Will Smith and Quincy Jones III

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Never Withhold Herpes from Loved One

Beautiful Scotland:

Bet You Didn’t Know…from History Channel

Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the first American novel to sell more than 1 million copies.

Harper’s Index:         

Damages awarded to an Oregon woman who contracted herpes from a man she met through on-line dating: $900,000

Ruminations:

Did you know that a large group of baboons is called a congress? That sure explains a lot.

Unusual Fact of the Day:

SeaWorld began as a plan by four UCLA alums to open an ocean-themed restaurant with a marine show.

Found on You Tube: 

• Arsenio Hall with Buffalo Bob Smith

• Bruce Lee – interview

Joke-of-the-day:

Banta's son: Dad there is someone at the door to collect donations for a swimming pool.

Banta: Give him a glass of water.

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

RUNNING A RACE…Three times the average distance you run every day is close to the maximum distance you should run in a race.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

 A suicide turkey in Sheboygan, WI who launched a preemptive strike on Thanksgiving last week. Utility officials say the turkey flew into a power line in Sheboygan County knocking out power for about 1,500 people.

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In  Gulf Breeze, FL where investigators say a neighbor and his friend used a bow and arrow to shoot and kill a family's pet turkey for their Thanksgiving dinner. 

Sheriff's deputies arrested two Santa Rosa County teens charging them with armed burglary, armed trespassing, theft of livestock and animal cruelty.

The teens told deputies they planned to eat the 30-pound turkey for Thanksgiving. 

Animal lovers Brian and Christa Caponi live on 6 acres and have a multitude animals, but they said this turkey was special because he was so friendly. In fact, the Caponis said he was more like a family dog than a turkey, although a family dog would not go nearly so well with stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The human body is an incredible machine. It is an engineering miracle we don't take enough time to appreciate!
• Man has tiny bones once meant for a tail and unworkable muscles once meant to move his ears.  

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

21-28

National Deal Week

22-26

Church/State Separation Week

Today Is                                                                      

National Day of Listening

Pins And Needles Day

Today’s Events through History  

A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the

     Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar

    planet—2001

Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize—1895

American Statistical Association organizes in Boston—1839

City of Kraków (Poland) declared a free republic state by the

    Congress of Vienna—1815

Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games—1961

Highest-scoring NFL game, Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41—1966

Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote—1947

John Walker invents friction match in England—1826

Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire—1992

Pope John Paul II returned the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the

     Eastern Orthodox Church—2004

Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding

    Bolivian painter disguised as a priest—1970

Private Albert Mountain Horse is buried in Fort Macleod, Alberta. He is the only

     Blood Indian to go to the front lines in World War One. He dies due to exposure

    to poison gas on the battlefield—1915

Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which

    McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple

    bombings and shootings across England—1975

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 60’s

Jayne Kennedy, Wash DC, sportscaster (CBS)/actress (Body & Soul) is 61

In their 50’s

Bill Nye, the Science Guy, TV Host is 57

Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg, attorney, JFK & Jackie's daughter is 55

In their 40’s

Robin Givens, actress and model is 48

Remembered for being born today

James Agee, American author (African Queen, Death in Family) (1909-1955)

Benigno Aquino Jr, Philippine opposition leader (1932- assassinated-1983)

Jimi Hendrix, Seattle Wash, rock guitarist (Purple Haze), (1942-1970)

Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], SF California, karate star/actor (Green Hornet), (1940-1973)

Robert Livingston, delivered oath of office to George Washington (1746-1813)

Eddie Rabbitt, American singer (1941-1998)

"Buffalo" Bob Smith, Buffalo NY, TV host (Howdy Doody) (1917-1998)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

John Carradine, actor (Ten Commandments)—kidney failure—1988— at 82

Harvey Milk, (SF City Supervisor)—shot by Dan White—1978—at 48

George Moscone, (SF Mayor), shot by Dan White—1978—at 49

"Baby Face" Nelson, [Lester Gillis], gangster—shot by FBI—1934—at 26

Eugene O'Neill, playwright (Nobel 1936)— Parkinson's disease—1953—at 65

Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer—1901—at 70

Answer: Duplicate Letter Puzzles

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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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