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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1677 - 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
1799 - Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
1887 - Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1915 - Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
1919 - Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland
1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins1977 - Pres Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
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Free Rambling
Thoughts
Another great day in
Flag. Ran errands around town and was very surprised that most stores had lots
of workers and very few customers. At BB&B I must have been greeted
throughout the store by no less than 8 workers. I saw two customers.
My brother called to let
me know that his wife’s maternal grandfather has passed. Hermann had been sick
for the past few years. He will be missed by many, including his wife of 65
years.
My cable service went
bonkers this afternoon. It has an Emergency Response that will interrupt your
show to tell you that there is some kind of emergency. They say they test it
every month…and that’s a joke. They test it two or three times a month. Well
today, while trying to watch a movie, it went off seven times in 30 minutes.
There was never any message…just cutting off the show and running a bar across
the top stating that there is an emergency. After number 7 I called the damn
company. After punching at least 15 numbers to get to a human, he knew nothing
about it and had to check with his ‘lead’. The ‘lead’ decided to reset my box
remotely. That didn’t work. So the tech had me unplug the box from power. That
means it takes at least an hour to get back the guide. The damn interruption did
stop but the tech didn’t know why. In the process, the box lost all of my
favorite channels. I had four lists—HDTV channels I usually watch, movies,
sports, and channels I record episodes from. This makes it easier and faster
than going though all the many, many channels that they offer. I was too lazy
to set up the favorites again, so now I just scroll though all the channels.
Technology is great when it works and a real pain in the ass when it doesn’t. I
kept hoping the favorites would reappear, but after a couple of hours, still no
favorites lists.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game
NPR Sunday Puzzle
Remove
the vowel in the first syllable of one word to come up with a new word that's a
syllable shorter but sounds the same. For example, "succumb" becomes
"scum."
1.
A
big event before the Rose Bowl, made in treaties to God:
2.
Author
of Walden; to fling or pitch:
3.
Music
of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi ; flat out of
money:
4.
Special
forces hat; sound like a donkey:
5.
Awkward
fellows- slang; muscles of the buttock:
Wuzzles
What concept or phrase do these suggest?
Lifestyle Substance
AZ Centennial is in 30
days: Did you know?…
The famous gunfight at
the O.K. Corral only
lasted about thirty seconds.
The hottest recorded day
in Phoenix was June 26, 1990, when the temperature hit 122 degrees.
In World War II, many Navajos enlisted as
secret agents. Our enemies could never understand the Navajo language to
learn our military secrets.
If you bother the
cottontails or bullfrogs, in Hayden, Arizona, you
will be fined.
The sun shines in
southern Arizona 85%
of the time, which is considerably more sunshine than Florida or Hawaii.
Found on You Tube
Harper’s Index
Percentage of Egyptians who say they want the new government to amend or abandon the Camp David accords: 70
Joke-of-the-day
His pediatrician asked
six-year-old Johnny, who watched a good many TV, adds, just to make
conversation. Johnny, if you found a couple of dollars and had to spend them,
what would you buy?”
“A box of Tampax,” he replied without
hesitation.
“Tampax?” said the doctor. “What would you do
with that?”
“Well,” said Johnny, “I do not know exactly,
but it’s sure worth two dollars.
With tampax, it says on
TV, you can go swimming, go horseback riding, and also go skating, any time you
want to.”
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
Wean a calf when it consumes more than a pound of grain a day on a regular basis.
Somewhat Useless Information
- The fear of Friday the 13th is called friggatriskaidekaphobia (Frigga being the free-spirited goddess after whom "Friday" is named and triskaidekaphobia meaning fear of the number "13").
- As many as 21 million Americans are afflicted by this phobia, according to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina.
- Most tall buildings in the U.S. don't have a 13th floor while some airport terminals don't have a 13th gate.
- The number was feared to such an extent even among top officials in the country that, in the 1880s, an organization called "The Thirteen Club" was created to demystify the belief that 13 people seated together at a table will die within a year of each other.
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had an abnormal fear of the number "13." The President would never host 13 guests at a meal and refused to travel on the 13th day of any month.
- The dollar bill features 13 steps on the pyramid, 13 stars above the eagle's head and in its right talon holds an olive branch with 13 leaves and 13 olives.
Yeah, It Really Happened
NEW YORK - An unemployed
New York doorman was cured of pneumonia, but says the $44 million hospital bill
almost gave him asthma. Alexis Rodriguez, 28, was one of several hundred
patients to receive wildly inflated bills because of a computer error, the New
York Daily News reported. The bill from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital should have been
for no more than $300, but instead was listed as $44,776,587. Rodriguez told
the newspaper, "I almost had an asthma attack." The billing firm, PHY
Services, said it wasn't too hard to find the problem -- a subcontractor that
prints the bills put the invoice number into the "amount due" space,
the Daily News reported.
NEW!!! Planet
Earth
Calendar Information
…Happening This Week:
15-21
- Healthy Weight Week
- International Printing Week
- National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
- Week of Christian Unity
20-30
- Sundance Film Festival
21-22
- Bald Eagle Appreciation Days
21-27
- World Leprosy Week
- National Activity Professionals Week
- Kid Film Festival
- National Nurse Anesthetists Week
- Clean Out Your Inbox Week
- National Handwriting Analysis Week
- National Medical Group Practice Week
- National Nuclear Science Week
- No Name Calling Week
- National Take Back Your Time Week
Today Is
- AFRMA [American Fancy Rat & Mouse Association] Fancy Rat & Mouse Day
- International Fetish Day
- National Hugging Day
Today’s Other Events
1100’s
1189 - Philip
II, Henry II & Richard Lion hearted initiate 3rd Crusade
1600’s
1674 - Father
Pierre Millet "foretells" the coming of today's lunar eclipse, using
an almanac. Challenging Iroquois shamen to predict the time or date
of the eclipse, which they don't, Millet will make religious inroads among
the Iroquois by his successful prediction.
1698 - French missionary
Father de Montigny reaches the Taensa Indian village on the
Mississippi River, today. He will stay with them to instruct them in his
religion.
1700’s
1789 - 1st
American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published
1800’s
1818 - Keats
writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
1827 - Freedom
Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing
1880 - 1st US
sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis
1899 - Opel
manufactured its first automobile
1900’s
1908 - NYC
regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
1927 - 1st
national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1935 - Wilderness
Society forms
1942 - Bronx
magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
1949 - 1st
inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman)
1953 - John
Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State
1976 - Supersonic
Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France
1989 - Wayne Gretzky
passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer
1990 - John McEnroe
becomes 1st ever player to be expelled from the Australian Open
2000’s
2008 - Black
Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points
fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 9/11, and Asian
stocks drop as much as 15%
2008 - The Eyak
language in Alaska becomes extinct as its last native speaker dies: Marie Smith
Jones, at 90
Today’s Birthdays
In their 50’s
Geena Davis, actor
is 56
In their 60’s
Jill Eikenberry, actor
is 65
In their 70’s
Mac Davis, singer/actor
(Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40) is 70
Placido Domingo, Spanish
Tenor is 71
Jack Nicklaus, golfer
(Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76) is 72
Remembered for being
born on this day
Roger Nash Baldwin,
founder (American Civil Liberties Union) in 1884
John Cabell
Breckinridge, (D) 14th US VP (1857-61)/mjr-gen (Confed) in 1821
John M Browning, US,
weapons manufacturer in 1855
Barney Clark, 1st to
receive a permanent artificial heart in 1921
Christian Dior, Franench
fashion designer (long-skirted look) in 1905
John Fitch, inventor
(had a working steamboat years before Fulton) in 1743
Tsjalling Hiddes
Halbertsma, Fries story teller (Rhymes & Tales) in 1792
Alan Hewitt, actor (Det
Brennan-My Favorite Martian) in 1915
Benny Hill, comedian
(Benny Hill Show) in 1924
Thomas Jonathan " Stonewall"
Jackson, Lt Gen 2nd Corps (ANV, Confed) in 1824
J Carrol Naish, NYC,
actor (Charlie Chan-Adv of Charlie Chan) in 1897
Steve Reeves, actor
(Hercules, Hercules Unchained) in 1926
Telly Savalas, American
actor in 1922
Paul Scofield, English
actor (Man for All Seasons, Train) in 1922
Wolfman Jack, [Bob
Smith], DJ (Midnight Special) in 1939
Horace Wells, dentist
(pioneered use of medical anethesia) in 1915
Today’s Obits
James Beard, American
chef and author dies at 82 in 1985
John Couch Adams,
English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies after long illness at 72 in 1892
Cecil B[lount] de Mille,
producer (10 Commandments), dies at 77 in 1959
Howard "Red"
Grange, football's galloping ghost, dies at 87 in 1991
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Lenin, Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 53 in 1924
Louis XVI, French king
(1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38 in 1793
George Orwell, author
(Animal Farm, 1984), dies of ruptured artery at 46 in 1950
Jackie Wilson, US singer
(I Get the Sweetest Feeling), dies of heart attack at 49 in 1984
Answers
Brain Game
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
A
big event before the Rose Bowl, made in treaties to God: parade; prayed
2.
Author
of Walden; to fling or pitch: Thoreau; throw
3.
Music
of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi ; flat out of
money: baroque, broke
4.
Special
forces hat; sound like a donkey: beret; bray
5.
Awkward
fellows- slang; muscles of the buttock: galoots; glutes
6.
Mess
around with other women; French speaking part of Belgium: philanders; Flanders
Wuzzle
- Attorney General
- Handwritten
- Wandering around for days
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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