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Today’s Historical Highlights
1775: Green Mountain Boys capture Fort
Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution
1837: Panic of 1837: New York
City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels
1865: Jefferson Davis captured
at Irwinsville Georgia
1930: 1st US planetarium opens
(Adler-Chicago)
1967: Stockholm
Vietnam-Tribunal declares US aggression in Vietnam/Cambodia
1994: Nelson Mandela sworn in
as South
Africa's 1st black president
Free Rambling
Thoughts
It was a nice day here in
Flagstaff…a little cool, but nice most of the day. I ran some errands this
morning, then some laundry this afternoon. Phoenix got a real unusual dump of
rain, but Flag got none. Too bad, we need it too. Of course they also got a lot
of wind, which I am glad we missed.
Prescott, the first state
capital of AZ, had a horrific fire yesterday. Across the street from the county
buildings is the historical Whiskey Row. It was named for having a large number
of saloons back in the day, and still quite a few. In 1900 the entire block was
destroyed by fire. Last night, three businesses were destroyed; the modern
firewalls between other buildings saved most of Whiskey Row. This is a big blow
for the historic part of the town, for the local residents who spend lots of
time in the small area, and to the tourists who come from miles to see it. The
town and citizens say they will rebuild. This could be a big blow to this year’s
tourist dollars that are so important to the small town. Good vibes out to the
people of Prescott.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A close up
picture of what?
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NPR Sunday Puzzle
Given three words,
starting with the letters A, R and T, respectively; offer a fourth word, to
precede each of the original words, to create a familiar two-word phrase. For
example, given "alarm," "report" and "teeth," the
answer would be "false," as in "false alarm," "false
report" and "false teeth."
1.
Ant; retardant; truck:
2.
Age; retriever; touch:
3.
Attendant; recorder; test:
4.
Angle; reverend; turn:
5.
Acres, room, thumb:
6.
Alert; rooster; tape:
7.
Air; rod; tub:
8.
Atlas, rage; trip:
9.
Aspirin; Ruth; talk:
10.
Afternoon; riddance; taste:
Riddle of the day
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Anagram: unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s Index
Percentage of all Americans who consider themselves part of the top one percent of US earners: 13
Found on You Tube
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
About 3:30 in the morning, a wife wakes up to find she is alone in the bed and she can hear her husband crying uncontrollably. She gets up and starts to look for him. He's not in the bathroom, living room, or in the kitchen. As she passes the laundry room, she hears his faint sniffles coming from the basement. She turns on the light and goes downstairs to find him. Finally, she finds him huddled in the corner, rolled up into a ball, and crying hysterically. She runs over to him and asks why he is crying.
He says, "Do you remember when we got married twenty (20) years ago?"
She looks at him and says, "yes".
He says, "well, a couple of months before, your dad said that I could marry you or go to jail."
She says, "I already know that. I don't see what the problem is."
He says, " don't you see!!! I would have gotten out today!"
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
When snowmobiling alone do not travel further into the woods than you can walk out.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
ST. LOUIS - A Missouri chess club has unveiled the "World's Largest Chess Piece," a 14 1/2-foot tall king weighing 2,280 pounds. The piece, installed on the patio in front of the World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis by the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis, was formed by R.G. Ross Construction, The (St. Louis) Post-Dispatch reported Monday.
"This piece serves as a monument to the chess culture we are creating in St. Louis," club spokesman Mike Wilmering said. Wilmering said the piece, which was unveiled Monday to commemorate the Tuesday start of the 2012 U.S. Chess Championships, which has been hosted by the club since 2009, was certified by Guinness World Records as the largest on the globe. The previous record holder, a 13.1-foot-high king, was built by Mats Allanson in Sweden in 2003.
Somewhat Useless
Information
Since 1978, the cost of college tuition in the United States has gone up by over 900 percent. In 2010, the average college graduate had accumulated approximately $25,000 in student loan debt by graduation day.According to very extensive research detailed in a book entitled "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses", 45 percent of U.S. college students exhibit "no significant gains in learning" after two years in college.
Calendar Information
…Happening This Week:
6-12
Anxiety & Depression Awareness
Week
Be Kind To Animals Week
Dystonia Awareness Week
Children's Mental Health Week
Choose Privacy Week
Drinking Water Week
Flexible Work Arrangement Week
Goodwill Industries Week
International Wildlife Film Week
Kids Win Week
NAOSH Week
National Alcohol & Drug Related
Birth Defects Awareness Week National
National Family Week
National Hug Holiday Week
National Nurses Day and Week
National Occupational Safety &
Health Day
National Pet Week
National Raisin Week
National Wildflower Week
North American Occupational Safety
& Health Week
PTA Teacher Appreciation Week
7-13
Children's Book Week
Dating and Life Coach Recognition
Week
National Correctional Officer's Week
National Stuttering Awareness Week
Teacher Appreciation Week
Work At Home Moms Week
10-16
Universal Family Week
Today Is
Clean Up Your Room Day
Lag B'Omer: one of the
very few days between Pesah and Shavuot when Jewish law permits weddings
Library Legislative Days
Lupus Day
Windmill Day
Virtual Library Legislative Days
Confederate Day (NC, SC)
Vesak (Buddha) Day (Singapore)
Today’s Other Events
1200’s
1267: Vienna's church orders
all Jews to wear a distinctive garb
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1400’s
1427: Jews are expelled from
Berne Switzerland
1500’s
1503: Columbus discovers
Cayman Islands
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1700’s
1752: Benjamin Franklins 1st
tests the lightning rod
1797: 1st Navy ship, the
"United States," is launched
1800’s
1801: First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of
Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
1832: Settlers start
construction of what is called Fort Blue Mounds, near modern Madison,
Wisconsin, the fort is built to protect the settlers from attacks by the
Winnebagos.
1864: Cherokee Stand Watie is
promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in the Confederate army. He is the
first Indian to reach that rank. He will also be the last Confederate General
to surrender at the end of the Civil War.
1872: Victoria Woodhull
becomes 1st woman nominated for US president
1900’s
1908: 1st Mother's Day
observed (Phila)
1915: Zeppelin drops hundred
of bombs on Southend-on-Sea
1924: J Edgar Hoover appointed
head of FBI
1933: Nazis stage public book
burnings in Germany
1940: World War II: The first
German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent
1941: Adolph Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess
parachutes into Scotland 1956: French government sends
50,000 reservists to Algeria
1979: Vivekananda (Sri Lanka)
completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hrs, 28 min, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo,
Sri Lanka
1988: Edgar Degas'
"Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000
1996: Excel Communications,
Inc. becomes the youngest company ever to join the New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE), trading under the symbol (ECI)
2000’s
2005: A hand grenade
which was thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from
U.S. President George W. Bush while he was giving a speech to a crowd in
Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Pat Summerall, NFLer (NY
Giants)/sportscaster (CBS) is 82
In their 70’s
In their 60’s
In their 50’s
Mark David Chapman,
assassin (John Lennon) is 57
Rick Santorum,
(Rep-R-Penn) is 54
Remembered for being born on this day
John Wilkes Booth,
American stage actor and assassin (Lincoln) in 1838
Ella Grasso, 1sat woman
Governor of CT in 1919
Thomas J. Lipton,
Glasgow, yachtsman/tea magnate (Lipton Tea) in 1850
David O Selznick,
Pittsburgh Pa, producer (Gone With the Wind) in 1902
Sid Vicious, [John Simon
Ritchie], England, bassist (Sex Pistols) in 1957
Today’s Obits
Joan Crawford, actress
(Mildred Pierce), dies of heart attack in 1977 at 72
Leonhard Fuchs, German
botanist, dies in 1566 at 65
John Wayne Gacy, mass
murderer, executed in Illinois in 1994 at 52
Louis XV, king of France
(1715-74), dies of smallpox in 1774 at 64
Paul Revere, American
patriot, dies in 1818 at 83
Answers
Brain Game: Close Up
Picture
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Riddle of the day
The letter M
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Ant; retardant; truck: fire
2.
Age; retriever; touch: golden
3.
Attendant; recorder; test: flight
4.
Angle; reverend; turn: right
5.
Acres, room, thumb: green
6.
Alert; rooster; tape: red
7.
Air; rod; tub: hot
8.
Atlas, rage; trip: road
9.
Aspirin; Ruth; talk: baby
10.
Afternoon; riddance; taste: good
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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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