July 18

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Flagstaff Almanac

Today: High   79°…Low 48°

Records: High 81° (2009)…Low 52° (1904)

Averages: High   81°…Low 52°

Clear sky with spotty clouds around the horizon

Today’s humidity:  29%

Week: 29 Day: 199

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1994 - Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons

1980 - Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women

1977 - Vietnam becomes member of UN

1976 - Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics

1947 - President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act

1947 - King George VI signs Indian Independence Bill

1932 - US & Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway

1925 - Hitler publishes Mein Kampf

1921 - Black Sox trial begins in Chicago

1870 - Pontifical infallibility proclaimed

1743 - 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal)

64 - Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)

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Free Rambling Thoughts   

A nice day today. I did lots of laundry, folding, hanging, and getting my clothes cleaned of the Kenya/Tanzania dust…a red dust, must like the Rez. I also got all my photos downloaded, filed, and have a folder of over 900 resized pictures for posting.  Tomorrow will be video day, I hope. So cool to see the pictures I took.

I am also working with HLO Tours and Focus Travel for a photo contest. I developed a ‘Best of…” contest with over 20 categories for those on our trip. They will email me their one best lion, cheetah, …photo and I will make a ballot for each category. At the picture party, held in Denver in September, those from the trip will vote and pick the best. The winners will then be posted on the Focus site and the HLO site. That should be fun for our 23 travelers and will help advertise our adventure for others.

We didn’t get any rain here today, but a very nice day. I did take a short walk around the neighborhood.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)

What is the answer?

What number should come next in this series: 479126   62974   4796   697  ?

5X5 Word Boxes

The answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc. Can you solve these Word Boxes? Each answer is 5 letters.

1.     Alexander

2.     musical form

3.     furnish

4.     clay hut

5.     dryer

HINT: from upper left to lower right the letters are G-O-D-B-L

Lifestyle  Substance     

My Latest Adventure—

One Hit Wonders of the 1950’s

• Liar, Liar…The Castaways…1965

• Goldfinger…Shirley Bassey…1965

• The Boy From New York City…The Ad Libs…1965

• Keep on Dancing…The Gentrys…1965

Harper’s Index         

Percentage of bypass-machine doctors who admitted to talking on cell phones during heart surgery in a 2010 survey: 35

Found on You Tube 

• Free Nelson Mandela

• Astronaut John Glenn First American to Orbit Earth
       

Joke-of-the-day

A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, Ryan 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake. Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. "If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, 'Let my brother have the first pancake, I can wait.'"
Kevin turned to his younger brother and said, "Ryan, you be Jesus!"

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

Between two barbers in a shop, choose the one with the worst haircut. They cut each other's hair.

Yeah, It Really Happened

PRICE, Utah - A Utah mother said she filed a formal complaint against a judge who had her slice off her 13-year-old's ponytail as punishment for cutting a 3-year-old's hair. Valerie Bruno said she has filed a formal complaint against 7th District Juvenile Judge Scott Johansen, who told her he would cut the 276-hour community service sentence imposed on her daughter, Kaytlen Lopan, by 150 hours if the mother cut off the teenager's ponytail in his courtroom, The Deseret News reported Monday. Lopan had been sentenced in Johansen's courtroom in May after she was convicted on an assault charge for cutting several inches of hair from the head of a 3-year-old girl they met at a McDonald's in Price.
"I guess I should have went into the courtroom knowing my rights, because I felt very intimidated," Bruno said. "An eye for an eye, that's not how you teach kids right from wrong." Colin Winchester, executive director of the Utah Judicial Conduct Commission, said a complaint against a judge can take several months to be resolved.               

Somewhat Useless Information   

• Seven of the eight Ivy League schools were founded before the American Revolution (Cornell being the exception), but the use of the term "Ivy League" to group the colleges only dates back to 1933. The seven schools are Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania.

• According to the most recent statistics, a student has a better chance of getting into Cornell than any other Ivy League school. One in five applicants is accepted there, versus one in ten for Columbia, Harvard and Princeton.

• Most Ivy League schools require that undergraduates either exhibit an ability to swim or take a beginner's course in swimming.

• Most historians believe that the Ivy League got its name from the spreading plants that cover many of the oldest college buildings in the American northeast. Harvard is the oldest Ivy League member and the oldest college in the United States, founded in 1636.

• No Ivy League school offers athletic scholarships, which is the key reason why those universities' sports teams typically cannot compete with those from colleges that do.

• The "Seven Sisters" was a septet of women's colleges considered the female equivalent to the Ivy League. Vassar became a co-ed school, and Radcliffe merged with Harvard in 1999, so the five remaining Sisters are Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Wellesley.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

15-21

National Parenting Gifted Children Week
Rabbit Week
Captive Nations Week
National Independent Retailers Week
National Zoo Keeper Week
18-21

Baby Food Festival
National Ventriloquism Week
18-25

Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week

Today Is                                                                      

Global Hug For Your Kids Day

Mandela Day

National Get Out of the Doghouse Day

Uruguay: Constitution Day (1830)  

Today’s Events Through History                                                          

2000’s

2009 - Five members of one family are found murdered at Epping, New South Wales

1900’s

1991 - Florida Marlins' logo unveiled

1986 - 115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotland

1968 - The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California

1966 - Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old

1964 - Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln)

1955 - 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially

1952 - KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting

1942 - World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time

1940 - 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct

1931 - 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched

1907 - French troops occupy Casablanca

1800’s

1872 - Britain introduces secret ballot voting

1853 - Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine & Montreal

1700’s

1768 - Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty Song," America's 1st patriotic song

1764 - According to some reports, an agreement regarding peace and alliances is reached by representatives of Great Britain and the Huron.

1759 - British Superintendent for Indian Affairs in the Southern Department, Edmund Atkins, meets with Choctaws in the upper Creek villages. They sign a treaty which establishes trade, and a promise of mutual aid in case of war. This treaty angers the Choctaw’s former allies, the French

1716 - Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels

1500’s

1536 - Pope's authority declared void in England

1588 - Admiral Howard beats Spanish Armada

Before 1000CE

390 BC - Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Under 30

Chace Crawford, TV actor is 27

In their 30’s

Kristen Bell, actress is 32

In their 40’s

Vin Diesel, film actor is 45

Dan[iel Dion] O'Brien, Portland Oregon, decathelete (Olympic-gold-96) is 46

Wendy Williams, radio/TV host is 48

In their 50’s

Ricky Skaggs, Cordell Ky, country singer (Heartbroke, Toy Hearts) is 58

In their 60’s

Richard Branson, London, British music enterperneur (Virgin Atlantic) is 62

In their 70’s

James Brolin, LA California, actor (Dr Kiley-Marcus Welby, Peter-Hotel) is 72

Martha Reeves, Detroit Mich, singer (& Vandellas-Dancing in St) is 71

In their 80’s

Dick Totten Button, Englewood NJ, figure skater (Olympic-gold-48, 52) is 83

In their 90’s

Nelson Mandela, Qunu South Africa, political prisoner (ANC)/President (1994-1999)/ Nobel (1993) is 94

John H Glenn Jr, Cambridge OH, astronaut (Mer 7, sk:STS 95)/(Sen-D-Oh) is 91

Remembered

Hume Cronyn, London Ontario, actor (World According to Garp, Cocoon) - 1911

Richard Dix, St Paul MN, actor (10 Commandments, Cimarron) - 1893

Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) - 1909

George Machine Gun Kelly [Georgio Barnes], Memphis Tennessee, American gangster - 1895

Harriet Hilliard Nelson (Peggy Lou Snyder), actress (Ozzie & Harriet) - 1909

Mildred Lisette Norman, American peace activist, earned the moniker Peace Pilgrim - 1908

Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas) - 1937

Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet - 1850

Red Skelton, [Richard], Vincennes Ind, comedian (Red Skelton Show) - 1913

Gilbert White, "father of British naturalists" - 1720

Chill Wills, Seagoville Texas, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders) - 1903

Charles Wilson, Pres of General Motors (1940-53)/Sec of Def (1953-57) - 1890

Today’s Obits                                                           

Horatio Alger Jr, American clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), asthma in 1899 at 67

Jane Austen, writer, Addison's disease in 1817 at 41

Bobby Fuller, rocker (I Fought the Law), found dead (suicide??) in 1966 at 22

Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), heart attack in 1872 at 66

George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster, heart attack in Leavenworth in 1954 on 59^th birthday

Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer (Shoemaker-Levy comet), in car accident in 1997 at 69

Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary (The Nation), in 1950 at 64

William Westmoreland, American military officer (b. 1914) in 2005 at 91

Answers                                                                                                                                            

What is the answer?

79—the digits of the preceding number are reversed and the lowest digit is dropped.

5X5 boxes

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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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