August 9

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Flagstaff Almanac

Week: 32 / Day: 222

Today: High   83°…Low 50°

Records: High   90°(1980)…Low 35°(2009)

 Averages: High   79°…Low 52°

Wind:   3mph;  Gusts: 34mph

H O T  Today’s humidity:  32%

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1992 - 25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain

1974 - Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres

1956 - South African women demonstrate against pass laws

1945 - US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki

1944 - Smokey Bear debuts as spokesman for fire prevention

1936 - Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin Olympics

1930 - Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes

1859 - Elevator patented

1854 - Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"

1803 - 1st horses arrive in Hawaii

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪ 

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

 

Free Rambling Thoughts   

This ‘getting old-er’ thing is becoming a pain. On Saturday I woke up with a sore foot. No reason, just a sore foot. I went out to get the mail and tripped and did a minor skinning of both knees and one hand. The pain that was there before the fall was still worse than the pain from the fall. Then yesterday the foot pain was gone, but the soreness from the fall was still there. This morning the pain I had in my right foot, which was gone, was now in my left foot…and the little pain from the fall was gone. Guess I’ll wait until tomorrow to see what is next.

It was a hot day with some clouds and no afternoon rain…and very little breeze. I was still able to enjoy my deck, the birds, and my small fountain. I hoping for a cool breeze to come in after the sun sets.

More good Olympics today…China certainly has some great athletes. They have top notch, grueling training schedules, and it is sure paying off…and making for some great competition. There have been very few glitches in these games and when there is a bad call, there are consequences and/or changes. I still would enjoy more live events, but what I am watching is great.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)

What is the answer?

What do the following words have in common?STURDY  THIRSTY  CALMNESS  DEFORMED  INOPERATIVE

6X6 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 6 letters.

1.      trigonometric function
2.      tell
3.      health service place
4.      Jewish religious official
5.      indolent
6.      don't tell it
Hint: upper left to lower right letters are: A-E-I-T-S-T

Lifestyle  Substance     

Do you remember this?

Read Carefully!!

In an office:

AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT
AND STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD

Do you know what this word means?

What is this not so common name of a common object?

Brannock Device

London 2012—

Female Artist Folk Songs: Marianne Faithfull

• As Tears Go By

• Working Class Hero

• The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

• Ballad of Lucy Jordan

Harper’s Index         

Estimated percentage by which the population of Japan will shirk by 2060: 32Portion of its population that will be out of the workforce by then: 1/2

Found on You Tube 

• Smokey The Bear Song – 1952

• Smokey the Bear "Matchsticks" Commercial
     

Joke-of-the-day

A couple is in bed sleeping when there's a rat-a-tat-tat on the door.The husband rolls over and looks at the clock, and it's half past 3 in the morning.” I’m not getting out of bed at this time," he thinks, and rolls over. Then, a louder knock follows. So he drags himself out of bed, goes downstairs, opens the door, and there's a man standing there. It didn't take the homeowner long to realize the man was drunk.
"Hi there," slurs the stranger, "Can you give me a push?" "No, get lost. It's half past three and I was in bed," says the man as he slams the door.
He goes back up to bed and tell his wife what happened and she says, "That wasn't very nice of you. Remember that night we broke down in the pouring rain on the way to pick the kids up from the baby-sitter and you had to knock on that man's house to get us started again? What would have happened if he'd told us to get lost?""But the guy was drunk," says the husband."It doesn't matter," says the wife.” He needs our help and it would be the Christian thing to help him." So the husband gets out of bed again, gets dressed, and goes downstairs.He opens the door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere,
He shouts, "Hey, do you still want a push?" And he hears a voice cry out, "Yeah, please."So, still being unable to see the stranger he shouts, "Where are you?"
The drunk replies, "Over here, on the swing."

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

DRESSING A BUNCH OF KIDS: Dress the best-behaved child first. They are less likely to undo your preparations by the time you're ready to leave.

Yeah, It Really Happened

 ATLANTA - A 30-year-old Atlanta woman is OK after accidentally swallowing a butter knife, doctors said.
The woman was apparently demonstrating to a friend that she no longer had a gag reflex because of her history with bulimia, the New York Daily News reported. During her exhibition, she laughed and accidentally swallowed the knife, New England Journal of Medicine said. She was rushed to the hospital where doctors performed a surgery to remove the knife from her body.
Drs. Aida Venado and Sarah Prebil said doctors were able to remove the knife without damaging the woman's throat or stomach. However, her husband later revealed the woman had swallowed a knife four years ago and she was then transferred to a psychiatric unit, the doctors said.
The Los Angeles Times reported that most instances of people swallowing foreign objects are not life-threatening, citing an Emedicine.com article. "After reaching the stomach, a foreign body has greater than a 90 percent chance of passage," the article states. Although, the article said there are about 1,500 deaths a year from ingesting foreign bodies.           

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The largest national park, Wrangell-St. Elias in Alaska, is larger than nine states and covers an area of more than 13,000 square miles. Alaska is also home to the next three largest National Parks in the country: Gates of the Arctic, Denali, and Katmai.

• One of the nation's newest national parks is also its smallest. Wolf Trap Farm in Virginia, designated a national park in 2003, is only one fifth of a square mile in size. It's known as the first National Park for the Performing Arts.

• There is one Glacier National Park along the British Columbia border in Montana, and another Glacier National Park in British Columbia itself. The two parks have about 250 miles of land between them.

• At Yosemite National Park, bears that cause run-ins with visitors are usually "relocated" to remote areas of the park. Unfortunately, because bears are territorial, the tactic works only about 20 percent of the time. The creatures will often return to the easiest known source of nutrition: human food.

• The first state to ratify the Constitution, Delaware, also happens to be the last state without a unit of the National Park Service. Every other state is home to 1 of 388 NPS-designated sites, including National Memorials, National Monuments, and National Historic Parks.

• While Yellowstone is popularly known as the first national park, it was really the second. Congress proclaimed Arkansas's Hot Springs Reservation a "national park" back in 1832, and it was officially added to the NPS list in 1921.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

5-11

Assistance Dog Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week

National Farmers' Market Week
National Resurrect Romance Week

6-12

Exercise with Your Child Week
Exhibitor Appreciation Week

National Fraud Awareness Week
National Hobo Week

Psychic Week
Single Working Women's Week
Sturgis Rally

World Breastfeeding Week

Today Is                                                                      

International Day of The World's Indigenous People

National Polka Festival

Veep Day (Showing US Constitution works: G. Ford becomes President: 1974)

Japan: Moment of Silence (1945 Nagasaki Day)
Singapore: National Day (1965 from Malaysia)
South Africa: National Women's Day  

Today’s Events Through History  

2000’s

2001 - US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding 

            of limited research on embryonic stem cells

1900’s

1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, 

            and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet

1999 - The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru and  Kimi Ga Yo 

             as the official national flag and national anthem

1979 - English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach

1942 - Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" 

            campaign by the All-India Congress

1923 - NY State Golf Association formed

1907 - The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in 

            Southern England

1800’s

1823 - In June Arikara warriors attack an American expedition. A force of 500 Sioux 

            warriors finds the Arikara and a battle takes place. Colonel Henry Leavenworth 

            soon arrives with his force of 200 soldiers. He reports his men kill fifty Arikara 

            and the Sioux kill fifteen. The Sioux lose two warriors.

1814 - The Treaty of Fort Jackson (7 stat.120) officially ends the Creek War. The

            Creeks, including those who fought with Andrew Jackson, are forced to cede 

            22,000,000 acres, almost half their lands, to the United States.

1600’s

1673 - Dutch recapture NY from English; regained by English in 1674

1500’s

1559 - Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of Holland/Zealand/Utrecht

1400’s

1483 - Opening of the Sistine Chapel

Before 1000CE

 48 BC - Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively 

               defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 40’s

Gillian Anderson, actress (X-Files) is 44

Eric Bana, Australian TV/Movie actor is 44

In their 50’s

Melanie Griffith, actress (Working Girl, Milk Money, Now & Then) is 55

In their 60’s

Sam Elliott, actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty) is 68

Ken Norton, heavyweight boxing champ/TV panelist (Gong Show) is 69

In their 70’s

Rod Laver, Australia, tennis ace (1962, 1969 Grand Slam) is 74

Remembered for being born today

Whitney Houston, Newark NJ, singer (One Moment in Time, Bodyguard) b. 1963

Robert McCormick, Danville Ky, NBC newscaster (Current Opinion) b. 1911

William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, used ether b.1819

Robert Shaw, England, actor (Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday) b. 1927

Pamela Lyndon Travers, Queensland, Australia, writer (Mary Poppins) b. 1899

Izaak Walton, England, biographer/fisherman/writer (Compleat Angler) b. 1593

Ralph Wyckoff, American pioneer in x-ray crystallography b. 1897

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts dies in 1744 at 71

Abigail Folger, US, coffee magnate (Folgers), murdered in Manson Murders 

       in 1969 at 25

Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies in 1962 at 85

Bernie Mac, American comedian, actor dies of pneumonia in 2008 at 50

George P Marshall, NFL president (Washington Redskins), dies after long illness 

        in 1969 at 72

Alan Napier, (Alfred the Butler-Batman), dies in 1988 at 85

Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist dies in 

        2007 at 85

Ted Stevens, US Senator-AK, dies in plane crash in 2010 at 86

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

What is used to measure your feet at the shoe store.

What is the answer?

Each contains, consecutively, three consecutive  letters of the alphabetSTURDY  THIRSTY  CALMNESS  DEFORMED  INOPERATIVE

6X6 boxes

ARCCOS

RELATE

CLINIC

CANTOR

OTIOSE

SECRET

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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