August 10

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Flagstaff Almanac

Week: 32 / Day: 223

Today: High   83°…Low 54°

Records: High   89°(1980)…Low 35°(2009)

 Averages: High   79°…Low 51°

Wind:   4mph;  Gusts: 25mph

Afternoon Rain  Today’s humidity: 33 %

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights

2006 - Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from 

            the United Kingdom to the United States. All toiletries are banned from 

            commercial airplanes.

1997 - Vijay Singh of Fiji wins Buick Open at the Warwick Hills Golf

1990 - US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus

1988 - UN estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion

1966 - Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor

             entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again

1948 - ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY) Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV

            debut

1944 - US recaptures Guam from Japanese

1921 - FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello

1835 - Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH

1831 - Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery

1827 - Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪ 

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

 

Free Rambling Thoughts   

A couple of the puzzles are disappearing after today, but new ones await. The 6 x 6 box has been using too many odd words for me.  I look forward to doing some new stuff for a little while.

Our retirement had our weekly lunch. Very good salad bar at Sizzler. Cheryl had just picked up new glasses and they are nice, as well as helping her see better. Mary had posted some great grandkid pics this morning and she told us of Kindergarten antics. Her grandson told the teacher he had a good time on the first day and hoped she would come back tomorrow to his school. Cheryl got her new big screen TV up and running and says she has really been enjoying the Olympics…on the big screen and in HD. I couldn’t agree more.

I got up this morning with no pain, so whatever was causing it has left the body, or is busy moving to another spot. Last night was a night of very strange dreams that woke me up at least four times. None of them made any sense when I awoke, and when I got up this morning I couldn’t remember any of them, just that I had awakened four times. Guess I should have written them down when I woke up in the middle of the night.

It was another HOT day here in Flag, but our afternoon rain cooled things off nicely. So glad I’m not in the Phoenix area with extreme heat warnings for everyone. My Olympic coverage was interrupted three times today with Emergency notifications of Heavy Thundershowers/ Flash Flooding in our county. None were near Flagstaff, and we just got our rather common afternoon shower. Since the storms were far off, my phone never gave me an alert. One of the storms was near Seligman one near Page and the other by the Grand Canyon. We live in a huge county and are not that populated, so TV always picks up stuff that doesn’t really hit Flagstaff. The smart phone notifications are much less widespread.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)

What is the answer?

NOTE: LAST DAY FOR THIS PUZZLE:

Here are the names of four colors, with the vowels removed. What are the four colors?NDG  CRS  MRN  MGNT

6X6 Word Boxes

NOTE: LAST DAY FOR THIS PUZZLE…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.      cup
2.      bird
3.      unglazed porcelain
4.      Japanese plum
5.      liquid resultant of the removal of captured ions
6.      move unsteadily
Hint: upper left to lower right letters are: G-R-S-U-T-R

Lifestyle  Substance     

Do you remember this?

Read Carefully!!

Outside a secondhand shop:

WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC.
WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?

Do you know what this word means?

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

Paresthesia

London 2012—

Female Artist Folk Songs: Stevie Nicks

New music genre tomorrow too.

• "DREAMS"

• “For What It's Worth”

• "FAIR USE"

• “Stop Draggin' My Heart Around”

Harper’s Index         

• Percentage increase in the rate f alcohol abuse for every percent by which US unemployment increases: 17
• Percentage increase, since 2006, in violent sex crimes perpetrated by members of the US Army: 97

Found on You Tube 

Olympic 3000m Finals 1984       

Joke-of-the-day

This guy needs a job and decides to apply at the zoo. As it happened, their star attraction, a gorilla, had passed away the night before and they had carefully preserved his hide. They tell this guy that they'll pay him well if he would dress up in the gorilla’s skin and pretend to be the gorilla so people will keep coming to the zoo. Well, the guy has his doubts, but Hey! He needs the money, so he puts on the skin and goes out into the cage.
The people all cheer to see him. He plays up to the audience and they just eat it up. This isn't so bad, he thinks, and he starts really putting on a show, jumping around, beating his chest and roaring, swinging around. During one acrobatic attempt, though, he loses his balance and crashes through some safety netting, landing square in the middle of the lion cage!
As he lies there stunned, the lion roars. He's terrified and starts screaming, "Help, Help, Help!"
The lion races over to him, places his paws on his chest and hisses, "Shut up or we'll BOTH lose our jobs!"

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

GETTING BACK IN SHAPE Recovering an unused physical skill takes one month for each year of layoff.

Yeah, It Really Happened

PORTLAND, Ore. - An Oregon woman who has been seen swimming in public pools while dressed as a mermaid said she is living out a childhood fantasy. Pauline Long, 56, said she wanted to be a mermaid as a child and she decided to spend this summer swimming in Portland pools while wearing her homemade fins, which were inspired by a woman she met a few years ago, KGW, Portland, reported Monday. Long, who said she is part of a 23-strong group known as The Northwest Mermaids, said she knows she isn't a real mermaid, but her 6-year-old self would be proud.
"I obviously know the difference but it's just fun. It's freedom," she said. "If you don't do it as a child, why not do it as an adult? Who says that you can't?"               

Somewhat Useless Information   

• Even those who were reading e-books before on different platforms are jumping on the Kindle/Nook bandwagon. Yes, more e-book readers are now opting to use dedicated e-readers to read their e-books. Fewer people are reading e-books on a computer.

• According to e-book readers, having access to free chapters or samples had the biggest impact on getting them to buy an e-book. In fact, this seems to be more of a decision-maker than online reviews.

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

10-18

Elvis Week

Today Is                                                                      

Lazy Day

National Duran Duran Appreciation Day

Smithsonian Day (1846 Museum approved by Senate)

S'mores Day

Ecuador: Independence Day (1809 from Spain; lasted 2 months)  

US: Missouri: Admission Day (1821-24th state)

Today’s Events Through History  

2000’s

2003 - The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK - 38.5°C (101.3°F) in Kent

2003 - Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space

1900’s

1994 - Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)

1984 - Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run

1981 - Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business

1975 - David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon

1973 - 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station

1945 - Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged

1936 - 120°F (49°C) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record)
1938 - 119°F (48°C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)

1911 - Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords

1800’s

1877 - Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce

1866 - Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria

1861 - Stand Watie's Cherokee troops fight on the Confederate side at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, in southern Missouri. The southerners are victorious. However, the participation of the Cherokees on the side of the south leads to further tensions among the Cherokees who wish to remain neutral. The first Cherokee to die in the Civil War falls during this battle.

1833 - Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200

1700’s

1790 - Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage

1776 - American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London

1600’s

1680 - In NM, Popé (Tewa)leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniards: The Pueblo Revolt

1500’s

1500 - Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight Madagascar

1400’s

1461 - Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquistion in Spain

Before 1000CE

991 - Battle of Maldon: English, led by Bryhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The English are defeated and the story is immortalised in a well-known poem

610 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 30’s

Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress is 30

In their 40’s

Angie Harmon, fashion model and television/film actress is 40

Justin Theroux, American actor, director, and screenwriter is 41

In their 50’s

Rosanna Arquette, NYC, actress (Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hour) is 53

Antonio Banderas, Malaga Spain, actor (Phila, Evita, Mambo Kings) is 52

In their 60’s

Ian Anderson, Scotland, rocker (Jethro Tull-Bungle in the Jungle) is 65

In their 80’s

Rhonda Fleming, [Marilyn Louis], Hollywood California, actress (Spellbound) is 89

Remembered for being born today

Noah Beery Jr, NYC, actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot) b. 1913

Jimmy Dean, Tx, actor/singer (Jimmy Dean Show, Diamonds are Forever) b. 1928

Eddie Fisher, Phila Pa, singer (Oh My Papa, Lady of Spain) b. 1928

John Galbreath, American businessman and philanthropist, b.1897

Edward Orval Gourdin, Jacksonville, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1924) b. 1897

Jack Haley, Boston Mass, actor (Tin Man-Wizard of Oz, Ford Star Revue) b. 1898

Herbert Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933) b. 1874

Mohammed V ibn Yusuf, King of Morocco b. 1909

Henri Nestlé, German confectioner and founder of Nestlé b. 1814

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Ray "Crash" Corrigan, cowboy actor (Crash Corrigan's Ranch), dies in 1976 at 74

Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader dies in 1637 at 55

Isaac Hayes, American musician and actor, dies of stroke in 2008 at 65

Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, dies in 1963 at only 3 days

Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog found by American in France at end of WWI dies in 1932 at 14

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

The pins and needles feeling you get when part of your body falls asleep. Bonus! This is also known as obdormition.

What is the answer?

Indigo, cerise [vivid pinkish red] , maroon, magenta

6X6 boxes

GOBLET

ORIOLE

BISQUE

LOQUAT

ELUATE

TEETER

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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