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Flagstaff Almanac
Week: 32 /
Day: 224
Today: High 88°…Low 53°
Records: High 89°(202)…Low 40°(2009)
Averages: High 79°…Low 51°
Wind: 11mph; Gusts: 25mph
High clouds, No
Rain Today’s
humidity: 20%
Quote of the Day
Today’s Historical
Highlights
2003 - NATO takes
over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan,
marking its first major
operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history
1999 - Total
solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s)
1988 - Al-Qaeda
formed
1984 - During a
radio voice test Pres Reagan joked he "signed legislation that
would
outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
1978 - Funeral
of Pope Paul VI
1976 - Race riot in
Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die
1965 - 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
1951 - 100,000
acres flooded from Mississippi R in Ks, Oklahoma, Mo & Ill
1948 - Summer
Olympics opens in London
1934 - 1st
federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay
1924 - 1st
newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken
1914 - John Wray
patents animation
1860 - Nation's
1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev)
1802 -
Tecumseh has predicted an earthquake. It happen and becomes known
as the
"New Madrid Earthquake."
♪Happy Birthday
To: ♪ How many
can you identify…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling
Thoughts
A nice
Friday, but a tad warmer than I like…so glad I live next to the mountain, so we
have a breeze most of the time. Not a day to spend much time outside…although I
did enjoy a little time on my deck.
I have
added some new games to the blog. We all need change and a new way to look at
things. I hope you enjoy them. The Scrambled Proverbs will get more difficult
than today’s. I started with a really easy one.
The
Olympics had some great wrestling, great swimming, and was enjoyable. I can’t
believe they are almost over. Time to get ready for Rio in 4 years, and of
course Sochi, Russia in two years for the Winter Olympics.
Sadly it
looks like Politics and all the lies and semi-untruths will be prevailing
themselves on the airways, once the Olympics is over. It I so disturbing to
hear all the spin…when the facts are right there in front of us all. Not
looking forward to the crap until election day.
Game Center: (answers at the end of post)
NEW! What is the answer?
Answer the
following clue in two rhyming words (e.g. an obese feline is a fat cat) If only
one number is given, the answer is a word featuring internal rhyme (e.g.
voodoo)
Style of car preferred by large families (4-4)
NEW! Scrambled
Proverbs
Can you
unscramble the words to make an English proverb?
A HTICTS IN MITE VASES NEIN
Lifestyle Substance
Do you remember
this?
Read Carefully!!
Notice in
health food shop window:
CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS
Do you know what
this word means?
What
is this not so common name of a common object?
Phosphenes
London 2012—
Calypso music:
Harry Belafonte
Note:
Harry Belafonte is 85 years old.
Harper’s
Index
- Portion of Afghans who believe their national police will be ready to handle security when NATO forces leave: ¾
- Who believe the national police are ‘somewhat’ or ‘very’ corrupt: ½
Found on You
Tube
Kool-Aid Commercials
Joke-of-the-day
Once upon a time Dracula decided to carry some sort of a competition to see which is the finest bat to stand on his side. So all the bats were honored to take part. The rules were simple. Whichever bat drinks more blood, will be the winner?
So the first bat goes and comes back after 10 minutes. Her mouth was full of blood. Dracula says: "Congratulations, how did you do that?"
The bat said: "Do you see that tower? Behind it there is a house. I went in and sucked the blood of all the family".
"Very good" said Dracula.
The second bat goes and comes back after 5 minutes all her face covered in blood. Dracula astonished says, "How did you do that?"
The bat replies " Do you see that tower? Behind it there is a school. I went in and drunk the blood of all the children".
"Impressive" said Dracula. Now the third bat goes and comes back after three minutes literally covered in blood from top to toe.
Dracula is stunned. "How on earth did you do that????" he asked.
And the bat replies. "Do you see this tower?" Dracula replies with a yes. And the bat says "Well, I didn't".
Rules of
Thumb
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
SPOTTING A SERIOUS ILLNESS
A person who suddenly falls forward without getting their hand up to protect their face is seriously ill or hurt.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
BERLIN - A German animal rights group said it is concerned about the dignity of animals being used as soccer-predicting psychics by media outlets. The Tierschutzbund animal rights group said the Euro 2012 tournament has led TV and radio stations to overuse the psychic animal gimmick, which was inspired by Paul the octopus, a cephalopod that made headlines with a string of successful World Cup predictions in 2010, the BBC reported Wednesday.
"These days, everybody who has an animal seems to put it in front of a camera," said Marius Tunte of Tierschutzbund. "Every station has its own animal." The group said it was particularly upset about an Internet radio station using a python named Aldo to make predictions by choosing between two rats representing different teams. "Unnecessary suffering is being inflicted purely for the sake of enjoyment," the group said.
Somewhat Useless
Information
- There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth.
- When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.
- The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
- The leap of an average flea is equivalent to a 100 pound man leaping 1,000’ and enduring a g-force of 20,000 pounds with acceleration greater than that of a space shuttle.
- When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source.
- The buzz that you hear when a bee approaches is the sound of its four wings moving at 11,400 strokes per minute. Bees fly an average of 15 miles per hour.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
Assistance Dog Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
6-12
Exercise with Your Child
Week
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
National Fraud Awareness
Week
National Hobo Week
National Hobo Week
World Breastfeeding Week
Elvis Week
11-15
National Scrabble Week
Today Is
Kool-Aid Day to
celebrate the All American drink
Ingersoll Day to
celebrate the life and works of one of the most
popular freethinkers in US
history
National Garage Sale Day
Presidential Joke Day
Chad: Independence Day (1960
from France)Note: Chad means ‘lake’
Today’s Events
Through History
2000’s
2003 - A heat wave in
Paris results in temperatures rising to 112°F (44° C),
leaving about 144 people
dead
1900’s
1997 - Benin
legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday
1993 - Pope John
Paul II visits Mexico
1991 - 400,000
demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed
1984 - Cincinnati
Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform
1984 - Carl Lewis
duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olympic track golds
1978 - Legionnaire's
disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta
1975 - US vetoes
proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN
1968 - Beatles
launch "Apple Records" label
1962 - Beach Boys
release "Surfin' Safari"
1956 - Elvis Presley
releases "Don't Be Cruel"
1954 - Formal peace
takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between
French &
Communist Vietminh
1951 - 1st color
baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC)
1944 - Klaus Barbie,
Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz
1936 - Chaing
Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton
1929 - Babe
Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers
1909 - SOS 1st used
by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC
1800’s
1885 - $100,000
raised in US for pedestal for Statue of Liberty
1866 - World's
1st roller rink opens (Newport RI)
1863 - Cambodia
becomes French protectorate
1700’s
1772 - Explosive
eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000
1600’s
1695 - English
& Dutch fleet capture Dunkirk
Before 1000CE
3114 BC - The
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian
Mesoamerican
civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins
Today’s Birthdays
Under 30
Chris
Hemsworth, Australian Actor (Thor) is 29
In their 40’s
Miguel A.
Núñez Jr., American actor is 48
Joe Rogan,
martial artist, stand-up comedian, actor, writer and color
commentator is 45
In their 50’s
Hulk
Hogan [Terry Bollea], Augusta Ga, WWF heavyweight champion
is 59
In their 60’s
David
Horovitch, English Actor (Inspector Slack-Miss Marple) is 67
Marilyn
Vos Savant, St Louis Mo, writer/world's highest IQ (228) is 66
Steve
Wozniak, co-founder (Apple Computers) is 62
In their 80’s
Arlene Dahl,
Minneapolis Minnesota, actress/TV panelist is 87
Claus Von
Bulow, accused of murdering his wife is 86
Remembered for
being born today
Enid
Blyton, children's writer and fifth most popular author in the world
(Famous
Five, Secret Seven, The Adventure) b. 1897
Dik
Browne, cartoonist (Hi & Lois, Hagar the Horrible) b. 1917
Anna Maria
Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis b. 1667
Mike
Douglas, Chicago Ill, talk show host (Mike Douglas Show) b. 1925
Jerry
Falwell, US, TV evangelist (Moral Majority) b. 1933
Alex
Haley, Ithaca New York, writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots) b. 1921
Friedrich
Ludwig Jahn, founder of turnverein (gymnastics) movement b. 1778
Lloyd
Nolan, SF California, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place) b.
1902
Charles
William Paddock, Texas, American athlete and 100m record breaker
(Olympic-2
gold-1920) b. 1900
Today’s Historical
Obits
Andrew
Carnegie, US steel industrialist/philanthropist, dies in 1919 at 83
Peter
Cushing, actor (Star Wars, Dr Who), dies of cancer in 1994 at 81
Mike
Douglas, American singer and talk show host dies in 2006 on 81st
birthday
Flavian,
Patriarch of Constantinople, saint in Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic
churches dies in 449
Hans
Memling, [John Memlinc], Flemish painter (Passietaferelen), dies in 1494 at 64
Jackson
Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident in 1956 at 44
Hamnet
Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare dies of unknown cause
in 1596 at
11
Eunice
Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics, sister of JFK, dies in 2009
at 88
Thaddeus
Stevens, architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies in 1868 at 76
Edith
Wharton [-Jones], US Pulitzer prize-winning author (House of Mirth), dies
in
1937 at 75
Answers
Do you know what
this word means?
The lights you see when you close your eyes and press your hands to them.
What is the answer?
Four door
Scrambled
Proverbs
A stitch in time saves nine
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.
☺ And That Is All for Now
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