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Flagstaff Almanac
Week: 33 / Day: Today:
High 79°…Low 60°
Records: High 89°(1939) …Low 37°(1968)
Averages: High 78°…Low 50°
Wind: 4mph; Gusts: 25mph
Afternoon Rain
Today’s humidity: 65%
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1988 - Republicans
nominate George Bush for president
1982 - The first
Compact Discs (CDs) were released to the public in Germany
1979 - Monty
Python's "Life of Brian" premieres
1978 - 1st
successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1976 - An
earthquake & tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
1961 - Kennedy
administration establishes Alliance for Progress
1959 - 7.1
quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
1953 - Addiction:
First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California
1952 - "Fallout"
1st used (NY Times)
1945 - Koreas
divided on 38th parallel with US occupying the southern area
1933 - Lou
Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game
1903 - Joe
Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U & begins Pulitzer Prizes
1891 - 1st
public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath)
1891 - Electric
self-starter for automobile patented
1870 - 1st
ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
1869 - 1st
international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard)
1787 - Jews
are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
1590 - John
White returns to Roanoke, Virginia to find no trace of colonist's he
had left
there 3 yrs earlier
♪ Happy Birthday To:
♪
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s
Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts
Lots of
clouds, then out of nowhere, hail. My deck had almost 2” of hail on it…tiny
little beads—thank goodness. Then hard and heavy rain. Pictures on FB from
around town show lots of flooding in all the streets around town. Some parking
lots a few miles from my place looked more like mid-January with 3”-4” of hail
covering their lots. Our parking lot is full of pine cones and pine needles
from the gushes of water that were heading down the road. Then there was the
lightning. I saw a big hit on the hill just east of my place, and read that the
Circle K about a half of a mile away also got a direct hit. No injuries, and
haven’t heard of any fires but it was quite a storm. Just another reminder that
Mother Nature does as she pleases, when she pleases.
The
evening news from Phoenix had lots about our storm, but more importantly, news
about the backlash from Governor Brewer’s Executive Order. Many legislators are
saying that she has overstepped her authority and needs to rescind her order.
Thank goodness, some people in AZ are still awake. She is out of the state
right now but that didn’t stop several demonstrations at the state capital and
at her office. A Presidential Executive Order is for all the US...I’ll see how
this plays out. So interesting to live in AZ.
Game Center: (answers
at the end of post)
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)
a hiding place for window frameworks (4,5)
Scrambled Proverbs
Can you
unscramble the words to make an English proverb? Each puzzle has an easy
version (above the black square), in which each word is scrambled individually
and the spaces appear in their proper place, and a more challenging version,
where the entire phrase is scrambled and spaces appear at random.
ITBRI DN ON TDHT BHAWSSWAOE TIUE NHHHR (11 words)
Lifestyle Substance
Do you remember this?
Read Carefully!!
Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter
Do you know what this word means?
What
is this not so common name of a common object?
Dysania
London 2012—
Bebop music:
Harper’s Index
Percentage of African countries in which it is illegal to practice homosexuality: 69
Unusal Fact of the Day
The University of Wyoming opened its doors before Wyoming became a state.
Found on You Tube
Joke-of-the-day
Two classmates were chatting in their lunch break..."I know how to get money real quick" says one,” How?""Go to your dad and say, "I know the truth" and he'll give you money"So the young boy went home and said "Dad, I know the truth" and his dad gave him ten dollars and told him not to tell anyone 'the truth'.He then went to his mother, " Mom, I know the truth” he said."Please don't tell your dad" she said and gave him twenty dollars.Content with thirty dollars he went outside to go to the arcade and saw the milkman. "I know the truth,” he shouted out.The milkman replied "Well come and hug your real father then"
Rules of Thumb
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
FEEDING KIDS: Children don't need huge servings of food. Start with one tablespoon of each item per year of age.
Yeah, It Really Happened
NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A Florida teenager told police he couldn't help himself when he allegedly groped a woman while shopping at Walmart.
Aaron Morris, 18, North Lauderdale, allegedly told officers following his arrest Thursday he could not help reaching out and touching the woman's bottom as she shopped. "Her booty looked so good, I just couldn't resist touching it," Morris said in a report filed by Broward County sheriff's deputies.
Morris was picked up a short time later at a gas station when the woman pointed him out to deputies. He was jailed on a battery charge, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported.
Somewhat Useless Information
According to 'The History of Science and Technology', by Bryan Bunch and Alexander Hellemans, in 610 AD "...an Italian monk invents pretzels as a reward to children who learn their prayers. He calls the strips of baked dough, folded to resemble arms crossing the chest, 'pretiola' ("little rewards")".
Pretzel baking has most firmly taken root in southern Germany and adjoining Upper German - speaking areas, and pretzels have been an integral part of German baking traditions for centuries.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
Elvis Week
12-18
15-21
National Aviation Week
17-26
Little League Baseball
World Series
Today Is
Hug Your Boss Day
Meaning of "Is"
Day: Spend today trying to define ‘is’
in your words
without using the word ‘be’
Men's Grooming Day
National Thrift Shop Day
Gabon: Independence Day (1960
from France)
Indonesia: Independence Day (1945 from Netherlands)
Indonesia: Independence Day (1945 from Netherlands)
Today’s Events Through History
2000’s
2005 - The
first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral
disengagement plan, starts
2004 - The National
Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for
Serbia: Boze Pravde
becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is
adopted for the whole country.
1900’s
1998 - Monica
Lewinsky scandal: Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an
"improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica
Lewinsky and
he "misled people" about his relationship.
1988 - Pakistani
President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold
Raphel are killed in a
plane crash
1985 - 1,400
meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel & Co plant
1960 - Francis
Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
1957 - Richie
Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks
her nose,
2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher
1948 - Alger
Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
1947 - The
Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion
of Pakistan is
revealed
1943 - Gen Patton
enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies
1938 - 1st
aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland)
1918 - Bolshevik
revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated
1915 - Hurricane
strikes Galveston, TX (275 killed)
1800’s
1883 - The
first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem,
Himno
Nacional
1877 - Asaph
Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
1870 - Mrs Esther
Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
1859 - 1st
air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind
1835 - Solymon
Merrick patents wrench
1807 - Robert
Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
1700’s
1788 - Losantville,
OH (now Cincinnati) founded
1765 -
Pontiac and the British sign a treaty
1755 -
Almost 400 Indians attack John Kilburn’s stockade at Walpole, Connecticut.
Some
sources say the Indians are led by King Philip. After a day of fighting,
the
Indians withdraw
1500’s
1577 - Peace
of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots
Today’s Birthdays
In their 50’s
Belinda Carlisle,
Hollywood Ca, (GoGos lead singer, Heaven on Earth) is 54
Sean Penn,
actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) is 52
In their 60’s
Robert De
Niro, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Taxi Driver) is 69
In their 90’s
Maureen
O'Hara, [Fitzsimmons], Dublin, actress (Miracle on 34th St) is 92
Remembered for
being born today
Davy
Crockett, Greene County, Tennessee, frontiersman/adventurer/politician
(Alamo) b.
1786
Henry
Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist b. 1851
Marcus
Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks b. 1887
Francis
Gary Powers, US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident) b. 1929
Mae West,
New York, actress (She Dine him Wrong) b. 1893
Floyd Red
Crow Westerman, Native American musician-actor b. 1936
Today’s Historical Obits
Pearl
Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, dies of heart attack in 1990 at 72
Ira
Gershwin, lyricist ("I Got Rhythm", "Embraceable You"),
dies in 1983 at 86
Rudolph
Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93
Tommy
Nutter, fashion designer (bell bottom pants), dies of AIDs in 1992 at 49
Franklin D
Roosevelt Jr, (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies of lung cancer in 1988
on 74th birthday
Vivian
Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies of cancer in 1979 at 70
Answers
Do you know what
this word means?
The state of finding it hard to get out of the bed in the morning.
What is the answer?
Sash stash
Scrambled
Proverbs
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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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