August 22

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Flagstaff Almanac…  

Week: 34 / Day:  235  Today: High   74°…Low 59°

Records: High   90°(2009,1991) …Low 33°(1979)

Averages: High   78°…Low 49 °

Wind:   4mph;  Gusts: 18mph

Rain  Today’s average humidity:  68%

Quote of the Day…

Today’s  Historical  Highlights…

2007 - The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a 

            record 57 million e-mails in one day

1989 - 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered

1972 - International Olympic Committee expels Rhodesia for its racist policies

1952 - The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed

1950 - Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competitor in natl tennis competition

1945 - Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup

1944 - Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed

1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa

1911 - Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre (Recovered in 1913)

1849 -The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against 

             the Italian city of Venice

1788 - Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves

1614 - Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of 

            ghetto in Frankfurt

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪.. 

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

 

Free Rambling Thoughts…   

An unusually cloudy day here…with rain on and off most of the day. Cloudy days make me clean…not sure why, but it happens more often than not. So today was office cleaning day. So nice to have the smell of fresh rain around the house. It would rain, then the pavement would dry out and a little later it would rain again.

NAU is opening soon…and that means we get our local TV news in a few weeks. That will be nice. For those who live in major cities, you have local stuff all the time. Here in Flagstaff, we can’t support a local TV station so the University stepped up and has Communication’s students produce, direct, and run the news with a couple of locals co-anchoring for the kids. Of course our local weatherman is on board most days.

I am really tired of hearing about the Conservative agenda on abortion. This is putting religion in to government. One idiot, a possible Senator, says that the female body can shut down if it is a legitimate rape. The plank in the Republican party says that abortion is wrong period. It doesn’t deal with either rape or incest. The real fear seems to be that many women become pregnant by mistake and then claim rape to get an abortion. Of course there is no factual information that this is happening. There are facts that show 30000+ women became pregnant from a rape/incest incident last year. The perps are in prison or awaiting trial. As an adoptee I believe that no woman should be forced to have a child after a rape/incest. I am so confused, as the leading Conservatives keep talking about less government in our lives (especially our business lives?) but keep adding more government into private lives. Many of these idiots say they never met anyone who became pregnant from a rape/incest doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. It happens about 82 times a day in the US.  

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)

ingress of those people just below the nobility (6,5)

NEW!!!!    Rebus…

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance…     

Do you remember this?

Read Carefully!!

Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant

Do you know what this word means?

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

Aglet

Historic Flagstaff, AZ—…

60’s music…:

In The Midnight Hour- Wilson Pickett

Sunshine Of Your Love- Cream

Purple Haze- Jimi Hendrix

A Day In The Life- Beatles

Harper’s Index…         

Percentage of worldwide data theft last year that was tied to political activism: 58

Unusal Fact of the Day…

Although he hit 563 career home runs, Reggie Jackson never hit more than 30 homers in consecutive seasons.

Found on You Tube… 

• The Battle of New Orleans (British Version)

• Johnny Horton The Battle Of New Orleans (US version)
       

Joke-of-the-day…

One day, a grandpa and his grandson go golfing. The young one is really good and the old one is just giving him tips. They are on hole 8 and there is a tree in the way and the grandpa says,
"When I was your age, I would hit the ball right over that tree."
So, the grandson hits the ball and it bumps against the tree and lands not too far from where it started. "Of course," added the grandpa, "when I was your age, the tree was only 3 feet tall."

Rules of Thumb…   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

JUDGING DESIGN When simple things need instructions, it is a sign of poor design.

Yeah, It Really Happened…

When Robert Anthony Buell, 62, was executed by lethal injection on September 2002 in Lucasville, Ohio for the murder of an 11-year-old girl, he chose for his last meal, a single black, unpitted olive.It is not exactly sure why he chose his last meal to be so spartan. Buell had ample time during his eight years on death row to think about it. Another condemned man, Peter J. Miniel, 42, who was executed by lethal injection in October, 2004, in Huntsville, Texas, for the murder of a 21-year-old man, had no problems pigging out before his execution.
After 16 years of death row prison chow, Miniel gorged himself on 20 beef tacos, 20 beef enchiladas, two double cheeseburgers, a pizza with jalapeños, fried chicken, spaghetti with salt, a small fruit cake, half of a chocolate cake, half of a vanilla cake, cookies-n-cream ice cream, caramel pecan fudge ice cream, two Coca-Colas, two Pepsi-Colas, two root beers and two orange juices.

Somewhat Useless Information…   

• The late Bobby Pickett perfected his Boris Karloff impersonation as a youngster, and it served him well when he employed it to great effect on "Monster Mash." The song topped the music charts Halloween week in 1962 and became a perennial late-October favorite.

• Best known for the novelty hits "Wooly Bully" and "Lil' Red Riding Hood," the leader of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs wasn't named Samuel, but Domingo. The nickname was an abbreviation of his last name, Samudio.

• Johnny Horton recorded two versions of his hit "The Battle of New Orleans," one for American audiences and one for release in the United Kingdom. The lyrics were changed in the overseas version to examine the historic event from the British perspective.

• "Weird Al" Yankovic's second single, "Another One Rides the Bus," was recorded live on the Dr. Demento radio program in 1980. It was a step up from his first single, "My Bologna," which Al had recorded in the bathroom across the hall from the student radio station at Cal Poly.

• Tom Lehrer, whose novelty hits included "The Vatican Rug" and "The Masochicsm Tango," was a major-league brainiac. He earned a Master's degree in math from Harvard before he turned 20 and went on to teach the subject at MIT and UC-Santa Cruz.

• Dickie Goodman made a music career with a microphone and a razor blade. He inter-spliced short snippets of up-and-coming pop hits with his own voice (as a reporter or interviewer), spawning a long series of novelty singles, beginning with "The Flying Saucer" in 1956.

Calendar Information…        

Happening This Week:

17-26

Little League Baseball World Series

19-25

Minority Enterprise Development Week

Today Is…                                                                      

Be An Angel Day 

Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day [go outside at noon and yell ‘hoodie hoo’ to chase winter away)

Today’s Events Through History…  

2000’s

2007 - The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored 

            by a team in modern MLB history

2004 - A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, 

            are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway

2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply 

            with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten 

           Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building

1900’s

1988 - NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)

1984 - Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan & VP Bush

1975 - Assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford

1968 - 1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)

1962 - Failed assassination on President De Gaulle

1962 - Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage

            from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga

1951 - Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052

1941 - Nazi troops reach Lenningrad

1932 - The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting

1921 - J Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI

1906 - 1st Victor Victrola manufactured

1902 - Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car

1800’s

1877 - Nez Perce flee into to Yellowstone National Park

1864 - International Red Cross forms

1862 - Santee Sioux attack Fort Ridgely

1848 - The United States annexes New Mexico

1806: Pike’s expedition has reached a village of the Little Osage near the forks of the 

           Osage River in modern Missouri. He holds a council here with both the Grand 

            and Little Osage. The Little Osage are lead by Tuttassuggy or "The Wind," and

            the Grand Osage by Cheveau Blanc, or White Hair.

1700’s

1791 - Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman

1762 - 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury

1600’s

1670: Hiacoomes preaches his first sermon to his Wampanoag people on 

           Martha's Vineyard.

1639 - Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company 

            on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers

1100’s

1138 - English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were 

            carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard

Before 1000CE

565 - St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness

Today’s Birthdays…                                                           

In their 40’s

Ty Burrell, actor (Modern Family) is 45

Giada De Laurentiis, Italian/American chef and television host is 42

Rick Yune, actor is 41

In their 50’s

Holly Dunn, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Daddy's Hands) is 55

John Kidd, NFL punter (Miami Dolphins) is 51

In their 60’s

Steve Kroft, Kokomo Ind, co-editor (60 Minutes) is 67

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, White House Chief of Staff is 62

Cindy Williams, actress (Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days) is 65

In their 70’s

Morton Dean (Morton Dubitsky) , Fall River Mass, TV newscaster (CBS, ABC) is 77

Valerie Harper, (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, Valerie) will be 72

H Norman Schwarzkopf, Trenton NJ, 4-star Army general (Gulf War) is 78

Carl Yastrzemski, NY, Boston Red Sox great (1967 AL MVP, Hall of Fame) is 73

In their 80’s

Honor Blackman, actress (Pussy Galore-Goldfinger) is 86

Remembered for being born today

Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury, Ill, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451) b. 1920

David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader 

       (Chicago 7) b. 1915

George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) b. 1880

James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope b. 1915

John Lee Hooker, Clarksdale Mississippi, blues guitarist (Canned Heat) b. 1917

John Lupton, Highland Park Ill, actor (Tom-Broken Arrow) b. 1920

James Kirke Paulding, American author, Sec. of Navy b. 1778

Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe b. 1822

Today’s Historical Obits…                                                           

Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam dies of battle wounds in 634

Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush in 1922 at 31

Isabella, Queen of England dies in 1358 at 62 or 63

Richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle in 1485 at 32

Answers…                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

The plastic coating on a shoelace.

What is the answer?

Gentry entry

Rebus

A cut above the rest 

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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