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Flagstaff Almanac…
Week: 35 / Day: 239 Today: High 76°…Low 52°
Records: High 88 °(1985)…Low 36° (2002)
Averages: High 78°…Low 49°
High clouds/ light rain--Wind: 9mph;
Gusts: 24mph
Today’s humidity: 81%
Quote of the Day…
Today’s Historical
Highlights…
2003 - The Columbia Accident
Investigation Board releases its final reports
on Space Shuttle Columbia
disaster
1983 - Flooding
destroys most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain
1972 - 20th
Olympic games open at Munich German FR
1964
- LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ
1946 - George
Orwell published "Animal Farm"
1929 - 1st
US roller coaster built
1873 - 1st
free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet,
a suburb of
St. Louis
1498 - Michaelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pieta
♪
Happy Birthday To: ♪..
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s
Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts…
I had a
nice quiet Saturday. A little morning rain shortened my morning walk.
Saddened
to hear of Neil Armstrong’s passing. He was in Flag just a few weeks ago
talking at the local observatory. Some friends were there and said his humor
was great, his humbleness was extraordinary, and his view of life’s goals
challenging. My friends had mentioned their surprise when it was in the news
that he was having heart surgery…since he never mentioned any ailment during
his visit. RIP
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)
raze a New York suburb (7,9)
Rebus…
Can you figure
out what this means?
Lifestyle Substance…
Do you remember this?
Read Carefully!!
Enfield (London) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
Do you know what this word means?
What
is this not so common name of a common object?
Contrail
Scottish Castles—…
60’s music…:
- Percy Faith Theme from A Summer Place (1960)
The “Theme from A Summer Place” was written by Mack Discant, with the music by Max Steiner, an Austrian composer of music for film and theater. The name of the song comes from the 1959 motion picture for which it was created (obviously), but the most popular version of this song was recorded by Percy Faith, a Canadian conductor. Faith’s version spent an (at the time) record nine consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1960, as well as snagged a Grammy Award for Record of the Year the following year. Of all the covers of this song, Faith’s version stands alone in both critical acclaim and overwhelming popularity.
- Cliff Nobles & Co. The Horse (1968)
The Horse is a song by Cliff Nobles and Company, released in 1968. Like the previous song, The Horse is the instrumental version of the A-side single “Love is All Right”. The Horse reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and sold a million copies within three months of its release. A unique distinction of The Horse is that the title singer, Cliff Nobles, doesn’t actually perform on the track since his vocals are actually featured on the track Love is All Right. Cliff Nobles had previously recorded three singles with Atlantic Records before moving on to Soul Records and breaking through with The Horse, his most successful song and one of my personal favorites.
Harper’s Index…
Estimated number of Americans carrying student-loan debt is in excess of $200,000: 167,000
Unusal Fact of the Day…
The average album length has increased from 40 minutes in the LP era to well over an hour in the CD era. Most double-album LPs can fit onto a single CD.
Found on You Tube…
First Moon Landing 1969
Joke-of-the-day…
Chris had just turned 16 had long hair, and look like Joe Dirt. He went to his dad and asked: "Dad it is my 16th birthday! I would like you to by me a car for my birthday.”
So his dad replied, "Son, I will buy you any car that you want as long as you raise your grades AND cut your hair."
Chris said ok. The next week, Chris brought home a report card he had raised all his grades from c's and d's to all a's. His father was very happy! Now Chris was so excited he told his dad what car he wanted a, convertible mustang (red).
His dad said, "Chris you haven't cut your hair."
Chris replied, "Well Jesus had long hair."
His dad said, "yeah, and Jesus walked everywhere he went!"
Rules of Thumb…
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
RAISING SWINE: It takes the profit from four pigs to pay the cost of keeping a sow. The fifth pig is the first one that makes you money.
Yeah, It Really Happened…
OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma mother wants her 5-year-old son's school to revise its dress code after he was forced to turn his University of Michigan shirt inside out. Shannon Barton said she was shocked to find out her son, Cooper, had been made to turn his T-shirt inside out at Wilson Elementary in Oklahoma City because the district's dress code only allows college apparel from Oklahoma schools, KWTV, Oklahoma City, reported Thursday.
"They should really worry about academics. It wasn't offensive. He's 5," Barton said. District officials said the policy, which also bans professional sports team apparel, was created in 2005 with the help of an Anti-Gang Task Force. Superintendant Karl Springer said the policy will be reviewed by officials.
Somewhat Useless Information…
- Nathanial Currier and James Ives are best known for their Victorian Christmas scenes, but they also produced significant political cartoons and banners in their lithograph shop.
- Christmas still reigns supreme as the biggest card-sending holiday, but Valentine's Day runs a close second. The top recipients of Valentine cards are teachers, followed by children, mothers, and then wives.
- It takes a three-volt lithium ion battery, an analog recording chip, an amplifier, and tiny speakers to create a musical greeting card. When the card is closed, a tab slides between the two contacts and keeps the greeting silent. Such devices draw very little juice, so a musical greeting will long outlast your birthday party.
- The very first Hallmark card, published in 1916, featured a verse from poet Edgar A. Guest: "I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me."
- According to the Greeting Card Association, four of every five greeting cards sold are purchased by women.
- In 1848, a new Valentine's Day card tradition emerged: the "penny dreadful" or "vinegar valentine." These cards were printed on cheap stock and featured rhyming insults intended for spinsters and other lovelorn folks.
Calendar Information…
Happening This Week:
17-26
Little League Baseball World
Series
25-31
Be Kind To Humankind Week
National Safe at Home Week
National Safe at Home Week
Today Is…
International Homeless Animals Day:
activities
often include candlelight vigils, adopt-a-thons, microchip clinics,
blessings of the animals, and heartfelt speeches
National Cherry Popsicle Day
National Dog Day
Women's Equality Day
Today’s Events Through History…
2000’s
2008 - Russia
unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian
breakaway
republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia
1900’s
1996 - Bill
Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US
welfare
policy
1978 - Cardinal
Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
1967 - Beatles,
Mick Jagger & Marienne Faithful meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1955 - 1st
color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
1940
- Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the
administration
of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor
1907 - Houdini
escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
1800’s
1874 - 16
blacks lynched in Tennessee
1858 - First
news dispatch by telegraph
1858 - In what is called "The Battle of Four Lakes,"
force under Colonel George
Wright fight for about three hours with Coeur d’Alene, Columbia River, Colville,
Kalispel, and Spokane
Indians. The army defeats the Indians.
1846 - Felix
Mendelssohn's "Elijah," premieres
1842 - The Caddoes sign
a treaty in Texas. They agree to visit other tribes and
try to convince them to
also sign treaties with Texas
1700’s
1748 - The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the
Pennsylvania
Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia
1500’s
1541 - Turkish
sultan Suleiman occupies Buda/annexes Hungary
Before 1000CE
580 - Chinese
invents toilet paper
Today’s Birthdays…
In their 30’s
Macaulay
Culkin, actor (Home Alone, My Girl, Richie Rich) is 32
In their 40’s
Chris Burke, actor with down syndrome
(Corky-Life Goes On) is 47
In their 60’s
Richard
Cowsill, Newport RI, rocker (Cowsills-Hair, We Can Fly) is 62
Michael
Jeter, actor (Fisher King) will be 60
Tom Ridge,
first United States Secretary of Homeland Security is 67
Will
Shortz, American crossword editor is 60
In their 70’s
Vic Dana, Buffalo, singer/dancer (Talent
Scouts) is 70
In their 80’s
Sangharakshita
[Dennis Philip Edward Lingwood],
Buddhist Philosopher,
Founder of the Western Buddhist Order is 87
Remembered for
being born today
Mary Ann Nichols, 1st victim of Jack the Ripper
b. 1845
Albert B
Sabin, Bialystock, Poland, US microbiologist (oral polio vaccine) b. 1906
Albert
"Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, husband of queen Victoria b.
1819
Elisha
Williams, American rector of Yale College b. 1694
Today’s Historical Obits…
Tex Avery,
animation cartoonist [Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel,
and
developing Porky Pig, Chilly Willy] dies of cancer in 1982 at 72
Charles
Boyer, actor (Gaslight, Rogues), dies in 1978 at 78
Lon
Chaney, actor (Thunder, Big City, Unholy 3), dies of throat hemorrhage in
1930
at 47
Dominick
Dunne, American writer, Vanity Fair correspondent dies in 2009 at 83
Ted
Knight, [Tadeus Konopka], actor (Mary Tyler Moore), dies of cancer in 1986 at 62
Charles
Lindbergh, aviator, dies of lymphoma in 1974 at 72
Thonis van
Leeuwenhoek, biologist/inventor (microscope), dies in 1723 at 90
Evelyn
Wood, speed reading guru, dies in 1995 at 86
Answers…
Do you know what
this word means?
Is the
long, thin trail left behind by an aircraft when it's flying high enough for
the cold to turn the exhaust vapor into ice crystals. Indeed, a condensation
trail (to give it its full name) is, in effect, a very long, thin, man-made
cloud. Condensation trail: A contrail is created when an aircraft is flying
high enough for the cold to turn the exhaust vapor into ice crystals
Contrails
may look like big swathes of pollution in the sky, but although they contain,
as well as water vapor, hydrocarbons, sulphates, and nitrogen and carbon
dioxides, they create, comparatively, far less ' greenhouse gas' than motor
vehicles or power plants.
What is the answer?
Flatten Manhattan
Rebus
Painless operation
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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