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Flagstaff
Almanac…
Week: 39/ Day
272 : Today: High
70°…Low 35°
Records: High
83°(2009, 1963)…Low 23°(1900)
Averages: High
69°…Low 38°
Wind: average: 5mph; Gusts: 18mph
Today’s average
humidity:
45%
Quote
of the Day…
Today’s Historical
Highlights…
2008 - SpaceX
launches the first ever private spacecraft,
the Falcon 1 into orbit
1980
- Carl Sagan's 13 part "Cosmos" premieres on PBS
1931 - Peking
(200,000 demonstrators demand declaration
of war on Japan)
1928
- UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing
cannabis
1920 - 8
White Sox indicted, threw 1919 World Series
(Black Sox scandal)
1867 - Toronto
becomes capital of Ontario
1850 - US
Navy abolishes flogging as punishment
1745 - Bonnie
Prince Charlie becomes king of Scotland
♪ Happy Birthday To: ♪..
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
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Free
Rambling Thoughts…
We had a very good lunch at Little America today. Haven’t been there for some time. Cheryl had a good trip to CA and visiting her son and his family. Mary was excited about her inheritance and is now planning on a second home [condo] in Phx. She was all excited that her financial advisor had gotten her an annuity at 5% interest. I didn’t want to tell her that mine were making 7%-8%. She’s happy and I didn’t want to burst her bubble. It’s interesting how the laws work for a married couple. Mary has inherited money that comes to her. With that money she wants a condo. When she worked with a real estate agent about setting up a mortgage, they took all her information and that of her husband. Mary has tons of money from the inheritance and her husband is still working with no savings. All her inheritance is in her own accounts. When the packet came back, she gets a great rate due her great credit; but all the paperwork listed her husband first and her as the co-signer. Interesting for sure. A similar thing happened at a hot tub place. They went in, her husband said, in front of the male salesman, that it was her money and she should get what she wants, then he walked away to wait for her. The salesman showed her lots of hot tubs, none of them the two person one she wanted. He finally said he wished her husband had stayed around so she could understand more about the tubs. Needless to say they left, without a tub.
Game Center: (answers at the end of post)
What
is the rhyming 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)
male pilot (3,3)
Rebus…
Can you figure
out what this means?
Lifestyle Substance…
Do
you remember this?
Read
This Headline Carefully!!
War Dims Hope for Peace
Do
you know what this word means?
What
is this not so common name of a common object?
dendrophilia
Gorilla:
Great
Melodies…:
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Harper’s
Index…
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Unusal
Fact of the Day…
At the 2000 Samsung Open, a furious Goran Ivanišević smashed three rackets and was forced to withdraw. Why? Because he didn’t have a fourth on hand.Found on You Tube…
The Best of Harpo Marx - Animal Crackers (1930)
Joke-of-the-day…
A man went to the doctor complaining of insomnia. The doctor gave him an exam and found nothing physically wrong with him. “Listen,” the doctor said, “if you ever expect to cure your insomnia, you need to stop taking your troubles to bed with you.” “It’s true,” said the patient, “but my wife refuses to sleep alone.”
Rules
of Thumb…
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
BUYING WINE…The higher the alcohol level, the drier the wine.
Yeah,
It Really Happened…
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe - The million residents of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city, were to all flush their toilets at precisely the same time Saturday night, officials said. The 7:30 p.m. synchronized flushing was to help prevent pipes from bursting after local officials started rationing water because of a drought, Africa Review reported. "This is done to prevent any sewer blockages as we anticipate longer periods without water in the reticulation system," city council spokeswoman Nesisa Mpofu said, who added the big flush was to be in addition to other flushes during the day. The communal flushings are expected every three days during the drought. Two of the city's five supply reservoirs have emptied and two others could go dry before the region's usual November rains. "Water rationing may be extended to 92-hour periods. The situation is very serious," Mpofu said. The situation wasn't sitting well with some. A blogger on the Zimbabwean activists website Kubatana.net wrote: "People who flush together, make revolution together? Only in Zimbabwe ... how much [expletive] from this incompetent government will we continue to tolerate?"
Somewhat
Useless Information…
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Calendar
Information…
Happening This Week:
22-29: Banned Books Week / National Dog Week / National Keep Kids Creative Week / Remember to Register to Vote Week / International Women's E-Commerce Days
Today
Is…
Ask A Stupid Question Day
Fish Tank Floorshow Night
Hug A Vegetarian Day
Love Note Day
National Good Neighbor Day
National Walk To Work Day
National Women's Health and Fitness DaySave The Koala Day
~Taiwan: Birthday of Confucius/Teacher's Day
Today’s
Events Through History…
2000’s
2000 - Al-Aqsa
Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem
1900’s
1982 - 1st
reports appear of death from cyanide-laced
Tylenol capsules
1976
- Muhammad Ali beats Ken Norton in 15 for
heavyweight boxing title
1970
- Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar
1968
- Janis Joplin announces she's leaving "Big Brother
& Holding
Co"
1963
- "Tennessee Tuxedo," cartoon debuts on CBS-TV
1962
- "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster," debuts on ABC-TV
1961
- "Hazel," starring Shirley Booth debuts on NBC-TV
1961 - "Doctor
Kildare," debuts on NBC
1960 - "Millionaire,"
last airs on CBS-TV
1953
- KOAT TV channel 7 in Albuquerque, NM (ABC/PBS)
begins broadcasting
1928 - 1st
recording session in Nashville (Warmack's Gully Jumpers)
1800’s
1867 - In
the final day of a three day fight, the First Cavalry,
Twenty-Third Infantry
and Boise Indian scouts, fight
with a combined force of Paiute, Pit River and
Modoc
Indians in Infernal Canyon, near Pitt River, south of
modern Alturas,
California.
1700’s
1787 - Congress
sends Constitution to state legislatures for
their approval
1785 - Napoleon
Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military
academy in Paris (42nd in a class of
51)
1704 - Maryland
allows divorce if wife mispleases
clergyman/preacher
1600’s
1687 - Venetians take Athens from the Turks
1678 - "Pilgrim's
Progress" published
1500’s
1542 -
Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo lands at
San Diego Bay, California
1528 - Spanish
fleet sinks in Florida hurricane; about 380
die
1000’s
1066 - William
the Conqueror invade England landing at
Pevensey Bay, Sussex
Today’s
Birthdays…
Under 30
Hilary
Duff, actress and singer (Lizzie McGuire) will be 25
In their 30’s
Bam Margera, American skateboarder will
be 33
In their 40’s
Naomi
Watts, British-Australian actress will be 44
In their 70’s
Brigitte
Bardot, sex kitten (And God Created Women)
will be 78
Ben E.
King [Benjamin Earl Nelson], New York City,
American soul singer (Stand by Me)
is 74
Remembered for being born today
Avery
Brundage, Detroit Mich, CEO (Intl Olympic
Committee, 1952-72) b. 1887
Al Capp,
[Alfred Gerald Caplin], New Haven Ct, cartoonist
(Li'l Abner) b. 1909
Confucius,
Chinese philosopher (founder of Confucianism)
b. 551BC
Marcello
Mastroianni, Italian actor b. 1924
Max
Schmeling, Germany, world heavyweight boxing champ (1930-32) b. 1905
Ed
Sullivan, New York NY, TV variety show host/gossip
columnist (Ed Sullivan Show)
b. 1901
William
Windom, NYC, actor (Farmer's Daughter, Murder
She Wrote) b. 1923
Today’s
Historical Obits…
Geoffrey
Beene, American fashion designer—cancer—
2004—at 77
Eric
Fleming, actor (Gil-Rawhide) — drowned while filming
— 1966 — at 41
Althea
Gibson, American tennis player — circulatory
collapse —2003 —at 76
Edwin
Hubble, American astronomer, designer of
telescopes — blood clot — 1953 — at 63
John Paul
I, [Albino Luciano], Pope (1978), dies after 33
days as pope —heart attack [?] —1978
—at 65
Harpo
[Arthur] Marx, comedian (Marx Bros) — heart attack
— 1964— at 75
Herman
Melville, writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick)—heart attack
— 1891 — at 72
Gamal' Abd
al-Nassar, Egypt Pres (1953-70) — heart attack
—1970 — at 52
Louis
Pasteur, French bacteriologist (Pasteurization) —
1895 — at 72
Richard
Sears, businessman (Sears, Roebuck and
Company) — Bright's disease —1914 —at 50
Pierre
Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada —2000
—at 80
Answers…
Do you know what
this word means?
sexual attraction to trees (from the Greek dendron = tree)
What is the
rhyming answer?
Fly guy
Rebus
Wide load
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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