Oct 8, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 41/ Day:    Today: High   70°…Low 33°

Records: High   80°(1965)…Low 19°(2007) Averages: High  65°…Low 34°

Wind: average:  7mph;  Gusts:  29mph

Today’s average humidity:  43%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s  Historical  Highlights:

1999 - New Coligny Calendar, NCC, The beginning of a new era of the Coligny 

            calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar

1981 - Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Carter, Ford & Nixon before sending 

            them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral

1974 - Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the 

            time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States

1967 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia

1963 - Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya

1962 - N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party

1957 - Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire

1944 - "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" debut on CBS radio

1873 - 1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute

1818 - 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves

1769 - Captain James Cook is the first European to land in New Zealand

1633 - Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1st government

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

A good day in Flag. Caught up on all my weekly news shows, took a nice walk, and enjoyed the great fall day.

 

Since I started working on the Rez, I always had a problem with Columbus Day. During my college education I had learned that Columbus was probably not the first European to arrive in this hemisphere. Also that he landed somewhere other than the US mainland.  Yet the Federal Government made Columbus Day a Federal holiday—one of only 9 each year—became a state holiday in Colorado in 1906 [repealed in 1908] and a Federal holiday in 1937. Teaching Native American children that we had a holiday because Columbus discovered America was difficult as wherever he landed, there were indigenous people so he didn’t really discover the land, he was just one European who found it. One common joke was: ‘What did Columbus discover? Indigenous people standing on the shore.’ There are always protests from Native American’s on the holiday. Some states have renamed their state holiday ‘Discoverer’s Day’ to honor all non-indigenous people who sailed to the Western Hemisphere. Even that doesn’t solve the dilemma. The Italians claim that ol’ Chris came from Italy, but don’t mention that his own country would not fund his trip. The Italian’s have fought hard to keep the holiday, the parades, and all that goes with the holiday. Many Italian groups have staged protests at the Native American protests on this holiday. I don’t have a solution, but in this multi-cultural country, it seems that a change is long overdue.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Rebus:

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Dedication: Guinness World Records:

Natasha Veruschka (USA) swallowed a sword 58 cm (22.83 in) long sword on Sword Swallowers Awareness Day, 28 February 2009. 

Ok, then?

Commercial Jingles you may remember:

Doublemint Gum

Read This Carefully!!

On a fence, "Salesmen welcome. Dog food is expensive."

Do you know what this word means?

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

 Taphophobia

Iconic Photographs:

Great Melodies:

No Matter What Shape / The T-Bones 1966

Harper’s Index:         

Number of college graduates currently working as astronomers, physicists, chemists, mathimatcians, or web developers: 216,000

As waiters or bartenders: 216,000

Unusual Fact of the Day:

The human bone most often broken is the clavicle (collar bone).

Found on You Tube: 

Rodriguez - Sugar Man Found thanks to '60 minutes'

Joke-of-the-day:

Two brothers were always getting into trouble in their neighborhood. The people in the neighborhood started complaining to the parents about the boys. So the boy’s parents decided to have their priest talk to the boys. The priest asks to speak to the boys alone, requesting to see the youngest first. The young boy comes in and sits at a large table across the room from the priest. The priest looks at the boy, points at him and, trying to emphasize that God is in everyone, asks, "Where is God?"
The boy looks around the room and back at the priest and says nothing. Again, the priest points at the boy and in a louder voice asks, "Where is God?" The boy says nothing.
The priest walks around the table, pointing inches from the boy’s face and asks again, "Where is God?" The boy jumps out of his chair and runs out the door. The boy runs right home, grabs his older brother and says to him, "We are in BIG trouble!"
His brother replies, "We haven't done anything!"
The younger brother replies, "God's missing, and they think we did it!"

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

SITING A SHOPPING CENTER…People are willing to drive for 30 minutes to get to a regional shopping center.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

 MELBETA, Neb. - A Nebraska man accused of pushing his wife onto a bed and rubbing a sandwich in her face has been sentenced to five days in jail. Larry Spurling, 50, of Melbeta pleaded no contest Monday to a charge of disturbing the peace stemming from the Sunday incident and was sentenced to five days in jail, KETV, Omaha, reported Thursday. Spurling's wife, whose name was not reported, told police her husband was angry at her for "making him live in the county" and he was upset about "being bored since there is no place for him to walk." She said he consumed three 24-ounce cans of a malt liquor with an 8 percent alcohol content during the argument and she eventually "got tired" of fighting and made herself a sandwich. The woman said Spurling followed her into the bedroom, pulled her hair, pushed her onto the bed and rubbed the sandwich on her face.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The Amos and Andy Show,
 half-hour version debuted 1943. Amos played by Freeman Gosden and Andy, played by Charles J. Correll, both Caucasian, had begun using a deep black dialect on an earlier show called Sam and Henry in 1925.

• THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM,
 debuted 1932, spanned 23 years, growing and developing as it progressed.

• Never admitting to being a minute over 39, Jack Benny billed himself as stingy and vain, making special note of his talent for playing the violin.

• BURNS AND ALLEN,
 debuted in 1932. Another pioneering radio act, George Burns and Gracie Allen never failed to delight listeners with their comic timing and gentle ribbing of each other. Early on, Gracie played the straight man, with George getting the laughs, but it was apparent that Gracie was the funniest and their roles reversed.

• MAJOR BOWES‘ ORIGINAL AMATEUR HOUR 
debuted in 1934. Leading to national fad, Major Edward Bowes made us believe that anyone with "bus fare and a harmonica" could grab the big brass ring of fame and fortune. Newsweek estimated that in one month, 1,200 hopefuls applied for emergency food and shelter, in order to establish residency in New York, a requirement for appearing on the show.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

3-10

No Salt Week
World Space Week

5-7 

Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend

National Storytelling Weekend

6-14

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
Emergency Nurses Week
Fire Prevention Week
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week
National Metric Week

National Physicians Assistant Week
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine Week 

8-12

Kids' Goal Setting Week
National Chestnut Week 

Today Is                                                                        

American Tag Day—remember ‘touch tag’?
Alvin C. York Day— one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War IColumbus Day  or National Day of Mourning  (Native Americans)Native American Day  National Depression Screening Day   National Kick Butt Day  National Pierogy Day

Today’s Events through History  

2000’s

 2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office 

            of Homeland Security

1900’s

 1992 - Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott

1981 - 1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" on ABC-TV

1980 - Bob Marley collapses on stage, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital

1965 - London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England

1962 - Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN

1945 - Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada

1932 - The Indian Air Force is established

1906 - Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London

1800’s

 1892 - Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow

1871 - Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin

1856 - The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins 

            with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River

1822 - 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley

1700’s

 1775 - Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army

1758 - (through 10/26): Iroquois & Delaware treaty - the Council of Easton begins in 

            Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Eventually peace treaties will be signed, and many 

            of the much-hated treaty of Albany will be abrogated

1600’s

1604 - Supernova "Kepler's nova" 1st sighted

1500’s

 1541 - de Soto fights with CADDO Indians, today, in Tula, Arkansas

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Under 30

 Angus T. Jones, actor (Two and a Half Men)is 19

In their 40’s

Matt Biondi, US 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-84, 88, 92)is 47

Matt Damon,  actor (Good Will Hunting, Ocean's trilogy, Bourne trilogy) is 42

In their 50’s

Michael Dudikoff, actor [American Ninja] will be 58

In their 60’s

Chevy Chase, comedian/actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack is 69

Sarah Purcell, Richmond Ind, actress/TV hostess is 64 

Sigourney Weaver [Susan Alexandra], LA, actress (Alien, Working Girl) is 63

In their 70’s

Rona Barrett, NYC, gossip columnist is 76

Paul Hogan, Australia, actor (Crocodile Dundee, Lightning Jack) is 73

Jesse Jackson, Greenville SC, clergyman/presidential candidate is 71

Remembered for being born today

Frank [Patrick] Herbert, US, sci-fi author (Dune) b. 1920

Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator "Ace of Aces" (WW I) 890

William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist b. 1789

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74)—colon cancer—1992—at 78

Al Davis, American football executive—2011—at 82 

Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones)—1754—at 47

John Hancock, US merchant/statesman (Decl of Independence—1793—at 56

Fernando Lamas, actor/director (Lost World)—cancer—1982—at 67

St Mark, the Evangelist,—1094

Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857)— cirrhosis—1869—at 64

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

The fear of being buried alive

 Rebus

 Scrambled eggs

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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