Oct 11, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 41/ Day: 285   Today: High   66°…Low 36° Records: High   81°(1996)…Low 20°(1973) Averages: High  64°…Low 33°Wind: average:   10mph  Gusts:  29mphToday’s average humidity:  52%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s  Historical  Highlights:

2000 - The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown

1983 - Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone 

            customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial

1945 - Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung

1899 - South African Boers declare war on Great Britain

1689 - Peter the Great  becomes tsar of Russia

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Today was nice. Weatherman says to hold on to our hats through the weekend. Maybe some snow on the horizon, but winds for sure. Guess I’ll just wait and see what happens.

So tomorrow is the big debate of VP candidates…At this point in the election cycle, I just want to hear some zingers. Neither of these guys to going answer important questions. They will say it is too complicated to explain in a short time. They will say that only their ticket will fix America. They will say that only they understand the middle class or middle income or some new term. Yes, I’ll be watching and listening but mainly just for some good zingers…as the rest will be political babble. Cynical…maybe.

More evidence against Armstrong. Pretty damning. One of the interviews from a fellow teammate said that the drugs were necessary to make the team viable. Really…cheating to win?

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)

anticipate destiny (5,4)

Rebus:

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Dedication: Guinness World Records:

Donald Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA consumed his 23,000th McDonald's Big Mac on 17 August 2008.  He is now in his 37th consecutive year of eating Big Macs on a daily basis.

Ok, then?

Commercial Jingles you may remember:

Big Red Gum

Read This Sign Carefully!!

 Outside a muffler shop, "No appointment necessary. We'll hear you coming."

Do you know what this word means?

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

 Scopophobia

Iconic Photographs:

Great Melodies:

The Entertainer / Marvin Hamlisch 1974

Harper’s Index:         

 Number of articles retracted from scientific journals in 2000:3In 2009: 180

Unusual Fact of the Day:

In the Roman Empire, going blonde wasn’t exactly a fashion statement. At the time, light-colored hair was associated with the barbarian women of Gaul and Germany who often ended up as slaves in brothels. Consequently, Roman law required all prostitutes to dye their hair blonde in order to distinguish themselves from “proper,” dark-maned ladies.

 Found on You Tube: 

•   Ty Murray- NFR in 1999

• Eleanor Roosevelt Speech Human Rights

Joke-of-the-day:

 A man placed some flowers on the grave of his dearly departed mother and started back toward his car when his attention was diverted to another man kneeling at a grave.

The man seemed to be praying with profound intensity and kept repeating, Why did you have to die? Why did you have to die?"

The first man approached him and said, "Sir, I don't wish to interfere with your private grief, but this demonstration of pain is more than I've ever seen before. For whom do you mourn so deeply? A child? A parent?"

The mourner took a moment to collect himself, then replied, "My wife's first husband."

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

FINDING A MISSING PERSON…When looking for missing persons, the elderly usually are found about a mile from the point where they were last seen, hikers within four miles, and suicides within one-quarter mile.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

PORTLAND, Ore. - Two old friends who reconnected during the Portland Marathon in Oregon five years ago held their wedding at the 20-mile mark of this year's race. Katie Holmes and Eric Johansson, friends who began dating and had a son after getting together at the 20-mile mark of the marathon five years ago, said they decided to wed Thursday after running the first 20 miles side by side, KPTV, Portland, reported Monday. Holmes was dressed in white with a veil-bearing baseball cap while Johansson ran by her side in a Dri-Fit tuxedo shirt. They stepped off the course into Columbia Park at the 20-mile mark, where they greeted their waiting family and friends. "It's wonderful, the best day," Holmes said. "Very memorable. The most memorable marathon ever, I think." The couple completed the last 6.2 miles of the marathon after completing their ceremony. "I think it'll be a little easier now," Holmes said before departing for the last leg of the run. "I've got a little adrenaline going through my body right now."  

Somewhat Useless Information   

•  A team of Korean scientists set up some traps to catch viruses and bacteria floating in the air. They set up their traps in Seoul, in an industrial complex in western Korea, and in a forest. Based on their collection, they came up with the following estimates...In each cubic meter of air, there are between 1.6 million and 40 million viruses.

• Given that we breathe roughly .01 cubic meters of air each minute, a simple calculation based on these results suggests we breathe in a few hundred thousand viruses every minute.

• Viruses are by far the most abundant biological entities on Earth and they outnumber all the others put together. They infect all types of cellular life including animals, plants, bacteria and fungi.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

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 

10-16

Take Your Medicine Americans Week

11-13 

Great American Beer Festival

Today Is                                                                      

It's My Party Day

General Pulaski Memorial Day [Polish hero of the American Revolution] 
Hunter's Moon
National Coming Out Day
National Face Your Fears Day

World Sight Day

Today’s Events through History  

2000’s

 2001 - The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection

1900’s

 1985 - Pres Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands

1979 - Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize 

            for medicine for developing CAT scan

1975 - "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin

1968 - Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours

1932 - 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC

1929 - JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide 

            company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.

1922 - 1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)

1800’s

 1887 - A Miles patents elevator

1868 - Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine

1864 - Slavery abolished in Maryland

1700’s

 1794 - Tennessee Governor William Blount will meet with Chickamauga Chief John 

             Watts (Young Tassel) in the Tellico blockhouse near the French Broad River in 

             eastern Tennessee. They will agree to have a conference in November to discuss 

             peace between the warring settlers and the Chickamauga.

1737 - Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta India

1736 - Agreement covering friendship and land cessions is reached today by 

           representatives of the Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca and Tuscarora 

           Indians and Pennsylvania.

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 40’s

Jane Krakowski, actress [30 Rock] is 44

Ty Murray, rodeo cowboy(5-time all-around world champion) is 43

Luke Perry, actor (Dillon-Beverly Hill 90210) is 46

In their 50’s

 Joan Cusack, Evanston Illinois, actress (SNL, Addams Family Values) is 50

Steve Young, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers, NFL Player of Year '92) is 51

In their 60’s

 Daryl Hall, [Hohl], Penn, rocker/songwriter (Hall & Oates-Sara Smile) is 66

Remembered for being born today

Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist b.1809 

Henry John Heinz, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded prepared-foods company 

     (Heinz-57 varieties) b.1844

Wilhelm Olbers, discovered asteroids b.1758

Jerome Robbins, [Rabinowitz], NY, choreographer (Tony-West Side Story) b.1918

Eleanor Roosevelt, [Anna], New York, 1st lady (1933-1945)/crusader (Nobel 1931) b.1884

Dottie West, Nashville, country singer (Here Comes My Baby) b.1932

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Wayland Flowers, ventriloquist (Madame)—AIDS—1988—at 48

Meriwether Lewis, (Lewis & Clark Expedition)—suicide[?]—1809—at 35

Leonard "Chico" Marx, comedian (Marx Brothers)— arteriosclerosis—1961—at 74

Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers—2007—at 91 

Tex Williams, country-western singer—cancer—1985—at 68

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

 Fear of being looked at.

What is the rhyming answer?

Await fate

Rebus

Trip around the world

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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