Oct 20, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 42/ Day: 294   Today: High   74°…Low 28°

Records: High   77°(2003)…Low 6°(1971) 

Averages: High  61° Low 31°

Wind: average:   2mph; Gusts:  15mph

Today’s average humidity:  44%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s  Historical  Highlights:

1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch—1097

400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid—1935

49th parallel forms as border between US & Canada—1818

Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq) —1990

Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed—1603

Harry Belafonte records "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song) —1955

IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released—1983

Louisiana Purchase ratified by US Senate—1803

Muammar Gaddafi, former leader of Libya, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi 

       are killed shortly after the battle of Sirte while in the custody of NTC fighters—2011

OPEC oil embargo begins—1968

Pres Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st ½ century—1973

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

A nice weather day, so took a nice walk. These warm temps sure are nice. Windows open most of the day.

It’s Fair Weekend in Tuba…a time to avoid the town. I enjoy the fair, but hate the traffic. After all these years, they still haven’t worked out a plan to fix the traffic issue. When I talk to Tuba people, they too hate the messy traffic but really enjoy the fair…once they get there.

It’s our local university’s homecoming this weekend. Hopefully the violence of last night, just after a local bar closed, will not continue. Many arrests and 5 local officers injured during the incident. No info if the fight included University students…have to wait a few days to find that out. Whoever was involved, it is a black eye for our downtown area.

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)

followers of _Servant of the Bones_ author (5,4)

Anagram Sentences:

What are the missing words? 4 letter anagrams

The artist had too many ____ on her ____ , so she washed off in the ____ .

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Guinness World Records:

Terry Burrows (UK) cleaned three standard 114.3 x 114.3 cm (45 x 45 in) office windows set in a frame with a 300 mm (11.75 in) long squeegee and 9 litres (2 gal; US 2.37 gal) of water in 9.14 sec at the National Window Cleaning Competition in Blackpool, UK, on 9 October 2009.

Ok, then?

Commercial Jingles you may remember:

Folgers

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Tiger Woods Plays with His Own Balls, Nike says

Do you know what this word means?

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

 stanchion

Autumn Colors:

Great Melodies:

Washington Square / The Village Stompers 1963

Harper’s Index:         

Estimated minimum number of North Koreans living in secret government gulags: 150,000

Unusual Fact of the Day:

Time magazine’s first female “Man of the Year” was Wallis Warfield Simpson in 1936. The American divorcee made headlines when Edward VIII abdicated the British throne in order to marry her.

Found on You Tube: 

Shirley Horn - Here's to Life

Joke-of-the-day:

1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the 

     store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
4. Only in America......do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.
5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to 

     the counters.
6. Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway 

     and put our useless junk in the garage.
7. Only in America......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then 

     have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to 

     in the first place.
8. Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
9. Only in America......do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 

      'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.
10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

 ESTIMATING BTUS…Burning coal gives about 14,000 BTUs per pound.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

Florida Gov. Rick Scott mistakenly sent Floridians seeking information on a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak to a sex hot line.Scott was at a Florida Cabinet meeting on Tuesday when he announced a toll-free hotline's 866 number, but mixed up the numbers, according to WUSF News.

After WUSF News, a public radio station in Tampa, posted the number online a reader notified the news station that the number was directing callers to a very different service.

“Hello boys, thank you for calling me on my anniversary," a woman's voice says in a recording.

A spokesperson for Scott said he inadvertently -- and briefly -- released the wrong number, and then corrected it by providing the number for the Florida Fungal Meningitis Hotline is 866-523-7339.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• No other animal has a longer pregnancy term than that of the elephant which is documented at an average of 22 months.

• On December 16, 1811 the mighty Mississippi river began to flow backwards due to a powerful earthquake.

• Dead skin is the root cause of most of the dust in your house.

• Ants can pull about 30 times their own weight and lift about 50 times their own weight.

• A person eats around 60,000 pounds worth of food during his life which is the equivalent of six elephants.

• Did you know a slug has not only one nose but four? What a lot of people call a nose on a slug is actually a breathing pore called a pneumostome.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

14-20

Ally Week
Earth Science WeekFall Astronomy Week
Freedom From Bullies Week
Freedom of Speech Week
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
Medical Assistants Recognition Week National Food Bank Week
National School Lunch Week
Teen Read Week 

17-24

Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week

Today Is                                                                      

• Bridge Day

• Fall Astronomy Day 

• Get Smart About Credit Day

• Information Overload Day 

• International Credit Union Day

• Miss American Rose Day

• National Brandied Fruit Day

• National Call-in Day for Health Reform 

• Sweetest Day

• ~Guatemala: Revolution Day (1944)

Today’s Events through History  

1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series—1910

1st edition of London Sunday Times—1822

1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI—1960

All-Star team led by Babe Ruth & Connie Mack sails to Hawaii & Japan—1934

Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday"—1965

Britain ends suspect’s right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA—1988

Continental Congress orders discouragement of entertainment—1774

Juan de Ayasco, 30 cavalrymen leave de Soto's winter quarters in Apalachee, 

     Florida. They will proceed to Tampa to escort the remainder of de Soto's

     army to his winter quarters. Enroute, the Spaniards will have many battles with 

     the local natives—1539

Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US—1786

Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios—1968

John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston—1979

King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium—1908

Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a nat’l holiday—1864

P T Barnum Hippodrome featuring "Greatest Show on Earth," opens (NYC) —1873

Publication of The Return of the King, being the last part of The Lord of the Rings—1955  

Spanish government moves to Barcelona—1936

Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg—1945

US accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers—1997

US wins disputed boundary between District of Alaska & Canada—1903

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 50’s

Viggo Mortensen, actor, poet, musician is 54

Eric Scott, actor (Ben-Waltons) is 54

In their 60’s

Richard Frazier, my brother, is 61

 Al Greenwood, keyboardist (Foreigner-Feels Like the First Time) is 61

Tom Petty, classic rock singer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)is 62

In their 70’s

Wanda Jackson, Maud Oklahoma, country singer (Let's Have a Party)is 75

Martin Landau, actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Ed Wood) is 78

In their 80’s

Joyce Brothers, NYC, pop psychologist ($64,000 Question, Naked Gun) is 85

Remembered for being born today

The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (1819-1850)

Art Buchwald, Mt Vernon NY, columnist/author (1925-2007)

John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing) (1859-1952)

Arlene Francis, American television personality (1907-2001)

Bela Lugosi, Austria-Hungary, actor (Dracula, Plan 9 From Outer Space), (1882-1956)

Mickey Mantle, NY Yankee, home run slugger (1956 Triple Crown) (1931-1995)

Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, New Orleans, jazz pianist/composer (1890-1941)

Jerry Ohrbach, Bronx NY, actor (Law & Order, Dirty Dancing) (1935-2004)

Christopher Wren, astronomer/great architect (St. Paul's Cathedral), (1632-1723)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Eugene Debs, American labor leader—heart failure—1926—at 71

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of US (1929-33)—1964—at 90

Shirley Horn, American jazz singer—stroke—2005—at 71

Burt Lancaster, actor (Elmer Gantry)—heart attack—1994—at 80

Anthony Quayle, actor (Moses, Operation Crossbow)—1989—at 76

Harlow Shapley, astronomer (Sun's position in galaxy)—1972—at 86

Anne Sullivan, American teacher of Helen Keller—coma—1936—at 70

Jane Wyatt, American actress——2006—at 96

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.

What is the rhyming answer?

Anne’s fans

Anagram sentence

The artist had too many inks on her skin , so she washed off in the sink .

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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