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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 43/
Day: 296
Today: High 61°…Low 37°
Records: High 75°(2003/1952/1917)…Low 5°(1949)
Averages: High
60° Low 30°
Wind: average: 6mph;
Gusts: 32mph
Today’s average
humidity:
41%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii—1936
1st telegraph line linking West & East coasts completed—1861
Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris) —1797 Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine—1938
Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel—1948
India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1—2008Lewis & Clark visit a Sioux war party—1804Original Metropolitan Opera House (NYC) grand opening (Faust) —1883
Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration—1976
Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum & Bailey circus—1907
Toastmasters International is founded—1924
World's 1st car dealer opens in London—1897
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts:
Interesting day…my next door neighbors dropped by to see if they could use my outdoor water faucet. Turns out that their water was turned off on Friday and won’t be back on until tomorrow. Not a problem, offered them my shower too, but they declined. The even stranger part of this is that the water guy came to our area four times on Friday. Each time he opened the hole and did something, then left. Not sure why it took four trips. I only noticed it because he was really noisy as he removed the metal cover each time.
As the election draws nearer, and none too soon. Due to the census results, I am in all new districts. Unfortunately, the robo-callers don’t seem to know what district I live in. Yesterday I got a robo-call asking what Representative I was favoring…sadly it wasn’t for my district. I didn’t even know either candidate…tonight I just saw an ad for one of them and it was for a different district. Really…all that outside money, and they waste it on calling people who are not even in the district. I’ll vote for anyone who promises to end robo calls in the weeks leading up to an election.
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)
Returns when the web site works again
Anagram Sentences:
What are
the missing words? 4 letter anagrams
Speaking with a ____ can make it sound like you make a ____ of the ____ .
Lifestyle
Substance:
Guinness World Records:
The record for most ice cream scoops thrown and caught in one minute by a team of two is 25, achieved by Gabriele Soravia (thrower) and Lorenzo Soravia (catcher) (both Germany), on the set of Guinness World Records - Die größten Weltrekorde in Cologne, Germany, on 1 September 2007.
Ok, then?
Commercial Jingles you may remember:
Huggies Pull-Ups
Read This Headline Carefully!!
Volunteers Search for Old Civil War Planes
Do you know what this word means?
What
is this not so common name of a common object?
quincunx
Campaign Buttons:
Flash Mobs:
Mamma Mia! - Flash Mob
Harper’s Index:
Months after South Sudan became a nation that Sudan’s parliament declared it an ‘enemy’: 9
Unusual Fact of the Day:
Until coffee gained popularity, beer was the breakfast beverage of choice in most urban areas of the United States.Found on You Tube:
Joke-of-the-day:
An old man walks into a bar, sits down, and starts crying.The bartender asks, “What’s wrong?” The old man looks at the bartender through teary eyes and between sobs says, “I married a beautiful woman two days ago. She’s a natural blonde, twenty-five, intelligent, a marvelous cook, a meticulous housekeeper, extremely sensitive to my wants and needs, very giving, my best friend, and intensely passionate in bed.”The bartender stares at the old man for a brief moment and says, “But that sounds great! You have what every man wants in a woman, so why are crying?”The old man looks at the bartender and says, “I can’t remember where I live!”
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
READING WHAT YOU WROTE,,,Read your work out loud to locate problems. If you run out of breath, the sentence is too long.
Yeah, It Really Happened
NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa - An Iowa jewelry store is offering free hunting rifles to customers who purchase engagement rings before the end of October. The Jewelry By Harold store in North Liberty said the "buy her a diamond and receive a free hunting rifle" promotion will begin Thursday and run through Oct. 31, KCRG-TV, Cedar Rapids, reported Tuesday. "Fun is more important than anything else. We try to put some fun in it," store owner Harold van Beek said. "Hunting season is coming up. I thought this is cool so let's do something for the boy who doesn't like to hunt for diamonds, but likes to hunt for deer." Van Beek said customers who buy diamond engagement rings costing $1,999 or more prior to the end of the month will receive vouchers for free Remington 870 hunting rifles at Fin and Feather in Iowa City. "Diamonds are a girl's best friend," van Beek said. "So say: I'm hunting deer, and here is a diamond ring, dear."
Somewhat Useless Information
- Psychiatrists and marriage counselors have the highest divorce rate.
- According to men, the most irresistible celebrity is Jennifer Aniston. Second? Angelina Jolie. Megan Fox and Heidi Klum tie for third.
- Denver, Seattle, Dallas and Chicago top the list of cities where men will pay the most for a first date.
- Chocolate contains phenyl ethylamine, which is believed to stimulate the same reaction as falling in love.
- Texas has more thrice-married adults than any other state.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
21-27
Bullying Bystanders Unite Week
Kids Care Week
National Character Counts Week
National Chemistry Week
National Forest Products Week
National Friends of Libraries Week
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week National Massage Therapy Week
National Respiratory Care Week National Save For Retirement Week
National School Bus Safety Week Pastoral Care Week
Red Ribbon Week
YWCA Week without Violence 2
Today Is
- Caps Locks Day
- International Stuttering Awareness Day
- National Nut Day—the eating kind
Today’s Events through History
75,000
Flemings demand equal rights & Flemish language in Belgium—1961
A Panama
Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National
referendum held in Panama—2006
Boston
Symphony Orchestra gives its 1st concert—1881
Czar
Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator"—1721
French
philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize—1964
JFK
imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis—1962
Pres
Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"—1928
Pretty
Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents—1934
Princeton
University (NJ) received its charter—1746
Sam
Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas—1836
The
temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious
fire—362
Two
correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident
inspired the
Supermax model of prisons—1983
Today’s Birthdays
In their 40’s
Brian
Boitano, Mountainview California, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1988)is 49
Carlos
Mencia, Honduras-born American comedian is 45
In their 60’s
Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of
Gerald Ford is 64
Jeff
Goldblum, actor (Fly, Jurassic Park, Independence Day) will be 60
In their 70’s
Annette
Funicello, Utica NY, actress (Mickey Mouse Club) is 70
Christopher
Lloyd, Stamford Ct, actor (Taxi, Back to the Future)is 74
In their 90’s
Joan
Fontaine, Tokyo Japan, actress (Gunga Din, Ivanhoe, Rebecca)is 95
Remembered for being born today
Sarah
Bernhardt, France, actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth) (1844-1923)
Bobby
Fuller, Texas, rock vocalist/guitarist (Bobby Fuller Four) (1943-1966)
John
Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (1908-2003)
Franz
Liszt, Raiding Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist
(Faust Symphony), 1811-1886)
Henriette
Wyeth, 1st lady of American art (1907-1997)
Today’s Historical Obits
Pablo
Casals, Spanish violin cellist/conductor/composer—1973—at 96
Paul
Cezanne, French painter— pneumonia—1906—at 67
Fred C
Shapiro, US journalist (Tiananmen-square 1989)— pancreatic
cancer—1993—at 62
Soupy
Sales (Milton Supman), comedian and television personality—2009—at 83
Arnold
Toynbee, English historian/cultural sociologist—1975—at 86
Mary
Wickes, actress (Sister Act)—1995—at 85
Answers
Do you know what this word means?
An arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
What is the rhyming answer?
…
Anagram sentence
Speaking with a lisp can make it sound like you make a slip of the lips .
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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