Oct 29, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 44/ Day: 303   

Today: High 67°…Low 23°

Records: High 74°(1950)…Low 13°(1954)

Averages: High 58° Low 28°

Wind: average:   3mph; Gusts:  13mph

Today’s average humidity:  34%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented—1945
Alaska highway completed—1942
Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature—1958
Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up—1956
Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer      Alexander Arthur Hood—1792
National Museum of American Indian opens (NYC) —1994
Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against      James I of England—1618

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

A nice relaxing Sunday…good day to pay bills. Broncos play the Saints in Denver, and it’s on TV.  Guess I’ll watch it.

 

Guess Mother Nature will be in the news for the next few days. A friend in Florida emailed that she is OK and battened down. My brother and his wife in NY probably taking the next days off…too hard to get from Brooklyn to the City and both their buildings have been closed. A friend visiting Hawaii was evacuated from the hotel and was let back in when the expected tsunami from the Canadian earthquake wasn’t as big as expected. Small world.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Anagram Sentences: 4 letter anagrams

What are the missing words?

Mitten, one of my ____ , is now wearing a ____ on his leg, but ____ normally.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Unusual Uses for Everyday Things: Hair Dryer

• The hot hair from a hair dryer will loosen a price tag or sticker making removal super easy.  You can also use this trick to remove contact paper from shelves.
• The best way to remove wax is to heat it back up.  Blow medium heat on the wax until it starts to melt then wipe away with a cloth.
• Quickly dry spots of water you spilt on your clothes.
• Dry that steam off with a quick blast of hot air from your hair dryer. 
• Use a hair dryer to remove dust from hard to get to nooks and crannies in your house. 
• Set the hair dryer on hot and keep it on the crayon mark until it melts.  The crayon will wipe off easily with a damp cloth and a small amount of oil soap cleanser.

Old Saying Explained: BEAT ABOUT THE BUSH

When hunting birds some people would beat about the bush to drive them out into the open. Other people would then catch the birds. 'I won't beat about the bush' came to mean 'I will go straight to the point without any delay'.

Ok, then?

TV Theme Songs you may remember:

Sesame Street - Joe Raposo, Jon Stone and Bruce Hart

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Deaf Mute Gets New Hearing in Killing

Bumper Stickers:

Bagpiping:

Amazing Grace – Bagpipes

Harper’s Index:         

Estimated portion of sexually explicit text messages that are sent to the wrong number: 1 in 10

Unusual Fact of the Day:

Kiribati. about 32 atolls and one solitary island (Banaba), extending into both the eastern and western hemispheres. is the only country that falls in all four hemispheres.

Found on You Tube: 

• "Blue Sky", Duane Allman's Solo

• Melba Moore - Love's Comin' At Ya !

Joke-of-the-day:

A pilot landed a plane with a rather bumpy landing. As part of his job he was required to stand by the terminal door and say goodbye to the passengers as they exited the airplane. He was afraid that someone might say something about his rather less than perfect landing, but everyone left without saying a word except for one passenger, an elderly lady, she slowly approached the pilot after most passengers had exited the plane and asked, "Did we land? Or were we shot down?"

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

THE GRADE SCHOOL RULE OF FIVE…Subtract five from the age of a child to determine his or her grade in school. Conversely, add five to the grade of a child to determine his or her age. A fourth grader, for instance, is usually nine years old.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

NOVATO, Calif. - A 2-inch chunk of a meteor that exploded dramatically over California struck the roof of the home of a minister, his wife said. "It's wonderful. It's like the heavens coming down and history, and this thing probably came from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. I mean, how cool is that?" said Lisa Webber of the rock that bounced off the roof of her husband's study Thursday night and onto the lawn of their Novato, Calif., home. Peter Webber is pastor of Presbyterian Church of Novato, the San Francisco Chronicle said Monday. The object was confirmed as debris from the meteor that streaked over the Bay Area, offering viewers a spectacular light show, said Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. "We can now hope to use our fireball trajectory to trace this type of meteorite back to its origins in the asteroid belt," he said.

Somewhat Useless Information   

Returns tomorrow

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

24-30

Disarmament Week
International Magic Week

Peace, Friendship and Good Will Week
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week
World Hearing Aid Awareness Week

29-11/4

Give Wildlife a Break Week

Today Is                                                                      

Hermit Day

Internet Day (1969: 1^st e-mail)

Lung Health Day   

National Cat Day

National Forgiveness Day since 1994; to encourage people to ask for forgiveness and to forgive one another

Visit A Cemetery Day  

World Psoriasis Day   

Turkey: Republic Day (1923)

Today’s Events through History  

16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia—1942
1st intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder,      Texas) —1904
Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours) —1955
Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the      world's largest airline—2008First trial for witchcraft in Paris—1390
Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset —1957International day of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared      the first charter of human rights in the world also known as      Cyrus Cylinder—529BC
Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY—1964
United Rep of Tanganyika & Zanzibar renamed United      Rep of Tanzania—1964

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 40’s

Winona Ryder, [Horowitz],  actress (Heathers, Edward Scissorhand) is 41

In their 60’s

Richard Dreyfuss, Bkln NY, actor (Jaws, Nuts, Mr Holland's Opus) is 65

Kate Jackson, actress (Rookies, Charlie's Angels) id 64

Melba Moore, [Beatrice], NYC, singer/actress (Ellis Island) is 67

Remembered for being born today

James Boswell, Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer (1740-1795)

Fanny Brice, NYC, singing comedienne (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks) (1891-1951)

Dominick Dunne, American author(1925-2009)

Charles Ebbets, (namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn) (1859-1925)

Johnny Lewis, Los Angeles, California, actor (Sons of Anarchy), (1983-2012)

Bela Lugosi, Lugos Hungary, horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher) (1882-1956)

Bill Mauldin, political cartoonist (Pulitzer-1945, 59) (1921-2003)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Robert G Aitken, US astronomer (New General Catalogue)—1951—at 86

Duane Allman, rock guitarist—motorcycle accident—1971—at 24

James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy)—suicide—1996—at 66

Louis B Mayer (Lazar Meir), MGM producer— leukemia—1957—at 73

Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97)—1947—at 83

Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman—on yacht—1911—at 64

Answer: Anagram sentence

Mitten, one of my cats , is now wearing a cast on his leg, but acts normally.

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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