Nov 6--Election Day

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 45/ Day:    

Today: High   65°…Low 32°

Records: High   70°(’76,’75,’50)…Low 1°(1922)

Averages: High  55° Low 26°

Wind: average:   11mph; Gusts:  20mph

Today’s average humidity:  49%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D) —1956

Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D) —1888

Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for pres—1928

Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President—1860

William McKinley (R) 25th President re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan—1900

Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey—1968

Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D) —1984

Franklin Roosevelt re-elected president—1940

1st Hawaiian fire engine—1850

Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace—1917

Military junta of Myanmar begins moving its government ministries from 

     Yangon to Pyinmana—2005

Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill—1986

Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule—1978

UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa—1962

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

The election is finally here. Thank goodness. It is time for change…not in the executive offices, but in the rules on campaigning. One of our Senatorial candidates is accused of robo-calling Democrats and giving them the wrong precinct polling places. I’m for a law that says no campaigning until 6 weeks before any election. That is plenty of time. Why do our candidates and their supporters have to spend $6 billion to run for President? Oh and no news channel or news organization can tell us anything about the election until 6 weeks before the election. I am so sick of stupid polls that tell us nothing. How anyone can be undecided at this point has to be living under a rock, in a cave, filled with bats.

 

As I mentioned yesterday…cable channel shows I watch are now 1 hour later than I am used to. This means that some of the shows just won’t get watched. Sorry Anderson and Rachael, but I’m not changing my life to watch you…see you when the country changes time again.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Anagram Sentences: 5 word anagrams

What are the missing words?

Because Joshua was Christian, he lit several _____ and said a _____ while holding his _____ together.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Unusual Uses for Everyday Things: Moustache

• Make a great disguise
• Soup strainer
• Cookie duster
• Shoe/nail/dish brush
• Foamy frappe remover

Old Saying Explained:

BLUE-BLOOD…This means aristocratic. For centuries the Arabs occupied Spain but they were gradually forced out during the Middle Ages. The upper class in Spain had paler skin than most of the population as their ancestors had not inter-married with the Arabs. As they had pale skin the 'blue' blood running through their veins was more visible. (Of course all blood is red but it sometimes looks blue when running through veins). So blue-blooded came to mean upper class.

Ok, then?

TV Theme Songs you may remember:

The X-Files - Mark Snow

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted

People of Africa:

Flute Music from Around the World:

Greek traditional song

Harper’s Index:         

• Percentage change over the past 50 years in the number of hours US college students spend working: +44

• In the number of hours they spend studying: -59

Ruminations:

While I don’t prefer to learn things the hard way, I can’t argue with the effectiveness of the method.

Unusual Fact of the Day:

Before joining the NBA, Wilt Chamberlain played one season for the Harlem Globetrotters. He was the first member of the team to have his jersey (#13) retired.

Found on You Tube: 

• Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (Finale)

• SOUSA MARCHES

 Joke-of-the-day:

Things we wouldn’t know if it wasn’t for the movies

1. The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there, and you can travel to any other part of the building you want without difficulty.

2. You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

3. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it is not necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.

4. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

5. If staying in a haunted house, women must investigate any strange noises in their most diaphanous underwear, which is just what they happened to be carrying with them at the time the car broke down.

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

GROWING PLANTS UNDER LIGHTS…You need at least 20 watts of fluorescent light for every square foot of growing area.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

Brazil is home to one of the world's deadliest fish, the Piranha, one of the world's deadliest snakes, the Coral Snake, one of the world's biggest spiders, the Goliath bird-eating spider and one of the world's most painful waxes. Now a new discovery makes Brazil home to one of the world's most intimidating amphibians, the Penis Snake.

A group of engineers building a dam in the Amazon recently discovered the bizarre, limbless monster while draining part of the Madeira River.

The official name of the animal is Atretochoana eiseltiis, but one look at the fleshy-looking member and the name "Penis Snake" immediately springs to mind. 

Biologist Julian Tupan said, "Despite looking like snakes, they aren't reptiles and are more closely related to salamanders and frogs. We think the animal breathes through its skin, and probably feeds on small fish and worms, but there is still nothing proven. The Amazon is a box of surprises when it comes to reptiles and amphibians. There are still much more to be discovered."

Informally, the new Amazon River dweller is being called a "floppy snake," but media outlets are having a little fun coming up with names like penis snake and man-aconda.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• Between 20,000 and 60,000 bees live in a single hive. The queen bee lays 1,500 eggs a day and lives for up to 2 years. The drone, whose only job it is to mate with the queen bee, has a lifespan of around 24 days - they have no stinger. Worker bees - all sterile females - usually work themselves to death within 40 days in summer, collecting pollen and nectar. Worker bees fly up to 14km (9 miles) to find pollen and nectar, flying at 24km/h (15 mph).

• A worker bee communicates her floral findings by performing a dance on the honeycomb. The orientation of her movements and the frequency of her vibrations indicate the direction and distance of the flowers.

• Flowers are pollinated mostly by bees; up to one third of all plant pollination on earth are by bees. In short, this means that one in every three spoons of food you put in your mouth was a direct result of the work done by bees.

• Bees do not have ears, but they have an excellent sense of smell with chemoreceptors in their antennae. Bees see colors differently than we do. They are insensitive to red but detects ultraviolet light which is invisible to us.

• The worker bees defend the hive. The muscular barbed stinger quickly saw into the skin of the invader and the venom pouch begins to contract rhythmically to pump venom into the intruder.

• Bees can be used to detect landmines. Tiny radio plates the size of a rice grain will be attached to honey bees to detect antipersonnel landmines, of which there are about 100 million in 70 war-torn countries. The tiny radio plates are engraved with serial numbers to keep track of the bees, which are being conditioned to develop a preference in addition to nectar, in this case TNT, or any other material that releases metamphenamine. Special spectrometers that can "smell" TNT are placed in movable beehives to indicate landmines in specific areas. Bees that "smell" of explosives can then be tracked to the landmine. The bees won't detonate the landmines.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-7

National Fig Week ► National Patient Accessibility Week ►World Communication Week

4-10 

Health Information and Technology Week ►International Fraud Awareness Week ►National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week ►National Nurse Practioner's Week►National Rad Tech Week

5-9 

Give Wildlife A Break Week

Today Is                                                                      

Election DayMarooned Without A Compass Day
Saxophone Day

Today’s Events through History  

1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC) —1966

Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day—1879

Evansville Tornado kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana—2005

Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young Award—1981

Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages—1990

Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary—1956

Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate president—1861

Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews—1942

Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia—1572

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Under 30

Emma Stone, actress (Zombieland) is 24

In their 40’s

Peter DeLuise , actor (21 Jump Street, seaQuest DSV) is 46

Ethan Hawke, actor (Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers) will be 42

In their 50’s

Maria Shriver, [Mrs A Schwarzenegger], Chic, newscaster (Sunday Today) is 57

In their 60’s

Sally Field, actress (Gidget, Flying Nun) is 66

Glenn Frey, Detroit Mich, rock vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy) is 64

Remembered for being born today

Ray Conniff, Attleboro Mass, chorus director (Ray Conniff Singers) (1916-2002)

Charles Dow, journalist/economist (co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St Journal) (1851-1902)

Absalom Jones, African-American abolitionist and clergyman born into slavery (1746-1818)

James Jones, Robinson Ill, novelist (From Here to Eternity) (1921-1977)

James Naismith, Almonte, Canada, inventor (basketball, football helmet), (1861-1939)

John Philip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever), (1854-1932)

Pat Tillman, American football player (1976-2004)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister—1752—at 67

Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, Afghan politician—car bomb—2007—at 48

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (Swan Lake)— cholera—1893—at 53

Gene Tierney, actress (Laura, Whirlpool)—emphysema—1991—at 70

Answer: Anagram sentence

Because Joshua was Christian, he lit several lamps and said a psalm while holding his palms together.

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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