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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 46/ Day: 318
Today: High 41°…Low
22°
Records: High
70°(1967)…Low 3°(1898)
Averages: High
52° Low
24°
Wind: average: 3mph; Gusts: 21mph
Today’s average humidity: 57%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
"Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released—1921
1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, MN—1933
American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal—1775
America's 1st saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified—1938
Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY—1922
Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh—1970
False fingernails 1st sold—1952
Final Al Capp comic strip of "Li'l Abner" (1934-77) —1977
Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18—1942
Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts—1843
US issues 1st gold certificates—1865
VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"—1970
Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released—1940
World Wide Web first began—1987
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts:
A chilly ‘holiday’ Monday.Slowly, very slowly, the election results are being published for our two largest and slowest counties. One Congressional race is still in question. Lots of finger pointing that all boils down to our complicated voting system with early ballots and provisional ballots. Anything it seems to make the voting process more difficult for many.Alert! If you are going to do something wrong…don’t use any e-mail service to discuss it. Seems logical but so many high profile people just don’t get it.I don’t know if this is an OMG story or a WTF story: today twenty states filed citizen driven petitions to President Obama to ‘peacefully secede’ from the US. Thankfully, AZ is not in the list but Colorado is. It doesn’t really mean anything legal, but sure is crazy. Turns out similar things happened after the 2004 and 2008 elections.
Game
Center: (answers at the end of post)
Anagram Sentences: 6 letter anagrams
What are
the missing words?
The ______ saw the ______ after it landed on the barbed wire and let out a loud ______ .
Lifestyle
Substance:
Unusual Uses for Everyday Things: Mayonnaise
- Just dab a little onto the dull key and leave it for five minutes or so. Then wipe off the mayo, and buff with a different cloth until the ivory shines.
- Mayonnaise has some delightfully emollient qualities. It’ll soften and smooth hair for a sleek and chic look that can go straight from the runway to the kitchen.
- Apply a little mayo to problem areas like the elbows, knees, or your face. Leave it on for ten to fifteen minutes, then buff off with a damp towel or washcloth. Then use your normal moisturizer or lotion to lock in the freshness.
- Rub a little bit of mayo onto the crayon mark and let it sit for five to ten minutes. Then watch it magically disappear when you wipe it away with a damp cloth.
- Try dipping your nails into a mayo bath. Soak your nails, cuticles, and the rest of your fingertip in some mayonnaise. Then rinse. Voila! Stronger nails. You'll be opening bottles and clamshell packaging bare-handed from now on.
- Removing tar, sap, and sticker residue…Cover the mess with some mayonnaise and let it sit for several minutes. Then wipe it off with a soft, vehicle-approved cloth
- If your wooden furniture is covered in water rings, try to buff them out with some mayonnaise.
- Rub a little bit of mayo onto your matte and dull leaf. Buff it to a shine, then you'll have the shiniest ficus leaf in the world.
Old Saying Explained:
CROCODILE TEARS…These are an insincere display of grief or sadness. It comes from the old belief that a crocodile wept (insincerely!) if it killed and ate a man.
Ok, then?
TV Theme Songs you may remember:
Laverne & Shirley - "Making Our Dreams Come True" by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox
Read This Headline Carefully!!
Panda Mating Fails - Veterinarian Takes Over
Sacred Mountains Around the World:
Celtic Music:
Paul Mounsey-Celtic Music
Harper’s Index:
Number of bullets fired at human targets by German police in 2011: 36
Ruminations:
Never trust a woman who uses a baby voice to talk to anything other than a baby.
Unusual Fact of the Day:
Charles Lindbergh was named Time magazine’s first “Man of the Year” in 1927. But what turned into an annual tradition for the publication actually started as an apology: Time had embarrassingly left Lindbergh off the cover after his landmark solo flight and "Man of the Year" was their apology.Found on You Tube:
Joke-of-the-day:
After 17 years of marriage, a man dumped his wife for a younger woman. The downtown luxury apartment was in his name and he wanted to remain there with his new love so he asked the wife to move out and then he would buy her another place. The wife agreed to this, but asked that she be given 3 days on her own there to pack up her things.While he was gone the first day, she lovingly put her personal belongings into boxes and crates and suitcases. On the second day she had the movers come and collect her things. On the third day she sat down for the last time at their candlelit dining table, soft music playing in the background, and feasted on a pound of shrimp and a bottle of chardonnay. When she had finished, she went into each room and deposited a few of the resulting shrimp shells into the hollow of the curtain rods. She then cleaned up the kitchen and left.The husband came back with his new girl and all was bliss for the first few days. Then it started, slowly but surely. Clueless, the man could not explain why the place smelled so bad. They tried everything; cleaned and mopped and aired the place out. Vents were checked for dead rodents, carpets were steam cleaned, air fresheners were hung everywhere. Exterminators were brought in, the carpets were replaced, and on it went.Finally, they could take it no more and decided to move. The moving company arrived and did a very professional packing job, taking everything to their new home...including the curtain rods.
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
CODE BLUE…In war, you don't hear the bullet that gets you. In the hospital, if you hear a code blue, it's not for you.
Yeah, It Really Happened
On November 17 Jennifer Hoffman and Marisa Gallegos, founders of Esme & Eve Photography, along with five other brave women, plan to jump from an airplane near Lake Elsinore, California, wearing nothing but parachutes and their lingerie. The jump is part of Esme & Eve's "Be Bold. Take the Leap" initiative, in which they urge women "to face their fears, take a risk and push against whatever is holding them back from carrying out their dreams."This will be the second skydive Hoffman and Gallegos are taking together, and this time around, they wanted to do it on a larger scale by inviting others to join. Gallegos admitted, however, that the idea to skydive in nothing but their skivvies was never part of their original plan.When the pair arrived at the skydive location for their first jump last May, it was more than 100 degrees outside. Neither of the women was particularly excited about putting on the heavy, bulky jumpsuits, so they decided to go without."When we landed, it just hit us how powerful the experience was," Gallegos said. "We needed to come back and do it in a big way with a bunch of other women that have all faced certain fears and insecurities and moved past them. It's all about empowering them. Life is about evolving and moving past things so we can move forward."They thought it was best to do the jump in their underwear because "it was more about baring your soul, and being OK with it, and not being ashamed," Hoffman said.
Somewhat Useless Information
- The rockets mentioned in "The Star Spangled Banner" were less effective than bombs. They had a shorter range and were so inaccurate that they had to be abandoned as weapons after the War of 1812. Not until World War II did rockets become important.
- The Pentagon is the world's largest office building, a city in itself. With an area of 6,500,00 square feet the Pentagon has a Main Street lined with shops, restaurants and its own post office.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
7-13
Dear Santa Letter Week ►Pursuit
of Happiness Week
11-17
American Education Week ►Geography
Awareness Week ►National
Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week
12-18
National Global Entrepreneurship Week ►World
Kindness Week ►National
Young Reader's Week
Today Is
National Indian Pudding Day
National Young Reader's Day
Today’s Events through History
1st
artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA—1946
1st
condom commercial on BBC TV—1990
1st
modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob—1913
1st
shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii—1895
Ben
Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"—1789
Bob Petit
(St Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points—1964
Carl B
Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland OH) —1967
Conference
regarding alliances is held for the next four days between
representatives of
the British in Pennsylvania and the Miami, Shawnee
and "Six Nations" tribes. —1747
English
Lady Jane Grey/Bishop Cranmer accused of high treason—1553
James
Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads
to his study
of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis—1841
Phenomenal
meteor shower just before sunrise is seen all over North America.
This event is
recorded on Kiowa picture
calendars as the most significant
event of the year—1833
Ronald
Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for president—1979
Significant
battle at Sheriffmuir during Jacobite rebellion. Battle inconclusive
but
Government forces able halt advance of Jacobite army lead by Scottish
Earl of
Mar—1715
War on
Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W.
Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners
suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United
States.
—2001
Today’s Birthdays
In their 70’s
Garry
Marshall, NYC, producer (Laverne & Shirley) is 78
In their 60’s
Joe
Mantegna, actor (Criminal Minds) is 65
In their 50’s
Whoopi
Goldberg[Caryn Johnson], actress, comedian (Color Purple, Ghost, The View) will
be 57
Christopher
Noth, actor (Sex in the City, Law & Order) is 58
In their 40’s
Gerard
Butler, Scottish actor is 43
Jimmy
Kimmel, late night TV host is 45
Vinny
Testaverde, NFL quarterback (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens) is 49
Steve
Zahn, actor is 45
Remembered for being born today
John AB
Dahlgren, US Union lt adm/inventor (Civil war Dahlgren-cannon) (1809-1870)
Jack
Elam, Miami AZ, actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo)(1920-2003)
John
Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder (Radio City Music Hall) b. 1882
Richard
Mulligan, Bronx NY, actor (Soap, Empty's Nest, Big Bus) (1932-2000)
Dack
Rambo, Delano California, actor (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas) (1941-1994)
Robert
Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh, Scotland, author (Treasure Island), (1850-1894)
Today’s Historical Obits
Thomas
Chippendale, English furniture maker— tuberculosis—1779—at 61
Vine
Deloria, Jr., Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist—
aneurysm—2005—at
72
Henry the
Navigator, prince of Portugal—1460—at 66
"Alvin"
Junior Samples, country singer (Hee Haw)— heart attack—1983—at 56
Karen
Silkwood, labor union activist—car crash under suspicious circumstances—1974—at
29
Answer: Anagram sentence
The hikers saw the shrike after it landed on the barbed wire and let out a loud shriek .
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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