Nov 14, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 46/ Day:    

Today: High   55°…Low 15°

Records: High   70°(1967)…Low -5°(1985)

Averages: High  51° Low 23°

Wind: average:   3mph; Gusts:  16mph

Today’s average humidity:  48%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens—1791
1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam) —1660
1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins—1954
250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against Vietnam War—1969
Colonization of Africa organized at Intl conference in Berlin—1884
Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres—1956
NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a     Christian" from abjuration oath—1727
Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran—1977
Research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber     addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes—1985
Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland) —1824
Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check—1939
Walt Disney Art School created—1932
Wendy's Hamburgers opens—1969

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

 Returns tomorrow

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Started off as a nice day…then clouded up in the late afternoon. We had our weekly lunch today. We were going to go to Outback, but discovered that it didn’t open until 4pm—even though the paper had a coupon for a noon lunch special. Ended up across the street at Cracker Barrel. Good homey food and some great conversation. Cheryl is getting ready for Thanksgiving in CA, Mary will be in Phx. This year Thanksgiving sure is early. I’ve noticed that a few stores have said no Christmas decorations until Black Friday…good for them. None of these stores have outlets in Flagstaff. Here is Flag, the decorations come out a week or so before Halloween.

 

World hassles never seem to end…bombing in Gaza…scary. On the more humorous side, Patraeus’ mistress’ harassing e-mailer is asking for diplomatic protection from the press that has camped out in her neighborhood. Finally today the government pulled the mistress’ ‘all access’ pass to military bases.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Anagram Sentences:

What are the missing words?

The farmer was grave and ______ after the crops of ______ and Casaba ______ were ruined by pests.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Unusual Uses for Everyday Things: BAKING SODA

• Prevent and solve stinky feet by putting some baking soda in your shoes.
• Put some baking soda on that brush and brush away to fresher breath!
• To do some clean up. baking soda is great for cutting grease from that bacon marathon
• Have some baking soda on hand to put out the grease fire you might start.
• Ants seem not to like it when you put a trail of baking soda in their path.
•  When it reacts with oil turns into soap! 

Old Saying Explained:

WHAT THE DICKENS!...This old saying does not come from the writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870). It is much older than him! It has been around since at least the 16th century. Originally 'Dickens' was another name for the Devil.

Ok, then?

  Returns tomorrow

TV Theme Songs you may remember:

• Bonanza - Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
• Bonus: Lorne Greene sings Bonanza

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Child's Stool Great for Use in Garden

Sacred Mountains Around the World:

Celtic Music:

Celtic Irish Folk

Harper’s Index:         

Estimated percentage of jokes made by female managers that get laughs, according to a British study: 20

By male managers: 90

Ruminations:

Grocery shopping for one person involves way more flirting with expiration dates than I imagined

Unusual Fact of the Day:

The USA PATRIOT Act is an acronym that stands for "Uniting & Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept & Obstruct Terrorism."

Found on You Tube: 

• Tales From The Jungle Margaret Mead Part 1

• CW McCall Convoy

Joke-of-the-day:

A 17 year-old Antartican boy was hired to paint a white line down the middle of the highway. On the first day, he got off to a good start and he painted a white line 7 miles long. The next day, however, he painted a line only 4 miles long. On the third day, he was down to less than a mile. Finally, his friend Max asked him why he was doing less each day. The boy replied, "I guess it takes me longer and longer to get back to the bucket each day."  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

CHEMICAL WASTE…Gram for gram, it costs about 10 times as much to properly dispose of laboratory chemicals than it did to buy them in the first place.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

MARLBORO, Mass. - A Massachusetts man said he discovered more than $20,000 in a dumpster while looking for magazines to turn into art projects. The Marlboro man, a Brazilian immigrant who asked for his name not to be printed, said he visits the Wellesley dump about twice a week to search for magazines to turn into art, and during a visit last month he found a book with $20,000 to $30,000 pressed between its pages, WHDH-TV, Boston, Mass., reported Tuesday. The man said he is trying to find the rightful owner of the cash and has pledged to search for six months before deciding whether to keep the money.

"This book is a lot of history there," he said. "My point of view is, I want to see because if someone maybe who separated the money to buy a house, put a down payment for the house. What if that happened to me, if it was me? I'm going to go crazy, alright?"

Somewhat Useless Information   

• There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.

• There are about 3,000 hot dog vendors in metropolitan New York.

• The loop on a belt that holds the loose end is called a "keeper."

• The kings in a deck of cards each represent a great king from history. The king of spades is King David, the king of clubs is Alexander the Great, the king of hearts is Charlemagne, and the king of diamonds is Julius Caesar. 

• The LEGO company was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen in Billund,Denmark, in 1916. Today it has over 9,000 employees worldwide. The Danish words Leg and Godt were put together to make "LEGO." Later, it was discovered that in Latin, the term "Lego" means "I put together" or "I assemble."

• "The Star-Spangled Banner," written by Francis Scott Key, is ranked the most difficult national anthem on Earth to sing.

Calendar Information        

Happening This 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                                                                      

America Recycles Day
Great American Smokeout
Guinness World Record Day
I Love to Write Day
National Bundt (Pan) Day
National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
Use Less Stuff Day
~Belgium Dynasty Day (1866 celebrations in honor of the Belgian monarch.)
~Brazil Republic Day (Commemorates end of Empire of Brazil and
      proclamation of the Brazilian Republic 1889)
~Japan Shichi-Go-San (celebration of kids aged 3, 5, 7)

Today’s Events through History  

1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY—1864

American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)—1881

Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress—1777

Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between 

     Pennsylvania & Maryland—1763

Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco—1492

Creek-Indians lose all their property in US—1827

Devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 

     people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans—2007

Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev—1982

Potawatomi sign a treaty. (12 stat.1191). The treaty sets aside some lands 

     for common tribal usage and other lands are set aside for individual Indians—1861

Producers confirm that Milli Vanilla didn't sing on their album—1990

Quapaw sign a treaty (7 stat. 23) and give up their claim to land between 

     the Arkansas Post and Little Rock, extending inland to the Saline River—1824

Sir Francis Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington—1577

Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the 

     necessary royal concession—1854

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 80’s

Ed Asner, actor is 83

Petula Clark, rock vocalist (Downtown, My Love) is 80

C. W. McCall, singer [hit song "Convoy"] is 84

In their 70’s

Sam Waterston, actor [Law and Order] is 72

Remembered for being born today

Felix Frankfurter, Vienna Aust, 80th Supreme Court Justice (1882-1965)

Curtis E Le May, air force general/VP candidate (1906-1990)

Marianne Moore, St Louis, poet (Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems) (1872-1972)

Georgia O'Keefe, Sun Prairie Wisc, sculptor/painter (Cow's Skull) (1887-1986)

William Pitt the Elder, British Prime Minister `Great Commoner', (1708-1778)

Erwin Rommel, German fieldmarshal (WW II-African campaign) (1891-1944)

"Macho Man" Randy Savage, [Poffo], Sarasota FL, wrestler (1952-2011)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Baby Fae [Stephanie Fae Beauclair], who received a baboon's heart—1984—at 3 weeks

Stokely Carmichael, American civil rights activist— prostate cancer—1998—at 57

Larry Evans, American chess grandmaster and journalist— gallbladder—2010—at 78

Alger Hiss, former alleged spy/lawyer—1996—at 92

Johann Kepler, German astronomer—1630—at 58

Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Thoughts & Female)— pancreatic cancer—1978—at 76

Answer: Anagram sentence

The farmer was grave and solemn after the crops of lemons and Casaba melons were ruined by pests.

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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