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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 46/ Day: 322
Today: High 57°…Low
33°
Records: High
70°(1981)…Low -1°(1964)
Averages: High
50° Low
23°
Wind: average: 2mph; Gusts: 14mph
Today’s average humidity: 50%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
680 Jews
arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins—1278
Douglas
Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse—1970
English explorer,
writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason—1603
Leonids
meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour) —1966
Lincoln
begins 1st draft of his Gettysburg Address—1863
Luxor,
Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple
of
Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants) —1997
Remaining
human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated
to the
mainland—1953
Union of
Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms—1974
US House
of Representatives approve NAFTA—1993
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts:
A quite day here in Flagstaff. At least it was nice enough to take a short walk.As I get old-er I notice how so many of my childhood and early adulthood products are no longer produced. Now, I was never a big Twinkie Fan, but I was a Hostess Cupcake and Ding Dong fan. Now it looks like none of these will be around much longer. I still remember jumping on my bike on Saturday morning, riding down to a small neighborhood store a few blocks away, buying a package of Hostess Cupcakes for 7 cents and riding home to share them with my little brother as we watched Huckleberry Hound on TV. I must admit I haven’t bought any for many, many years, but always smile when I see them on the shelf. I guess I just assumed the next generations were still buying them.Amazing to me how all the rats desert Romney’s ship. From ‘the best we have to offer’ to ‘he doesn’t know what he is talking about’ in a week. Looks to me like a majority of American voters saw though his crazy plans on Election Day. Now his political supporters are realizing it. Better late than never, just better never late.The Gaza Strip is about 140 square miles, governed by Palestinians. It still isn’t clear if other Muslim countries will step up their effort to stop the Palestinians from bombing Israel. Praying for peace.
Game
Center: (answers at the end of post)
Anagram Sentences:
What are
the missing words? 6 letter anagrams
I had to ______ a friend to help me ______ for my lost dog, but she was being too ______ to be found.
Note: New word puzzle begins tomorrow.
Lifestyle
Substance:
Unusual Uses for Everyday Things: Disposable Diapers
- You can make your own gel by removing the sodium polyacrylate from a disposable diaper. Fireproof small items in your home by dipping a diaper in some water then wrapping it around the object that needs protection. Sodium polyacrylate that absorbs many hundreds of times its own weight in water.
- Diapers are good at absorbing disconcerting volumes of filth. Next time you spill an entire bowl of cereal, milk and all, onto your travertine, try using a diaper to clean up the mess.
- Diapers to bear in the garden, cut open the diaper to get the sodium polyacrylate out. You can apply it directly to the soil, or if you'd like to be more conservative, you can wrap the polymer in some cheese cloth to get the absorption effect without getting sodium polyacrylate all up in your dirt. Or just bury a wet diaper.
- When a flood is imminent, people start shoveling sand into bags to build makeshift levees in order to keep the rising water at bay. Shoveling sand into a sack is hard work. And sand doesn't expand much as it absorbs water. But toss some sodium polyacrylate into a sack and you've got a flat-packable, self-inflating flood control bag that requires only the flood water itself to expand to full, water-blocking size.
- Unless you've got a diaper on hand you can save a wet book or magazine. Just open the diaper up, insert it in between the dampened pages, and let the sodium polyacrylate slurp up your delicious autumn treat. Close the book around the diaper, prop the book up out of the sun, run a fan, and wait.
- A freezer bag. Some alcohol. Some water. And a diaper. Apart, they are merely a normal shopping trip. When combined, however, they form a Megazord of ice-packy goodness. Dribble a cup of alcohol into the diaper. Then soak it in water. Bag it. Freeze it. Slap it onto an aching body part or into your lunch box.
Old Saying Explained:
DON'T LOOK A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH…This old saying means don't examine a gift too closely! You can tell a horse’s age by looking at its teeth, which is why people 'looked a horse in the mouth'.
Ok, then?
TV Theme Songs you may remember:
Hill Street Blues - Mike Post
Read This Headline Carefully!!
Soviet Virgin Lands Short of Goal Again
Sacred Mountains Around the World:
Celtic Music:
Irish tavern music
Harper’s Index:
Number of days a juvenile penguin eluded Japanese authorizes after escaping from an aquarium in March: 82
Ruminations:
The quickest way to lose all faith in humanity is to read the comments section for almost anything on the Internet
Unusual Fact of the Day:
Ian Murphy is the king of the old-school computer hackers. In 1981, he and three accomplices broke into the AT&T phone system and changed its internal clocks so that customers would get midnight discounts in midday, while late-night callers got stuck with outrageous bills. For the incident, Murphy became the first hacker to be charged with a computer crime.Found on You Tube:
Joke-of-the-day:
Little Johnny watched, fascinated, as his mother smoothed cold cream on her face. 'Why do you do that, mommy?' he asked.'To make myself beautiful,' said his mother, who then began removing the cream with a tissue.'What's the matter?' asked Little Johnny. 'Giving up?'
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
LOBSTER TAILS …A lobster tail should always curl. If this does not happen, the lobster is dead or dying. If the tail does not curl on a boiled lobster, the lobster was dead before it was boiled.
Yeah, It Really HappenedAn Oklahoma teen convicted of manslaughter has sentenced to 10 years of probation, with requirements that include regularly attending church.Tyler Alred, now 17, had been drinking when he crashed a pickup truck at around 4 a.m. on Dec. 3, 2011, Tulsa World reports. The accident killed Alred's friend, 16-year-old John Luke Dum, who was a passenger in the vehicle.Alred was not legally drunk, but because he was below the legal drinking age, he was still considered to be driving under the influence of alcohol. The high school student pleaded guilty in August to a charge of manslaughter as a youthful offender."I did not want to do what I did," Alred told the court prior to his sentencing. "I want to change my life."Members of Dum's family did not want to see Alred behind bars, the Muskogee Phoenix reported. "We don't need to see two lives wasted for a mistake," Dum's sister, Caitlin, wrote in a statement.Instead of sentencing the teen to prison time, Judge Mike Norman gave him a 10-year deferred sentence. In order to stay out of prison, Alred must graduate from high school; graduate from welding school; take drug, alcohol and nicotine tests for a year; wear a drug and alcohol bracelet, take part in victim's impact panels, and attend church for the next 10 years.This last requirement "raises legal issues because of (the separation of) church and state," University of Oklahoma law professor Randall Coyne told the Tulsa World.
Somewhat Useless Information
- There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every 8 inhabitants.
- The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off
- Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland in considered an insult.
- Undertakers report that human bodies to not deteriorate as fast as they used to. The reason, they believe, is that the modern diet contains so many preservatives, that these chemicals tend to prevent the body from decomposition to rapidly after death.
- The Nike "swoosh" logo was designed by University of Oregon student Carolyn Davidson in 1964 - four years after business undergrad Phil Knight and track coach Bill Bowerman founded the company they originally called Blue Ribbon Sports. Ms. Davidson was paid $35 dollars for her design.
- The penny and the Sacajawea dollar are the only coins currently minted in the United States with profiles that face to the right. All other U.S. coins - the half dollar, quarter, dime, and nickel - feature profiles that face to the left.
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
16-22
National Farm-City Week
Today Is
- Homemade Bread Day
- Playmobil's National Day of Play
- Family Volunteer Day
- National Adoption Day
- National Day of Play
- National Survivors of Suicide Day
- National Unfriend Day
- Take A Hike Day
- World Prematurity Awareness Day
Today’s Events through History
1st TV
condom ad aired (FOX- TV) —1991
Church of
England organizes in New England—1785
Delta Phi
fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union
College in Schenectady—1827
Edgar
Bergen & Charlie McCarthy become overnight success on radio—1936
Election
is authorized to approve a Constitution and By-Laws for the Thlopthlocco Tribal
Town of the Creek Indian Nation of the State of Oklahoma—1938
General
Meeting of UN refuses admittance of China PR—1965
Kmart
Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and
naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation—2004
NBC cuts
to show "Heidi," misses Raider's rally to beat Jets, 43-32—1968
Notre
Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 year—1928s
Part of
Pontiac's army surrenders at the Muskingham River—1764
Pres
Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their pres is a
crook. Well, I'm not a crook"—1973
Today’s Birthdays
In their 70’s
Gordon
Lightfoot, Ontario Canada, folksinger (Sundown) is 74
Martin
Scorsese, Queens, New York, director (Raging Bull, The Departed) is 70
In their 60’s
Howard
Dean, American politician is 64
Danny
DeVito, Neptune NJ, actor (Taxi, Ruthless People, Twins) is 68
Tom
Seaver, pitcher (NY Met, 300 game winner, Cy Young '69 '73 '75) is 68
Lorne
Michaels, [Lipowitz], Toronto Ontario, comedian (SNL) is 68
In their 50’s
RuPaul
[RuPaul Andre Charles], drag queen/model/actor (RuPaul Show)is 52
In their 40’s
Daisy
Fuentes, model/MTV veejay (America's Funniest Videos) is 46
Remembered for being born today
Rock
Hudson[Roy Harold Scherer, Jr], actor (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms) (1925-1985)
Louis
XVIII, 1st post-revolutionary king of France (1755-1824)
Bob
Mathias, Tulare California, decathelete (Olympic-gold-1948, 52) (1930-2006)
August
Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (1790-1868)
Lee
Strasberg, Austria, acting coach/actor (And Justice for All) (1901-1982)
Today’s Historical Obits
Catherine
the Great [Catherine II], Empress of Russia (1762-96)—stroke—1796—at 67
Esther
Rolle, actress (Good Times)— diabetes—1998—at 78
Answer: Anagram sentence
I had to enlist a friend to help me listen for my lost dog, but she was being too silent to be found.
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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