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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 47/ Day: 328
Today: H 60°…L 25°
Averages: H 48° L 21°
Records: H
68°(1903)…L -2°(1913)
Wind: ave: 4mph; Gusts: 17mph
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
10,000,000
cellular telephone sold—1992
1st issue
of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce—1936
1st
jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, SF) —1899
60
Ethiopia government officials executed—1974
Arab
Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali
Abdullah
Saleh Signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in
exchange for
legal immunity—2011
English
parliament throws out Jesuits—1584
Enrico
Caruso US debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in "Rigoletto"—1903
JFK's
body, lay in repose in East Room of White House—1963
Lake
Merced to drop 30' (9m) just past midnight, a sharp jolt cause: San
Francisco—1852
Tinseltown
dedicated its Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd & Vine St—1960
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♪ Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts:
What a wonderful day. I had my now annual Thanksgiving Day meal with friends in town. Martha put on a great spread, and as always, great individuals. Every year there are several of us who return, and every year there are new faces, new stories. A wonderful thing to be thankful for. I am stuffed and will keep the blog short.
Game
Center: (answers at the end of post)
Duplicate Letter Puzzles
Find
common words with certain letters duplicated in the given positions. V stands for a duplicated
vowel, C stands for a duplicated consonant
C V C C V (2 solutions)
Lifestyle
Substance:
Unusual Uses for Everyday Things: Velcro
Hang
pieces of art or photos on a wall. Stick several
strips of Velcro to the wall and to the back of a lightweight frame.
Prevent a
jacket or a blouse from gaping open. Sew small pieces
of Velcro between the buttons to create a smooth surface.
Keep a
rug in place. Stick pieces of
Velcro to the floor and to the bottom of the rug.
Stop seat
cushions from sliding off kitchen chairs. Place strips of
Velcro on the chair and on the cushion.
Organize
toys. Affix a Velcro strip to the wall and Velcro
pieces to stuffed animals to make cleanup fun for toddlers.
Keep
track of the remote. Use Velcro to
attach the remote to the side of the TV when it’s not in use.
Remove
pills from sweaters. Use the hook side
of Velcro to pull off pesky balls.
Restrain
wayward cords. Keep them in one
place with a strip of Velcro.
Keep a
pen or paper handy. Place a small
piece of Velcro next to a desk calendar and on a pen so you can jot down to-dos
ASAP. In the car, stick a notepad to the dashboard or the door of the glove
compartment and you’ll always have paper for a brilliant thought or a
last-minute errand.
Picnic in
peace. Keep a tablecloth
from flying away by applying Velcro to the underside of the cloth and to the
picnic table.
Old Saying Explained:
FIDDLE WHILE ROME BURNS…There is a legend that when Rome burned in 64 AD Emperor Nero played the lyre (not the fiddle!). Historians are skeptical about the story.
Ok, then?
TV Theme Songs you may remember:
The Addams Family - Vic Mizzy
Read This Headline Carefully!!
Lawmen from Mexico Barbecue Guests
America’s Historical Buildings:
Prairie Home Companion:
Bebop-a-rebop Rhubarb Pie
Harper’s Index:
- Percentage of US vets from Iraq and Afghanistan Wars seeking disability benefits: 45
- Number of private US citizens killed in terrorist attacks in 2010: 15
- Number killed by falling TVs: 16
Ruminations:
Hate it when someone commits to running a yellow light and the person in front of them chickens out.
Unusual Fact of the Day:
Like the character he wrote about in Misery, both of Stephen King's legs were broken in a 1999 accident.Found on You Tube:
Joke-of-the-day:
The judge frowned at the tired robber and said, “then you admit breaking into the same store on three successive nights?”
”Yes, your honor.” “And why was that?”
“Because my wife wanted a dress.” The judge check with his records, “But it says here you broke in three nights in a row!” “Yes sir. She made me exchange it two times.”
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
STACKING MAGAZINES…To prevent a stack of magazines from falling over, change the direction of the binding every sixth issue.
Yeah, It Really Happened
OLDHAM, England - A British man admitted to accidentally handing out bags of cocaine to trick-or-treaters who turned out to be the children of a police officer. Oldham Magistrates' Court heard Donald Green, 23, accidentally dropped the bags of cocaine into the candy sacks of three children, ages 8, 6 and 5, instead of the candy bags in his pocket, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday. Police Constable Simon Fowell, the children's father, soon recognized the strange packages in his children's bags and Green was arrested on a charge of possessing a Class A drug. Green pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 months of probation as well as 130 hours community work and court costs totaling $230.
- Somewhat Useless Information
- The most familiar story of the first Thanksgiving took place in Plymouth Colony, in present-day Massachusetts, in 1621. More than 200 years later, President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday in November as a national day of thanksgiving. Congress finally made Thanksgiving Day an official national holiday in 1941.
- Sarah Josepha Hale, the enormously influential magazine editor and author who waged a tireless campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday in the mid-19th century, was also the author of the classic nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
- In 2001, the U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative Thanksgiving stamp. Designed by the artist Margaret Cusack in a style resembling traditional folk-art needlework, it depicted a cornucopia overflowing with fruits and vegetables, under the phrase "We Give Thanks."
- According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota is the top turkey-producing state in America, with a planned production total of 46.5 million in 2011. Six states-Minnesota, North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, Virginia, and Indinia-account for nearly two-thirds of the 248 million turkeys that will be raised in the U.S. this year.
- Originally known as Macy's Christmas Parade-to signify the launch of the Christmas shopping season-the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade took place in New York City in 1924. It was launched by Macy's employees and featured animals from the Central Park Zoo. Today, some 3 million people attend the annual parade and another 44 million watch it on television.
- The first time the Detroit Lions played football on Thanksgiving Day was in 1934, when they hosted the Chicago Bears at the University of Detroit stadium, in front of 26,000 fans. The NBC radio network broadcast the game on 94 stations across the country--the first national Thanksgiving football broadcast. Since that time, the Lions have played a game every Thanksgiving (except between 1939 and 1944); in 1956, fans watched the game on television for the first time.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
18-24
National Bible Week►National
Family Week►National Game
& Puzzle Week ►Better
Conversation Week
21-28
National Deal Week
22-26
Church/State Separation Week
Today Is
Black Friday
Buy Nothing Day
Dr. Who Day (premiers 1963)
Fibonacci Day
Flossing Day
Maize Day
National Cashew Day
National Day of Listening
Sinkie Day ("The Sink Day" when you eat over the sink all the
Thanksgiving leftovers.)
National Native American Heritage Day
Tie One On Day
~Japan Labor Thanksgiving Day
Today’s Events through History
3rd
Olympic games close in St Louis—1904
Annapolis
Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784) —1783
Charlemagne
arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III—800
China
People's Republic seated in UN Security Council—1971
Henry
Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy NY) —1835
Patent
granted for a process of making color photographs—1863
Pencil
sharpener patented by J L Love—1897
Pink
Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks—1979
Today’s Birthdays
In their 50’s
Robin
Roberts, American television reporter is 52
Under 30
Miley Cyrus,
Singer, tv actress is 20
Remembered for being born today
Billy the
Kid, [William H Bonney], NYC, frontier outlaw, (1859-shot-1881)
Dominique
Dunne, actress (Poltergeist) (1959-morder-1982)
Andrew
Goodman, civil rights worker, (1943-murder- 1964)
Boris
Karloff, [William H Pratt], Dulwich Engld, actor (Frankenstein)(1887-1969)
Harpo
Marx, [Adolph] NYC, actor/comedian (Marx brothers) (1888-1964)
Jean
Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (1632-1707)
Franklin
Pierce, Hillsboro NH, (D) 14th Pres (1804-cirroisis-1869)
David
Rappaport, actor, small person (1951-suicide-1990)
Today’s Historical Obits
Roy
Acuff, country singer (Wahbash Cannonball)—1992—at 89
Roald
Dahl, British short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life)—blood disease—1990—at
74
Oscar
Griffin Jr, American journalist and 1963 Pulitzer Prize winner—2011—at 78
Merle
Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion)—stroke—1979—at 68
Walter
Reed, US bacteriologist (Yellow Fever)—ruptured appendix—1902—at 51
Answer: Duplicate Letter Puzzles
Mamma, Pappa
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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