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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 48/ Day: 335
Today: H 55°…L 24°
Averages: H 45° L 19°
Records: H
68°(1949)…L -8°(190)
Wind: ave: 15mph; Gusts: 32mph Today’s ave. humidity: 55%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
1st use
of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards & the News) —1956
16,000
inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague—1630
Afghanistan
Constitution adopted—1987
Beijing
hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die—1731
French
Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons—1960
Impeachment
trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins—1804
Lucy
(Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb,
Yves
Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar
Depression—1974
President
Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill—1993
Roman
Catholics banned from English parliament—1678
US Pres
Harry Truman threatens China with atom bomb—1950
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♪ Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts:
While are temps have been really nice, today the wind played havoc on outside plans. Our retirement group got together and had a good lunch and great conversation. We caught up on all Thanksgiving experiences. All of us had a great time during the holiday. My powerball ticket was a bust…not even on number.Now I am into the waiting game on my tax debacle. The supervisor has all 14 pages of the three years returns and “is working on it.” In typical bureaucratic fashion she would not tell my tax preparer any timeline for when it would be completed. I didn’t go in, and thankfully I didn’t, since he started calling the bureaucrat at 9am and didn’t find her in her office until 2pm. I’ll call tomorrow to get a timeline. I have already started my letter to the Colorado Governor and the Colorado Dept. of Revenue. Laying out my story is simple, my bureaucratic concerns are easy to explain, my demands have are more complicated until this is all resolved.
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, L stands for any duplicated letter, and _
stands for any letter
_ L V L V (2 solutions)
Lifestyle
Substance:
Old Saying Explained:
GO THE EXTRA MILE…By law a Roman soldier could force anybody to carry his equipment 1 mile. In Matthew 5:41 Jesus told his followers 'if somebody forces you to go 1 mile go 2 miles with him'.
Ok, then?
TV Theme Songs you may remember:
Hawaii Five-O - Morton Stevens
Read This Headline Carefully!!
Autos Killing 110 a day, Let's Resolve To Do Better
Beautiful Scotland:
Bet You Didn’t Know…from History Channel
The Pentagon has 284 bathrooms, twice the number needed to serve its capacity. At the time of its construction during World War II, the state of Virginia still required separate, racially segregated facilities.
Harper’s Index:
Percentage increase last year in the number of people killed by police in LA county: 69
Ruminations:
Did Socrates have a brother names Mediocrates?
Unusual Fact of the Day:
The longest continuous sidewalk in the world is along Bay Shore Boulevard in Tampa, Florida.Found on You Tube:
Joke-of-the-day:
A schoolteacher's son brought his report card home. The father said; let's see what you have accomplished. He opens the report and to his dismay sees all bad grades. What do you have to say about this Johnny? Well dad at least you know I'm not cheating.
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
PREPARING FOR A MARATHON…You need to run at least 40 miles a week for at least 6 weeks to prepare for a marathon.
Yeah, It Really Happened
MOSCOW - Russians can face the Mayan apocalypse fully prepared thanks to a kit being sold that includes a bottle of vodka and -- as a nod to pessimists -- some rope. For those who think they might have a chance of surviving whatever comes on Dec. 21, the kits contain other staples: a packet of buckwheat, a can of fish, candles, matches, notepad, pencil, heart and other medication, and soap. It also has a helpful tutorial on post-apocalypse board games to pass the time after the world as we know it comes to an end. The kits, produced by a local bridal party operator as a joke gift, cost 890 rubles ($27), RIA Novosti reported Monday. Funny or not, the sale of more than 1,000 of the kits prompted local officials to put the kibosh on the operation because special permits are needed to sell alcohol or medication. The kits are in response to the supposed cataclysm to come at the end to the 5,000-year Mayan calendar, which lists Dec. 21 as its final date.
Somewhat Useless Information
The odds of winning the lottery are astronomical: about 175 million-to-1, according to Powerball. And even if you do win, you won't bring home all $550 million. The federal government takes a quarter of the jackpot in taxes, most states take a small share, and some cities even take a slice. That puts the actual cash value of the winnings around $360 million.If you do win you could fall prey to the "lottery curse". According to Chelmsford wealth counselor Szifra Birke, roughly one-third of lottery winners find themselves in serious financial trouble or bankrupt within five years of turning in their lucky numbers. But I bet most people would be willing to take the risk.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
21-28
National Deal Week
22-26
Church/State Separation Week
Today Is
Computer Security Day
National Call Congress Day (Social Security)
National Meth Awareness Day
Stay Home Because You're Well Day
~Barbados: Independence Day (1966 from UK)
Today’s Events through History
13 U
boats sunk this month (62,000 ton) —1941
21 U
boats sunk this month (52,000 ton)—1939
32 U
boats sunk this month (147,000 ton)—1940
U boats
sunk this month (729,000 ton) —1942
Amsterdam
bans assembly of heretics—1523
Britain
signs agreement recognizing US independence—1782
Cruiser
Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die—1994
Gaspar de
Portolá has led an expedition to explore parts of the central
California
coastline. While near San Jose Creek, a group of local Indians
provides them
with some food—1769
Ken
Jennings, longtime Jeopardy! champion of Salt Lake City, Utah finally
loses,
leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, television's all-time biggest
game show haul—2004
Pike
Place Market dedicated in Seattle—1907
Sen
Eugene McCarthy begins run for US presidency—1967
U Thant
of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of UN unanimously—1962
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
Efren
Zimbalist Jr, NYC, actor (77 Sunset Strip, FBI, Scruples) is 94
In their 80’s
Robert
Guillaume, [Williams], St Louis Mo, actor (Benson, Soap) is 85
G[eorge]
Gordon Liddy, head CIA/ate a rat/Watergate felon/radio host is 82
In their 60’s
Mandy
Patinkin, Actor: Homeland is 60
In their 50’s
Kevin
Conroy, Westport CT, actor (Tour of Duty, Another World) is 57
Billy
Idol, [William Broad], rocker (White Wedding) is 57
Bo
Jackson, baseball/football player (KC Royals, LA Raiders) is 50
In their 40’s
Ben
Stiller, actor (Ben Stiller Show, Next of Kin, Cable Guy) is 47
In their 30’s
Clay
Aiken, American singer is 34
Remembered for being born today
Shirley
Chisholm, (Rep-D-NY) (1924-2005)
Mark
Twain, [Samuel L Clemens], author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn) (1835-1910)
Winston
Churchill, (C) Brit PM (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953) (1874-1965)
Richard
Crenna, LA Cal, actor (Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles) (1927-2003)
Abbie
Hoffman, aka Free, Yippie/activist/author (Steal this Book) (1936-1989)
Virginia
Mayo, St Louis Mo, actress (Out of the Blue, White Heat) (1920-2005)
Allan
Sherman, parody singer/songwriter (Hello Muddah, Hello Fardah)
(1924-
emphysema-1973)
Jonathan
Swift, Dublin, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal), (1667-1745)
Oliver
Fisher Winchester, rifle maker (Winchester) (1810-1880)
Today’s Historical Obits
James
Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain)— stomach cancer—1987—at 63
Evel
Knievel [Robert Craig Knievel], motorcycle daredevil— idiopathic
pulmonary
fibrosis —2007—at 69
Tiny Tim,
[Herbert Khaury], entertainer (Tip Toe)—2nd heart attack—1996—at 64
Zeppo
Marx, [Herbert], US comic (Marx Brothers)— lung cancer—1979—at 78
Oscar
Wilde, Irish author— cerebral meningitis—1900—at 46
Answer: Duplicate Letter Puzzles
QUEUE, SLYLY
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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