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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 49/ Day: 338
Today: H 53°…L 25°
Averages: H 45° L 18°
Records: H
62°(1946, 1910)…L -5°(1991, 1905)
Wind: ave: 11mph; Gusts: 28mph Today’s ave. humidity: 59%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
1st Covenant of Scottish Protestants form—1557
1st official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred) —1775
2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India—1984
Alka-Seltzer goes on sale—1931
Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford—1678
Galileo invents telescope—1621
Jefferson Davis Trial starts; 1st blacks on US trial jury—1868
Neon lights, 1st publically seen (Paris Auto Show) —1910
Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast—1950
Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia—1586
Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire," premieres in NYC—1947
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts:
Quiet Sunday, started out clear then ended up overcast. No moisture…this is not typical Flagstaff weather. We usually get snow when it clouds up like this. Strange winter for sure.Watching the news on the financial cliff is like watching elementary kids arguing. Their idea was stupid so we aren’t going to listen. No, our idea is great, their idea is stupid. We aren’t going to play, we are taking all our toys back home. This has to be the most messed up Congress in our history. It doesn’t seem that either side is there for the entire nation. Each person seems to have an agenda and claim to be doing it for the voters who put them in office. Where are the statesmen and stateswomen? We would not be the country we are today, had it not been for compromise.
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, and _ stands for any letter
_ C C V C V
Lifestyle
Substance:
Old Saying Explained:
GOODBYE///This is a contraction of the words God be with ye (you).
Ok, then?
TV Theme Songs you may remember:
All in the Family - "Those Were the Days" by Lee Adams and Charles Strouse
Read This Headline Carefully!!
Smokers are Productive, But Death Cuts Efficiency
NPR Hosts:
Bet You Didn’t Know…from History Channel
The largest denomination of currency ever printed by the U.S. Treasury was the 1934 $100,000 gold certificate. Used only for transactions between Federal Reserve banks, it was never released to the general public. It has Woodrow Wilson’s picture.
Harper’s Index:
- Percentage change since 1970 in the share of metropolitan American families residing in affluent neighborhoods: +131
- Residing in poor neighborhoods: +106
- In middle income neighborhoods: -34
Ruminations:
What is going on? Lemon juices are made from artificial flavors, whereas dish wash liquids are made from real lemons.
Unusual Fact of the Day:
While many think Hydrox cookies were an Oreo knock-off, Hydrox actually came first. They were first made in 1908, four years before the Oreo.Found on You Tube:
Joke-of-the-day:
Policeman: "Did you get the license number of the car that knocked you down?" Pedestrian: "No, but I know who it was. My mother-in-law!" Policeman: "How can you be so certain?" Pedestrian: "I’d recognize that laugh anywhere!"
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
BLINK-FREE GROUP PHOTO RULE…You need to take more than one photo of a group to get one without somebody blinking. For calculating the number of photos to take for groups of less than 20: divide the number of people by three if there's good light and two if the light's bad.
Yeah, It Really Happened
MANILA, Philippines - Guinness World Records confirmed a retired woman in the Philippines collected 1,030 jigsaw puzzles to break the world record. The record keeping organization said Gina Gil Lacuna, 61, of Manila, amassed her collection at her family's bed and breakfast, The Puzzle Mansion, and shattered the record of 238 puzzles set by Luiza Figuereido of Brazil, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported Thursday. Lacuna said she has spent three to four hours per day assembling the puzzles during the past 26 years. She said her collection is still growing and she is planning to donate some of the puzzles to cancer patients.
Somewhat Useless Information
- The only wood used by famed London cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale was mahogany.
- The pecan tree is the only naturally growing nut tree in North American. It is native to the Texas, Mississippi and Mexico River Valleys.
- The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly. It is also the only bird that walks upright.
- The Virginia opossum is the only marsupial (pouched mammal) indigenous to North America.
- There is only one Q in a Scrabble game.
- There's only one city in the United States named merely "Beach." It is found in North Dakota, which is a land-locked state.
- Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.
- When Pierre Trudeau wed Margaret Sinclair in 1971 he became the only Canadian Prime Minister to get married while in office. The couple divorced in 1984.
- Woodrow Wilson was the only US president to earn a doctorate.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor was the first - and only - recipient of a Golden Globe Award for "Most Glamorous Actress." She won the peculiar award in 1958. The category was deleted thereafter.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
1-7>
Cookie Cutter Week; Tolerance Week
2-8>
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week; Clerc-Gallaudet Week; National Hand washing
Awareness Week
Today Is
Coats and Toys for Kids Day
International Day of Disabled Persons
National Roof-Over-Your-Head Day
~Illinois Admission Day (1818-21st state)
Today’s Events through History
1st human
heart transplant performed (Dr Christian Barnard, South Africa) —1967
Andrew
Jackson elected 7th president of US—1828
Charles
II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden—1685
Ex-president
Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia—1967
Golden
State Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, four-year, $32 million, contract
terminated for attacking his coach P J Carlesimo—1997
Oberlin
College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens—1833
Police
arrests 800 sit-in students at U of Cal at Berkeley—1964
Pres
Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term—1971
Zaldivar [Juan
de] "discovers" Acoma—1598
Today’s Birthdays
In their 70’s
Bobby
Allison, auto racer (3 time winner of Daytona 500) is 75
In their 60’s
Benny
Hinn, televangelist is 60
Ozzy
Osbourne, rock vocalist (Black Sabbath-Bark at the Moon) will be 64
In their 50’s
Daryl
Hannah, actress (Splash) is 52
Julianne
Moore, Fayetteville NC, actress (Magnolia, The Kids are Alright) is 52
In their 40’s
Brendan Fraser,
actor (School Ties, 20 Bucks) is 44
Katarina
Witt, figure skater (Olympic-Gold-1984, 88) is 47
In their 30’s
Brian
Bonsall, actor (Family Ties, Star Trek Next Generation) is 31
Under 30
Jake T.
Austin, Disney actor is 18
Remembered for being born today
Joseph
Conrad, Berdychiv, Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness), (1857-1924)
Samuel
Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny spinning machine) (1753-1827)
Ferlin
Husky, American country singer (Born to Lose, Gone) (1925-2011)
Kim Dae
Jung, South Korean President, Nobel laureate (1925-2009)
George
Brinton McClellan, Major General (Union Army) (1826-1885)
Charles
Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (1842-1899)
Gilbert
Stuart, US, portrait painter (painted Washington) (1755-1828)
Andy
Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show) (1927-2012)
Today’s Historical Obits
Madeline
Kahn, actress [Paper Moon, Blazing
Saddles]— ovarian cancer—1999—at
57
Roxie
Roker, actress (Claudine)/mother of Lenny Kravitz [Helen-The
Jeffersons]—cancer—1995—at 66
Emilie
Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and hymn writer—1706—at 69
Robert
Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist— cerebral hemorrhage—1894—at 45
St
Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the East—fever—1552—at 46
Answer: Duplicate Letter Puzzles
ALLELE [An allele is an alternative form of a gene]
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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