FYI: Any blue text is a link. Click to check it out!
Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 49/ Day:
Today: H 54°…L 28°
Averages: H 43° L 17°
Records: H
66°(1958)…L -19°(1978)
Wind: ave: 10mph; Gusts: 18mph Today’s ave. humidity: 58%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
114-day
newspaper strike begins in NYC—1962
1st TV
acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy) —1952
American
Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers
elected AFL president—1886
Bombings in
Baghdad, Iraq kill 127 and injure 448—2009
John Lennon
assassinated at 40—1980
President
Andrew Jackson, in his first "State of the Union Address,"
will state his goal to remove all Indians
in the southeastern part of the
United States—1829
♪
♪ Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
- Returns tomorrow
Free Rambling Thoughts:
The weatherman says it’s going to get colder in the next few days…but he has said that before. Still was a beautiful day and sure doesn’t feel like winter.Yesterday, the local PD found a bloody body in a camper a few miles from my place. The first possible homicide all year. Then today, another body found about 8 miles from my place, a possible homicide. They say things happen in threes…sure hope this isn’t one of those times.
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, L stands for any duplicated letter, and _
stands for any letter
V C C V C _
Lifestyle
Substance:
Old Saying Explained:
KICK THE BUCKET…When slaughtering a pig you tied its back legs to a wooden beam (in French buquet). As the animal died it kicked the buquet.
Ok, then?
TV Theme Songs you may remember:
Chuck - "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" by Cake
Read This Headline Carefully!!
Cocktail
lounge , Norway :
LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR
NPR Hosts:
Bet You Didn’t Know…from History Channel
More than 11,500 constitutional amendments have been proposed by the U.S. Congress, but only 27 have been ratified.
Harper’s Index:
Number of people who applied in May for 877 job openings at a Hyundai plant in Alabama: 28,492
Ruminations:
Olympic walking is a lot like a competition of who whispers the loudest
Unusual Fact of the Day:
At the 2000 Samsung Open, a furious Goran Ivanišević smashed three rackets and was forced to withdraw. Why? Because he didn’t have a fourth on hand.Found on You Tube:
Joke-of-the-day:
A little boy came home with his parents from church one Sunday. He seemed a little depressed, so his mother asked him if something happened in Sunday school class that he would like to talk about. He told his mother "Well, we were singing songs and the teacher made us sing about a poor bear named Gladly that needed glasses and I can't stop thinking about him. She said he was cross-eyed and I feel bad for him.The mother couldn't understand why the teacher would teach such a song in Sunday school, so she decided to call her. To the woman’s amazement, the teacher said she only taught hymns that morning. Then the teacher began laughing out loud and said to the mother, “I know what Jeffrey’s' talking about! We learned the hymn 'Gladly The Cross I'd Bear'".
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
CHECKING A PEARL…To tell if a pearl is genuine, rub it against your teeth. A fake pearl will feel smooth; the real thing will grate.
Yeah, It Really Happened
An Arizona man who thought he had really scored with an attractive young woman named Brittany. The two started dating in March or April and the relationship seemed to be going great until things started to slow down physically later in the year.That is when Brittany approached her boyfriend about some different kinds of activities.He expected Brittany to ask if they could have a threesome or if he wanted to be a swinging couple, but that is not what Brittany started to show him on the Internet.Instead, Brittany started to show him pictures of people having sex with animals. She told him that she was interested and in having sex with dogs. She went on to tell him that she has been having sex with their family dogs since she was 13 years old.The now ex-boyfriend told police he was "disturbed and freaked out" and said he told Brittany "she was disgusting." The two broke up shortly thereafter.The ex, whose name has been edited from the police report, said Brittany seemed, "like a nice, sweet and innocent girl."To make matters even more complicated he also suspects Brittany is pregnant with his child.She was arrested and charged with two counts of "crime against nature"
Somewhat Useless Information
The ear's malleus, incus and stapes (otherwise known as the hammer, anvil and stirrup) are the smallest bones in the human body. All three together could fit together on a penny.Sound travels at the speed of 1,130 feet per second, or 770 miles per hour.Snakes hear through the jaw bone and through a traditional inner ear. In essence, snakes have two distinct hearing mechanisms, which helps them hear and catch prey.Sitting in front of the speakers at a rock concert can expose you to 120 decibels, which will begin to damage hearing in only 7 1/2 minutes.Male mosquitoes hear with thousands of tiny hairs growing on their antennae.Fish do not have ears, but they can hear pressure changes through ridges on their body.
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
Day Of The Horse— recognize the contribution of horses to American
history and modern culture
Take It In The Ear Day
~~Catholic: Feast of the Immaculate Conception
~Uzbekistan: Constitution Day (1992)
Today’s Events through History
Bird
banding society found—1909
Disappearance
of Agatha Christie—1926
John
Sevier, and volunteers from North Carolina, soundly defeat the CHICKAMAUGA
CHEROKEEs in a fight at boyd's creek,
Tennessee—1780
Chinese
Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa—1949
Darryl
Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges—1994
Jesse
James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas—1874
Kirsty
Williams elected first female leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats—2008
Mexican
border town Ciudad Juárez is founded by Fray García de San Francisco—1659
Occupied
Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel—1987
Oliver
Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court—1902
Police
surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA—1969
Pope Pius
IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin—1854
US &
Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II—1941
US &
USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space—1966
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Maximilian
Schell, Austria, actor/director (Odessa File, Julia) is 82
In their 60’s
Gregg
Allman, Nashville, guitarist/vocalist (Allman Brothers Band)is 65
In their 50’s
Kim
Basinger. Actress, singer is 59
In their 40’s
Teri
Hatcher, actress (Lois Lane-Lois & Clark) is 48
Sinéad
O'Connor, Irish musician is 46
Remembered for being born today
Lee J
Cobb, NYC, actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront) (1911-1976)
Sammy
Davis Jr, NYC, singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man)
Richard
Llewellyn, Wales, novelist (How Green Was My Valley) (1906-1983)
James
MacArthur, actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0) (1930-2010)
Jim
Morrison, American poet, singer (The Doors) (1943-1971)
E.C.
Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (1894-1938)
Mary
Stuart, Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow, Queen of Scotland (1560-1587), (1542-executed-1587)
James
(Grover) Thurber, Columbus Ohio, humorist (Men, Women & Dogs) (1894-1961)
Eli
Whitney, inventor (Cotton Gin) (1765-1825)
Flip
Wilson, [Clerow], Jersey City NJ, comedian (Flip Wilson Show) (1933-liver
cancer-1998)
Today’s Historical Obits
John
Lennon, musician—assassinated in NY by Mark David Chapman—1980—at 40
Golda
Meir, Israel's PM (1969-74)—1978—at 80
Slim
Pickins, actor (Blazing Saddles)—brain tumor—1983—at 64
Answer: Duplicate Letter Puzzles
INNING
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.
§ And That Is All for Now §
