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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 50/ Day: 344
Today: H 51°…L 24°
Averages: H ° L °
Records: H
62°(1976,1910)…L -23°(1978)
Wind: ave: 12mph; Gusts: 23mph Today’s ave. humidity: 59%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
"A
Charlie Brown Christmas," premieres—1965
1st
Christmas Seals sold—1907
1st Young
Men's Christian Association in North America (Montreal)—1851
Att Gen
Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food
is free &
that's easier than paying for it"—1983
General
Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired—1953
Governor
of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials—2008
Law separating
church and state is passed in France —1905
Lord
Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published—1854
NLS (a
system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were
developed) is publicly
demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco—1968
Noah
Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva —1793
Operation
Restore Hope - US Marines land in Somalia—1992
Phoenix
Arizona, gets 3" of snow—1985
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♪ Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts:
A lazy day Saturday. Watched movies late last night, and just kinda hung out today. So enjoy days like this.Somehow I’ve started doing the blogs a little earlier in the day, giving me time to watch some TV during the evening. I think it has something to do with the shorter days. It is getting dark so early and my view from my office window is not so great after dark.
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 V C V V _
Lifestyle
Substance:
Old Saying Explained:
KNOW THE ROPES…On a sailing ship it was essential to know the ropes.
Ok, then?
Movie Theme Songs you may remember:
'Titanic' Theme Song Céline Dion, ''My Heart Will Go On''
Read This Headline Carefully!!
Doctor's office, Rome: SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES
Coptic Christian Art:
Bet You Didn’t Know…from History Channel
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation didn't actually free a single slave. It applied only to slave states then in rebellion—which didn't recognize the federal government's authority—and not to border slave states still loyal to the Union.
Harper’s Index:
- Percentage of US households that are headed by millionaires: 4.3
- Of Swiss households: 9.5
- Of Singaporean households: 17.4
Ruminations:
You can’t have a ‘what happens in Vegas…’
photo on Facebook
Unusual Fact of the Day:
“http://" (in web URLs) stands for "Hyper Text Transfer Protocol."Found on You Tube:
Joke-of-the-day:
A wise man once said ...... go ask a woman
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
CHECKING A REFERENCE…If you are checking a reference and you ask someone's former employer, "Would you hire this person again?" any answer but "yes" is a "no."
Yeah, It Really Happened
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Pizza Hut Canada released 110 bottles of its pizza-scented perfume, "Eau de Pizza Hut," to fans on Facebook. The pizza chain jokingly held a contest to name a fake perfume scented like "the smell of a box of Pizza Hut pizza being opened," and the response led the chain to create 110 bottles of the fragrance and send it to Facebook fans, the Vancouver Sun reported Thursday. "For now, we've only produced 110 bottles of Eau de Pizza Hut, but who knows what the future has in store," said Beverley D'Cruz, marketing and product development director for Pizza Hut Canada. The perfume comes after the Burger King fast food chain released a meat-scented body spray in 2008.
Somewhat Useless Information
- A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.
- A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
- An adult porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body, which are replaced every year.
- Annually, approximately 46 million Cokes, five million pounds of French fries, and seven million hamburgers are consumed at Walt Disney World Resort.
- Approximate number of facial expressions dogs can make: 100.
- Approximately 125 people die in the United States from an anaphylaxis to foods each year.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
2-8>
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week; Clerc-Gallaudet Week; National Hand washing
Awareness Week
Today Is
International Anti-corruption Day
National Pastry Day
National Salesperson's Day
UN International Anti-Corruption Day
Worldwide Candle Lighting Day (The Compassionate Friends)
Weary Willie Day— for the character made famous by Emmett Kelly
World Choral Day
~~Jewish-Hanukkah or Chanukah through 16th~Tanzania: Independence Day (1961 from UK)
Today’s Events through History
1st game
of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) —1978
1st US WW
II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines—1941
British
assault on Banghazi Libya—1940
Hitler
orders US ships torpedoed—1941
Joseph
Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500—1878
Massachusetts
Rifle Association "America's Oldest Active Gun
Club" is founded—1875
NATCHEZ
send 2 Indians to visit the Tunica today. The Natchez
want them to join them in
a war against the French. The Tunica
will refuse—1729
Romania
disallows fascist Iron Guard—1933
Settler
Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares
himself to be free of
original sin—1640
Surgeon
General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments—1994
UN
General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide—1948
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
Kirk
Douglas [Issur Danielovitch], (Gunfight
at OK Corral) is 96
In their 80’s
Buck
Henry, NYC, screenwriter/comedian (SNL, Get Smart) is 82
Dick Van
Patten, Queens NY, actor (Tom Bradford-8 is Enough) is 84
In their 70’s
Dick
Butkus, NFL hall of fame linebacker (Bears)/sportscaster is 70
Beau
Bridges, LA California, actor (Hotel New Hampshire, 5th Musketeer) is 71
Judi
Dench, York England, actress (Henry V, Wetherby) is 78
In their 50’s
Felicity
Huffman, actress (Desperate Housewives) is 50
John
Malkovich, actor/director (Killing Fields) is 59
Donny
Osmond, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie) is 55
In their 30’s
Jesse
Metcalfe, actor (Desperate Housewives) is 34
Remembered for being born today
John
Cassavetes, NYC, actor (Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby) (1929- cirrhosis-1989)
Broderick
Crawford, Phila, actor (All the King's Men, Highway Patrol) (1911-1986)
Douglas
Fairbanks Jr, NYC, actor (Ghost Story) (1909-2000)
Redd
Foxx, St Louis Mo, comedian (Sandford & Son, Redd Foxx Show) (1922-heart
attack-1991)
Hermione
Gingold, London England, actress (Gigi, Music Man) (1897-1997)
Margaret
Hamilton, Cleveland Ohio, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz) (1902-1985)
John
Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost), (1608-1674)
Thomas P
"Tip" O'Neill, (Rep-D-Mass 1977-86)/Speaker of the House (1912-1994)
Today’s Historical Obits
Ralph
Bunche, UN delegate/Nobel Prize winner—1971—at 67
Douglas
"Wrong Way" Corrigan (aviator)—1995—at 88
Vincent
Gardenia (Vincenzo Scognamiglio), actor (All in the Family,
LA Law)—
heart
attack—1992—at 71
Mary
Douglas Nichol Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist—1996—at 83
Archie
Moore, American boxer—1998—at 81
Marty
Robbins, country singer—surgery complications—1982—at 57
Faron
Young, country singer—commits suicide—1996—at 64
Answer: Duplicate Letter Puzzles
COCOON
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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