Feb 01, 2013

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 05/ Day: 32   

Today: H   46°…L ° Averages: H  43° L 18° Records: H   63°(1971)…L -25°(1916)

Wind: ave:   3mph; Gusts:  21mph  ave. humidity:  60%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul Minn) —1920

1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395) —1972

1st telecast of atomic explosion—1951

1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published—1884

-50°F (-46°C), Gavilan, New Mexico—1951 

Papago Indian Reservation (Tohono O'odham) in established in Arizona—1917

Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long—1789

Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp—1978

Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII—2004

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the first openly gay Head of State in the modern world—2009

Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia—1972

Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma—1965

Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard—2003

Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC) —1790

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Had a nice lunch with Mary. She has been having lots of knee problems, but is slowly improving. It came on suddenly and can’t be traced to any injury. Somehow arthritis has moved a lower disc less than a cm but is pinching the nerves to the knee. Very painful and very scary for her. The shot she got yesterday seems to be helping a lot. Good for her. Cheryl needs eye surgery and may be in CA with her son for 2 months..again very scary. 

Another Uganda story: We were passing a prison and asked who was put in prison. Answer: criminals. After some talking it is rapists, murderers, and thieves. This seemed like a good time to ask our Pentecostal driver about the laws concerning gays. He didn’t know the term, but did know homosexuals. He said that there were a few in Uganda, but people just don’t talk about it. Asked if they were in prison, he gave a strong NO! Asked if they should be killed, he gave an even stronger NO! He said he had never heard of such a law or talk of such a law…that would be wrong. Coming from a Pentecostal and talking to other drivers, it seemed true.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Hidden Word

Find a hidden word in the sentence

Sports car fanatic visits fast food joint.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today:

• March of Time: Inside Nazi Germany. 1938
 

• The Great Buster Keaton

Ok, then?

Read This Carefully!!

In a Non-smoking Area: "If we see smoke, we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action."

Picture of the Day: Uganda

Harper’s Index:         

Portion of the 2012 US corn crop in ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ condition, according to USDA: 1/2  

Unusual Fact of the Day:

The Taj Mahal was orignally called the Rauza-I Munavvara which means "Tomb of Light."

Joke-of-the-day:

Ah! Yes, love is blind, and marriage is and eye opener!  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

ASSESSING QUALITY, TIME & COST.

Good, Fast, Cheap - Pick Two. It can be good and fast but it won't be cheap. It can be fast and cheap but it won't be good. It can be good and cheap but it won't be fast.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

LAKE CITY, Fla. - Florida police said an armed robber who interrupted a jewelry party left empty-handed when the homeowner started a chant of "Jesus." Jacquie Hagler of Lake City said she was hosting a group of 14 women at her house Friday for a jewelry party when the gunman, who had a bandana across his face, entered the home and ordered the women to hand over their money and phones, WJXT-TV, Jacksonville, Fla., reported Monday. Police said one woman believed the incident to be a gag and said the weapon was a "water gun," leading the robber to put the gun to her head and threaten to "shoot someone." Hagler said she decided her faith was the answer. "When I realized what was going on, I stood up and said, 'In the name of Jesus, get out of my house now.' And he said, 'I'm going to shoot someone.' And I said it again, real boldly," Hagler said. "Everybody started chanting, 'Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,' and he did a quick scan of the room, and ran out the door as fast as he could go." Police said they arrested Derek Lee, 24, on suspicion of home invasion robbery. He was being held in lieu of $200,000 bond. Investigators said they are investigating whether Lee was also involved in an attempted robbery at a nearby ATM moments prior to the incident at Hagler's home.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.

• An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Month:

Adopt A Rescued Rabbit Month AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month American Heart Month Avocado and Banana Month  Bake for Family Fun Month Beans (Dried and Fresh) Month Dog Training Education Month  Exotic Vegetables and Star Fruit Month  February is Fabulous
Florida Strawberry Month From Africa to Virginia Month Grapefruit Month  International Boost Self-Esteem Month International Expect Success Month International Hoof-care Month Jobs in Golf Month  Library Lovers Month Marijuana Awareness Month  National African American History Month National Bird Feeding Month National Black History Month National Care About Your Indoor Air Month National Cherry Month National Condom Month  National Children's Dental Health Month National Hot Breakfast Month  National Laugh-Friendly Month  National Mend A Broken Heart Month National Parent Leadership Month National Pet Dental Health Month National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month National Therapeutic Recreation Month  National Time Management Month National Weddings Month Pet Dental Health Month  Plant the Seeds of Greatness Month Pull Your Sofa Off The Wall Month Relationship Wellness Month Responsible Pet Owner's Month   Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month Spay/Neuter Awareness Month Spunky Old Broads Month Sweet Potato Month  Wise Health Care Consumer Month Worldwide Renaissance of the Heart Month Youth Leadership Month Lent: 13-3/30

Happening This Week:

1-7

Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend
Women's Heart Week

Today Is                                                                      

African-American Coaches Day

Bubble Gum Day

Car Insurance Day

G.I. Joe Day

Hula in The Coola Day

Give Kids A Smile Day

Freedom Day

Robinson Crusoe Day

Spunky Old Broads Day

Wear Red Day

Working Naked Day

Today’s Events through History  

"Late Night With David Letterman" debuts on NBC-TV—1982
"You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television—1953
1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol—1935
1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline—1957
251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the
     Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia—2004
-69°F (-56°C), Peter's Sink, Utah—1985 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile—1979
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated—1840
English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence—1587
Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet
    Cong officer with a pistol shot to head—1968
Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates—1948
French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion—1669
Georgia has begun the process of seizing Cherokee property—1834
Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic"—1862
Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch—1926
Lord Byron's "Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication—1814
Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion
    thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite—1892
Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery—1979
Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit) —1959

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 70’s

Garrett Morris, New Orleans La, actor (SNL, Martin, Carwash) is 76

In their 40’s

Pauly Shore, Hollywood, comedian (Totally Pauly, Encino Man) is 45

Remembered for being born today

Thomas Cole, US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School) (1801-1848)

John Ford, Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man) (1894-1973)

Clark Gable, American actor (Gone With the Wind) (1901-heart attack-1960)

Sherman Hemsley, Phila, actor (All in the Family, Jeffersons, Amen), (1938-2012)

Rick James, [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak) (1948-heart attack-2004)

Brandon Lee, Emerson Colo, actor (Showdown in Little Tokyo) (1965—accidental shooting-1993)

Muriel Spark, Edinburgh Scotland, novelist (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) (1918-2006)

Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR (1931-2007)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Don Cornelius, television host (Soul Train)—suicide—2012—at 75

Angelo Dundee, American boxing trainer and cornerman—2012—at 90

Buster Keaton, [Joseph Francis], US comic (General)—lung cancer—1966—at 70

Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia—fever—1563

Mary Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein)—brain tumor—1851—at 53

Answer: Hidden Countries

SportS CAR Fanatic visits fast food joint.

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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