Jan 6 '13

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 02/ Day: 6   

Today: H   49°…L 0° Averages: H  42° L 17° Records: H   61°(1948)…L -22°(1910)

Wind: ave:   8mph; Gusts:  9mph  ave. humidity:  53%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

"Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock—1973
1^st Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola—1494
Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones—1971
Last full-blooded MANDAN Mattie Grinnell, dies today ar 108 years old—1975
Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome) —1907
Village People's Y.M.C.A becomes their only UK No.1 single. At it's peak it      sold over 150,000 copies a day—1979

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Figured it was going to be another cold day, but thankfully it warmed up a little. Nice to be able to be outside a little without freezing.

 

Lance may be ready to confess his steroid use. Can’t decide if it’s ‘better late than never’ or ‘day late and dollar short’. I’ll hold final judgment until he talks.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Hidden Countries

Find two countries in the sentence

Give the dog a bone and give him a little water. 

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today:

• Earl Scruggs & Steve Martin - Foggy Mountain Breakdown

• What's my Line? Carl Sandburg

Ok, then?

Read This Carefully!!

At an Optometrist's Office: 

"If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place."

 Picture of the Day:

Bet You Didn’t Know…from History Channel

Fair hair was so highly valued by Viking warriors that they often dyed their hair blonde.

Harper’s Index:         

• Percentage by which the Defense Dept health care spending is projected to increase in the next two decades: 81

• Estimated percentage of its current health care spending allocated for mental health: 5

Unusual Fact of the Day:

Bob Dylan got his musicians drunk for the recording of "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35" because, as he claimed, they were too stiff.

Joke-of-the-day:

Bob: "So, you say that you won the conversion with your wife yesterday." Joe: "Yes, she came crawling on her hands and knees." Bob: "Really? What did she say?" Joe: "Come out from under the bed, you coward  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

 SUFFERING CULTURE SHOCK

Culture shock occurs only in the first three foreign countries you visit; after that you subconsciously focus on similarities rather than differences.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

AUSTIN, Texas - A baby-naming website says it predicts next year popular U.S. infant names will include: Hashtag, Tweet, Android and Pearl, Florence, Nellie and Eleanor. Officials of the social baby-naming website Belly Ballot, which collects real-time data on what names parents are selecting from around the globe, said based on naming data from more than 1,000 parents on the website, along with 10,000 votes from their friends and family, the website predicts the following naming trends:

-- Tech inspired names such as Kindle will be popular. 

-- To create a unique name, many parents are choosing name combinations of two, three or more names such as Uma Thurman who named her daughter Rosalind Arusha Arkadina Altalune Florence Thurman-Busson. 

-- Grandparents' and great-grandparents' names are making a strong comeback. Drew Barrymore named her daughter Olive so expect more kids named Roy, Charles, Frank, Albert and Bertha. 

-- Not an entirely new trend, but more parents are using surnames for given names such as Grant, Kennedy, Hayes, Townes, Brick, Drake, Fletcher, Sutton and Copeland. 

-- Using traditional names with unusual spellings such as Jaxon, Jaxen, Avah, Xakery, Josilyn and Braedyn.

In under 2 minutes, the Belly Ballot website allows parents to choose their favorite names and invite friends and family to vote on them via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.

• About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.

• According to National Geographic, Mt. Everest grows about 4 millimeters a year: the two tectonic plates of Asia and India, which collided millions of years ago to form the Himalayas, continue to press against each other, causing the Himalyan peaks to grow slightly each year

• Alaska and California, with 8 each, are the US states with the most national park sites.

• All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-7

New Year's Resolutions Week

Celebration of Life Week

Diet Resolution Week

Silent Record Week

2-8

Someday We'll Laugh About This Week

3-7

Women's Self Empowerment Week

5-8

Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week

6-12

Home Office Safety and Security Week

National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week

Today Is                                                                     
Bean Day
Epiphany or Twelfth Night
Three Kings Day
~US-New Mexico: Admission Day (1912-47^th state)

Today’s Events through History  

"Superman", daily newspaper comic strip debuts—1939

Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy—1987

Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army draws to Glasgow—1745

Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three 

     Civil Rights workers—2005

In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences 

     nearly four months early in US—1974

NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with N & S—1861

Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule 

     a flight around the world—1942

To force the NAVAJOs to move to the Bosque Redondo Encampment, 

     the Army gets Kit Carson to mount an expedition against the Navajo 

     in the Canyon de Chelly—1864

Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed—1639

Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress—1893

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 60’s

Bonnie Franklin, TV actress (Ann-1 Day at a Time) is 69

In their 50’s

Rowan Atkinson, England, comedian/actor (Mr Bean) is 58

Nancy Lopez Knight, Torrance California, pro golfer (1981 Dinah Shore) is 56

In their 40’s

Julie Chen, TV host (The Talk) is 43

Remembered for being born today

Joan of Arc, Saint and national heroine of France (1412- 1431)

Khalil Gibran, Lebanon, mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings) (1883- cirrhosis-1931)

Tom Mix, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin), (1880-auto accident-1940)

Carl Sandburg, US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes) (1878-1967)

Earl Scruggs, NC, bluegrass musician (& Flat-Ballad of Jed Clampett), (1924-2012)

John Smith (baptised) of Jamestown (1580-1631)

Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, (1811-1874)

Vic Tayback, Bkln NY, actor (Mel-Alice, Khan, Portrait of a Stripper) (1930-heart attack-1990)

Danny Thomas, Deerfield Mich, comedian (Danny Thomas Show) (1912-1991)

Loretta Young, Salt Lake City Ut, actr (Farmer's Daughter, Stranger) (1913-2000)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of Braille—TB—1852—at 43

John B "Dizzy" Gillespe, blues trumpeter—cancer—1993—at 75

Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Kirov)—AIDS—1993—at 54

Tip O'Neill, speaker of the house—cancer—1994—at 81

Lou Rawls, American singer—cancer—2006—at 72

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th Pres (1901-09)—heart attack—1919—at 60

Answer: Hidden Countries

Give the doG A BONe and give hiM A LIttle water. 

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  §