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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 17/ Day: 117 Today: H 64°…L 30°
Wind: ave: 6mph; Gusts: 30mph Ave. humidity: 39%
*Averages: H
62° L 31°
Records: H 79°(1996)…L 17°(1984/1972)
Quote of the Day
Today’s Historical Highlights
Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by
Edward I of England…1296
Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in
China…1989
John Milton, blind and impoverished, sells the
copyright of Paradise Lost for
£10 ($26,000US-2010)…1667
President Hayes removes Federal troops from
LA, Reconstruction ends…1877
US Marines attack shores of Tripoli…1805
Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins term
"Pencil neck geek"…1953
Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse…1981
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts
Sure looked like some moisture was on the way, but alas, no such luck. Still a nice day.The weekend is here, so I’m sure some people will be stopping by either tonight, tomorrow, or Sunday. Tomorrow is our Discussion group on Myanmar. Haven’t read all the articles yet, but will have them done by tomorrow evening. The leader has just returned from there while recruiting students for our local University. I’m sure she will have a lot to tell us.Getting close to my cruise. Leaving on May 1st. Lots of last minute stuff to still do. I know it will be a great time, a new experience, and lots to see. Not sure how many day tours I’ll be taking off the ship, but there is certainly a goodly number to choose from. I’m a little anxious about the time at sea, though I have done two 9 day river cruises with no problems…this one is a lot longer. At least we don’t have to change hotels every day or so.Amazing that Congress has stopped the FAA furloughs that were leading to long delays at airports just a day before they were all flying out of DC for yet another working vacation in their districts. I’m glad they passed the bill, so I won’t have to worry in my upcoming travel, but really…only do it when it seems to have created a glitch in their travel plans. Interesting too is how we are in this financial mess and the first answer is to cut educational funding. It is a mess and so let’s not let the next generation learn. Makes no sense to me.
Game
Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
Nothing is in it But something is in it Nobody is in it But somebody is in it If you have it You and I are in it What is it?
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Origins of Phrases
Feeding frenzy
Meaning
An aggressive attack on prey by a group of sharks. The resulting boiling and bloody sea results in the sharks wildly attacking any creature nearby - even their own kind.
Origin
This term applied initially specifically to shark attacks and was coined in the mid 20th century; for example, here's an early citation from a piece by T. Lineaweaver in Sports Illustrated, February 1960:"When sharks are in a feeding frenzy, the man who hangs too close to the surface to grimace, may lose his head - face, grimace and all."It wasn't long before that vivid imagery was began to be used in other contexts. In Science, April 1972 we have:"It would be rash to take them as evidence of a coherent movement to cripple the law. But what worries environmentalists ... is that a feeding frenzy may develop among federal agencies once a few loopholes have been opened in the law."
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
Number of ‘known cracks and breaks’ in the dome of the US Capitol building: 1300
Ruminations:
Most of the commercials are so ridiculous these days…can’t help but wonder…how bad were the options that were rejected.
Picture of the Day: Signs of Spring
Unusual Fact of the Day
Gremlins was one of two movies to influence the start of the PG-13 rating. The other was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Joke-of-the-day
Joke-of-the-dayA circus may have strange things. What you do not expect is to find a 300-pound tiger waiting for you in the bathroom.The big cat had escaped briefly after its turn in the ring at the Isis Shrine Circus in Salina, Kansas. Staff members blocked off the concourse as the tiger wandered into the bathroom, where one of the doors was blockaded.About that time, Salina resident Jenna Krehbiel decided she needed to use the restroom. When she walked in the door that hadn't been blocked off, she found a tiger standing about 2 feet away."You don't expect to go in a bathroom door, have it shut behind you and see a tiger walking toward you," Krehbiel said.The tiger was captured within minutes and returned to its enclosure.Krehbiel, a social worker, said she didn't scream or run because she is trained to stay calm."Looking back, it was a scary ordeal," she said. "At the time, I was thinking I just needed to get out."Krehbiel said her 3-year-old daughter had a different reaction."My daughter wanted to know if it had washed its hands," Krehbiel said. "That was her only concern. I think that shows the thoughts of children and that they wouldn't have known there was danger."
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
FLYING A KITE
A wind that rustles leaves and that you can barely feel on your face is blowing from 4 to 7 miles an hour. A wind moving about 12 miles an hour will keep tree leaves in constant motion. This is the upper limit for most kite flying. If the wind is lifting loose paper off the ground and raising dust, it is too strong for the average kite.
Yeah, It Really Happened
A 29-year-old woman claiming to be God was arrested after torching her car at a Florida gas station.The incident happened Wednesday night in Daytona Beach: Alexandra Barnes pumped gas into her vehicle and allegedly sprayed more gas all over the car. She then entered the store, grabbed a cigarette lighter and repeatedly muttered, "I've got to get out here," the Daytona News-Journal reported.Gas station worker Craig Walker fought with Barnes to get the lighter, and noticed gas on her hands, but she grabbed another lighter and fled the store to torch her Scion."It was just lit up into flames, like 15 different barbecues going on, huge into the sky," witness Fred Kelley told WPDO.com.Another employee shut off the emergency valve to prevent the whole station from blowing up, while a bystander ran to the car to save Barnes' dogs that were inside.Barnes then sat down in the middle of the road wanting a car to hit her, according to Daytona Beach police officer Jimmy Flynt, "She said something about she was 'God,'" Flynt told WFTV-TV.Barnes was taken to a hospital for mental evaluation.The gas station only suffered a melted pump hose from the incident.
Somewhat Useless Information
- The human heart can create enough pressure to squirt blood at a distance of 30 ft.
- In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.
- In 1707, medical pioneer John Flower of Staffordshire, invented a stopwatch to measure the human pulse.
- The aorta has a diameter similar to a garden hose. Capillaries on the other hand are incredibly thin; it takes 10 of them to equal the diameter of a human hair.
- The human heart beats about 100,000 times each day and about 35 million times in a year. The heart, during an average life span, will beat more than 2.5 billion times.
- The first human-to-human heart transplant was in 1967. In Cape Town, South Africa, Dr. Christian Barnard successfully transplanted the heart of an 18-year-old car accident victim into Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived for 18 days before dying of pneumonia.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
Coin Week
Fibroid Awareness Week
National Karaoke Week
National Volunteer Week
National Pet ID Week
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National Playground Safety Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
Fibroid Awareness Week
National Karaoke Week
National Volunteer Week
National Pet ID Week
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National Playground Safety Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
Preservation Week-Libraries
Sky Awareness Week
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week
Safe Kids Week
Mariachi Week
Sky Awareness Week
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week
Safe Kids Week
Mariachi Week
26-5/4
National Dance
Week
National Dream Hotline
National & Global Youth Service Days
National Pie Championships
Air Quality Awareness Week
Screen-Free Week
National Dream Hotline
National & Global Youth Service Days
National Pie Championships
Air Quality Awareness Week
Screen-Free Week
Today Is
Babe Ruth Day
Bulldogs are
Beautiful Day
Mantanzas Mule
Day: A village named
Matanzas, in Cuba, was bombed on April 27th, 1898. There was only one
casualty....a mule!
Morse Code Day
Eeyore's Birthday
Day: Winnie the Pooh’s friend
National Go
Birding Day
National
Rebuilding Day
Penguin Day
Save The Frogs
Day
Sense of Smell
Day
Tell A Story Day
World Tai Chi
& Qigong Day
World Healing Day
World Veterinary
Day
~Sierra Leone: Independence
Day (1961 from UK)
~South Africa Freedom Day (1994; 1st post Apartheid election)
~South Africa Freedom Day (1994; 1st post Apartheid election)
~Togo: Independence
Day (1960 from France)
Today’s Events through History
Brussel's World Expo opens…1935
Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for
the new World Trade Center in NYC…2006
Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered…1865
David I becomes King of Scots…1124
Expo '67 opens in Montreal…1967
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Casey Kasem, Detroit Mich, radio personality
(American Top 40) is 81
In their 70’s
Judy Carne, Northhampton Engl, comedienne
(Laugh-in, Fair Exchange) is 74
In their 50’s
Sheena Easton, Scottish singer is 54
Remembered
for being born today
Sandy Dennis, American actress [1937-1992]
[Hiram] Ulysses S. Grant, Ohio (R), 18th
president [1822-1895]
Jack Klugman, Phila (Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy,
Goodbye Columbus), [1922-2012]
Walter Lantz, animator (Woody Woodpecker's
creator) [1899-1994]
Samuel Morse, American inventor (telegraph,
Morse code) and painter [1791-1872]
Coretta Scott King, Marion Ala, civil rights
leader [1927-2006]
Today’s Historical Obits
Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer…cancer…1998…at
72
Ken Curtis, actor (Lost, Freckles, Gunsmoke)…natural
causes…1991…at 74
Al Hirt, American trumpeter…liver failure…1999…at
76
Ferdinand Magellan, world traveler…killed by
Filipino natives…1521…at 40ish
Julius Sterling Morton, who started Arbor Day…1902…at
70
Edward R Murrow, newscaster (Person to Person)…cancer…1965…at
57
Zebulon M Pike, US explorer (Pike's Peak)…in
battle…1913…at 34
Answer: Brain Teasers
Dictionary
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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