5-26-13

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Almanac: Flagstaff:  Week: 22/ Day: 146   Today: H 71°…L 41°

Wind: ave:   11mph; Gusts:  26mph  Ave. humidity:  31%

*Averages: H  71° L 37° Records: H 84°(1951)…L 18°(1980)

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City…1978

Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American 

     colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut…1647

American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Philadelphia…1941

Archaeological Institute of America forms…1906

Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts…1869

British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara…1798

Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hué South-Vietnam…1966

Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration…1924

Lenin suffers a stroke…1922

Lewis & Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains…1805

Nixon & Brezhnev signs SALT accord…1972

Organization of African Unity forms…1963

Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South…1861

President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote…1868

Territory of Montana formed…1864

US Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for 

     helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing…2004

US drop fire bombs on Tokyo…1945

US Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, 

    is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York…1998

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

Another windy day in good ol’ Flagstaff. Dry conditions continue. Fire Danger: Exteme. Typical spring weather for sure.

 

Tonight our Great Decisions group meets to discuss ‘China in Africa’. Should be a good discussion as tonight’s leader spends one semester in Libya each year teaching some advanced nursing classes through a connection at our local University. We were scheduled to meet while I was in Canada, but they kindly moved the discussion until tonight. My visits to Africa have found China’s influence in roads and dams in every country. Turns out it a whole lot more. While Western influence was for many years to colonize; then to support dictators, China has been working with new countries to help China with materials and to make friends that are in the UN.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

I contain faces of different colors for fun they get mixed with one another It's easy for them to hang outside their 'race' but it's quite tricky to put them back in their place With time and patience it can be done but to mix them up again is way more fun.

*****

Hint

I have six sides

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Miles Davis – Summertime
• Interview with James Arness
• Fleetwood Mac (Stevie Nicks) - "DREAMS"

Hmmmm

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Ok, then?

Harper’s Index    

 Amount that Crescent City, CA has budgeted for tsunami-defese construction: $34,000,000

Picture of the Day: Recent Canadian Cruise

Unusual Fact of the Day

On March 1^st, 1912, Captain Albert Berry became the first person to parachute from an airplane...and walk away.

Joke-of-the-dayQ: If a one L-ama is a Tibet monk (Lama) And a two L-ama is a South American pack animal? Llama? What is a three L-ama? A: A really big fire.  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

GETTING A CONSULTING JOB

 Personal contacts are best for getting consulting jobs. Twenty leads should produce one assignment.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

If there is one thing you want to do when taking hallucinogenic mushrooms it is make sure you are in a safe environment. Hiking in the mountains of Colorado is not a safe environment...especially if you are naked.

Oh, she didn't start out that way. When 21-year-old college student Taylor Powers started out on her adventure she was fully clothed, but somewhere in between starting her hike with two classmates and the 911 call to the Boulder County Sheriff's Office, stripping down to nothing seemed like a good idea.

The call that a naked female hiker was 'high on mushrooms and in distress' brought out no less than 35 deputies and assorted rescue personnel. When they found her she was being restrained by her two male companions.

It is unclear whether 'restrained' is a euphemism.

Rescuers had to handcuff the unruly Powers, who struggled as she was placed in a rescue basket. She was cited for unlawful consumption of a controlled substance.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

If you think about it, Earth can be seen as a living, breathing organism: it regulates temperature, burns energy, continually renews its skin, and experiences changes to its face as it ages with time. But the world we know is a precariously balanced system. In fact, the world we know wouldn't exist at all except for a number of very specific conditions; such as...

Earth's greatest source of heat, besides the sun, is its interior, which conducts a hundred billion billion calories of energy to the surface each year - or 1.5 microcalories per .155 square inch of the earth's surface each second. So much energy radiates from inside the Earth that it could satisfy all human energy needs three times over.  

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

·        International Coaching Week
·        Mudbug Madness Week
·        National Backyard Games Week
·        Old-Time Player Piano Weekend
·        Recreational Water Illness and Injury Prevention Week
·        Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories
·        World Trade Week

Today Is                                                                      

·        Grey Days—weather term for grey clouds with no precipitation

·        Shavout: Jewish: the festival of the giving of the Torah

·        Trinity Sunday: Christian: celebrates doctrine of the Trinity, the three Persons of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

·        Australia: Sorry Day (to remember and commemorate the mistreatment of the continent's indigenous population)

·        Georgia: Independence Day (1918 from Soviet Russia)

·         Guyana (formerly British Guiana): 1966 declares independence from UK

Today’s Events through History  

"Lady of Cofitachequi" has been taken with the de Soto expedition, against her will. 

     With a large quantity of the pearls that de Soto's men took from her village, 

     she escapes…1540

Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)…1913

Battle of Ackia (La), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat French…1736

Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds [28.9 min.] in Philadelphia…1984

Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in 

     Strasbourg for the next three years. 1647 - Massachusetts disallows priest 

     access to colony…1538

Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution…1930

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 60’s

Pam Grier, actress (Big Bird Cage, Tough Enough) is 64

Stevie Nicks, rocker and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac, Bella Donna) is 65

Philip Michael Thomas, Columbus Ohio, actor (Miami Vice) is 64

In their 50’s

Bob Goldthwait, comedian (Police Academy) is 51

In their 40’s

Lenny Kravitz, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actor is 49

Remembered for being born today

Ben Alexander, NV, actor (Dragnet, Outer Gate, Mr Doodles Kicks Off) (1911-1969)

James Arness, Minneapolis MN, actor (Matt Dillon-Gunsmoke, Thing) (1923-2011)

Robert W. Chambers, American artist (1865-1933)

Peter Cushing, England, actor (Dracula, Star Wars, Dr Who) (1913-1994)

Miles Davis, jazz musician, trumpeter and composer (1926-1991)

Archie Duncan, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Sherlock Holmes) (1914-1979)

Peggy Lee, American singer (1920-2002)

Robert Morley, England, actor (High Road to China, African Queen) (1908-1992)

John Wayne [Marion Mitchell Morrison], actor (Green Berets, True Grit) (1907-1979)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Eddie Albert, actor (Green Acres)…2005…at 99

Edsel Ford, owner (Ford Motor Company)… undulant fever…1943…at 49

Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television personality…2010…at 97

Charles H Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic)… pneumonia…1939…at 73

Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States…1907…at 59

Sydney Pollack, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter…stomach cancer…2008…at 73

Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist…depression…1904…at 46

Answer: Brain Teasers

A Rubik's cube

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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