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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 25/ Day: 172 Today: H 79°…L 44°
Wind: ave: 21mph; Gusts: 36 mph Ave. humidity: 16%
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Red
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Record low
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43°
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80°
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28° (1975)
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93° (1936)
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Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's
Columbian Exposition)…1893
33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's
planned to be phased out …1948
7.7 Earthquake with 100s of aftershocks hits
Iran; about 50,000 die…1990
Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen
Victoria…1887
E W Scripps founded United Press…1907
Great fire in Moscow…1547
Guam becomes a territory of US…1898
Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded…1749
Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini)
succeeds John XXIII…1963
Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren
resigns…1968
US Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th
to ratify…1788
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
There were at least 4 small wildfires in the Flagstaff area today…all quickly contained. There is still a fire at Grand Canyon and a really big one near Prescott. It is very dry with no moisture in the near future. We are used to this but it sure gets old really fast. The beautiful blue sky sure is nice…not a cloud to be seen.My brother and his wife are in Merida and her sister, dad, and two kids just arrived from Chicago for a visit. They are posting some great pictures. Great weather down there, beautiful pool. Great way to spend the summer break.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
What does this Rebus represent?
Cockroach Ant Spider
Rabbit
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm
Half the people you know are below average.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
Portion of its annual budget that the state of Texas gives back in tax incentives to corportations: 1/2
Picture of the Day: Iran
Unusual Fact of the Day
Before the Stooges took off, Moe worked as a licensed realtor in the late 1920s.Joke-of-the-day
Government Philosophy: If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is.
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
LAUNCHING FIREWORKS
When you're launching fireworks, make sure the audience stands five steps back for every ounce of propellant in the missile.
Yeah, It Really Happened
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish woman who tried to get out a prison sentence by faking terminal cancer will serve an additional two months, authorities said. The Court of Appeals in southern Sweden said the 46-year-old woman had been sentenced to prison for aggravated fraud and produced a medical certificate saying she was dying of cancer in an attempt to get out of the sentence, The Local.se and the Swedish news agency TT reported Monday. The certificate was accepted by the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, but the ruse was discovered by the Social Insurance Agency. Doctors said the certificate was not very convincing. "You don't write that someone has three- to six months to live and you don't use the words 'sick with cancer,'" a doctor told the Metro newspaper. The woman told the court she made the fake certificate because she was worried about prison life. "I've never been to prison before and I didn't know what I had in store for me there," the woman said. The court added two months to the woman's sentence for the forgery charge.
Somewhat Useless Information
- What is the difference between "e.g." and "i.e."?
- The abbreviation e.g. stands for the Latin exempli gratia, or "for the sake of example." It means exactly that; a series of examples. The abbreviation i.e. stands for id est, or "that is," and explains the subject you have mentioned.
- What is the difference between et al and et cetera?
- The Latin phrase et al, short for et alia (and other things) and et alii (and other people), is more specific than et cetera (and the rest). Only et al can refer to people.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
16-22
Meet A Mate Week
Old Time Fiddlers Week
Universal Father's Week
Old Time Fiddlers Week
Universal Father's Week
Today Is
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Atheists Solidarity Day
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Baby Boomers
Recognition Day
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Cuckoo
Warning Day if you hear a cuckoo on June 21st you will have a wet summer
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Go Skateboarding Day
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National Daylight Appreciation Day
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National Flip Flop Day
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Summer Solstice (Summer)
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Take Your Dog To Work Day
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Ugliest Dog Day
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World Handshake Day
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World Humanist Day
^^
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Greenland:
National Day (1983; from Denmark)
Today’s Events through History
1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America
established, Jamestown…1607
3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner
Andrew Goodman & James E
Chaney-disappeared after release from a
Mississippi jail…1964
CHATOT Tribe have a mission established for them today west of the
Apalachicola River…1674
F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost
immediately)…1879
Montreal, New France (today primarily Quebec),
a black slave known by the
French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been
convicted of the
arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged
by the French
authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and
the amputation
of a hand…1734
Non-hostile Indians along the lower Rogue
River, and at Fort Orford, in southwestern
Oregon, are put on a boat to be
moved to a new reservation between the Pacific
Ocean, and the Wallamet River: Grande
Ronde Reservation…1856
Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially
named Nix & Hydra…2006
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Bernie Kopell, NYC, actor (Love Boat, Get
Smart, That Girl) is 80
Lalo [Boris] Schifrin, Buenos Aires Argentina,
composer is 81
In their 60’s
Meredith Baxter-Birney, actress (Family Ties,
Bridget Loves Bernie) is 66
Michael Gross, Chicago Ill, actor (Family
Ties, FBI murders) is 66
In their 30’s
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, is 31
Remembered
for being born today
Daniel Carter Beard, US, organized 1st Boy
Scout troop [1850-1941]
Judy Holliday, comedienne/actress (Born
Yesterday, Adam's Rib) [1921-1965]
Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister [1639-1723]
Jane Russell, full-figured actress (Outlaw)
[1921-2011]
Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer (Le
Mur, Nobel 1964; declined) [1905-1980]
Maureen Stapleton, actress (Airport, Coccoon,
Plaza Suite) [1925-2006]
Today’s Historical Obits
John Lee Hooker, Blues musician…2001…at 83
Carroll O'Connor, actor (Archie Bunker)…heart
attack…2001…at 76
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general
(took Alamo)…1876…at 82
Achmed Sukarno, 1st president of Indonesia
(1945-67)…1970…at 68
Leon Uris, writer (Exodus)…renal
failure…2003…at 78
Answer: Brain
Teasers
Bugs Bunny
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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