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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 30/ Day: 206 Today: H 73°…L 57°
Wind: ave: 3mph; Gusts: 16mph Ave. humidity: 77%
* Average Low Average High Record Low Record High
51° 82° 36° (1913) 93°
(1947)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1st expedited salvaging of Titanic wreckage
begins by RMS Titanic, Inc…1987
8th Olympic games closes in Paris…1924
Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries…1954
Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid
(1,686 miles long)…1866
Battle of Killicrankie Jacobite Scottish
Highlanders defeat royal force…1689
Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare"…1940
Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New
Mexico…1861
Congress establishes Dept of Foreign Affairs
(State dept)…1789
Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de
France…1986
News helicopters from Phoenix, collide while
covering a police chase; no survivors…2007
Queen Elizabeth II announces the opening of
the London 2012 Olympics…2012
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Getting ready for the weekend. The clouds came in, the several weather alerts for heavy thunderstorms and/or flash flooding, but alas no moisture here…at least yet. Still plenty of daylight left for some rain. UPDATE: just as I am posting this, a huge storm started dumping lots of rain...and 30 minutes later it is still coming down.Got a call from my former financial advisor and she now has a plan to move my money to her husband’s business. Not sure what I’m going to do. She also said that due to this mess by her former office manager she is selling her house here in Flagstaff. This would mean that my accounts, currently located in Prescott would be moving to North Carolina…and without a house in AZ, not sure they would ever be coming back here again. Guess I’ll talk and find out what is happening. Also our discussion group meets on Saturday evening for our final chapter of the book. Should be interesting. We may come up with some new topics on our own to meet again before January.Since I have an early dinner and our discussion group, no blog posting tomorrow.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Can you decipher this:
mce mce mce
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Dismissals
- Occupational Puns
A Chinese waiter could be disoriented. A solicitor could be distorted. A rabble-rouser could be demobbed. A mathematician could be nonplussed.Ok, then?
- Harper’s Index
- Minimum number of exams a student must take between third and twelfth grade under NCLB: 17
- Percentage change since 1976 in the test score gap between children in America’s richest an poorest deciles: 40
- Amount Florida spent per student on testing in 1996: $4.44
- Last year: $30.59
Picture of the Day: Africa’s Big 5
Lion,
African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Leopard, and Rhinoceros
Unusual Fact of the Day
In the 16th century, gin was referred to as “mother’s ruin” because people thought it could induce an abortion.Joke-of-the-day
A man goes into a pet shop, wanting to buy a bird. He sees a beautiful bird, the loveliest he's ever seen, and asks how much it is. The shop owner replies 'that bird is $1000'.'What?!?' cries the man, '$1000 for a bird? What does it do?’'Well, I'm glad you asked.' says the shop owner, 'you see, that bird can sing every female role in the ring cycle from memory.'The man thinks, ok but I can't afford the bird. He sees a shorter, but still beautiful, bird and asks how much that one is. 'That bird is $2000' replies the shop owner, and the man asks what this bird can do.'Well, he can play any Paganini concerto you request on the violin from memory' the man thinks wow, but I really can't afford that bird.He then sees an ancient, hunched, half-dead, ugly, bald bird croaking in the corner of the cage, and, thinking that this bird couldn't cost very much, enquires.'Oh, that bird is $20000' he is told by the owner.Flabbergasted, the man asks what this bird does. 'Oh, we haven't found out yet' the owner replies, 'but the other two call him 'Maestro''
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
CHOOSING A CROSS-COUNTRY SKI
You can size a cross-country ski by standing with one arm held straight in the air. A ski is the right length for you if it reaches from the floor to the palm of your hand.
Yeah, It Really Happened
Cops in Nebraska thought they had scored a major bust. Last year, during a routine speeding stop, state troopers pulled over Rajesh and Marina Dheri of New Jersey. During the stop one of the troopers asked the Dheris if he could search their vehicle, which they allowed. That was their first mistake, because what they found was a large sum of cash in the trunk.Their story was that they were transporting the money for a friend of theirs, 33-year-old Tara Mishra who is a stripper, I'm sorry, exotic dancer in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Mishra had supposedly saved the money over the last 15 years and was planning to open a nightclub in New Jersey with the Dheris as her partners.Likely story. Every cop worth his salt knows that any cash larger than the amount needed to buy a burger and fries is almost certainly drug money. So they confiscated it.The troopers took the Dheris into custody and later a K-9 unit alerted to trace elements of illegal drugs on the cash.Well, it took over a year, but a federal judge finally ruled that the government failed to show a substantial connection between drugs and the money, and that the Nebraska state police must return the money to Mishra.Now here is the bizarre part. How much money do you think a stripper could make in a night? A hundred dollars? Two? Maybe even three? How much money could she possibly have saved?Apparently Ms. Mishra, who began putting aside her earnings when she started dancing at age 18, had saved up one million dollars, almost exclusively in small bills. The money was packaged in $10,000 bundles tied with hair bands.The best part is the judge ordered the police to reimburse her with interest.
Somewhat Useless Information
- Strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside. The average strawberry has 200 seeds.
- In medieval times, strawberries were served at important functions to bring peace & prosperity.
- Strawberries are a member of the rose family.
- Strawberries are the first fruit to ripen in the spring.
- Madame Tallien, a prominent figure at the court of the Emperor Napoleon, was famous for bathing in the juice of fresh strawberries. She used 22 pounds per basin. Needless to say, she did not bathe daily.
- To symbolize perfection and righteousness, medieval stone masons carved strawberry designs on altars and around the tops of pillars in churches and cathedrals.
Calendar Information
21-27
National Parenting Gifted Children Week
Captive Nations Week
National Independent Retailers Week
National Zoo Keeper Week
World Lumberjack Championships
National Parenting Gifted Children Week
Captive Nations Week
National Independent Retailers Week
National Zoo Keeper Week
World Lumberjack Championships
26-28
Garlic Days
Garlic Days
Today Is
·
Barbie-in-a-blender Day
·
National Dance Day
·
National Day of the Cowboy
·
National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day
·
National Milk Chocolate Day
·
Take Your Houseplant For A Walk Day
·
Walk on
Stilts Day
Today’s Events through History
Billboard magazine starts publishing
bestseller charts…1940
Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks
killed, 500 injured)…1919
Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr & SD destroyed
thousands of acres of crops…1931
Ottawa warriors, and a few French soldiers attack a group of
twenty-two barges; only
two of the barges escape the fighting…1757
Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to
England from Virginia…1586
US regains possession of Guam from Japanese…1944
US troops destroy Ft Apalachicola, a Seminole
fort, to punish Indians for harboring
runaway slaves…1816
Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina…1865
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
Norman Lear, TV writer/producer (All in The
Family) is 91
In their 80’s
Jerry Van Dyke, actor (My Mother the Car,
Coach) is 82
In their 60’s
Peggy Fleming Jenkins, figure skater
(Olym-gold-1968) is 65
Bobbie Gentry, singer/songwriter (Ode to Billy
Joe) is 69
Maureen McGovern, singer (Got To Be a Morning
After) is 64
Betty Thomas, actress (Lucy Baines-Hill Street
Blues) is 65
In their 50’s
Bill Engvall, comedian (Here’s Your
Sign) will be 56
In their 30’s
Alex Rodriguez, shortstop (Mariners, Rangers,
Yankees) is 38
Remembered
for being born today
Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge,
orientalist/museum curator [1857-1934]
Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and
astronomer [Mason-Dixon Line] [1733-1779]
Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager
(Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants) [1906-1991]
Kennan Wynn, actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent
Minded Professor) [1916-1986]
Today’s Historical Obits
Bob Hope [Leslie Townes Hope], English-born entertainer…2003…at 100
James Mason, British actor (Lolita)…heart
attack…1984…at 75
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (1941-79)…
lymphoma…1980…at 60
Billy [William] Wyler, US director (Ben Hur,
Funny Girl)…heart attack…1981…at 79
Answer: Brain
Teasers
Three Blind Mice; [they have no I's].
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
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