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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 32/ Day: 219
Today: H 62°…L 57°
Wind:
ave: 1mph; Gusts: 6mph Ave.
humidity: 60%
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2,
Guadalcanal, Solomon Is…1942
1st computer chess tournament…1970
1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan…1994
Barry Bonds (SFGiants) breaks baseball great
Hank Aaron's record by hitting his
756th home run…2007
Congress creates Dept of War & Lighthouse
Service…1789
Desert Shield begins - US deploys troops to
Saudi Arabia…1990
Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee
Indians…1760
George Washington creates Order of Purple
Heart…1782
Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st, First Lady to
give birth (Patrick—lives 3 days)
since Mrs Cleveland…1963
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates
Theodore Roosevelt for pres…1912
Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T…1983
US issues 1st Lincoln penny…1909
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Today started out with a very unusual overcast day that lasted all day…never did see the sun. There were several showers throughout the day. A change I accepted with grace and style.The financial guy arrived right in the middle of one of the storms. We had a nice chat for about 45 minutes. He got no new information from me, I signed nothing. I told him I was searching for a new advisor and company that kept all my records in a central clearing house rather than just with the broker. He told me that all companies that have independent brokers are doing the same thing. I told him I’d check that out and give him a call when and if I was ready to stay with him. A nice guy so I’ll see what I find out.Obama came and spoke at a Phoenix High School. A friend from the Rez has a son who is a senior at that high school. The boy was excited to be seeing the Prez. We had ‘local’ coverage of this visit and his speech. Thankfully, our Governor seems to have been on good behavior. While he is the President, his speeches seem to be so full of change and then it takes years for any of the change to happen. This is certainly a different time that JFK or LBJ and the office of the President in the US is not really seen as the Commander and Chief or the leader of the free world. Back in the day, the President would propose something and within a few months it would happen. LBJ is famous for bringing together both sides with a bottle of bourbon and sit in the room until the bottle was empty and a deal was struck. Obama is more of a ‘let all sides talk and say what they want’ but doesn’t seem to have the power or strategy to make a plan happen. Yesterday Cantor made a speech about how the government is nothing but spend, spend, spend and the deficit was rising. Neither the Dems nor the White House called him on that untruth. People, especially politicians, seem to be say whatever they want about just about anything and never be called out on it. Ignoring these far out ‘truths’ hasn’t worked in this administration…it is time for change.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
The word candy can be spelled with just 2 letters. Can you guess which ones?
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Tongue
Twisters
F
Fat frogs flying past fast.
^^
A fat thrush flies through thick fog.
^^
Flash message!
^^
Flee from fog to fight flu fast!
^^
Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.
^^
Freshly fried flying fish, freshly fried flesh.
^^
Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.
Ever wonder where the name came from?
Fat frogs flying past fast.
^^
A fat thrush flies through thick fog.
^^
Flash message!
^^
Flee from fog to fight flu fast!
^^
Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.
^^
Freshly fried flying fish, freshly fried flesh.
^^
Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.
Ever wonder where the name came from?
Sony
Somewhat surprisingly Sony is actually younger than its Korean arch-rival, appearing in 1946 as Tokyo Tshushin Kokyo (aka Totsuko) Its first product was a rice cooker. The Sony brand - which is a conflation of Sonus, the Latin word for sound and Sonny (as in ‘young boy’) - first appeared in 1955. Totsuko became Sony Corporation three years later.Early successes were the TR-55 transistor radio, TV5-303 portable TV and, of course, the TPS-L2 Walkman. Sony’s had something of a chequered past: it's enjoyed notable successes with CD, DVD and the PS3; but it’s just as famous for its flops - MiniDisc, DAT and Betamax. It also likes to provoke the ire of its customers - firstly with 2005’s root-kit disaster and then a year later with 2006’s exploding laptop battery epidemic, which saw 8 million Sony-made Li-Ion batteries being recalled.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
- Percentage of US college graduates who are women: 51.1
- Of Fortune 500 CEO’s who are women: 4.2
Songs with Double Meanings:
- Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent
- Double Lyric of song: "She gives me cat scratch fever" (1) A play on words to cat scratch fever disease, a disease transmitted by cat scratches and bites, or exposure to cat saliva... and .... "I make the pussy purr with the stroke of my hand" (1) Petting a cat; (2) Main/real meaning to both lyrics: A guy sexually in love with all the females that he meets.
- Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond
- Key Double Lyric of song: "Cracklin' Rose, you're a store bought woman" (1) A prostitute named "Rosie"; (2) Main/real meaning: Getting drunk on cheap wine.
Unusual Fact of the Day
Horseradish is a member of the mustard family and can count cauliflower, kale and brussels sprouts among its cousins.Joke-of-the-day
"Doctor, Doctor, You've got to help me - I just can't stop my hands shaking!"
"Do you drink a lot?" "Not really - I spill most of it!"
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
KEEPING AND DELETING PHOTOS
The average photographer should (and should expect to) delete about 85 percent of the photos you shoot. If you want three good shots, you should take 20- to 25 pictures.
Yeah, It Really Happened
A 15 million-year-old, 1,000-pound whale skull was found on the Potomac River shore of Virginia's Stratford Hall Plantation -- the birthplace of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee (born in 1807, which suddenly seems like not such a long time ago).The skull is from a baleen whale -- a toothless filter-feeder, according to a Calvert Marine Museum press release. At six feet long, it's one of the largest whale skulls ever collected in the area.The rest of the skeleton is still buried in the cliffs. In its press release, the museum said the whale "would have been 25 or more feet long.""It would have been similar in size to a modern day minke whale," Nance told The Huffington Post. (Minke whales are about 30 feet long.)Nance told The Washington Post that the species can't be identified conclusively until the whole whale skeleton has been examined, which could happen within the next couple of weeks.
Somewhat Useless Information
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
- Oddly, no term existed for "homosexuality" in ancient Greece - there were only a variety of expressions referring to specific homosexual roles. Experts find this baffling, as the old Greek culture regarded male/male love in the highest regard. According to several linguists, the word "homosexual" was not coined until 1869 by the Hungarian physician Karoly Maria Benkert.
Calendar Information
1-7
National Farmers'
Market Week
Old Fiddler's Week
Rock for Life Week
Assistance Dog Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Resurrect Romance Week
Old Fiddler's Week
Rock for Life Week
Assistance Dog Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Resurrect Romance Week
Exercise With
Your Child Week
National Fraud Awareness Week
(This is sponsored by the FCC and has to do with phone & mail fraud.)
Single Working Women's Week (Week always has the 4th in it)
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
Intimate Apparel Week
National Bargain Hunting Week
Psychic Week
National Fraud Awareness Week
(This is sponsored by the FCC and has to do with phone & mail fraud.)
Single Working Women's Week (Week always has the 4th in it)
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
Intimate Apparel Week
National Bargain Hunting Week
Psychic Week
Sturgis Rally
Today Is
·
Lighthouse Day
·
Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day
·
Professional Speakers Day
·
Purple Heart Day
·
Sisters'
Day
^^^
·
Cote
D'Ivoire [Ivory Coast]: INdependence Day (1960 from France)
Today’s Events through History
Apache or Navajos attack
the ancient Zuni Pueblo
of Hawikuh. They burn the church,
and kill the resident missionary…1670
Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon
following the death of Alexander
the Great…322BC
Heavy rain forces 20,000 people to flee their
homes in Manila, Phillipines…2012
Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford
Harbor, South Wales…1485
Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes
into circulation. It replaces the
"sheaves of wheat" design…1959
Today’s Birthdays
David Duchovny, actor (Fox Mulder-X Files)
is 53
Stan Freberg, csatirist/ad executive/cartoon
voice (Bertie) is 87
John Glover, actor (52 Pick-Up, Something
Special) is 69
Garrison Keillor, PBS radio personality
(Prairie Home Companion) is 71
Charlize Theron, South African actress (The
Cider House Rules, Monster) is 38
Remembered
for being born today
Ralph Bunche, founder/diplomat (UN) (Nobel
1950) [1903-1971]
John Hogan, chemist (discovered methods of
producing polypropylene) [1919-2012]
Louis Leakey, Kenya, anthropologist (1964
Richard Hooper Medal) [1903-1972]
Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of
geography [1779-1859]
Mata Hari, [Margaretha G Zelle],
dancer/courtesan/spy (WW I) [1876-1917]
Today’s Historical Obits
Red Adair, American oil field firefighter…2004…at
89
Oliver Hardy, comedian of Laurel & Hardy…strokes…1957…at
65
Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor…lung
cancer…2005…at 67
Esther Phillips, US singer (What a Difference
a Day Makes)…liver failure…1984…at 48
Brain
Teasers
c and y
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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