10/14/13

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Flagstaff Almanac:

Week: 42/ Day: 287   

Today: L 31°…H 57°… Ave. humidity: 60%

Wind: ave:   8mph; Gusts:  32mph  

Average Low: 32° Record Low:  18° (1975)

Average High: 64° Record High:  78° (1991)

Quote of the Day

 

Today’s Historical Highlights

100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy…1979

1st black to obtain a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter…1834

1st live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)…1968

1st recorded Ministry of Education formed in Poland…1773

1st Thom McAn shoe store opens, on Third Avenue NYC…1922

20 people are gunned down in a mosque in Dogo Dawa, Nigeria…2012

Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror and Nornan-French army defeat English…1066

Bob Marley's last concert…1980

Cheyenne & Arapaho sign "peaces treaty" then chased out Colorado…1865

Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)…1947

Ethel Merman’s debuts on Broadway in "Girl Crazy"…1930

George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film…1884

Martin Luther King Jr wins Nobel Peace Prize…1964

Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin & Shimon Peres…1994

Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman…1976

Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK…1960

Presidential nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court…1980

President Reagan proclaims war against drugs…1982

Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland…1322

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

 

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

Little too windy outside today.  Not a lot to do, so just enjoyed Sunday. Strange phone call this afternoon set me off. My pharmacy called to say my scripts would not be ready until Monday after 2p. Since they told me yesterday they hadn’t received any scripts, I questioned the poor tech mercilessly. How could the scripts they didn’t have yesterday suddenly appear today? She said they were ‘in the system since Friday and doesn’t know why they didn’t show up’. How could they not have a common script? Talked to the new male pharmacist and he was of very little help. He said something about he was just trying to keep the ship on course and understood my frustration. This is not going to end well for them.

 

One of my Sunday shows that keeps me up to date is Fareed on CNN. It gets preempted when there is breaking news. Today the breaking news was an hour of ‘the house and the senate have not reached an agreement.’ Hate to tell you folks at CNN, but that is far from ‘breaking news’. Fareed would have been a much better choice for them.

 

So it’s Columbus Day. It seems to be another piece of proof that those with power win. Ol Chris found a land full of many cultures. He was not the first, just the loudest. He didn’t even know where he was. I had to laugh the other day when an Indian comic from Mumbai, India was blaming Ol Chris for making all of his people have to reidentify themselves when they came to the US as many could no longer identify themselves as Indian, without having to add ‘from India’.

Broncos win; Cards lose…not news…just facts.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

Below are 3 pairs of words. Find the words that fit in the middle of each pair of words to create two new words, one front-ended and one back-ended.
Example: EVER - ______ - HORN  Answer: EVER - GREEN - HORN

1. STEP - __________ - PROOF 2. FIRE - __________ - BOAT 3. PICK - __________ - KNIFE

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• 1963 - Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland, Ethel Merman

• EVERLY BROTHERS - Wake up little Susie

• Usher – Climax

• FREDDY FENDER "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights"

Hmmmm…Fearsome Phobias

If you have an irrational fear of... Forests (or wood)
You're suffering from... Hylephobia Greek hyle ‘materialism’

If you have an irrational fear of... France (or the French)
You're suffering from... Francophobia medieval Latin Francus

OK Then…

Harper’s Index 

• Number of Americans who died in motor vehicle accidents in 2010: 33,687

• Who died by suicide: 38,364

Amazing Facts About The Human Body

Stomach: The stomach’s digestive acids are strong enough to dissolve zinc. Fortunately for us, the cells in the stomach lining renew so quickly that the acids don’t have time to dissolve it.

Unusual Fact of the Day

In 1976, the Chicago White Sox were nearly laughed off the field when they wore Bermuda shorts to the game.

Joke-of-the-day

$chool i$ really great. I am making lot$ of friend$ and $tudying very hard. With all my $tuff, I $imply can`t think of anything I need. $o if you would like, you can ju$t $end me a card, a$ I would love to hear from you.

Love,

Your $on

The Reply:

Dear Son,

I kNOw that astroNOmy, ecoNOmics, and oceaNOgraphy are eNOugh to keep even an hoNOr student busy. Do NOt forget that the pursuit of kNOwledge is a NOble task, and you can never study eNOugh.

Love,

Dad  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

GETTING ENOUGH SLEEP

An hour's nap in the middle of the day equals three hours of sleep at night.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

COLUMBUS, Ga. The headmaster of a school in Georgia says he plans to cancel classes because of great weather.

Len McWilliams of Calvary Christian School in Columbus says he's calling off classes Friday because of a commitment he made to find a positive reason to cancel classes before he retires at the end of the year.

McWilliams told the Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus he's had to cancel school because of bad weather for years, and thought he should eventually cancel classes because the weather was just too nice for students and staff to be cooped up all day.

The forecast for the Columbus area calls for sunny skies and a temperature of more than 80 degrees.

Somewhat Useless Information   

•  The hottest place on earth is in Dallol, Ethiopia, which is a sizzling 94 degrees in the shade on a typical day!

• A lightning bolt is 4 times hotter than the sun.

• Once in England, because of a water spout, it rained frogs!

• Roy Sullivan, a U.S. park ranger, was struck by lightning seven times during his life and lived to tell about each of those strikes!

• Lightning strikes 1,000 times per second on the planet earth.

• Windmills always turn counter-clockwise, unless they’re in Ireland.

• Cows sometimes sit down in a field when they know it’s going to rain. (that way, they are saving a dry spot to sit for themselves).

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

10-16

Take Your Medicine Americans Week
13-19

Bullying Bystanders Unite Week
Earth Science Week
Freedom From Bullies Week
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
National Chestnut Week 
National Food Bank Week
Teen Read Week
YWCA Week Without Violence

Today Is                                                                      

·        Be Bald and Be Free Day

·        Columbus Day / National Day of Mourning

·        National Kick Butt Day

·        Native American Day

·        Spider-Man Day

Today’s Events through History  

Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)…1925

Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1…1957

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Elie Wiesel (against violence/racism)…1986

University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan…1882

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Roger Moore, actor (Alaskans, Maverick, Saint, 007) is 86

Ralph Lauren, Bronx, fashion designer (Chaps, Polo Ralph Lauren) is 74

Harry Anderson, actor (Judge Harry Stone-Night Court) is 61

Greg Evigan, actor (BJ-BJ & the Bear, Melrose Place) is 60

Jon Seda, actor (Homicide: Life on the Street) is 43

Usher Raymond IV , singer and actor is 35

Remembered for being born today

William Penn, English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania [1644-1718]

e. e. cummings, Cambridge Massachusetts, poet (Tulips & Chimneys) [1894-1962]

Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th Pres /Gen (WWII) [1890-1969]

Éamon de Valera, NY, Irish politician and patriot, President of Ireland [1882-1975]

Lillian Gish, silent film/stage actress (Birth of a Nation) [1893-1993]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws)…1930…@93

Paul Fix, actor (Rifleman: Micha)…1983…@82

Harold Robbins, salacious novelist…1997…@81

Bing Crosby, US singer/actor (Going My Way)…heart attack…1977…@74

Leonard Bernstein, composer…heart attack…1990…@72

[Francis XA] Keenan Wynn, US actor (Dr Strangelove)…cancer…1986…@70

Freddy Fender, musician…2006…cancer…@69  

Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal…

     in battle…1758…@62  

Victorio, Apache chief…killed by Mexican army…1880…@55ish

Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (WW II-Africa)…suicide…1944…@52

Errol Flynn, Australian-born US actor (Captain Blood)…cirrhosis…1959…@50

Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland…killed…1318…@38

Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia…suspicious death…1711…@3

Brain Teasers

1. STEP - CHILD - PROOF 2. FIRE - HOUSE - BOAT 3. PICK - POCKET - KNIFE

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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