11/3

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Flagstaff Almanac:

Week: 45/ Day: 307   

Today: L 22°…H 63°… Ave. humidity: 49%

Wind: ave:   5mph; Gusts:  25mph  

Average Low: 25° Record Low:  8° (1922)

Average High: 55° Record High:  74° (1977)

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

1796 - John Adams elected president of the United States of America

1868 - Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)

1896 - William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president

1908 - William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan

1936 - President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)

1964 - LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres

1992 - Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over President Bush (R)

"Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV)…1956

1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured…1931

1st US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)…1900

Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T…1911

Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe…1954

Rodgers & Hart's musical "Connecticut Yankee," premieres in NYC…1927

Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken by skinheads at TV taping…1988

US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans…1883

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays

 

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

Nice Saturday. Warmer than average but clouded up this afternoon…wonder what’s in store. Weather guy just says wind, but it looks like a little moisture is on the way. Neighborhood kids are very active outside, so something is a comin.

 

So the rest of America has joined AZ with standard time. A good reminder to replace your smoke alarm batteries. While AZ doesn’t change time, we are ‘blessed’ to have most of our cable channels from west coast feeds, so while changing time doesn’t affect most cable viewers in the US, it affects us. All our regular cable shows are going to be one hour different. It’s takes a few weeks to get used to the new schedule. Of course many of the cable channels automatically change their lineup for everyone when the time changes twice a year, so we all have to suffer a little.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

What are these? "Cherries, come here!" "Raspberries, come here!" "Apples, come here!" "Pineapples, come here!"

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Lulu - To Sir With Love

• Peter Pan 1956 Mary Martin

• "F Troop" Bloopers

• Roseanne Season 1 Highlights

Very Strange Laws…CA

• California prison workers will no longer be allowed to have sex with inmates

• Film producers must have permission from a pediatrician before filming a child under the age of one month

• It’s unlawful to let a dog pursue a bear or bobcat at any time.

• In San Jose and Sunnyvale it is illegal for grocery storesto provide plastic bags.

• You may only throw a frisbee at the beach in Los Angeles County, CA with the lifeguard’s permission.

• Animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship.

• Bathhouses are against the law.

• It is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from amoving vehicle, unless the target is a whale.

• Women may not drive in a house coat.

• No vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour.

• Arcadia: Peacocks have the right of way to cross any street, including driveways.

• Baldwin Park: Nobody is allowed to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool.

• Belvedere: City Council order reads: “No dog shall be in a public place without its master on a leash.

• Blythe: You are not permitted to wear cowboy boots unless you already own at least two cows.

• Carmel: A man can’t go outside while wearing a jacket and pants that do not match. Ice cream may not be eaten while standing on the sidewalk. (Repealed when Clint Eastwood was mayor) Women may not wear high heels while in the city limits.

OK Then…

 

Harper’s Index 

Year by which the majority of Americans are expected to chose cremation over burial: 2017

Unusual Fact of the Day

Harvestmen, or Daddy longlegs, aren't actually spiders: they belong to a different order of arachnids.

Joke-of-the-day

A guy was walking beside a pond when a frog jumped out and told him that she was really a beautiful princess and if he were to kiss her, she would make him VERY happy! He picked up the frog and put it into his pocket.

A few minutes later, the frog poked her head out and said, "Didn't you hear me?! I'm a beautiful princess and if you kiss me I will stay with you and do ANYTHING you want!"

The guy took the frog out and said, "Look, I understand what you are saying, but I am a computer programmer and right now I don't have time for a girlfriend,........but a talking FROG is REALLY, REALLY COOL!"  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

THE EFFECT OF ALTITUDE ON WORK CAPACITY

For every 1000 foot increase in altitude, your work capacity drops by three percent.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

CALGARY, Alberta - Nitrogen fertilizer remains in soil for decades and leaks into groundwater as nitrates much longer than previously thought, Canadian and French scientists say. Researchers at the University of Calgary in Canada and the Universite Pierre et Marie Currie in Paris said their research showed that 30 years after synthetic nitrogen fertilizer had been applied to crops in 1982, about 15 per cent of the fertilizer was still in soil organic matter. In those three decades around 10 per cent of the fertilizer seeped through the soil towards the groundwater and would do so for at least for at least another 50 years, they said. Losses of nitrogen from fertilizer towards the groundwater occur at low rates but over very long time spans, Calgary geochemistry Professor Bernhard Mayer said. The findings suggest it could take longer than previously thought to reduce nitrate contamination in groundwater in aquifers supplying drinking water in North America and elsewhere, he said. "There's a lot of fertilizer nitrogen that has accumulated in agricultural soils over the last few decades which will continue to leak as nitrate towards groundwater," he said.  

• Somewhat Useless Information   

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The 2011 tsunami in Japan created a 70-mile-long island of debris, which is floating out into the Pacific Ocean. The debris is made up of houses, plastics, bodies, cars, and radioactive waste. Experts estimate that it will reach Hawaii in two years and the U.S. West Coast a year later.

• Pollution in China alters the weather in the United States. It takes just five days for the jet stream to carry heavy air pollution from China to the U.S. Once in the atmosphere over the U.S., the pollution stops clouds from producing rain and snow--i.e., more pollution equals less precipitation.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-3: Sherlock Holmes Weekend
1-7: National Fig Week / National Patient Accessibility Week / World Communication Week
3-9:  Health Information and Technology Week / International Fraud Awareness Week / National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week / National Nurse Practioner's Week / National Radiologic Technology Week / Give Wildlife A Brake! Week / Intimate Apparel Week

Today Is                                                                      

·        Cliché Day

·        Jellyfish Day

·        National Men Make Dinner Day

·        Sandwich Day

·        Zero Tasking Day

·        Culture Day (Japan)

·        Dominica (Dominican Republic): National Day (1978 from UK)

·        Micronesia: Independence Day (1986 from US-administraion)

·        Panama: Independence Day (1903 from Columbia)

Today’s Events through History  

1796 - John Adams elected president of the United States of America

1868 - Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)

1896 - William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president

1908 - William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan

1936 - President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)

1964 - LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres

1992 - Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over President Bush (R)

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1st broadcast of "Diff'rent strokes" on NBC TV…1978

1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)…1953

1st opium war - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks…1839

English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader…1534

Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault)…1975

Washington orders Continental Army disbanded…1783

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Ken Berry, actor (F Troop, Mayberry RFD, Mama's Family) is 80

Lulu (Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie), Glasgow, singer/actress (To Sir With Love) is 65

Larry Holmes, heavyweight boxing champ (1978-85) is 64

Roseanne, [Barr Arnold], Salt Lake City, comedienne/TV star (Roseanne) is 61

Dennis Miller, comedian/TV host (SNL, Dennis Miller Show) is 60

Dolph Lundgren, Stockholm, actor (Rocky IV, The Expendables 2) is 56

Elizabeth A. Smart, American abductee and activist is 26

Remembered for being born today

Charles Bronson, actor (Magnificent Seven, Death Wish, Dirty Dozen) [1921-2003]

D. James Kennedy, American theologian [1930- 2007]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Bob Kane, comic artist and Batman co-creator…1998…@83

Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan)…cancer…1990…@76

Annie Oakley, US sharp shooting star…anemia…1926…@66

Kintpuash, "Captain Jack", chief of Modoc…hanged…1873…@37ish

Brain Teasers

Forbidden Fruits or Four Bidden Fruits

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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