Feb 3

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 06/ Day: 34   

Today: H   50°…L 21° Averages: H  43° L 18° Records: H   62°(1976)…L -14°(1922)

Wind: ave:   8mph; Gusts:  10mph  ave. humidity:  53%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

"Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix—1967

11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia) —1972

15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed—1870

16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified—1913

1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US—1966

1st paper money in America issued—1690 

1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9) —1966

-81°F (-63°C), Snag Yukon (North American record) —1947

Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca NY—1997

Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo—1882

Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants—1743

President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act—1973

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

I still keep waking up about 4a…boring for sure…leads to afternoon naps. Can’t seem to break the nap habit, and even tried staying up past midnight to get back in sync. Sure hope this is not part of some getting old-er thing. Turns out our neighborhood is pretty quiet that early, with only a few people heading to work about 5am…then a few more about 5.

 

Uganda story…we passed over the imaginary equator several times during our trip. Each was noted on the road with a monument type marker. At one location, there was also a gift shop, restaurant, and an ever important Western restroom. That means a toilet and urinal instead of a hole in the ground. At the particular stop, there were three funnel like things about 3 meters apart. One was marked N, one S and one E. A teenage kid comes out with a bucket of water. As we gather around the S funnel, he plugs the bottom with his finger and pours some water in it. He adds a thin blade to calm the water until it is still. Then he places a small flower in the middle. He removes his finger from the bottom of the funnel. As the water flows out, the flower and water twirl in a counter-clockwise motion. We moved to the N funnel and the flower and water twirl in a clockwise direction. Finally we move to the E funnel. The flower and water never twirls and just is sucked through the bottom of the funnel with no twirling. Pretty cool. The kid explained a bunch of scientific stuff that sounded like blah, blah, blah to me, but those who are more interested in science enjoyed his presentation.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Hidden Word

Find a hidden word in the sentence

Prestige runs high amongst friends.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today:

• The Big Bopper - Purple People Eater

• Buddy Holly - That'll Be The Day

• Ritchie Valens--Donna
 

Ok, then?

Read This Carefully!!

At a Car Dealership:

"The best way to get back on your feet - miss a car payment."

Picture of the Day: Uganda

Harper’s Index:         

• Estimated number of billionaires worldwide: 1,226

• Number in Top 5 countries

• US: 425
• Russia: 96
• China: 95
• Germany: 55
• India: 48

Unusual Fact of the Day:

The male cicada is the loudest insect in the world. Their sound can reach 120 decibels. By comparison, a jackhammer breaking concrete is 100-120 decibels.

Joke-of-the-day:

An obnoxious drunk stumbles into the front door of a bar and orders a drink, the bartender says, "No way buddy you're too drunk."

A few minutes later the drunk comes in through the bathrooms, again he slurs, "give me a drink", bartender says "No man I told you last time you're too drunk"

Five minutes later the guy comes in through the back door and orders a drink, again the bartender says, "You're too drunk"

The drunk scratches his head and says "Damn I must be... the last two places said the same thing."

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

THE BEEF CARCASS RULE OF ONE-QUARTER

A properly butchered beef carcass is one-quarter steaks, one-quarter ground beef and stew meat, one-quarter roasts, and one-quarter waste.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

 NEW YORK - The New York Police Department said a man was arrested for allegedly throwing an avocado that hit a grocery store worker in the face. Police said Joe Testa, 45, brought the avocados to the Stop & Shop supermarket in Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay neighborhood around 3 p.m. Tuesday and argued with a 24-year-old woman who works at the store, the New York Daily News reported Thursday. Testa allegedly threw one of the fruits at the woman, striking her in the face. She was treated for bruising and released from Lutheran Medical Center. Testa was charged with misdemeanor assault. Police did not say why he brought the avocados to the store.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks.

• Camel milk does not curdle.

• Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

• Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.

• Cat scratch disease, a benign but sometimes painful disease of short duration, is caused by a bacillus. Despite its name, the disease can be transmitted by many kinds of scratches besides those of cats.

• Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.

• Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-7

Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend
Women's Heart Week

3-9
Boy Scout Anniversary Week
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week

Dump Your Significant Jerk Week
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
International Coaching Week
Just Say No to PowerPoint Week
Publicity for Profit Week

Today Is                                                                      

Four Chaplains Memorial Day

Dump Your Significant Jerk Day

Super Bowl XLVII

The Day The Music Died

~Mozambique: Heroes' Day

Today’s Events through History  

Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football—1876

Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339—2007

Britain issues a set of Princess Diana stamps—1998

General Sterling Price reaches the fortified TAOS Pueblo. Cannonade proves unfruitful, so Price retreats to the city of Taos—1847

J Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC's Today Show—1953

Mass execution of population of Cesena Italy—1377

Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912) —1867

Wake Forest University is established—1834

Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released—1945

World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland—1815

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 90’s

Henry Heimlich, doctor/inventor (Heimlich maneuver) is 93

In their 70’s

Blythe Danner, actress (Butterflies are Free) is 70

Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer is 75

Fran Tarkenton, Richmond Va, NFL QB (NY Giants, Minnesota Vikings) is 73

In their 60’s

Morgan Fairchild, actress (Falcon Crest) is 63

Bob Griese, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins, 1971 Player of Year) is 68

In their 50’s

Nathan Lane, actor (One of the Boys, Frankie & Johnnie) is 57

In their 40’s

Vlade Divac, Yugoslavia, NBA center (Charlotte Hornets, LA Lakers) is 45

Remembered for being born today

Victor Buono, SD California, actor (Man from Atlantis, Untouchables) (1938-1982)

Joey Bishop, [Gottlieb], Bronx, talk show host (Joey Bishop Show) (1918-2007)

Charlie "Pretty Boy" Floyd, FBI Most Wanted criminal (1904-1934)

Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man") (1811-1872)

James A Michner, NYC, writer (South Pacific, Hawaii, Space) (1907-1997)

Norman Rockwell, US, artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers) (1894-1978)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Big Bopper (Jiles Perry "J. P." Richardson, Jr.), rocker—plane crash—1959—at 28

Ben Gazzara, American actor— pancreatic cancer—2012—at 81

Buddy Holly, rocker (That'll be the Day)— plane crash—1959—at 22

Belle Starr, US female gangster—murdered —1889—at 40

Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president (1913-21)—stroke—1924—at 67

Richie Valens, rock vocalist (Donna)—plane crash—1959—at 17

John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist—1922—at 83

Answer: Hidden Word

PresTIGE Runs high amongst friends.

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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