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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 16/ Day: 108 Today: H 41°…L 28°
Wind: ave: 10mph; Gusts: 30mph Ave. humidity: 49%
*Averages: H 59 °
L 29° Records: H 77°(1946)…L 15°(2009)
Quote of the Day
Today’s Historical Highlights
1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon
& Schuster)…1924
8.25 earthquake shakes SF CA kills nearly
4,000 & destroys 75% of city…1906
Colonel Nasser seizes power & becomes PM
of Egypt…1954
Cornerstone of the current St. Peter's
Basilica is laid…1506
Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting
to identify criminals…1902
Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon
(2:22:43)…1984
Paul Revere & William Dawes ride from
Charleston to Lexington warning
the "British are coming!"…1775
Pulitzer Prize awarded to Alice Walker for
"The Color Purple"…1983
Republic of Ireland withdraws from British
Commonwealth…1949
Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on Indians
citizen rights begins…1879
US federal court rule poet Ezra Pound is to be
released from an insane asylum…1958
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts
Busy day for me. Started out with a blood draw at 10a…after a 14 hour fast…and time again to pee in the cup. Then off to do some shopping. Ended with a great lunch with one of my former bosses. He is recovering from an operation and is looking forward to some radiation. Things sound good for him, but scary for sure. He says the tumor was in his leg and was removed, but the radiation is more of a precaution. Whatever, he is in good spirits. We caught up on his trips, my trips, and his work with the Navajo Nation Education. Turns out BIE is centralizing the Navajo BIE to Window Rock with one Superintendent and numerous Asst. Superintendents for the various former ‘agencies’…all in Window Rock. I had heard this from another former boss but I trust this guy a lot more. Sounds like all the current ELO’s will be retiring or moving out of BIE. Right now they are offering a sweet deal buyout and will soon be offering local school employees some kind of buyout. That will be good for many who have been working at Tuba. For a long time BIA/BIE hasn’t had any buyouts, but in the long run, it is a good deal for all. Schools save money from high salaries and employees get to retire with a nice little bonus. Sometimes that ‘encourages’ people to take that step into retirement.Trying to catch up on the latest news…Boston, Ricin, gun control. So much happening, so fast. I guess I’m a news junkie. Some great stories of strangers helping so many in Boston. Two EMT’s were talking about how they were helping a little girl with a piece of fence sticking out of her leg. The cops told them to move away because there was a suspicious package a few feet away. They refused to leave until they could move the patient. Amazing. These 1st responders have been so well trained, and are so dedicated to their profession.Disappointed and mad about the Senate’s inability to get a background check through the Senate. This idea of ‘super majority’ has to stop. A simple majority has kept this country running for two and a half centuries. Now it’s the lobbyists who are running this country…with their threats of fighting anyone’s re-election campaign that disagrees with them. 90% of Americans say they want full background checks for all gun sales…but the gun lobby says no…so we have no better law and one very disgusted president and lots of disgusted citizens who vote.
Game
Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
Below you will find uncommon titles to five
award winning, or popular children's books. How many can you decipher?
1. Where the Crimson Foliage Propagates. 2. Obscure Oasis 3. The Sunny Season of the Cygnus. 4. Feline in the Bonnet. 5. A Crumple in Chronology
*****
Hint
1. Made into a motion picture in 1974 and 2003. The writer is Wilson Rawls.2. Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett3. 1971 Newberry Award winner written by Betsy Byars.4. Written by Theodor Seuss Geisel5. 1963 Newberry Award winner written by Madeleine L'Engle
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Origins of Phrases
To assemble the Wizard's wardrobe for The Wizard of Oz, MGM costumers shopped at thrift stores to find clothes that projected "shabby gentility." In an incredible coincidence, the previous owner of the coat they purchased was Wizard of Oz writer L. Frank Baum.Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
- Portion of people residing outside the US who say they like American pop culture: 2/3
- Who say it’s a good thing that American ideas and customs are spreading: 1/4
Ruminations:
Genies won’t let you wish for more wishes. Solution: wish for more genies.
Picture of the Day: North Korea
Unusual Fact of the Day
To assemble the Wizard's wardrobe for The Wizard of Oz, MGM costumers shopped at thrift stores to find clothes that projected "shabby gentility." In an incredible coincidence, the previous owner of the coat they purchased was Wizard of Oz writer L. Frank Baum.Joke-of-the-day
Mo attends to a revival and listens to the sermon. After a while, the pastor asks anyone with needs to come forward and be prayed over. Mo gets in line and, when it’s his turn the pastor asks, “Mo, what do you want me to pray about?”Mo says, “Pastor, I need you to pray for my hearing.”So the pastor puts one finger in Mo’s ear and the other hand on top of his head and prays for a while. He removes his hands and says, “Mo how’s your hearing now?”Mo says, “I don’t know pastor, it’s not until next Monday.
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
ESTIMATING WALKING SPEED
With a 3-foot stride, count the number of steps you take in 2 minutes and divide it by 30. That will give you the speed you're walking in miles per hour.
Yeah, It Really Happened
BELMAR, N.J. - A New Jersey man said the floodwaters of Hurricane Sandy left something unusual in his in-ground pool -- a tiny school of live fish. Robert Castellano said his Belmar neighborhood was flooded for several days following the October storm, with 3 feet of water in his back yard, and when he pulled the cover from his in-ground pool this month he discovered a school of about 15 fish living in the water, the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press reported Tuesday."I don't know how they got under the cover," Castellano said. "When the water was on top of the pool, it may have lifted the edges. Some are so small, they may have been just eggs. Or born in here. "They're very quick," he said. "I don't know what they've been eating, probably the algae. To survive in this water they have to have one heck of a will to live." Bob Mathews of the Fishermen's Den tackle shop identified the fish. "It looks like it's a white perch," Mathews said. "They're slightly anadromous fish -- they can live in fresh and brackish water."
Somewhat Useless Information
- The Library of Congress, which was established in the 1800's, is the oldest federal cultural institution in the nation.
- The largest library in the world is the Library of Congress. It houses 745 miles of bookshelves!
- The world's "greatest lover" Giacomo Casanova spent the latter part of his life as a librarian for Count Waldstein of Bohemia.
- During his undergrad years, Edgar Hoover supported himself by working nights at the Library of Congress.
- Melvil Dewey invented the Dewey Decimal System which is still in use in many public libraries today. Mr. Dewey served as the head librarian for Columbia University for five years, and later became the director of the New York State Library.
- The book that holds the record for being the most stolen from the public library is the Guinness Book of World Records.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
Health
Information Privacy and Security Week
National Crime
Victims Rights Week
National Environmental Education Week
National Robotics Week
National Library Week
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week
National Environmental Education Week
National Robotics Week
National Library Week
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week
Pan American Week
(Spring) Astronomy Week
(Spring) Astronomy Week
Week of The Young
Child
Undergraduate Research Week
17-24
International Whistlers Week
Cleaning For A Reason Week
Consumer Awareness Week
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week
17-24
International Whistlers Week
Cleaning For A Reason Week
Consumer Awareness Week
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week
Today Is
Adult Autism Day
Get to Know Your
Customers Day
High Five Day
International
Amateur Radio Day
International
Jugglers Day
National
Columnists Day
National Golf Day
National Stress
Awareness Day
National Wear
Your Pajamas To Work Day
Pet Owners Independence
Day
Poem In Your
Pocket Day
Support Teen
Literature Day
~Zimbabwe: Independence
Day (1980 from UK)
Today’s Events through History
1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens
(Fort Worth, Tx)…1925
Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA
history (Boston Celtics)…1966
Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County
jail in Mesilla, New Mexico….1881
Fighting ceases in the American Revolution,
eight years to the day since it began…1783
Lone suicide bomber kills 63, at US Embassy in
Lebanon…1983
Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians…1676
Supreme Court rules states could make it a
crime to possess or look at child
pornography, even in one's home…1990
Today’s Birthdays
In their 60’s
Hayley Mills, actress (Parent Trap, Pollyanna) is 67
James Woods, actor (Salvador, Against All
Odds) is 66
In their 50’s
Jane Leeves, London, actress (Murphy Brown,
Fraiser, Hot in Cleveland) is 52
Conan O'Brien, Late Night TV host is 50
Eric Roberts, Miss, actor (Pope of Greenwich
Village, King of Gypsies) is 57
In their 40’s
Melissa Joan Hart, Sayville NY, actress
(Clarissa, Sabrina) is 37
Kourtney Kardashian, reality television star
is 34
Under 30
America Ferrera, actress is 29
Remembered
for being born today
Lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter
(Pope Alexander VI) [1480-1519]
Clarence S Darrow, defense attorney at Scopes
monkey trial [1857-1938]
Stephen Longstreet, American writer (All or
Nothing) [1907-2002]
Today’s Historical Obits
Dick Clark, radio / television personality…heart
attack…2012…at 82
Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate…internal
bleeding…1955…at 76
Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer…2002…at 87
Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender,
Jackals)…1990…at 87
Answer: Brain Teasers
1. Where the Red Fern Grows2. Secret Garden3. The Summer of the Swans4. Cat in the Hat5. A Wrinkle in Time
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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