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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 18/ Day: 121 Today: H 71°…L 40°
Wind: ave: 12mph; Gusts: 45mph Ave. humidity: 34%
*Averages: H
63° L 32°
Records: H 78°(1981, ‘45)…L 10°(1967)
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Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
"Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st
Wild West Show…1883
"Citizen Kane," directed &
starring Orson Welles, premieres in NY…1941
"Mission Accomplished" speech, on
board the USS Abraham Lincoln…2003
1940 Olympics are cancelled…1940
1st American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount
Everest…1963
1st British airliner to serve cooked meals
(Imperial Airways)…1927
1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba…1961
Amtrak Railroad begins operation…1971
Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form
(Germany)…1889
Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair
with Marilyn Barnett…1981
Batman comics hit street…1939
General Mills introduces Cheerios…1941
Mr Potato Head, introduced…1952
Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis…1960
Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill
a Mockingbird)…1961
Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings (Yearling)…1939
Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers &
Hammerstein (South Pacific)…1950
Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2
spy plane over Sverdlovsk…1960
Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden…2009
Tasmania becomes the last state in Australia
to decriminalize homosexuality…1997
TWA introduces tourist class…1952
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Packed and ready for trip. Last blog for a while.Sure glad I had planned to stay home all day. The wind is blowing loud and hard. Spring in Flag but still not pleasant.Guantanamo hunger strike is continuing with more prisoners every day. It is so disgusting. Many of these prisoners have been found to not be a threat to US, but they are not being released. No one seems to know why. Yes there are terrorists and those who have done something that injures, kills, or destroys property need to be tried and imprisoned. Those who may or not be law breakers need to be tried in a court of law. The idea that America is holding people in a prison with no benefit of American law is such fodder for terrorist groups, why won’t our government so something….anything. Put them on trial or let them go. While news of the hunger strike is limited by officials, we know it is happening and the enemies of America certainly know it is happening. These people will become heroes. ..especially if they are not terrorists. I’m sure some in high places in government are saying that letting them go free will hurt the US image more than keeping them with no charges. Reminds me of an old adage…when you find yourself in a hole, the first thing is to stop digging.Seems that there are many ‘lists’ of potential terrorists…one ‘low-level’ lists has 700,000+ names. While this administration has made great strides in getting agencies to work together to fight terrorism they have failed on two levels…the Guantanamo situation and making terrorist lists useable. Sure, it sounds positive when we find that a real terrorist was on a list, until everyone realizes that the list is basically unmanageable.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
I am not a human, nor am I an animal. I have eyes, but cannot see, and I have hair that you cannot comb. My brown skin has several layers but this seems a paradox, because one is smooth and the other is hard. My skin protects my soft white flesh; and within my flesh is my opaque blood. What am I?
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Origins of Phrases
Go haywire
Meaning
To go wrong, to become overly excited or deranged.
Origin
Hay-wire is the light wire that was used in baling machines to tie up bales of hay. At the turn of the 20th century the expression 'a haywire outfit' began to be used in the USA. This was used to describe companies that patched-up faulty machinery using such wire, rather than making proper long-term fixes. In 1905, The US Forestry Bureau Bulletin described a 'Hay wire outfit' as 'a contemptuous term for loggers with poor logging equipment'.By 1920, the use of haywire to mean 'awry' or 'out of control' was recorded in Dialect Notes, Volume 82:"Hay wire. Gone wrong or no good. Slang."This may be a reference back to 'hay-wire outfits' but is more likely to be a literal allusion to scrambled hay-wire - anyone who has handled coils of wire will be familiar with its determination to gather into an irretrievable tangle. To go haywire was recorded in the late 1920s; for example, in this piece about a basketball game from The Helena Independent, January 1928:"...their anxiety to score let their passing game go haywire with many wild heaves finding marks in the bleachers."
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
Percentage rate at which Arcata, CA plans to tax excessive electricity use in an effort to punish marijuana growers: 45
Picture of the Day: Myramar
Unusual Fact of the Day
The depressed area of skin under your nose and above your upper lip is called your philtrum.
Joke-of-the-day
Time magazine sent a survey to women in Arkansas, asking for their opinions on the Clinton Sex Scandal. One of the questions: Would you ever have an affair with Bill Clinton? The results were staggering! 5% — No 3% — Yes 92% — Never Again
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
IN RANGE
If the enemy is in range, so are you.
Yeah, It Really Happened
A cruise company in Scotland decided it was better to be safe than sorry when it insured its tourist boats against damage by the Loch Ness Monster.Jacobite Cruises signed the $1.5 million policy with insurers to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first Nessie spotting, The Scottish Sun reported.Owner Freda Newton told the paper she realizes the chances of an accident are slim, but it was a move that had to be made."How silly would we look if it did and we weren’t covered for it?” she said.Who can argue with that logic?The first photo of the legendary Loch Ness Monster appeared in The Daily Mail in 1934, according to LiveScience.com, but it was revealed to be a hoax.In August 2012, a sailor who'd spend 26 years searching for Nessie snapped a picture that convinced him the sea creature lived on.
Somewhat Useless Information
- There are not 24 hours in a day. There are 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds - the time it takes Earth to rotate on its axis, called a sidereal day.
- Despite the towering heights of the Himalayas and the depths of the deepest ocean, compared to its circumference Earth is smoother than a bowling ball. Mountains and ocean trenches make up only 1/500th of the Earth's circumference.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
-5/4
National Dance
Week
National Dream Hotline
National & Global Youth Service Days
National Pie Championships
Air Quality Awareness Week
Screen-Free Week
National Dream Hotline
National & Global Youth Service Days
National Pie Championships
Air Quality Awareness Week
Screen-Free Week
Today Is
Amtrak Day
Batman Day
Beltaine
Executive Coaching Day
Global Love Day
Great American Grump Out
Keep Kids Alive! Drive 25 Day
Law Day
Lei Day
Loyalty Day
May Day
Mother Goose Day
National Bubba Day
New Homeowner's Day
School Principals' Day
Silver Star Day
Stepmother's Day
Batman Day
Beltaine
Executive Coaching Day
Global Love Day
Great American Grump Out
Keep Kids Alive! Drive 25 Day
Law Day
Lei Day
Loyalty Day
May Day
Mother Goose Day
National Bubba Day
New Homeowner's Day
School Principals' Day
Silver Star Day
Stepmother's Day
Today’s Events through History
1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny
Blacks" from England) issued…1840
Dewey commands, "You may fire when you
are ready, Gridley" as US route
Spanish fleet at Manila…1898
Empire State Building opens in NYC…1931
England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great
Britain…1707
Howard University chartered…1867
Kamehameha, the king of Hawaiʻi defeats
Kalanikupule and establishes
the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi…1785
Louis XIV & his court inaugurates Paris
Observatory…1682
Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin
(Journey in the dark)…1944
Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of
Edinburgh-Northampton -
the Kingdom of England recognizes the Kingdom of
Scotland as an
independent state…1328
World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3
minutes) at Portobelo Panama…1908
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Sonny James, [James Loden], rocker (Young
Love) is 84
In their 70’s
Judy Collins, Seattle Wash, singer (Send in
the Clowns, Clouds) is 74
In their 60’s
Rita Coolidge, Nashville Tn, singer (Higher
& Higher, We're All Alone) is 68
John Woo, Hong Kong director [M.I. 2] is 67
In their 40’s
Tim McGraw, singer, songwriter is 46
Remembered
for being born today
Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke], frontier
adventurer/Indian fighter [1852-1903]
Glenn Ford, Quebec Canada, actor (Cade's
County, Big Heat, Midway) [1916-2006]
George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware
Water Gap) [1825-1894]
Louis Nye, American comedian and actor [1913-2005]
Jack Paar, television host of the Jack Paar
Show [1918-2004]
Max Robinson, broadcast journalist (ABC
Evening News) [1939-1988]
Kate Smith, American singer [1907-1986]
Today’s Historical Obits
Eldridge Cleaver, writer, activist…prostate
cancer[?]…1998…at 62
Antonín Dvorak, Czech composer (Slavic
Dancing)…stroke…1904…at 62
[Matilda]
Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England…1118…at 38
Spike Jones, composer (Spike Jones Show)…emphysema…1965…at
53
Steve Reeves, actor/ body builder…lymphoma…2000…at
74
Answer: Brain
Teasers
A coconut
The coconut is the seed and edible fruit of the coco palm tree (Cocos nucifera). Each coconut has several layers: a smooth, deep tan outer covering; a brown fiber of 1-2" thickness; a hard, dark brown hairy husk with three indented "eyes" at one end; a thin brown skin; the cream white coconut meat; and at the center, a thin opaque coconut juice.
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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