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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 23/ Day: 156 Today: H 77°…L 44°
Wind: ave: 7mph; Gusts: 24mph Ave. humidity: 34%
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Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
"Nightline" presents it's 1st
"Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS & the show
runs until 3:47 AM…1987
1st recorded tornado in "Tornado
Alley" (Southern Illinois)…1805
6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors
begin…1967
Bananas become popular in US, at Centennial
Exposition in Philadelphia…1876
Congress prohibits citizens from serving in
foreign armed forces…1794
General Eisenhower decides invasion set for
June 6…1944
Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week…1937
Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st
public balloon flight…1783
Longest champagne cork flight is 177'-9” in NY…1988
Telegraph line opens between Philadelphia
& Baltimore…1846
Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion
damage (14 die)…1976
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Blue sky, slight breeze, nothing better than Flagstaff in the summer.Picked up a birthday gift for my friend Cheryl. Really like World Market, they have such great unique things…at very good prices, I might add. Picked up a few things for myself too.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Take the given words, and by moving a single
letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms.
For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating
two synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. Open - Cop 2. Cave - Curt 3. Cares - Pest 4. Salve - Savage 5. Whiled – Spurn
^^^
Hint
1. Cage 2. Use a knife 3. Stroke lightly 4. Preserve 5. Rotated quickly
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
- Portion of the total value of all US currency accounted for by $100 bills: 3/4
- By coins: 1/25
Picture of the Day: Recent Canadian Cruise
Unusual Fact of the Day
Jack London's Call of the Wild reportedly earned the author a single, flat-fee payment of only $2,000.Joke-of-the-day
An Old man went to the doctor complaining of a terrible pain in his leg. “I am afraid it’s just old age”, replied the doctor, “there is nothing we can do about it.”“That can’t be” fumed the old man, “you don’t know what you are doing.”“How can you possibly know I am wrong?” countered the doctor.“Well it’s quite obvious,” the old man replied, “my other leg is fine, and it’s the exact same age!”
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
AMASSING A MUSIC COLLECTION
You will not tire of your music collection if you have 200 CDs or more.
Yeah, It Really Happened
BERLIN -- A tweak to state laws in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to conform with current EU regulations has caused an unexpected casualty: the longest word in the German language.The Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz is no more.The "law delegating beef label monitoring" was introduced by the state in 1999 as part of measures against mad cow disease. But the dpa news agency reported Monday the law was removed from the books last week because European Union regulations have changed.German still has words like the very robust Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitaenswitwe to fall back on – meaning "widow of a Danube steamboat company captain."Dpa reports such words have been so rarely used, however, that they're not in the dictionary. There the longest word honor falls to Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung: automobile liability insurance.
Somewhat Useless Information
Why
drinking should be allowed at work. If you use them wisely, you may even be
able to convince your boss into allowing alcohol.
1. It's an incentive to show up. 2. It reduces stress. 3. It leads to more honest communications. 4. It reduces complaints about low pay. 5. It cuts down on time off because you can work with a hangover.
6. Employees tell management what they think, not what management wants to hear.
7. It helps save on heating costs in the winter. 8. It encourages carpooling. 9. Increases job satisfaction because if you have a bad job you don't care.
10. It eliminates vacations because people would rather come to work.
11. It makes fellow employees look better. 12. It makes the cafeteria food taste better. 13. Bosses are more likely to hand out raises when they are wasted.
14. Salary negotiations are a lot more profitable. 15. If something does something stupid on the job, it will be quickly forgotten.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
1-8
Black Single
Parents Week
End Mountain Top Removal Week
End Mountain Top Removal Week
International
Clothesline Week
National Business
Etiquette Week
National Headache Awareness Week
National Headache Awareness Week
National Sun
Safety Week
National Tire Safety Week
National Tire Safety Week
Today Is
·
Children's
Awareness Memorial Day
·
Festival
Of Popular Delusions Day
·
Hot Air Balloon Day
·
National
Cancer Survivors Day
·
National Running Day
·
National Tailors Day
·
UN World
Environment Day
^^^
·
Denmark:
Constitution Day (1849—contitutional monarchy)
·
Day of
the Rice God (Japan)
Today’s Events through History
"George Gobel Show," last airs on
CBS-TV…1960
Deleware Chief Sassoonan will address the Pennsylvania Provincial
Council. He will complain of German immigrants settling on Indian lands in
Tulpehocken valley. The complaint would not be resolved until 1732, when the
lands were purchased from the Indians with trading goods…1728
Gold standard abolished…1933
Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity
College, Cambridge…1661
Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in
Episcopal Church…1991
Severe heat wave across Pakistan and India;
temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region…2003
Start of formal treaty conference at Fort
Laramie in southeastern Wyoming. Leaders from many tribes and bands will be
present. Purpose of the treaty will be to allow passageway for trails, roads,
and railroad lines across indian lands. Meeting postponed for almost a week, at
Red Cloud's request, to allow for the arrival of additional Indians…1866
Today’s Birthdays
In their 60’s
John Bach, Welsh actor is 67
Ken Follett, Cardiff, Wales, spy author (Eye of
the Needle, Lie Down with Lions) is 64
In their 40’s
Mark Wahlberg, rap singer (Marky Mark and the
Funky Bunch) / actor (Boogie Nights, The Departed) is 42
In their 30’s
Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
is 34
Remembered
for being born today
John Couch Adams, English astronomer
(co-discover Neptune) [1819-1892]
William Boyd, Ohio, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy) [1895-1972]
Thomas Chippendale, England, furniture maker
(baptized) [1718-1779]
Pat Garrett, American Western lawman [1850-1908]
John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge England,
economist/math/journalist [1883-1946]
[Francisco]
Pancho Villa, Mexico, revolutionary/guerrilla leader [1878-1923]
Today’s Historical Obits
Ray Bradbury, American author…2012…at 91
Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage)…storkes…1900…at
28
O. Henry [William Sydney Porter], author…
cirrhosis…1910…at 47
Ronald Reagan, radio sports announcer, western
film actor, governor of California, and 40th President…2004…at 93
Mel Tormé, American singer ("The Velvet
Fog"), composer, and actor…stroke…1999…at 73
Conway Twitty, country star (Linda on My Mind)…
aneurysm…1993…at 59
Answer: Brain
Teasers
1. Pen - Coop 2. Carve - Cut 3. Caress - Pet 4. Save - Salvage 5. Whirled - Spun
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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