6-21-13

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Almanac: Flagstaff:  Week: 25/ Day: 172   Today: H 79°…L 44°

Wind: ave:   21mph; Gusts: 36 mph  Ave. humidity:  16%

·        Red Flag Warning

Ave low	Ave high	Record low	Record high
43°	80°	28° (1975)	93° (1936)

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)…1893

33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's planned to be phased out …1948

7.7 Earthquake with 100s of aftershocks hits Iran; about 50,000 die…1990

Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria…1887

E W Scripps founded United Press…1907

Great fire in Moscow…1547

Guam becomes a territory of US…1898

Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded…1749

Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII…1963

Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns…1968

US Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th to ratify…1788

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

There were at least 4 small wildfires in the Flagstaff area today…all quickly contained. There is still a fire at Grand Canyon and a really big one near Prescott. It is very dry with no moisture in the near future. We are used to this but it sure gets old really fast. The beautiful blue sky sure is nice…not a cloud to be seen.

 

My brother and his wife are in Merida and her sister, dad, and two kids just arrived from Chicago for a visit. They are posting some great pictures. Great weather down there, beautiful pool. Great way to spend the summer break.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

What does this Rebus represent?

Cockroach Ant Spider
Rabbit

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Boom! Boom! - John Lee Hooker

• What's My Line? Judy Holliday (1953)

• Mission Impossible - Lalo Schifrin live Prague Proms

Hmmmm

Half the people you know are below average.

Ok, then?

Harper’s Index    

Portion of its annual budget that the state of Texas gives back in tax incentives to corportations: 1/2  

Picture of the Day: Iran

Unusual Fact of the Day

Before the Stooges took off, Moe worked as a licensed realtor in the late 1920s.

Joke-of-the-day

Government Philosophy: If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is.  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

LAUNCHING FIREWORKS

 When you're launching fireworks, make sure the audience stands five steps back for every ounce of propellant in the missile.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish woman who tried to get out a prison sentence by faking terminal cancer will serve an additional two months, authorities said. The Court of Appeals in southern Sweden said the 46-year-old woman had been sentenced to prison for aggravated fraud and produced a medical certificate saying she was dying of cancer in an attempt to get out of the sentence, The Local.se and the Swedish news agency TT reported Monday. The certificate was accepted by the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, but the ruse was discovered by the Social Insurance Agency. Doctors said the certificate was not very convincing. "You don't write that someone has three- to six months to live and you don't use the words 'sick with cancer,'" a doctor told the Metro newspaper. The woman told the court she made the fake certificate because she was worried about prison life. "I've never been to prison before and I didn't know what I had in store for me there," the woman said. The court added two months to the woman's sentence for the forgery charge.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• What is the difference between "e.g." and "i.e."?

• The abbreviation e.g. stands for the Latin exempli gratia, or "for the sake of example." It means exactly that; a series of examples. The abbreviation i.e. stands for id est, or "that is," and explains the subject you have mentioned.

• What is the difference between et al and et cetera? 

• The Latin phrase et al, short for et alia (and other things) and et alii (and other people), is more specific than et cetera (and the rest). Only et al can refer to people.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

16-22

Meet A Mate Week
Old Time Fiddlers Week
Universal Father's Week

Today Is                                                                      

·        Atheists Solidarity Day

·        Baby Boomers Recognition Day

·        Cuckoo Warning Day if you hear a cuckoo on June 21st you will have a wet summer

·        Go Skateboarding Day

·        National Daylight Appreciation Day

·        National Flip Flop Day

·        Summer Solstice (Summer)

·        Take Your Dog To Work Day

·        Ugliest Dog Day

·        World Handshake Day

·        World Humanist Day

^^

·        Greenland: National Day (1983; from Denmark)

Today’s Events through History  

1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown…1607

3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman & James E 

     Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail…1964

CHATOT Tribe have a mission established for them today west of the 

     Apalachicola River…1674

F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)…1879

Montreal, New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the 

     French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the 

     arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French 

     authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation 

     of a hand…1734

Non-hostile Indians along the lower Rogue River, and at Fort Orford, in southwestern 

     Oregon, are put on a boat to be moved to a new reservation between the Pacific 

     Ocean, and the Wallamet River: Grande Ronde Reservation…1856

Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra…2006

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 80’s

Bernie Kopell, NYC, actor (Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl) is 80

Lalo [Boris] Schifrin, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer is 81

In their 60’s

Meredith Baxter-Birney, actress (Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie) is 66

Michael Gross, Chicago Ill, actor (Family Ties, FBI murders) is 66

  

In their 30’s

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, is 31

Remembered for being born today

Daniel Carter Beard, US, organized 1st Boy Scout troop [1850-1941]

Judy Holliday, comedienne/actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib) [1921-1965]

Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister [1639-1723]

Jane Russell, full-figured actress (Outlaw) [1921-2011]

Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer (Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined) [1905-1980]

Maureen Stapleton, actress (Airport, Coccoon, Plaza Suite) [1925-2006]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

John Lee Hooker, Blues musician…2001…at 83

Carroll O'Connor, actor (Archie Bunker)…heart attack…2001…at 76

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo)…1876…at 82

Achmed Sukarno, 1st president of Indonesia (1945-67)…1970…at 68

Leon Uris, writer (Exodus)…renal failure…2003…at 78

Answer: Brain Teasers

Bugs Bunny

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.

§    And That Is All for Now  §