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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 26/ Day: 176 Today: H 75°…L 43°
Wind: ave: 12mph; Gusts: 40mph Ave. humidity: 23%
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Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of
Ohio…1867
1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen
Germany…1096
1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian & Gay
Pride (Stonewall, NYC)…1989
86°F in Anchorage Alaska…1953
Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church,
1st published…1580
FL, AL, LA, GA, NC & SC readmitted to
US…1868
Lakota Victory Day: Battle of the Little
Bighorn: 7th Cavalry wiped out …1876
Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam
(Hoover Dam)…1929
Supreme Court upholds male-only draft
registration, constitutional…1981
Tennis shoe introduced…1947
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
A windy and mostly overcast day…and much cooler feeling. Our group got together for Lunch, just as Cheryl returned from a great trip to CA and Mary and her hubby are leaving for Oregon tomorrow morning at 5am. Mary will be spending 3 weeks at their sea side cabin with her kids and grandkids coming in for her birthday on July 4. Very cool.I am very disappointed with Discovery Channel today. They usually do good stuff on TV and they did fund a huge telescope here in N. AZ. Last night the touted the live coverage of ‘Nic Wallenda’s tight rope walk across the Grand Canyon’. In fact, it was across a gorge of the Little Colorado River on the Navajo Rez, near Cameron…about 50 miles from Flagstaff and quite a hike from the real Grand Canyon. Even the National Park system tweeted that he was NOT crossing the Grand Canyon and was not anywhere close to the park or canyon. I really expected more from the Discovery Channel. I did watch parts of the crossing but there was other stuff better on TV…so it was only during commercials of the other channel. My second rant has to do with the mic he had turned on during his walk. For over half the walk, he kept thanking Jesus for keeping him safe, and even knelt down to ask God to stop the wire from moving so much. I should have realized this was going to happen when Joel Osteen, the televangelist, was praying with him just before he started his walk. My take was that Nic was doing a very daredevil thing, was not telling the truth about where he was, and he still thought Jesus should protect him. What an embarrassment for Christians around the world…even if you do something dangerous for money and publicity and lie about it, Jesus will protect you. Not cool at all.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
What is unusual about this following long
sentence?
Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida, Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina, Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl, Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina, Arden, Noel and Ellen sinned.
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm
Time is Nature's way of preventing everything happening at once.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
Projected year by which annual firearm fatalities will surpass motor vehicle fatalities in the US: 2015
Picture of the Day: Pow Wow Season
Unusual Fact of the Day
A ship going through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific has to travel southeast through the locks, because that's how the water runs where the canal was constructed.Joke-of-the-day
For a couple years I 've been blaming it on lack of sleep and too much pressure from my job, but now I found out the real reason: I'm tired because I'm overworked. The population of this country is 237 million. 104 million are retired. That leaves 133 million to do the work. There are 85 million in school, which leaves 48 million to do the work. Of this there are 29 million employed by the federal government, leaving 19 million to do the work. 2.8 million are in the Armed Forces, which leaves 16.2 million to do the work. Take from the total the 14,800,000 people who work for State and City Governments and that leaves 1.4 million to do the work. At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals, leaving 1,212,000 to do the work. Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons. That leaves just two people to do the work. You and me. And you're sitting at your computer reading jokes.
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
LISTENING TO YOUR ENGINE KNOCK
If your engine knocks during acceleration, it's probably the connecting rod. If the engine knocks during deceleration, it's probably the piston wrist pin. If you have piston slap (too much room between the piston and cylinder wall), the knock will be loudest when the engine is cold and idling.
Yeah, It Really Happened
Lakeland, Florida police officer Dustin Fetz stopped Zoe Brugger for driving with a broken headlight.Officer Fetz asked the driver and her boyfriend for permission to search the vehicle. When they denied his request, Brugger said Fetz escorted her behind the car, where he asked her to lift her shirt above her stomach, pull her bra away from her chest and shake it out in case she had drugs hidden in there. Unsatisfied with her first attempt, Fetz made her shake her bra a second time.When the vehicle search turned up no drugs, Fetz gave Brugger a ticket. The woman told the state attorney's office that the officer told her, "I'm done scaring you, and now you can go home."The state attorney's office is investigating Officer Fetz, and while in their opinion his conduct did not constitute a criminal offense, he was given four days paid leave.
Somewhat Useless Information
- The word perfume originates from the Latin word per fumum, which means "through smoke."
- In 2007, Italian archaeologists claimed to have sniffed out the world's oldest perfumes on the island reputed to be the birthplace of Aphrodite. Remnants of the perfumes were extracted from an ancient factory that was part of a larger complex at Pyrgos.
- Common ingredients added to perfumes include ginger, grapefruit, musk, peppercorns, mandarin peel, fig leaves, rose, watercress, bamboo, clementine, vanilla, honeysuckle, and green tea.
- To preserve perfumes, it is best to keep them in light, tight aluminum bottles and to refrigerate them at low temperatures between 3-7 degrees Celsius.
- Perfume fragrances last longer on people with oily skin because their skin has more natural moisture content to hold the fragrance.
- Chanel No. 5 perfume has been around since 1921 and is the company's most popular perfume. They estimate that one bottle is sold worldwide every 55 seconds.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
23-30
Carpenter Ant
Awareness Week
Fish Are Friends,
Not Food! Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week
National Mosquito
Control Awareness Week
Today Is
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Color TV Day (CBS)
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Global Beatles Day
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Great
American Backyard Campout
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Log Cabin
Day
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National Columnists Day
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Please Take My Children To Work Day
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Mozambique:
Independence Day (1975 from Portugal)
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Slovenia:
National Day (1991 from USSR)
Today’s Events through History
"Jonathan Winters Show," last airs
on NBC-TV…1957
1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US
held, Sandwich, Mass…1672
33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey…2012
Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25
cents per hour; maximum
44 hour work week…1938
Fork introduced to American dining by Gov
Winthrop…1630
Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq
(Kuwait disagrees)…1961
Juan Peron elected president of Argentina…1972
Mann Act passed (no women across state lines
for immoral purposes)…1910
Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles
match at Wimbledon…1991
Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) sentenced to 5
years…1967
Pres Andrew Johnson passes a law that
government workers would work 8 hr day…1868
Roger Rabbit Cartoon Character debuts in
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"…1988
Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto
Act of 1996 is unconstitutional…1998
Supreme Court rules NY school prayer
unconstitutional…1962
Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US
constitution…1788
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
June Lockhart, actress is 88
In their 60’s
Carly Simon, NYC, singer (Anticipation, You're
So Vain) is 68
In their 50’s
Ricky Gervais, Reading England, actor and
comedian (The Office) is 52
George Michael [Panos], London, British rock
vocalist (Wham-I Want Your Sex) is 50
Remembered
for being born today
Gary Crosby, actor (Bill Dana Show, Adam 12,
Chase) [1933-1995]
Daniel Fuchs, US writer (Summer in
Williamsburg) [1909-1993]
Hermann Oberth, Germany, founded modern
astronautics (V2/Redstone) [1894-1989]
George Orwell, [Eric A Blair], Bihar, British
India, British writer (Animal Farm, 1984),
[1903-1950]
Peyo [Pierre Culliford], Brussels, Belgium,
cartoonist (The Smurfs, Johan et Pirlouit)
[1928-1992]
Today’s Historical Obits
Warren Earl Burger, Supreme Court Justice…1995…at
87
George A Custer, US general…@ Little Bighorn…1876…at
36
Farrah Fawcett, actress and pop culture figure…cancer…2009…at
62
Michael Jackson, King of Pop music…cardiac
arrest…2009…age 50
Lester Maddox, businessman, segregationist, Governor
of Georgia…2003…at 87
Johnny Mercer, songwriter (That old Black
Magic)…brain tumor…1976…at 66
John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel Peace
Prize…1971…at 90
Axis Sally, [Mildred E Gillars], US nazi
propagandist (WW II)…1988…at 87
Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of
France…1533…at 37
Answer: Brain
Teasers
It is one long palindrome!
A palindrome is something that can be read the same backwards and forwards.
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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