7/3/13

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Almanac: Flagstaff:  Week: 27/ Day: 184   Today: H 84°…L 52°

Wind: ave:   12mph; Gusts:  48mph  Ave. humidity:  37%

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Average Low	Average High	Record Low	Record High
47°	82°	34° (1997)	93° (2007)

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI…1969

Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North…1863

Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber…1929

FDR dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame 

     at Gettysburg Battlefield…1938

National law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain…2005

Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded…1767

Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty…1986

Samuel de Champlain founded city of Quebec…1608

Veterans Administration created…1930

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

The monsoon is really here. Big rain, twice this afternoon. Actually had water running down the street. Even a ‘severe thunderstorm warning’. For those of in Flagstaff, this is very welcome. At least until the street flooding started on the West side of town, and many were inundated with hail. Turns out for those on the fire line down near Prescott, this was not as good…they had 50+mph winds at the fire line. The tragedy is setting in around Prescott and around AZ. Such a tough loss…and still in the National news.

 

Did a whole lot of laundry today…now it is all folded, hanged/hung, and/or put away. Sure glad the rain cooled us off so quickly. I hate doing laundry on any day, but especially when it is very warm.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

In this teaser, you are to start with the letter 'U', and then each time add a letter and shuffle it to make a new word. You need to continue this process until you reach the word 'SUPPORT'.
Not including 'U', you must do this in six (6) turns.

U _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ S U P P O R T

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• John Singleton Copley

• Jim Backus, RIP

• cowboy Roy Rogers THE DAY THAT TRIGGER DIED

Hmmmm…Oxymorons

Alone together American English Authentic replica Awfully good

Ok, then?

Harper’s Index    

Weight in pounds of ram penises shipped to China from an Icelandic slaughterhouse after an October trade agreement: 4000

Picture of the Day: Flagstaff…long ago

Unusual Fact of the Day

Taco Bell is named for its founder, Glen Bell.

Joke-of-the-day

Canadian geese are known to fly in a "V" shaped as they migrate across the county. The lead goose in the "V" cuts through the air making it easier for the rest of the geese behind him. As that lead goose becomes tired, he will drop off and join one of the sides and a new lead goose will take over. This is done several times as they are flying long distances. So if you look up in the sky and see a "V" shape of geese and one side is longer than the other, do you know what that means?

A:(There are more geese on that side)

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

GETTING SOME SLEEP

 Each hour of sleep before midnight is equal to two hours of sleep after midnight.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

A woman angry with a stranger on a bus in Kansas City, Mo., is accused of splashing gasoline on passengers and threatening to light a match.

At about 5:30 a.m. Monday, 32-year-old Ebony D. Williams "got mad because someone was sitting beside her," witness Randy Harris told The Kansas City Star. “The bus was crowded, and she asked him to move.”

The man didn't move, and Williams allegedly responded by whipping out a gasoline-filled water bottle and splashing it on her seatmate, as well as five other passengers nearby, according to KCTV 5.

Police say she threatened to set everyone on fire.

“Right after the gasoline, she pulled out matches and tried to flick it,” Harris told the Star.

A scuffle ensued between Williams and the other passengers, at which point police say she began brandishing a large knife.

The bus driver stopped the bus and ceased the altercation. Passengers were transferred to a different bus.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• ·       
Dismal first-year sales of famous products: 

• 1. VW Beetle (U.S.)--sold 330 first year. 

• 2. Liquid Paper--sold 1,200 bottles first year 

• 3. Cuisinart--sold 200 first year. 

• 4. Remington typewriter--sold 8 first year. 

• 5. Scrabble--sold 532 first year. 

• 6. Coca-Cola--sold 25 bottles first year. (For total of $50; supplies and advertising ran $70.)

• ·       
During the Prohibition, at least 1,565 Americans died from drinking bad liquor, hundreds were blinded, and many were killed in bootlegger wars. Federal Agents and the Coast Guard made 75,000 arrests per year.

• ·       
False eyelashes were invented by film director D.W. Griffith while he was making the 1916 epic, "Intolerance." He wanted actress Seena Owen to have lashes that brushed her cheeks.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-7

National Education Association Week
National Unassisted Homebirth Week

Today Is                                                                      

·        Air Conditioning Appreciation Days

·        Compliment Your Mirror Day

·        Stay Out Of The Sun Day

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·        Belarus: Independence Day (1944 from Nazi)

·        US: Idaho: Admission Day (1890; 43^rd state)

Today’s Events through History  

1st NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine…1886

Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, California)…1852

FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL…1934

Frenchman Etienne Veniard deBourgmont leaves Fort Orleans en route to the 

     "land of the Padoucas." he is going there to try to establish peace and trade 

    with them…1724 

Northwest Confederacy is created at a council near Detroit. Its members include 

    the Delaware, Miami, Ojibwa, Ottawa,Potawatomi, Shawnee and the Wyandot…1761

Official opening of Bangkok's subway system…2004

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 80’s

Pete Fountain, New Orleans, jazz clarinetist (Lawrence Welk 1957-59) is 83

In their 70’s

Geraldo Rivera, [Gerry Rivers], NYC, news personality (20/20, Geraldo) is 70

In their 60’s

Dave Barry, American humorist and author is 66

In their 50’s

Tom Cruise, actor (Risky Business, Jerry MaGuire, Rainman) is 51

Thomas Gibson, TV actor and director is 51

Orel Hershiser, pitcher (LA Dodgers, Cleveland Indians) is 55

Montel Williams, TV talk show host (Montel) is 57

In their 40’s

Julian Assange, Queensland, Australia, Wikileaks founder is 42

Remembered for being born today

John Singleton Copley, Mass, finest colonial American artist [1738-1815]

William Roll, German parapsychologist (The Poltergeist, Unsolved Mysteries), [1926-2012]

George Sanders, Russia, actor (All About Eve-Academy Award 1950) [1906-1972]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Jim Backus, actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island)…pneumonia…1989…at 76

"Curly" Joe DeRita, last of Three Stooges…pneumonia…1993…at 83

Don Drysdale, Major League Baseball player…heart attack…1993…at 56

Andy Griffith, actor…heart attack…2012…at 86

Ross Martin, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West)…heart attack…1981…at 61

Jim Morrison, rock singer (Doors)….heart failure…1971…at 27

Trigger, horse (Roy Rogers)…1965…at 25

Rudy Vallee, singer (Vagabond Dreams)…1986…at 84

Answer: Brain Teasers

Answer

U UP PUT POUT SPOUT STUPOR or SPROUT SUPPORT

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  §