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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 27/ Day: 187 Today: H 77°…L 59°
Wind: ave: 15mph; Gusts: 25mph Ave. humidity: 43%
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY
(Lights of NY)…1928
Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After
House, Amsterdam…1942
California passes 1st "no fault"
divorce law…1970
Cheyenne sign a "friendship" treaty
(7 stat. 255) with the United States at the mouth
of the Tongue River…1825
Congress unanimously resolves US currency
named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage…1785
England/Scotland signs Treaty of Edinburgh…1560
LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River…1669
Louis Pasteur successfully tests an
anti-rabies vaccine…1885
Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally
accept UN Charter…1945
Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of
England…1189
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
It is so nice to have the monsoon here in Flagstaff. Lower temperatures; slight breeze; possibility of rain. Nice.Cleaned up around the house, mopping and vacuuming; typical weekly stuff. Not very exciting for sure. I had CNN on during that time, and sure learned a lot about the courtroom process as the Zimmerman trial was on all day. Interesting to hear the various lawyers talking about each person’s testimony. I hope this doesn’t stay on too long, as I was really much more interested in world news…like what was happening in Egypt, Syria, Bolivia, and other places.I’m still really confused when Obama said he would not scramble jets to get Snowden, then a day later so many countries refused air space to the flight of the Bolivian President from Moscow…and found nothing when they landed for fuel in Austria. I’ve spent some time in those ‘in transit’ areas at airports. They are not a place you would want to stay very long, even in places like London. There are lots of folding chairs, bare floor, none or very few concessions and restrooms are small and sometimes difficult to even locate. ‘In transit’ means you are just at the airport to change planes, and are not staying in that country. Sometimes you pass though a checkpoint, sometimes you don’t. If in fact Snowden is still in the Moscow airport in the ‘in transit’ section, he must be getting pretty bored. Sure wish we heard more about that.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
At a + shaped intersection, four
different-colored houses are at the four corners of the intersection so that
each house is separated by a road. All you know about the colors of the houses
is:
1. The blue house is directly north of the purple house. 2. The orange house is directly west of the green house. What colors are the two houses that are across the road from the green house?
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Oxymorons
Classic novel Classically modern Clearly confused
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
Percentage of people killed by US drone stikes in Pakistan in 2012 who were Taliban or Al Qaeda leaders: 2
Picture of the Day: Flagstaff…long ago
Unusual Fact of the Day
Scottish band The Bay City Rollers earned their name after sticking a pin in a map of America, which landed on the Michigan city.Joke-of-the-day
An example of the new America: A brother and sister were driving to a couple stores and the conversation of buying things they needed came up. As they were talking, the sister mentioned that she needed to get a new car.The brother said, “Well, you have a college degree now, so you can go get the job that pays you more."The sister, who made between 10 and 11 dollars an hour said, “I already got the job that my college degree will get me. Now what?”
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
ENTERING THE GROUND CUSHION
The ground cushion is an invisible area near the runway where the interaction between the airplane's wing and the ground cause changes in an airplane's flight characteristics. Measured scientifically, the height of the ground cushion is about equal to the wingspan of the airplane. A pilot, however, will notice the effects at an altitude half the wingspan of the airplane.
Yeah, It Really Happened
In 1966 Dr. Sam Axelrad was a 27-year-old military doctor serving in Vietnam when Nguyen Quang Hung was brought to his table with a three-day-old wound in his arm. In order to save his life, Dr. Axelrad amputated the arm above the elbow.Axelrad said his medic colleagues boiled off the flesh, reconstructed the arm bones and gave them to him. It was hardly common practice, but he said it was a reminder of a good deed performed.When Axelrad finally looked through his war mementos all those years later at his home in Texas he was motivated to find out if the soldier was still alive. As it turns out he was alive and well. So the good doctor packed the arm and decided to take his family on vacation to Vietnam.Hung was surprised to be reunited with his lost limb, to say the least."I can't believe that an American doctor took my infected arm, got rid of the flesh, dried it, took it home and kept it for more than 40 years," he said. "I don't think it's the kind of keepsake that most people would want to own. But I look forward to seeing him again and getting my arm bones back."The men were reunited at Hung's home in central Vietnam. They met each other's children, and grandchildren, and joked about which of them had been better looking back when war made them enemies.
Somewhat Useless Information
- A firecracker (along with fireworks) was discovered more than 1,000 years ago in China (during the Han dynasty). Every year people in China celebrate inventing the firecracker on the 18th of April.
- Firecracker is also known as a banger, bunger, cracker or noise maker. The art of creating, making and setting off fireworks is called as "pyrotechnics". Firework professionals are known as "pyrotechnicians" or "pyrotechnists".
- It is believed that the first "firecrackers" were chunks of bamboo, which someone may have thrown onto a fire. Bamboo grows so fast that pockets of sap and air get trapped inside the segments of the bamboo. When heated, the air inside the hollow reeds expands and bursts through the side with a long bam!
- Around the 13th century, firecrackers arrived in Europe, but it’s not clear whether Marco Polo or the Crusaders who introduced it to them. The first Europeans who turned firecrackers into art were the Italians and some of the top firecrackers manufacturers from US are still of Italian descent.
- At first, white and orange were the only colors that people could create in fireworks. It was only in the 1800s that people discovered how to make colored firecrackers. Chemists identified certain compounds that when used burned to give purples, greens, reds and blues.
- In public shows today, specialists use computers to control the electronic ignition of fireworks as well as to synchronize the aerial bursts with music.
Calendar Information
1-7
National Education Association Week
National Unassisted Homebirth Week
4-7
National Unassisted Homebirth Week
4-7
4-10
Today Is
·
Hop A Park Day: to visit local parks
·
International Chicken Wing Society Cook-off
Day
·
International Cherry Pit Spitting Day
·
International Day of Cooperatives
·
International Kissing Day or World Kiss Day
·
Take Your Webmaster to Lunch Day
^^
·
Comoros:
Independence Day (1975 from France)
·
Lithuania:
Day of Statehood (1253: coronation of Mindaugas the first and only King of
Lithuania)
·
Malawi:
Republic Day (1966 from UK)
·
US:
Alaska: Statehood Day 1958; 49th state
Today’s Events through History
170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in
Hartford CN…1944
Cartier meets Micmacs in Chaleur Bay, Canada…1534
England's King Richard III crowned…1483
Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed
during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens
for trade after 44 years…2006
Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the
mouth of the Congo River…1484
Rock group "Jefferson Airplane"
forms…1965
T E Lawrence captures Port of Agaba from
Turkey…1917
US law makes aliens "liable to be
apprehended, restrained, ... & removed as
alien enemies"…1798
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
Nancy Davis Reagan, [Anne Francis Robbins],
1st Lady is 92
In their 70’s
Ned Beatty, Lexington Ky, actor (Deliverance,
Repossed, Network) is 76
In their 60’s
George W. Bush Jr, 43rd US President and 46th
Governor of Texas is 67
Fred Dryer, NFLer (NY Giants, LA Rams)/actor
(Hunter) is 67
Shelley Hack, actress (Tiffany
Welles-Charlie's Angel) is 66
Sylvester Stallone, actor/director (Rocky,
Rambo, Cobra) is 67
Burt Ward, [Gervis], LA California, actor
(Robin-Batman) is 68
In their 30’s
50 Cent (Curtis James Jackson III), American
rapper is 38
Tamera Mowry, TV actress is 35
Tia Mowry, TV actress is 35
Remembered
for being born today
Sebastian Cabot, British actor (Mr
French-Family Affair, Time Machine) [1918-1977]
Merv Griffin, TV host (Merv Griffin Show) [1925-2007]
Bill Haley, Highland Park Mich, rock vocalist
(Rock Around the Clock) [1925-1981]
John Paul Jones, naval hero ("I have not
yet begun to fight") [1747-1792]
Janet Leigh, [Jeanetta Morrison], actress
(Psycho), [1927- 2004]
Pat Paulsen, Wash, comedian/pres candidate
(Smothers Bros Show) [1927-1997]
Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born naturalist [1766-1813]
Today’s Historical Obits
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, jazz
musician (Hello Dolly)…heart attack…1971…at 71
Joe E Brown, comedian…long illness at…1973…at
81
Buddy Ebsen Christian Rudolph Ebsen, Jr.,
actor…2003…95
William Faulkner, US author (Nobel 1949)…heart
attack…1962…at 64
John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United
States…1835…at 79
Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of
Defense…2009…at 93
Thomas More, philosopher (Utopia), executed
for treason…1535…at 57
Roy Rogers (Leonard Franklin Slye), cowboy actor/singer…1973…at
86
Answer: Brain
Teasers
Purple and blue.
It is impossible for north to align with the roads, but if north is across the diagonal then it works out. If north went in the direction from the bottom left to the top right of the + intersection, then the blue house would be in the top right corner, the orange in the top left, the purple in the bottom left, and green in the bottom right.
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
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